We have only one heart, and the same wretchedness which leads us to mistreat an animal will not be long in showing itself in our relationships with other people.
Pope Francis
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In this edition...
Health and Environment |
 Video: Why are we being fed by a poison expert? |
| U.S. agency finally admits chicken contains cancer-causing arsenic |
| Big sugar takes on the World Health Organization |
| Disease prevention: Diet and lifestyle can trump genetics, says NZ researcher |
| Pope Francis's unreserved embrace of animal protection in environmental encyclical |
| Our water-guzzling food factory |
Lifestyles and Trends |
| Ducasse and other top French chefs offer allergy-free vegetarian menus |
| Burger King wants to sell veggie burgers worldwide |
| 'Vegan' added to famed French dictionaries |
| People in the U.S. are eating less meat |
| The Humane Party arrives on U.S. political scene |
| Google searching to improve the health of its workers |
Animal Issues and Advocacy |
| Five inspirational messages for animal activists |
| Video: Pot-bellied pigs helping Alzheimer's patients |
| Study proves most animals are self-aware |
| Actor Ryan Gosling urges major chain to sell cage-free eggs |
| Germany says 'no more chick shredding' |
| On the dog meat trade |
Books and Perspectives |
| Have we been milked by the dairy industry? |
| Vegan eBook helps college students |
| Former Wall Street employee pushes the doors of the secret animal ag industry wide open |
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Health and Environment 
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Video: Why are we being fed by a poison expert?
Video source: Guardian UK
 The Guardian's Undercurrent delves into the world of mass agriculture to ask how one company has such control over food supply. The name Monsanto was once synonymous with Agent Orange, but today it's the dominance of the widespread herbicide Roundup which helps keep the company on top. [Read Monsanto's rebuttal here.]
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U.S. agency finally admits chicken contains cancer-causing arsenic
Full story: Realfarmacy.com
After years of sweeping the issue under the rug and hoping no one would notice, the FDA [Food & Drug Administration] has now finally admitted that chicken meat sold in the USA contains arsenic, a cancer-causing toxic chemical that's fatal in high doses. But the real story is where this arsenic comes from: It's added to the chicken feed purposely! Even worse, the arsenic ends up in the chicken meat where it is consumed by humans. So for the last sixty years, American consumers who eat conventional chicken have been consuming arsenic, a known cancer-causing chemical.
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Realfarmacy.com - June 11
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Big sugar takes on the World Health Organization
Full story: NutritionFacts.org
What happened when the World Health Organization had the gall to recommend a diet low in saturated fat, sugar, and salt and high in fruit and vegetables?
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NutritionFacts.org - June 29
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Disease prevention: Diet and lifestyle can trump genetics, says NZ researcher
Full story: Stuff, NZ
Genes don't dictate your destiny, says Jason Shon Bennett. The Auckand-based health researcher and author says he "cured" his asthma, hayfever, bowel and digestive problems by changing his diet. He believes similar lifestyle changes can also prevent heart disease, diabetes, and a number of cancer cases including lung, liver, breast, prostate and bowel cancer. He's learnt most of what he knows from studies of centenarian cultures around the world, where people eat lentils - not hamburgers; where they don't smoke and drink heavily; where they stay physically fit and socially engaged.
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Pope Francis's unreserved embrace of animal protection in environmental encyclical
Full story: One Green Planet
The Vatican released Pope Francis's new encyclical on the environment, and it is truly historic. The encyclical, or letter, from the Pope is full of references to animals and calls on all of us to embrace a more humane path. The encyclical is named Praised Be (Laudato Si) after St. Francis of Assisi's Canticle of the Sun, in which the Saint praises God for animals and creation. The Pope notes that "our indifference or cruelty towards fellow creatures of this world sooner or later affects the treatment we mete out to other human beings. We have only one heart, and the same wretchedness which leads us to mistreat an animal will not be long in showing itself in our relationships with other people. Every act of cruelty towards any creature is 'contrary to human dignity'."
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One Green Planet - June 19
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Our water-guzzling food factory
Full story: New York Times
The crisis in California is a harbinger of water scarcity in much of the world. And while we associate extravagant water use with swimming pools and verdant lawns, the biggest consumer, by far, is agriculture. Plant material converts quite inefficiently into animal protein. So a single egg takes 53 gallons of water to produce. A pound of chicken, 468 gallons. A gallon of milk, 880 gallons. And a pound of beef, 1,800 gallons of water. Like most Americans, I eat meat, but it's worth thinking hard about the inefficiency in that hamburger patty - and the small lake that has dried up to make it possible.
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| Lifestyles and Trends
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Ducasse and other top French chefs offer allergy-free vegetarian menus
Full story: The Australian
When French superchef Alain Ducasse stunned the haute cuisine world last year by dropping meat, boosting vegies and lightening up his menus, he was less bucking convention than joining a trend of accommodating vegetarians and people with food allergies. Fine dining at top restaurants run by uncompromising chefs may once have been unthinkable for such clients. But no more. A recent gathering in the southern French city of Montpellier of 58 chefs from 10 countries - the sort of Michelin-starred elite who scrutinise every dish that leaves their kitchens - confirmed the trend. All conceded they have had to adapt.
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Burger King wants to sell veggie burgers worldwide
Full story: Business Insider, Australia
The fast-food chain introduced a special line of six meatless burgers last year in India, including a Veggie Whopper, a Spicy Bean Royale, and a vegetarian chilli cheese melt. The sandwiches have been so successful that the chain is now considering launching them in other vegetarian-friendly markets, according to Burger King India CEO Raj Varman.
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Business Insider, Australia - July 1
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'Vegan' added to famed French dictionaries
Full story: Guardian, UK
Two of the bibles of the French language, the Petit Larousse encyclopaedic dictionary and Le Petit Robert, have developed a few new culinary and artistic tastes. The editors announced the latest editions would contain 300 new words and expressions including "focaccia," "biryani," "goji" and "vegan".
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People in the U.S. are eating less meat
Full story: Latest Vegan News
Given that around 93 per cent of people still eat meat, it's difficult to imagine that everyone will cease doing so anytime soon. A world that eats far less meat, however, is already on the way. Meat consumption has been steadily declining in the U.S. - by 10 per cent per capita since 2007, in fact. "It's clear that meat reduction is what is sparing astronomical numbers of animals from torment and misery," says Paul Shapiro, Vice President, Farm Animal Protection for The Humane Society of the United States.
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Latest Vegan News - June 24
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The Humane Party arrives on U.S. political scene
Full story: Latest Vegan News
As veganism expands its influence in mainstream culture, it's doing so in the political realm as well. Enter the Humane Party, a relatively new group dedicated to a platform of peace, nonviolence and rights for all animals, human and otherwise.
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Latest Vegan News - June 16
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Google searching to improve the health of its workers
Full story: ComputerWorld
If your image of the Google cafeteria is a bunch of portly coders tucking into steak and lobster every night, think again: Silicon Valley's cream of the crop is going on a diet. To the list of perks you're missing out on at the famous workers' paradise, you can now add healthier food. But don't worry, the planet wins, too. For the last year and a half, Google's Global Food Program has been on a mission to cut down on meat.
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| Animal Issues and Advocacy
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Five inspirational messages for animal activists
Full story: Care2
It's clear that activists can't help animals without helping themselves, too. Part of self-care is staying inspired. Here are five inspirational messages dedicated to animal activists...
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Video: Pot-bellied pigs helping Alzheimer's patients
Watch video: USA Today
Meet Boris and Pumba, two pot-bellied pigs who are working with Alzheimer's and other memory-impaired seniors, and the result is beautiful.
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Study proves most animals are self-aware
Full story: Examiner.com
A sense of self has long been thought to be a human's only characteristic. New experiments and observations of experiments that date as far back as 1950 have convinced Professor Thomas Hills with the University of Warwick's Department of Psychology and Professor Stephen Butterfill from Warwick's Department of Philosophy that most animals possess a sense of self.
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Actor Ryan Gosling urges major chain to sell cage-free eggs
Full story: CBC, Canada
Canadian actor Ryan Gosling is lending his celebrity voice to a campaign urging the humane treatment of chickens sold to U.S. retail chain Costco. In an open letter, Gosling urged Costco CEO Craig Jelinek to stop buying eggs from suppliers that keep its chickens in cages, citing "abhorrent cruelty" revealed in a Humane Society video. "It is appalling that Costco has been selling these eggs with deceptive labeling on cartons featuring graphics of birds living out in a green pasture," Gosling's letter says.
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Germany says 'no more chick shredding'
Full story: Animals Australia
Germany has become the FIRST country in the world to decide it no longer wants to grind up millions of live baby chicks - the disturbing 'waste product' of the worldwide egg industry.
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Animals Australia - April 1
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On the dog meat trade
Full story: CNN
The cruelty of this trade - the fact that dogs are smashed into cages; suffocated; "skinned alive, strung up and beaten," according to a CNN report - is what should shock and sadden you. The fact that people are eating dog meat? That shouldn't. Unless you're vegetarian or vegan... you don't have any moral high ground to stand on. Here in the United States, a place with an unhealthy and ridiculously hipster bacon obsession (witness: bacon donuts, bacon pie, bacon in bloody marys), eating dog could be seen as a reasonable alternative to pig, which is another highly intelligent animal.
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| Books and Perspectives
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Macleans Magazine - April 22
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Former Wall Street employee pushes the doors of the secret animal ag industry wide open
Full story: One Green Planet
Upon graduating from college, author Sonia Faruqi went to work at an investment bank on Wall Street. When the economy took a nosedive, she lost her job and decided to volunteer on an organic dairy farm in Canada as a way to clear her head. What she saw there sent her on a global expedition into the deepest, darkest recesses of the animal agriculture industry. What she saw and heard has the potential to rock the animal agriculture industry and change the way people look at their food. [All is revealed in] Sonia's new book Project Animal Farm: An Accidental Journey Into the Secret World of Farming and the Truth about Our Food. [Watch the book trailer. Visit Sonia's website.]
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One Green Planet - May 14
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Also of interest:
More books and films
Restore-Our-Planet Diet - By Patricia Tallman, PhD
The Chain - First in The Kinship Series - by award-winning suspense novelist Robin Lamont. bringing animal rights to a suspense novel
The Soul of an Octopus: Getting to know an intelligent mollusc - By Sy Montgomery
Review: The Soul of an Octopus: Getting to know an intelligent mollusc - New Scientist, June 14
Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret - "A documentary that will rock and inspire the environmental movement."
www.cowspiracy.com/
Worthy Causes and Interesting Sites
Nepal Earthquake help - Food for Life Global is on the ground providing vegan meals to the victims (donations go through A Well Fed World directly to the efforts). World Animal Protection is also in the field providing help to animals. We are grateful for all the organizations that can provide urgent and much-needed response.
Food for Life Global
World Animal Protection
Justin Plus Lauren - an informative and entertaining blog that follows this Toronto vegan couple as they slowly make their way around the world.
Justin + Lauren
The Vegetarian Butcher - Jaap Korteweg is 9th generation farmer and founding father of The Vegetarian Butcher with the ambition to soon become the biggest butcher in the world. He has developed and found innovative meat substitutes with a spectacular bite and texture.working on a big transition from animal to vegetable meat....
Vegetarian Butcher
Vegan Leaders - is an initiative to nurture a world-wide network of vegans in the corporate world....
Vegan Leaders
More Tidbits:
Free helpline for animal activists - American and Canadian activists are encouraged to call the In Defence of Animals helpline “to combat the frustration, anger and feelings of loneliness and depression that often occur when balancing everyday life with the challenging and compassion filled life of an animal activist.” Contact via phone at the toll free number: 1 (800) 705-0425 or by e-mail helpline.org.
I'm a Vegan _____ Essay Contest - from Butterflies Katz Vegan Truth blogspot. "I'm a vegan _________. (fill in the blank with ONE WORD - Example: I'm a vegan scholar.)" Your 400 words or less essay is then about being a vegan scholar.
Enter by July 15 to win prizes from participating vegan businesses....
I'm a Vegan Essay Contest
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