Like all sports based on the abuse of animals, horseracing is less and less popular every year. This month the last horseracing track in Illinois, closed their doors due to declining attendance, bankruptcy and a forced sale of their property to a developer who wants to convert it to something else.

Anxiety can be a horrible thing to face, but if you're able to channel your anxiety into something useful, productive and even empowering. Read Marla's essay on her Substack here (it's free): marlarose.substack.com/p/anxiety-a-...

Cherries are not only super delicious but they are loaded with nutrients that make you healthier and help you to feel better. How awesome is that?

There have been a lot of programs around the world that protect ecosystems including forest ecosystems, but now the city council of Terrasse-Vaudreuil in the Canadian province of Quebec has granted rights to individual trees – in fact all of the trees in their municipality.

During the height of the avian flu epidemic, when tens of millions of American chickens died on their overcrowded industrial farms and egg prices shot through the roof, several large egg producers conspired to raise prices even higher.

With the help of greedy benefactors in the oil, gas, logging and mining industries, he Trump administration has gutted the Endangered Species Act – after saying that destroying endangered animals homes should not be considered "harm."

Denmark has just taken a big step in favor of animal welfare and is vowing to move away from factory farming and toward a farming system that cares about the welfare of pigs – and also the welfare of people who are dealing with massive water pollution created by the massive pig farms.

Scientists are only now beginning to understand the how forests and grasslands are supported by huge underground networks of fungi. As we learn more where these fungal structures are and how they work, we can find ways to protect them, which will in turn protect the entire ecosystems above them.

Fireworks are harmful to pets, wildlife and veterans and other people suffering from PTSD. Meanwhile aerial drone shows keep getting more impressive and less expensive to produce. Many cities are switching from fireworks to drones, and all the animals living in those cities are thankful for that.

The natural gas industries are a major threat to blue whales, and they have launched three separate programs to colonize Mexico's Gulf of California. The environment law firm Earthjustice has successfully shut down one of these and temporarily stopped the other two through court orders.

Just as there is an industry producing and promoting plant based proteins, there is another industry trying to promote a diet based on eating crickets and other insects and creepy crawlies. This industry has not captured the public's appetite yet. I don't think it's hard to see why.

There are now elegant electric carriages with all the craftsmanship and pageantry of their horse-drawn counterparts, but none of the animal cruelty. Let's encourage our cities to start utilizing these.

A paper published University of Oxford and University of Leiden found that the net effect of meat production, energy consumption and critical habitat destruction has cost the world $5.7 Trillion in the form of impacts of climate disruption, biodiversity loss, nutrient pollution and freshwater use.

Raw milk cheerleader and farmer Mark McAfee, who has netted more than $30 million last year from hawking the diseased milk, is determined to sell as much raw milk as possible. “I’ve put a couple kids in the hospital, and they have been sick, but they recovered. But here’s the thing: I’m a pioneer."

Vegan Street has always been adamantly opposed to forcing horses to pull tourists through busy city traffic, and we are proud to have been a part of the team that got horse carriages banned in Chicago. So we applaud the city council of Philadelphia for bringing their city into the 21st century.

Most people are culturally conditioned to eat meat, but with some delicious options and a little creativity, they can be persuaded to make better choices.

Members of the Yurok tribe of northern California have developed a plan to save the severely endangered California condor population, and after years of meticulous hard work, things are beginning to pay off as the condor population is slowly starting to grow.

When the Double Up Food Bucks programs offered SNAP recipients to buy double the fresh fruits and vegetables for the same money, one would think legislators would be for it. But even though the program only costs $2 million to feed all the state's poor children, it was deleted from the budget.

In 2023, the US banned use deadly hidden cyanide traps that have killed hundreds of thousands of foxes and coyotes and have also killed or injured more than 10,000 "non target" animals including eagles, bears, pet dogs and even humans. Now the Trump administration has allowed their use again.

We are still seeing a lot of robins around our Chicago neighborhood, and there are still about as many robins in the US as there are people, so there is no imminent threat to their survival. Still, it's worth trying to understand the factors that may be threatening them.

The government of New South Wales has now dedicated 435,000 acres of forest as the Great Koala National Park, which halts all habitat destruction in the area, ensuring the preservation of all local koalas and dozens of other endangered species.

The capitalist mind believes that everything on Earth belongs to whoever is brazen enough to claim it. It is up to those of us who believe that nature exists for its own sake to stand up and fight to defend our forests, prairies, rivers, oceans and all our beautiful natural spaces.

If you have access to some ground you can plant in, you can do the world a favor and plant some pollinating wildflowers. Much of the plant world, including a lot of the food we eat, depends on pollinating insects like bees and butterflies to reproduce.

For years, we have promoted a plethora of studies touting the advantages of a plant-based diet on your heart and bloodstream (and the dangers of eating animal products as well). For fighting cholesterol and high blood pressure, there is no better food-based medicine.

So many people love sloths that some capitalists decided to hired people to snatch sloths from their native habitat and transport them to Orlando to create a fancy sloth-only zoo. Sadly, they ended up neglecting and killing most of the sloths they kidnapped.

And if we "Biden vegans" helped fuel the skyrocketing beef prices, we're happy to take credit for it, though I think Mr Navarro has exaggerated our impact. In any event, tofu prices have remained pretty stable, so we can still afford to eat what we want.

Today is May Day! Millions of people across the US are staging a general strike today, staying away from work and gathering in the streets at one of hundreds of rallies, marches and other events across the country in order to preserve our democracy. To join in, visit maydaystrong.org

There are wealthy, entitled men (and some women) who believe that nature and everything in it belongs to them personally to befoul and destroy as they see fit. One cannot blame their would-be prey for wanting to remind these hubris-filled jerks that not everything is theirs for the taking.

Last year, in 2025, the number of companion animals killed in shelters declined sharply as the number of shelter adoptions grew steadily for the last ten years. 90% of shelters across the country either improved or maintained their lifesaving from 2024 to 2025.