*This column was originally published by VegNews. Welcome to the first installment of the monthly legal column from Animal Outlook, a non-profit animal advocacy organization based in Washington, DC. If you’re an advocate or an animal lover of any kind, you’ve probably looked at animal suffering and asked yourself: how is this legal? Or, you may have wondered more generally: do animals have rights? What are they? If I give my dog her dinner late, can she sue me? And what can the law do to advance the animal protection movement? This column gives you access to Animal Outlook’s legal team. If you ..read more

Have you ever seen evidence of animal cruelty and felt compelled to do something to help? Sadly, the suffering that farmed animals experience every single day is extreme and widespread, but there are ways we can help. By taking action, we can raise the voices of those who so often go unheard. Keep reading to learn five ways you can help animals today, from the comfort of your own home. 1. Become a volunteer A great way to help animals is by joining our Animal Outlook Alliance. By signing up, you’ll be joining a community of like-minded people who also care about animals and are keen to take ac ..read more

Media Contact: Jim Amos, Scout 22 (818) 216-9122 jim@scout22.com Supreme Court Rejects Meat Industry Challenge to Animal Cruelty Law Ruling Affirms Dismissal of Lawsuit Over California Proposition 12   May 11, 2023, Washington, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against a meat industry challenge to California law Proposition 12, which bans extreme confinement in animal agriculture in California, as well as the sale in California of products derived from these practices. The law passed in a bipartisan, landslide victory, with over 60% of the vote. The pork industry has challenged P ..read more

 Animal Man is a vegetarian-turned-vegan superhero from DC Comics, who first appeared in Strange Adventures #180 in 1965. Bernhard “Buddy” Baker was a normal, everyday punk rocker before he discovered a downed alien spaceship, was bathed in radiation, and became able to mimic the abilities of animals. Like the strength of a bear or the healing ability of an earthworm.  Buddy gave up eating meat after a fight with another costumed hero, B’wana Beast, who attacked a lab to save a captive ape. Animal Man was brought in to help the scientists track down B’wana Beast, but soon learned about t ..read more

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Investigation That Led to Charges Showed Horrific Violence CARNEY’S POINT, NJ–(December 19, 2022)– Joseph Merola, the owner of Bravo Packing, Inc., which slaughters cows and horses for animal feed, and has operated for over 60 years (no affiliation with Bravo Pet Foods), has pleaded guilty to a criminal charge stemming from video footage captured by an undercover investigator with the animal advocacy group Animal Outlook.  He will pay the maximum fine available for the violation.  The footage showed workers dragging from a trailer a fully-conscious cow who was too ill or injured to s ..read more

It’s been more than a decade since we last got a cinematic look at the lush, vibrant planet of Pandora. On that planet live the Na’vi, 10-foot-tall blue, humanoid creatures with weird appendages hidden in their hair that can connect to other living things, like plugging a USB into them. This process, called tsaheylu, lets the Na’vi ride on animals and give them orders. The appendages can even transfer memories.  In the first movie, the Na’vi focused on having a deep relationship with trees, to which the Na’vi can also connect through tsaheylu. This clan and those similar to it live in gi ..read more

There’s a new Zootopia series for Disney Plus. If you haven’t watched the 2016 movie starring Ginnifer Goodwin and Jason Bateman, Zootopia takes place in a society resembling ours but built by non-human mammals. They have everything you’d expect in a society, like cars, phones, and Shakira.  An interesting thing about the city of Zootopia is that carnivorous animals and herbivorous animals live and work together. Lions and zebras, wolves and sheep.  But if the lions and tigers and bears aren’t hunting prey in this society, what are they eating? When asked about this, the filmmakers ..read more

Eating turkeys has become an imperative part of Thanksgiving in the United States. According to the National Turkey Federation, about 46 million turkeys are consumed each Thanksgiving. Eighty eight percent of Americans surveyed by The National Turkey Federation claim to eat turkey. Turkey may or may not have been served at the first recorded Thanksgiving that was held in 1621. Pilgrim chronicler Edward Windslow noted that the colony’s governor sent men a “fowling” to prepare for the event. Turkey was a common food source for Native Americans and English settlers. The idea to make Thanksgiving ..read more

Calling all vegetarians who consume dairy products: it’s time to cut out the cheese and other dairy!  Here’s why and how: Milk production causes animals to suffer immensely. Here’s how: Like all mammals, in order to produce milk, cows need to give birth to calves. Out of all the calves that are born, about 65% of them are considered by the dairy industry to be an unwanted “by-product.”  It’s estimated that 3-4 million male dairy calves are born annually in the U.S.  The process that these calves go through after being born causes horrendous suffering, increased vulnerability to ..read more