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On average, every vegan spares more than 100 animals' lives per year. - PETA
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In this edition...
Featured Video |
 Cattle rancher's wife goes vegan: 'Every marriage has its issues' |
Health |
| How strictly must you follow a healthy diet to protect your heart? |
| Video: Reversing diabetes with food |
| Why switching from red meat to white doesn't help your health or animals |
Environment |
| Oxford study: 8 million lives, $1 trillion could be saved by going vegan |
| Someday our diets will be post-animal |
| Dutch government places historic limit on meat |
Lifestyles and Trends |
| Video: Five vegan egg replacers for baking |
| Exhausted by 40 desert marathons, Australian says: 'Eat more vegetarian meals - save water' |
| Food Conglomerate: 'We are at a tipping point' with veganism |
| Heart attack prompted New Zealand grandmother to go vegan: Now she competes in endurance runs |
Signs of the Times |
| Armani goes fur free after years of lobbying by animal rights groups |
| SeaWorld says it will end breeding of killer whales |
| Which famous chefs are going meat-free? |
| Cultured eggs, milk and meat coming soon to grocery stores |
Animal Issues and Advocacy |
| Gene modification could end chicks' suffering |
| Animal sentience: Birds can speak in phrases and use grammar |
| Canada's livestock transportation rules 'worst in the Western world' - Canadians support change |
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(Excerpts are included from current news stories. Click on the "Full story" link to read the full article.)
Featured Video 
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Cattle rancher's wife goes vegan: 'Every marriage has its issues'
Video source: CBS News
All cattlemen face challenges beyond their control. But not long ago, on a ranch south of Houston [Texas, U.S.], Tommy Sonnen faced a problem of his own doing... how a cattle ranch became a sanctuary.
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How strictly must you follow a healthy diet to protect your heart?
Full story: VegSource Blog
How strictly do you need to follow the recommendations of Dr. McDougall or Dr. Esselstyn to get protection from heart disease? Well, when my father was in his early 80s, he had chest pains due to arterial blockages, and he had a couple stents put in...
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VegSource Blog - March 26
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Video: Reversing diabetes with food
Full story: NutritionFacts.org
Type 2 diabetes can be reversed with severe calorie restriction - whether by surgery or starvation - but can also be reversed by simply eating healthier.
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NutritionFacts.org - March 2
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Why switching from red meat to white doesn't help your health or animals
Full story: One Green Planet
Thirty years ago in the 1980s, a visitor at a farm animal sanctuary where I was volunteering, told me, "I don't eat red meat anymore, but I still eat chicken and turkey." Most people consider poultry a "healthy" food compared with red meat... Yet a study by the National Cancer Institute under the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services showed that broiled, fried, grilled, and barbecued chicken, thoroughly cooked, can carry an even bigger load of cancer-causing heterocyclic amines than red meat. [And,] contrary to what many people think, poultry is not a low fat, low cholesterol food.
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One Green Planet - March 24
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Oxford study: 8 million lives, $1 trillion could be saved by going vegan
Full story: VegNews
Researchers from the Oxford Martin Programme on the Future of Food reveal how a vegan world could have monumental effects on human health and the environment. A landmark study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has found that a plant-based diet would prevent more than eight millions deaths, reduce emissions by 70 per cent, and help save up to $1 trillion annually in health care costs.
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Someday our diets will be post-animal
Full story: Gadgette
We seem to be doing fine for meat right now. If you want some, head to the supermarket and buy some. This won't last, however, as humans love eating meat and our numbers are increasing almost exponentially. Eventually we won't have enough animal meat to go round. This isn't anything to do with being for or against vegetarianism; it's just going to be practically impossible to have a sustainable meat industry in the future.
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Dutch government places historic limit on meat
Full story: VegNews
For the first time in Dutch history, government-funded group Nutrition Centre placed a limit on the amount of meat it recommends its citizens to consume. The recently published Dutch dietary guidelines indicate that consumers should eat no more than two servings (a total of 17 ounces) of meat per week, citing the high-carbon footprint of animal agriculture as the motivation behind the new recommendation.
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| Lifestyles and Trends
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Video: Five vegan egg replacers for baking
Video source: Vegan Outreach
Eggless baking is easy! Tips from Vegan Outreach's Vegan Food & Lifestyle Coordinator, Toni Okamoto.
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Exhausted by 40 desert marathons, Australian says: 'Eat more vegetarian meals - save water'
Full story: The Marshalltown
Exhausted after wearing out eight pairs of shoes in 40 marathons across deserts from Antarctica to the United States, Australian Mina Guli hopes her runs will inspire other people to safeguard the planet's fresh water supplies. Guli said people she had met or contacted via social media had made pledges to cut water use totalling 100 million litres, including with simple measures such as to eat more vegetarian meals - crops take less far water to produce than meat.
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The Marshalltown - March 24
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Food Conglomerate: 'We are at a tipping point' with veganism
Full story: VegNews
Plant-based meat alternative company Gardein is helping to redefine consumer's ideas about protein choices, according to the brand's billion-dollar parent company Pinnacle Foods. "We actually think we are at a tipping point in terms of people starting to look at plants as an alternative to animal protein," said Mark Schiller, president of North American Retail for Pinnacle Foods.
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Heart attack prompted New Zealand grandmother to go vegan: Now she competes in endurance runs
Full story: Stuff, NZ
It was the heart attack [in 2013] that prompted grandmother of six Daryl Lewis to take on the adventure race touted as 'one of New Zealand's most picturesque runs.' Lewis spent less than a week in hospital and was only off work for a fortnight, but the experience was sufficiently frightening to prompt some changes. [Already vegetarian,] she changed her diet to raw vegan and she started doing more exercise. Within a month of getting out of hospital she entered her first off-road run. [Now] 20 kilograms lighter, she runs most days.
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| Signs of the Times
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Armani goes fur free after years of lobbying by animal rights groups
Full story: Guardian
The Italian designer Giorgio Armani has agreed to stop using fur for all his products following years of lobbying by animal rights activists. Armani, 81, said in a statement that new technologies "render the use of cruel practices unnecessary as regards animals" and that the decision reflected his luxury group's attention to "the critical issues of protecting and caring for the environment and animals." Armani joins Hugo Boss, Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger and Ralph Lauren in switching to synthetic alternatives, while British designer Stella McCartney has long followed a "vegetarian" philosophy, shunning fur, leather and feathers.
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SeaWorld says it will end breeding of killer whales
Full story: New York Times
SeaWorld said on March 17 that it would immediately cease breeding killer whales, bowing to mounting criticism by animal rights activists, regulators and lawmakers over the treatment of marine mammals in captivity. The company also announced a $50 million, five-year partnership with the Humane Society of the United States to improve its educational programs, teach visitors about animal welfare and conservation, and expand advocacy for marine wildlife.
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New York Times - March 17
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Which famous chefs are going meat-free?
Full story: Australia Financial Review
When meat-loving British chef Jamie Oliver revealed last year that he happily went meat-free three days a week, the food world tilted, just a little, on its axis. And while the great steak houses of the world aren't exactly declining, the number of top chefs turning their attention to vegetables is growing fast... Brent Savage, who has two restaurants in The Australian Financial Review Australia's Top 100 Restaurants, has shifted to a meat-free dinner menu at Yellow in Sydney's Potts Point. Think smoked macadamias, pumpkin crisps, salted carrot with quinoa and parsnip pappardelle with pine mushrooms.
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Australia Financial Review - March 21
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Cultured eggs, milk and meat coming soon to grocery stores
Full story: CBC
Hen-less egg whites, cow-less milk and practically pig-less meat are projected to appear in grocery stores as early as five years from now in an effort to reduce factory farming via cultured food.
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Gene modification could end chicks' suffering
Full story: SkyNews Australia
Scientists who have made a breakthrough in genetic modification say they hope the technology will save the lives of billions of male chickens each year. A study, lead by researchers at the CSIRO [Australia], found genes can be switched off through RNA interference - which could mean that the sex of a chicken could be altered during development.
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SkyNews Australia - March 12
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Animal sentience: Birds can speak in phrases and use grammar
Full story: Daily Mail, UK
Birds not only use a variety of calls to communicate different messages, but some can also combine these calls in a specific way to form 'phrases' to convey more complex information. Japanese great tits have been found to combine calls together to produce messages that convey different meanings. Scientists say this is the first example of the use of syntax by non-human animals to be discovered.
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Canada's livestock transportation rules 'worst in the Western world' - Canadians support change
Full story: CTV
Thousands of farm animals are transported across Canada every week. But the conditions they experience are regulated by rules that are decades old, and according to many, inhumane... [Meanwhile] Canadians appear to support reform to the country's rules governing the transportation of farmed animals, according to a study funded by Mercy for Animals. According to its findings, 97 per cent of Canadians said it is important for animals to be transported in a humane manner that addresses their basic needs. [Article includes comparison to European and Australian regulations.]
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