You may remember that we kicked off our KFC Campaign a few years ago after an undercover investigator at a KFC Supplier of the Year in Moorefield, West Virginia, discovered workers throwing live birds against walls, kicking them like soccer balls, and spitting tobacco juice into their eyes. Well, one of our investigators just returned … Read more »
You may have heard about the latest “solution” to the world’s energy crisis and global warming. This one is perhaps the most absurd idea yet, coming to us courtesy of the well-known environmental stewards of the meat industry. Last week, oil company ConocoPhillips and the largest meat producer in the world, Tyson Foods, announced that … Read more »
Not only do the folks over at Smashbox Cosmetics not test their products on animals, but they have these great store displays—and check out the cruelty-free bunny logon on the top of the Smashbox website: As if that weren’t enough to make us really big fans of the company here, they’ve just teamed up with … Read more »
Have you voted for North America’s sexiest vegetarian yet? Here’s an interview with one of the finalists in Sacramento. I had heard of this video about the “Bionic Burger” but I had never seen it until today. Gross. Nancy from LA sent me this amazing story about a cat who must have heard about the … Read more »
After noticing that a female lobster in the tank at the Men’s Club of Reno was pregnant and carrying eggs, the club’s promotions director and lifelong vegetarian, Aquila Nelson, sprang into action. She convinced the club’s manager to let her free the lobster and called us for instructions on what to do. To make a … Read more »
Have you seen Fast Food Nation yet? If not, the DVD was just released, so you can go rent or buy that jam this weekend. Just like the book, this film does a great job of getting people thinking about the screwed up process of turning living, breathing animals into a bunch of 99 cent … Read more »
The bird flu post the other day reminded me of a hilarious old picture from The Onion. Unfortunately, I just didn’t get around to writing about it in the blog at the time, but as I like to say about me marrying Natalie Portman and you going vegetarian … better late than never. With all … Read more »
Europe’s biggest turkey killer, Bernard Matthews, is back in the news. And oddly enough, this time it’s not because their workers were filmed kicking birds and using pipes as baseball bats to hit them, but because government veterinarians have confirmed bird flu at a poultry farm in the UK. So my friends Anita and Lucy … Read more »
