✊ Win: ______ finally drops Kangaroo leather!
Plus 8 more VEGAN VICTORIES!
Monthly Edition #25
AU 🇦🇺
Adidas, ASICS, and Mizuno, all end their use of Kangaroo leather in their shoes.
Each year, millions of Australian Kangaroos are shot and skinned for “K-leather” under the pretense of “population control.“ The Center of Humane Economy looked to change that.
After years of investigations, protests, litigation, and international coalition-building, the Kangaroos Are Not Shoes pressure campaign was successful!
The #1 contributor to the K-leather trade - Adidas - is no longer using K-leather in their shoes. Shortly after, ASICS and Mizuno both pledged to no longer have K-leather in their supply chain by the end of 2025!
Cruelty has no place in commerce.
Since companies are made up of Humans, they behave like Humans. It takes just one influential person to say “no” to something for everyone else to feel like it’s okay to say no to it as well. Pressure campaigns targeting the powerful work, and they start with us!
— DL
THE VEGAN VICTORIES THIS MONTH
Organs on chips
Leveraging Vegan expertise
Winning a big bake off
Britain’s Strongest Man…
Taste = Plants + (Animal Flavors)?
From byproduct to companion
Justice > veterinary internship
Dog meat survivors
1. NIH Moves Away From Animal Testing
US 🇺🇸
The National Institutes of Health shut down a Beagle lab, and is now prioritizing human over animal testing for research!
Over 90% of basic research, most of which involves animals like Beagles, fails to lead to treatments for Humans. This makes the biggest funder of research in the world, NIH, responsible for hundreds of thousands of avoidable deaths.
Here's how the NIH will spare animal lives:
"Organ on a chip" systems model Human disease and capture Human variability.
Data insights into Human health outcomes at community and population levels.
Computational models simulate complex biological Human systems, disease pathways, and drug interactions.
“This human-based approach will accelerate innovation, improve healthcare outcomes, and deliver life-changing treatments.”
— Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, NIH Director
2. Vegan Pros Help Community Transition
Trujillo, PE 🇵🇪
Alimentos por el Planeta (Food for the Planet) helped get the #1 ranked Peruvian university, Pontifical Universidad Católica del Perú, to add Vegan options in their dining halls!
This Peruvian organization is led by an all-Vegan team of nutritionists, economists, communicators, and biologists. They leverage their expertise to help create attractive and balanced menus that institutions can easily integrate. By also working directly with students, they get consumer approval too.
This isn’t their first win either - they’ve been implementing Vegan options in restaurants all around Peru!
3. Vegan Pasty Wins National Pie Competition
Leicestershire, UK 🇬🇧
Hundreds of slaughter-based baked goods dominate the British Pie Awards annually, but this year, a Vegan pasty took a win!
Now in its 17th year, the British Pie Awards is the UK’s leading competition for pies. This year, The Keralan Cauliflower, Chickpea & Onion Bhaji Pasty by Phat Pasty Co. impressed even non-Vegan judges. Its bold flavors and ingredient innovation led to it being crowned Pasty of the Year!
Awards like these show even the most stubborn non-Vegan that eating Vegan can be epic.
— DL
4. Britain’s Strongest Man...is Vegan
Bolton, UK 🇬🇧
4-year Vegan, Tom Butts (U90 kg), won the 2025 British Official Strongman competition!
Official Strongman is the competition that can lead to an invite to the World’s Strongest Man competition. If Tom continues to win, we could see another Vegan join Patrik Baboumian as the World’s Strongest Man!
“I think me going from not at all veggie to fully Vegan and then still getting stronger, is a great thing to appeal to men especially who are obsessed with meat and think it’s essential to optimize their progression in the gym.”
— Tom Butts
Tested and approved by Dani Linavi, VEGAN WORLD NOW founder and Vegan Registered Dietitian Nutritionist.
🥪 Buffalo Chickpea Sandwich by Pick Up Limes
5. Complex Animal Flavors Replicated in Vegan Food
Tokyo, JP 🇯🇵
Can plant-based meats ever nail those undeniable umami flavors?
Global leader in designer flavors and aromas, T. Hasegawa, wants to find out. With their new technology, PLANTREACT, they mimic the complex flavor profiles of animal proteins like chicken and beef on Vegan food products.
Vegan food is about to get a whole lot tastier!
— DL
GUILT-FREE GOODIES
💞 Meet someone new at PETA’s Vegan speed dating event.
💪 Get your protein in with Eat Just’s new single ingredient Mung Bean protein powder (30 g per 130 kcal)!
🍫 Be the first to try the new Vegan Nutella, even if you’re in the US.
🥤 Give your kids the best all-in-one Vegan nutrition shakes by Kate Farms.
6. Male Dairy Calves Given Second Chance
New South Wales, AU 🇦🇺
Companion Cows Australia, a non-profit organization, rescued 7 Calves destined for slaughter.
Each year, Australian "farmers" steal hundreds of thousands of newborn male Calves from their mothers, and kill them for Veal. This is because the Calves can never produce milk.
Sammy was one of these Cows.
He arrived with an eye infection that would later leave him blind. Still, he’s been receiving love and care as a Companion Cow!
7. Vegans Rescue Goats from their Veterinary “Internship”
Barneveld, NL 🇳🇱
Imagine: you, a Vegan, want to be a Veterinarian to save even more animals. As part of your training, you’re required to do an internship at a dairy Goat farm. You know what that looks like, and when you arrive, it’s exactly how you imagined.
This was the reality for two Vegans, Jáshmin Domínguez Orozco and Diya Noordman, and they did not comply.
The interns instead called the Animal Emergency Assistance Committee and the Flappus Foundation asking if they could help them find shelter for the Goats. As their internship went on, they coordinated to re-home the Goats. The interns even raised money from family and friends to help care for the Goats!
In doing these rescues, the interns learned skills infinitely more valuable than those they would’ve learned in their internship!
— DL
8. Dog Meat Survivors Find Sanctuary
Cheongju, KR 🇰🇷
South Korea’s National Assembly finally passed a legislative ban on Dog Meat last year. However, it doesn’t come into full effect until 2027.
There are still Dogs on farms waiting to be rescued!
The Humane World for Animals Models for Change program worked cooperatively with farmers to permanently close 18 Dog meat farms and rescue more than 2,700 dogs. They’re not done yet.
A 40-year old Dog meat farm was shut down for good, with 67 more Dogs re-homed!
“They have nothing but soft beds, full bellies and lots of love ahead of them.”
— Sangkyung Lee, Campaign Manager, Humane World for Animals Korea.
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"The moral arc of the universe bends toward justice for all living beings."
— Martin Luther King Jr.
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Until every animal is free,
Dani Linavi ✊
P.S. Looking for others to stand up for animals with? Me too! When writing this month’s edition, I found this new free platform - Connect for Animals - that connects us to events, actions, and each other. It seems promising!
It’s funny how some people still think vegans will die of protein deficiency, even though studies show that vegans tend to be significantly healthier than non-vegans—and vegan athletes continue to win medal after medal.