After my book The Lifelong Activist was published by Lantern Books in 2006, I gave a lot of talks to vegan groups, and also spoke with many individual vegans and vegan activists. Whenever I'd...

Vegetarians are the Rodney Dangerfields of the food-consuming world. They truly get no respect, despite the fact they're living out a moral or health-related choice not to eat meat or, in many cases, not...

In some circles, vegetarians get a bad rap. If it's not an association with PETA (known for news-getting, if abrasive, tactics to spread the word about carnivorism), a vegetarian at Thanksgiving dinner can be...

HSU sophomore Jenna Savage, a zoology junior, wants to make the world a more loving and compassionate place for animals. Jenna Savage and her sister Mary Sue Savage co-organize the AWARE club on campus....

At the Net Impact conference last week, a waiter stopped by before lunch to ask if anyone at our table wanted a vegetarian meal instead of chicken. Just one or two people did. This,...

Hardware store owner and heart attack survivor Leo Aeikens spent most of his life with a hankering for meat, cheese and ice cream. But an ambitious effort aimed at making his entire southern Minnesota...