✌️ VEGAN VICTORIES MONTHLY #17
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It’s time to escape hopelessness and defeat Vegan burnout in 10 minutes or less by reading the most positive Vegan newsletter on the internet - your only free source for all of this month’s most positive Vegan news from around the world! 👇️
🇧🇷 Slaughterhouses Forced to Pay Costs of Deforestation
The people of Rondonia, a city near the Amazon Rain forest, are struggling to breathe. Their city has been blanketed by wildfire smoke, a sign of rampant deforestation. The culrpit? Slaughterhouses, and this month they will pay!
A Brazilian judge found 2 JBS-owned slaughterhouses guilty of profiting off this destruction, as they bought, killed, and sold Cows from a protected area of former rain forest in the Amazon.
$764,000 is what they must pay in damages. These are peanuts, but it’s a right step towards holding these criminal corporations accountable for their atrocities! The best part is that the money will go towards reforestation!
🇺🇸USDA Expands Vegan Options in School Meals
Aiming to improve the nutritional quality of food and offer more options for kids with allergies, beans, peas, lentils, nuts, and seeds can now be served as a “meat/meat alternative” component! Bean dips like hummus are also exempt from being counted towards total fat.
Since these products are often cheaper, our kids are going to be eating a lot more black beans and tofu - a win for farmed animals and Humans alike!
🏥 90% Patients Satisfaction at Plant-Based Hospitals
On the 1st Vegan Victories Monthly ever, I reported that NYC Health + Hospitals will be transitioning their food service systems to make plant-based meals the default.
16 months later, the results are in: patient acceptance of the plant-based meals is 95% and patient satisfaction is 90%. What’s more, the emissions of the 11 hospitals have reduced by 36% and the cost of the plant-based entrees is $0.59 less than for meals containing animal products. This led to a cost savings of $318,000!
More money, happier patients, and less exploited farmed animals! It’s only a matter of time before other hospitals learn of this success… Speaking of which, I just sent this report to the clinical nutrition manager of the local hospital I interned at, Tallahassee Memorial Hospital. :)
🐶 Vegan Dogs Healthier than Non-Vegan Dogs
Last month it was a Vegan Victory for Cats, this month we have one for Dogs!
A new study on 2,536 Dogs found that compared to Dogs who ate animal products, Dogs who ate plant-based were 50% less likely to develop body weight problems, musculoskeletal issues, gastrointestinal issues, swollen anal glands, and dental or oral problems. No health disorder was consistently more prevalent in dogs fed a plant-based diet.
What’s more, the Dogs who ate plant-based were 21% less likely to have multiple veterinary visits per year, 33% less likely to be considered unwell, and significantly less likely to be on medication compared to dogs who ate animal products.
A Vegan Victory for Dogs, and all the animals previously killed for their food.
Find a recommended Vegan dog food here.
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🎶 This is the Most Vegan Concert of All Time
90’s Trip Hop Band, Massive Attack (who I’m hypnotically listening to as I write this), ran what seems to be the most Vegan, green, eco-friendly concert ever. Seriously, from bottom to top:
They chose a local place that could be run entirely on renewable energy and batteries, with no car parking. They incentivized attendees to bring their reusable containers for food, use public transport, and even provided an electric shuttle bus if needed. They reduced their equipment travel down from 6 to just 2 electric trucks. They banned disposable vapes, had compostable cutlery you’d eat the only 100% Vegan food on, and had compostable toilets you can then release your Vegan food into! They even send some of the event’s waste sent to a firm that extracts phosphorus from urine (seriously)… Did I mention the entire concert catering was Vegan?
And of course, the concert’s name is… Act 1.5.
After the Paris Agreement’s 1.5 °C target, of course! Look what Massive Attack frontman, Robert Del Naja, had to say:
“If what you’re doing’s not 1.5 compatible, it’s irrelevant. It’s simply a gesture, an idea. It’s not doing anything.”
Word.
🐉 PETA Makes Official D&D Vegan Sub-Classes
You read that right.
As a D&D DM, player, and actual-play listener, this is epic.
Which one are you choosing?
💨 World’s Most Sustainable Protein Deemed Safe
5 months ago, I reported that Solein, a “protein made from thin air,” achieved commercial scale. This month, Solein achieved Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS) status!
Solein is 65-70% protein, 5-8% fat, 0-15% dietary fiber, 3-5% mineral nutrients, and contains iron and B vitamins. It can be used to enhance nearly any food - from noodles to plant-based meats to beverages, and it's set to release in the USA by the end of this year!
Vegan alternatives are about to get a whole lot healthier.
🥩 Marbled Cultivated Meat Wins Breakthrough Award
TissenBioFarm has developed an AgTech Breakthrough Award-Winning system to produce whole-cut marbled steaks using a novel biofabrication system that allows for the “ultrafast” production of muscles and fat in fiber form.
All cells. No animals!
Compared to conventional 3D bioprinting, they’re reportedly able to make the marbled meat up to 35,000 times faster (300 kg of fibers per hour). Where there’s marbling, there’s luxurious flavor.
We’re running towards a world where we can experience culinary luxuries, at scale, without the taking of a life.
🐓 Over 400 Roosters Saved from Cockfighting
They’re on their way to a better life!
🐒 Activists Prevent Building of Monkey Prison
Local Texans and Animal Rights Activists of PETA pressured Charles River Laboratories, cruel Monkey experimenters, to scrap its plans to build the largest monkey prison in the west.
People like you and me can prevent 43,000 primates from a life of confinement, and we did!
Let’s get another Vegan Victory like this one to ensure the next monkey prison doesn’t get built. :)
🥇 Olympian Publicly Donates to Animal Rights Orgs
Last month, I mentioned that war will not end Veganism. Here’s more proof:
Yaroslava Mahuchikh, the Ukrainian gold medal winner in the women’s high jump at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, donated over 1 million Ukrainian hryvnia (over $24,000) of her prize money to Ukrainian animal rights organizations that rescue animals from Ukrainian war zones.
She may have won gold, but the animals that will be saved as a result of her win is a truly golden Vegan Victory. :)
🐀 NYC Pilots Non-Lethal Rat Control Program
Everyone knows New York City has a Rat trash problem. After years of animal rights activists urging NYC residents to prevent trash buildup and use contraceptives on Rats rather than killing them with poison, the “Rat Czar” (a real title) agreed!
A huge Vegan Victory for rats, and a reminder to be Vegan and clean your home!
🍄🟫 Chicken “Farmer” Turned Mushroom Farmer
Last month, I reported that a Vegan chef transformed a Chicken “farm” to a mushroom Farm; two months ago, a Cat “farm” to a fruit orchard; nine months ago as well; and fifteen months ago too.
History shows that one thing is clear. There are many “farmers” often feeling as trapped as the animals do, and need some help. This is the missing link to end factory farming: actually transforming the animal farms into sustainable crop farms! If you’re Leah Garcés, president of Mercy for Animals, it’s called transfarming.
Unlike others, this $700,000 transfarmation involved demolition, replumbing, rewiring and implementing four distinct growing systems, and is built to last 20+ years.
It’s a big Vegan Victory because it’s the biggest transfarmation of all of them! Cheers!
To the 29 new subscribers added to our 298-strong Vegan team, I hope these Vegan Victories have left you feeling as hopeful and inspired as the rest of us!
I write for who I believe are the most important group of Humans in the world: those who stand up for non-Human animals. ✊ As a Vegan doing animal-rights activism on the streets myself, I know this non-Vegan world can leave us feeling hopeless, burnt out, and like we’re losing. We’re not. We just need the proof! If you relate, I’m honored you’ve given me your attention. You could have given it to animals, and you chose to invest it with me. I take it in the highest regard.
If I’ve made you feel a little more hopeful, please consider sharing this with a fellow Vegan! It’s a free, 15 second, fun surprise gesture of goodwill that will make them see you as their source of Vegan inspiration. I guarantee you’ll be making their day a little more hopeful and our movement a little more positive. :)
Thank you.
Until every animal is free,
Dani ✌️
Love these. I adore all those stories of meat/dairy farmers turning to plant farming instead.
Thank you for providing all this uplifting information! :) You're a champ, please keep going <3