Human Rights

Worker’s Rights

• Human Rights Watch – Slaughterhouse workers report
• Food Empowerment Project – Slaughterhouse workers
• PubMed – Well-being of slaughterhouse workers
• Metro – The psychological toll of slaughterhouse work
• Texas Observer – PTSD in the slaughterhouse
• Sage Journals – Psychological impact of slaughterhouse employment
• Huff Post – Plight of Factory Farm Workers
• The Ecologist – Ag-gag laws silencing whistle-blowers
• Guardian – Ag-gag laws and the battle for information
• Human Rights Watch – Slavery in the silk industry
• CNN – Silk slaves: India’s bonded laborers
• The Ecologist – Chemicals used by leather industry poisoning workers
• The Conversation – Silencing whistle-blowers on farms
• NY Times – Poultry Worker’s Death Highlights Coronavirus in Meat Plants
• NBC – Latinos’ coronavirus deaths at meat plant
• Global News – Meat plant workers lack of PPE
• Guardian – Poor conditions in meat plants fuel Covid-19
• The Atlantic – Latino workers launch boycott
• The Independent – Abattoir workers frontline victims of Covid-19
• CDC – Covid-19 Among Workers in Meat and Poultry Processing
• PubMed – Slaughtering for a living
• Guardian – Fishery monitors disappearing suspicious circumstances
• Global Slavery Index – Forced labout at sea
• Fishing Watch – Forced labour in fishing fleets
• The Atlantic – America’s Slaughterhouses Killing Workers
• Washington Post – Meatpackers breathe through blood-soaked masks
• Washington Post – Help dairy farmers get out of dairy farming
• Guardian – When farmers go vegan
• Vice – Animal testers mental health crisis

Capitalism and Class

• Veganism Feminist Network – Classism, patriarchy and animal rights
• Anarchist Library – Veganarchism pamphlet
• Sentient Media – Should homeless shelters serve only vegan food?
• Sentient Media – ‘Sustainable’ brands marketing claims meaningless
• Sentient Media – How corporations influence public opinion of animal advocacy
• Sentient Media – Corporate sustainability and meat
• Independent – Meat industry playing down role in climate crisis

Disability

• Vegan Feminist Network – Disabled vegan perspective
• Vegan Feminist Network – The politics of vegan ableism
• Sentient Media – The ableist argument against veganism

Gender

• Springer – The feminist politics of veganism
• Vegan Feminist Lawyer – Why is veganism a feminist issue?
• Vegan Feminist Network – Vegan feminist history
• Vegan Feminist Network – Vegan experience for older women
• Vegan Feminist Network – Classism, patriarchy and animal rights
• Vegan Feminist Network – Veganism and politics of gender
• Springer – Masculinity and Meat Eating

Indigenous Issues

• Tumblr – Land Back and Animal Agriculture
• Tumblr – Is Veganism a Colonising Diet?
• Humane League – Indigenous communities fighting factory farms
• CKWF – Factory farms exploit indigenous communities
• NRI – Factory farming impacts on indigenous communities
• Survival International – Threats to indigenous survival
• Survival International – Untacted tribe’s land destroyed for beef
• APTN – Commercial fisheries sabotaging indigenous fishing
• The Conversation – Seafood and food sovereignty
• Forbes – Overfishing robbing indigenous communities of livelihood
• Washington Post – Indigenous peoples losing their fisheries
• Sierra Club – Indigenous people abused and attacked over fishing rights
• Hakai Magazine – First Nations Failing Fisheries
• Amazon Watch – Brazil indigenous hunted by cattle ranchers
• Amnesty – Brazil illegal ranching
• The Independent – Cattle ranchers destroying Amazon
• Yale – Growing Assault on Brazil’s Indigenous Areas
• Guardian – Amazon’s indigenous warriors take on ranchers
• Pachamama – Cattle ranching displaces indigenous peoples
• We Rise Up – Veganism And Mi’kmaq Legends
• Stuff – You can be indigenous and vegan
• Live Kindly – Indigenous culture strong ties to veganism
• Faunalytics – Exploring Indigenous Māori Veganism

Impact on Communities

• Food Empowerment Project – Environmental racism
• CDC – Effect of animal agriculture on communities
• IOWA Law – Living with Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations
• The Fern – Communities inhaling pollutants from factory farms
• Food and Water Watch – Factory Farm Nation
• Hub Rural – Chicken dumping in Western and Central Africa

Politics

• Taylor & Francis – Veganism as leftist praxis
• USDA – Agriculture subsidies
• Open Secrets – Animal Agriculture Lobbying
• Sentient Media – Plant-based food in the prison system
• Sentient Media – Animal advocates deserve free speech too
• Sentient Media – Animal advocates labelled ‘terrorists’
• Sentient Media – Ag-gag laws keep farming in the dark
• The Intercept – Animal agriculture industry surveils & punishes critics
• PCRM – Meat and dairy subsidies making America sick
• The Independent – Meat industry playing down role in climate crisis
• The Intercept – After pork giant exposed, FBI pursued its critics
• AR Watch – How governments channel public money into animal agriculture

Race

• Christopher Sebastian – Animal exploitation & white nationalism
• Christopher Sebastian – Big cattle’s beef with Oprah
• Christopher Sebastian – If veganism is racist and classist…
• Atmos Earth – The roots of veganism aren’t white
• Anarchist Library – Deconstructing myths on veganism & poc
• NY Times – Black vegans step out
• Eater – How I found empowerment in history of black veganism
• Self – 10 vegans of colour on veganism
• Peaceful Dumplings – Vegan demographics & stereotypes
• Washington Post – Fastest growing vegan demographic is African American
• Cornell Sun – Veganism as way to combat race based violence
• Sentient Media – The food system is built on white supremacy
• Sentient Media – Black food justice reading list
• Crip HumAnimal – Media theory, tokenism and total liberation
• Today – Why so many black americans are embracing veganism

Social Justice

• Vegan Feminist Network – What is intersectionality?
• Vegan Feminist Network – Veganism is social justice
• Vegan Feminist Network – When social justice ignores marginalised vegans
• Medium – Dear leftist critics of veganism
• New Republic – Animal rights is next frontier of the left
• Sentient Media – Revolutionary potential of vegan politics
• Sentient Media – From human rights to sentient rights