Plant-based living
Day-to-day cooking, shopping, and habits for a kitchen without animal products.
Plant-based living is the practical, everyday side of veganism: how to stock a pantry, cook staple meals, replace eggs and dairy, eat out, and travel — built on legumes, whole grains, vegetables, fruit, nuts and seeds.
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Animal rights
The moral case for treating sentient animals as more than property.
Animal rights is the position that non-human animals — particularly sentient vertebrates — possess morally significant interests, including an interest in not suffering or being killed, that justify legal and ethical protections beyond welfare regulation.
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- 赛马场的无声悲歌：速度与生命的代价
在追求速度与荣耀的背后，赛马运动隐藏着不为人知的生命损失。我们应如何审视这项运动对动物福祉的影响，并思考更人道的替代方案？
Factory farming
The industrial confinement systems that produce over 90% of farmed land animals.
Factory farming (intensive animal agriculture / CAFOs) is the dominant industrial system for raising land animals for food: high stocking density, routine antibiotics, breeds optimised for output, and slaughter at a fraction of natural lifespan.
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- 农场地下水：被忽视的污染源
集约化畜牧业的扩张，正悄然威胁着我们赖以生存的地下水源，影响着从长江三角洲到珠江三角洲的每一个社区。
Environment
Climate, land, water and biodiversity impacts of animal agriculture.
Animal agriculture is responsible for roughly 14.5–20% of global greenhouse-gas emissions, ~77% of agricultural land use, and the leading driver of Amazon deforestation through cattle ranching and soy for feed.
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Health
Evidence on plant-based nutrition across the lifespan.
Major dietetics associations (Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, British Dietetic Association, Dietitians of Canada) confirm well-planned vegan diets are appropriate for every life stage and associated with lower risk of heart disease, type 2 diabetes, hypertension and several cancers.
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- 植物力量：亚洲传统饮食助力运动表现
从古老的智慧到现代科学，探索植物性饮食如何为亚洲运动员提供可持续的能量和卓越的耐力。
Culture & history
Plant-based traditions and movements across regions and centuries.
Most cuisines have deep plant-based traditions — Ethiopian fasting, Indian Saatvik cooking, Japanese shojin ryori, West African one-pot stews, Mesoamerican corn-bean-squash — predating and outlasting industrial animal agriculture.
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Science & ethics
Moral philosophy and empirical research underpinning the vegan case.
From Bentham's question 'Can they suffer?' to contemporary work on speciesism, the argument from marginal cases, and capabilities ethics, philosophers across utilitarian, deontological, virtue, care and indigenous traditions converge on strong constraints against industrial animal use.
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- 狭缝中的十年：无笼养猪运动的伦理演进与现实博弈
从波士顿到北京，过去十年间，取消妊娠母猪定位栏的抗争已从边缘的动物福利诉求演变为全球供应链的结构性共识。我们梳理了这场运动的成败，审视伦理标准如何在市场与立法的博弈中落地。