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Illegal wildlife trafficking is easy to condemn. But what changes when the same animals are bought, sold, bred and displayed legally? Monsters of God exposes the reptile trade 🐍 https://open.substack.com/pub/herbivoreclub/p/what-makes-buying-and-selling-reptiles

For everyone that thinks we need lab-grown meat to have food that tastes like meat, these are nuggets are made from plants.

Cultivated meat is accused of being “made from cancer cells”. But animals farmed for food get tumours too, and slaughterhouses have rules for cutting them out. If flesh is what scares you, there is another option: eat plants. https://open.substack.com/pub/herbivoreclub/p/is-cultivated-meat-made-from-cancer

Where does this difference in people come from? 🎨 VeganSideKick

Never doubt that it is possible to change hearts & minds 💚

Humans do not need more authority over other animals. We need less. The wild is not a broken machine waiting for human repair. https://www.herbivore.club/p/nature-is-not-ours-to-rule

High blood pressure affects more than 1.4 billion people worldwide. A new meta-analysis found that just 28g of nuts a day was associated with a 20% lower risk of developing hypertension. https://open.substack.com/pub/herbivoreclub/p/28-grams-of-nuts-20-lower-hypertension

What's the hardest part of being vegan? Probably your loved ones exploiting and killing those you've sworn to protect. 🎨 LittleVeganArtist

Pointing out non-vegans' victims often triggers a whirlwind of denial. 🎨 VeganSideKick

If one person sees the rejection of animal use as a serious ethical position while the other sees it as annoying, restrictive, or dramatic, they are not simply choosing different dinners. They are operating from different moral universes. https://www.herbivore.club/p/your-relationship-is-shaping-your

22 dead hares were found laid out in rows on a Kent farm. Britain calls hare coursing cruel. But if killing hares is wrong when criminals do it, why does it become acceptable when someone else pulls the trigger? https://open.substack.com/pub/herbivoreclub/p/why-is-killing-hares-only-cruel-when

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Their life is more important than your dietary preferences 🐙 🎨 Just Comics

Humans can leave the trees standing and still destroy the forest. In Malaysia, white-handed gibbons living beside a highway called far less often than those in quieter areas. Noise pollution is changing what habitat means 🌳 https://open.substack.com/pub/herbivoreclub/p/you-dont-have-to-cut-down-a-forest

Which palette looks better to you? 🎨 VeganStreet

Fishes barely register in debates about animal experiments. Around 382,000 have already been used, are being used or approved for REACH toxicity tests, with up to 680,000 more potentially required. Why are we still doing this? 🐟 https://open.substack.com/pub/herbivoreclub/p/the-eu-could-use-680000-more-fishes

Eating animals is unethical 🐔 🎥 Aitor Garmendia / @Tras_los_Muros

Humans brought rabbits to Australia. Humans released them. Humans transformed the landscape. Now rabbits are poisoned, shot, fumigated and infected with viruses for a crisis they did not create. https://open.substack.com/pub/herbivoreclub/p/when-humans-introduce-an-animal-why

10 days in a farrowing crate left an activist feeling her legs weaken. For sows, confinement like this can consume nearly a quarter of their adult breeding lives. https://open.substack.com/pub/herbivoreclub/p/activists-body-starts-deteriorating

The pros and cons of Veganuary. https://ko-fi.com/post/Veganuary-A-Double-Edged-Sword-for-the-Animal-Rig-Q5Q01QCX36

If Herbivore Club has ever given you words for something you already felt, back us. https://www.herbivore.club/subscribe

Fish are fleeing warming seas to survive. The fishing industry’s response? Follow them. Catch them somewhere else. Grind some into feed for farmed fish who cannot escape at all. https://open.substack.com/pub/herbivoreclub/p/were-chasing-fish-through-a-warming

The job description was simple. Go on social platforms. Create multiple accounts. Undermine veganism by any means that worked. https://ko-fi.com/post/The-Meat-Industrys-Online-Troll-Farm-W7W11QG5H4

Go vegan #ForTheAnimals 💚

A leading UK food-safety scientist is now calling for warning labels on processed meat. Professor Chris Elliott, founder of the Institute for Global Food Security at Queen's University Belfast, has told a new BBC Panorama investigation that there is a strong link between nitrates and nitrites used in products such as bacon and ham and bowel cancer. He has criticised the Food Standards Agency's response and called for warning labels on packaging. https://www.thegrocer.co.uk/news/warnings-about-cancer-risk-of-nitrites-and-nitrates-made-on-panorama/724426.article

Never doubt your ability to change hearts & minds 💚

Vegans choose justice over conformity by standing up for animal rights.

Turkeys do not need better exploitation. They need emancipation from it. https://www.herbivore.club/p/there-is-no-such-thing-as-humane

We don’t need better ways to exploit animals. We need justice. We need liberation. And we need it now, before the fires burn everything we cherish beyond recognition. https://ko-fi.com/post/Burn-Eat-Repeat-S6S71FBX8O

From 2027, pulses must appear alongside main menu options weekly at English schools, while beans finally count properly as protein. https://open.substack.com/pub/herbivoreclub/p/englands-school-food-rules-are-moving

Most people already know the truth: plant-based food is better for them, better for the planet, and doesn’t require killing someone else. https://ko-fi.com/post/Why-Arent-We-Eating-More-Plants-O5O71F76HG

By 2050, the poorest people in parts of Africa could spend around half their income on food. Meanwhile, we feed 766 million tonnes of human-edible grain to farmed animals every year. https://open.substack.com/pub/herbivoreclub/p/food-could-consume-half-the-poorest

It is the same old human story: create the mess, mine another species for answers, and call the whole thing progress. https://www.herbivore.club/p/from-python-blood-to-profit

Cows are forcibly impregnated, separated from their babies, and used as milk machines… still think it’s 'natural'? 🥛

We spend hours every month scanning the news for stories that could inform our next campaign, petition or article. Herd It First helps fund that work. Yes, the pun was absolutely necessary. https://ko-fi.com/herbivore/tiers

Tell us again how forceful vegans are. 🎨 VeganSideKick

Rabies is deadly. That does not make every beaver disposable. After a series of attacks in Maryland, authorities are monitoring and “removing” beavers. The disease is the danger. The animals are victims too. https://open.substack.com/pub/herbivoreclub/p/these-beavers-didnt-choose-rabies

Scientists have discovered nine new deep-sea sponge species off Alaska. We are still learning who lives on the seabed while bottom trawling and proposed deep-sea mining threaten to destroy it. https://open.substack.com/pub/herbivoreclub/p/who-else-lives-where-trump-wants

In a digital age where algorithms reward confidence over credibility, a new breed of influencer has emerged: the health super-spreader. They’re not doctors. They’re not scientists. They’re marketers in lab coats, selling supplements, steak, and snake oil. https://ko-fi.com/post/Broscience-is-a-Public-Health-Risk-G2G51FFNQO

Birds do not belong in cages. 🎨 LittleVeganArtist

How do we persuade a friend, challenge a restaurant, pressure an aquarium or stop the next octopus farm? This activist guide connects octopus sentience with practical tactics for changing minds, companies, laws and social norms 🐙 https://open.substack.com/pub/herbivoreclub/p/the-octopus-advocates-guide

Why should helping poorer communities mean expanding industries built on using animals’ bodies for profit? https://open.substack.com/pub/herbivoreclub/p/why-are-wealthy-countries-exporting

Pelicans. Penguins. Sea lions. H5 bird flu is spreading through Australia’s wildlife, and the boundaries keep collapsing. Birds, mammals, farms, companion animals, humans. https://open.substack.com/pub/herbivoreclub/p/bird-flu-is-tearing-through-australias

Climate breakdown is bad, but looking “unmanly”? Apparently worse. https://ko-fi.com/post/Masculinity-Male-Emissions-P5P81FDVWK

The climate is collapsing, and everyone’s still arguing over who should go first. Is it up to individuals to change their habits, or should governments and corporations lead the charge? Here’s the answer: yes. https://ko-fi.com/post/Climate-You-Act-Then-Make-Them-Act-L4L81EYZDO

Britain’s hottest summer on record did more than make us uncomfortable. Wildfires tore through vital bird habitat in Scotland, Suffolk and the New Forest. https://open.substack.com/pub/herbivoreclub/p/britains-hottest-summer-is-burning

Bad framing has a habit of protecting the very foods doing the most damage while demonising the ones that could help replace them. https://www.herbivore.club/p/the-upf-debate-is-failing-the-public

A study of 815 Brazilian university students found a striking gap between perceived barriers and lived experience. https://open.substack.com/pub/herbivoreclub/p/people-think-going-plant-based-is