300+ Wins for Animals in 2020!
An Animal Rights Article from All-Creatures.org

https://www.all-creatures.org/articles2/ar-goodnews2020.html

THANK YOU for every single thing you did to make a difference for animals in 2020!

We know there are many more victories and many more good news items for animals in 2020 and we know there are LOTS of opinions of what “victory” or “good news” mean.

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THANK YOU… FOR ANIMALS EVERYWHERE!

2020 (most recent on top) 

• Not ‘good news’ but important: COVID-19/Coronavirus Articles Directory
  
• VINE [Vegan Is the Next Evolution] Sanctuary 2020 Highlights (PDF)
• Here’s What Your Support Helped LCA Achieve in 2020
• Not in my skin
• CAARE’s 2020 Successes Toward Ending Animal Testing and Experimentation
• Animal Experimentation Meets its Match with ISTAND
• Wall Street Journal Ad Campaign for American Tortoise Rescue
• Muscovy Ducks Will NOT Be Killed: Activists’ and Residents’ Voices Were Heard
• SHARK’s 2020 Year in Review
• Circus Bear Leaves Tiny Cage for New Life at Switzerland’s First Bear Sanctuary
• CAARE’s 2020 Successes Toward Ending Animal Testing and Experimentation
• The Age of Aquarius
• Vegan Milk Takeover! Califia Farms’ Greg Steltenpohl Speaks
• Food and the Narrow Path: A Vegan Perspective on Celebrating Christmas
• Karl Lagerfeld Bans Exotic Skins
• Our Biggest Legislative Victories of 2020
• Landmark Victory for Endangered Butterflies
• Fighting My Autoimmune Disease Through Plant-Based Nutrition
• Animals Rescued and Removed from Wildlife Trafficker and Exhibitor
• Educated Choices Program’s Accomplishments in 2020
• You Helped So Many Animals in 2020 [Born Free]
• ISAR International Society for Animal Rights – 2020 Report
• Happy 42nd Birthday Animal Liberation Victoria (ALV)!
• Federal Court Rejects Trump’s Approval of Offshore Oil-drilling Project in Arctic
• Human studies unlock the mysteries of aging
• Faith.Food.Family
• Trump’s BLM Withdraws Cattle Grazing Plan in Face of Environmental Lawsuits
• ‘World’s Loneliest Elephant’ To Meet Hundreds of New Friends at Wildlife Sanctuary
• Animal Rights Activists Rescue 510 Chickens From Kaporos Slaughter
• Texas Cattle Rancher Breaks ‘100 Year Family Tradition’ After Shifting To Plant-Based Agriculture
• Memes: Valid alternatives to the brutality of animal testing/research/experimentation (PDF)
• New Research Connects Christianity and Farmed Animal Welfare
• Veganism: The Panacea to the Pandemic?
• Wild Animals are Banned from Welsh Circuses!
• Promoting Veganism with 80’s Pop Music
• Food Bank Hosts its First Vegan Thanksgiving
• Utah Rejects Massive Water Grab Threatening Utah’s Green River, Endangered Fish
• After 50 Years, Florida’s Calder Race Course Is Shuttered
• What is DefaultVeg?
• My Thanksgiving discoveries
• Donald Vincent is Working on Finding the New Normal
• Voices For Animals Over The Years: Philip Wollen
• Neelam Singh, Mothers Against Dairy
• Dr. Michael Klaper’s Philosophy
• The New Big 5: How Wildlife Photography Can Help Save Threatened Species
• Uno Mas
• Progress: Another Racetrack to Close – For Good
• Federal Judge Rules in Favor of Alaska’s Brown Bears
• Clearlake Mute Swans Saved from Extermination Plan
• Veganism and Women
• Sheep Shearing Equipment Stolen
• A Heart for Baby: Based on a True Story
• The Cruel Realities of Elephants in Tourism and the Need for New Law Now
• Healthy Eating Stories for Kids
• Pre-K Kindness for All (CA) Pilot Program Shows Promising Results Among Head Start Students
• 20 Dog Meat Dealers Can Now Quit the Trade
• Lighthearted in the Country
• Educated Choices Program Presentations
• Vegan—And Christian, Too
• What Spending Time With Animals Can Teach Us About Empathy
• Veggie Power
• A dozen states have now banned ivory sales
• Dog Abuser Posing as Rescuer Sentenced to Prison
• If Chickens Had a Podcast: Creating “Hope for the Animals” Podcast
• I am a Christian; Therefore I am Vegan
• You don’t need to love animals
• Making Sense of Climate Change Confusion
• If Chickens Had a Podcast: Creating “Hope for the Animals” Podcast
• I am a Christian; Therefore I am Vegan
• New Site Helps Domestic Violence Victims Find Safe Housing for their Beloved Pets
• Another Major Criminal Cockfighting Pit in Kentucky Shut Down
• Ghost Net Retrieval Operations Successfully Conclude in Vaquita Refuge
• The importance of consistent anti-oppression – Interview with Julia Feliz
• How a Plant-Based Diet Saved Our Lives – Literally!
• Horse-Drawn Buggies Banned in Motul, Yucatan, Mexico
• Virtual Vegans: Finding a Plant-based Community Through YouTube
• Black Vegans Rock: Chantele Jones
• The Vegan Movement Cannot be Stopped
• HumaneLearning.info
• Recent Advances in the Development and Application of Human-Specific Biomedical Research and Testing Methods
• Gerald the Rose Garden Turkey Has Been Safely Relocated After Months of Worry Over His Fate
• New Center for Contemporary Sciences Wants to End Animal Testing
• Cleveland Clinic Ends Animal Use to Train Surgeons
• How we collect and rehome the farmed animals in our care
• An Open Letter to Veterinarians: Why Aren’t You Vegan?
• Michelle Carrera – Mothers Against Dairy
• Nonhuman Rights Project Calling for Changes at Project Chimps
• Eba is Saving Endangered Whales with One Very Special Skill
• Vegans Spill the Truth about Lab Grown Meat
• Petco: “Stop the Shock”
• EVEN Interview with Patrick McDonnell
• I Believe There is Hope
• Andrea Takacs-Carvalho – Mother Against Dairy
• Wild horses, bison bring biodiversity
• Huge Victory for Ocean Defenders as Seismic Blasting Halted in Atlantic
• The Kim Stallwood Archive at The British Library
• Thousands of Captive Mink Liberated in Idaho, Utah
• Islamabad High Court Holds that Animals Have Legal Rights
• Raising Dairy-Free Babies: Breastfeeding, Formula, and Solid Food
• About The Open Sanctuary Project
• Love For All Animals
• Carbon38 Bans Fur
• MSU Researchers Developed the First Functioning Mini Human Heart Model
• Black Vegans Rock: Lyssa Wade, aka Veggie Thumper
• New Kentucky Law Allows Veterinarians to Report Animal Cruelty
• 5,000 Foxes: The Transaction of a Mercy Release Rescue
• Dr. Milton Mills: On Being a Black, Vegan Doctor in Trump’s America
• In a Blow to Cruel Puppy Mills, California Bans Store Sales of Dogs, Cats and Rabbits
• Ringling Bros. Elephants Moving to Sanctuary!
• California Becomes the First State to Ban Rodenticides
• Mink Fur Farms in the Netherlands Will Permanently Close in 2021
• How I Reversed My Diabetes and Became Healthy at Last
• Dairy Does A Body Bad: A Scientific Report on Cow’s Milk, Health and Athletic Performance
• You may not be vegan, but your values probably are
• Washington becomes seventh U.S. state to outlaw cruel and unsporting wildlife killing contests
• The University of Virginia (UVA) has stopped using live animals to train surgeons
• Charlise Rookwood – Mothers Against Dairy
• The final stage of truth is just around the corner
• Successful Releases for Manatees Siesta, Key, and Faye
• Resurgence: at the heart of earth, art and spirit
• 5 Takeaways from the International Conference on Nutrition in Medicine 2020
• Dog Meat Butcher Shuts Down Slaughterhouse and Opens Convenience Store
• Protest Useless Cannabis Mouse Weight Loss Experiment – VICTORY UPDATE
• Black Vegans Rock: Kenn Bo Cobb
• Rescued! A Game of Knowledge, Strategy and Chance about Rescued Animals
• You Are the “Youniverse”
• Poacher Who Killed 500 Elephants Gets 30 Years in Prison
• The Strategic Case for Animal Liberation
• An Underwater Friend
• The Strategic Case for Animal Liberation
• An Underwater Friend [book]
• A Healthy and Compassionate Life!
• We Need To End Eid Slaughter
• A Cherokee Plant-Based Perspective
• Humane-Animal Studies (HAS) International Development Program
• Belle Vue (UK) Greyhound Race Track Shut Down: A Grass Roots success
• Elephant Riding Ended at Cambodia’s Angkor Wat
• Thailand’s “elephant whisperer,” Saengduean “Lek” Chailert, is a force of nature
• EVEN Interview with Ellie Laks
• Vegan Dairy Brand Miyoko’s Allowed To Use ‘Butter’ Label After Winning Legal Battle
• Intelligent Allah
• Was Jesus Vegetarian?
• Beavers Win Legal ‘Right to Remain’ in England for First Time Ever
• Independence
• Caregiving is Activism: The Microsanctuary Resource Center
• Sea Shepherd Signs Agreement with Peru to Help Establish New Marine Protected Areas and Mitigate Threats to Marine Biodiversity
• ‘Major Victory’: Court Tosses Out Trump Interior’s Gutting of Century-Old Protections for Migratory Birds
• Simba Is Headed to Sanctuary in Africa
• Caregiving is Activism: The Microsanctuary Resource Center
• How the Family Farm Brought Two Cousins to Plant-Based Eating
• Fishing Line Recycling Program Successes, Saving Wildlife
• Dillan the Rescued Bear Now Lives in Open, Grassy Sanctuary
• How Co-Sheltering Improves Shelter Accessibility
• Gentle Barn – Looking Back at 21 Years
• How Big Cats from War Zones are Flourishing at Our Lionsrock Project
• Responses to Typical Comments/Questions Vegans Get from Non-vegans
• Diverse Vegan
• Following Years of Pressure, USDA Announces New Policy for Posting Animal Welfare Records
• Alternatives to Animas for COVID-19 Research, Drug Testing, and More
• About the Vegan Women’s Leadership Network
• Beef And Dairy Farmer Turned Vegan Regrets ‘Being Complicit For So Long’
• Scotland Increases Jail Time Fivefold for [Some] Animal Cruelty
• We Are the Bright Side
• Teaching Kids Tolerance, Humility and Compassion
• More Vegan Restaurants Open Rather Than Close During Covid-19
• San Francisco Fur Ban Upheld as Challenge is Dismissed
• Infamous Tiger Truck Stop Demolishes Cage That Held Tony the Tiger
• 7 Ducks Liberated from Foie Gras Farm (France)
• Small, But Welcome, Good News From Canada
• Incredibly Realistic Robotic Dolphin Could Save the Real Animals from Cruel Captivity
• Meet 7 Meat and Dairy Farmers Who Switched to Plants Instead
• The Blueprint: Fur Industry Analysis, Weak Links, Addresses
• In Search of the Wild Tofurky
• The Blueprint: Fur Industry Analysis, Weak Links, Addresses
• In Search of the Wild Tofurky
• Despite some misleading news coverage this week, the claim that foie gras is back on California restaurant menus is FALSE
• Homo Ahimsa: Who We Really Are and How We’re Going to Save the World
• Welsh Government Votes to Ban Wild Animals in Circuses
• One of Korea’s Most Notorious Dog Meat Markets is Now a Pet Paradise
• New Jersey’s Moose’s Law Will Protect Dogs and Cats From Convicted Animal Abusers
• Impossible Foods Teams Up with Colin Kaepernick to Feed People in Need
• Zoo in Pakistan Must Move Lone Elephant Kaavan to Sanctuary By the End of the Week
• Mississippi New Law Doubles Fines, Adds Prison Time for Cruelty to Dogs and Cats
• Plantbased Business Hour Podcast
• Greg Willybiro
• Scientific Review Finds Strong Link Between Dairy Consumption And Asthma
• Vegan Seafood Rides the Plant-Based Wave
• He was the boss. I work for Jimmy.
• Animal Liberation Front Retaliates for the Murder of Activist Regan Russell
• Having a Dog Makes Toddlers More Considerate to People, Study Finds
• Four Lessons I Learned After Becoming Vegan
• Study Shows Hunting Cougars Increases Conflicts with Humans, Does Not Protect Livestock
• Back on the List: A Big Win for Yellowtone Grizzlies and the Endangered Species Act, a Big Loss for Trump and Its Enemies
• Refuges and Sanctuaries for Farmed Animals That Promote Veganism
• Ending Nagaland’s Dog Meat Trade?
• Court Orders Shutdown and Removal of Oil From the Dakota Access Pipeline
• Unity With All Living Things
• We’re taking on Cooke Aquaculture over sustainability claims
• The Danger of Letting the Animal Agriculture Industry Operate in Secrecy
• Could Changing Our Diets Defeat COVID-19?
• American Medical Association Says Dietary Guidelines for Americans Should Indicate ‘Meat and Dairy Products Are Optional’
• At Long Last, Woodlands Protected for Elfin-woods Warbler, Puerto Rican Songbird
• Marco Antonio Regil
• Bakery Turns Vegan Overnight After Watching Earthling Ed’s Video On Dairy Industry
• Chris
• Fifty “Christmas” Turkeys Liberated from a Farm – In Memory of Regan Russell
• Another Texas Cattle Ranch Goes Vegan
• Electric vehicles replace horse drawn carriages in Istanbul
• Fishes Remember Being Caught For A Long Time
• Living Coasts, Devon UK Zoo, Closes Down for Good
• Public Pressure Saves Gerald, the Rose Garden Turkey
• Lost Companions: Reflections on the Death of Pets [book review]
• North Carolina’s Ag-Gag Law Ruled Unconstitutional By U.S. Federal Court
• Loving animals during lockdown: Activist Eileen Weintraub
• COVID-19 Exposing Flawed Moral Framework Behind Animal Testing
• Legal Action Halts Federal Use of Strangulation Snares in Washington
• Why I’m Blowing the Whistle on HSUS
• Did the Torah Warn Us About Covid-19?
• National Animal Rights Day 2020 Goes Viral
• National Animal Rights Day 2020 Goes Viral
• ALF Destroys Trucks in Arson at Netherlands Duck Slaughterhouse
• Activist Nikki Ford Explains: Animal Rights Is Not a ‘White Thing’
• “In These Horrific Times, Why Do You Work for Animals?”
• Introducing The Reason for Vegan Podcast Series
• The Three Remaining Macaws are Finally Leaving the Car Washes
• Craigslist Cat Killer Sentenced to Four Years in Prison
• Why I Will Always Be Vegan
• Something Healthy and Different: The Story of The Organic Grill and OG Talk
• A Light Inside
• Our Most Important Defense Against COVID-19: Finding Hope Through Scientific Evidence
• In Solidarity
• A Love Letter to You
• Coronavirus Cannot Spread From Dogs To Humans
• Be Fair Be Vegan – Montreal
• Mara the Elephant Leaves Zoo Life Behind to Start Fresh in Brazilian Sanctuary
• Man Who Starved Dog to the Point of Eating Rocks Sentenced to Prison
• Islamabad High Court Recognizes the Rights of Nonhuman Animals
• Beyond Meat’s Chief Growth Officer, Chuck Muth
• American Tortoise Rescue Hosts World Tutle Day ‘Shellebration’
• Island Marble Butterfly Wins Protection at the 11th Hour
• Harlequin Found: ‘Extinct’ Toad Rediscovered After 30 Years
• Stay at Home Activities for Little Leaguers – From League Against Cruel Sports
• FishFeel.org’s Kid’s Page: Puzzles, Coloring Pages, Jokes, Reading resources
• How Motherhood Made Me Ditch Dairy
• Non-Animal Methods to Study COVID-19
• Rip Esselstyn: Plant-Strong!
• Founders of American Tortoise Rescue continue to advocate, rescue tortoises, turtles
• Use Your Words: How to Speak Effectively for the Animals
• Hope for the Animals Podcast
• Thank You for Making the Virtual Rally a Great Success
• Virginia Bans Public Contact with Captive Big Cats, Monkeys and Other Exotic Animals
• Chicago bans horse-drawn carriages
• Chicago bans horse-drawn carriages
• SynFrog is Making Cruel Animal Dissection a Thing of the Past
• Hooray! Dog racing is over in Alabama
• Canada Goose to Phase Out New Fur Purchasing
• Special Ops Sniper And Hunter Becomes Anti-Poaching Vegan
• Thank Researchers who are Rejecting the Animal ‘Model’
• Six Ways to Take Action for Animals While Staying Safe at Home
• A Win for Right Whales Hurt by Lobster Fishing
• Some Truths About the Fascinating Lives of Wasps
• 100 Recommended VEGAN Products PLUS amazing links
• Why This Farmer Went From Raising Chickens to Growing Industrial Hemp
• Judge Blocks California Development That Threatens Santa Ana Mountain Lions
• Some Truths About the Fascinating Lives of Wasps
• SHARK Shuts Down Multiple Canned Hunts, Sparing Thousands of Ducks and Pheasants
• Ethical Hedonist Veganism
• California Court Approves Restrictions on Federal Wildlife Poisoning, Trapping
• Facing COVID-19 Together with Animal Shelters
• Voices For Animal Liberation: Inspirational Accounts By Animal Rights Activists (Karen Davis review)
• Vegan Industry Growth and Its Future
• Marvel Hero Kid Starts the Youth Climate Save Movement
• Dr. Michael Klaper’s Moving Medicine Forward’s Response to COVID-19 Pandemic
• From Addiction, Healing, and the Olympics to Animal Activism
• Tuitt decision in Happy’s Elephant rights case: FAQ
• Fighting COVID-19 without animal tests
• Five New Lives: The Cricket Hollow Roadside Zoo Monkey Rescue
• Living a Lie
• Announcing UPC’s Conscious Eating Conference 2020 Videos
• Kindness Always
• “Horse Racing Has Outlived Its Time” – Thank You, Washington Post
• Court Win: Use of M-44 ‘Cyanide Bombs’ Halted in Idaho
• Omn!pork: David Yeung, The Man Changing China
• Plant-Based Diets Offer Hope For Prevention And Treatment Of Kidney Disease
• Announcing UPC’s Conscious Eating Conference 2020 Videos
• Kindness Always
• “Horse Racing Has Outlived Its Time” – Thank You, Washington Post
• Court Win: Use of M-44 ‘Cyanide Bombs’ Halted in Idaho
• Omn!pork: David Yeung, The Man Changing China
• A One Million Acre Win for Sage Grouse and Citizens
• Denver Stops Bullying the Bully Breeds
• Hunter Goes Vegan: ‘I Love Animals And Don’t Want To Hurt Them Anymore’
• 130,000 seeds!
• “Take Care of Yourself” — How I Learned that Selfish Can Be Selfless
• More than 2 dozen charged in horse racing doping scheme
• The more vegan stuff there is in the world, the less animal suffering there is
• Long-awaited Ban on Wild Animal Acts in Los Angeles Signed into Law
• Circus animals banned from Westchester County Center
• USDA Restores its Animal Welfare Database!
• Indonesia Has Officially Banned Traveling Dolphin Circus Shows
• Breaking news in Happy’s elephant rights case
• Gregory’s Wonderful Retirement
• California Teen Honored for Helping to End Frog Dissection
• Plant-Based Diet Reverses Type 2 Diabetes in 84% of Patients
• The Campaign to Get 10,000 Black Women to Go Vegan!
• California’s mountain lions receive further protection
• Looking Back on India’s Dancing Bears
• Progress: Philadelphia Inquirer Blasts Racing’s Corporate Welfare – Again
• Scientific Breakthrough to Save Horses from Being Abused for Diptheria ‘Antitoxins’
• Aloysia Oakley – Mothers Against Dairy
• After the Races: An Interview with a Greyhound Rescue Veteran
• The winds of change are blowin’
• Victory! FDA Enacts Lab Animal Retirement policy Following White Coat Waste Campaign
• Animal rights club approved by Missouri public university after FIRE’s First Amendment uproar
• Human-Based Lung Model to Advance Precision Medicine
• Angela Yvonne
• Why Vegan? A Synergy of Animal and Human Justice
• This Is Not the Time to Despair or Rage
• Hazel, Dog Missing for Years, Finally Found Thanks to Photo on Beer Can
• Obese Bear Finally Rescued after Decades in Small Cement Cage
• About Beyond Animal
• Versace Halts Use of Kangaroo Leather Amid Australian Bush Fires
• Calling on Highest Decency
• Court Rules Kansas Ag-Gag Law Unconstitutional
• Thinking Outside the Skinner Box
• Turkey’s Prince’s Islands to Replace Carriage Horses with Battery Operated Electric Carriages
• Erica Settino – Mothers Against Dairy
• Navigating Federal Legislation: Following Bills in Congress
• How to Bear it During Black Bear Season
• Wild Animals are Banned in Circuses in England as of January 20!
• Animal Activists Succeed in Shutting Down Cruel New Year’s ‘Opossum Drop’
• Another happy ending for greyhounds
• Beluga Whales Arrive Safely at Sea Sanctuary
• “Generation Greta” Ignites Passionate World-Wide Youth Activism
• Treating Kidney Disease With Plant-Based Nutrition
• Sentience Institute Interview with Pei Su, ACTAsia
• Liberate: Stories & Lessons on Animal Liberation Above the Law
• For Your Doctor – Vegan Health Kit
• Yes, Hunters are Psychopaths—and Sport Hunting is Serial Killing
• Strategies that Worked to End the Montreal Horse Carriage Industry
• California Becomes the First State in the U.S. to Ban Animal Cosmetics Testing
• A Very Good No Kill Year
• Montreal bids farewell to its horse-drawn carriages
• Vegan Labeling Wars Show The Plant-Based Sector Is Booming
• ‘Victory for Our Oceans’: US Court Upholds Ruling on Vast Marine Monument
• Anthropomorphism Favors Coexistence, Not Deadly Domination
• Food Empowerment Project 2019: Much to be Proud of
• Harvard Law School launched Animal Rights Programme
• From BornFree: You Helped So Many Animals in 2019
• SHARK’s summary of our 2019 Victories
• New documentary exonerating wild horses and burros
• Some Good News and Some Victories for Animals in 2019

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