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Neuroscientist Flees To China, Where Acceptance Of Primate Research Is ‘Much Higher’

The German lab of a prominent neuroscientists was targeted by animal rights activists. The entire lab is now heading to China, where they claim they will be freer to pursue their work on monkeys. The new facility in Shanghai, will imprison and exploit as many as 6000 nonhuman primates. Nikos Logothetis will co-direct a […]

by James Okoshken

Organization aims to convert all dairy farms into animal sanctuaries and teach dairy farmers to produce vegan milk

Refarm’d aims to turn all dairy farms into animal sanctuaries. According to Vegconomist, Refarm’d will begin by targeting regions that show the most interest in their concept, and convince farmers to shift into plant-based milk production. And at the same time, they’ll aim to convince them to turn their farms into animal sanctuaries for their animals to live […]

by Guest Author

Why and how I chose to be vegan at 76

It was time. Without knowing why, I knew it was time.

by James Okoshken

VegNews ‘April Fools’ prank predicts the future

In April 2018, VegNews posted an article announcing KFC had launched a vegan chicken bucket. The internet rejoiced, and the article was shared online more than 20,000 times. The article was a sham. Take a look at the comment section, and it’s immediately apparent from the dozens of disappointed comments: this article was intended as […]

by James Okoshken

Our Brains and How We Think: Ready For a Vegan Revolution

Moral philosopher, James Flynn, argues that previous generations were fixed in their attitudes and moralities due to an inability to entertain hypotheticals. In his Ted Talk, ‘Why our IQ levels are higher than our grandparents‘, Flynn discusses a phenomena he uncovered in the 1980s, now referred to as the ‘Flynn Effect’. This effect describes an […]

by James Okoshken

Should vegans promote vegetarianism? Lessons in effective advocacy.

As vegans, our goal is to reduce the suffering of as many animals as we can and fight for complete animal liberation. To go about this momentous task, we each engage in various forms of activism. Be they small or big, in doing so we make a series of assumptions. We assume we know what […]

by James Okoshken

Should Vegans Eat at McDonalds, KFC & Burger King?

It’s 2019 and you’ve probably heard by now: plant-based is going mainstream. The ultimate question ravaging the vegan social media scene is whether vegans should give their ethically earned dollars to these infamous mammoths of horror. According to LiveKindly, KFC will be trialing vegetarian or vegan chicken buckets later this year and McDonalds has two […]