Across the country there are dozens of vegan festivals for all plant-based foodies to come together. VegFests promote the vegan lifestyle with food, speakers, and merchandise. They are a great way to learn more about veganism and to connect with other vegans.
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We have four new books for this spring season. They include a compilation of essays inviting people to consider our world as a shared world among all species, a short primer that discusses how different forms of prejudice are interconnected, an investigation of the psychological benefits of living a vegan life, and a beautiful children’s book about Flaco the owl. Come check out our new releases and click on the book’s title to buy your favorites!
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On Episode 117 of the Hope for the Animals Podcast, we explore the psychological aspects of living vegan on our social, emotional, and even spiritual psychology. Angela Crawford, the author of The Vegan Transformation: A Journey to Heal Yourself and the World, shares her research having interviewed hundreds of vegans to uncover common themes related to the benefits and challenges of living vegan. She talks about value alignment, the different stages of readiness for people to hear the vegan message, and the importance of including ourselves in our circle of compassion.
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Free Bird: Flaco the Owl’s Dreams Take Flight, written by Christine Mott and illustrated by Ofra Layla Isler has won the 2025 Children’s Book International Award.
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by Luiza Guimarães, social media and digital marketing associate at Lantern Publishing & Media
Where I am from, the holidays are synonymous with hot weather, pools, and summer storms. Free from school obligations, lucky kids get to play around until Carnival celebrations end and the year officially starts.
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by Rebecca Moore, founder of the Institute for Animal Happiness
At the Institute for Animal Happiness and vegan animal rescues around the world, Love is not just in action on Valentine’s Day, but every single day. To IFAH, love is a force for healing, and healing can extend to both the caregiver and the nonhuman person receiving care when done in an environment that creates a respectful and thoughtful space for that to happen.
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by Anouk Frolic, author of The Be Kind Alphabet
The love for our companion animals can be intense, vast, grounding, therapeutic, hard and fast, and heartbreakingly sad when they leave us—always too soon—but worth every tear and heavy heart…to the point that we do it over and over again, because we know the love is so worth it. There’s infinitely more love within us to give and unfortunately, animals in need of being rescued from their circumstances.
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by Tracey Glover, author of Lotus of the Heart
I’m not sure I know exactly when I fell in love with her. I think it was probably the moment I first saw her, or first heard her sweet little peep in the backseat of my hatchback. And then that love grew and deepened over time, as love does.
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by Hope Bohanec, author of The Humane Hoax
As a long-time vegan and animal advocate, I’ve always respected chickens’ lives. However, I had never lived with a chicken until the day I rescued Kukkuta. A friend called me in a panic about an injured rooster around a shopping area in Cotati, California. He was part of a group of chickens living in the tall grass around the parking lots. The population was growing as more people were abandoning unwanted roosters and hens due to the recent trend of backyard chicken keeping, which often has good intentions but cruel consequences.
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by Carey Theil, author of Brooklyn Goes Home
When we brought Brooklyn home for the first time, Gina was curious. Then furious. Who was this big white and brown dog, this interloper from the Fare East, doing in her house? More importantly, why was Christine giving him so much attention? It didn’t seem to matter to her that they were both greyhounds.
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