It's Okay to Call Yourself a Vegan Even If You Take Non-Vegan Medication, and Here's Why by Charlotte Pointing at VegNews.com

Original post: https://vegnews.com/vegan-health-wellness/advice/non-vegan-medication-why

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Launched in 2000, VegNews is the largest vegan media brand in the world. They have a best-selling plant-based magazine, and they create amazing content from food and fashion to travel, celebrity interviews, beauty and health info, a meal planner, and vegan travel excursions. Their Guide section on their website is full of great information and they have an online shop where you can find cookbooks, foods, kitchen tools, vegan meal delivery services. They also have a website, VeganWeddings.com.

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Meet the plant-based doctor transforming Chattanooga into a Blue Zone by Megan Edwards at ForksOverKnives.com

Original post: https://www.forksoverknives.com/wellness/plant-based-doctor-transforming-chattanooga/

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Forks Over Knives Documentary: https://www.forksoverknives.com/the-film/

Forks Over Knives was founded following the release of the world-famous documentary Forks Over Knives in 2011, showing people how to regain control of their health and their lives with a plant-based diet. Since then Forks Over Knives released bestselling books, launched a mobile recipe app and maintains a website filled with the latest research, success stories, recipes, and tools to help people at every phase of their plant-based journeys. They also have a cooking course, a meal planner, a line of food products, and a magazine. Please visit www.ForksOverKnives.com for a wealth of resources.

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Getting Cats Vegan is Possible and Imperative. Part 2 of 2. By Dr. Karthik Sekar at AfterMeatBook.com.

Original Post: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/AFPXXepkgitbvTtpH/getting-cats-vegan-is-possible-and-imperative

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Karthik Sekar, Ph.D is the author of After Meat: The Case for an Amazing Meat-Free World.

He is a trained scientist and engineer. He finished his B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of North Carolina, his PhD in Chemical Engineering from Northwestern University, and a postdoctoral position in Systems Biology at ETH Zurich. He currently works on the front lines of the alternative food industry in the San Francisco Bay Area. Please visit www.aftermeatbook.com to learn more.

"The movement away from animal-based foods is already proceeding with tremendous momentum," says Karthik Sekar, Ph.D. and author of AFTER MEAT (November 16, 2021). According to Dr. Sekar, Burger King and McDonalds have both introduced veggie burgers sourced from well-known, next-generation vegan food companies, Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods, and the publication, The Economist, declared 2019 to be the "Year of the Vegan".

AFTER MEAT explores the technological reasons for moving away from animal products. "Animals are awful technology," says Dr. Sekar, who supports his opinion by examining how inefficient it is to use cows, for example, to produce steaks, leather, and milk. According to Dr. Sekar, it takes more than a year to grow food to feed animals, and we "waste" more than ninety percent of what we feed the animal to reach the desired result, due to the fundamental physics of cow biology. These are irretrievably terrible metrics. We can do much better with alternative technology such as microbial fermentation, which will also be easier to innovate for taste, nutrition, and other qualities we care about. And all indications are that the future of food will ultimately be tastier, healthier, cheaper, kinder, and better for the environment. This will happen because we won't use animal products.

100% of the proceeds of AFTER MEAT will be donated to the following charities: The Good Food Institute; Animal Charity Evaluator's Recommended Charity Fund; Effective Altruism's Animal Welfare Fund; and Faunalytics.

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Getting Cats Vegan is Possible and Imperative. Part 1 of 2. By Dr. Karthik Sekar at AfterMeatBook.com.

Original Post: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/AFPXXepkgitbvTtpH/getting-cats-vegan-is-possible-and-imperative

Karthik Sekar, Ph.D is the author of After Meat: The Case for an Amazing Meat-Free World.

He is a trained scientist and engineer. He finished his B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of North Carolina, his PhD in Chemical Engineering from Northwestern University, and a postdoctoral position in Systems Biology at ETH Zurich. He currently works on the front lines of the alternative food industry in the San Francisco Bay Area. Please visit www.aftermeatbook.com to learn more.

"The movement away from animal-based foods is already proceeding with tremendous momentum," says Karthik Sekar, Ph.D. and author of AFTER MEAT (November 16, 2021). According to Dr. Sekar, Burger King and McDonalds have both introduced veggie burgers sourced from well-known, next-generation vegan food companies, Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods, and the publication, The Economist, declared 2019 to be the "Year of the Vegan".

AFTER MEAT explores the technological reasons for moving away from animal products. "Animals are awful technology," says Dr. Sekar, who supports his opinion by examining how inefficient it is to use cows, for example, to produce steaks, leather, and milk. According to Dr. Sekar, it takes more than a year to grow food to feed animals, and we "waste" more than ninety percent of what we feed the animal to reach the desired result, due to the fundamental physics of cow biology. These are irretrievably terrible metrics. We can do much better with alternative technology such as microbial fermentation, which will also be easier to innovate for taste, nutrition, and other qualities we care about. And all indications are that the future of food will ultimately be tastier, healthier, cheaper, kinder, and better for the environment. This will happen because we won't use animal products.

100% of the proceeds of AFTER MEAT will be donated to the following charities: The Good Food Institute; Animal Charity Evaluator's Recommended Charity Fund; Effective Altruism's Animal Welfare Fund; and Faunalytics.

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The 411 on cheese: Definition, health risks and alternatives from Switch4Good.org.

Original post: https://switch4good.org/the-411-on-cheese-definition-health-risks-and-alternatives/

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Switch4Good is an evidence-based nonprofit dedicated to rattling accepted norms around dairy and health. They're working to abolish the current system of dietary racial oppression, and promoting solutions for climate change. They have a fantastic podcast hosted by Olympic medalist Dotsie Bausch and Baywatch actress/health coach Alexandra Paul - they'll inspire and educate you to start living better and feeling better.

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After a prostate cancer diagnosis spurred me to go plant-based, I feel like the energizer bunny by Michael Andrus at ForksOverKnives.com

Original post: https://www.forksoverknives.com/success-stories/after-prostate-cancer-spurred-me-to-go-plant-based-i-feel-like-energizer-bunny/

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A guest blog from Greener By Default explores and explains the process of getting institutions to consider menu changes and plant-based defaults Sarah Thorson and Ilana Braverman at Faunalytics.org

Original post: https://faunalytics.org/what-to-consider-when-asking-institutions-to-shift-how-they-serve-food/

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The disturbing link between slaughterhouse workers and PTSD by Andrew Gough at SurgeActivism.org

Original Post: https://www.surgeactivism.org/articles/slaughterhouse-workers-and-ptsd

Powerful BBC article mentioned: Confessions of a slaughterhouse worker

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Surge is a non-profit, grassroots animal rights organization determined to create a world where compassion towards all non-human animals is the norm. Our philosophy is that change comes through vegan education - with media content and campaigns, as well as educational programmes and investigative work.

Ed Winters (known online as Earthling Ed) is the Co-Founder and Co-Director of Surge.

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Dietary Guidelines: "Eat as Little Dietary Cholesterol as Possible" by Dr. Michael Greger at NutritionFacts.org

Original post: https://nutritionfacts.org/video/dietary-guidelines-eat-as-little-dietary-cholesterol-as-possible/

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Dr. Michael Greger is a physician, New York Times bestselling author, and internationally recognized speaker on nutrition, food safety, and public health issues. A founding member and Fellow of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, Dr. Greger is licensed as a general practitioner specializing in clinical nutrition. He is a graduate of the Cornell University School of Agriculture and Tufts University School of Medicine. He founded NUTRITIONFACTS.ORG is a non-profit, non-commercial, science-based public service provided by Dr. Michael Greger, providing free updates on the latest in nutrition research via bite-sized videos. There are more than a thousand videos on nearly every aspect of healthy eating, with new videos and articles uploaded every day.

His latest books —How Not to Die, the How Not to Die Cookbook, and How Not to Diet — became instant New York Times Best Sellers. His two latest books, How to Survive a Pandemic and the How Not to Diet Cookbook were released in 2020.

100% of all proceeds he has ever received from his books, DVDs, and speaking engagements have always and will always be donated to charity.

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10 Surprising Facts About Pigs by Emily Moran Barwick at BiteSizeVegan.org

Original post: https://bitesizevegan.org/10-facts-about-pigs/

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Bite Size Vegan was founded on the belief that everyone deserves access to solid, factual information on issues impacting their health, our planet, society, and the lives of other sentient beings. The website, videos, resources and speeches serve to provide this access in formats tailored to modern methods of information consumption—digestible and approachable, yet backed by rigorous research.

Believing in the power of an informed public, Emily provides free, open-access to right-to-know information in a digestible format. Bite Size Vegan fills a unique space in vegan activism & advocacy by bringing together the accessibility of engaging social-media content with the integrity and depth of research-backed, transparently-cited educational information. By helping people make the connection that veganism—far from an extreme way of life—is simply aligning our actions with the values we already have, Bite Size Vegan strives to end the pervasive exploitation of non-human animals.

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