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Each egg from today’s egg factory farms represents 22 hours of hell for a hen. - PETA
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In this edition...
Health |
 Study: Meat and cheese may be as bad for you as smoking |
| Do vegetarians live longer than health conscious omnivores? |
| Ten common meals that are hurting us |
| Factory meat, cruel and bad for us |
Environment and World Hunger |
| Video: We CAN make a difference with diet |
| Warming is big risk for people |
| You might change your mind about seafood for dinner after this report |
| UN report calls for radical, democratic food system |
Lifestyles and Trends |
| Australia Capital Territory passes ban on factory farming practices |
| The future of meat is meatless, just as tasty, and about to change the world |
| Being vegan in the military |
Animal Issues and Advocacy |
| Video: The trouble with turkeys |
| Quebec manifesto for animal rights |
| Happy pigs? |
| French animal rights activists uncover 'unhealthy' horsemeat from Americas |
Books and Perspectives |
| How the meat industry killed the free market |
| Sales of inspiring new vegan athletes compendium will benefit Mercy for Animals |
| Video: Jeff Masson talks about his new book |
| Rethinking our 'rights' to dangerous behaviors |
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Study: Meat and cheese may be as bad for you as smoking
Full story: Science Daily
That chicken wing you're eating could be as deadly as a cigarette. In a new study from the University of Southern California that tracked a large sample of adults for nearly two decades, researchers have found that eating a diet rich in animal proteins during middle age makes you four times more likely to die of cancer than someone with a low-protein diet - a mortality risk factor comparable to smoking.
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Do vegetarians live longer than health conscious omnivores?
Full story: Healthy Longevity Blog
Proponents of Paleo and Low-Carb diets suggest that plant-based diets, particularly those rich in grains and legumes, promote disease, ultimately resulting in premature death. This review will focus on studies examining the longevity of plant-based populations... In conclusion, the totality of evidence supports the hypothesis that appropriately planned whole foods, plant-based diets promote longevity.
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Healthy Longevity Blog - Archives
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Ten common meals that are hurting us
Full story: Care2
Obesity, heart diseases, type 2 diabetes - recent studies have reminded us about something we have known for awhile: the Standard American [Western] Diet isn't doing anyone any good. It has the acronym SAD for a reason. Certainly what we eat is paired with a lack of physical activity, and bad health can't solely be blamed on eating poorly, but when it comes down to it, we can blame a lot of our modern day problems on our modern day diet. Here are 10 dishes and meals that symbolize everything that's wrong with the modern diet.
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Factory meat, cruel and bad for us
Full story: CNN
Here's a thought to chew on: America's most intractable problems all double back to our collective mistreatment of animals. Sounds crazy, right? Well, humor me for a minute. Our own lives would improve if we started showing some basic decency to the 9 billion cows, calves, pigs, lambs, turkeys and chickens that are slaughtered a year in the United States. More than 99% of farm animals in the U.S. are raised in factory farms, many unable to even turn around in small cages.
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| Environment and World Hunger
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Video: We CAN make a difference with diet
Video source: Dr. McDougall
 Dr. McDougall expresses his hope for the future in discussion with Robert Goodland, World Bank Group's Environmental Adviser for 23 years. They speak about how to slow global warming with a worldwide change in the foods we eat - it will take an enormous effort that needs to start now.
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Dr. McDougall - February 26
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Warming is big risk for people
Full story: Yahoo! News
If you think of climate change as a hazard for some far-off polar bears years from now, you're mistaken. That's the message from top climate scientists gathering in Japan this week [March 24] to assess the impact of global warming. In fact, they will say, the dangers of a warming Earth are immediate and very human. It's not just about melting ice, threatened animals and plants. It's about the human problems of hunger, disease, drought, flooding, refugees and war, becoming worse.
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You might change your mind about seafood for dinner after this report
Full story: Care2
We've known that fisheries unintentionally kill a number of species and discard them, otherwise known as bycatch, but a new report from Oceana paints a startling picture of just how bad the problem is at U.S. fisheries that could make seafood less appetizing. In the report, Wasted Catch: Unsolved Bycatch Problems, Oceana identified nine "dirty" fisheries in the U.S. and came to the shocking conclusion that bycatch in the U.S. "could amount to 2 billion pounds every year, equivalent to the entire annual catch of many other fishing nations around the world."
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UN report calls for radical, democratic food system
Full story: MintPress News
The current global food system needs to be "radically" and "democratically" changed in order to alleviate global hunger and serve human rights over the profits of major agribusiness corporations, according to a report released by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to food. Objectives include reducing meat production in favor of crops grown for human consumption and a reduction in biofuel use - both of which have "represented a major source of price volatility on agricultural markets" over the years.
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MintPress News - March 11
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| Lifestyles and Trends
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Australia Capital Territory passes ban on factory farming practices
Full story: Sydney Morning Herald, Australia
The ACT Labor government has banned sow stalls and battery cages, in what it says is the most far-reaching legislation in the country. The government supported Greens minister Shane Rattenbury's legislation, which was part of his deal to become a minister in the Gallagher government. Mr Rattenbury said "To ban these elements of factory farming gives me great joy but I understand there is more to be done."
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Sydney Morning Herald, Australia - February 26
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The future of meat is meatless, just as tasty, and about to change the world
Full story: Forbes
"One day, in the most scientific of tests, we blindfolded an electrician in our first facility. We prepared and gave him a piece of our chicken, and a piece of [actual chicken]. He identified ours as the real chicken. We were ready to bring a first iteration forward," said Ethan Brown, founder of Beyond Meat. In an interview with Brown, we discussed the founding of his company, which set out several years ago to answer this critical question: how will the world change for the better if we can perfectly replicate animal protein with plant protein? If achieved, Beyond Meat - at scale - would drastically turn the tide on climate change, natural resource depletion, and disease epidemics. This is his story.
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Being vegan in the military
Full story: Live Vegan
The reason I decided to remain vegan in the military is because it keeps me disciplined, maintains my humanity, and strengthens my body for difficult tasks. I'm not big on forcing these vegan ideals onto other people, but if anyone is ever curious, I try not to go into a defensive mode. I try to explain to them what, how and why I live a vegan lifestyle. I think that's the best way to go about things. Occasionally, I slip up and fall for an argument. [Editor's note: Kudos to this young man who shows true commitment and leadership.]
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Video: The trouble with turkeys
Video source: CBC, Canada
 Video investigates turkey and reveals the darker side of white meat. Undercover footage shows what one activist calls "the worst abuse I've ever seen inflicted on an animal," raising troubling questions about animal welfare on Canadian farms.
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Quebec manifesto for animal rights
Full story: Mercy for Animals Canada Blog
A new popular initiative in Quebec Canada calls for all animals to be granted a legal status distinct from that of property, which would recognize animals as sentient beings and entitle them to basic rights.
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Mercy for Animals Canada Blog - January 29
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Happy pigs?
Full story: The Dodo
... In the current discourse, happy pigs are the ideal alternative to the miserable and abused pigs raised in factory farms. Happy pigs become happy meat, and happy meat is good. We should feel good about eating happy meat. Happy pigs, really? I am haunted by the ghosts of nearly 2,000 'happy pigs.' [See also and this article.]
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French animal rights activists uncover 'unhealthy' horsemeat from Americas
Full story: Raw Story
Horses from the United States, Canada and other countries in the region whose meat is sold in France for human consumption pose a health risk and are often cruelly treated, a leading animal rights group said. L214, which derives its name from an article in a 1976 French law that stipulates that animals have to be kept properly and in healthy conditions, said the conclusions followed a wide-reaching, two-year investigation launched in 2012. The group called Thursday upon leading supermarket chains to shun horsemeat coming from the Americas to put an end to the "cruel and illegal treatment" of the animals.
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| Books and Perspectives
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How the meat industry killed the free market
Full story: Salon
The dark secrets behind America's meat industry are enough to make us sick - and according to journalist Christopher Leonard, that's only the start of it. Our health, the well-being of animals and large swaths of rural America are all under threat by America's monopolized meat industry, Leonard says, and the full extent to which it's taken over should be making us a lot angrier than it is. The Meat Racket, Leonard's new exposé, lays it all out on the chopping board ... and how the only real choice left for the consumer is to either partake or opt out of meat altogether.
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Sales of inspiring new vegan athletes compendium will benefit Mercy for Animals
Full story: Mercy for Animals Blog
From ultra-runners to powerlifters, plant-based eating is now found in every corner of the athletic world. The latest book by plant-based health and fitness professional Scott Shetler, Plant-Based Performance: A Compassionate Approach to Health & Fitness, features articles from some of the top vegan athletes, trainers, and health and fitness professionals in the industry. This book shows that not only can you experience excellent health with a plant-based lifestyle, you can enjoy exceptional levels of fitness and athletic performance as well. Mercy For Animals will receive 100 per cent of the proceeds from book sales.
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Mercy for Animals Blog - March 3
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Rethinking our 'rights' to dangerous behaviors
Full story: New York Times
In the last few years, it's become increasingly clear that food companies engineer hyperprocessed foods in ways precisely geared to most appeal to our tastes. This technologically advanced engineering is done, of course, with the goal of maximizing profits, regardless of the effects of the resulting foods on consumer health, natural resources, the environment or anything else. But the issues go way beyond food, as the City University of New York professor Nicholas Freudenberg discusses in his new book, Lethal but Legal: Corporations, Consumption, and Protecting Public Health. Freudenberg's case is that the food industry is but one example of the threat to public health posed by what he calls "the corporate consumption complex," an alliance of corporations, banks, marketers and others that essentially promote and benefit from unhealthy lifestyles.
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New York Times - February 25
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More Books:
Bleating Hearts: The Hidden World of Animal Suffering - by Mark Hawthorne
Never Too Late to Go Vegan - by Carol J. Adams, Patti Breitman and Virginia Messina - review from JVNA
Also of interest:
Events:
June 27-30 - Taking Action for Animals - Humane Society of the United States, Washington, DC
July 2-6 - Vegetarian Summerfest - North American Vegetarian Society, Johnstown, PA
July 10-13 - Animal Rights National Conference - Farm Animal Rights Movement, Los Angeles, CA
Restaurant Recos
In Nice, France, near the old port, you will find great veggie food at the delightful Nice Life International Café & Meeting place, 15 Blvd Lech Walesa, that feels like a home away from home. Relax with a soy latte and dessert, a detox juice and soup, or indulge in the awesome multi-course weekend brunch. Tell Sophie Lana sent you!
Nice Life Café & Meeting place
In central Nice Le Speakeasy at 7 Rue Lamartine is a vegan restaurant with delicious meals. And wherever you are in the world, you can find veggie restaurants and great info on Happy Cow's newly updated website - their goal is to raise consciousness about food choices, and the impact those choices have on the planet and the lives of animals.
Happy Cow
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