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Following a nudge from PETA, Carnival Cruises announced new vegan menus as part of an initiative to offer a wider variety of dining options for guests. Passengers can now enjoy delicious meals that are kinder to animals, including a Hawaiian Salmon Poke starter made with fish-free salmon, a spaghetti carbonara dish, and three decadent desserts. In recognition of this compassionate move, PETA is awarding the company a Vegan Voyage Award.

Here are some of the delicious new menu items being added:

• Hawaiian Salmon Poke with plant-based salmon, edamame, mango, and cucumber

• Crispy Stuffed Mushrooms with spinach and delicious cow-friendly cheeses
• Spaghetti Carbonara pasta with onion, garlic, and vegan bacon
• A savory Grilled Tofu Steak covered with barbecue sauce, served with a Hasselback potato and mixed vegetables
• Baked Vegetable au Gratin with puff pastry and melty vegan cheeses
• A classic Eggplant Cutlet a la Parmigiana covered with savory vegan mozzarella and topped with pesto and basil leaves

• A Key Lime Velvet Cake combining citrus flavor with raspberry and strawberry
• A Dutch Double Chocolate Pave with alternating layers of cake and vegan buttercream frosting
• A Cappuccino Pot de Crème with coffee flavors and a cinnamon crème Chantilly

Carnival plans to roll out vegan menus to the rest of the fleet throughout fall 2023, starting with the Carnival Freedom and Carnival Horizon ships.

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In addition to sparing the lives of nearly 200 animals a year, going vegan is better for your health—it even reduces your chances of developing heart disease by a whopping 32%, according to a large-scale study conducted by Oxford University.

How to Travel With Animals in Mind

It’s easy to be kind to animals no matter where you are. If you’re committed to being conscientious both at home and on vacation, be sure to check out the great travel resources that PETA has made available.

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Viewers and attendees of the Netflix Cup golf event—a first-of-its-kind livestreamed sporting event that pitted Formula 1 drivers against PGA players at the Wynn Golf Club—were met with a surprise this evening when PETA supporters crashed the scene on their knees and issued a heartfelt appeal to executives of F1 and its parent company, Liberty Media—including Liberty President and CEO Greg Maffei—to end Liberty’s support of the deadly Iditarod. One supporter was detained after the group drove home the message that more than 150 dogs have died during the grueling 1,000-mile dog-sled race in Alaska. Video footage and photos of the “plead-in” during the livestream—which follows similar actions at events in Beverly Hills, California; Miami; New York City; and San Francisco—are available here.

Alaska Airlines, Chrysler, Coca-Cola, Jack Daniel’s, Wells Fargo, ExxonMobil, and many other companies have cut ties with the Iditarod after learning from PETA how dogs suffer and die because of the race, but Liberty Media subsidiary GCI, an internet service provider, is still sponsoring the notorious event to the tune of more than $250,000 every year.

“Liberty Media is still in bed with a disgraceful race in which dogs are forced to run until their paws bleed and their bodies give out, with 150 dogs dead and counting,” says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. “PETA is pleading with the top brass to stop propping up this despicably cruel dog-sled race right now.”

Up to half the dogs who start the Iditarod don’t finish it. During this year’s race—which had the smallest field of mushers in the event’s history—approximately 175 dogs were pulled off the trail due to exhaustion, illness, injury, or other causes, leaving the remaining ones to work even harder. The race ended in controversy after the winner was caught on video dragging exhausted dogs toward a checkpoint.

The leading cause of death for dogs in the Iditarod is aspiration pneumonia—caused by inhaling their own vomit—and the race’s official death toll doesn’t include countless others who were killed simply because they weren’t fast enough or who died during the off-season while chained next to dilapidated boxes or plastic barrels in the bitter cold, a practice exposed in a PETA undercover investigation.

PETA—which owns stock in Formula 1—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview, and its motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to use for entertainment.”

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After learning from PETA that breathing-impaired breeds (BIBs)—including bulldogs, pugs, boxers, and other flat-faced dogs—suffer from devastating health conditions, Rite Aid is phasing out all greeting cards featuring the breeds at its more than 2,100 stores nationwide. To show thanks for its sweet move, PETA is sending Rite Aid a decadent custom vegan cake featuring decorations of adorable pups who aren’t breathing impaired.

“Flat-faced dogs are deliberately bred to have life-threatening deformities that make it difficult for them to breathe and drastically reduce both their life expectancy and quality of life, and glamorizing them fuels demand,” said PETA Vice President Tracy Reiman. “PETA applauds Rite Aid for refusing to prop up the cruel breeding industry and urges other companies and organizations to follow its lead.”

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A recent study showed that the life expectancy of many BIBs was significantly and shockingly lower than other breeds—French bulldogs average just 4.5 years—in large part because they’re predisposed to life-threatening conditions that include brachycephalic obstructive airway syndrome, spinal disease, and dystocia. The breeding industry responsible for these deformities is also one of the driving causes of the homeless-animal crisis—at any given time, there are 70 million dogs and cats in the U.S. in need of a home, and every dog who is bred robs a homeless one of a chance at adoption.

This isn’t the first time that Rite Aid has earned some major kudos: The chain previously banned cards featuring unnatural depictions of great apes that could hinder conservation efforts and pledged to install signs at all its stores alerting customers to the dangers of leaving animals and children in parked cars.

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