Step 1: Mother gives birth to baby.

Step 2: Baby takes his first steps. Mother nervously stares at human observers. She knows what’s coming. She’s seen it before.

Step 3: Less than 15 minutes after birth, the still-wet baby is taken from his mother.

Step 4: Mother is hooked onto mechanical milk suckers, so her baby’s nutrients can be fed to humans (thus significantly increasing humanity’s cancer, heart disease, and type 2 diabetes rates…but I digress…)

Step 5: Newborn baby is sent to live the rest of his short life on a veal farm.

(most of the photos above were taken by my hero Jo-Anne McArthur)

Dairy = Veal = Cruelty.

Break your cheese addiction. I know it’s tough (trust me, I KNOW it’s tough- at first), but I promise it goes away.

It’s worth it.

I imagine most of you fabulous & compassionate Tree Kisser followers have already signed our INTERMIX petition (thank you!!), so today I want to point you towards another campaign Fur Free LA is running, asking one of Hollywood’s favorite stores, Kitson, to stop selling fur.

Please sign & share widely! And KITSON: Please Stop Selling Fur!

xo 

INTERMIX sold and promoted a whole lotta fox fur this fall/winter. Whether the foxes were raised on fur farms or trapped in the wild, cruelty is inherent & widespread in this bloody, outdated industry.

If we don’t stop them soon, they’ll begin killing for next season. Time is running out.

Please sign & share our petition asking INTERMIX to stop selling fur! We’ve gained over 15,000 signatures this week, now we just need you to help us save lives!

(Need proof that petitions work? Just today, a NY salon promised to go faux after national outrage and a Change.org petition!)

Think before you buy that bottled water or say yes to that bag in the checkout line…

Break your plastic addiction (I need help breaking mine too!) with Surf Rider!

Dear All Men In The World:

Watch this. If you’re vegan, it will inspire you. If you aren’t, it will make you question that in the best way possible. (not at all graphic, no need to grab the tissues!)

“There’s effects on our water, our environment, our soil. There’s effects on public health and personal health. There’s a whole range of issues associated with animal agriculture. And when you take animal agriculture out of the equation, it helps solve a lot of these issues. it’s the only way to solve a lot of these issues. We can continue to put bandaids over it, but at the end of the day, if we don’t fix our appetites for animal based foods and fashion, we’re heading down the wrong path, and it’s just not sustainable.”

“The question is, what do you stand for? Do you have principles? Are there things that you believe, and are you the kind of person that’s going to stand up, and say hey, count me in, these are my principles, this is what I believe, and I’m going to defend them…and if you’re not that kind of guy, then you know, hey, maybe veganism isn’t for you. But what I’m saying is, if you’re the kind of guy that believes in compassion, you believe in mercy, you believe in right vs. wrong, then this is the right lifestyle for you, and this is what you need to be doing.”

- Robert Lucius, CEO of the Humane Party

The next time someone asks you:

“Why do you fight for animals?” or “Why are you vegan?”

This is why.

Milk comes from cows.

They make it for their babies.

If the calves drink their milk, we can’t steal it, so they have to be taken from their mothers right after birth.

The dairy industry has no use for 99% of male calves, so they’re sent to the veal farm. They will live in tiny crates until they’re killed for meat.

Milk = Veal.