Herbivore

The future of farming does not need to be built on cages, slaughterhouses, milking parlours, hatcheries, fishing vessels, and feedlots. It can be built on food. Actual food. Not someone’s body. https://www.herbivore.club/p/farming-jobs-are-not-a-moral-defence

Explaining that the biggest, toughest animals are herbivores...

Debunking the myths, one excuse at a time. It's not about nutrition or personal preference; it's about justice. 🎨 VeganSideKick

Octopuses in captivity try to escape, even dismantling their tanks. They don’t ‘belong’ to marine parks - they’re prisoners planning their next move 🐙 https://www.herbivore.club/p/octopuses-minds-myths-and-human-entitlement

We've heard it all. 🎨 VeganSideKick

Even if you don't care about justice, farming animals is a waste of resources.

There's no such thing as a meat eating environmentalist.

Scientists removed much of mice’s cerebral cortex and implanted human brain tissue. Why? Because mice are poor models of human disease. If the problem with animal testing is that mice aren’t human, why are we still using them? 🐀 https://open.substack.com/pub/herbivoreclub/p/scientists-put-human-brain-cells

They sounded like a vegan for a moment there. 🎨 VeganSideKick

Abuse one, go to jail. Abuse another, get paid. Make it make sense.

Who knows this feeling? 😅

They're killed when they're already dead 😐

The only happy meal is a vegan meal.

In 2025, 161 dogs died at tracks, and the risk of death was 77% higher than in 2022. https://open.substack.com/pub/herbivoreclub/p/a-century-of-greyhound-racing-has

A flesh-eating parasite is back in the US. Horses and a dog are infected. But while animals are being eaten alive, the conversation turns to trade, cattle supplies and beef prices. https://open.substack.com/pub/herbivoreclub/p/a-flesh-eating-parasite-is-back-in

How did opinions become something people automatically expect respect for? 🎨 VeganSideKick

In Australia, pygmy crocodiles were told they are not genetically different enough to count as a separate species. Why should a human-made label decide which animals qualify for protection? https://open.substack.com/pub/herbivoreclub/p/who-decides-whether-an-animal-is

People are not attached to meat because they have calmly studied the ethics and reached a defensible conclusion. They are attached to what has been normalised around them. https://www.herbivore.club/p/why-meat-still-holds-power-in-china

Illegal wildlife trafficking is easy to condemn. But what changes when the same animals are bought, sold, bred and displayed legally? Monsters of God exposes the reptile trade 🐍 https://open.substack.com/pub/herbivoreclub/p/what-makes-buying-and-selling-reptiles

Britain’s record heat and drought helped adult butterflies thrive while drying out the plants their caterpillars depend on. The next generation may pay the price 🦋 https://open.substack.com/pub/herbivoreclub/p/why-britains-record-butterfly-summer

Lead bullets do not stop harming animals when the animal being hunted dies. https://open.substack.com/pub/herbivoreclub/p/hunters-dont-just-kill-the-animals

Find one human on Earth who cannot live by this simple code.

StarKist says forced labour is prohibited. But workers in its tuna supply chain described retained passports, 16 to 22-hour days, untreated injuries and months at sea. How much suffering fits in one tin? https://open.substack.com/pub/herbivoreclub/p/starkist-tuna-linked-to-forced-labour

Animal farming is one of the largest sources of greenhouse gas emissions globally, particularly methane. It is also one of the most climate-vulnerable systems humans have built. This creates a feedback loop that is as brutal as it is predictable. https://ko-fi.com/post/Using-Animals-Is-Driving-Ecological-Collapse-M4M31QKQWT

22 dead hares were found laid out in rows on a Kent farm. Britain calls hare coursing cruel. But if killing hares is wrong when criminals do it, why does it become acceptable when someone else pulls the trigger? https://open.substack.com/pub/herbivoreclub/p/why-is-killing-hares-only-cruel-when

Your gut microbiome is a living ecosystem that shapes digestion, metabolism, immune function, inflammation, and, increasingly, aspects of health we were only just beginning to understand. One of those is muscle strength. https://www.herbivore.club/p/stronger-muscles-start-in-the-gut

The future is vegan...

If the law can only see animals as property, then it cannot give them justice. https://www.herbivore.club/p/seeing-animals-as-victims-not-property

What happens when we flip the roles, when humans are farmed, hunted, skinned, experimented on, and paraded around for entertainment, while other animals run the world? Does showing people a parallel universe push them to confront their supremacy? https://ko-fi.com/post/What-Really-Shifts-Speciesist-Thinking-J3J71FH6TL

Where does this difference in people come from? 🎨 VeganSideKick

Funny how sheep “need” humans to shear them only after humans spent thousands of years breeding natural shedding out of them. Create the problem. Sell the fleece. Call it tradition. https://www.herbivore.club/p/the-truth-about-wool

The beef industry doesn't just pollute our atmosphere, it pollutes young minds, quietly rewriting climate science to sustain its own destructive agenda. https://ko-fi.com/post/Grade-A-Propaganda-N4N21FNVKA

Never doubt that it is possible to change hearts & minds 💚

Humans do not need more authority over other animals. We need less. The wild is not a broken machine waiting for human repair. https://www.herbivore.club/p/nature-is-not-ours-to-rule

Zombies aren’t real. But fungal pandemics? Those are already happening, just without CGI. https://ko-fi.com/post/The-Last-of-Us-Had-Clickers-We-Got-Candida-K3K61FHHOG

Humans can leave the trees standing and still destroy the forest. In Malaysia, white-handed gibbons living beside a highway called far less often than those in quieter areas. Noise pollution is changing what habitat means 🌳 https://open.substack.com/pub/herbivoreclub/p/you-dont-have-to-cut-down-a-forest

Which palette looks better to you? 🎨 VeganStreet

Ending hen cages and pig farrowing crates may reduce certain forms of confinement. It does not end confinement. It does not end killing. It does not end the logic that animals exist for us. https://ko-fi.com/post/Why-Banning-Cages-Isnt-Ending-Confinement-T6T41QWRXC

Ducks are born to glide on water, but on factory farms, they endure a life devoid of it. Instead, they face broken bones and immense suffering 🦆 🎥 Animals Australia

10 days in a farrowing crate left an activist feeling her legs weaken. For sows, confinement like this can consume nearly a quarter of their adult breeding lives. https://open.substack.com/pub/herbivoreclub/p/activists-body-starts-deteriorating

The pros and cons of Veganuary. https://ko-fi.com/post/Veganuary-A-Double-Edged-Sword-for-the-Animal-Rig-Q5Q01QCX36

The job description was simple. Go on social platforms. Create multiple accounts. Undermine veganism by any means that worked. https://ko-fi.com/post/The-Meat-Industrys-Online-Troll-Farm-W7W11QG5H4

Go vegan #ForTheAnimals 💚

A leading UK food-safety scientist is now calling for warning labels on processed meat. Professor Chris Elliott, founder of the Institute for Global Food Security at Queen's University Belfast, has told a new BBC Panorama investigation that there is a strong link between nitrates and nitrites used in products such as bacon and ham and bowel cancer. He has criticised the Food Standards Agency's response and called for warning labels on packaging. https://www.thegrocer.co.uk/news/warnings-about-cancer-risk-of-nitrites-and-nitrates-made-on-panorama/724426.article

Britain’s hottest summer on record did more than make us uncomfortable. Wildfires tore through vital bird habitat in Scotland, Suffolk and the New Forest. https://open.substack.com/pub/herbivoreclub/p/britains-hottest-summer-is-burning

Bad framing has a habit of protecting the very foods doing the most damage while demonising the ones that could help replace them. https://www.herbivore.club/p/the-upf-debate-is-failing-the-public

Even “protected” seas often remain open to killing. If fish, sharks and marine mammals are only protected until humans want them, what does protection actually mean? 🦈 https://open.substack.com/pub/herbivoreclub/p/trump-wants-more-fishing-in-seas

A pig becomes pork. A cow becomes beef. Packaging helps turn somebody into something. Research has found that putting animals back into the picture can reduce meat consumption. https://open.substack.com/pub/herbivoreclub/p/what-happens-when-meat-packaging

Ending live boiling removes one of the most visibly indefensible practices still tolerated in food culture. It signals that sentience has consequences. But let us be honest about what this is and what it is not. https://ko-fi.com/post/Boiling-Lobsters-Was-Never-The-Problem-M4M81R6L06

A study of 815 Brazilian university students found a striking gap between perceived barriers and lived experience. https://open.substack.com/pub/herbivoreclub/p/people-think-going-plant-based-is