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Featured Video |
 Rescued turkeys see sunshine for the first time |
Health |
| Doctors' Notes: What you eat can affect your brain |
| New study: Grilled meat including chicken linked to kidney cancer |
| Here's why you should fight diabetes with plant power |
| Is chicken healthier than red meat? |
Environment |
| There's a population crisis all right. But probably not the one you think |
| Can an imitation fin save the sharks? |
Lifestyles and Trends |
| Six things to bring to a holiday feast |
| Here's how my kid eats a plant-based diet |
| Do some styles of wine go better with vegetarian food? |
| Humane Party nominates vegan presidential candidate |
Signs of the Times |
| GQ's "Year's Best Burger" is vegan |
| English soccer team is 'world's first vegan football club' |
| Meat industry, California could head to court over cancer warning labels |
| Former McDonald's CEO joins vegan meat startup |
| Scientists create vegan steak |
Animal Issues and Advocacy |
| Animal sentience: Delightful stories of animals reunited with their rescuers |
| Video: What are animals thinking and feeling? |
| Why don't we feel more guilty about eating animals? |
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(Excerpts are included from current news stories. Click on the "Full story" link to read the full article.)
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Doctors' Notes: What you eat can affect your brain
Full story: Toronto Star
While Alzheimer's disease remains a mystery in many regards, researchers now know that what we eat and many of our regular habits have a major impact on our brain health. In fact, up to half of all cases of Alzheimer's disease likely stem from diet and lifestyle-associated disorders. Through my research on food and its effect on brain health, I have found that the standard North American diet, consisting of high fat and low fibre, is associated with cognitive decline.
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Toronto Star - November 2s
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New study: Grilled meat including chicken linked to kidney cancer
Full story: NBC Newss
Another study has shown people who eat more meat have a high risk of cancer. This time, it's kidney cancer, University of Texas researchers reported. And it's not just people who eat red meat, as many other studies have shown. People who eat more so-called white meat, such as chicken, have the higher risk, too. People with kidney cancer also ate fewer fruits and vegetables than people who didn't have it.
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Here's why you should fight diabetes with plant power
Full story: Huffington Post
Studies show that there is a strong link between animal-based foods and diabetes. The Washington, DC-based Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine evaluated studies that looked at different kinds and levels of meat consumption and the risk for developing diabetes. It was found people who eat meat had a significantly higher risk of developing diabetes.
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Huffington Post - November 14
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Is chicken healthier than red meat?
Full story: UPC
Whenever I hear a health care professional telling people with type 2 diabetes or who are worried about getting cancer from "red meat" or "processed meats" to eat more chicken, I cringe. Not a single piece of retail chicken or turkey comes from a bird who was truly healthy or well treated when the bird was alive. Advertising slogans about "healthy" and "humane" are false.
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| Environment
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There's a population crisis all right. But probably not the one you think
Full story: Guardian, UK
Human numbers are rising at roughly 1.2% a year, while livestock numbers are rising at around 2.4% a year. By 2050 the world's living systems will have to support about 120m tonnes of extra humans, and 400m tonnes of extra farm animals. Producing protein from chickens requires three times as much land as protein from soybeans. Pork needs nine times, beef 32 times. But while plenty in the rich world are happy to discuss the dangers of brown people reproducing, the other population crisis scarcely crosses the threshold of perception.
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Guardian, UK - November 19
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Can an imitation fin save the sharks?
Full story: Care2
Each year, people leave 70 million sharks to die slowly after cutting off their fins for use in traditional food and medicine and then releasing them into the ocean again. We can all be thankful for the San Francisco seafood company that's trying to change that.
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| Lifestyles and Trends
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Lani Muelrath - November 22
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Here's how my kid eats a plant-based diet
Full story: Washington Post
If you and your kids want to eat a healthier diet, here are four things I've learned that might help before your next visit to the grocery store.
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Washington Post - November 9
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Do some styles of wine go better with vegetarian food?
Full story: Globe and Mail
In the end, the wine that works best for the dish will depend on your taste. But when I think about vegetarian fare in broad terms, I tend to narrow down the field pretty quickly...
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Globe and Mail - November 4
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Humane Party nominates vegan presidential candidate
Full story: VegNews
Clifton Roberts has joined the presidential race, saying he would represent the "70 billion non-human animals" exploited yearly in American agribusiness.
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| Signs of the Times
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GQ's "Year's Best Burger" is vegan
Full story: Gentlemen's Quarterly
Superiority Burger, located in New York's East Village, shatters the notion that meatless burgers are nothing more than frozen cardboard vessels for fungus or tofu.
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Gentlemen's Quarterly - October 29
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English soccer team is 'world's first vegan football club'
Full story: CNN
The World Health Organization report has rocked meat lovers around the world -- but it could not have come at a better time for a soccer club that has championed the idea of vegetarianism. Forest Green Rovers [recently went] one step further when the club went exclusively vegan. The team, which this season is leading the English fifth tier, says the initiative will make it "the world's first vegan football club." The club boasts an organic field, collects water under the pitch to use for irrigation purposes and became the first football club in the UK to go meat-free.
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Meat industry, California could head to court over cancer warning labels
Full story: McClatchy DC
The recent finding by an international panel that eating processed meat increases the risk of cancer could trigger warning labels under California law and a legal battle by meat producers and their trade groups to avoid the requirement.
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McClatchy DC - November 6
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Former McDonald's CEO joins vegan meat startup
Full story: Eat Drink Better
Vegan meat startup Beyond Meat has an unexpected new executive on its board of directors - former McDonald's CEO Don Thompson. While vegan startups like Beyond Meat are booming (former New York Times columnist Mark Bittman also just joined a vegan startup), animal-based and fast food industries are on a steady decline.
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Eat Drink Better - November 5
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Scientists create vegan steak
Full story: Ingredients
A meat replacer based on legumes that is not inferior to steak - that's the promising future and interim result of extensive research into sustainable meat replacers, based purely on vegetable ingredients, conducted by a team led by Professor Atze Jan van der Goot of Wageningen University.
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| Animal Issues and Advocacy
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Animal sentience: Delightful stories of animals reunited with their rescuers
Full story: Care2
Some lucky rescuers get a special treat on top of the fantastic feeling of having helped someone in need. In the form of a look, a hug, a lick or a tail wag, they get a special 'thank you' from those they saved. Enjoy the stories and videos of Kwibi, the gorilla, JingJing, the penquin, and more...
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Video: What are animals thinking and feeling?
Full story: TED Talks
What's going on inside the brains of animals? Can we know what, or if, they're thinking and feeling? Carl Safina, author of Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel thinks we can. Using discoveries and anecdotes that span ecology, biology and behavioral science, he weaves together stories of whales, wolves, elephants and albatrosses to argue that just as we think, feel, use tools and express emotions, so too do the other creatures - and minds - that share the Earth with us.
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Why don't we feel more guilty about eating animals?
Full story: IFL Science
Most people are hardwired to curb the self-flagellation that occurs whenever we focus our thinking on the subject causing our cognitive dissonance. The logical way for us to silence any meat-focused mental backchat would simply be to alter our eating habits and avoid the problem in the first place. While this might seem like a straightforward change, arguing that it is a simple move vastly underestimates how deeply ingrained eating meat is in most cultures.
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IFL Science - November 13
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