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Earth Day April 22
International Respect for Chickens Day May 4
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In this edition...
Video of the Month |
 Watch a goose's sheer joy as she recognizes her human friend |
Top Stories |
| Taiwan bans the consumption of dog and cat meat |
| Nine secrets of the world's longest living and healthiest people |
| Fish are sentient animals who form friendships - landmark study |
Health |
| Video: How a doctor healed himself |
| Research shows eating fruit and veg beats the middle-age blues |
| Video: Cancer screening is a scam - Dr. McDougall |
Environment |
| What happens when a school district reduces meat and dairy consumption? |
| Book review: Climate of Hope |
Lifestyles and Trends |
| Kiwi teen: What I've learned after a year of eating vegan |
| 11 vegetarian meals just as filling as meat |
| Best veg-friendly countries |
| Growing a green politico! |
Signs of the Times |
| World's first lab-grown chicken finger gets the thumb's up |
| One of largest U.S. milk companies is ditching dairy |
| The hippies have won |
| Is this the beginning of the end of meat? |
Animal Issues and Advocacy |
| Great apes know when you're mistaken, study finds |
| For first time, chimpanzee observed performing funeral rites for dead |
| Brussels bans foie gras |
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(Excerpts are included from current news stories. Click on the "Full story" link to read the full article.)
Video of the Month 
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Taiwan bans the consumption of dog and cat meat
Full story: Care2
There's some really encouraging news for dogs, cats and people opposed to eating them: Taiwan made history April 11 by becoming the only country in Asia to ban the consumption of dog and cat meat. "The law was amended as Taiwan has moved away from a society in which dog meat was regularly consumed to one in which many people treat pet cats and dogs as valued members of their families," the Central News Agence (CNA) reports.
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Nine secrets of the world's longest living and healthiest people
Full story: Food Revolution Network
A team of researchers and scientists worked together to search for evidence-based commonalities among all the places with the highest life expectancies. Here are the nine things they found in common. These lessons can help you - and those you love - live longer, healthier, and happier lives...
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Food Revolution Network - April 3
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Fish are sentient animals who form friendships - landmark study
Full story: Independent, UK
Fish are sentient animals who form friendships, experience "positive emotions" and have individual personalities. That is the implication of a landmark new study which found zebrafish are social animals in a similar way to humans and other mammals. And people who refuse to eat meat on moral grounds but do eat fish - as well as people who keep fish as pets - should bear that in mind, Dr Penny Hawkins of the RSPCA said. "You are causing the death of an animal who is sentient, who has experiences, interests."
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Independent, UK - March 31
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Video: How a doctor healed himself
Video source: VegSource
 Steve Lawenda MD was a Kaiser physician with some serious health problems. How could he tell patients how to get well when he was getting sicker and sicker himself? Then he learned about the power of a healthy plant-based diet.
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Research shows eating fruit and veg beats the middle-age blues
Full story: Good Food, Australia
The more fruit and vegetables people eat, especially women, the less stress they feel, according to new research. A longitudinal study of more than 60,000 Australian men and women aged 45 and over found eating five to seven daily serves of fruit and vegetables was associated with a 14 per cent lower incidence of psychological stress compared to those who ate less than this.
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Good Food, Australia - March 16
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Video: Cancer screening is a scam - Dr. McDougall
Video source: Just is/VegSource
 John McDougall MD discusses the process of cancer growth, and shows that prevention through a healthy diet and lifestyle is the only defense, and "early detection" is BS.
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Just is/VegSource - February 17
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What happens when a school district reduces meat and dairy consumption?
Full story: TreeHugger
The Oakland Unified School District (California, U.S.) has concluded a two-year experiment and discovered savings, both environmental and financial. Students weren't unhappy with the new veggie-centric items on the menu; in fact, they reported increased satisfaction with the healthy, regionally-sourced meals. It seems that kids are happy to eat bean tostadas, beef-mushroom burgers, and bean chili instead of hot dogs - imagine that!
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Book review: Climate of Hope
Full story: The Planet
Climate of Hope is both a timely and an aptly titled book. Co-authored by former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and former Sierra Club Executive Director Carl Pope, the book's subtitle - How Cities, Businesses, and Citizens Can Save the Planet - succinctly conveys the authors' belief that urban areas, local and state government, business, and individual action (including exercising the right to vote) can turn the tide in the fight against climate change. [Editor's note: It is good to see hopeful signs - and may we underscore individual action in the form of eating vegan!]
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Kiwi teen: What I've learned after a year of eating vegan
Full story: Stuff, NZ
Following a vegan diet seems extreme to a lot of people, but a year in, I'm here to tell you there's life after cheese. I'd already been vegetarian since I was 15 and didn't miss meat at all, but going any further seemed too hard. Then last January I went away for four days with a vegan friend. Now that I've got a year on the plant-based clock (and healthy B12 and iron levels, thank you for asking), it feels like time to reflect...
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11 vegetarian meals just as filling as meat
Full story: Organic Life
Whether you'd like to reduce your risk of heart disease and cancer or just want to eat fewer animals, there are plenty of good reasons to go vegetarian at least part of the time. But if you're used to relying on steak, pork, and chicken to fill you up, you might find that going meatless leaves your tummy rumbling. It doesn't have to be that way. Here are 11 meal ideas that fit the bill perfectly...
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Best veg-friendly countries
Full story: VegNews
Whether it's for a job, your health, or your country's imploding government, sometimes in life there comes a time to move to another part of the world. Here are five vegan-friendly places you might want to keep in mind.
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Growing a green politico!
Full story: Huffington Post
I met future politician Ned Taylor just after Canada's 2015 federal elections, in which I stood as a candidate for the (now renamed the Animal Protection Party)! Ned, then sixteen-years-old, wanted my help in promoting his Change.org petition to "Ban Battery Cages in Canada," fighting against the brutal treatment of factory-farmed chickens in the egg industry.
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Huffington Post - April 5
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World's first lab-grown chicken finger gets the thumb's up
Full story: Munchies
Memphis Meats, a tech startup based in California, announced that it has begun production of the world's first "clean" chicken and duck meat-and they're not talking about giving some run-of-the-mill poultry a nice, soapy bath.
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One of largest U.S. milk companies is ditching dairy
Full story: Rise of the Vegan
Elmhurst Dairy in Queens, New York has ceased it's dairy operation after 90 years citing decreased customer demand and will instead produce their own range of healthy plant-based milks.
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Rise of the Vegan - March 18
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The hippies have won
Full story: New York Tiimes
It's Moosewood's world. We're just eating in it. Consider granola: The word used to be a derogatory term. Now it's a supermarket category worth nearly $2 billion a year... Vegetarianism and veganism are on the rise; and kale, the bacon of the clean-eating moment, is now routinely heaped on salad plates across the land. The hippies may not have won the election, but they are winning the plate. (Or rather, the bowl.)
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New York Tiimes - April 4
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Is this the beginning of the end of meat?
Full story: Washington Post
Patrick Brown founded Impossible Foods with the goal of supplanting the meat industry. He believes America's 230 million omnivores can be made to trade their hamburgers and steaks for a plant-based equivalent, scienced into being.
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Washington Post - March 17
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Great apes know when you're mistaken, study finds
Full story: CBC
Great apes can tell when a person is mistaken and help to set them straight. A study published in the journal Plos One found that great apes know when a person is holding a false belief.
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For first time, chimpanzee observed performing funeral rites for dead
Full story: National Post
A chimpanzee has been filmed using tools to apparently clean the corpse of its adopted offspring, the first hint that animals other than humans may have mortuary practices. The female, Noel, was seen at the Chimfunshi Wildlife Orphanage Trust in Zambia using a stem of grass to remove debris from the teeth of a nine-year-old male, Thomas, which she had looked after since the death of its mother four years earlier. [Video at the link.]
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Brussels bans foie gras
Full story: VegNews
The Belgian capital city enacts a symbolic ban to prohibit the cruel practice of force-feeding ducks in hopes that surrounding cities follow suit. "Force-feeding boils down to torture," Brussels' Secretary of State of Animal Welfare Bianca Debaets said. "I cannot permit it."
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