Share It’s a great day for children’s health, the environment and the animals! AB 479, the California School Plant-Based Food and Beverage Program passed through the California State Assembly today with a vote tally of 46 in support to 11 opposed. The bill, authored by Assembly Members Nazarian and Kalra, would establish within the California Department of Education (CDE), incentives… Read more →
Share California State Assembly Committee on Education Chair Patrick O’Donnell garnered a round of laughter as he introduced what he calls, “The Vegan Bill,” otherwise known as CA Assembly Bill 479. The bill, authored by Assembly Members Nazarian and Kalra, would establish within the California Department of Education (CDE), incentives for making plant-based food and beverages for students. Under the… Read more →
ShareThe new year is bringing in some good news! Here’s something to put a little extra pep in your vegan step! Ag-Gag Law Overturned The 2012 law that banned undercover video recordings inside agricultural production facilities in Iowa has been struck down! People can now document the horrors that take place inside of factory farms and puppy mills. “Ag-Gag laws… Read more →
ShareHot on the heels of California’s ban on cosmetics tested on animals, Unilever just announced that Dove products will no longer be tested on animals, worldwide! “Animal testing for cosmetics has been banned in the EU since 2013, and we hope that an adoption of similar bans in other countries will accelerate the regulatory acceptance of alternative approaches and thereby… Read more →
ShareWhile most of the attention was focused on chaos at the national level, something truly wonderful just happened at the state level today: California’s Governor Jerry Brown just signed SB 1249, the Cruelty Free Cosmetics Act into LAW! As I mentioned earlier, CA SB 1249 passed the CA Assembly unanimously, and the senate concurred. All we were waiting on was… Read more →
ShareBREAKING: California lawmakers just passed SB 1249, the Cruelty-Free Cosmetics Act! The bill now heads to California Governor, Jerry Brown’s desk for signature! California State Assembly passed it unanimously, 80 to 0! And the Senate, concurred! Authored by CA Senator Cathleen Galgiani, and co-sponsored by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine and Social Compassion in Legislation, SB 1249 will make… Read more →
ShareYet another reason to ditch eating animals and enjoy a healthy plant based diet instead. Ten residents who lived by Smithfield’s factory farm were just awarded $750,000 in compensation, plus over $50 million dollars in punitive damages by a federal court in North Carolina. Smithfield is a Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation (CAFO), that raises – and kills – animals for… Read more →
ShareSan Francisco just banned the sale of ALL fur! And it’s the first major U.S. city to do so! The S.F. Board of Supervisors all voted in favor of ending the sale of fur. The bill goes into effect on January 1st, 2019. “More than 50 million animals are violently killed each year around the world to support the fashion… Read more →
ShareLooks promising! A bill to prohibit the sale of cosmetics tested on animals was just introduced in the California State Senate! The California Cruelty-Free Cosmetics Act (SB 1249) was introduced by Senator Cathleen Galgiani (D-Stockton) and comes on the heels of Hawaii introducing a similar bill last month. The act would make it unlawful for any cosmetic manufacturer to knowingly import… Read more →
SharePentobarbital is the drug many animal shelters use to kill animals, so what in the heck is it doing in dog food? Well, those dead homeless or abandoned family “pets” are often scooped up by companies who grind them up, and turn them into “pet” food. Los Angeles alone sends out about 200 tons of dead “pets” to be sold out… Read more →
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