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Are you trying to find more inspirational vegans to follow? We’ve got the scoop. Whether you’re looking for recipes, fitness tips, or information about vegan travel, these vegan Latinx influencers have the content to help you expand your vegan world. Plus, they’re, of course, advocates for animals.

Here are some vegan Latinx influencers we think you should know about:

Sofia Sisniega

Actor Sofia Sisniega shares meal ideas and facts about going vegan along with beautiful photos on her Instagram site. She’s also helped PETA Latino spread the word about the cruelty of the wool industry.

Stephanie Gerard

Singer, actor, and yogi Stephanie Gerard shares her love of animals and delicious vegan eats.

Dora Stone

Dora Stone’s bilingual recipe blog Dora’s Table features regional Mexican dishes with a healthy vegan twist.

Natasha Araos

Venezuelan model and vegan fitness guru Natasha Araos frequently posts workouts alongside other motivational lifestyle posts.

Cecilia Flores and Ivannoe Rodriguez

This vegan chef power couple runs Coco Verde Vegan, a Boston-based catering business that serves delicious meals.

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Elyfer Torres

Elyfer Torres is a Mexican actor known for starring in the Telemundo series Betty en NY.

Carolina Guerra

Colombian actor Carolina Guerra is an environmental activist who recognizes the role that animal agriculture plays in climate change.

Jeimy Osorio

The Puerto Rican actor known for starring in the Colombian telenovela Celia shares colorful, inspirational content.

María Gabriela de Faría

María Gabriela de Faría is an actor and blogger who shares tips for eco-friendly living alongside #MeatlessMonday meal inspirations.

Rudy Ramos

Rudy Ramos, based in New York City, runs the Vegicano blog and Instagram site, on which he shares mouthwatering dishes like Vegan Plato Fuerte.

Kelly Peñaranda

If you’re looking for inspiration to follow a healthier lifestyle, Colombian blogger Kelly Peñaranda has what you need.

Kathy Moscoso

Colombian influencer and model Kathy Moscoso is also a huge animal rights advocate who likes to share her love of vegan food with the world.

Eliana Albasetti

Eliana Albasetti is an actor from Chile who often shares vegan recipes and parenting tips.

Jean Herrera

Jean Herrera’s feed proves that vegan food is the best fuel for athletes.

Jocelyn Ramirez

Jocelyn Ramirez is the chef and founder of Todo Verde. For recipe inspiration, check out her cookbook, La Vida Verde: Plant-Based Mexican Cooking With Authentic Flavor.

Christopher von Uckermann

Singer, songwriter, and actor Christopher von Uckermann helped PETA Latino tell the story of Corky, an orca at SeaWorld who was torn away from her home and family.

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When you go vegan, you help save nearly 200 animals per year. You also reduce your carbon emissions and pave the way for a healthier lifestyle. Follow these Latinx influencers for inspiration, and connect with one of our vegan mentors for personalized tips on going vegan:

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Monkey experimenters are throwing a public tantrum. Desperate to remain relevant, they want to test new COVID vaccines—yes, the vaccines already in human trials—on monkeys!

Dr. Anthony Fauci disagrees. He rightly points out that translating results from animal studies to humans has been “one of the banes of our existence.”

Experiments on Animals Are a Waste of Time, Resources, and Lives

These monkey experimenters greatly fear the inevitable new era, in which we stop wasting time on animal studies that overwhelmingly fail to lead to treatments and vaccines for humans.

History can’t be denied: Tests on monkeys have failed to deliver successful vaccines for other coronaviruses, HIV, tuberculosis, Zika, malaria, and other diseases, so we agree with Dr. Anthony Fauci that attempting to transfer research results from tests on animals to humans has been the bane of scientists’ existence. There is simply no scientific need to harm monkeys. The U.S. needs to be innovative and stop clinging to outdated science. The monkey experimenters’ transparent attempt to justify their own existence, as science speeds past them, will only hamper and delay a COVID-19 vaccine.”

— Dr. Lisa Jones-Engel, Primatologist and Senior PETA Science Adviser

What You Can Do

Tens of thousands of concerned people have already joined PETA in calling for measures to ensure the health of primates held in laboratories at the Washington National Primate Research Center, amidst the COVID-19 outbreak. You can join them; sending a message takes less than a minute!

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Are you ready for “ThanksVegan”? Interest in going vegan is at an all-time high—and as the world is battling both a deadly virus that originated in a meat market and deadly wildfires caused by animal agriculture–fueled climate change, more people than ever will likely be giving turkeys a break this holiday. So PETA has launched a ThanksVegan campaign, offering tips for a happy, vegan-friendly celebration in the lead-up to the holiday, to help them do it!

Making vegan Thanksgiving dishes can be as easy as using margarine in mashed potatoes, almond milk in apple dumplings, and veggie broth in stuffing. Shoppers can find all these ingredients and more at Sobeys, Safeway, Save-On-Foods, and Urban Fare, which are teaming up with PETA to promote delicious vegan roasts both in-store and online for ThanksVegan.

And Thanksgiving is anything but happy for the gentle birds whose bodies are carved up and served for dinner, so we suggest a cheerful “Happy ThanksVegan!” instead.

Please visit PETA.org to find the group’s new ultimate Canadian ThanksVegan guide, which features shopping tips, recipes, and more.

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A Compassionate Business Award is on its way from PETA to Manhattan-based Brixmor Property Group for designing warning signs about the dangers of leaving dogs and children in parked cars and installing them across its properties, following discussions with PETA. Brixmor owns 400 shopping centers around the country.

“Every year, PETA receives dozens of reports of dogs and other animals who have baked to death after being left in a parked car,” says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. “Brixmor Property Group may save countless lives by reminding shoppers never to leave a vulnerable family member in the car.”

Dogs showing any symptoms of heatstroke—including restlessness, heavy panting, vomiting, or loss of coordination—should be taken into the shade, given water to drink, and cooled off with a cool towel placed on their head and chest. A veterinarian should be called immediately. PETA offers an emergency window-breaking hammer for intervening in life-or-death situations.

Brixmor Property Group will receive a framed certificate and a box of delicious vegan chocolates.

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to abuse in any way”—opposes speciesism, which is a human-supremacist worldview. For more information, please visit PETA.org.

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Following reports that the Hailey Arts & Historic Preservation Commission supported the Trailing of the Sheep Festival’s bid to place 11 sculptures representing the wool industry’s longstanding influence in the area, PETA has sent the commission a letter this morning asking to donate an additional statue: one depicting a scared sheep being held down—something that prey animals fear deeply—and being shorn.

“No one needs wool these days, and if we’re being honest, traumatizing gentle sheep is every bit as much a part of the industry’s heritage as the Trailing of the Sheep Festival,” says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. “PETA is eager to help Hailey show every aspect of the wool industry—including that workers have been videotaped time and again hitting, kicking, stomping on, and cutting up sheep.”

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to wear”—opposes speciesism, which is a human-supremacist worldview. For more information, visit PETA.org.

PETA’s letter to Michele Johnson, chair of the Hailey Arts & Historic Preservation Commission, follows.

October 7, 2020

Michele Johnson, Chair

Hailey Arts & Historic Preservation Commission

Dear Ms. Johnson,

I hope this letter finds you well. The Arts & Historic Preservation Commission recently worked with the Trailing of the Sheep group to gain approval on the placement of sculptures celebrating the sheep industry’s presence in Wood River Valley. In light of this, I’m writing on behalf of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) and our more than 6.5 million members and supporters worldwide—including nearly 22,000 in Idaho—with a proposal for an additional statue. It would be a single 6-foot-tall depiction of a sheep being sheared—to be donated to the city. As the City of Hailey is committed to “acquiring artworks that are reflective of diverse … perspectives,” PETA’s statue would help achieve this goal while paying tribute to the millions of gentle, intelligent sheep who are beaten, stomped on, kicked, cut, and mutilated in the wool industry each year.

PETA and its international affiliates have visited more than 100 wool industry operations on four continents, including North America—and compiled the findings in 13 exposés—and no matter what those operators claimed about welfare standards, extreme abuse of sheep is rampant. Shearers are usually paid by volume, rather than by the hour, so they work hastily and recklessly, often leaving sheep injured and bleeding. And when the animals are no longer profitable, they’re slaughtered. This cruelty is exactly why the fashion industry is developing innovative alternatives that mimic the warmth and style of wool without harming animals. While the amount of incalculable suffering and cruelty that’s been inflicted on countless sheep exploited for their fleece for more than a century cannot be erased, the installation of this statue would serve as a stark reminder to Hailey residents that one of the best ways to prevent violence against sheep is never to buy their wool.

The donation of the statue is not contingent on the placement site, but we would ideally like to see the piece placed somewhere near Roberta McKercher Park or somewhere else visible to residents and visitors alike. At the unveiling, we would also like to set up a portable TV to screen footage from PETA’s exposés of the wool industry. I hope to hear from you soon about working together to move forward with placing this piece in accordance with your guidelines. Thank you for your consideration.

Sincerely,

Tracy Reiman
Executive Vice President

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