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Jack Black is the Latest Star to Tell Fans to Kick Meat for the Sake of the Planet
Jack Black, who has delighted fans for years as a loveable cad in High Fidelity (2000), Shallow Hal (2001), School of Rock (2003, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017) and its sequel, Jumanji: The Next Level (2019), and the Kung Fu Pan…
$1 Million in Grants From Entrepreneurs Seth Goldman and Julie Farkas
Just when you thought all the news was grim and dark, something good hits the inbox and we had to share. Here, an entrepreneurial couple who wants to change how our food systems impact climate change has just announced a $1 million grant program to support organizations working locally to make …
These Are the 12 Fruits and Veggies With the Highest Pesticide Load. Wash Well!
For the third straight year in a row, strawberries top the list of the so-called “Dirty Dozen” fruits and vegetables that have the most pesticides per crop. The guide, released annually by the Environmental Working Group (EWG), rates produce for its pesticide loads on our…
Plant-Powered Women’s Network Seeks to Create Support for Vegan Leadership
This week marks the inception of a new global women's network focused on vegan women and led by Australian founder of Vegan Business Media, Katrina Fox. Described as "a global ethical leadership community for vegan and plant-powered women...
Start Netflix’s Number One Show, Tiger King, And You Won’t Be Able to Stop
Here is the question du jour: Will the new Netflix docu-series Tiger King make you want to give to PETA? Never go to a zoo? Become an animal rights advocate? One fact that has stuck in my mind: There are more tigers in captivity in the US -- estimated at 5,000 to 10,000 -- than in the wil…
Brooklyn’s “Plants to the People” is Giving Away Free Vegan Food to First Responders
There are silver linings. Just yesterday we learned that Brooklyn-Borough President and prominent vegan Eric Adams has partnered with the hunger-relief organization Community Solidarity and animal rights advocacy group Mercy for Animals to deliver vegan food to those Brooklyn resident…
My Secret Weapon in Eating Healthy and Not Gaining Weight While WFH: Meal Delivery
I am a hungry person. As I write this I have an opened bag of cashew nuts to the left of my computer. In fact, I seem to reach for salty snacks like nuts, chips, and popcorn as a "reward" for sitting at my table, computer open, hands typing as fast as my fingers can move …
Eating Tofu May Lower Risk of Heart Disease By Up to 18 Percent, According to a New Study …
Everyone get on board with the idea of tofu stirfry tonight: A new study out of Harvard's T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston found that eating tofu and other soy foods with high levels of isoflavones (also known as plant-based "phytoestrogens") appear to lower your li…
Russell Simmons Asks His Followers to Give Up Eating Meat, Connects It to COVID-19
Russell Simmons, hip-hop mogul, long-time vegan and animal rights activist, has gone on Instagram and urged his 1.5 million followers to give up eating meat. He links the onset of the coronavirus to the fact that humans eat meat. Don't shoot us, we're just the messenger...
Please Don’t Pat My Dog, and Other Paranoid Thoughts. What’s Safe Now?
Out jogging with the dog this morning, I ran over to my brother's house about a mile and a half away and stopped to chat with him. I thought it would be nice to swing by and say "Hi" since technically it's his pet and I was dog sitting, but this visit brought up a ca…