Compassionate Living

VIDEOS ARE POSTED! If you missed a speaker at the Eugene VeganFest 2026, we now have videos of the presentations! You can watch Dr. Michael Klaper, Dr. Joanne Kong, Robert Cheeke, and David Michelson of Yes on IP28 as they shared important insights about different aspects of living vegan. Links are posted on the website and they live on Compassionate Living's YouTube page, Playlist: Eugene VeganFest.

Here's the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fgp9LUlDZQI&list=PLC53G5p76BNomi5hOWlyAOy0vGKwuvmsU

If you're in or can travel to Northern California- SAVE THE DATE for this years' Sonoma County VegFest! Saturday, September 26 brings this celebration of compassion back to the Santa Rosa Veterans Building. We are looking for vendors, volunteers, supporters and sponsors! Join us and help make this year bigger and better!

For more info: www.SoCoVegFest.org

Happy Pride! We’re celebrating Pride Month with Kathleen Gage, the founder of Vegan Visibility. Kathleen shares her experiences as a vegan le***an and emphasizes the significance of understanding the history of the LGBT+ community and its relevance to current political and social dynamics. She also shares the personal way she celebrates Pride.

Listen to the episode here and share with others who celebrate Pride! https://hopefortheanimalspodcast.org/episode-136-vegan-visibility-with-kathleen-gage/

Sea "food" is Sea LIFE! Taking sea creatures from the oceans to be brutally killed is just another form of hunting. If you are against going into animal's homes and killing them for no reason, then you should also be against fishing. It's the same thing. Let sea life live and live vegan.

Vendor applications are now OPEN for the Sonoma County VegFest 2026! This year the big day is Saturday, September 26 and we are excited for another awesome annual event. Let your favorite vegan business or nonprofit know this is a unique opportunity to connect with people aligned with vendors values of sustainable, healthy, and ethical living. We hope you will join us for a fantastic year!

VENDOR APP: https://socovegfest.org/vendor-application-form/

Cage-free eggs are now available at most grocery stores, a muffin lists cage-free eggs in the ingredients, and a restaurant touts cage-free omelettes on their menu. Is this a win for hens? We crack into this question with Amber Canavan examining PETA’s new white paper on cage-free egg systems.

Amber shared why PETA released this white paper, how cage-free facilities can actually create new and worse conditions for hens, and how humanewashing eases consumers concerns about the treatment of farmed animals. Amber and Hope both share first hand experience of witnessing cage-free facilities and the reality of cage-free egg farming.

Check out this episode: https://hopefortheanimalspodcast.org/episode-135-cage-free-cracked-open-with-amber-canavan/

Got 5 minutes? Listen to this Plant Based Briefing podcast featuring an article by Hope Bohanec, Executive Director of Compassionate Living. It's called Animal Liberation Is Part of the Social Justice Tapestry and explains why speciesism hold us back from recognizing veganism as part of the systemic oppression. Give it a listen and share.

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If you can get to Eugene, Oregon, we hope you will join us for the Eugene VeganFest THIS SUNDAY, May 3! This celebration of compassionate and sustainable living has fantastic food, innovative vendors, and inspiring speakers. Large-scale vegan events are a glimpse of what could be. A world where the earth and her animals are respected and protected, where products and people strive for zero-waste and non-harming. Where we live in peace with all our fellow earthlings. Won't you join us?

Info and tickets here: https://eugeneveganfest.org/

Every day is Earth Day for vegans! Living vegan is one of the best ways we can reduce our carbon footprint and ease our impact. For the earth and her animals, have Earth Day be your vegan-versary and start today.