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Health + Wellness

7 Adorable Vegan Animal Instagram Accounts To Brighten Your Day

From personable pigs to the cutest vegan corgis, these animal Instagrams will add a little sunshine to the cloudiest of days.

by Tanya Flink

Products

10 Vegan Companies That Give Back to Animals

From vegan milk chocolate to cruelty-free jewelry, these 10 vegan-forward companies help you put your dollar where it counts by donating a percentage of sales to animal welfare causes.

by Karen Asp

Health + Wellness

20 Inspiring Vegan TED Talks to Watch Right Now

From passionate advocates to innovative entrepreneurs, these TED talks will educate, empower, and inspire you to level up your vegan life.

by Shriya Swaminathan

Health + Wellness

13 Fabulous Vegan Things That Happened in 2020

We’re all ready to move on, but first, a look on the vegan bright side.

by Tanya Flink

Features

If Going Vegan is Your Resolution This Year, Read This

For 2021, let’s all focus on practicing compassion and kindness rather than judgment and comparison.

by Kathryn Lunger

News

Meat Eaters Wanted: Go Vegan and This Job Will Pay You $68,000

Vegan meal subscription company Vibrant Vegan is looking for its first Vegan Curious Coordinator, a meat-eater who is willing to go vegan for three months in exchange for a hefty salary and free meals.

News

Slutty Vegan CEO and Steve Harvey Help Pay 100 Electric Bills in Atlanta

Thanks to the joint effort, families with past-due bills no longer have to worry about staying warm this winter.

News

More than One Third of Brazilians Are Buying Less Meat During COVID-19

A new report shows that consumers in Brazil, China, and globally are actively buying less animal flesh and more plant-based meat—a trend that sets the stage for the international success of Burger King’s new plant-based Whoppers.

News

Scientists Find Compounds in Dark Chocolate May Block COVID-19

Researchers at North Carolina State University find the compounds in certain plant foods may interfere with the virus’s ability to replicate and cause COVID-19 symptoms.

News

Doctors Demand USDA Remove Dairy from Dietary Guidelines, Citing Racial Bias

Despite evidence that many Americans, particularly BIPOC, are lactose intolerant and the consumption of dairy poses a higher risk of multiple cancers, the 2020 to 2025 Dietary Guidelines maintain that Americans should consume three servings of dairy products per day.

News

Tabitha Brown Partners with Veganuary to Help Everyone Go Vegan in 2021

The vegan influencer stars in a light-hearted video campaign to encourage people to go vegan for the month of January and beyond.

News

Impossible Foods Donates Its Millionth Burger to Fight Food Insecurity

The plant-based brand hit its charitable milestone with help from organizations such as Colin Kaepernick’s Know Your Rights Camp, Issac Rochell’s Local Human, and Magic Johnson’s SodexoMAGIC.

by Anna Starostinetskaya

News

COVID-19 Pandemic Is Driving 30 Percent of Seniors to Eat More Plant-Based Foods

Older generations across North America are now leaning into the plant-based lifestyle to improve their health during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

Recipes

5 Reasons Why I Eat the Beyond Burger (Spoiler Alert: It Has Nothing to Do With Nutrition)

Is it healthy? Not really. But let’s look at the bigger picture.

Recipes

5 Ways to Warm Up to Winter Smoothies

Incorporating ingredients such as frozen fruit, seasonal spices, coffee, and chocolate into your morning smoothie will step up your smoothie game through the coldest months of the year.

Health + Wellness

5 Ways To Become a (Better) Vegan in 2021

by Tanya Flink

News

Cyclists Deliver 1,000 Vegan Meals to “Take Pandemics Off the Menu” in Los Angeles

by Anna Starostinetskaya

News

Jane Goodall, Ricky Gervais, Bryan Adams, and 100 Other Celebrities Sign Open Letter Urging Public to Go Vegan in January

The celebrities urge everyone to consider going vegan in an effort to curb the climate crisis and prevent the next global pandemic in an open letter published by vegan campaign Veganuary.

News

Online Retailers Caught Selling Real Fur Labeled as Faux in UK

Laboratory tests confirm that a number of retailers—including Amazon, eBay, Shein, Romwe, and more—are advertising items as “faux fur” when in fact they contain real animal fur.