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Hope Bohanec has been active in animal protection and environmental activism for over 30 years. She is the Executive Director of Compassionate Living and the host of the Hope for the Animals Podcast. Hope co-founded the Humane Hoax Project, the Ahimsa Living Project and has organized hundreds of online and in-person events including the Humane Hoax Online Conference, the Humane Hoax Chicken Webinar, and the Sonoma County VegFest.

Hope has also published two books on the subject of humanewashing and greenwashing: The Ultimate Betrayal: Is There Happy Meat?  and The Humane Hoax: Essays Exposing the Myth of Happy Meat, Humane Dairy, and Ethical Eggs. Over the last three decades, she has worked for the national non-profits United Poultry Concerns and In Defense of Animals as well as contributed chapters to two anthologies.

Hope Bohanec has been active in animal protection and environmental activism for over 30 years. She is the Executive Director of Compassionate Living and the host of the Hope for the Animals Podcast. She co-founded the Humane Hoax Project, the Ahimsa Living Project and has published two books on the subject of humanewashing and greenwashing.

Hope Bohanec is a published author, grassroots activist, host of the Hope for the Animals Podcast, and Executive Director of Compassionate Living, a vegan advocacy organization. 

Hope Bohanec has been active in animal protection and environmental activism for over 30 years. She is the Executive Director of Compassionate Living, host of the Hope for the Animals Podcast, and has published two books on the subject of humanewashing and greenwashing.

Hope has studied Jain and Hindu Dharma for many years and founded the Ahimsa Living Project to bring to light the deep parallels between the Dharma religions and veganism. 

The Humane Hoax: Cage-Free, Free-Range, Humane…What Do the Labels Really Mean?

Greenwashing Our Food: Sustainable Labels Won’t Save the Planet

Sentience in the Sea: Fish Emotion, Cognition, Personalities, and Play

Ahimsa and Animal Advocacy / Veganism, Nonviolence, and the Dharma Traditions / Spiritual Veganism

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