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Everyone’s latest at-home obsession: making their own dairy-free milk. If you, too, are interested in showing cows and goats some love, honoring your own body, and saving a few bucks in the process, you’ve come to the right place. Making plant-based milk in the comfort of your kitchen is a simple and rewarding process—peruse our guide to discover how to make vegan milk.

How to Make Almond Milk

Making your own almond milk is super-easy. All you’ll need are some raw almonds, filtered water, sea salt, a blender, and a nut milk bag (although a thin dish towel will work in a pinch). To make chocolate almond milk, just add in some cocoa powder. Check out this recipe and how-to video, courtesy of The Minimalist Baker:

How to Make Oat Milk

Whether your local Kroger is out of Oatly or you just want to control what ingredients go into the milk that you’re pouring over your cereal, making your own oat milk is the way to go. Oat milk is one of the easiest vegan milks to make. Unlike most nut milks, it doesn’t require a special bag—a strainer will do just fine. Which type of oats are the best to use for oat milk? Opt for old-fashioned rolled oats, as quick oats and steel-cut oats will result in a milk with a watery consistency. Try this creamy, slightly sweet homemade oat milk recipe from The Green Creator:

How to Make Soy Milk

Why would you drink a pus-filled secretion stolen from a mother cow, when making your own delicious soy milk is as easy as 1 (soybeans), 2 (water), 3 (sweetener)? Make sure you use yellow soybeans, and vanilla extract or the seeds scraped from a vanilla bean pod work great as a sweetener. For an easy recipe, follow along with this video from Mary’s Test Kitchen:

How to Make Coconut Milk

Short of slicing open a mature, brown, fuzzy coconut and spoon eating its flesh, it doesn’t get any more refreshing than homemade coconut milk. You can use fresh coconut meat, unsweetened shredded coconut, or unsweetened coconut flakes. Coconut milk is great on its own, but it’s also delicious in coffee and tea or as a curry base. Watch the video below for a super-simple coconut milk recipe that requires only two ingredients:

How to Make Rice Milk

The Harvard Nurses’ Health Study found that consuming two or more glasses of cow’s milk a day put people at a higher risk for broken hips and arms than those who drank one or fewer glasses a day. If you want to retain the calcium that you consume, try drinking rice milk instead. With about 283 mg of calcium per cup, it’s a clear winner. Plus, rice milk is inexpensive to make and a great option for those who are allergic to soy, gluten, or tree nuts. Try it for yourself:

How to Make Hemp Milk

Hemp milk is like a gift from the vegan gods: High in calcium and protein, it contains an ideal ratio of omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids. And if you’re wondering “Does hemp milk contain THC?” or “Does hemp milk get you high?” don’t worry—hemp milk is made using the seeds of the hemp plant, which won’t get you high. So make some nutritious, nonpsychoactive homemade hemp milk today:

Why You Should Drink Only Vegan Milk

Cows and goats produce milk for the same reason that human mothers do: to nurse their young. So to think that imprisoning female animals, exerting reproductive control over them, kidnapping their babies, stealing their milk, and then buying, selling, or consuming it is acceptable is plain ol’ speciesism (and sexism and human supremacism). Cows and goats should be left in peace to do the things that come naturally to them, like shedding tears over lost loved ones (cows) and nursing their babies for roughly six months (goats). No one should be treated like a milk-making machine.

Other animals have one-upped us—besides humans (and companion animals who are fed by humans), no species drinks milk beyond the age of weaning or drinks the milk of another species. Our bodies fight cow’s milk, which has been linked to many human health concerns, including prostate cancer, ovarian cancer, superbugs, weight gain, high cholesterol, and acne. And dairy “products” are no friend to the planet, either: In California, America’s top milk-producing state, manure from dairy farms has poisoned hundreds of square miles of groundwater, rivers, and streams. The dairy industry is also the primary source of smog-forming pollutants in the state—a single cow emits more of these harmful gases than a car does.

The COVID-19 pandemic means that this could be the last time you see cow’s milk on grocery store shelves—hooray! Get ahead of the game: Make dairy-free milk at home and go vegan today.

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True or false: Cows are killed for cheese. If you think the dairy industry is any less deadly than the meat industry, you’re in for a rude awakening.

If you buy cheese, you’re paying someone to kill cows.

Eating cheese is no less cruel than eating meat: After cows used for dairy production spend their entire lives being forcibly separated from their beloved babies and being treated as milk machines, they’re slaughtered for burgers and other meat.

Here’s something for vegetarians to consider: Is eating cheese even worse than eating meat?

The difference between the meat industry and the dairy industry isn’t that animals are killed for one and not the other—it’s that cows killed for beef are typically slaughtered when they’re roughly 18 months old, while cows killed for cheese and other dairy “products” are slaughtered after four to five miserable years (once their bodies have become worn out from constantly being pregnant or lactating). Their pre-slaughter living nightmares include being denied care, like this cow at Reitz Dairy Farm who was left to suffer with a painful grapefruit-size mass that oozed blood and pus …

… or this cow, named Caroline by our undercover investigator, who developed painful lameness and favored one of her hooves. She was found dead in a barn stall after Reitz Dairy’s farm manager failed to provide her with any care:

Our investigator also observed cows limping along gingerly on floors slick with waste, including in the very room where the milk that they had produced for their calves was taken from them to be sold and made into cheese.

At Reitz Dairy, one cow became trapped in a stall after being milked. Rather than helping to free her, a worker hit her on the hindquarters, legs, and udder nearly 60 times with a hard cane—deliberately targeting her sensitive udder:

He also kicked her over and over again:

When not being milked, artificially inseminated, or—worst of all—deprived of their babies, cows at Reitz Dairy tried to rest in these cramped, barren stalls.

These cows are milked for the National Farmers Organization, which says that it ships most of its Pennsylvania dairy suppliers’ milk to a company that makes cheese. And our Reitz Dairy Farm exposé spotlights just one farm and reveals only some of the routine cruelty in the dairy industry. So the next time you reach for dairy cheese—stop! Instead, think of the bond that mother cows and their babies share, which is particularly strong—there are countless reports of mother cows who’ve continued to call and search frantically for their calves after they’d been taken away and sold to veal or beef farms. Or think of Caroline, left to die in the same feces- and urine-covered environment where she was forced to spend all her time.

For Cows’ Sake, Opt for Delicious Vegan Cheese

By supporting the dairy industry, you’re also supporting the meat industry—the only way around it is to go vegan and support neither. And with so many delicious vegan cheese options available in stores and even online, there’s no excuse for not ditching dairy cruelty.

Everything You Need to Know About Vegan Cheese

If you want to do more to help cows suffering for dairy, please click on the button below to urge the National Farmers Organization to reconsider its affiliation with suffering and filth such as that documented at Reitz Dairy Farm.

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Its release coincided with a worldwide pandemic that prompted stay-at-home orders across the country, and Nintendo’s Animal Crossing: New Horizons has become not only the hottest video game of 2020 but also part of history. In the game, players can create worlds of their own, live harmoniously with villagers of various animal species, and even design art that can be shared with other players online.

There are many creative artists sharing vegan designs in Animal Crossing. Whether you want to decorate your island for a #BlathersIsOverParty demonstration outside the museum or rock some animal rights merch to spread the message while enjoying the game, elevate your island vibe with these fun, animal-friendly designs from talented artists.

Contact PETA on our website or via social media to share your own vegan designs and we might add your custom artwork to this page!

Don’t get caught protesting without this classic PETA tee:

This now-famous “Empty the Tanks” sign is a must-have to set up outside the museum:

Look at this adorable vegan symbol hat—it provides perfect protection from the summer sun:

Isabelle has expressed her love for tofu. It’s versatile and delicious, and no animals are killed for it—what’s not to love? Encourage your villagers to try tofu with this cute design:

Would you wear Timmy or Tommy’s fur? What about Tom Nook’s or Redd’s? No way! Stand in solidarity with your tanuki and fox friends with this “Fur Is Dead” tee:

Blathers thinks he knows everything, but he fails to acknowledge that fish belong in the ocean (and rivers, streams, ponds, etc.)—not tanks! Download this set of signs to tell Blathers a fact of your own:

Millions of dogs and cats are homeless in real life because humans buy from breeders and pet stores instead of adopting from shelters. Cozy up with a cause in this #AdoptDontShop sweater:

Speciesism is the misguided belief that humans are superior to all other animals and that it’s OK for us to exploit other species selfishly in horrible ways. Animal Crossing is having none of that! Remind your villagers that we are all animals and that humans must work together to #EndSpeciesism:

Experiments on animals are cruel and useless. Wear this “Stop Animal Tests” lab coat to encourage your friends to shop cruelty-free:

In a world in which your neighbors are chickens, pigs, cows, and other animals, being vegan is the only ethical way to live. Spread the word with this colorful design:

You would never eat Agnes, Patty, or Ava, so you should never eat real pigs, cows, or chickens, either. Support your villagers’ rights with this classic “Meat Is Murder” hoodie:

Display the classic PETA bunny logo outside your airport, wear it on a shirt, or even rock it as a face tattoo!

We are all animals. Look cool wearing this beanie in the game and in real life:

Whether you’re planning a virtual date at your beachside café or you’ve got a day of flower planting ahead of you, this “I PETA” dress is an adorable way to show your support for animals:

This vibrant vegan design can be used for protests, displayed outside your local island restaurant, or turned into a cute summer tank top:

Create your own designs and offer them for sale at Able Sisters—and you may just see your villagers joining the cause. Someone tell Ava she’s the perfect model! 😀

From rocking out to K.K. Slider at his Saturday night concerts to watching the stars with your favorite villager, there’s so much to love about Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Nintendo filled the game with chickens, sheep, cows, and others who have strong personalities, emphasizing that animals are individuals with whom we share the world—not objects for us to exploit or abuse. Use these designs and create your own to spread the #EndSpeciesism message even further!

Don’t forget to tag PETA on social media for a chance to have your artwork featured on this page.

Check Out PETA’s Vegan Guide to Animal Crossing: New Horizons

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SeaWorld plans to reopen, so PETA protesters will descend on the park on Thursday with a chained inflatable orca and signs proclaiming, “Life in a Concrete Box Is No Life,” and urge families to find cruelty-free forms of entertainment.

When:    Thursday, May 28, 12 noon

Where:    SeaWorld, 7007 Sea World Dr., Orlando

“Anyone who has felt trapped during this temporary lockdown hasn’t experienced even an ounce of the misery that orcas, bottlenose dolphins, and other animals have endured while being on lockdown for decades at SeaWorld,” says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. “PETA asks everyone to stay away from SeaWorld as long as marine mammals are imprisoned there.”

In nature, orcas work cooperatively to find food, forge intricate relationships, and traverse up to 140 miles of ocean every day. But at SeaWorld, they’re packed into shallow tanks in which they can’t escape attacks from other frustrated and aggressive orcas. PETA is calling on SeaWorld to develop a plan to move the orcas, bottlenose dolphins, and other marine mammals it holds captive to seaside sanctuaries.

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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