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One way you can support Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities during Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month (and all the time) is by amplifying their voices. This can mean buying products from Asian-owned brands, patronizing local Asian-owned restaurants, or following AAPI content creators and influencers. There are many AAPI leaders in the vegan community as well—and at a time when anti-Asian racism and violence is on the rise, it’s more important than ever to support their work. Animal activism is a social justice movement that goes hand in hand with other such movements, including anti-racist ones—we can’t be silent in the face of injustice, which is why we must stand with AAPI communities.

Here are some vegan AAPI influencers, brands, and restaurants to consider supporting.

Asian-Owned Food Brands

You won’t find eggs, dairy, honey, or other ingredients that hurt animals listed on products from these Asian-owned brands. Instead, you’ll find delicious vegan cheeses, fish-free tuna, healthy frozen desserts, tasty snacks, and other flavorful goodies. Try these products and you’ll be as happy as the cows, chickens, fish, and other animals you save when you choose to eat vegan.

Chi Kitchen Kimchi

Coconut Whisk

Fly By Jing

Green Mustache

The Herbivorous Butcher

immi

Jinka Vegan Tuna Spread

MingsBings

Miyoko’s Creamery

Must Love

nutpods

The Only Bean

Snow Monkey

Woodridge Snacks

Yvonne’s Vegan Kitchen

Asian-Owned Restaurants and Pop-Ups

These Asian-owned restaurants showcase creative vegan dishes. Many of them are influenced by Asian and Pacific Island cultures, with all the flavors and traditions and none of the animal-derived ingredients.

Âu Lạc (Los Angeles, California)

Beelman’s (Los Angeles, California)

Beleaf Better Burgers (Chino, California)

Chef Reina (San Francisco, California)

Cocobella Creamery (Los Angeles, California)

Dōnatsu (Los Angeles, California)

Gokoku (Studio City, California)

Hangawi Restaurant (New York, New York)

Kumare (Portland, Oregon)

MANEATINGPLANT (Los Angeles, California)

Munchies Vegan Diner (Santa Ana, California)

Onion Maiden (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)

Plant Alchemy (Long Beach, California)

shojin (Los Angeles, California)

Tupuānuku (Whakatāne, New Zealand)

AAPI Influencers

If you’re looking for some real-life vegan inspiration, including recipes, restaurant recommendations, and “what I eat in a day” vlogs, these influencers have you covered.

Astig Vegan (R.G. Enriquez-Diez)

Cheap Lazy Vegan (Rose Lee)

@chez.jorge (George Lee)

Cruelty-Free Charcuterie (Kat Magsaysay)

hot for food (Lauren Toyota)

James Mukunve

The Korean Vegan, Esq. (Joanne L. Molinaro)

Nisha Balsara

Pick Up Limes (Sadia Badiei)

@plantbasedartist (Sheil Shukla)

Plant-Based on a Budget (Toni Okamoto Shapiro)

@rainbowplantlife (Nisha Vora)

Sweet Simple Vegan (Jasmine Briones)

Thriving on Plants (Cherie Tu)

@veganeatsnyc (Crystal Pang)

Vegan Richa (Richa Hingle)

The Viet Vegan (Lisa Mai)

@whollyvegan (Jen)

WokWildSide (Ted Lai)

Asian-Owned Beauty, Fashion, and Lifestyle Brands

Going vegan also means choosing animal-free beauty products, fashion, and other items that you might use in your daily routine. The following brands offer cruelty-free beauty, skin-care, and personal-care products; leather-free handbags and shoes; and even some items for your animal companions.

Ahimsa Essentials

Bandit & Co.

Cykochick Custom Handbags

Dashing Diva

Meow Meow Tweet

Tatcha

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As a consumer, you have the power to make a statement when you make a purchase, and that includes choosing products that are made with animals’ well-being in mind. Learn more about the impact of going vegan and how you can make the transition:

Here’s How You Can Go Vegan

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In a move that puts all competitive riders on notice, the United States Equestrian Federation has issued Grand Prix jumper Kevin Lemke a four-month suspension and a $4,000 fine for excessive force after he viciously whipped a horse at California’s Desert International Horse Park.

PETA called for a probe after video footage from a January 30 horse show in southern California caught Lemke forcefully striking a horse named Good Luck with a whip six times—so harshly that the sound of the strikes can be heard on the video replay—after the horse refused a jump. Lemke was subsequently disqualified for excessive use of the whip. After beating the horse, he attempted the jump again, causing Good Luck to collide with the fence and knock over the poles.

“This sanction sends a clear message: Abuse horses and you’ll be penalized,” says PETA Senior Vice President Kathy Guillermo. “We urge everyone who witnesses cruelty to contact PETA, as a whistleblower did in this case, whether animals are subjected to it in a show ring, in a barn, or anywhere else.”

PETA has also asked the International Federation for Equestrian Sports and the Riverside County, California, sheriff’s department to investigate the incident.

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to use for entertainment or abuse in any other way”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more information, please visit PETA.org or follow the group on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.

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While SeaWorld is busy stooping low with out-of-touch exploits like its beluga whale sonogram stunt, Marineland Canada—another longtime PETA target—is actually taking baby steps toward progress: Last week, the marine park transferred five of the approximately 50 belugas imprisoned at its severely crowded park to an Association of Zoos & Aquariums–accredited facility in Connecticut. At their new home, these whales will stand a chance of getting the individual care that they desperately need and won’t be bred, forced to perform, or made to interact with patrons—victories that PETA and other advocacy groups helped ensure in 2019.

The video above and photos below show snippets of the whales’ journey from Ontario, Canada, to Mystic Aquarium, their new facility in southeast Connecticut. Cranes, special transport containers, and an aircraft all helped make the belugas’ trip a successful one.

Under any circumstances, moving five whales nearly 500 miles across an international border would be a massive logistical undertaking. Given the pandemic, it was especially so. https://t.co/uwWCdusKgt

— National Geographic Magazine (@NatGeoMag) May 22, 2021

In a massive undertaking involving two separate flights and a police escort, five beluga whales were transported to Mystic Aquarium from Canada. https://t.co/xOXUcZJmla

— NBC Los Angeles (@NBCLA) May 18, 2021

A long, and fraught, migration: Mystic Aquarium airlifts beluga whales as advocates protest their confinement https://t.co/mXJab2SV3f via @BostonGlobe

— David Abel (@davabel) May 16, 2021

All five whales are reportedly “doing really well.”

This move doesn’t signify these belugas’ liberation—because of the folks who initially confined them to tanks, they’ll never be truly free. But their transfer represents progress, and PETA hopes it’s the beginning of the end of Marineland’s exploitation and scandal.

Marineland has repeatedly proven that it’s one of the worst places on Earth for marine animals. Last Chance for Animals observed that beluga whales held there were showing signs of eye problems, including redness, irritation, and cataracts, as well as other medical issues, such as red, raw throats. Marineland staff routinely deprive animals of food for training purposes, and one beluga whale named Gia became separated from her mother by accident and was left in an isolation pool for three months, where she became so emaciated that her ribs were clearly visible. She later died from an apparent intestinal blockage. Dozens of other whales, dolphins, and walruses have died at the park—including a walrus named Apollo who suffered a heart attack. And who can forget Marineland’s apparent mass animal graves that, according to a former park employee, contained the bodies of more than 1,000 animals—orcas and other dolphins, seals, walruses, bears, bison, deer, and others.

Marineland has proved that it can do a good thing. Now, we want it to do a great thing.

PETA, Animal Welfare Institute, and other groups helped persuade the U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service to include clauses prohibiting breeding animals and forcing them to perform in the import permit that allowed the five belugas’ transfer to Mystic. If and when Marineland releases the other animals still imprisoned at its park, PETA urges it to send them to seaside sanctuaries—a preferable move that others have already proved is doable.

VIDEO: Belugas Return to Sea for First Time Since Capture Years Ago

Please join us in speaking out for animals like Kiska, who was abducted from her family in nature as a baby decades ago and is still kept in isolation at the Canadian park. Show Marineland that you have no love for this tourist trap that continues to confine and exploit animals:

Sign Our Petition: ‘I Have No Love for Marineland’

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Ahead of Memorial Day weekend, PETA has erected a giant billboard near SeaWorld alerting people to the unrelenting suffering of the animals imprisoned there and urging them to avoid the place at all costs.

“Forcibly breeding and imprisoning marine mammals in cramped, barren tanks as SeaWorld does is abusive, not amusing,” says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. “PETA is asking anyone with a heart to leave marine abusement parks out of their plans this holiday and every day.”

At SeaWorld, 140 dolphins are packed together into just seven small tanks, where they can’t escape attacks from other frustrated, aggressive dolphins. By contrast, in nature, bottlenose dolphins maintain dynamic relationships with large social networks, choose their own mates, and swim free in the ocean. Unwilling captive female dolphins are torn out of the water and sometimes drugged so that they can’t fight back while staff shove tubes filled with semen into their uteruses. Some animals have been repeatedly impregnated, only to lose their babies.

The billboard is located at 4445 W. Vine St., visible from FL-530 in Kissimmee.

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to use for entertainment”—opposes speciesism, which is a human-supremacist worldview. For more information, please visit SeaWorldOfHurt.com.

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Following reports that two local teenagers face felony cruelty charges after being accused of killing a cat and leaving the animal’s body on a playground, TeachKind—PETA’s humane education division—sent a letter to Superintendent Jeffrey Blank of Allegany County Schools this morning urging him to implement lessons in compassion.

“If these reports are true, these teens tormented a cat to death and discarded the animal’s body like a broken toy,” says PETA Senior Director of Youth Programs Marta Holmberg. “PETA’s TeachKind division is on standby to help schools teach students that violence is wrong, whether the victim is an animal or a classmate.”

Maryland code requires that county boards develop an “educational bullying, harassment, and intimidation prevention program for students, staff, volunteers, and parents.” TeachKind is sending the school district its “Empathy Now” guide for educators to help address and prevent youth violence against animals along with its free high school social justice curriculum, “Challenging Assumptions,” and its “Share the World” program kit, which is appropriate for young children.

TeachKind notes that according to leading mental-health professionals and law-enforcement agencies, perpetrators of violent acts against animals are often repeat offenders who pose a serious threat to the community at large. Its staff members—who are former classroom teachers—are available to send materials to schools, suggest lesson plans, and even host virtual classroom presentations for students, all for free.

TeachKind—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to abuse in any way”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. The group’s letter to Blank is available upon request. For more information, please visit TeachKind.org.

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