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In this edition...
Health |
 Top risk factors for death across the globe |
| Cattle leukemia virus in milk linked to breast cancer |
| Report: 100 per cent of ground beef contains fecal matter |
| Egg lobby paid food blogs to crush vegan startup |
| The real paleo diet: Stone-age people were making porridge 32,000 years ago |
Environment and World Hunger |
| Kale or steak? Change in diet key to UN plan to end hunger by 2030 |
| Cow-free milk wins first place sustainability award |
| Alarming report on the health of our oceans |
| James Cameron explains how you can save the world |
Lifestyles and Trends |
| New vegan options to arrive at over 500 U.S. college campuses |
| Insect protein on its way? |
| Video: 14 vegan bodybuilders that will make you re-think everything |
| The (fake) meat revolution |
Animal Issues and Advocacy |
| 5 cruel animal traditions that make no sense today |
| Industry changes mean more suffering for animals in transit |
| A pope for all species |
| Happy endings video: The rescue of baby pig Perla |
| McDonald's move to cage-free eggs is a tipping point for the industry in the U.S. |
Books, Films and Perspectives |
| 'Cowspiracy' inspires Texas restaurant to go vegan |
| Vegans go glam |
| Jamie Oliver's guide to living to 100 |
| Discussing vegetarianism and veganism |
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Top risk factors for death across the globe
Full story: Treehugger
An enormous international study of causes of death has revealed that since 1990, there has been a remarkable change in what is killing people across the planet. In 1990, child and maternal malnutrition and unsafe water, sanitation, and lack of hand washing were the leading risks for death - by 2013 those had switched to dietary risks and high blood pressure.
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Treehugger - September 14
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Cattle leukemia virus in milk linked to breast cancer
Full story: RT
Women exposed to bovine leukemia virus, a routine presence in bulk milk tanks at large dairy farms, are 3.1 times more likely to develop breast cancer than women whose tissue was not subject to the virus, known as BLV, according to a new study. These odds are higher than those associated with other top breast cancer risks, including obesity and alcohol consumption, according to researchers at the University of California Berkeley.
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Report: 100 per cent of ground beef contains fecal matter
Full story: Consumer Reports, U.S.
All 458 pounds of beef examined contained bacteria that signified fecal contamination (enterococcus and/or nontoxin-producing E. coli), which can cause blood or urinary tract infections. [A U.S. study but likely similar in other areas.]
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Consumer Reports, U.S. - September 4
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Egg lobby paid food blogs to crush vegan startup
Full story: Guardian, UK
Internal emails reveal a coordinated attack by the American Egg Board to quash the rise of Hampton Creek's egg alternative in a possible breach of federal regulations. The scale of the campaign - dubbed "Beyond Eggs" after Hampton Creek's original company name - shows the lengths to which a federally-appointed, industry-funded marketing group will go to squash a relatively small Silicon Valley startup, from enlisting a high-powered public relations firm to buying off unwitting bloggers.
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Guardian, UK - September 6
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The real paleo diet: Stone-age people were making porridge 32,000 years ago
Full story: New Scientist
Going on the palaeo diet? Don't put down your porridge just yet. Hunter-gatherers ate oats as far back as 32,000 years ago - way before farming took root. This is the earliest known human consumption of oats, say Marta Mariotti Lippi at the University of Florence in Italy and her colleagues, who made the discovery after analysing starch grains on an ancient stone grinding tool from southern Italy.
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New Scientist - September 7
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| Environment and World Hunger
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Kale or steak? Change in diet key to UN plan to end hunger by 2030
Full story: Reuters
World leaders are set to endorse a UN goal to eliminate hunger by 2030, but they will have to convince their citizens to adopt new eating habits first, experts say. The shift must apply to both wealthy and developing nations. "Sustainable and healthy diets will require a move towards a mostly plant-based diet," said Colin Khoury, a biologist at the Colombia-based International Centre for Tropical Agriculture.
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Cow-free milk wins first place sustainability award
Full story: VegNews
San Francisco-based startup Muufri has won an international sustainability award for its potential to sharply reduce greenhouse gas emissions in its cow-free milk production.
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Alarming report on the health of our oceans
Full story: Care2
The sheer vastness of the oceans on this planet make it seem almost impossible that our actions could bring them to the point of no return, but a new report has found that we are causing an alarming decline of marine ecosystems and the species who rely on them.
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James Cameron explains how you can save the world
Full story: Fortune
Oscar-winning director James Cameron is promoting a new way to fight climate change-eliminating meat and dairy from one's diet.
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| Lifestyles and Trends
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New vegan options to arrive at over 500 U.S. college campuses
Full story: Latest Vegan News
Students across the [U.S.] are eating healthier than ever, thanks in large part to the efforts of Aramark, which serves food on over 500 college campuses. The food service giant has started offering a whole host of new vegan options including breakfast and brunch items, soy-based proteins and other hearty offerings. The changes have been implemented upon request from students.
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Latest Vegan News - August 31
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Insect protein on its way?
Full story: Green Prophet
A start-up business focused on finding new ways of using insect protein in food products is a finalist in this year's MassChallenge, the Boston-based start-up competition and world's largest accelerator program. People have purposely eaten insects for ages, and bug-based foods are now being explored on a commercial scale to address a ballooning world population with stressed natural resources.
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Green Prophet - September 22
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Video: 14 vegan bodybuilders that will make you re-think everything
Video source: BuzzFeed
 They're huge, they're vegan, and they're probably immortal.
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The (fake) meat revolution
Full story: New York Times
If only meat weren't so delicious! Sure, meat may pave the way to a heart attack. Yes, factory farms torture animals. Indeed, producing a single hamburger patty requires more water than two weeks of showers. But for those of us who are weak willed, there's nothing like a juicy burger. Ah, but that's changing. A revolution is unfolding in the food world, resulting in the first alternatives to meat that taste like the real thing. Scientists think they're getting closer to the day you won't be able to tell whether your steak started out growing out of the ground or grazing on it.
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New York Times - September 19
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| Animal Issues and Advocacy
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5 cruel animal traditions that make no sense today
Full story: Care2
From hunting to eating meat, it's time to move away from outdated so-called traditions...
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Industry changes mean more suffering for animals in transit
Full story: Care2
More than a billion farm animals are transported around the world each week between stockyards, farms, and slaughterhouses. To cope with the demand for meat and dairy, the way in which animals are transported has become increasingly cruel, stressful and deadly. It is shameful for the animal agriculture industry to accept that the deaths of around one in every hundred animals transported from one facility to another is simply a cost of operation. And for each animal that dies, there are countless more that arrive sick, injured, and dehydrated as a result of the industry accepted conditions.
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A pope for all species
Full story: New York Times
We all know that Pope Francis cares deeply for the marginalized, but did you realize that his compassion bridges the species barrier? He suggests that animals will go to heaven and that the Virgin Mary 'grieves for the sufferings' even of mistreated livestock... The excitement about Francis is about his tone as much as his substance, and he shares many of the conservative social values of his predecessors. To me, one of the most striking shifts that go beyond tone is one that has commanded almost no notice: his calls for animal rights. "We must forcefully reject the notion that our being created in God's image and given dominion over the earth justifies absolute domination over other creatures," he declared in his encyclical on the environment.
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New York Times - September 24
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Happy endings video: The rescue of baby pig Perla
Video source: Food Yogi
 Perla was found in a trash bin and brought to Juliana's Animal Sanctuary in Colombia. She had a broken leg, but with a little love and care, she is recovering and has been given a second chance. [Ways to support Juliana's Animal Sanctuary at the link.]
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McDonald's move to cage-free eggs is a tipping point for the industry in the U.S.
Full story: Los Angeles Times
Will the next egg you crack come from a chicken raised in a roomier barn? Foodies and farmers are in unusual agreement on the answer: If not now, then soon enough. Both say McDonald's recent decision to transition to "cage free" eggs for its McMuffins and other menu items was a tipping point in the $9-billion egg industry, which still produces 96 per cent of its eggs in barns full of stacked wire cages.
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Los Angeles Times - September 29
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| Books, Films and Perspectives
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'Cowspiracy' inspires Texas restaurant to go vegan
Full story: VegNews
La Blue Casa - a Mexican restaurant at the University of Texas - will transition to a fully vegan menu by February 2016. Vegan co-owner Gabriela Lopez, inspired by the recent documentary Cowspiracy to take animal products off their menu had an epiphany after watching the film and said, "Our food is still going to be tasty ... We just don't want to cause harm on the planet."
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Vegans go glam
Full story: New York Times
Veganism has been edging into the mainstream for years now, coaxed along by superstar believers like Bill Clinton and Beyoncé. But lately, as plant-based eating has blossomed and gained followers, influential vegans are laboring to supplant its dowdy, spartan image with a new look: glamorous, prosperous, sexy and epidermally beaming with health. The Plantpower Way by Julie Piatt and Rich Roll, along with other books and popular restaurants, highlight the new glam look of veganism.
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Jamie Oliver's guide to living to 100
Full story: New Zealand Herald
He has already campaigned for better school meals to improve youngsters' health. But now Jamie Oliver has a more long-term food goal - a diet that helps us to live to 100. In a new TV series Jamie's Super Foods, the father of four unveils tips that can help towards a longer life, such as limiting meat to two portions a week and consuming the majority of your calories in the first half of the day. [Jamie doesn't advocate a vegan diet but he does point out healthy diets that are largely vegetarian/vegan and includes tofu and black beans among his 14 'hero' ingredients.]
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New Zealand Herald - September 22
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Discussing vegetarianism and veganism
Full story: VeggieBoards
You have researched all the environmental, health and ethical arguments. You know the best response to anything they could possibly throw at you. Yet, your conversations with family members who refuse to accept your decision to go vegetarian or vegan, or friends whom you know have the capacity to be compassionate but refuse to listen, never seem to work out. What's wrong? Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton and Sheila Hee may help...
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Why I Will Always Be Vegan - inspiring essays...
Vegan Truth Blogspot
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