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Meat Is Not Essential. Why Are We Killing for It?

The CNCL Team — Wed, 13 May 2020 06:27:45 +0000

For years, we have knowingly destroyed our planet for the sake of a protein preference. Now, we are sending humans to their deaths.

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Why is Animal Research So Seldom in the News?

The CNCL Team — Sun, 10 May 2020 20:08:36 +0000

If you are like most people, you know a lot more about how farm animals are treated on factory farms than dogs, primates and other animals are treated in U.S. labs. It is no coincidence.

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Dress Rehearsal for the Apocalypse

The CNCL Team — Sun, 26 Apr 2020 22:58:10 +0000

As we look out on silent, empty, streets, watching while statistics of the sick and the dead skyrocket out of control, and the sickening chill of fear clutches at our hearts for our loved ones whom we are powerless to protect, the question that hangs in the air is, ‘Why?’

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Stopping Animal Abuse will Prevent Future Pandemics, says Leading Scientist

The CNCL Team — Thu, 02 Apr 2020 03:31:44 +0000

“By creating distressed and sick animals, we are harming ourselves,” claims Dr Aysha Akhtar, a neurologist and public health specialist.

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Who Hears the Fishes When They Cry? The Filthy Business of Fish Farming

The CNCL Team — Sat, 21 Mar 2020 05:55:52 +0000

On October 7th, 2019, animal protection organization Compassion Over Killing released footage from their new undercover investigation of a salmon factory farm.

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Thinking of Ducks

The CNCL Team — Sat, 21 Mar 2020 05:03:56 +0000

Ducks. As a child I used to love visiting duckponds. These memories linger, visions of a lost childhood when I thought the world was a place of beauty and wonder. Oblivious to the barbarity of my species, I had no clue what was really in store for the majority of ducks, and the world became a blacker and more sinister place for my knowing.

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Joaquin Phoenix’s Inspiring Oscar Speech: Love and Compassion for All Beings…

The CNCL Team — Fri, 14 Feb 2020 05:21:04 +0000

On perhaps one of the biggest nights of his life, PETA’s 2019 Person of the Year, Joaquin Phoenix, wasn’t thinking about himself. As he accepted the Oscar for Best Actor on Sunday, February 9, he was thinking about what else he could do to help end speciesism.

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The Issues with Eating Dairy, Eggs and Honey [Interview with Daniel Schmachtenberger]

The CNCL Team — Wed, 25 Dec 2019 20:20:12 +0000

In this interview with researcher and think-tank developer Daniel Schmachtenberger, we discuss some of the fundamental ethical questions and issues surrounding animal rights and veganism.

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Peter Singer on the Lives You Can Save

The CNCL Team — Tue, 10 Dec 2019 02:38:50 +0000

In Moral Philosopher Peter Singer’s hands, the questions that motivate a moral life are startlingly simple. But if you take them seriously, living morally can be both very rewarding and very challenging.

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Fishes, Sentience, And The Law

The CNCL Team — Mon, 09 Dec 2019 23:11:25 +0000

Despite recent increases in the interest towards bird and mammal protection, less attention is paid to the suffering experienced by fishes in the fishing industry. But without a morally relevant difference between aquatic and land animals, the same moral obligations should apply to fishes and other aquatic animals, too.

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Prime Ministers Urged to Take 30 Day Challenge to Help Climate Crisis

The CNCL Team — Thu, 31 Oct 2019 20:25:38 +0000

Four member organisations of the Vegan World Alliance are challenging the leaders of their countries to try vegan for a month, starting on 1 November, World Vegan Day. They want their leaders to commit to a low carbon way of life and to educate their government and the public about the huge negative impact animal agriculture has on the environment.

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Say ‘Cheese’ – But There’s Nothing to Smile About

The CNCL Team — Mon, 28 Oct 2019 06:43:13 +0000

How many nonvegans know the difference between 1) the kind of cheese we were all raised to think of as ‘normal’, 2) vegetarian cheese and 3) vegan cheese?

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