Social Justice

Miami’s vegan event of the year, the Seed Food & Wine Week is fast approaching. For five days in November, over 200 vegan vendors, 40 celebrity chefs, and 30 plant-based experts, athletes, and influencers will mix and mingle over incredible vegan food with over 10,000 attendees along the vibrant Miami coast. This celebration is more than just […]

Rubicon Bakers, a California-based social justice-driven bakery, is bringing its vegan Chocolate Blackout Cake products to market. The new range is now available at select locations of Whole Foods Market, Safeway, Sprouts, and Natural Grocers. After more than a year in research and development, the new line boasts the double-layer Vegan Vanilla Cake and Vegan […]

Over 30 years ago, vegan nutritionist and author Tracye McQuirter attended a speech that would change her life, The Huffington Post reports. As a sophomore of Massachusetts’ Amherst College, she attended a speech delivered by Black civil rights activist and comedian Dick Gregory, who delivered a speech about the link between nutrition and race. “He talked about […]

Fans of outspoken NFL quarterback and vegan Colin Kaepernick are requesting a new flavor of Ben & Jerry’s dairy-free ice cream be launched in his honor. Kaepernick famously refused to stand during the National Anthem in 2016 to raise awareness of racial injustice, taking a knee as a form of protest. The brave move prompted […]

A new vegan pop-up bakery Blackstreet Bakery has launched at the Mississippi Street Fair in Portland. The bakery describes itself as a “Black-led vegan pop-up bakery” and has a social justice mission: “to honor the history of Mississippi Avenue as a major part of Portland’s Black community and to expand economic opportunity for Black people in baking.” Organized by the […]

Australian philanthropist, animal rights activist, and Citibank’s former vice president, Philip Wollen has shared a powerful message on the Kindness Production YouTube channel, wherein he urges the public to go vegan, and imparts his dearest well wishes to all March for Animal Rights participants. “We are sending out a clarion call that we are earthlings, […]

The Youth Empowered Action (YEA) Camp is a “social justice leadership camp for teen activists,” that has been running since 2009. The organisation teaches and inspires young people who want to change the world, giving them the skills they need to help the planet and society. However, not wanting to exclude passionate adults, YEA has […]

Feminist adult filmmaker, Erika Lust, has taken to Instagram to announce her decision to go vegan this 2018. Lust, who directors pornographic films for people ‘who don’t think that sex always has to be presented as cheap, tasteless and vulgar,’ believes that this new lifestyle change is in line with her morals, as well as […]