One of my old university professors is vegan and he liked to tell a story about how his child pointed out cows while they were driving. So they stopped and pet them through the fence on the side of a slow highway. Ranchers don’t want you to know this, but you can absolutely just stop and pet the cows and maybe be the only person in their life to show them genuine compassion.

Someone else might be able to chime in more specifically, but the ALF are a decentralized and militant animal liberation group that is known to participate in direct action. They’ve been labeled a terrorist group for their actions against animal agriculture. One thing they’ve done is free beagles (and other animals) from animal testing labs, as beagles are very obedient dogs and are tolerant of higher levels of abuse, so are frequently experimented on. I’m assuming the banner is one specific time they did that.

Not quite the same, but either Impossible or Beyond taste tests against real meat when they release new products. Idr which. So I get opposition to them, but on different grounds.

I’m not really a milk fan, but I’m excited if this means we can end up with vegan dairy cheese

For the vegan cheese not melting, try potato cheese if you can convince your work to test it. I know someone who runs a pizza place who uses it for their vegan pies and it melts great but isnt like curdled and gooey like some other vegan cheeses.

I answered a little below. But it has to do with the process for creating it not being without animal cruelty in itself. If this milk requires exploiting cows to be able to create it, that’d be a similar problem.

I think its a very small subsection of vegans who would be opposed to it on these grounds and they would mostly be turned off by the taste/texture being too close to the real thing. But if you’re clear that it involves 0 animal cruelty (unlike lab grown meat where they use fetal bovine serum in many cases to start producing it), then theres no real ethical problems that should prevent vegans from partaking.

I’ve had this reaction but not necessarily guilt, more like disgust because it makes me think my food was swapped for the real thing or something. Not actually because I’m not that paranoid, but thats the lizard brain reaction. This is less likely if I’m at a fully vegan restaurant.

That said, I’d try this too. It doesn’t have the same issues as lab grown meat if its literally just bacterial fermentation like making kombucha or something.

I’ve never gotten the “Oh wow this plant based replica is so close in taste and texture that it’s triggering guilt.” reaction, let the vegan treats flow.

dude what

This has sick emoji potential

According to this article :

Maternal health care in Belarus received some overdue attention. Between 2005 and 2010, several health resolutions were initiated under the new Government of the Republic of Belarus, including a greater focus on reducing maternal mortality rates.

One such initiative was to build health facilities in rural areas, so that expectant Belarusian mothers in agricultural townships would have the same access to care as their urban counterparts. Another was to create a multileveled perinatal care system, made possible with the support of the head of state who approved the allocation of funds to improve maternal health care in Belarus. This included employing almost 2,700 obstetrician-gynecologists to treat a population of roughly 4.8 million women of fertile age. This initiative was implemented in 2005.