After an almost deadly bout with sepsis, Chrissy Matthies reflects on her experience and her outrage with the National Institutes of Health and experimenters for wasting millions of dollars on experiments on animals that repeatedly fail.

Once people heard that PETA Campaigner, Nikki Ford, was expecting, the flood of questions started pouring in. She got the usual ones, like “When are you due?” But her favorite to answer was “Are you going to stay vegan?”