To reduce the spread of COVID-19, Netherlands shuts down fur farms by the end of 2020. Mink farms were ordered to cull and slaughter more than 1,500 mink in June, due to the covid virus spread in over nine farms in the Netherlands. The WHO reported that two farm workers were infected in what was deemed to be the first …
MEMORIAM TO BEAUTIFUL REGAN RUSSELL – Our Animal Rights Community lost someone very special!
Regan lost her life while attending a pig vigil in Burlington, Ontario at Fearmans Pork Slaughterhouse. She was elegant, kind, giving and a beautiful soul all the way around. She was killed by a slaughterhouse truck and in the video (video is on VGP/FB page) you can see that she was clearly in sight of the driver. She was dragged …
MAGGIE BAIRD, MOTHER OF BILLIE EILISH HAS THE NON-PROFIT SUPPORT + FEED DONATING VEGAN MEALS FOR COVID RELIEF
Maggie is the mother of sensational pop stars Billie Eilish and FINNEAS, who started Support + Feed as an initiative to support vegan restaurants giving plant-based foods to hospitals, first responders, hospitals, housing, women’s and children shelters and food shelters during the Covid-19 crisis with their group spreading from Los Angeles to New York and Philadelphia. You can help too …
JOAQUIN PHOENIX WINS OSCAR, DELIVERING ELOQUENT SPEECH ON ANIMAL RIGHTS, IDENTIFYING INJUSTICE IN DAIRY PRODUCTION AND ALL FORMS OF OPPRESSION
What a beautiful and powerful night for our animal rights community, vegans and everyone who could feel the power of Joaquin’s passionate delivery to be inclusive in the rights of all beings. Everyone was exhilarated and so thrilled that he used this platform to the millions in speaking up for babies and mothers in the dairy industry and so much …
VEGAN BILLIE EILISH, YOUNGEST ARTIST MAKES HER DREAM OF WINNING 5 GRAMMY AWARDS!
She’s an ethereal beauty with a voice that’s “dreamy, macabre anti-pop” as Vogue describes Billie. At the 2020 Grammys, at the young age of 18, Billie was awarded for Best New Artist, Best Song of the Year, (“Bad Guy”) Record of the Year, Album of the Year, (youngest person to win) Best Pop Vocal Album, (When We All Fall Asleep, …
Starbucks is Cutting Emissions and getting Consumers to Ditch Dairy
Starbucks is waking up to the nightmare of adding dairy products to their drinks, and that is something to admire! We are now witnessing the plant revolution taking hold in major corporations and it’s fantastic! Adding whipped cream to millions of Starbucks Corp. drinks emits 50 times as much greenhouse gas as the company’s private jet. Overall, dairy products are …
MILK SALES DIVE BY $1.1B IN 2018 IN THE LAND OF THE RISING PLANT MILKS
In the land of “milk and honey,” plant-based alternatives are on the rise and there is no end in site for the consumption of kindness, i.e. plant-based milks. According to statistics by the Dairy Farmers of America the sales of milk dived by $1.1 billion dollars in 2018. In 2017, the sales of dairy products were $14.7 billion and dropped …
VICTORIOUS! FUR IS FALLING WITH FUR BANS WORLDWIDE!
2018/2019 have not been good for the fur industry. While a major slew of celebrities, high-end designers, and fashion shows have decided to ditch fur entirely, the global fur industry is now facing a more existential threat: being outlawed entirely. Kim Kardashian, once the most recognizable Hollywood celebrity regularly promoting fur fashion to her millions of fans, has not only …
Largest Milk Producer Dean Foods files for Bankruptcy
Dean Foods a 94 year-old-company has been producing iconic American dairy products under the labels of Organic Valley, TruMoo, Land O’Lakes and Dairy Pure to name a few. On November 12, 2019 Dean Foods filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy protection to keep the business operating, while working out debts to help fund pensions while selling the company to a dairy …
CALIFORNIA’S GIACOMAZZI DAIRY GOES VEGAN AFTER 125 YEARS IN DAIRY
The state’s oldest dairy is giving up dairy after The Giazomazzi family members decided to try something fresh, saying it wasn’t a viable option to stay in a dying industry. “Over the last 5 years, it’s been very difficult to make money in the dairy industry, regulations, increased cost of labor, low milk prices,” “Being that this dairy is over …