Origins
Among countries, this country contains the most vegans and vegetarians
What is India?
These recent state laws seek to prevent filming or documenting animal abuse on factory farms
What are Ag Gag Laws?
This psychological phenomenon makes it difficult to value animals while still eating them
What is cognitive dissonance?
This actor advocated for the animals during their recent Oscar acceptance speech
Who is Joaquin Phoenix?
This Chinese city is notorious for their annual dog festival
What is Yulin?
This favorite soy product of vegans was first created in China over 2,000 years ago
What is Tofu?
This 2020 democratic presidential candidate is vegan
Who is Cory Booker?
This group of animals lack a central nervous system, which evokes debate about whether they are acceptable for an ethical vegan diet
What are bivalves?
This 2013 documentary was a catalyst for phasing out Cetacean captivity at SeaWorld
What is Blackfish?
This fishing method indiscriminately catches everything in its path with huge nets
What is trawling?
This book published in 1972 by Frances Moore Lappé greatly increased the popularity of vegan and vegetarian diets in the United States
What is "Diet for a Small Planet"?
This federal law was invoked by the president in April 2020 to keep meat processing plants open during the pandemic despite surging COVID-19 cases at these facilities
What is the Defense Production Act (DPA)?
This philosopher wrote Animal Liberation: A New Ethics for Our Treatment of Animals
Who is Peter Singer
This plant food company's stock price increased +163% during their 2019 IPO, the most of any company since 2000.
What is Beyond Meat?
Denmark recently culled millions of these animals out of fear of a new COVID strain
What are minks?
This organization of former Greenpeace activists founded in the late 1970s is famous for direct action in anti-whaling
What is the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society?
This federal agency regulates the use of animals in science experimentation
What is the U.S. Department of Agriculture?
This philosopher famously stated, "the question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?"
Who is Jeremy Bentham?
This African grey parrot, who died in 2007, is famous for demonstrating the capacity of animal cognition at Harvard University
Who is Alex?
This type of chicken has been selectively developed such that it can often no longer walk at just 6 weeks old
What are Cornish-Rocks or Cornish Hens?
This person coined the term vegan
Who is Donald Watson?
This 2018 California Ballot set minimum space requirements for calves, pigs, and hens
What is California Proposition 12 or the Farm Animal Confinement Initiative?
This New York based philosopher is famous for advocating for the legal rights of animals using a capabilities approach
Who is Martha Nussbaum?
This monkey is famous for a 2015 copyright claim of a photo they took
Who is Naruto?
This controversial method is used to execute pigs by closing shed doors and baking them alive
What is ventilation shutdown?