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Read All About It: Barnes & Noble Serves Up a New Vegan Menu Item in Its Café
Barnes & Noble is more than just a bookstore. You can sit for hours in its cozy in-store cafés while reading a good book, sipping coffee, or even chatting with a friend. And now, you can also enjoy a wholesome and satisfying vegan breakfast! In honor of Earth Month, the chain added a vegan breakfast sandwich to the menu at more than 500 café locations nationwide.
The breakfast sandwich features an animal-free egg patty, Violife smoked provolone cheese, and a creamy vegan aioli on a ciabatta roll. This animal-friendly option is vegan as is, without modification. It’s a huge step that helps intelligent chickens and playful cows who are exploited by the egg and dairy industries.
Adding this option for Earth Month serves as an important reminder that the best way to protect the planet is to stop supporting animal agriculture, which is one of the leading causes of greenhouse gas emissions, land erosion, and water pollution.
Don’t Stop With Earth Month—Let Barnes & Noble Know You Want More
Since the climate catastrophe is a very real threat to all animals, companies have a responsibility to take greener steps. By launching its first vegan breakfast sandwich for Earth Month, Barnes & Noble is showing that it clearly knows vegan options are better for the planet. Let the company know you want to see it do even more—ask it to make this sandwich a permanent menu item, and kindly urge the chain to add more vegan items, stop charging extra for vegan milks, and make oat milk its default option.
Barnes & Noble Cafés serve Starbucks coffee, so please also urge Starbucks to honor its commitment to the planet by ending its unfair vegan milk surcharge:
Ask Starbucks to Stop Charging Extra for Vegan Milk!
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Meet James Cromwell’s New ‘Babe’: A Rescued Piglet Who Fell Off a Meat Truck
Succession star and PETA Honorary Director James Cromwell has a new love in his life: a piglet who fell off a truck as he was being taken to be fattened for slaughter. When Cromwell learned from PETA that the piglet, who was found scraped, bruised, and covered in mud, had been rescued just before the ham-heavy Easter holiday, he just had to meet him. And he did—virtually, this morning—and named him Babe in honor of the film that inspired him to go vegan 28 years ago. Soon, Cromwell will help transfer Babe to Indraloka Animal Sanctuary, where the piglet will be welcomed after receiving a clean bill of health.
“Having had the privilege of witnessing and experiencing pigs’ intelligence and inquisitive personalities while filming the movie Babe changed my life and my way of eating, and so I jumped at the chance to save this real-life Babe,” says Cromwell. “Every pig deserves to live in peace and joy at a sanctuary, choosing when to frolic, where to forage, and how to spend their time, yet few do.”
PETA points out that pigs are playful, intelligent, friendly animals who are soothed by music, love playing ball, sleep together in “pig piles,” and even enjoy getting massages. In the meat industry, which slaughters 129 million pigs every year, their tails are chopped off, their teeth are cut with pliers, and the males are castrated—all without painkillers. At the slaughterhouse, they’re hung upside down and bled to death.
Babe will join many pig pals as well as alpacas, chickens, cows, and others at the nearly 100-acre Indraloka Animal Sanctuary. Anyone interested in contributing to Babe’s lifetime care can support the sanctuary here.
PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to eat”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more information, please visit PETA.org, listen to The PETA Podcast, or follow the group on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.
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Shooting in Dallas Leads to Discovery of 2,000+ Chickens in Peril
A shooting in Dallas, Texas, ruffled more than just some feathers: When police arrived on the scene, they found more than 2,000 chickens. The incident occurred at what seems to be a massive cockfight and breeding operation, where investigators believe a dispute broke out between a customer and a rooster-seller after a recently purchased bird lost a fight. While executing a search warrant at the site, officials found more than 2,000 birds as well as cockfighting paraphernalia. The suspected shooter was arrested and charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, and the wounded man is reportedly in stable condition. No charges have yet been filed regarding the birds, and the investigation is ongoing.
What Happens During a Cockfight?
A cockfight takes place when two roosters fight, often to the death, for the entertainment of onlookers. Spectators bet on the outcome, and cockfighting rings are often linked to crimes like illegal gambling, prostitution, robbery, murder, and drug trafficking.
Roosters bred for cockfighting are hatched on “game” farms by breeders known as “cockers.” If a chick doesn’t seem violent enough, he’s killed, and most of the selected birds spend their lives tethered by the leg to a plastic barrel or small cage—their only shelter. Cockers then train the birds for strength and endurance by attaching weights to their legs and setting them loose for practice fights with each other.
The natural urge to retreat has been systemically bred out of “game fowl,” so birds used in the fighting ring are more likely to fight to the death. Many are routinely armed with blades and spikes attached to their feet in order to inflict more severe bodily harm on one another. The fight doesn’t end until one rooster is dead or nearly dead, and common injuries include punctured lungs, pierced eyes, and broken bones. The losing bird is often discarded into a barrel or trashcan near the fight pit, even if he’s still alive. The winning rooster’s wounds are typically crudely stitched up with no further treatment.
How to Help Roosters Used in Cockfights
Although cockfighting is illegal in all U.S. states and territories, this recent cockfighting bust in Dallas is far from an isolated incident. And cockfights are still legal in Cuba, most of Mexico, and much of the Caribbean. They only take place because they’re profitable for their organizers. The best way to help roosters forced to fight is never to attend a cockfight, and if you suspect illegal cockfighting is occurring, report it to the local authorities.
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Local Baby Bears Event to Face PETA and UARC Backlash
Carrying signs that read, “Baby Animals Belong With Their Mothers,” this Saturday supporters of PETA and the Utah Animal Rights Coalition will rally outside a photo op event at the American West Heritage Center, where strangers will crowd and overwhelm cubs and other baby animals from Yellowstone Bear World (YBW). The action comes on the heels of the feds’ recent decision to fine YBW over $6,000 following a PETA complaint and the group’s undercover investigation showing how the facility prematurely separates mothers from their babies.
“Thanks to cruel displays like these, stressed bear cubs make it onto TikTok, but they never make it back to their mothers,” says PETA Foundation Director of Captive Animal Welfare Debbie Metzler. “PETA is calling on the American West Heritage Center and Yellowstone Bear World to stop treating sensitive baby animals like props.”
PETA’s investigation found that a cub with a broken leg was denied prescribed treatment; an irate supervisor threatened to throw a cub across the room; that cubs bit, scratched, and bruised workers; and that cubs deprived of the opportunity to nurse desperately tried to suckle from workers’ chins and arms. YBW uses cubs in bottle-feeding encounters when they’re nearly 5 months old, which was against Idaho law—until YBW lobbied for the removal of state oversight so it could continue this exploitation without accountability, endangering Idahoans and animals.
Where: Outside the American West Heritage Center, 4025 S. Highway 89–91 (near the intersection of 3000 W. and Highway 89), Wellsville
When: Saturday, April 8, 12 noon
PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to use for entertainment”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview.
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