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Roger is also the founder of Blue Horizon À«À>̽Ã>vw>Ìi]Blue Horizon International Foundation. The foundation invests in organizations working to “remove animals from the global food chain” and focuses on education, activism, and legislation. Mercy For Animals is honored to receive support from Elisa Wolfe this foundation. Roger said, “I’m happy to support organizations like yours that are very Elisa Wolfe credits her father for her kind heart. professional and experienced in helping animals A philanthropist who has supported many and inform people what is really going on in worthy causes, Elisa grew up surrounded by food production.” loving family members who set a great example for how to treat others. Her father, a fellow By following his heart and making career philanthropist, taught her the value of leaving a choices that inspired and motivated him, legacy of good. ,}iÀ >ÃLiVi> Õ}iÞyÕiÌ>w}ÕÀi in the movement to create a kinder, more According to Elisa, “It’s just a wonderful thing sustainable world. His approach “combines to do, being able to give to charities or both philanthropy and business with the mutual organizations or places like Mercy For Animals goal to change as many plates from meat to money to do what they do, to help in this world.” plants as possible.”” Roger Lienhard Of all her philanthropic endeavors, including those in the art world, Elisa derives the most Roger Lienhard is on a mission to create a food joy from the impact she makes for animals. She system that harms no one, “neither the animals wÀÃÌLiV>iÛÛi`ÜÌ iÀVÞÀƂ>à or the planet, nor the humans.” As a serial 2001 after a tornado hit a factory farm in Croton, entrepreneur, Roger has founded and sold several Ohio, and she saw Mercy For Animals staff on IT, advertising, and marketing companies. After the news working to rescue trapped chickens. switching to plant-based eating, Roger sought She connected with Mercy For Animals’ founder, Milo Runkle, and has remained a supporter out like-minded people who dreamed of a world Join uss inin shapingshaping a without animal suffering. In 2014, he founded Blue throughout the years. She hopes that through Horizon Corporation—an investment company her bequest, Mercy For Animals will increase its focused on food—where he currently serves as better world capacity to educate and inspire people to have executive chairman. Blue Horizon Corporation compassion for farmed animals. supports companies and organizations focused Guarantee that your on moving toward a more sustainable food voice for animals v>ÞÌ }V>Li`iÌyÕiVi system through innovation, technology, and people, to become aware of the reality entrepreneurship. will carry on. of what is going on, that is the goal. Learn More: We want people to be made aware My personal mission since becoming MercyForAnimals.org/Will of the reality of what is going on with vegan is to put an end to animal Ì iÃi>>Ã]vÌ i ÀÀwVÜ>ÞÌ iÞ½Ài suffering. Part of my journey into this treated, raised, and living. lifestyle connected me with many like- minded people and organizations, one of Elisa lives in Granville, Ohio, where she provides which, of course, was Mercy For Animals. a home for many animals, including dogs, cats, donkeys, and goats.
4 COMPASSIONATE LIVING WINTER 2020 ACTION REPORT 01 Promoting Plant-Based
In Brazil, we co-hosted online food-industry trainingning sessions for creating aandnd promoting plant-baseded options in restaurants. Unilever, Seara (JBS), Marfrig, NotCo, Domino’s, and Subway were among the participating companies excited to explore the plant-based market.
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A new Mercy For Animals global campaign illustrates why animals Mercy For Animals’ managing need a new normal too. Together we can change the way we think director in Brazil, Sandra Lopes, about animals. Join the movement. went live on Instagram with music legend and Mercy For Animals supporter Moby. They discussed the link between meat consumptionn and the destruction of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil. Reports show that cattle ranching drives 80 percent of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon.
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*ÀiÃÃÕÀivÀ iÀVÞÀ Suing the USDA Animals helped secure a neww law in Colorado that requiress bbyy iÀVÞÀƂ>Ãi`>vi`iÀ>>ÜÃÕÌwi`LÞ/ iÕ>i 2025 all eggs sold in the statete Society of the United States that challenges the USDA’s inadequate to come from hens who are LÀ`yÕÀiëÃi«>°*ÀiÛiÌ}Ì iiiÀ}iVi>`ëÀi>` free from cages and allowed too of dangerous pathogens should be a top priority for the federal exhibit more natural behaviors.s government. We hope our lawsuit will inspire meaningful action.
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Meet Maggie Baird, animal ally to have issues with dairy as well. and founder of Support + Feed, So, it was really cool that doing an initiative to help those in something that was the ethical need during the COVID crisis choice also turned out to improve and beyond. all our lives.
What’s your favorite Everyone at Mercy For plant-based family meal? Animals admires the
inspiring work you and I can’t say we all share a favorite. your team of volunteers There are so many! Finneas loves have accomplished. my peanut-sesame noodles. I Please tell us about think everyone loves the holiday Support + Feed. season when I make a lot of cinnamon rolls! Support + Feed has an intersectional mission: to provide Any other words of delicious, nourishing food to wisdom you’d like to people in need, particularly in share regarding this communities that experience food unprecedented time apartheid and lack of access to or how serving has healthy options, prepared by local impacted your life and plant-based restaurants. This in turn helps restaurants keep their doors the community? open and their staff and workers in the food chain employed. All I think Support + Feed has done our food is plant-based to address vegetarian and have been vegan Patrick, had a giant improvement as much for me and for all our the impact of diet on the health for many years now. All of us were in his life when he realized after volunteers as it has done for those of the planet, as well as the health motivated primarily by the desire giving up dairy that it had been the we are helping. It is easy to give of those receiving the food. And not to harm animals and be a part cause of a lifelong problem that in to despair and worry, especially of course it also eliminates animal vÌ i ÀÀwV>>`ÕÃÌÀÞ] caused him to choke on his food. right now, but when you spend your cruelty from our meals. We’re also which is not only cruel to animals Apparently, he had an esophageal time working to make things even a empowering those receiving our but also unhealthy for the human allergy to it, and that change was little better for others, it gives you food by providing information workers and ultimately disastrous actually life-changing for him! purpose and hope. And we all need >LÕÌÌ iLiiwÌÃvÌ ÃÜ>Þ for the planet. Billie and Finneas both turned out that more than ever right now. of eating and encouraging all programs who provide meals for How has it changed those in need to provide plant- your lives? based food.
Because we have all been living this What inspired you and way for so long (not eating meat), your family to go vegan? we might not have experienced the changes some other people I became a vegetarian over 40 have, but we did each have health years ago and vegan over a decade improvements from giving up dairy. ago. My husband has a similar For me, it halted the beginnings of journey. Our children were raised arthritis in my hands. My husband,
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Mercy For Animals unceasingly demands meaningful reform for chickens—among the most tormented animals in the food industry.
CHICKENS ARE INTELLIGENT, social, of the cruelest practices in the meat the defeathering tanks. Chickens often and emotional animals who communicate industry—designed to kill as many y>«Ì iÀÜ}ÃÌiÀÀÀpV>ÕÃ}Li and love much like we do. But the meat chickens as possible in the shortest time. breakages, dislocations, and other industry doesn’t treat chickens like the injuries. sentient animals they are; in fact, from Birds are shackled upside down by the moment they hatch under heat their legs, painfully shocked, slashed at AT MAX SPEED, NEARLY THREE lamps instead of the warmth of their the throat, and defeathered in scalding BIRDS ARE HUNG FROM MOVING mothers, they endure stress, abuse, water. Chickens often miss the stunning SHACKLES PER SECOND—WORKERS and suffering. Live-shackle slaughter, phase—remaining fully conscious when STRUGGLE TO KEEP UP. the predominant slaughter method for their throats are slit. Others miss the chickens in the United States, is one throat-cutter and are scalded alive in
8 COMPASSIONATE LIVING WINTER 2020 Live-Shackle Slaughter Is Also Terrible for Workers CHICKENS ARE Workers are often scratched and splattered with blood and feces as they shackle panicked birds, which incredibleANIMALS! increases their risk of exposure to Check out these four reasons pathogens. According to the United ttoo chickens! States Government Accountability loVeloV "vwVi]V«>Ài`ÜÌ ÜÀiÀÃÌ iÀ industries, chicken slaughterhouse employees suffer some of the highest desire. Pilgrim’s Pride, one of the world’ss rates of severe injuries. largest poultry producers, recently camee Õ`iÀwÀiÜ iiÝiVÕÌÛiÃÜiÀi`VÌi`` Mother hens communicate Live-shackle slaughter DGPGƂVUQPN[ vÀ«ÀViwÝ}° YKVJVJGKTDCD[chicks before VJGOGCVKPFWUVT[—an industry that they even break the shell. «ÀÀÌâiÃëii`>`«ÀwÌÛiÀ animal and worker welfare. People Power In an animated video, Mercy For Animalss The Better Chicken Commitment: teamed up with 11 celebrities to illustratete A Better Life for Chickens the horrors of live-shackle slaughter. Featuring the voices of TV stars Elizabeth MERCY FOR ANIMALS IS CALLING Lail of You, Sarah Jeffery of Charmed, Chickens use more than ON THE MEAT INDUSTRY TO Brett Dier of Jane the Virgin, and Elliot 200 different vocalizations ADOPT THE BETTER CHICKEN Knight of Life Sentence, this captivating to communicate. COMMITMENT. video pairs distressing images of chicken VÀÕiÌÞÜÌ ViiLÀÌiÃiÝ«ÀiÃÃ} the need for reform. It has garnered The Better Chicken Commitment is a thousands of views and is available set of standards that bans the worst They purr just like on all our social media platforms. cruelty to chickens—including live-shackle cats and can be XGT[ slaughter. More than NGCFKPIHQQF affectionate! 5WRRQTVGTUQHCPKOCNCPFYQTMGT companies have adopted the Better YGNHCTGECPUKIPCRGVKVKQPVJTQWIJ Chicken Commitment, including QWTECORCKIPYGDUKVG—a petition Chipotle, Burger King, and Subway. that already boasts 9,000 signatures! Mercy For Animals is targeting the Advocates can also send emails to National Chicken Council (NCC) and the NCC and Pilgrim’s Pride insisting Pilgrim’s. The NCC—a trade association they use their power to replace that defends the chicken industry and live-shackle slaughter with controlled- Chickens use their actively supports policies that harm both atmosphere stunning, a process much experiences to make animals and workers—petitioned the less stressful and cruel, by adopting decisions. 6JG[NGCTP USDA to allow chicken slaughterhouses the Better Chicken Commitment. NKMGWU! to kill as many birds per minute as they
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10 COMPASSIONATE LIVING WINTER 2020 on new large-scale concentrated animal The meat industry’s sway over feeding operations (CAFOs) and halt ɽȃljȴɁɰɽȈȶːʍljȶɽȈƃȢȢljʤljȢɰɁǹ expansion of existing ones. With support government demonstrates from 300 organizations, we sent a joint letter to Congress asking members to its extensive power. Mercy cosponsor the House and Senate versions yɁɨȶȈȴƃȢɰʥȈȢȢƺɁȶɽȈȶʍljɽɁ of the bill. In recent months, several ˎǼȃɽɽȃljȴljƃɽȈȶǁʍɰɽɨʰƃȶǁ } «ÀwiiLiÀÃv }ÀiÃà >Ûi ǁƃȶǼljɨɁʍɰɥɁȢȈƺȈljɰȢȈȟljɽȃȈɰ VëÃÀi`ÆÌ ÃÃ}wV>ÌÀiëÃi highlights a renewed interest in achieving executive order. major reform within the food system. As the only group focused solely Additionally, we helped drive the on farmed animals with a dedicated introduction of the Safe Line Speeds in government affairs team, Mercy For COVID-19 Act, which would slow slaughter- Animals is committed to policy work at line speeds to protect workers and animals. the federal, state, and local levels. Our GAPP team will grow in 2021.
Fast lines cause animals to VXࢼHU VODXJKWHU while completely conscious and pose KLJKHUULVNVIRU ZRUNHUVLQFOXGLQJ LQMXU\LOOQHVV Mercy For Animals acknowledges this time of crisis, and the GAPP (government affairs and ODFNRIVRFLDO >`«ÕLV«VÞ®Ìi> >Ã`iÌwi` distancing. Ã}wV>Ì««ÀÌÕÌiÃvÀ«À}ÀiÃÃÛi] incremental change at the U.S. federal iÛi°7i½ÛiLiiÜÀ} >À`ÌyÕiVi Congress on behalf of farmed animals and other victims of our broken food system. This bill could impact countless animals’ lives and our communities by reducing As COVID-19 relief efforts were in progress, farmed animal suffering and slowing we asked USDA secretary Sonny the spread of COVID-19. At the time Perdue to prevent stimulus funding from of publication, this bill and its Senate supporting depopulation efforts—cruel companion bill are still alive in Congress mass on-farm slaughter. Although big with 33 bipartisan sponsors in the House Be sure that you are signed corporations have been aware for more and 11 sponsors in the Senate. ʍɥǹɁɨɁʍɨƃƺɽȈɁȶƃȢljɨɽɰ than 12 years of their hazardous working conditions, their lack of preparation for a In our most recent issue of Compassionate so that you can contact Living, we highlighted our GAPP team’s pandemic prompted their request for a ʰɁʍɨljȢljƺɽljǁɁǹˎƺȈƃȢɰƃȶǁ bailout. We asked that Secretary Perdue work to combat a harmful executive reallocate the CARES Act funding to a more order issued by President Trump. Trump’s demand their supportǹɁɨ sustainable, compassionate future and to order, invoking the Defense Production Act, ʤȈɽƃȢɥɁȢȈƺʰȈȶȈɽȈƃɽȈʤljɰӝ ÃÕÌÃÀiLiiwV>ÌÕÀ>̽à requires slaughterhouses to continue all health and economic security. operations, despite the dangers of working during the pandemic. Since the order’s LEARN MORE AT We also advanced a ban on large-scale release, the meat industry’s impact has MercyForAnimals.org become clear; just a week before Trump’s factory farms—the Farm System Reform /SignUp Act, a bill introduced by Sen. Cory Booker order, the meat industry drafted a strikingly (D-NJ). This bill would place a moratorium similar request—sent directly to the USDA.
WINTER 2020 COMPASSIONATE LIVING 11 People around the world are grappling with the pandemic’s impact and the many ways our lives have changed. As businesses close and the economy slows, people suffering the most are often those in marginalized communities. In this moment, we see more clearly than ever our shared responsibility for the health and well-being of our neighbors.
Mercy For Animals recently partnered ÜÌ V>LÕÃiÃÃiÃ>`«ÀwÌÃÌ donate and deliver 1,800 plant-based meals to New Jersey residents in Newark and Camden. The ambitious project began on July 27 and ran through mid-October.
Three grassroots organizations supporting residents during these unprecedented times and 15 vegan restaurants, all owned by women or people of color, stepped up to make a difference. Erin Kwiatkowski, corporate partnerships manager at Mercy Mercy For Animals’ Work to Nourish, For Animals, said: Support, and Build Communities
By donating nutrient-dense plant-based meals in these underserved communities, we can advance our mission to build a more compassionate food system and amplify the essential work of local community organizations in New Jersey. vÌ i}ÀÕ«½Ã«À}À>ðƂÃ>ÀiÃÕÌ] >Þ iÜ>ÀÀiÃ`iÌÃformed strong relationships with local vegan restaurant owners>`ÌÀi``iVÕà «>ÌL>Ãi`v`vÀÌ iwÀÃÌÌi° ÕÌÞ}>À`ivÕ`iÀà >>` Ài>7>iÀÃÌ>Ìi`\
Exposing our communities to plant-based nutrition options is vital to closing health disparities in underserved communities.
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You changed laws The new requirements for improved The policy change will end some for animals. hen welfare will be fully enforced of the most terrible practices: by 2025. Once the changes are This year Mercy For Animals helped implemented, we estimate more secure a new law in Colorado that VJCPƂXGOKNNKQPJGPUYKNNDG requires all eggs sold in the state to come cage-free. from hens free from cages. Colorado became the sixth state to end the You moved corporations Live-shackle slaughter: cruelty of cramming hens into small wire to commit to ending their cages for nearly their entire lives. worst practices. Birds are shackled upside down on a conveyor while conscious, shocked ÕÀ}Ì iL½Ãi}Ì>ÌÃÌ iÃÌ>Ìi Most farmed chickens will never feel grass ÜÌ iiVÌÀVÌÞ]ÃÌ«iLÞ>Ì À>Ì legislature, our senior vice president of and soil under their feet. They will never cutting machine, and sometimes >`ÛV>VÞ]> À>`ÀiÃ`iÌ]wi`> ÜÌ i«i>ÃÕÀivw`}Ãii`Ã> `ÀÜi`i>ÀL}Ü>ÌiÀ° L>ÌÌ>ÌÛiÜÌ Ã>À«ÀÛÃÃÌ wi`À`ÕÃÌL>Ì }Ü>ÀÃÕ} Ì° let the voters decide. From the moment they hatch to the day they die, chickens raised for meat are This signaled to lawmakers that we condemned to a life riddled with pain, ÜiÀi«Ài«>Ài`Ìw} ÌvÀ iÃvÌ i suffering, and disease. legislation was unsuccessful. Opposition ÌÌ iL`Ü`i`]>`ÜÌ >ÌÌ >à Genetic selection for iÀVÞÀƂ>ÃÜw} ÌÕÌ extreme growth: passed, Mercy For Animals will not need animal suffers in our food system. But Ì«ÕÀÃÕiÌ iL>ÌÌ>ÌÛi° as we work toward this goal, we must Ài`Ì}ÀÜÃ>À}iÃv>ÃÌ]LÀ`à do what we can to help the animals who often suffer crippling leg deformities, The new law will require cage-free ii`ÕÃÜ]Ì ÃiÜ >ÀiÀÜLi À}>v>ÕÀi] i>ÀÌ>ÌÌ>VÃ]Li systems that provide one square foot of victims of factory farming. They are the viVÌÃ]>`Ì iÀ i>Ì «ÀLið yÀë>Vi«iÀ ivÌ iLÀ`à >ÛivÀii reason we work with food companies to access to vertical spaces like perches. If end the industry’s cruelest practices. not given such access, hens must each >Ûi£°xõÕ>ÀiviiÌvyÀë>Vi° This year, after talks with Mercy For Animals, PopeyesLiV>iÌ iwÀÃÌ major fast-food chicken chain to commit to eliminating the worst suffering for %QPƂPGOGPVKPƂNVJ[ cramped conditions: chickens across its U.S. and Canadian supply chains. This historic pledge, which Birds are crammed into dimly lit will impact tens of millions of chickens sheds, forced to sit in waste-soaked every year, could not have happened ÌÌiÀ]>`vÌiÕ>LiÌ«iÀvÀ without your support. >Þ>ÌÕÀ>Li >ÛÀð support of nearly 40 federal legislators VwÀÃÌ >ÌÜÃÌ iÌiÌ`i>` food-system reform at the federal level.
You exposed the cracks in our food system.
Preventing the emergence and spread of dangerous pathogens should be a top priority for the federal government. But the USDA’s current response plan for Denny’s, White Castle, Zoës Kitchen, LÀ`yÕÃshortsighted and unsafe. The and Hormel Foods, among others, have plan permits using taxpayer dollars to also pledged to alleviate animal suffering reimburse poultry farms that lose chickens in their chicken supply chains. to preventable disease. You advocated to slow down Mercy For Animals is pressing companies slaughter-line speeds. Mercy For Animals joined a federal in Latin America and Brazil to eliminate NCYUWKVƂNGF by The Humane Society of the United States that challenges the cages for hens. In Mexico, Dunkin’ In many slaughterhouses, chickens are USDA’s plan. Donuts]*ÕÀ>ÌÃ] Ài«iÃE7>vyiÃ]>` hastily shackled upside down on moving others have pledged to stop using eggs lines that kill birds at alarming rates—up You showed millions of from facilities with cages. to 175 per minute. people what factory farms NaVeg Pizza and convenience market For several months, Mercy For Animals are hiding. ampm have also made cage-free has fought to slow these lines. Along with commitments for their Brazilian stores. The Humane Society of the United States, With your support, we released six Government Accountability Project, new investigations in 2020. Animal Outlook, and Marin Humane, we wi`>>ÜÃÕÌV >i}}Ì i1Ìi` In Mexico, a Mercy For Animals States Department of Agriculture’s undercover investigator documented decision to increase line-speed limits at iÃvÀVi`ÌÛiwÌ Þ]`Ãi>ÃiÀ``i chicken slaughterhouses. environments, among rats and maggot- infested manure. Dead hens were left to We also promoted two monumental rot in cages with birds still laying eggs for federal bills. In the House, Reps. Marcia human consumption. Fudge, Bennie Thompson, and Rosa i >ÕÀwi`Ì i->vi i-«ii`Ã The investigation made headlines in COVID-19 Act, which would prohibit major Mexican media outlets, including dangerously fast slaughter lines during Milenio Televisión, El Heraldo de México, You showed companies that the pandemic. El Siglo, and Periódico el Cinco. plant-based is profitable. Slower lines would decrease the In Brazil, our drones revealed frightened In Mexico, our corporate engagement risk of animals being killed while pigs trying to scale cement walls and manager, Mariana Issa, presented Nestlé’s conscious and enable workers to Awesome Burger at its launch event. She socially distance. focused on marketing strategies in the growing plant-based space. The bill has garnered bipartisan support from more than 30 cosponsors. In Brazil, we partnered with The Good Sens. Cory Booker, Richard Blumenthal, Food Institute to host online workshops Kamala Harris, Bernie Sanders, involving discussions with sales teams and Elizabeth Warren introduced a about industry trends, research, and best companion bill in the Senate. practices for developing and promoting plant-based restaurant options. Whether these much-needed protections are considered this legislative session, the
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In the United States, one of our investigators exposed the agonizingnizing You got hens out of cages. w>ÃÌ>}iÃv>Ài`V ViýÛiÃ>`ýÛiÃ>` a broken food system that promotes 7i >ÛiLiiw} Ì}viÀVÕÃÞ animal suffering and puts workers at risk. You prevented marine vÀ iÃÃViÕÀwÀÃÌÛiÃÌ}>Ìà animals from drowning in Ohio two decades ago. From in driftnets. 2015 to 2017, our initiatives focused on persuading some of the largest companies in the world to After an explosive Mercy For Animals transition to only cage-free eggs and investigation and subsequent coalition Ã}wV>ÌÞÀi`ÕViÃÕvviÀ}vÀ ið effort, in September 2018 former California governor Jerry Brown "ÕÀwÀÃÌ>ÀÜÃÌ i1Ìi` signed legislation to prohibit the use -Ì>ÌiÃÜiÀiƂÀ>>À] V >`½Ã] Narrated and shared by Alicia of large-mesh driftnetsvvÌ iÃÌ>Ìi½Ã Sodexo, Nestlé, and Walmart in 2015. Silverstone, the undercover video coast. California was the last coastal Ƃ>À}ÀViÀÃÌ i1Ìi`-Ì>Ìià urges viewers to call on Congress U.S. state to allow these destructive and Canada followed suit. Even to halt high-speed slaughter. “walls of death”—threatening leading egg producers got on board. any animal who encounters them, This year, the USDA estimates 28.5 including members of endangered You gave animals—and us— percent of U.S. egg-laying hens are and protected species. hope for a brighter tomorrow. in cage-free housing, a rise of 20 percent since 2015. The bill established a four-year You sent more than 100,000 messages phaseout, after which all existing to members of Congress urging them to Around 63.5 million more hens, free large-mesh driftnet permits will be better protect animals. from cages, can spread their wings revoked. Because of this law, we are this year—thanks to you. already seeing fewer dolphins, sharks, You added your name to our petitions rays, and other animals being killed. along with 141,000 other passionate advocates working together to build a According to National Oceanic and kinder world for animals. Atmospheric Administration records, 73 percent fewer animals were caught Your Instagram comments, tweets, LÞ`ÀvÌiÌÃvv >vÀ>½ÃV>ÃÌÌ i calls, and emails to corporate executives ÃÌÀiViÌwà }Ãi>ÃÌ >Ì i brought them to the (virtual) table with iLivÀiÌ i>ܽë>ÃÃ>}i° us to discuss animal welfare reforms and new plant-based products.
While cages aren’t empty and there’s still work to be done, millions of animals are positively impacted each year because of you.
The future looks very bright. MERCY FOR ANIMALS INVESTIGATION
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Meet The Tiny Chef. The Tiny Chef creates the world’s tiniest dishes for the world’s tiniest cooking show—and they’re all plant- based! From his garden tree stump, Chef is on a mission to inspire a love for cooking in children of all ages. While Chef won’t reveal exactly where he comes from, he says he “comes from the earth” and makes his home “wherever his heart is.”
ÃwÀÃÌÛ`i]ºƂ««i*i]»`i} Ìi`i viewers in September 2018. Since then, The Tiny Chef has developed an impressive social media presence, boasting over half a million Instagram followers and over two million YouTube video views.
He has even collaborated with major brand Beyond Meat to whip up hearty burgers. Everyone loves The Tiny Chef!
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WINTER 2020 COMPASSIONATE LIVING 21 EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW Photos: Andrew Rowley
DISCOVER A WHOLE NEW WORLD OF VEGAN EATING WITH MENA MASSOUD
Q Tell us a bit about what led you to embrace a vegan lifestyle.
We sat down with avid traveler, vegan foodie, and Five years ago, my two best friends and I started doing research on the impact star of Disney’s Aladdin Mena Massoud to discuss of animal products, both on our health and Ì i«>iÌ°7ià >Ài`v>VÌÃ>`w`}à everything from his new cookbook, Evolving Vegan, and eventually began eliminating animal products from our diet. I began to really see some dramatic results—my energy to the future of the plant-based movement. was up, I was making never-before progress at the gym, and I just felt more positive about my life.
22 COMPASSIONATE LIVING WINTER 2020 A SNEAK PEEK INSIDE
Q We’re big fans of your IGTV series and Q Has the growing popularity of new cookbook, Evolving Vegan! Tell us vegan foods affected snacks and Evolving about the Evolving Vegan brand. OGCNUQPƂNOCPF68UGVU!
I started Evolving Vegan back in 2018, and It’s getting easier. On almost every set, shortly after, my business partners and I ÞÕ½w`>viÜ«i«iÌ >Ì>Ài«>ÌL>Ãi`° Vegan decided to put together the cookbook. We Consequently, catering services are beginning traveled to 10 cities and over 50 restaurants. to accommodate those people. Being vegan The result was a deliciously diverse collection is picking up steam, especially now, where of recipes from all around North America, people are becoming more aware of what Orange including recipes of my own and my mom’s they’re putting into their bodies. Many recipes that I grew up on, paired with sets are also going green, so the basis Cauliflower journaling where I discuss narratives relating for change is there. to a vegan lifestyle. Bites
What does the future of the If you thought Buffalo What’s one of your favorite recipes Q Q vegan movement look like to you, V>ÕyÜiÀÜ>Ã}`] in the Evolving Vegan cookbook? and how do you envision yourself just wait until these bad Is there a story behind it? participating? boys come off the pan— things are about to get One of my favorite recipes in the book is my I think we’ve entered a phase where real exciting. mom’s recipe—kosharee. It’s an Egyptian staple plant-based meat and dairy are all the craze. much like polenta is for Italians. It’s completely Plant-based companies like Beyond Meat,at, affordable in Egypt and delicious. The recipe Impossible, and Oatly are turning into billion-illion- VÃÃÌÃvÀVi]iÌÃ]«>ÃÌ>]Ì iÃÌy>ÛÀvÕ dollar companies almost overnight. For Rainbow & pasta sauce, fried onions, and chickpeas. It the past couple of years, I’ve been Sunshine sounds simple, but when you combine the infatuated with all the incredible ingredients together, it’s heaven in a bite. plant-based meats, milks, and Bowl candies. It’s been fun and exciting to explore these new options. The next time you Q What do you want your fans to I think the next phase of the vegan feel like you want know about vegan cuisine? movement will focus on clean, some good-tasting simple, and organic whole foods, wLiÀÞÕÀ`iÌ] I just want people to know that it’s not as scary which I already participate in. this bowl is the one! or unapproachable as you might think. Lots of foods that people eat every day are already vegan. If you want to evolve vegan, I suggest cutting out your least favorite animal product. See how you feel. Then try eating plant-based PECAN PIE once or twice a week and go from there. Everyone will enjoy this no-bake, completely raw, fully vegan, and gluten-free pecan pie recipe from Toronto!
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