When my husband first saw me read a cookbook, like page-after-page, cover-to-cover, he asked me, “You READ cookbooks?” Yes, when I’m serious about a cookbook, I actually read it.

Meet Erin Red: Activist, educator, podcaster, writer, and unsung vegan hero who works tirelessly on behalf of the animals.

If it’s tough for many people to see how drinking milk or eating cheese is exploiting animals, zoos are probably a less obvious source of animal exploitation, even though they are bred and traded, and kept in cages or behind glass in unnatural habitats.