Compassionate Living

Compassionate Living's Hope Bohanec will be speaking this evening for Project Animal Freedom on the Humane Hoax. Hope you can join us!

🥩❌🗽 Join us *tonight* at 7 p.m. CT for The Humane Hoax: Exposing the Myth of Happy Meat, featuring Hope Bohanec of Compassionate Living!

On this episode of the Hope for the Animals Podcast, Jack Gescheidt talks about connecting the protection of wild animals and places to a vegan ethic of nonviolence.

Jack and Hope talk about the program of killing half a million Barred Owls to supposedly “save” the Spotted Owl in the Pacific Northwest and what “invasive species” really means. They also talk about the problems with grass-fed animal products, rotational grazing, and how these forms of animal agriculture use extensive land and fencing that disrupt migratory animals. They share the importance of having reverence and love for nature and an ethos of protection and not destruction.

Listen and share this episode: https://hopefortheanimalspodcast.org/episode-143-owls-cows-duplicity-and-deception-with-jack-gescheidt/

If you're in the Bay Area and want to be part of creating a vegan world, volunteer with the Sonoma County VegFest! We have a volunteer meeting coming up this Thursday, September 10 at 6 pm. We need help with promotion, day-of volunteer shifts and more. Volunteers get into the event free!

If you want to help, but can't make the meeting, email Hope and let us know! We can plug you in! [email protected]

VegFests create a vegan village of compassionate food, sustainable commerce, an exchange of ideas, and community. They are a microcosm of what could be, a world of compassion, peace, and freedom for all animals. Join us and lend a hand...

Calling all caring young people! Check out this FREE virtual YOUTH FOR ANIMALS Summit on Saturday, September 19. Better Life for Animals is partnering with Danielle Hanosh and LEAP to show young people the many ways they can turn their love for animals into meaningful action. It's a great line up of speakers with Cheryl Moss hosting and Dr. Crystal Heath, Britty Mann and more!

Register today: https://betterlifeforanimals.com/blfa-leap-2026/

On this episode, Hope starts us off with a movie review, then we hear a conversation with Kathy Cullen, founder of Jolene's Retreat. Kathy and Hope discuss the importance of animals' agency as well as friends and family groups and how these are disrupted and broken up in animal agriculture and the psychological distress that can cause.

Kathy has rescued numerous small “companion” pigs and she and Hope discuss the problem of breeding “potbelly” and “teacup” designer pigs. We love to feature farmed animal sanctuaries and loved hearing all about Jolene's Retreat!

Listen and share: https://hopefortheanimalspodcast.org/episode-142-animal-agency-and-sanctuary-with-kathy-cullen/

Our VR goggle vegan outreach at the Eugene Saturday Market was awesome! We had 12 people watch the videos, up from 9 last time. We had a lot of young people watching, including a very young girl (maybe 12?) watching with her Dad’s permission and she had no idea that bacon “came from” a pig. While watching the video she asked “why are they killing the pig?” and her Dad was honest and said, “That’s where our bacon and ham come from.”

We had another woman end the dairy cow video in tears and pretty shaken. Hope sat with her and told her that she had the same reaction to the VR experience 10 years ago (true story) and that’s why we are vegan so we know that we're not complacent or causing any harm. There are so many terrible things happening in the world, but this is one thing that we can actively do something about every day.

Such an FANTASTIC and rewarding experience. 🐓💜 This event was a collaboration between Eugene VeganFest, Compassionate Living, and Animal Compassion Eugene (ACE).

This episode, Rev. Carol Sanders talks to Hope about the upcoming Whole Planet Spirituality Forum and Retreat at Unity Village. Carol is a Unity mister and shares how the founders were ethical vegans in the early 1900s! They also discuss the importance of bring love into our advocacy.

Listen here: https://hopefortheanimalspodcast.org/episode-141-gathering-with-spiritual-vegans-with-rev-carol-saunders/

We're gearing up and getting ready for the Sonoma County VegFest! Come celebrate the abundance of amazing plant food in the North Bay and get inspired to live greener, eat better, and thrive! Potential vendors, get those applications in. Tickets are on sale now.

Learn more: https://socovegfest.org