Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine

Nonprofit organization

"PCRM" redirects here. For the political party, see Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova.

Founded| 1985

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Founder| Neal D. Barnard[1]
Focus| To promote non-animal methods in research and education (opposition to animal testing) and a plant-based diet for disease prevention
Location|

* Washington, D.C.

Members| 150,000
Employees| 35
Website| pcrm.org

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The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) is a non-profit research and advocacy organization based in Washington, D.C. According to Charity Navigator, the organization works for "compassionate and effective medical practice, research, and health promotion."[2]

## Campaigns

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### Healthy hospital food

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The PCRM releases an annual report ranking the healthfulness of hospital food. It also encourages hospitals to replace fast food with more healthful options.[3] In January 2016, PCRM placed billboards that read "Eat more chickpeas" near hospitals that host Chick-fil-A locations.[4] In May 2016, it spoke before the board of Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta and erected billboards that read "Ask your local hospital to go #FastFoodFree."[5] In June 2016, Grady announced that its McDonald's was shutting down.[6]

### 2015–2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans

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When the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (DGAC) announced in February 2015 that "cholesterol is not a nutrient of concern for overconsumption", the PCRM began working to keep cholesterol warnings in the 2015 Dietary Guidelines for Americans.[7] In March 2015, Neal Barnard presented oral testimony at the National Institutes of Health,[8] stating: "for all its good work, the Committee made a scientific error on cholesterol and to carry this glaring mistake into the Guidelines is not scientifically defensible". In October 2015, the PCRM placed billboards reading "#CholesterolKills" near the Texas home offices of Agriculture Committee chairman K. Michael Conaway.[9][10] In January 2016, the PCRM filed a lawsuit alleging that the DGAC recommended dropping limits on dietary cholesterol,[11] motivated by industry pressure, according to documents recovered by the PCRM under the Freedom of Information Act.

The 2015–2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, released in January 2016, set no limit but recommended Americans "eat as little dietary cholesterol as possible" due to "the commonality of food sources of saturated fats and dietary cholesterol".[12] On March 23, 2016, Neal Barnard told The Washington Post that he liked that "the guidelines reinstated the advice to eat as little cholesterol as possible and finally called out a vegetarian eating pattern as one of three healthy options".[13] In 2021, the Committee sued USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack and secretary for Department of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra after the release of the guidelines, alleging the government's nutritional and dietary guidelines intentionally use difficult language to promote eating unhealthy foods.[14] A federal judge in San Francisco dismissed the lawsuit in February 2023.[14]

### Wayne State University dog experiments

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Since 2011, the PCRM has urged Wayne State University to end its heart failure experiments on dogs. According to a 2015 review article by PCRM doctors in the American Journal of Translational Research: "insights gleaned from decades of animal-based research efforts have not been proportional to research success in terms of deciphering human heart failure and developing effective therapeutics for human patients".[15] In 2015, actor and Wayne State alumna Lily Tomlin joined the PCRM in urging Wayne State to end its dog experiments.[16] In September 2015, the PCRM placed billboards in Detroit that told the story of one of the dogs who died in the experiments.[17]

### Ending medical school live animal laboratories

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On June 30, 2016, The Washington Post reported that the University of Tennessee—the last remaining school to use animals—e-mailed the PCRM that "effective immediately, the University of Tennessee College of Medicine Chattanooga has ceased to provide surgical skills training for medical students using live animal models".[18] Over the years, the Physicians Committee demonstrated and placed billboards leading to the decision.[19][20] The University of Tennessee's announcement followed the decision by the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine to end live animal use in its surgery-skills training. In 2014, PCRM members had demonstrated outside the university.[21] In February 2016, the PCRM worked with Maryland State Delegate Shane Robinson to introduce a bill to end the practice in Maryland.[22] On May 18, 2016, The Baltimore Sun reported that Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine would stop using live animals.[23]

### Chemical testing

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Since 2007, the PCRM has urged reform of the Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976. On June 22, 2015, President Barack Obama signed into law the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act, which contains language requiring chemical companies and the Environmental Protection Agency to replace and reduce animal tests and increase the use of human-relevant methods. The Physicians Committee supported passage of this law.[24]

### Atkins Diet

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The New York Times writes that, in 2004, the PCRM passed Robert Atkins's postmortem medical report to The Wall Street Journal. The report, obtained by Richard Fleming of the Fleming Heart and Health Institute, showed that Atkins himself had experienced heart attack, congestive heart failure, and weighed 258 pounds. Atkins supporters countered that there was no reason to suppose that his heart problem (cardiomyopathy) was diet-related, and that the PCRM had received the coroner's report in violation of federal law.[25]

### Action against fast food

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The organization's nutrition director in 2004, Amy Lanou criticized the U.S. Department of Agriculture for promoting high-fat, high-calorie products, such as certain brands of cookies and fast-food products.[26] Susan M. Levin, the PCRM's director of nutrition education, sent a letter in March 2009 to the minor league baseball team, the West Michigan Whitecaps, to object to a four-pound, 4,800-calorie hamburger on the team's concession-stand menu, and to ask that the team put a label on the burger indicating that it was a "dietary disaster".[27] The PCRM has also spoken out against the Las Vegas restaurant Heart Attack Grill.[28][29]

The Physicians Committee advertising campaign "I was lovin' it", a spoof of the McDonald's advertising slogan "I'm lovin' it", was used in a September 2010 advertising campaign encouraging consumers to adopt a vegetarian diet to avoid the health risks associated with the high levels of dietary fat, cholesterol, and sodium in McDonald's food. The campaign launched in the Washington, D.C., area showed a grieving woman in a morgue, as the camera circled around a middle-aged man draped in a white sheet and clutching a partially-eaten hamburger.[30] The group highlighted the high levels of fat and sodium in products such as the "Double quarter pounder with cheese extra value meal", which at the time contained 61 grams of fat and 1,650 milligrams of sodium.[31][32] The group chose Washington, D.C., as the first city for the campaign because it had the second-highest rate of deaths associated with heart disease.[33] McDonald's called the ad "outrageous, misleading and unfair", and encouraged customers "to put such outlandish propaganda in perspective, and to make food and lifestyle choices that are right for them." The National Restaurant Association called such ads misleading, saying that they unnecessarily focus on a single item to "distort the reality that the nation's restaurants are serving an increasing array of healthful menu choices."[30]

## Reception

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PCRM had in the past received donations from animal protection groups, including People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), as cited in 2004 by The Guardian.[34]

## See also

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* Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing
* Clinical trial
* Cruelty-free
* Debates
* Diabetes
* Health advocacy
* Health promotion
* Healthcare reform advocacy groups in the United States
* Humane education
* Metabolism
* Outline of diabetes
* Plant-based diet
* Pragmatic clinical trial
* Preventive healthcare
* Three Rs
* List of animal rights groups
* List of vegetarian and vegan organizations
* Vegan nutrition

## References

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1. ^ Wadman, Meredith (June 2006). "Profile: Neal Barnard". Nature Medicine. 12 (6): 602. doi:10.1038/nm0606-602. PMID 16760995. S2CID 12222673.
2. ^ "Charity Navigator - IRS Data for Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine". Charity Navigator.
3. ^ Scherer, Josh (March 21, 2015). "Doctors fight to ban fast food from hospitals—for good reason". TakePart. Participant Media. Archived from the original on May 4, 2019. Retrieved January 29, 2017.
4. ^ Sanborn, Beth Jones (April 18, 2016). "Hospitals face ad blitz over Chick-fil-A, other fast food in cafeterias". Healthcare Finance News. Archived from the original on January 15, 2018. Retrieved January 29, 2017.
5. ^ Stafford, Leon. "Doctors' group to Grady: Dump McDonald's location". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Retrieved January 29, 2017.
6. ^ Miller, Andy (June 24, 2016). "McDonald's at Grady closes amid complaints by doctor group". Georgia Health News. Archived from the original on August 4, 2017. Retrieved January 29, 2017.
7. ^ "Part D. Ch 1: Food and nutrient intakes". Health.gov Dietary Guidelines 2015 Advisory report. p. 2. Retrieved January 29, 2017.
8. ^ "Public Meeting - 2015 Advisory Report". health.gov. Retrieved January 29, 2017.
9. ^ Ayala, Christine (October 26, 2015). "Science's war on breakfast: First bacon, now eggs". Dallas News. Archived from the original on October 10, 2019. Retrieved January 29, 2017.
10. ^ "Opening statement: Chairman Conaway: Development of the 2015 Dietary Guidelines". House Committee on Agriculture. October 7, 2015. Retrieved January 29, 2017.
11. ^ O'Connor, Anahad (January 7, 2016). "New dietary guidelines urge less sugar for all and less protein for boys and men". The New York Times. Archived from the original on August 26, 2019.
12. ^ U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; U.S. Department of Agriculture (December 2015). 2015 – 2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans (Report) (8 ed.). pp. 32–34. Retrieved January 29, 2017. "[I]ndividuals should eat as little dietary cholesterol as possible while consuming a healthy eating pattern. In general, foods that are higher in dietary cholesterol, such as fatty meats and high-fat dairy products, are also higher in saturated fats. The USDA Food Patterns are limited in saturated fats, and because of the commonality of food sources of saturated fats and dietary cholesterol, the Patterns are also low in dietary cholesterol."
13. ^ Warshaw, Hope (March 21, 2016). "What nutrition experts think is missing from the new Dietary Guidelines". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on April 5, 2016. Retrieved January 29, 2017.
14. ^ a b Ribakoff, Sam. "Judge dumps challenge to federal dietary guidelines". Courthouse News Service. Retrieved October 20, 2023.
15. ^ Chandrasekera, P. Charukeshi; Pippin, John J. (September 30, 2015). "The human subject: an integrative animal model for 21st century heart failure research" (PDF). American Journal of Translational Research. 7 (9): 1636–47\. PMC 4626425. PMID 26550463. Archived (PDF) from the original on November 6, 2015.
16. ^ Jesse, David (April 6, 2015). "Lily Tomlin urges end to animal research at Wayne State". Detroit Free Press. Archived from the original on April 7, 2015. Retrieved January 29, 2017.
17. ^ "Billboard targets WSU's use of dogs in research". The Detroit News. September 16, 2015. Archived from the original on October 13, 2015.
18. ^ Fears, Darryl (June 30, 2016). "One last U.S. medical school still killed animals to teach surgery. But no more". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on October 10, 2019. Retrieved January 29, 2017.
19. ^ Johnson, Steve (October 2, 2015). "Protest at UT Health Science Center targets use of live pigs in medical training". Chattanooga Times Free Press. Archived from the original on October 15, 2015. Retrieved January 29, 2017.
20. ^ Belz, Kate (December 10, 2014). "Billboards decry Chattanooga medical program's use of live pigs". Chattanooga Times Free Press. Archived from the original on June 4, 2015. Retrieved January 29, 2017.
21. ^ Cohn, Meredith (August 21, 2014). "Hopkins medical school criticized for using pigs as part of training". The Baltimore Sun. Archived from the original on September 29, 2018. Retrieved January 29, 2017.
22. ^ Cohn, Meredith. "Bill would prohibit Hopkins from using pigs to train doctors". The Baltimore Sun. Archived from the original on October 10, 2019. Retrieved January 29, 2017.
23. ^ Cohn, Meredith (May 18, 2016). "Johns Hopkins medical students will no longer train on live animals". The Baltimore Sun. Archived from the original on October 10, 2019. Retrieved January 29, 2017.
24. ^ Eilperin, Juliet. "Sweeping overhaul of nation's chemical-safety laws clears final legislative hurdle". The Washington Post. Retrieved June 7, 2016.
25. ^ Kleinfield, N. r. (February 11, 2004). "Just What Killed the Diet Doctor, And What Keeps the Issue Alive?". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved June 20, 2019.
26. ^ Lanou, Amy (July 11, 2004). "Cookie Monsters: Oreo promotion puts USDA on wrong side of obesity fight". Tallahassee Democrat. Archived from the original on February 21, 2006. Retrieved January 16, 2011 – via the PCRM.
27. ^ "Warning sought for monster burger". ESPN. Associated Press. March 31, 2009. Archived from the original on August 4, 2017.
28. ^ O'Reiley, Tim (February 13, 2013). "Physicians panel lambastes Heart Attack Grill". Las Vegas Review-Journal. Archived from the original on March 9, 2013.
29. ^ "D.C. group calls for closure of Heart Attack Grill". The Seattle Times. Associated Press. February 17, 2012. Archived from the original on August 4, 2017.
30. ^ a b Wilson, Duff (September 16, 2010). "Doctors' Group Attacks McDonald's in TV Ad". The New York Times. Archived from the original on August 7, 2011.
31. ^ "Provocative commercial targets McDonald's high-fat fare". PCRM. September 14, 2010. Archived from the original on July 27, 2011. Retrieved September 16, 2010.
32. ^ "'I was lovin' it' television ad enrages McDonald's". The Independent. Agence France-Presse. September 15, 2010. Archived from the original on September 18, 2010.
33. ^ Jargon, Julie (September 14, 2010). "New Ad Targets McDonald's". The Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original on February 28, 2015.
34. ^ Doward, Jamie; Townsend, Mark (July 31, 2004). "Beauty and the beasts". The Guardian. Archived from the original on October 2, 2013.

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| Overviews|

* Movement
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* Animal law
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* Animal trial
* Animal welfare
* Animal-free agriculture
* Anthropocentrism
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* Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness
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* Carnism
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* Painism
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Issues|

| Animal
husbandry|

* Animal product
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* Bile bear
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* Crocodiles
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* Fur
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* Intensive
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* Livestock
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* Poultry
* Wildlife
* Slaughter
* Slaughterhouse
* Ventilation shutdown
* Blood sport
* Badger-baiting
* Bear-baiting
* Boar-baiting
* Bull-baiting
* Donkey-baiting
* Duck-baiting
* Hog-baiting
* Human-baiting
* Hyena-baiting
* Lion-baiting
* Monkey-baiting
* Rat-baiting
* Wolf-baiting
* Cruelty
* Pest control (Varmint hunting)
* Sacrifice
* Working animal

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Animal testing|

* History
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* Non-human primates
* Cosmetics
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* Vivisection (Anti-vivisection movement)
* Organizations
* Huntingdon Life Sciences
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* Green Scare (Operation Backfire)

Animal welfare|

* Abandoned pets
* Captivity
* Euthanasia (insects)
* Farmed insects
* Killing of animals
* Live food
* Pain
* Amphibians
* Cephalopods
* Crustaceans
* Fish
* Invertebrates
* Laboratory animals
* Sports

Fishing|

* Bait
* Commercial
* Farming
* Recreational

Wild animals|

* Culling
* Farming
* Hunting
* Techniques
* Coursing
* Spotlighting
* Trail hunting
* Trapping
* Treeing
* Trophy hunting
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* Animals
* Alligators
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* Birds
* Bison
* Boar
* Raccoons
* Deer
* Dolphins
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* Jackals
* Lions
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* Quail
* Rabbit
* Rooks
* Seals
* Squirrels
* Tigers
* Turtles
* Waterfowl
* Wild birds
* Whales
* Wolves
* Management
* Predation problem
* Suffering
* Trade
* Primates
* Ivory
* Welfare

Cases|

* Brown Dog affair
* Cambridge University primates
* McLibel case
* Monkey selfie copyright dispute
* Pit of despair
* SHAC
* Silver Spring monkeys
* University of California, Riverside 1985 laboratory raid
* Unnecessary Fuss
* War of the currents

Studies|

* Animal ethics
* Anthrozoology
* Critical animal studies
* Ethology
* Vegan studies

Methodologies|

* Direct Action Everywhere
* Hunt sabotage

Observances|

* World Animal Day
* World Day for Farmed Animals
* World Day for the End of Speciesism
* World Day for Laboratory Animals
* World Day for the End of Fishing
* World Vegan Day
* World Vegetarian Day

Advocates (academics, writers, activists)

| Academics
and writers|

| Contemporary|

* Carol J. Adams
* Aysha Akhtar
* Kristin Andrews
* Marc Bekoff
* Steven Best
* Paola Cavalieri
* Stephen R. L. Clark
* Alasdair Cochrane
* J. M. Coetzee
* Alice Crary
* David DeGrazia
* Daniel Dombrowski
* Sue Donaldson
* Josephine Donovan
* Joan Dunayer
* Mylan Engel
* Catia Faria
* Lawrence Finsen
* Michael W. Fox
* Gary L. Francione
* Robert Garner
* Valéry Giroux
* Lori Gruen
* John Hadley
* Oscar Horta
* Christine Korsgaard
* Dale Jamieson
* Kyle Johannsen
* Melanie Joy
* Hilda Kean
* Will Kymlicka
* Renan Larue
* Thomas Lepeltier
* Andrew Linzey
* Clair Linzey
* Dan Lyons
* David Nibert
* Martha Nussbaum
* Clare Palmer
* Charles Patterson
* David Pearce
* Jessica Pierce
* Evelyn Pluhar
* Mark Rowlands
* Richard D. Ryder
* Steve F. Sapontzis
* Jeff Sebo
* Jérôme Segal
* Peter Singer
* Gary Steiner
* Cass Sunstein
* David Sztybel
* Michael Tye
* Tatjana Višak
* Paul Waldau
* Corey Lee Wrenn

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Historical|

* Tom Beauchamp
* Jeremy Bentham
* David Renaud Boullier
* Stephen St. C. Bostock
* Brigid Brophy
* Peter Buchan
* Mona Caird
* Priscilla Cohn
* Sherry Colb
* Henry Crowe
* Herman Daggett
* Richard Dean
* Wilhelm Dietler
* William Hamilton Drummond
* Edward Payson Evans
* T. Forster
* John Galsworthy
* Thomas G. Gentry
* V. A. Holmes-Gore
* Arthur Helps
* John Hildrop
* John Zephaniah Holwell
* Francis Hutcheson
* Soame Jenyns
* Marie Jungius
* Karl Christian Friedrich Krause
* John Lawrence
* Charles R. Magel
* Jean Meslier
* Mary Midgley
* J. Howard Moore
* José Ferrater Mora
* Robert Morris
* Leonard Nelson
* Edward Nicholson
* Siobhan O'Sullivan
* John Oswald
* Rod Preece
* Humphrey Primatt
* James Rachels
* Tom Regan
* Joseph Ritson
* Nathaniel Peabody Rogers
* Bernard Rollin
* Henry Stephens Salt
* Arthur Schopenhauer
* Laurids Smith
* John Styles
* Thomas Tryon
* Gary Varner
* Johann Friedrich Ludwig Volckmann
* Mary Anne Warren
* Adam Gottlieb Weigen
* Johann Heinrich Winckler
* Steven M. Wise
* Jon Wynne-Tyson
* Voltaire
* Thomas Young

Activists|

| Contemporary|

* James Aspey
* Greg Avery
* Matt Ball
* Martin Balluch
* Carole Baskin
* Barbi Twins
* Brigitte Bardot
* Gene Baur
* Yves Bonnardel
* Joey Carbstrong
* Aymeric Caron
* Jake Conroy
* Rod Coronado
* Karen Dawn
* Chris DeRose
* John Feldmann
* Bruce Friedrich
* Juliet Gellatley
* Tal Gilboa
* Antoine Goetschel
* Mark Gold
* Brigitte Gothière
* Alex Hershaft
* Wayne Hsiung
* Charlotte Laws
* Ronnie Lee
* Howard Lyman
* Evanna Lynch
* Bill Maher
* Keith Mann
* Jim Mason
* Dan Mathews
* Joaquin Phoenix
* Jo-Anne McArthur
* Luísa Mell
* Virginia McKenna
* Morrissey
* Ingrid Newkirk
* Heather Nicholson
* Jack Norris
* Ric O'Barry
* David Olivier
* Alex Pacheco
* Craig Rosebraugh
* Jasmin Singer
* Kim Stallwood
* Lynda Stoner
* Marianne Thieme
* Darren Thurston
* Christine Townend
* Wendy Turner-Webster
* Jerry Vlasak
* Louise Wallis
* Ed Winters
* Gary Yourofsky
* That Vegan Teacher

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Historical|

* Cleveland Amory
* Henry B. Amos
* Bob Barker
* Ernest Bell
* William Brown
* Edith Carrington
* Frances Power Cobbe
* Joan Court
* Karen Davis
* Royal Dixon
* Muriel Dowding
* Elizabeth Farians
* Emarel Freshel
* André Géraud
* Lewis Gompertz
* James Granger
* Barry Horne
* Marie Huot
* Lizzy Lind af Hageby
* Jessie Mackay
* Alfred Mansfield Mitchell
* J. Isaac Pengelly
* Norm Phelps
* Jill Phipps
* Maud Ingersoll Probasco
* Hans Ruesch
* Magnus Schwantje
* Nell Shipman
* Henry Spira
* Joseph Stratton
* Andrew Tyler
* Gretchen Wyler

Movement (groups, parties)

| Groups|

| Contemporary|

* American Anti-Vivisection Society
* Animal Aid
* Animal Ethics
* Animal Justice
* Animal Justice Project
* Animal Legal Defense Fund
* Animal Liberation
* Animal Liberation Front
* Animal Liberation Press Office
* Animal Liberation Victoria
* Animal Rights Militia
* Animal Rising
* AnimaNaturalis
* Anti-Vivisection Coalition
* Anonymous for the Voiceless
* Beauty Without Cruelty
* Born Free Foundation
* Centre for Animals and Social Justice
* Chinese Animal Protection Network
* Cruelty Free International
* Direct Action Everywhere
* Doctors Against Animal Experiments
* Equanimal
* Every Animal
* Farm Animal Rights Movement
* Faunalytics
* Great Ape Project
* Hunt Saboteurs Association
* In Defense of Animals
* Korea Animal Rights Advocates
* L214
* Last Chance for Animals
* Massachusetts Animal Rights Coalition
* Mercy for Animals
* Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics
* People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
* Revolutionary Cells – Animal Liberation Brigade
* Rise for Animals
* Sentience Politics
* Uncaged Campaigns
* United Activists for Animal Rights
* United Poultry Concerns
* UPF-Centre for Animal Ethics
* Viva!
* Voice for Animals Humane Society
* Voiceless

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Historical|

* Canadian Anti-Vivisection Society
* Humanitarian League (1891–1919)
* Millennium Guild
* Order of the Golden Age
* Oxford Group

Parties|

* Animal Justice Party (Australia)
* Animal Politics EU (Europe)
* Animal Protection Party of Canada (Canada)
* Animal Justice Party of Finland (Finland)
* Animals' Party (Sweden)
* Animalist Movement (Italy)
* Animalist Party with the Environment (Spain)
* DierAnimal (Belgium)
* Human Environment Animal Protection Party (Germany)
* Italian Animalist Party (Italy)
* Party for the Animals (Netherlands)
* People Animals Nature (Portugal)
* V-Partei³ (Germany)

Activism|

* Animal Rights National Conference

Media (books, films, periodicals, albums)

| Books|

* On Abstinence from Eating Animals (3rd century)
* A Reasonable Plea for the Animal Creation (1746)
* A System of Moral Philosophy, in Three Books (1755)
* The Cry of Nature (1791)
* An Essay on Humanity to Animals (1798)
* An Essay on Abstinence from Animal Food, as a Moral Duty (1802)
* Moral Inquiries on the Situation of Man and of Brutes (1824)
* The Rights of Animals (1838)
* The Ethics of Diet (1883)
* A Plea for Vegetarianism and Other Essays (1886)
* Animals' Rights: Considered in Relation to Social Progress (1892)
* Evolutional Ethics and Animal Psychology (1897)
* Better-World Philosophy (1899)
* The Logic of Vegetarianism (1899)
* The Universal Kinship (1906)
* The New Ethics (1907)
* Animals, Men and Morals (1971)
* Animal Liberation (1975)
* The Case for Animal Rights (1983)
* Morals, Reason, and Animals (1987)
* Zoos and Animal Rights (1993)
* Animals, Property, and the Law (1995)
* The Lives of Animals (1999)
* Eternal Treblinka (2001)
* Do Animals Have Rights? (2005)
* Striking at the Roots (2008)
* An American Trilogy (2009)
* An Introduction to Animals and Political Theory (2010)
* Animal Rights Without Liberation (2012)
* Political Animals and Animal Politics (2014)
* Animal (De)liberation (2016)
* Beating Hearts: Abortion and Animal Rights (2016)
* Sentientist Politics (2018)
* Wild Animal Ethics (2020)
* Animal Ethics in the Wild (2022)
* Making a Stand for Animals (2022)
* Animal Rights Law (2023)
* The Moral Circle (2025)

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Films|

* The Animals Film (1981)
* A Cow at My Table (1998)
* Shores of Silence (2000)
* The Witness (2000)
* Meet Your Meat (2002)
* Legally Blonde 2 (2003)
* The Meatrix (2003)
* Peaceable Kingdom (2004)
* Earthlings (2005)
* Behind the Mask (2006)
* Your Mommy Kills Animals (2007)
* Food, Inc. (2009)
* The Cove (2009)
* Peaceable Kingdom: The Journey Home (2009)
* Forks Over Knives (2011)
* Vegucated (2011)
* An Apology to Elephants (2013)
* Speciesism: The Movie (2013)
* The Ghosts in Our Machine (2013)
* Unlocking the Cage (2016)
* Land of Hope and Glory (2017)
* Carnage (2017)
* Okja (2017)
* Dominion (2018)
* Seaspiracy (2021)

Periodicals|

| Journals|

* Animal Sentience
* Between the Species
* Cahiers antispécistes
* Etica & Animali
* Journal of Animal Ethics
* Relations. Beyond Anthropocentrism
* The Animals' Defender

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Magazines|

* Arkangel
* Bite Back
* Muutoksen kevät
* No Compromise
* Satya

Albums|

* Animal Liberation (1987)
* Tame Yourself (1991)
* Manifesto (2008)
* Salvation of Innocents (2014)
* Onward to Freedom (2014)

Fairs and exhibitions|

* Holocaust on your Plate (2003)

* Category ( 138 )

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Animal testing

Main articles|

* Alternatives to animal testing
* Animal testing on invertebrates
* Animal testing on frogs
* Animal testing on non-human primates
* Animal testing on rabbits
* Animal testing on rodents
* Animal testing regulations
* History of animal testing
* History of model organisms
* IACUC
* Laboratory animal sources
* Pain and suffering in laboratory animals
* Testing cosmetics on animals
* Three Rs
* Toxicology testing

Testing on|

* Frogs
* Invertebrates
* Primates
* Rabbits
* Rodents
* Syrian hamsters

Issues|

* Animal rights
* Animal welfare
* Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act
* Biomedical Research
* Great ape research ban
* International primate trade
* Laboratory animal allergy
* Pain and suffering in laboratory animals

Controversial
experiments|

* Britches
* Brown Dog affair
* Cambridge University primates
* Monkey Drug Trials
* Pit of despair
* Silver Spring monkeys
* Unnecessary Fuss

Companies|

* Charles River Laboratories
* Fortrea
* Inotiv
* Jackson Laboratory
* Nafovanny

Groups and
campaigns|

* Anti-Vivisection Coalition
* Americans for Medical Progress
* AAAS
* AALAS
* Animal Defence and Anti-Vivisection Society
* Animal Free Research UK
* ALF
* Boyd Group
* Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing
* Cruelty Free International
* PETA
* ALF
* Foundation for Biomedical Research
* National Anti-Vivisection Society
* New England Anti-Vivisection Society
* Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
* Primate Freedom Project
* Pro-Test
* SHAC
* SPEAK
* Speaking of Research
* Stop Sequani Animal Testing
* Research Defence Society
* Understanding Animal Research

Writers and
activists|

* Colin Blakemore
* Carl Cohen
* Gill Langley
* Ingrid Newkirk
* Neal D. Barnard
* Jerry Vlasak
* Simon Festing
* Tipu Aziz

Legislation|

* Animal testing regulations
* Animal Experimentation Convention 1986 (Council of Europe)
* Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 (UK)
* Animal Welfare Act 1999 (NZ)
* Animal Welfare Act of 1966 (US)
* Directive 2010/63/EU (EU)

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Plant-based diets

Diets|

* Climatarian
* Flexitarian
* Lacto vegetarian
* Lacto-ovo vegetarian
* Low-carbon diet
* Mediterranean diet
* Ovo vegetarian
* Pescetarian
* Planetary health diet
* Pollotarian
* Portfolio diet
* Sattvic diet
* Sustainable diet
* Vegan
* Fruitarian
* Raw vegan
* Vegetarian

People|

| Academics, dietitians,
and physicians|

* Neal D. Barnard
* Danielle Belardo
* Will Bulsiewicz
* T. Colin Campbell
* Winston J. Craig
* Brenda Davis
* Garth Davis
* Alan Desmond
* Hans Diehl
* Gidon Eshel
* Caldwell Esselstyn
* Gary E. Fraser
* Joel Fuhrman
* Kristi Funk
* Christopher D. Gardner
* Max Gerson
* Michael Greger
* Julieanna Hever
* Simon Hill
* Michael F. Jacobson
* David J. Jenkins
* Joel Kahn
* Shireen Kassam
* David L. Katz
* Michael Klaper
* Rhiannon Lambert
* Susan M. Levin
* Valter Longo
* Palaniappan Manickam
* John A. McDougall
* Tracye McQuirter
* Virginia Messina
* Gemma Newman
* Chidi Ngwaba
* Jack Norris
* Dean Ornish
* Robert Ostfeld
* Jane Plant
* Nathan Pritikin
* Megan Rossi
* Terry Shintani
* Sheil Shukla
* Tim Spector
* Mia Syn
* Ellsworth Wareham
* Kim A. Williams

|

Advocates and
cookbook authors|

* Eric Adams
* Pamela Anderson
* Nava Atlas
* Clarence Bass
* Mark Bittman
* Dawn Jackson Blatner
* Carleigh Bodrug
* Alfredo Bowman
* Brendan Brazier
* Dan Buettner
* James Cameron
* Suzy Amis Cameron
* Kris Carr
* Hannah Che
* Abbie Cornish
* Joe Cross
* Rosanna Davison
* Robert Downey Jr.
* Marta Dymek
* Rip Esselstyn
* Mike Fremont
* Kathy Freston
* Calum Harris
* Richa Hingle
* Daniel Humm
* Miles Kasiri
* Matthew Kenney
* Max La Manna
* John Mackey
* Richard Makin
* Mary McCartney
* Hetty Lui McKinnon
* Ella Mills
* Joanne Lee Molinaro
* Charity Morgan
* David H. Murdock
* Andrea Nguyen
* Toni Okamoto
* Darin Olien
* Steve Pilot
* John Robbins
* Ocean Robbins
* Derek Sarno
* Arnold Schwarzenegger
* Jessica Seinfeld
* Gene Stone
* Hannah Sunderani
* Deborah Szekely
* Jeeca Uy
* Nisha Vora
* Joe Yonan
* Robert O. Young

Films|

* Forks Over Knives (2011)
* PlantPure Nation (2015)
* What the Health (2017)
* The Game Changers (2018)

Books,
studies|

* Adventist Health Studies
* The China Study (2005)
* How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease (2015)
* The Longevity Diet (2018)

Organizations|

* Plant-Based Health Professionals UK
* Plant-Based Universities
* Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
* Pritikin Longevity Center

Key concepts|

* Dietary fiber
* Fermented foods
* Gut microbiota
* Gut microbiome
* Plant-based action plan
* Plant-based cat food

Nutrition|

* Vegan nutrition
* Vegetarian nutrition

Food|

* Beans
* Fruit
* Herbs and spices
* Legumes/Pulses
* Nuts
* Seeds
* Nutritional yeast
* Tempeh
* Tofu
* Vegetables
* Whole grains

Drink|

* Cacao
* Coffee
* Plant milk
* Tea

Related|

* James Beard Awards: Winners and Nominees
* List of vegan and plant-based media

* Category

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Veganism and vegetarianism

Perspectives|

| Veganism|

* Animal-free agriculture
* Black veganism
* Fruitarianism
* History
* Raw veganism
* Straight edge
* Hardline
* Nutrition
* Vegan organic agriculture
* Vegan school meal
* Vegan studies

|

Vegetarianism|

* Economic vegetarianism
* Environmental vegetarianism
* History (Romantic Era)
* Orthopathy
* Lacto vegetarianism
* Lacto-ovo vegetarianism
* Ovo vegetarianism
* Cuisine
* Vegetarian Diet Pyramid
* Ecofeminism
* Nutrition
* By country

Lists|

* Bibliography
* Vegetarians
* Vegans
* Fictional characters
* Festivals
* Organizations
* Vegan and plant-based media

Locations|

* Cheremshanka, Altai Republic
* Community of the Ark
* Haridwar
* New Vrindaban
* Palitana
* Pushkar
* Rishikesh
* Tirumala
* The Farm (Tennessee)

Ethics|

| Secular|

* Animal rights
* Animal welfare
* Anthropocentrism
* Carnism
* Deep ecology
* Environmental vegetarianism
* Ethics of eating meat
* Meat paradox
* Nonviolence
* Replaceability argument
* Sentientism
* Speciesism
* Tirukkuṟaḷ

|

Religious|

* Buddhism
* Christianity (Seventh-day Adventist Church)
* Hinduism
* Sattvic
* Ahimsa
* Islam
* Jainism
* Judaism
* Pythagoreanism
* Rastafari
* Sikhism
* Taoism

Food
and drink|

* List of vegetarian and vegan companies
* Dairy alternatives
* Coconut milk
* Plant cream
* Plant milk
* Soy yogurt
* Cheese
* Meat alternatives
* List of meat substitutes
* Bacon
* Burgers
* Duck
* Hot dogs
* Jambon
* Quorn
* Sausage roll
* Seitan
* Tempeh
* Tofu
* Tofurkey
* Gelatin substitutes
* Vegetarian mark
* Beer
* Wine

Groups
and events|

| Vegan|

* American Vegan Society
* Beauty Without Cruelty
* China Vegan Society
* Food Empowerment Project
* Go Vegan
* Nederlandse Vereniging voor Veganisme
* Our Hen House
* Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
* Plamil Foods
* Vegan Awareness Foundation
* Vegan flag
* Vegan Outreach
* Vegan Prisoners Support Group
* The Vegan Society
* Veganmania
* Vegetarian Resource Group
* Veganuary
* Veganz
* World Vegan Day

|

Vegetarian|

* Alcott House
* Bible Christian Church
* Boston Vegetarian Society
* Christian Vegetarian Association
* Dutch Vegetarian Society
* Eden Gemeinnützige Obstbau-Siedlung
* European Vegetarian Union
* French Vegetarian Society
* Hare Krishna Food for Life
* International Vegetarian Union
* Jewish Veg
* Meat-free days
* Meatless Monday
* Friday fast
* North American Vegetarian Society
* Order of the Golden Age
* ProVeg Deutschland
* ProVeg International
* ProVeg Nederland
* Scottish Vegetarian Society
* Swissveg
* Toronto Vegetarian Association
* Vegetarian Federal Union
* Vegetarian Society
* Vegetarian Society (Singapore)
* Veggie Pride
* Viva! Health
* World Esperantist Vegetarian Association
* World Vegetarian Day

Films|

* The Animals Film (1981)
* Diet for a New America (1991)
* A Cow at My Table (1998)
* Meet Your Meat (2002)
* Post Punk Kitchen (2003–2005)
* Peaceable Kingdom (2004)
* Earthlings (2005)
* A Sacred Duty (2007)
* Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead (2010)
* Planeat (2010)
* Forks Over Knives (2011)
* Vegucated (2011)
* Live and Let Live (2013)
* Cowspiracy (2014)
* PlantPure Nation (2015)
* What the Health (2017)
* Carnage (2017)
* Dominion (2018)
* Eating You Alive (2018)
* The Game Changers (2018)
* Maa Ka Doodh (2023)
* You Are What You Eat: A Twin Experiment (2024)

Magazines
and journals|

* The Animals' Agenda
* Naked Food
* The Pleasure Boat
* Satya
* Vegan Journal
* The Vegetarian Magazine
* Vegetarian Times
* VegNews

Books
and reports|

* On Abstinence from Eating Animals (3rd century)
* Acetaria: A Discourse of Sallets (1699)
* The Fable of the Bees (1714)
* A Reasonable Plea for the Animal Creation (1746)
* Primitive Cookery (1767)
* The Cry of Nature (1791)
* An Essay on Abstinence from Animal Food, as a Moral Duty (1802)
* Vegetable Cookery (1812)
* A Vindication of Natural Diet (1813)
* Reasons for not Eating Animal Food (1814)
* Moral Inquiries on the Situation of Man and of Brutes (1824)
* Nature's Own Book (1835)
* Fruits and Farinacea (1845)
* "The Vegetarian; or a Visit to Aunt Primitive" (1847)
* The Penny Domestic Assistant and Guide to Vegetarian Cookery (1850)
* The Ethics of Diet (1883)
* A Plea for Vegetarianism and Other Essays (1886)
* What is Vegetarianism? (1886)
* The First Step (1891)
* Shelley's Vegetarianism (1891)
* Behind the Scenes in Slaughter-Houses (1892)
* Why I Am a Vegetarian (1895)
* Figs or Pigs? (1896)
* Fifty Years of Food Reform (1898)
* The Logic of Vegetarianism (1899)
* Thirty-nine Reasons Why I Am a Vegetarian (1903)
* The Meat Fetish (1904)
* The Apsley Cookery Book
* The New Ethics (1907)
* A Fleshless Diet (1910)
* The Benefits of Vegetarianism (1927)
* Living the Good Life (1954)
* Ten Talents (1968)
* Diet for a Small Planet (1971)
* The Vegetarian Epicure (1972)
* Moosewood Collective Cookbooks (1973)
* The Farm Vegetarian Cookbook (1975)
* Laurel's Kitchen (1976)
* Moosewood Cookbook (1977)
* Fit for Life (1985)
* Diet for a New America (1987)
* The Sexual Politics of Meat (1990)
* Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone (1997)
* The China Study (2005)
* Skinny Bitch (2005)
* Livestock's Long Shadow (2006)
* The Bloodless Revolution (2006)
* Eating Animals (2009)
* Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows (2009)
* The Vegan Studies Project (2015)
* Animal (De)liberation (2016)
* The End of Animal Farming (2018)
* Vegetable Kingdom (2020)
* Making a Stand for Animals (2022)
* Meat Atlas (annual)

Restaurants|

| Active|

* Ben & Esther's Vegan Jewish Deli
* Cinnaholic
* Crossroads Kitchen
* Green Elephant Vegetarian Bistro
* Greens Restaurant
* Elizabeth's Gone Raw
* Hiltl Restaurant
* Little Pine
* Moosewood Restaurant
* Plant
* Purezza
* Slutty Vegan
* Souley Vegan
* The Sound Lounge
* Veggie Galaxy
* Veggie Grill

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Former|

* Cranks
* Food for Thought
* InSpiral Lounge
* Lentil as Anything
* Minerva Café
* New Riverside Cafe
* Nix
* Penny Cafeteria
* Pink Peacock
* The Hollow Reed
* The Pitman Vegetarian Hotel

Related|

* Cultured meat
* Juice fasting
* Low-carbon
* Plant-based action plan
* Plant-based diet
* Planetary health
* Sustainable diet
* Vegaphobia
* Vegetarian and vegan dog diet
* Vegetarian and vegan symbolism

Authority control databases

International|

* ISNI
* VIAF

National|

* United States

Other|

* Yale LUX

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