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Vegan Street @veganstreet.bsky.social · 10h

The new US Animal Welfare Act stopped requiring that new food and pharma products be tested on animals. But their reasoning has little to do with animal welfare. Animal testing is expensive and computer models have gotten more reliable for most experiments. So it was about saving money, not animals.

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Vegan Street @veganstreet.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

If you ever see a colorful wood duck in nature, it is a rare and beautiful experience, especially considering that they have slowly bounced back from near extinction. Now the wood duck population is expanding in the northern and western parts of Michigan. Now, the wood duck is Michigan’s state duck.

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Vegan Street @veganstreet.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Studies have shown that a diet high in plant-based foods, particularly broccoli, winter squash, spinach, bell peppers and pink grapefruit, and that avoids processed meats, fast food and candy can help prevent cervical cancer and other cancers of the female reproductive system.

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Vegan Street @veganstreet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Bison, like wolves and beavers, radically shape the environment around them. Their grazing promotes plant regrowth and diversification, while the trampling of their hooves helps work seeds into the soil and breaks up hard crusts, improving water infiltration during rare desert rains.

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Vegan Street @veganstreet.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A company called Star Meat Delivery slapped phony USDA Approved stickers on 84 tons of questionable meat products and delivered them to retailers across the country. They have been since been recalled, but who knows how much of it had already been sold and eaten.

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Vegan Street @veganstreet.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Eight Beluga whales were transferred to Shedd Aquarium in Chicago in late July, 2026. By mid September, three of the eight, Rain, Peekachu and Osiris, had died. Beluga whales and other sea mammals should be swimming freely with their pods in open waters.

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Vegan Street @veganstreet.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Sorry to give you even more dire environmental news, but you probably should be aware of this. On the flip side, if we could get enough people to stop eating animals, it would help things out a lot.

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Vegan Street @veganstreet.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Steven Kolb, the President and CEO of the Council of Fashion Designers of America, assaulted two animal rights protestors at a New York Fashion Week runway show Sunday. He grabbed a protester and pulled her to the floor, wrapping his leg around her pushed his hands down on her mouth.

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Vegan Street @veganstreet.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Vegan Street has been a strong advocate for the animals and the planet for 28 years. It takes a community to make real positive change in the world. We are doing all we can to make a difference, but we need all the help we can get. Thanks for considering us. Please visit patreon.com/veganstreet

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Vegan Street @veganstreet.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

It's easy for activists to get discouraged. With all the challenges and setbacks we face, it sometimes makes us wonder if it's worth all the hard work and heartbreak. But if we look back at everything we have accomplished so far, we can see that we really ARE making a positive difference.

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Vegan Street @veganstreet.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

It's pretty important to our kidneys working well, so we don't get infections or other diseases in our kidneys, our bladders or our urinary tracts. Like the rest of our body, our kidneys work best when fed a healthy diet of plants, and they can get stressed by diets heavy in meat and animal products

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Vegan Street @veganstreet.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

If you balance the (vastly overstated) benefits of eating lots of protein against the vast damage that meat and dairy production causes to our planet, tens of billions of animals and our own physical health, there really are no good reasons for eating animals at all.

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Vegan Street @veganstreet.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

When you're feeling down, one of the surest ways to pick up your spirits is to go to a park or natural area, listen to the birds singing and breathe in all the nature around you. You can get some of the same effect by downloading birdsong and listening to it on your computer or phone.

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Vegan Street @veganstreet.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Animal agriculture emits more climate damaging greenhouse gases that all the cars, trucks, buses, trains, aircraft and ships combined. If you really care about the climate crisis, the most effective positive thing you can do is take animals off your plate.

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Vegan Street @veganstreet.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

It is illegal to slaughter horses that have been culled from the wild herds running free through the western US. Buy the Trump Administration has created a loophole where they can sell the captured horses to shady brokers who than sell them to slaughterhouses.

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Vegan Street @veganstreet.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Until recently, when animals were on the endangered species list, they received blanket protection from harm. But now the Trump administration wants to switch to a case by case basis where the animals' existence is weighed against the profitability of destroying them.

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Vegan Street @veganstreet.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Foie gras is one of those things that only exist to exert cruelty. Geese & ducks have funnels forced down their throats that are filled with fatty foods in order to unnaturally and painfully engorge their livers which are then cut out to provide a so-called delicacy for mostly really wealthy people.

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Vegan Street @veganstreet.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Puffins thrived on the small rocky island called Eastern Egg Rock off the coast of Maine for millennia before they were hunted to extinction in the 1880s. In 2026, researchers found 200 nests with baby chicks, showing these puffins have grown into a viable and vibrant community.

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Vegan Street @veganstreet.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The Trump Administration is doing everything in its mighty power to sell off our National Parks, National Forests, wild areas and all of the creatures who live on them and all the people whose lives are enriched by them. We the People need to fight this at every turn.

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Vegan Street @veganstreet.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Egypt has officially banned camel and horse rides as part of a new effort to improve animal welfare. They are replacing the rides with electric buses and carts, relieving camels from overwork and giving visitors a more sustainable way to explore one of the world’s most famous archaeological sites.

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Vegan Street @veganstreet.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Like all sports based on the abuse of animals, horseracing is less and less popular every year. This month the last horseracing track in Illinois, closed their doors due to declining attendance, bankruptcy and a forced sale of their property to a developer who wants to convert it to something else.

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Vegan Street @veganstreet.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Anxiety can be a horrible thing to face, but if you're able to channel your anxiety into something useful, productive and even empowering. Read Marla's essay on her Substack here (it's free): marlarose.substack.com/p/anxiety-a-...

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Vegan Street @veganstreet.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Cherries are not only super delicious but they are loaded with nutrients that make you healthier and help you to feel better. How awesome is that?

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Vegan Street @veganstreet.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

There have been a lot of programs around the world that protect ecosystems including forest ecosystems, but now the city council of Terrasse-Vaudreuil in the Canadian province of Quebec has granted rights to individual trees – in fact all of the trees in their municipality.

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Vegan Street @veganstreet.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

During the height of the avian flu epidemic, when tens of millions of American chickens died on their overcrowded industrial farms and egg prices shot through the roof, several large egg producers conspired to raise prices even higher.

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Vegan Street @veganstreet.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

With the help of greedy benefactors in the oil, gas, logging and mining industries, he Trump administration has gutted the Endangered Species Act – after saying that destroying endangered animals homes should not be considered "harm."

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Vegan Street @veganstreet.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Denmark has just taken a big step in favor of animal welfare and is vowing to move away from factory farming and toward a farming system that cares about the welfare of pigs – and also the welfare of people who are dealing with massive water pollution created by the massive pig farms.

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Vegan Street @veganstreet.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Scientists are only now beginning to understand the how forests and grasslands are supported by huge underground networks of fungi. As we learn more where these fungal structures are and how they work, we can find ways to protect them, which will in turn protect the entire ecosystems above them.

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Vegan Street @veganstreet.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Fireworks are harmful to pets, wildlife and veterans and other people suffering from PTSD. Meanwhile aerial drone shows keep getting more impressive and less expensive to produce. Many cities are switching from fireworks to drones, and all the animals living in those cities are thankful for that.

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Vegan Street @veganstreet.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

The natural gas industries are a major threat to blue whales, and they have launched three separate programs to colonize Mexico's Gulf of California. The environment law firm Earthjustice has successfully shut down one of these and temporarily stopped the other two through court orders.

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Vegan Street @veganstreet.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Just as there is an industry producing and promoting plant based proteins, there is another industry trying to promote a diet based on eating crickets and other insects and creepy crawlies. This industry has not captured the public's appetite yet. I don't think it's hard to see why.

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Vegan Street @veganstreet.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

There are now elegant electric carriages with all the craftsmanship and pageantry of their horse-drawn counterparts, but none of the animal cruelty. Let's encourage our cities to start utilizing these.

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Vegan Street @veganstreet.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

A paper published University of Oxford and University of Leiden found that the net effect of meat production, energy consumption and critical habitat destruction has cost the world $5.7 Trillion in the form of impacts of climate disruption, biodiversity loss, nutrient pollution and freshwater use.

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Vegan Street @veganstreet.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Raw milk cheerleader and farmer Mark McAfee, who has netted more than $30 million last year from hawking the diseased milk, is determined to sell as much raw milk as possible. “I’ve put a couple kids in the hospital, and they have been sick, but they recovered. But here’s the thing: I’m a pioneer."

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Vegan Street @veganstreet.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Vegan Street has always been adamantly opposed to forcing horses to pull tourists through busy city traffic, and we are proud to have been a part of the team that got horse carriages banned in Chicago. So we applaud the city council of Philadelphia for bringing their city into the 21st century.

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Vegan Street @veganstreet.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Most people are culturally conditioned to eat meat, but with some delicious options and a little creativity, they can be persuaded to make better choices.

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Vegan Street @veganstreet.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Members of the Yurok tribe of northern California have developed a plan to save the severely endangered California condor population, and after years of meticulous hard work, things are beginning to pay off as the condor population is slowly starting to grow.

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Vegan Street @veganstreet.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

When the Double Up Food Bucks programs offered SNAP recipients to buy double the fresh fruits and vegetables for the same money, one would think legislators would be for it. But even though the program only costs $2 million to feed all the state's poor children, it was deleted from the budget.

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Vegan Street @veganstreet.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

In 2023, the US banned use deadly hidden cyanide traps that have killed hundreds of thousands of foxes and coyotes and have also killed or injured more than 10,000 "non target" animals including eagles, bears, pet dogs and even humans. Now the Trump administration has allowed their use again.

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Vegan Street @veganstreet.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

We are still seeing a lot of robins around our Chicago neighborhood, and there are still about as many robins in the US as there are people, so there is no imminent threat to their survival. Still, it's worth trying to understand the factors that may be threatening them.

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Vegan Street @veganstreet.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

The government of New South Wales has now dedicated 435,000 acres of forest as the Great Koala National Park, which halts all habitat destruction in the area, ensuring the preservation of all local koalas and dozens of other endangered species.

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Vegan Street @veganstreet.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

The capitalist mind believes that everything on Earth belongs to whoever is brazen enough to claim it. It is up to those of us who believe that nature exists for its own sake to stand up and fight to defend our forests, prairies, rivers, oceans and all our beautiful natural spaces.

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Vegan Street @veganstreet.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

If you have access to some ground you can plant in, you can do the world a favor and plant some pollinating wildflowers. Much of the plant world, including a lot of the food we eat, depends on pollinating insects like bees and butterflies to reproduce.

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Vegan Street @veganstreet.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

For years, we have promoted a plethora of studies touting the advantages of a plant-based diet on your heart and bloodstream (and the dangers of eating animal products as well). For fighting cholesterol and high blood pressure, there is no better food-based medicine.

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Vegan Street @veganstreet.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

So many people love sloths that some capitalists decided to hired people to snatch sloths from their native habitat and transport them to Orlando to create a fancy sloth-only zoo. Sadly, they ended up neglecting and killing most of the sloths they kidnapped.

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Vegan Street @veganstreet.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

And if we "Biden vegans" helped fuel the skyrocketing beef prices, we're happy to take credit for it, though I think Mr Navarro has exaggerated our impact. In any event, tofu prices have remained pretty stable, so we can still afford to eat what we want.

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Vegan Street @veganstreet.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Today is May Day! Millions of people across the US are staging a general strike today, staying away from work and gathering in the streets at one of hundreds of rallies, marches and other events across the country in order to preserve our democracy. To join in, visit maydaystrong.org

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Vegan Street @veganstreet.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

There are wealthy, entitled men (and some women) who believe that nature and everything in it belongs to them personally to befoul and destroy as they see fit. One cannot blame their would-be prey for wanting to remind these hubris-filled jerks that not everything is theirs for the taking.

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Vegan Street @veganstreet.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Last year, in 2025, the number of companion animals killed in shelters declined sharply as the number of shelter adoptions grew steadily for the last ten years. 90% of shelters across the country either improved or maintained their lifesaving from 2024 to 2025.

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