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In this edition...
Health |
 Safety of vegan diets for babies |
| 5 unusual benefits of going vegan |
| Advice from the new (vegan!) president of the Amercian College of Cardiology |
Environment and World Hunger |
| Going vegetarian halves CO2 emissions from your food |
| Improved food systems could feed 3 billion more people - study |
| How much your meat addiction is hurting the planet |
| For these vegans, masculinity means protecting the planet |
Lifestyles and Trends |
| Can a serious climber also be vegan? |
| 5 easy steps to an awesome vegan campout |
| Veganic gardening: Here's why it's the future! |
| Cow's milk consumption plummets |
Animal Issues and Advocacy |
| Our fishy friends can also feel pain |
| Undercover animal abuse videos could soon be outlawed in the U.S. |
| Australia is 'sneaking' in ag laws |
| Canadian animal welfare watchdogs go undercover |
| Animal sentience: Even crayfish get stressed, scientists show |
Books, Films and Perspectives |
| Interview: Will Tuttle on 'Circles of Compassion: Connecting Issues of Justice' |
| 10 films that will change the way you see animals |
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Health 
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Safety of vegan diets for babies
Full story: The Vegan r.d.
Vegan diets aren't dangerous. However, people with irrational ideas about nutrition are. The stories of vegan parents who starved their babies because of mistaken beliefs about infant feeding are clear proof of that. It is horrible and it's heartbreaking. But it has nothing to do with veganism. Both the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and the American Academy of Pediatrics say that appropriate vegan diets are safe for babies.
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5 unusual benefits of going vegan
Full story: Eat Drink Better
Regardless of why you choose a vegan diet, there are some universal benefits of going vegan that all vegans experience; they can't be avoided. Some we talk about all the time like sparing animals or losing weight. Some, not so much. Here are some of the other benefits of going vegan:
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Eat Drink Better - June 28
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Advice from the new (vegan!) president of the Amercian College of Cardiology
Full story: MedPage Today
Kim A. Williams, MD, a cardiologist at Rush University in Chicago and the next president of the American College of Cardiology, explains why he went vegan and now recommends it to patients...
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| Environment and World Hunger
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Going vegetarian halves CO2 emissions from your food
Full story: New Scientist
If you stop eating meat, your food-related carbon footprint could plummet to less than half of what it was. That is a much bigger drop than many previous estimates, and it comes from a study at the University of Oxford that took data on the real diets of more than 50,000 people in the UK, and calculated their diet-related carbon footprints. Even cutting down is helpful.
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Improved food systems could feed 3 billion more people - study
Full story: Reuters
Targeted efforts to make food systems more efficient in key parts of the world could meet the basic calorie needs of 3 billion extra people and reduce the environmental footprint of agriculture without using additional land and water, researchers said. Their main recommendations are to produce more food on existing farmland by increasing yields, reduce greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture, use less nutrients and water to grow crops, feed fewer crops to animals as fodder, and cut food waste.
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How much your meat addiction is hurting the planet
Full story: Washington Post
The environment doesn't appreciate our meat obsession. The average meat-eater in the U.S. is responsible for almost twice as much global warming as the average vegetarian, and close to three times that of the average vegan, according to a study published in the journal Climatic Change.
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Washington Post - June 30
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For these vegans, masculinity means protecting the planet
Full story: NPR
Real men eat meat. They kill it and then they grill it. That's the stereotype that's about as old as time. At a recent barbecue in Brooklyn, N.Y., a half-dozen guys who resist that particular cultural stereotype gathered together. Many of them are muscled semi-professional athletes. They're also all vegans. Because these guys are so seriously, well, built, they say some people find it hard to believe they never eat meat, fish, dairy or eggs. "[There's] nothing more cowardly to me than taking advantage of something that's defenseless," [one of them] says. The host of this all-male vegan barbecue is Joshua Katcher, who designs high-end vegan menswear. In an era of climate change and environmental destruction, Katcher thinks masculinity should be reframed as protecting the planet, not dominating it.
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| Lifestyles and Trends
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Can a serious climber also be vegan?
Full story: Huffington Post
I am a strict vegan climber who attempted to summit Everest this year on a purely vegan diet, and I just summited Elbrus Elbrus [the highest peak on the European continent]...
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Huffington Post - June 19
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5 easy steps to an awesome vegan campout
Full story: VegNews
Wherever your vegan hiking boots take you, one thing is certain: camping requires the perfect balance of wanderlust and practicality...
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Veganic gardening: Here's why it's the future!
Full story: Care2
Despite what the cynics say, you don't need animals or animal products to grow a successful garden. None of the nutrients required for soil fertility originate in animals. The nutrients that are found in animal manure come from plants, or plant based feeds that animals have ingested. In other words, the key to soil fertility is plants.
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Cow's milk consumption plummets
Full story: Ecorazzi
Got milk? Not anymore. More Americans are moving away from cow's milk, USDA data has shown. In fact, overall cow's milk consumption has dropped 37 per cent since the 1970s. (Whole milk? Down 78 per cent!) What are we drinking instead? Just about anything else.
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| Animal Issues and Advocacy
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Our fishy friends can also feel pain
Full story: Springer, Australia
Do you still believe that fish are dumb and cannot feel pain? That we do not have to worry much about how they are cared for or caught? Think again, says Culum Brown of Macquarie University in Australia. The researcher notes that fish cognition and their sensory perception are generally on par with that of other animals. Brown therefore argues that more consideration should be given to fish welfare and anti-cruelty issues.
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Springer, Australia - June 17
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Undercover animal abuse videos could soon be outlawed in the U.S.
Full story: CNN Eatocracy
Chickens buried alive. Pigs so sick that their intestines hang out of their bodies. These are some of the grisly scenes from videos taken by animal rights activists who went undercover at farms that produce food destined for dinner tables. Their videos have gone mainstream and led to criminal charges, fines and even the largest meat recall in American history. But undercover video is under attack and with it, activists argue, their ability to expose animal abuses that can make meat dangerous to eat.
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Australia is 'sneaking' in ag laws
Full story: North Queensland Register, Australia
Australian lawmakers and livestock industry groups are trying to disguise "ag-gag" laws to assist their introduction in Australia, says animal rights activist Chris Delforce. [He] says proponents of the new laws want to adopt an alternative title, other than "ag-gag" laws, because he believes they have backfired in the U.S. and prompted people to ask, what are the farmers trying to hide? "In Australia they're trying as best as they can to disguise it in other ways," he said.
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North Queensland Register, Australia - July 22
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Canadian animal welfare watchdogs go undercover
Full story: Macleans Magazine
He seemed just another guy looking for work, hungry enough to sign on for the midnight shift in the milking barn of the Chilliwack Cattle Co., the largest dairy operation in Canada. He had no inside knowledge about the operation, or how it treated its 3,500 head of cattle; it was just the first company to hire him. His initial shift as a milker was April 30, the start of a month from hell, for he wasn't a rookie farmhand but a modestly paid investigator for a young Canadian non-profit group, Mercy for Animals, equipped with a hidden camera.
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Macleans Magazine - June 19
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Animal sentience: Even crayfish get stressed, scientists show
Full story: Independent, UK
For the first time scientists have found unequivocal signs that the state of anxiety normally associated with higher forms of life such as humans, mammals and other animals with a backbone is also shared with a spineless species with a worrying disposition. The study revealed that crayfish emotion is governed by the same chemical transmitters in its nervous system that are involved in controlling anxiety in humans, which is why anxious crayfish respond to benzodiazepine, a tranquiliser used to treat anxiety in people, scientists said. See also this Care2 article.
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Independent, UK - June 12
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| Books, Films and Perspectives
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Interview: Will Tuttle on 'Circles of Compassion: Connecting Issues of Justice'
Full story: The Thinking Vegan
Few living vegans are as influential and as compelling as Dr. Will Tuttle. His book The World Peace Diet has been called one of the most important books of the 21st century. Will is a former Zen monk with a master's in humanities and a PhD in philosophy of education, and his work is embedded with these twin threads of spiritual consciousness and intellectual examination. Now, he is assembling the works of 28 other authors for Circles of Compassion: Connecting Issues of Justice. The writers explore the connections between injustice to animals and other social and ecological injustices. Will answers questions about the new book and his work...
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The Thinking Vegan - May 6
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10 films that will change the way you see animals
Full story: Care2
Documentaries have the power to tell a story and get a different kind of reaction from an audience than words alone. For animal advocates who work on these films, showing us the actual individual lives of animals and how we're impacting them is a powerful way to reach a broad audience and effect change for those we call our companions and those who are used and killed for food, clothing, entertainment or research. Here are ten of the best...
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