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Please read and share this article about from The New York Times. Whether you're a regular consumer or not, the future of these products can make or break efforts to reduce animal consumption and the horrors that go with it.

Fake Meat Is Processed. What Does That Mean for Its Health Benefits. (Gift Article) After being targeted by the meat industry, swept up in the culture wars and pummeled in sales, two plant based meat companies are reinventing themselves.

Does your include analogs? Read this study from Europe about their value as sources.

Study: Amid UPF Concerns, Is Plant-Based Meat Healthy? A European review of health studies shows that plant-based meat is healthy, despite its association with ultra-processed foods.

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New Restaurant Coming to the BeltLine | What Now Atlanta Azara Kitchen will serve mainly vegan and vegetarian dishes.

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Good news on the front! AquaBounty is shutting down its production of genetically engineered due to poor sales and ongoing concerns about to the fish and the risk of harm to the .

Genetically Engineered Salmon Production Ends as AquaBounty Shutters Last Facility AquaBounty Technologies is ending production of all genetically engineered salmon after years of controversy, market and legal challenges.

Please support local vegan businesses by giving their gift cards as presents!

The next time someone complains about "the price of eggs," tell them what those eggs cost the hens who laid them.

If were made of meat, people would care a lot less about where they came from

Please consider sharing this, with or without your own comments, as others around you think about how to "accessorize" a bird carcass. Remind them that these are who had lives that they lost under horrific circumstances. Nothing to be thankful for.

In memory of Karen Davis on this final day before American Thanksgiving, I’d like to share an experience I had some years ago while on investigation in the US that Karen’s organization, United Poultry Concerns, helped with. I hope you’ll consider adopting a new tradition this Thanksgiving for Karen and all the turkeys who suffer so terribly.



On a bitterly cold afternoon in late January, a colleague and I picked up and trailed a densely loaded turkey truck just outside of Des Moines, Iowa. We followed the truck for 4 hours to its destination – Sara Lee Foods in Storm Lake, Iowa. The truck was uncovered, exposing the turkeys to the frigid temperatures and icy winds. Many of the birds were in very poor shape with what appeared to be broken legs, ripped off digits and signs of frostbite on their heads and toes. A few turkeys appeared dead and some were crammed into a broken container. There was a large amount of blood on the ceiling of one of the cages. Many of the birds had badly soiled, feces-caked keels indicating that they had been too sick or injured to walk for some time before being loaded.

Once the trailer arrived at the plant, the sun had gone down, lowering the temperature even further. Still, the turkeys were left on the truck untarped and unprotected for yet another 2 hours in the freezing cold.

Deeply concerned about the birds, we asked to speak with the facility manager. Two men from the slaughterhouse came out and spoke to us. When we expressed our concern with the birds being exposed to the cold and developing frostbite on their heads, legs and feet, the men responded: “We cut those parts off, ma'am.” Each time we reiterated our concern, they responded with the same: "We cut those part off." They truly couldn't comprehend why we were concerned about the turkeys. When we finally tried to clarify that our concern was for the welfare of these birds while they were alive and that they were suffering terribly, the men re-stated their position, then clarified a little themselves, saying: “By the time the USDA inspector gets to them, those parts are already cut off.”

To these men, the fact that the turkeys were alive and suffering meant absolutely nothing. It was like we were speaking different languages. They simply couldn't see the birds as anything but not-yet-dead meat. Their only concern was being written up by the USDA, and that wasn't even a real worry because, as they said, those parts were cut off by then (i.e. the evidence of the turkeys' suffering was no longer immediately visible).

This view of animals as not-yet-dead but not really alive or sentient came to be repeated over and over again, regardless of the country we were working in or who we were speaking with. This is the attitude that is inculcated into those working in the animal agriculture industry. Whether it is a necessary psychological protection that allows them to continue working in an industry that routinely tortures and kills animals or whether it's deliberately induced through indoctrination, it makes little difference to the animals forced to suffer under it.

This Thanksgiving and always, please, take suffering off your plate.

is big business in , so this hits home here. Please speak up for the millions of baby harmed by this practice. And of course encourage others to !

Urge the U.S. Postal Service to Stop Shipping Baby Chicks and Other Animals Postal Service shipments of chickens, ducks and other small animals through the mail, including airmail, have been identified for decades with the suffering and death of these animals. Shipping live animals through the Postal Service should be prohibited.

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H5N1 bird flu identified in pig for first time in United States | CNN H5N1 bird flu has been identified in a pig in the United States for the first time, the US Department of Agriculture said Wednesday.

All you really need to know is that production often results in that infects meat and nonmeat products and endangers human .

10 million pounds of meat recalled over listeria concern: What to know BrucePac, which produces precooked meat and poultry items, is recalling some products from retailers including Walmart, Target, Aldi, Trader Joe’s and Kroger.

On this and , here are some wonderful to warm your fall table!

10 Vegan Native American Recipes You Need To Try - Best of Vegan Learn more about the signature dishes of Native American cuisine in the new Culture Tuesday column and get 10 delicious vegan Native American recipes here.

A new book called "Cowpuppy" tells how a neuroscientist discovered the rich emotional lives of , and what implications that has for their lives and ours.

Gregory Berns' Journey: Uncovering the Emotional Lives of Cows and Other Animals Explore Gregory Berns' heartwarming journey from neuroscientist to farmer, where he uncovers the emotional intelligence of cows, drawing parallels to dogs and advocating for kinder treatment of animals in his new book.

Plus the fate of trapped in barns and sheds during floods and heavy wind. + =

Individual "rights" are immoral when, in practice, they harm others.

Interesting new regarding the likely origin of the deadly pandemic. Another reason to !

New genetic research points to Wuhan animal market as origin of COVID pandemic, study says Samples taken in the pandemic's early weeks reinforce hypothesis that coronavirus emerged from live animal market, not a laboratory, new study says.

Are you traveling for ? Please be mindful of the in your lodgings, and ask for humane alternatives to , given the severe abuse of and . Pay special attention to Marriott Hotels and ask them to stop using down.

Urge Marriott to Discontinue Feather & Down Products United Poultry Concerns sent a written letter to Marriott on August 7, 2024 urging them to take a pioneering role in the hospitality industry and switch from down pillows and duvets to 100% synthetic feather-free bedding.

If you don't think often about welfare, please know that it matters and that there are indeed groups dedicated to reducing wherever it occurs. Kudos to Mercy For Animals and for sharing this good news!