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March 2026
The human cytotoxicity of chemical warfare agents and explosives in seafood
Vegan World Alliance News, March 31st 2026
There are countless reasons to avoid consuming sea animals, ranging from ethical concerns about their slaughter to health risks posed by mercury toxicity and microplastics. Now, we must consider another critical concern: the toxicity of chemical warfare agents and conventional explosives...
April 2025
We have updated our article on exploitation in the chocolate industry
Vegan World Alliance News, April 2nd 2025
We have updated our article on exploitation in the chocolate industry with two additional vegan certification bans on Hershey and Lindt's plant-based chocolate.
July 2024
Eating Fear: The cortisol connection in animal consumption
Vegan World Alliance News, July 19th 2024
There’s a lot of ground to cover to investigate the various detrimental effects to humans from eating meat due to the fear those animals experience in slaughterhouses, but as is often the case, there is still much we don’t know. Fear itself is hard to measure, so to quantify fear in animals perhaps the best proxy is cortisol...
October 2023
Unintentional versus intentional actions
Vegan World Alliance News, October 12th 2023
There has been much debate over what constitutes “intentional” versus “unintentional” exploitation and what this means for human animals and other animal rights. Regarding killing within the human species, Pnevmatikos explains that intent is the mitigating factor in determining guilt in a court of law, specifically when killing in self-defence or accidentally...
January 2023
New videos on veganism to foster change
Vegan World Alliance News, January 6th 2023
We have an ongoing mandate to evaluate how we exploit animals. In collaboration with our colleagues from the Vegan World Alliance, we are releasing a series of short videos that we hope will inspire reflection and provide additional incentive...