250 years of slavery. 90 years of Jim Crow. 60 years of separate but equal. 35 years of racist housing policy. At Project Animal Freedom, we pride ourselves on fighting for justice for all, no matter one’s sex, sexuality, skin color, site of origin, socioeconomic status, disability status, senescence, and even species. Learn more about our support for reparations below.

At Project Animal Freedom, we are dedicated to building a fully vegan Midwest by 2056 through a strategic, chapter-based system. We have made enormous progress toward this ambitious goal over the past year, growing our member base dramatically, reaching millions of people on social media, and launching our first two chapters outside the state of Missouri—one in Lincoln, Nebraska, and another in Springfield, Illinois. Learn more about the victories supporters like you made possible in 2021 below.

For decades, politicians at almost every level of government have told us that when it comes to investing in the American working class, it is simply too expensive. But is this truly the case? Are reparations to African people, in particular, truly no more than fanciful speculations unbound by pressing economic realities?

This Mother’s Day, we not only commemorated the millions of more-than-human animals so cruelly separated from their mothers by the animal abuse industry, but also recognized an exceptional mother within our ranks at Project Animal Freedom: Jenna Luzynski.

Project Animal Freedom is now the largest, most active, and most successful we have ever been. Not only did over 100 people RSVP to our past two virtual events, including a full 124 people for our first annual Vegan Climate Summit, but we have now received 43 leadership applications as part of our Vegan Talent Search since the beginning of the year. Learn more about our exponential growth these past six months, and invest in the future of the Midwestern animal rights movement today!

As we enter the second quarter of the year this Vegster, our team at Project Animal Freedom would like to announce that we have developed a more effective campaign structure that no longer revolves around monthly educational campaigns, but rather larger, more substantive quarterly campaigns that directly reflect our core strategic goals as an organization.

Craving fish? Then look no further! We have the perfect recipe for you, one that manages to capture that uniquely fishy taste and texture you’re looking for using a little known ingredient: hearts of palm!

Before I gave up consuming animal products and began advocating for a vegan lifestyle, I frequently ate chicken. Because I have an autoimmune disease, chicken was the only meat I could consume as part of an anti-inflammatory diet that did not negatively affect my body. Along with my autoimmune disease, I also struggled with endometriosis, a condition that affects me to this day. Little did I realize that switching to a vegan diet could dramatically improve both conditions.

At Project Animal Freedom, we are not only committed to exposing animal agriculture; we are dedicated to abolishing it. Despite decades of activism, however, the scale of modern animal agriculture only continues to grow, driven by rising populations and increasing affluence around the globe. The moral catastrophe of modern animal agriculture therefore necessitates bold, sustained action if we are to convince billions of human animals to reduce and ideally eliminate their animal product consumption and call on world governments to ban factory farms and slaughterhouses once and for all. In this article, you can discover all 12 of our monthly campaigns directed toward our overarching goal of complete and total animal liberation.

“After falling asleep on the couch from sheer exhaustion on Thursday, unable to even speak in my semi-crapulous, catatonic state, struggling just to pause the final chapter of The Maze Runner series, let alone rise to prepare vegan spaghetti and meatballs for the rest of my family, I [shuddered] awake whereupon my mom began screaming at me about how I am such an incompetent leader, causing a grown woman to cry while my mother wailed, grief-stricken, until well past 2 a.m. in the morning, any attempt to console her backfiring in a cacophony of attacks.” Join us as we reflect on our tumultuous beginning—and our auspicious future.

“All the while I sat, petrified like stone, my left hand clenching the arm rest, my eyes fixed on the ever-turning update wheel, and my phone frozen to my ear. By the time my dad started conversing with me, my mouth seemed glued shut as I could barely form words, overcome by the same emotion I felt upon learning of Hillary Clinton’s shocking defeat on that tragic, groggy day last November. Several seconds passed between each painful, nondescript answer, until finally I revealed the truth—‘My presentation was a disaster,’ I mumbled, choking on suppressed tears.”

During my first semester at St. Louis University, tragedy struck my family. It began with a severe cold featuring painful coughing fits that lasted, unabated, for an entire week. By the end of that week, my mom could no longer use her right arm to fill prescriptions at Walgreens, where she worked as a staff pharmacist of 23 years. Little did we realize her mysterious condition had a startling connection to a deadly pathogen harbored in factory farms.

Since our inception, we have dedicated ourselves to fulfilling the following core promise: launching a Midwestern revolution for animal rights in just three years. This World Vegan Day, we would like to discuss our progress toward this goal, as well as outline our plans for taking this revolution to the next level.

As a self-professed Berniecrat, I naively imagined that Bernie was the best we could hope for in 2016 and 2020. He championed Medicare For All, tuition-free public universities, and, perhaps most importantly of all, a Green New Deal. I felt he was the best positioned to enact a mass WWII-style mobilization to tackle climate change, and I felt he sincerely fought for and ached alongside the working class. But there is one major, transformative policy he consistently overlooked: reparations to African people.

At its best, Hollywood acts as a harbinger of social change. Visionary directors seek to anticipate the future and, in so doing, introduce their audience to ideas previously beyond the public imagination. This dynamic played out a few weeks ago in L.A., where animal rights activists brought Okja—a 2017 film by Academy Award-winning Bong Joon-ho—to life.

This Indigenous Peoples’ Day, we remember not only the millions of indigenous people who died at the hands of Western imperial interests, but also the legacy of imperialism, colonialism, and racism more generally, a bloody, tear-stained history that haunts millions of Americans to this day.

How does moral progress come about? From narratives of an aspirational future to the idea of the home as a repair shop, we discuss three different perspectives on the phenomenon of moral progress as developed by leading feminist thinkers.

At Project Animal Freedom, we strive to build a welcoming, thriving community no matter one’s sex, sexuality, skin color, socioeconomic status, senescence, species, or disability status. Today, I would like to highlight Mental Illness Awareness Week by discussing my own struggles with mental health.