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FARM (Farm Animal Rights Movement) is a national non-profit advocacy organization promoting plant-based (vegan) diets to save animals, reduce global warming, conserve environmental resources, and improve public health. Located just outside the U.S. capital, FARM works with grassroots with volunteers in all 50 states and two dozen other countries.

In Defense of Animals (IDA) is a non-profit organization working to end animal exploitation, cruelty, and abuse by protecting for the rights, welfare, and habitats of animals, as well as to raise their status beyond mere property, commodities, or things. IDA’s campaigns cover animals around the world through investigation, rescue & rehabilitation, public education, political & consumer advocacy and litigation.

E/The Environmental Magazine, published by the nonprofit (501-c-3) Earth Action Network, Inc., is a bimonthly “clearinghouse” of information, news and resources for people concerned about the environment who want to know “What can I do?” to make a difference. A 13-time Independent Press Awards winner and nominee, and now in its 18th year, E is chock full of everything environmental -- from recycling to rainforests, and from the global village to our own backyards.

A Well-Fed World (AWFW) is based in Washington, DC and works across the partisan, issue, and religious divides to empower individuals, grassroots groups, and national leaders. AWFW is a health, hunger and environmental organization that explicitly promotes the benefits of wholesome, plant-rich eating and other green food choices. AWFW goes beyond quick-fixes, and instead works for long-term, structural change at all levels. AWFW connects with a broad range of social justice organizations around eating green in general and reversing the "Livestock Revolution" in particular.

League of Humane Voters works to create, unite and strengthen local political action committees throughout the United States of America.  A national political agenda requires continuous local political action to continuously elect officials to all legislatures who will advocate on behalf of the animals and oppose the forces that abuse and exploit them. It is our mission to see that these local action organizations spread, persist and thrive in a competent, organized and professional way.

Mercy For Animals (MFA) is a non-profit animal advocacy organization that believes non-human animals are irreplaceable individuals who have morally significant interests and hence rights, including the right to live free of unnecessary suffering. MFA is dedicated to promoting nonviolence towards all sentient beings through public education campaigns and demonstrations, undercover investigations, and open rescues.

United Poultry Concerns (UPC) is a national non-profit organization that addresses the treatment of domestic fowl in food production, science, education, entertainment, and human companionship situations and promotes the compassionate and respectful treatment of domestic fowl. United Poultry Concerns seeks to make the public aware of the ways poultry are treated by our society and elsewhere in the world.

VegNews Magazine is the premier magazine to focus on a vegetarian lifestyle. Since beginning publication in 2000, VegNews has been offering its more than 180,000 readers up-to-date information on living a compassionate and healthy lifestyle with features such as vegetarian news, interviews, travel tales, food & health, celebrity buzz, vegan recipes, and much more. We're proud to print on 75% post-consumer, recycled paper.