A peaceful world begins on your plate.
Our Mission
Compassionate Living is a 501c3 non-profit organization working to end farmed animal commodification and encourage vegan living. Through educational activities, community building, compassionate and inclusive outreach, framing veganism as a justice issue while educating on the sentience of animals, we hope to be part of achieving a just, compassionate, non-violent, vegan world.
Reason for Vegan
How many reasons do we need to be vegan? Access our educational content to understand why living vegan is so urgent today. Learn about how animals are raised for food, the impacts of animal agriculture on the environment, how to avoid falling for “humane" labeling, and understand why we don't need animal protein to thrive.
HOPE FOR THE ANIMALS PODCAST
The Hope for the Animals Podcast features Compassionate Living’s Executive Director, longtime animal advocate and author, Hope Bohanec. With over 130 episodes, Hope covers a variety of farmed animal issues including the ethical, environmental, spiritual, heartbreaking, and heartwarming aspects of living vegan. You will find episodes focused on chickens, fishes, the environment, anti-oppression activism,spirituality, and animal sanctuaries.
With Compassionate Living’s primary focus on vegan education, the Hope for the Animals Podcast offers an easy way to learn about numerous topics related to animal issues. You can listen while walking, exercising, cleaning, cooking, and just whenever you have the time. Each guest reveals interesting layers of the animal advocacy movement and inspires us to do more for the animals.
Sonoma County VegFest
Saturday, September 26, 2026
Santa Rosa Veterans Building
10:00 am - 3:00 pm
The Sonoma County VegFest is the premier celebration of compassionate, healthy, and sustainable living and eating in Northern California. Join us at the Santa Rosa Veterans Building for dozens of local vendors with delicious vegan food, refreshing drinks, live music, a kids zone, wellness and nutrition information, sustainable and eco products, and so much more. We have inspirational presentations and veggie food prep demos throughout the day. This event is indoor/outdoor and children under 13 are admitted free.
We hope you will join us!
HUMANE HOAX CONFERENCE
VIDOES ARE POSTED
We have had such fantastic feedback about this year's Humane Hoax Conference! If you missed the conference or want to hear one of the presentations again, the links to the videos are below. Each speaker was so knowledgeable and explored interesting avenues about the humane hoax that affects our advocacy and the animals. Please share your favorites with your networks, this information needs to be broadly communicated!
Our Presenters:
Lia Wilborn, In Defense of Animals
Dr. Faraz Harsini of Allied Scholars for Animals Protection
Laila Kassam of Project Phoenix
The Humane Hoax: Essays Exposing the Myth of Happy Meat, Humane Dairy, and Ethical Eggs, edited by Hope Bohanec
Part of Compassionate Living's Humane Hoax Project, this volume contains 18 contributing authors who explore the timely topics of humanewashing, greenwashing, language and labels, and how so-called alternative animal agriculture intersects with feminism, affects the environment, is represented in the media, and impacts human and non-human communities alike. This anthology has new essays from noted animal and environmental advocates including Carol Adams, Karen Davis, Alastor Van Kleeck, Sailesh Rao, John Sanbonmatsu, and Christopher “Soul” Eubanks. All proceeds of the sale of the book go to Compassionate Living.
The Humane Hoax Project Videos
Compassionate Living has hosted numerous conferences and webinars through our Humane Hoax Project. There are now hours of fantastic presentations to watch from our Humane Hoax Online Conference and our Humane Hoax Chicken Webinar. Dive into the myriad aspects of humanewashing and greenwashing, watch the videos, and share on your networks.
Support Our Work
Your support will help us carry out our educational projects aimed at creating a world where no animal has to suffer at human hands. Thank you for being a part of Compassionate Living and helping us achieve animal freedom.
