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Video: How to Cultivate a Healthy Gut Microbiome with Food

Food for gut health: An unhealthy intestinal biome is a major contributor to heart disease and other illnesses.

March 22, 2024 · 10 Comments

Kim Stafford: How to make money

Sell munitions to nations at war. Sell relief supplies 
for distribution at war. Fly diplomats around to talk 
about war. Pay speech-writers to equivocate about war.

March 16, 2024 · 7 Comments

Sean Sexton: Hold What You Got 

Mayhem, butchery, and sheer witlessness
have grown acute with time and become the order of things.
Frogs creak in brief aubade

February 28, 2024 · 16 Comments

Dr. Michael Greger: Fight Aging with Brain-Healthy Foods

What is the best source of lutein, the primary carotenoid antioxidant in the brain?

January 27, 2024 · 2 Comments

Frank Sabatino, DC, PhD: Alzheimer’s Disease and Women

A plant-based diet has more than 50 times the antioxidant potential than any other eating plan on planet Earth and is the most successful way to eliminate the oxidative stress associated with Alzheimer’s Disease.

September 26, 2023 · 10 Comments

Gary Fincke: Hanging the Pigs

The silenced crowd pressed forward,
Waiting for those pigs to hang,
Shutting up their Satan tongues.

August 30, 2023 · 9 Comments

Reynard Loki: How to Fix Our Food System

The facts are clear and they are shocking: Factory farming is unhealthy for consumers, dangerous for workers, and devastating for the environment, and it is the largest cause of animal cruelty in the history of mankind.

August 22, 2023 · 15 Comments

Julia Conley: Ignoring ‘Mounting Threat to Clean Water,’ EPA Denies Factory Farm Pollution Petition

“We know that animal factories are a huge source of water pollution and that our freshwater is in crisis, and yet EPA has failed to uphold its duty to protect our environment from this industry,” said one advocate.

August 17, 2023 · 3 Comments

E. Bailey Norwood, Courtney Bir: 10% of Americans Don’t Eat Meat

The number of Americans who are vegans or vegetarians has doubled in recent years.

August 1, 2023 · 1 Comment

Video: Exposing Perdue’s Petaluma Poultry

Seventeen chickens were just liberated from the Petaluma Poultry slaughterhouse in Sonoma County as hundreds of activists gathered outside to bear witness as part of the Animal Liberation Conference. 

June 24, 2023 · Leave a comment

Video: Alexis Nikole Nelson | A flavorful field guide to foraging

Whether it’s dandelions blooming in your backyard or purslane sprouting from the sidewalk, vegan forager Alexis Nikole Nelson is on a mission to show how freely growing flora could make its way to your plate.

April 15, 2023 · 4 Comments

Aidan Smith: Despite Meat Industry Lies, Plant-Based Diets Are Healthy

Plant-based diets have been connected to a decrease in mortality.

April 10, 2023 · 7 Comments

Video: Vegan Poem

At the current turning point in our relationship with the earth, Federico García Lorca’s vision of the injustice in our mistreatment of animals is even more poignant.

February 25, 2023 · 5 Comments

Marie Kacouchia: Explore African Cuisines

I make it a point of honor to use ingredients that are accessible everywhere and by nearly everyone. Then I try to show that with a few spices, it is possible to totally transform everyday foods and give them a new dimension.

February 25, 2023 · Leave a comment

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