In this edition...
Health |
 8 foods you should eat every day |
| 5 amazing health benefits of embracing a plant-based diet |
| More milk, more problems |
Environment and World Hunger |
| Livestock messaging at the people's climate march |
| Planet racing towards catastrophe while politics just looks on |
| A billion tons of food wasted yearly while millions still go hungry |
| Canada is now the world's leading 'deforestation nation' |
Lifestyles and Trends |
| You want synthetic fries with that 3D-printed burger? |
| The teachings of Saint Francis are alive and well |
| Israel, the promised land for vegans - and animal rights |
| Major TV show goes vegetarian on the set |
| In India, the world's first vegetarian city |
| The theme song every vegan is talking about |
Animal Issues and Advocacy |
| McDonald's Australia to phase out caged eggs |
| Animal rights group calls Nobel Prize in Medicine 'sad' |
| Researchers shed light on dairy cows' emotional health |
| Study finds fish just wanna have fun |
| California's foie gras ban upheld by U.S. supreme court |
| Canadian government investigating alleged animal abuse at pig facility |
| Love of animals at heart of veganism |
Books and Perspectives |
| A visit to the kitchen of Amy Chaplin, vegetarian chef and cookbook author |
| Why I will always be vegan - winning essays |
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8 foods you should eat every day
Full story: Yahoo!
From blueberries to walnuts, healthy foods to enjoy...
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5 amazing health benefits of embracing a plant-based diet
Full story: One Green Planet
With athletes, celebs, and even political figures going vegan, why not the rest of us? Check out some of these health benefits of going plant-powered. By filling your plate up with the good stuff, there's less room for the acidic animal foods that leave you sluggish and tired. 1. Lower blood pressure...
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One Green Planet - September 16
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More milk, more problems
Full story: PCRM Blog
Another study has illustrated that milk actually has a negative effect on bone health. Researchers in Sweden published findings in the British Medical Journal showing that women who drink milk have a higher incidence of bone fractures - and an increased risk of mortality from heart disease and cancer. According to the study, women who consume three or more glasses of milk per day have a 60 per cent increased risk of developing a hip fracture and a 93 per cent increased risk of death. And each glass of milk increases mortality risk by 15 per cent.
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| Environment and World Hunger
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Livestock messaging at the people's climate march
Full story: Chomping Climate Change Blog
At the People's Climate March, an estimated 400,000 people came together in New York City to call attention to the severity of the climate crisis, coinciding with marches in 156 countries. 'Food justice' was one of many contingencies, or subgroupings, in the march, situated within the broader section "we have solutions." A common message in this section of the march was that plant-based diets were the only ones worthy of being considered environmentally-friendly. People can adopt a plant-based diet, or at least reduce their overall meat consumption, without relying on state action.
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Chomping Climate Change Blog - September 23
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Planet racing towards catastrophe while politics just looks on
Full story: IPS
If ever there was a need to prove that we are faced with a total lack of global governance, the UN Climate Summit, extraordinarily called by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on September 23, makes a very good case. The array of leaders gathered together in New York, although full of general platitudes, gave another impressive display of failure to come up with a concrete answer. While acknowledging the problem, many leaders found a way to duck their responsibility, indicating domestic constraints.
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A billion tons of food wasted yearly while millions still go hungry
Full story: IPS
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that 1.3 billion tonnes of food go to waste globally every year. Meanwhile, 805 million of the world's people are still experiencing chronic undernourishment or hunger, Ren Wang, Assistant Director General of FAO's Agriculture and Consumer Protection Department, told the 11th International Media Forum on the Protection of Nature. "Even if just one-fourth of the food currently lost or wasted globally could be saved, it would be enough to feed 870 million hungry people in the world."
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Canada is now the world's leading 'deforestation nation'
Full story: Rabble.ca
The world's last remaining forest wilderness is rapidly being lost - and much of this is taking place in Canada, not in Brazil or Indonesia where deforestation has so far made the headlines... Without urgent action to curb deforestation, it is doubtful that any large-scale wild forest will remain by the end of this century.
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| Lifestyles and Trends
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You want synthetic fries with that 3D-printed burger?
Full story: Yahoo!
Someday you may be eating a filet that was grown not on a feedlot, but printed in a lab. It will happen sooner than you think, says András Forgacs, CEO of Modern Meadow, a New York-based startup. Forgacs presented his ideas at the 14th annual EmTech MIT, an emerging technology conference hosted by MIT Technology Review in Cambridge, Massachusetts. "If we can grow skin, we can make leather," Forgacs said. "If we can grow muscle, we can make meat." The environmental and social benefits of printing meat instead of farming it are compelling.
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The teachings of Saint Francis are alive and well
Full story: FFL Global
There are basically two distinct schools of Christian thought: The Aristotelian-Thomistic school and the Augustinian-Franciscan school. The Aristotelian-Thomistic school teaches that animals are here for our pleasure - they have no independent purpose. We can eat them; torture them in laboratories. Most modern Christians embrace this form of their religion. And sadly so do most people these days. The Augustinian-Franciscan school, however, teaches that all living beings are brothers and sisters under God's fatherhood.
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FFL Global - September 18
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Israel, the promised land for vegans - and animal rights
Full story: BizNews
Israel is being called 'the most vegan friendly country in the world', which may be an overstatement. Yet veganism certainly is mushrooming in that country, so much so that vegan militants are comparing meat eating to an animal 'Holocaust'. Not surprisingly, that is leaving a very bad taste in some mouths.
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Major TV show goes vegetarian on the set
Full story: Care2
After four seasons of unrelenting blood and guts, a sizable number of the cast and crew of The Walking Dead demanded mostly vegetarian options for on-set meals. What [they] experienced is easily understandable. Seeing and handling raw, bloody meat all day is repugnant, whether it's real or just a convincing prop. Most everyday meat eaters never have to worry about it. Would they be so happy if they could watch the cow, chicken or pig wend its way through the slaughterhouse and dismemberment process and still want to eat it? For a lot of people, that answer is probably no.
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In India, the world's first vegetarian city
Full story: PortalKBR
The Indian town of Palitana has been declared a meat-free zone after 200 Jain monks launched a hunger strike. They threatened to fast unto death until the town was declared a vegetarian zone. As Jain monk Virat Sagar Maharaj explains, "Whoever is present in this world, animals, humans or very small creatures, they have all being given the right to live by the God. So who we are to take away that right from them? This has been written in holy book of every religion and particularly in Jainism."
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The theme song every vegan is talking about
Full story: Care2
Answering some of the most annoying questions that vegans get asked all the time, Toronto-based rap artist Chokeules sets the record straight once and for all. "What do you eat? What about meat? What about protein? What about cheese? Can you eat fish? Do you eat this? Would you eat that? Are you anemic?" Catch the tune and the video featuring the adorable animals of Wishing Well Sanctuary...
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| Animal Issues and Advocacy
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McDonald's Australia to phase out caged eggs
Full story: Sydney Morning Herald
Fast-food giant McDonald's has vowed to take caged eggs off the menu within three years, following sustained pressure from animal rights activists. McDonald's, which uses more than 91 million eggs a year in Australia, has already stopped sourcing caged eggs in Britain and Europe.
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Sydney Morning Herald - September 15
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Animal rights group calls Nobel Prize in Medicine 'sad'
Full story: BizNews
A Norwegian animal rights group said it was sad that the Nobel Medicine Prize had gone to research involving "very invasive" experiments with rats' brains. "We think it's sad that the Nobel prize goes to research like this, because history shows many examples of research that has been useful, no doubt, but still is considered unethical by history," Norwegian Animal Protection Alliance's legal advisor Live Kleveland said.
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Researchers shed light on dairy cows' emotional health
Full story: Food in Canada
A recent study from the University of British Columbia (UBC) has found that dairy cows have surprising intelligence and emotional sensitivity. The study looked at how separating calves from their mothers affects their emotional health and how the process of dehorning affects their physical health. UBC researchers say separating the calf from its mother appears to be distressing... leading to a decline in their willingness to eat solid food. "We can't say that separation is just some instantaneous event that may be painful but doesn't bother the animal," says Daniel Weary, an applied animal biologist at UBC. "It does bother the animal."
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Food in Canada - September 8
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Study finds fish just wanna have fun
Full story: University of Tennessee
Fish just want to have fun, according to a University of Tennessee, U.S. study that finds even fish "play." Gordon Burghardt, a professor in the departments of Psychology and Ecology are Evolutionary Biology, is known for defining "play" in a way that allows us to identify it in species not previously thought capable of play, such as wasps, reptiles and invertebrates.
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University of Tennessee - October 20
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California's foie gras ban upheld by U.S. supreme court
Full story: Care2
In a victory for ducks, geese and animal advocates, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected an attempt made by supporters of the foie gras industry to overturn California's historic ban on a product that's been dubbed the delicacy of despair.
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Canadian government investigating alleged animal abuse at pig facility
Full story: CBC
The Canadian government has launched an internal review after allegations of animal abuse at [a pig facility based on hidden surveillance footage released by Mercy for Animal Canada]. "What is of utmost concern is that for every one of the shifts that our undercover investigator worked, the CFIA [Canadian Food Inspection Agency] inspectors were present," Krista Osborne, executive director of Mercy for Animals said. "They witnessed the cruelty, and not only did they witness it, but in certain circumstances they provided workers with electric prods to use." See also MFA blog.
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Love of animals at heart of veganism
Full story: New Zealand Herald
[By Mandy Carter, NZ animal advocacy organisation SAFE.] Were you shocked at the revelations of cruelty in the New Zealand pork industry earlier this year? I wasn't. I've seen it so many times before. For me it just reinforced exactly why I gave up meat 23 years ago. As I became older I could no longer separate the meat on my plate from the animals I loved, I felt it was wrong to take a life when I could just as easily eat something else. Animals want to live just as much as you and me. Let's let them.
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New Zealand Herald - October 7
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A visit to the kitchen of Amy Chaplin, vegetarian chef and cookbook author
Full story: Wall Street Journal
Vegetarian chef Amy Chaplin, 39, has earned a cult following teaching New Yorkers how to eat wisely and well, stocking their pantries and creating custom organic diets. Now she's doing the same for home cooks everywhere with her new book, At Home in the Whole Food Kitchen. "The goal is to make this kind of healthy food approachable and doable for everybody," Ms. Chaplin said. A native of rural New South Wales, Australia, Ms. Chaplin began her career as a pastry chef in Amsterdam before moving to London and ultimately to Manhattan.
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Wall Street Journal - October 24
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Why I will always be vegan - winning essays
Full story: The Vegan Truth Blogspot
Thanks to Butterflies Katz for this compilation of 60 winning short essay selections from around the globe offering insight into the perceptions of a committed vegan. After seeing one too many posts from "ex-vegans," this campaign was born in contrast to make a public statement. In 400 words or less, each entry explained why they will always be vegan. [See also lovely images at Vegan ARTivism.
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The Vegan Truth Blogspot - September 20
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