Woman shelters 97 stray dogs in her home during Bahamas hurricane
As a Category 5 hurricane loomed in the Bahamas, one compassionate woman took 97 stray and unwell dogs into her home to save them from the storm. Chella Philips, manager of The Voiceless Dogs of Nassau, shared pictures from her house as Hurricane Dorian tore through the country. Many dogs had been abandoned as people …
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Vegan Game of Thrones star Jerome Flynn to expose factory farming in new documentary
Game Of Thrones star Jermone Flynn is to present a new UK documentary which exposes the truth behind factory farming. The documentary named Hogwood Farm is produced by vegan company Viva! after the charity launched a crowdfunding campaign and raised more than £10,000 in just 24 hours. Documentary Hogwood: A Modern Horror Story will aim …
Horrifying slaughterhouse footage depicts pigs beaten with mallets suffering slow, painful deaths
Horrifying footage from a slaughterhouse has been released by activists, depicting some of the ‘most damning footage of animal abuse ever seen’. A video released by Aussie Farms depicts animals being repeatedly beaten with mallets, writhing in pain and experiencing slow and excruciating deaths. The activist group claims the footage was filmed at Picton Meatworx …
Snoop Dogg is loving KFC’s ‘Finger lickin’ vegan chicken
American rapper Snoop Dogg has hinted he may have been the inspiration behind KFC’s launch of vegan chicken. KFC launched its vegan nuggets and boneless wings trial this week, which are made from Beyond Meat vegan chicken, leading to rave reviews and immediate sell-outs. And Snoop, a Beyond Meat ambassador, has posted a video in …
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Arnold Schwarzenegger ‘loves’ plant-based food ‘much more than meat’
Arnold Schwarzenegger has revealed a drastic switch in his muscle-building dietary preferences in a new interview. The world’s most famous bodybuilder features in an interview in the latest preview of The Game Changers, releasing on September 17, in which he discusses the reasons he’s fallen in love with plants. Sharing details of his earlier lifestyle, …
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Lewis Hamilton launches global vegan burger restaurant franchise
Vegan Formula 1 champ Lewis Hamilton is launching a vegan burger chain starting with a site in London. The animal lover’s new venture named Neat Burger has ambitions to open 14 sites globally in the next two years. Hamilton is working with Beyond Meat investor Tommaso Chiabra and hospitality company The Cream Group to launch …
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Peaky Blinders star, Harry Kirton, still works in a vegan café
Harry Kirton may look convincing in the role of Arthur Shelby Jr’s son Finn who develops a massive cocaine habit in the hit crime drama, but his real life is in stark contrast. A self professed vegan, Harry told Metro.co.uk, “I have a lot of passions that aren’t just acting. I like to write, I’m …
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FACT: Farm animals (and not vegans) consume 90% of soybean crops
90% of soybean crops, 50% of grain crops, and 40% of fish caught all go into feeding farm animals. Alarming figures and you could be shaking your head in disbelief, but the truth is livestock are not on a grass fed diet. In fact, these figures also refute the popular belief that rainforests are being …
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Leonardo DiCaprio backed alliance promises $5M in aid for Amazon wildfires
Amazon this year has witnessed the highest number of fires since 2013 and almost 1,330 square miles of the rainforest has been charred. With the widespread devastations the wildfires have unleashed on Amazon; many celebrities are doing their bit towards raising awareness and helping in salvaging the parched savannah. Leonardo DiCaprio and his philanthropic associates-Laurene …
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The Amazon Rainforest Is Burning Down
Wildfires in the Amazon are often re-occuring during the dry season in Brazil; however, this year in particular has been a lot worse than previous. INPE claims that the amount of wildfires are not to be blamed for the dry season entirely, as the amount of illegal deforestation fires increase for agriculture space. Smoke from …
Half a Billion Bees Have Died in Brazil
More than 500 million bees died in four Brazilian states and that too in a span of 90 days, reported Bloomberg. In Rio Grande do Sul alone, 400 million bees dropped dead. On inspection, most of these insects were reportedly poisoned by insecticides containing neonicotinoids and fipronil that were officially banned by the EU in …
Vegan Haribo Sweets Now in Tesco
The soft, jelly, fruit flavoured candy comes in a cute golden 11-inch-tall bear-shaped container. Most of the German confectionery company’s recipes use non vegetarian glazing agents- beeswax, beef or pork gelatin. However, Haribo’s latest candy has no traces of animal ingredients, appeasing vegans. The soft jelly sweets contain fruit juice concentrates from lemons, oranges, strawberries, …