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20-Member Coalition Demands USDA Slow Slaughter Speeds Amid COVID-19 Pandemic
Workers unions, environmental groups, and animal-rights organizations call upon the government agency to stop allowing slaughterhouses to kill animals at growing speeds.
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Virtual Vegan Culinary School Launches to Train Chefs in the Future of Food
Chef Matthew Kenney—known for his empire of vegan restaurants—opens The Future Food Institute, a culinary school where students can learn everything from basic knife skills to crafting multi-course plant-based menus from the comfort of their home.
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Vegan Leather Star Wars-Themed Boxing Gloves Launch for “May the Fourth”
Boxing company SANABUL releases four punchy styles of vegan boxing gloves to help Star Wars fans celebrate the holiday.
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UK Bookstore to Transform Into Mini Vegan Hotel with Rooftop Terrace
Paul Blayne—who owns popular vegan café Beet Bar—plans to open a tiny five-bed hotel, complete with an extended mezzanine and rooftop terrace.
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Australian Tourism Company Plants Coral Reefs During COVID-19 Downtime
While tourism is on hold during the pandemic, divers put their skills to use in the Great Barrier Reef to save it from disappearing by 2050.
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Latino Civil-Rights Group Calls for Meat Boycott to Protect Workers From COVID-19
As workers return to slaughterhouses under Trump’s order to keep meat plants open, the League of United Latin American Citizens urges its 60 million community members to stop buying meat.
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Vegan Brand Donates More Than 2,000 Meals to Navajo Nation Elders
Nutrition brand Kate Farms partners with Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health to deliver vegan meal replacements to rural tribal communities, where 40 percent of families were experiencing food and water insecurity prior to COVID-19.
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Califia Farms to Donate One Million Vegan Beverages to Frontline Workers Amid COVID-19
The vegan brand is giving overworked hospital workers a needed dose of caffeine with its coffee beverages and helping local coffee shops in NYC, LA, and San Francisco stay afloat during this crisis.
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Belgians Urged to Eat French Fries Twice Per Week as Civic Duty
To mitigate the disruptions to Belgium’s potato industry during the COVID-19 pandemic, citizens are asked to do their part by eating more fries.
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Lizzo Is Cooking Spicy Vegan Chicken Sandwiches During Lockdown
The award-winning singer recreates McDonald’s’ classic chicken sandwich at home and without animal cruelty.
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Coast-to-Coast, Vegan Restaurants Unite to Throw “Plant-Based Party” for COVID-19 Relief
Veggie Grill, Native Foods, HipCityVeg, and many others partner with DoorDash and Beyond Meat to bolster the efforts of vegan initiative Support + Feed—founded by Billie Eilish’s mother Maggie Baird—and you can help just by eating vegan meals.
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Michael Phelps, Aly Raisman Are Now on Vegan Milk Cartons
The Olympians partner with plant-based brand Silk to promote its soy milk line and support its $150,000 donation to hunger-relief organization Feeding America.