THE TREATMENT OF ANIMALS
- Wikipedia – Intensive animal farming
- The Humane Society – Improving the Lives of Farm Animals
- ASPCA – Animals on Factory Farms
- A Consumer’s Guide to Food Labels and Animal Welfare
- Farm Sanctuary – The Issues: Factory Farming
- Sentient Media – Farmed Animals: The Exploitation of Animals on Factory Farms
- Vox – Why the US egg industry is still killing 300 million chicks a year
- Chowhound – The Dark Side of Backyard Chickens
- The Intercept – Hidden Video and Whistleblower Reveal Gruesome Mass-Extermination Method for Iowa Pigs Amid Pandemic
ANIMAL SENTIENCE
- Wikipedia – Animal consciousness
- Animal Sentience – An Interdisciplinary Journal on Animal Feeling
- New York Times – Dogs Are People, Too
- Psychology Today – Pigs Are Intelligent, Emotional, and Cognitively Complex
- Psychology Today – Cows: Science Shows They’re Bright and Emotional Individuals
- Psychology Today – The World According to Intelligent and Emotional Chickens
- Psychology Today – Slaughtering Sentience: There’s No Reason to Eat Turkeys
- Smithsonian – It’s Official: Fish Feel Pain
- Science News – Study: Farm-raised salmon suffer from depression
ANIMAL AGRICULTURE & THE ENVIRONMENT
- The Guardian – Avoiding meat and dairy is ‘single biggest way’ to reduce your impact on Earth
- The Guardian – What is the true cost of eating meat?
- The Humane Society – An HSI Report: The Impact of Animal Agriculture on Global Warming and Climate Change
- Food & Water Watch – Food System
- The UN Food and Agricultural Organization – Livestock’s long shadow
- The UN Food and Agricultural Organization – This huge collection of data
- The Guardian – Millions of sea turtles dying in fishing gear, report warns
- The Guardian – Dumped fishing gear is biggest plastic polluter in ocean, finds report
ANIMAL AGRICULTURE & HUMANS
- BBC – Confessions of a slaughterhouse worker
- Time Magazine – We Need to Rethink Our Food System to Prevent the Next Pandemic
- Farm Sanctuary – An Unjust Food System
- Environmental Health Perspectives – CAFOs and Environmental Justice: The Case of North Carolina
- The Business Insider – The meat industry is hiding a dark secret, as workers at ‘America’s worst job’ wade through seas of blood, guts, and grease
- Sentient Media – Profit Over People: The Meat Industry’s Exploitation of Vulnerable Workers
- Oxford Study – Sustainable eating is cheaper and healthier
VEGANISM & HEALTH
- Harvard Health – The right plant-based diet for you
- Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine – The Power of a Plant-Based Diet for Good Health
- BBC – Are there health benefits to going vegan?
- The Cleveland Clinic – What You Should Know About Plant-Based Diets
- American Heart Association – Vegetarian, Vegan and Meals Without Meat
- Forks Over Knives – How a Vegan Diet Impacts Diabetes
- Nutrition Facts – Uprooting the Leading Causes of Death
- Journal of American Heart Association – Plant‐Based Diets Are Associated With a Lower Risk of Incident Cardiovascular Disease, Cardiovascular Disease Mortality, and All‐Cause Mortality in a General Population of Middle‐Aged Adults
IN THE NEWS
- Time Magazine – We Need to Rethink Our Food System to Prevent the Next Pandemic
- New York Times – Stop Mocking Vegans
- Fast Company – This documentary wants to convince you to be a vegan … some of the time
- BBC – Why black Americans are more likely to be vegan
- Bloomberg – Sales of Vegan Bacon Are On the Rise as More Brands Hit the Market
- Vogue – ‘I Have Lots of Friends Who Eat Animals. They Know My Views.’
- Vox – The next pandemic could come from factory farms
- The Guardian – Which animals should be considered sentient in the eyes of the law?
- Psychology Today – A Universal Declaration on Animal Sentience: No Pretending
BOOKS
Ethics
- Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows by Melanie Joy
- Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
- Why Vegan? By Peter Singer
Cookbooks
- Best Vegan Cookbooks for Every Cuisine & Interest
- The Best Vegetarian and Vegan Cookbooks, According to Vegetarian and Vegan Chefs
- I Can Cook Vegan by Isa Chandra Moskowitz
- But I Could Never Go Vegan! by Kristy Turner
Going vegan
- The Vegan Starter Kit: Everything You Need to Know About Plant-Based Eating by Neal D Barnard MD
- Becoming Vegan by Brenda Davi and Vesanto Melina
- Never Too Late to Go Vegan: The Over-50 Guide to Adopting and Thriving on a Plant-Based Diet by Carol J. Adams, Patti Breitman and Virginia Messina, MPH, RD
- How Not to Die by Michael Greger M.D.
ONLINE RESOURCES
- Vegan.com
- VegNews
- The Vegan Society
Forks Over Knives - HappyCow: Find Vegan & Vegetarian Restaurants Near Me
- Colleen Patrick-Goudreau – 30-day vegan challenge
- Veganuary – Vegan Starter Kit
- Vegan Outreach – 10 Weeks to Vegan
- Purple Carrot – Plant-Based Meal Delivery
- Veg Out Mag – 18 Fast Food Restaurants with Vegan Options