For all the vegans out there!
This plant-based food actually can involve animal exploitation. Some suppliers train monkeys to travel up trees to collect the coconuts. So even if something is plant-based, it might not be suitable…
... while a single flight can already exhaust your annual carbon budget.
I’m not judging — I believed it too.
Most people don’t know that animal agriculture is the biggest driver of malnutrition and famines worldwide.
BANGKOK — A new report published on Feb. 18 detailed widespread discrepancies in data provided from Southeast Asia’s long-tailed macaque breeding farms, highlighting how monkey trafficking is able to slip through the regulatory cracks put in place by the Convention on International Trade in Endanger...
- A new report highlights widespread monkey laundering in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam, where wild-caught long-tailed macaques are illegally funneled into breeding farms before being exported for biomedical research as captive-bred animals.
- Despite growing concerns over the ethics and effectiveness of animal testing, the biomedical industry continues to rely on macaques, fueling a multibillion-dollar trade, with some shipments worth millions of dollars.
- Thailand has emerged as a hotspot for poaching, with poachers capturing monkeys in urban areas before smuggling them across the Mekong River into Laos and Cambodia, often using concealed transport methods.
- Laos has significantly increased its estimate of wild macaques to justify legalizing their capture, raising concerns of official complicity in laundering monkeys for the biomedical industry, despite international skepticism over the accuracy of the data.
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7 things their video got wrong — and a message to Its creators
How Did We Get Here? The Rise of the Dominator/Herding Culture
“We can see quite plainly that our present civilization is built on the exploitation of animals, just as past civilisations were built on the exploitation of slaves.” – Donald Watson How Did We Get Here? The Rise of The Dominator/Herding Culture by Will Tuttle The following is an excerpt from the ...
The following is an excerpt from the World Peace Diet by Will Tuttle.
Most of us don’t think of our culture as being a herding culture. Looking around, we see mainly cars, roads, suburbs, cities, and factories, and while there are enormous fields of grain, and cattle grazing in the countryside, we may not realize that almost all of the grain is grown as livestock feed, and that most of the untold billions of birds, mammals, and fish we consume are confined out of sight in enormous concentration camps called factory farms. Though it is not as obvious to us today as it was to our forebears a few thousand years ago, our culture is, like theirs, essentially a herding culture, organized around owning and commodifying animals and eating them.
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The World Peace Diet full-length PDF available [here](https://annas-archive.org/md5/54367d9af81c7d6b511dc0171e6e43
Soy, Slaughter, and Survival: How Animal Agriculture Fuels Rainforest Loss and Why Veganism Holds the Key
The Amazon rainforest — that magnificent cathedral of biodiversity and planetary respiration — stands not merely at risk but at the…
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On the 17th of March 2025, a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences revealed that grass-fed cows and bulls, often promoted as a more planet-friendly alternative to…
The precedent in prisons exists.
A new report documents how manure and other contaminants find their way into treated water.
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Multiple economic time bombs are ticking.
FDA Plans to Phase Out Animal Testing Requirement
Not all animal suffering is loud or visible — much of it hides in the smallest, most personal vulnerabilities.
It’s the most invisible — and the hardest to solve.
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In January 2019, world-renowned food and nutrition experts published a groundbreaking study. The culmination of two years’ work by 37 authors, the EAT-Lancet report set out to answer the question: how can we feed the world’s growing population without causing catastrophic climate breakdown? The publ...
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JAKARTA — Consumers in the U.S. might be unknowingly exposed to palm oil products that come from deforestation, despite major consumer goods producers there adopting zero-deforestation pledges. That’s because these companies, which include the makers of iconic foods like Snickers, Kit Kat and Nutell...
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This indirect use of palm oil is often overlooked in the zero-deforestation accounting process, despite its growing use, according to a report by U.S.-based advocacy group Rainforest Action Network (RAN). The report found that palm oil-based animal feed is now the single largest palm oil product category imported by the U.S., accounting for 36% of all palm oil imports into the country by weight.
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