"Try this experiment. Pull out an ordinary plant we consume every day, like coriander. You can eat the leaves, crush the stems but will have to throw away the root. And wherever you throw it, a plant will emerge, life will spring and continuity is...

There are three ethical reasons for going Vegan: 1) Biospheric: Billions of domestic animals are being tortured and killed, while hundreds of species are going extinct daily, killing the planet. 2) Social Altruistic: More than a billion people are slaving in these despicable animal farming...

A well-researched, comprehensive analysis of the biases in Drawdown. "Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection." - Martin Luther King, Jr. Paul Hawken, Tom Steyer,...

It is unfortunately true that most human rights proponents argue against animal rights, with some even claiming that it can lead to human atrocities such as the Holocaust. Yet, it is no coincidence in my mind that animal rights proponents are overly represented by Jews,...

“Industrial toxins are now routinely found in new-born babies, in mother’s milk, in the food chain, in domestic drinking water worldwide… Humans emit more than 250 billion tonnes of chemical substances a year, in a toxic avalanche that is harming people and life everywhere on...

We must build parallel institutions and organizations that protect us from corporate assault and resist corporate domination. We must sever ourselves as much as possible from the vampire state. The more we can create self-contained communities, with our own currencies and infrastructures, the more we...

What we are witnessing in the US and indeed throughout the western world is the total failure of capitalism.  Capitalism is now merely a looting machine. The financial sector no longer supplies capital for production.  What the financial sector does is to turn discretionary consumer...

"(John) Salley is talking on the phone from the set of his latest film, Detox Your Life, when he brings up another health movie, Netflix's What the Health. The pro-vegan documentary takes on the big-food industry, claiming that meat, fish, poultry and dairy are together...

Every campaign or liberation struggle has two strategic aims and they are always the same: To increase support for your campaign by developing a network of groups who can assist you. To alter the will and undermine the power of those groups who support the...

Mason has written numerous open letters to officials citing reams of statistical data to support the contention that agrochemicals, especially Monsanto's glyphosate-based Roundup, have devastated the natural environment and have also led to spiralling rates of illness and disease, especially among children. She indicates how the...

The abundance of flying insects has plunged by three-quarters over the past 25 years, according to a new study that has shocked scientists. Insects are an integral part of life on Earth as both pollinators and prey for other wildlife and it was known that some...

A series of reports just released have made headlines worldwide suggesting that transitioning away from meats and over to plant alternatives cannot wait and must accelerate worldwide. It seems as if nail by nail, the coffin of animal food gluttony is upon us and welcome....

Imagine you're driving your shiny new car too fast along a wet, curvy road. You turn a corner and realize you're heading straight for a crowd of pedestrians. If you slam on your brakes, you'd probably skid and damage your car. So you keep your...

"A report this week by the Food Climate Research Network, called Grazed and Confused, seeks to resolve the question: can keeping livestock outdoors cause a net reduction in greenhouse gases? The authors spent two years investigating the issue. They cite 300 sources. Their answer is...

"These findings suggest that we don't need to downplay personal triumphs to avoid negative social consequences, as long as we make it clear that we don't look down on others as a result."...

Lately I’ve been asking myself some existential questions -  contemplating if I grew up in a dystopian nightmare, blissfully unaware that I was part of a horrifying regime. Surrounded by the green rolling hills of the English countryside, with ‘happy’ cows grazing in the fields, my...

The United Nations is finally conceding that what started as an ethical problem has metastasized into an existential threat to human beings. A U.N. report states that moving away from animal consumption is imperative to avoid the worst-case scenario for global poverty, hunger and climate change-related impacts. We...