Wishing you a joyful holiday season, shared with family and friends, and with compassion for all earth's creatures.
In this edition...
Inspiring message of hope |
 Video from One Drop |
Animal Issues and Advocacy |
| Peace on Earth, but for whom? |
| In the belly of the beast: The dirty truth about cheap meat |
| How animal sanctuaries can heal our hearts |
Health |
| Video: Artery health of vegans vs runners |
| Australian food environment plan is good - here's why |
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Analysis: Stopping disease swaps between humans and animals |
Environment |
| Video: The entire IPCC in haiku |
| 'Every little bit helps' is a dangerous mantra for climate change |
| Tax meat to cut methane emissions, say scientists |
| Paraguay's Ayoreo and a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve under threat from beef producers |
Lifestyles and Trends |
| Can Silicon Valley make fake meat and eggs that don't suck? |
| Humans are becoming more carnivorous |
| Elite athletes reveal the vegan diet secret behind their success |
| 6 things to bring to holiday dinner |
Perspectives |
| Why sharing is good for ourselves and our world |
| 'Before I Die' walls turn dreams into words |
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(Excerpts are included from current news stories. Click on the "Full story" link to read the full article.)
Inspiring message of hope 
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Video from One Drop
 A unique poem, written and performed by IN-Q during One Night for ONE DROP, a global charity event
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| Animal Issues and Advocacy
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Peace on Earth, but for whom?
Full story: Vancouver Sun, Canada
Most people desire peace for everyone - family, friends, community, country, and nations of the earth. But if only people are included, peace on Earth will remain a dream. Why? Because as Albert Schweitzer, the French philosopher, physician, musician, and winner of the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize pointed out: "Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace."
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Vancouver Sun, Canada - December 20
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In the belly of the beast: The dirty truth about cheap meat
Full story: Rolling Stone
"f you haven't been in a hen plant, you don't know what hell is," says an activist. "chicken shit is piled six feet high, and your lungs burn like you took a torch to 'em.
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Rolling Stone - December 10
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How animal sanctuaries can heal our hearts
Full story: Care2
Providing love, care and a happy ending for all those rescued from not so lucky circumstances, animal sanctuaries not only give hope and healing to the animals that reside there but also to the humans who visit. What makes animal sanctuaries truly unique, especially those that are home to farm animals and others that have been used in exploitative ways, is the opportunity to see these beautiful creatures in a completely different light. One of the most heartwarming stories, and one where we can see the vital role of animal sanctuaries for human healing, is that of Harold Brown in the deeply moving documentary Peaceable Kingdom.
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| Health
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Video: Artery health of vegans vs runners
Video source: NutritionFacts.org
 The carotid arteries of those eating plant-based diets appear healthier than even those just as slim (long-distance endurance athletes who've run an average of 50,000 miles).
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NutritionFacts.org - December 18
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Australian food environment plan is good - here's why
Full story: The Conversation, UK
The Australian Capital Territory (ACT) government has introduced a Healthy Weight Action Plan aimed at curbing the number of obese people in the territory. As its name suggests, the plan seeks to create a healthier food environment for local people. Acknowledging the multiple domains of influence on food choice, the initiative is aimed at promoting food environments supportive of healthy choices and to enhance the skills and resources of people to make best use of those environments.
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The Conversation, UK - December 13
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Analysis: Stopping disease swaps between humans and animals
Full story: IRIN
With more than half of all human infections originating in animals, experts say a multi-sectoral, global response to zoonoses - diseases passing between animals and humans - is urgently needed. IRIN talked to a panel of experts to learn just how deadly humans and animals can be to one another, and ultimately how each can save the other.
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| Environment
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Video: The entire IPCC in haiku
Video source: Sightline Institute
 What if we could communicate the essence of [reports released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)] in plain language and pictures? Well, that's just what one Northwest oceanographer has done. He's distilled the entire report into 19 illustrated haiku. The result is stunning, sobering, and brilliant. It's poetry. It's a work of art. But it doubles as clear, concise, powerful talking points and a compelling visual guide. [More here.]
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Sightline Institute - December 13
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'Every little bit helps' is a dangerous mantra for climate change
Full story: The Guardian, UK
A major two-day conference at the Royal Society headquarters in London made clear, "every little bit helps" is a dangerously misleading mantra when it comes to climate change. The Radical Plan meeting featured contributions from across the physical and social sciences, as well as civil society. The organisers posed contributors a brutally simple question: what would need to happen if we were to do more than simply pay lip service to the idea of avoiding dangerous climate change? The answers were undeniably radical - and none mentioned re-using plastic bags.
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The Guardian, UK - December 13
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Tax meat to cut methane emissions, say scientists
Full story: Guardian, UK
Meat should be taxed to encourage people to eat less of it, so reducing the production of global warming gases from sheep, cattle and goats, according to a group of scientists. The scientists' analysis, published in the journal Nature Climate Change, takes the contentious step of suggesting methane emissions be cut by pushing up the price of meat through a tax or emissions trading scheme. Pete Smith, a professor of soils and global change at the University of Aberdeen, and one of the authors of the report, said: "Our study showed that one of the most effective ways to cut methane is to reduce global populations of ruminant livestock, especially cattle."
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Guardian, UK - December 20
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Paraguay's Ayoreo and a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve under threat from beef producers
Full story: Survival International
The Ayoreo are outraged at new revelations that Paraguay has granted a license to bulldoze the last refuge of their uncontacted relatives. Paraguay has caused outrage by quietly granting cattle ranchers a license to bulldoze a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve which is also the last refuge of uncontacted Ayoreo Indians. Paraguay's Environment Ministry has violated national and international law by issuing an environmental license to ranching company Yaguarete Pora S.A. which puts the lives of the uncontacted Indians in extreme danger.
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Survival International - December 18
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| Lifestyles and Trends
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Can Silicon Valley make fake meat and eggs that don't suck?
Full story: Mother Jones
These food hackers think their new faux animal products will win over even the most devoted carnivores... The goal, Josh Tetrick, the 33-year-old founder of Hampton Creek Foods, explains, is to replace all factory-farmed eggs in the US market-more than 80 billion eggs, valued at $213.7 billion.
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Mother Jones - December 2
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Humans are becoming more carnivorous
Full story: Nature
The fast-growing economies of China and India are driving a global increase in meat consumption, cancelling out decreases elsewhere, according to a comprehensive study of global food consumption - - a bad omen for the environment.
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Elite athletes reveal the vegan diet secret behind their success
Full story: News.com, Australia
Some of the world's strongest and fittest men have given up animal products, and swear they've never been healthier for it. Strongman Patrick Baboumian, marathon champion Brendan Brazier and fighter Mac Danzig are just three elite athletes who enjoy a plant-based diet and swear it is the secret behind their success.
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News.com, Australia - November 26
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6 things to bring to holiday dinner
Full story: Lani Muelrath Blog
For those of us who have opted out of flesh for feasts, simply sitting down to the family gathering with a big, lifeless and featherless bird in the center of the table can present a challenge - and at the least offend the sensibilities. Yet it's possible to participate without being a killjoy. For one thing - trust me - your choices DO have an impact, even if made light of in the moment. It's all planting seeds. People respond more to how you are and what you do than what you say. Here is a list of tips I hope you find helpful and supportive... [Lani wrote this for thanksgiving, but it is good advice for any special gathering.]
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Lani Muelrath Blog - November 20
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More Lifestyles and Trends News:
The vegan inside us
“We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson - Care2 (November 11)
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| Perspectives
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Why sharing is good for ourselves and our world
Full story: Care2
Imagine how much better the world would be if sharing was stressed to adults in the same way it is to kindergarteners. It's a shift that's not only beneficial, but necessary according to the new book Sharing Is Good: How to Save Money, Time and Resources through Collaborative Consumption by Beth Buczynski.
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'Before I Die' walls turn dreams into words
Full story: CNN/Ted Talks
Candy Chang created the first "Before I Die" wall in 2011 [after the loss of a dear friend] on the side of an abandoned building in New Orleans. Since then, more than 400 walls have sprung up in 60 countries, from Afghanistan to Chile. Check out some of the hopes and dreams being shared on walls around the globe... [Video of Candy at the link.]
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CNN/Ted Talks - December 2
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