Herbivore

Their life is more important than your dietary preferences 🐙 🎨 Just Comics

Cultivated meat is accused of being “made from cancer cells”. But animals farmed for food get tumours too, and slaughterhouses have rules for cutting them out. If flesh is what scares you, there is another option: eat plants. https://open.substack.com/pub/herbivoreclub/p/is-cultivated-meat-made-from-cancer

Humans brought rabbits to Australia. Humans released them. Humans transformed the landscape. Now rabbits are poisoned, shot, fumigated and infected with viruses for a crisis they did not create. https://open.substack.com/pub/herbivoreclub/p/when-humans-introduce-an-animal-why

Why is anaemia still used as a reason to eat animals? https://open.substack.com/pub/herbivoreclub/p/anaemia-is-not-a-reason-to-eat-animals

When people say "I don't want to be a vegan and that's ok" - they have no idea what they're saying, you couldn't replace the word vegan with any other social justice movement and not sound a total scumbag for saying you don't care about it. They actually think it's a diet.

Humans are without question the dumbest animals on the planet.

There is no safe level of exposure to a known carcinogen, not when we are talking about an extremely optional activity. If a product increases cancer risk, the question isn’t how much we allow. It’s why we allow it at all. https://www.herbivore.club/p/nitrite-free-bacon-is-a-distraction

You can't say you're against animal abuse while paying for it. #GoVegan 🎨 LittleVeganArtist

Animals aren't here for us, they're here with us.

Sheep are not part of the ecosystem 🐑 The UK was once a temperate rainforest. Sheep farming is the reason it's gone 🌳

Turkeys do not need better exploitation. They need emancipation from it. https://www.herbivore.club/p/there-is-no-such-thing-as-humane

Did you know that down, the cosy feathers next to birds' skin, is sometimes used for clothes and bedding? These feathers may be violently ripped from the bodies of ducks & geese while they’re still alive - ALWAYS choose vegan materials 🪿 🎨 Lauraklinke_art (IG) #DownWithDown

The Guardian asks whether animal-free leather is really better for the environment. But its answer slips from scrutiny into a defence of animal skin, ending with “humane” cattle and supposedly “good leather” 😒 https://open.substack.com/pub/herbivoreclub/p/the-guardians-case-for-good-leather

Britons are buying more beans, lentils, tofu and tempeh, exposing how misleading the “plant-based decline” narrative really is in Britain. https://open.substack.com/pub/herbivoreclub/p/britain-isnt-abandoning-plant-based

Why does every non-vegan have to tell every vegan they meet that they can't go vegan?

Most people already know the truth: plant-based food is better for them, better for the planet, and doesn’t require killing someone else. https://ko-fi.com/post/Why-Arent-We-Eating-More-Plants-O5O71F76HG

Animals are not modes of transport 😡 🎨 PETA

Be the change. #GoVegan

We don't need you to respect us for being vegan. The animals need you to respect them enough for you to be vegan.

Chicken has had a golden health halo for decades, gobbled down by people who think swapping beef for birds is some kind of upgrade. But new research just blew that halo to pieces, and it should force us to ask: why are we still eating animals at all? https://ko-fi.com/post/Kentucky-Fried-Cancer-B0B11ER3XO

It's not a lack of options, it's a lack of imagination. #Alt4Me

Another Mallorcan town is preparing to get horses off its tourist carriages. Muro Town Hall and local carriage drivers have now been presented with an electric replacement, with the new vehicles expected to take over from horse-drawn carriages in Playa de Muro from next year if final approval is granted. Muro would follow Alcúdia, where electric carriages were introduced in 2025. https://www.majorcadailybulletin.com/news/local/2026/09/29/146153/horse-drawn-carriages-one-mallorca-most-popular-tourist-resorts-could-soon-become-thing-the-past.html

Wool is sold as a harmless haircut. The story ends before the sheep is restrained, injured, exploited and eventually killed. Our new guide explains how to challenge the cosy myths and advocate effectively against wool 🐑 https://open.substack.com/pub/herbivoreclub/p/the-animal-advocates-guide-to-wool

How many animals can you eat and call yourself flexitarian? https://open.substack.com/pub/herbivoreclub/p/wtf-is-a-flexitarian

Birds do not belong in cages. 🎨 LittleVeganArtist

The UK says it is phasing out animal testing. But there is still no overall deadline, even as millions of procedures continue and some use of dogs, cats, horses and monkeys rises. https://open.substack.com/pub/herbivoreclub/p/britain-promised-to-phase-out-animal

Low-carbon behaviours, like train travel and plant-based diets, are obvious alternatives. But instead of using their platform to normalise those choices, most politicians keep quiet. https://ko-fi.com/post/Climate-Cowards-in-Office-H2H81ETX3X

When people are told a dairy company has good environmental practices, they rate that company as treating cows better. Even when they are given zero information about how those cows are actually treated. https://www.herbivore.club/p/the-humane-halo-how-dairy-gets-away

How do we persuade a friend, challenge a restaurant, pressure an aquarium or stop the next octopus farm? This activist guide connects octopus sentience with practical tactics for changing minds, companies, laws and social norms 🐙 https://open.substack.com/pub/herbivoreclub/p/the-octopus-advocates-guide

Why should helping poorer communities mean expanding industries built on using animals’ bodies for profit? https://open.substack.com/pub/herbivoreclub/p/why-are-wealthy-countries-exporting

Why do some people find it easier to stop eating animals than others? https://open.substack.com/pub/herbivoreclub/p/want-to-stop-eating-animals-look

We need antibiotics. Modern medicine depends on them. At the same time, we are feeding those same antibiotics into a system that accelerates their failure. https://www.herbivore.club/p/the-industry-behind-antibiotic-collapse

For salmon, it can take multiple pounds of wild fish to produce a single pound of farmed flesh. https://www.herbivore.club/p/salmon-farming-is-factory-farming

Ending the down industry will take more than telling people to buy a different jacket. It means changing conversations, consumer habits, company policies and social norms. Here’s a practical activist guide to fighting for ducks and geese 🪿 https://open.substack.com/pub/herbivoreclub/p/the-animal-advocates-guide-to-down

Norway's 2026 whaling season is over. 418 minke whales were killed. But that number doesn't include the unborn calves who died with their mothers. Around 40% of whales killed in Norway are pregnant. https://uk.whales.org/2026/09/15/more-pregnant-whales-killed-by-norway-as-latest-hunt-season-ends/

Not knowing something is not the same as doing wrong. Intelligence does not equal virtue, and ignorance does not equal vice. When we conflate the two, we harm those already at the margins and empower those who cloak cruelty in cleverness. https://ko-fi.com/Post/Stupidity-Is-Not-a-Sin-Why-Intelligence-and-Moral-K3K71EVC55

Nearly half of migratory bird species are declining. The causes are not mysterious. Farming, hunting, fishing, wildlife trade, invasive species and disease all lead back to the same problem: our exploitation of animals. https://open.substack.com/pub/herbivoreclub/p/1-in-9-migratory-bird-species-is

Something important has changed in Palma. The city's carriage drivers have unveiled the final design of the electric carriage intended to replace horses, with the first vehicles planned for 2027. And more than half of Palma's carriage drivers reportedly want to make the switch. The €45,000 electric carriage will now be presented to Palma City Council for approval, while regulations governing the service will need to be changed. https://www.majorcadailybulletin.com/news/local/2026/09/28/146137/palma-horse-drawn-carriage-drivers-unveil-electric-carriage-model-planned-for-2027-launch.html

The USA is moving away from artificial food dyes. Good. But replacing them with carmine, made by killing and crushing tens of thousands of cochineal insects, is not progress. Especially when plant-based alternatives already exist. https://open.substack.com/pub/herbivoreclub/p/petroleum-to-crushed-insects-is-not

We do not need to find a better way to breed birds to be shot. We need to stop breeding birds to be shot. Anyone can respond. Defra's call for evidence is open until the 1st of November 2026. https://open.substack.com/pub/herbivoreclub/p/england-is-finally-questioning-the

Britain recognises fishes as sentient, but gives them far fewer legal protections when they are killed. https://open.substack.com/pub/herbivoreclub/p/britain-regulates-how-farmed-mammals

Being against animal rights because you didn't like an advocate you spoke to doesn't make you look like a POS at all 🙃 🎨 VeganSideKick

There is no "humane" way to farm someone 🐐

Leather is poisoning our planet 🌍

Colorectal cancer rates are climbing, particularly in younger adults. At the same time, vitamin D deficiency is widespread, especially in countries like the UK where sunlight is limited for half the year. Coincidence? Increasingly, research suggests not. https://ko-fi.com/post/Vitamin-D-and-Colon-Cancer-Y8Y71EPP7X

Knowing cashmere comes from goats is not enough. Effective advocacy means understanding what people value, avoiding needless defensiveness, making the goat visible, and giving concern somewhere useful to go. Here’s how to do it. https://open.substack.com/pub/herbivoreclub/p/the-animal-advocates-guide-to-cashmere

A Persian cat and a pug. One’s a feline, the other a canine. Fifty million years of evolution between them. But when scientists scanned their skulls, they found something strange: they’re starting to look eerily alike. Not by coincidence. By human design. https://ko-fi.com/post/Cute-by-Design-How-Selective-Breeding-Has-Warped-G2G71EMPVC

Scroll through our pages long enough and you might start seeing animals differently. Don’t panic. It’s just empathy.

The climate is collapsing, and everyone’s still arguing over who should go first. Is it up to individuals to change their habits, or should governments and corporations lead the charge? Here’s the answer: yes. https://ko-fi.com/post/Climate-You-Act-Then-Make-Them-Act-L4L81EYZDO

We say “human-wildlife conflict” as if both sides are participating equally. They’re not. https://www.herbivore.club/p/this-isnt-conflict-its-displacement