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Madison: Fresh, Local Vegan Food by the Lakes 24 Aug 2013 | 02:35 am
Vegan meals, sweets, beer, and wine—Madison may be the capital of the dairy state, but it makes a super getaway for vegans. Just hold the cheese. Nestled on an isthmus between two beautiful lakes, th...
New Study: Go Vegan and Help End World Hunger 20 Aug 2013 | 09:09 pm
For years, PETA has been saying that if everyone went vegan—and we stopped feeding so many nutritious grains to farmed animals instead of to humans—world hunger would virtually disappear. Now, an eye-...
Creative Ways to ‘Mainstream’ an Animal Rights Message 19 Aug 2013 | 10:28 pm
I cringe when I see demonstrators snarling—unless they’re screaming “God Hates Fags” or “Obama Is a Communist.” Then I’m delighted to see them sabotage their message with angry, thoughtless actions an...
‘No-Kill’ Horror Stories 18 Aug 2013 | 12:47 am
To hear proponents of “no-kill” talk, one would conclude that the only reason why animals in shelters are euthanized is because open-admission shelter workers just haven’t closed their eyes, clicked t...
Creating Compassionate Classrooms 15 Aug 2013 | 10:02 pm
Think back to your favorite book as a child or the movie that had the character or message that stayed with you-and don’t forget your favorite nursery rhyme, fable, or cartoon. Odds are that there was...
Eight Things You Can Do Today to Help Animals 14 Aug 2013 | 02:01 pm
Has this ever happened to you? You read about some wonderfully heroic thing that someone “out there” does and you wonder why you aren’t out there doing great things too? We read about activists holdin...
Waste Turned Into Gold for Gardens 8 Aug 2013 | 02:18 pm
A fabulous way to re-use “what your dog left off” is composted dog waste for your gardens. The American Pet Association estimates that 73 million dogs produce more than 6 million tons of dog waste pe...
Victory! Georgia Aquarium’s Application to Import Belugas Denied 8 Aug 2013 | 12:07 am
Virtual (and perhaps a few real) champagne corks are flying at PETA over a decision by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Fisheries Service to deny the Georgia Aquarium a per...
Extremely Vegan? 6 Aug 2013 | 06:54 pm
Google the phrase “extreme vegan” or any combination including those words, and you’ll discover some strikingly different opinions. There are those who jump at the chance to point out the “flaws” of a...
When ‘Osteoporosis’ Starts With an ‘A’ 6 Aug 2013 | 02:25 am
Weight loss diets come and go-the baby-food diet, the watermelon diet, hypnosis diets, the South Beach diet, and even the doughnut diet. (OK, we made that last one up.) Some diets do actually help peo...