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'I can't believe they used to eat animals'- Future Generations
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In this edition...
Top Stories |
 Eating more animal protein increases risk of death, plant protein reduces it |
| Vegan meat is now the biggest trend in the tech industry |
| Peter Singer interview: Should animals have 'human' rights? |
| Monks buy 600 lbs of lobster to release them into ocean |
| Video: Diver and fish become fast friends |
Health and Environment |
| The great protein fiasco |
| Ex U.S. football player opens up about health struggles, going vegan |
| World's largest carbon producers face landmark human rights case |
| Meet the guy who envisions a 'meat brewery' to help solve a global problem |
Lifestyles and Trends |
| 8 chefs reveal their go-to vegetarian restaurants in Australia |
| The best vegetarian dishes in New Zealand |
| Vegan muscle man pumps iron, smashes stereotypes |
| Mayor of Turin to create Italy's first 'vegetarian city' |
| China plans to cut meat consumption in half |
Animal Issues and Advocacy |
| Summer camp raising the next generation of vegans and activists |
| Canada to move up battery cage ban and introduce rigorous cage-free standards |
| Pups saved from dog meat festival - going to Canada |
| Eggs that clear the cages, but maybe not the conscience |
| Why this cruelty-free leather is better than the real thing |
Books and Perspectives |
| Four new books explore the morality of meat |
| Making progress against animal cruelty: An interview with Wayne Pacelle |
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Eating more animal protein increases risk of death, plant protein reduces it
Full story: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
People who eat more protein from plants and less from animals may live longer even when they have unhealthy habits like heavy drinking or smoking, a large U.S. study suggests.
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Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - August 1
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Vegan meat is now the biggest trend in the tech industry
Full story: Organic Authority
At the recent 2016 Milken Institute Global Conference in Los Angeles, Eric Schmidt, executive director of Alphabet, Google's parent company, listed plant-based proteins as the most important trend in tech, beating out 3D printing, self-driving cars, mobile medical data, virtual reality, and education programs.
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Organic Authority - July 13
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Peter Singer interview: Should animals have 'human' rights?
Full story: Deutsche Welle
Animals like gorillas and chimpanzees are closely related to humans. But they have no rights. Peter Singer, a professor of bioethics tells DW why great apes should be legally recognized and why animal interests matter.
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Monks buy 600 lbs of lobster to release them into ocean
Full story: CBC
More than 600 pounds of lucky lobsters were spared the pot, thanks to compassionate monks on Prince Edward Island. The monks bought the lobsters from various places around the Island, said Venerable Dan of the Great Enlightenment Buddhist Institute Society in Little Sands. "Hopefully, we can find a spot where there are no cages waiting for them," said Dan. The purpose is to cultivate compassion not just for the lobsters, but for all beings, he said.
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Video: Diver and fish become fast friends
Video source: The Dodo
 This fish always recognizes his diver friend. They've been hanging out together for 25 years!
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| Health and Environment
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The great protein fiasco
Video source: NutritionFacts.org
 The field of nutrition got human protein requirements spectacularly wrong, leading to a massive recalculation.
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NutritionFacts.org - June 27
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Ex U.S. football player opens up about health struggles, going vegan
Full story: MLive, Michigan, U.S.
"To tell you the truth, I'm shocked that I'm actually doing it," [says former NFL player Greg Skrepenak, whose weight and health were causing severe problems]. "I'm an eater. I was a guy who liked to eat. If someone had told me that later on in life I would not be eating (meat or dairy), I would say, 'Come on, seriously?'"
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MLive, Michigan, U.S. - June 17
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World's largest carbon producers face landmark human rights case
Full story: Guardian, UK
The world's largest oil, coal, cement and mining companies have been given 45 days to respond to a complaint that their greenhouse gas emissions have violated the human rights of millions of people living in the Phillippines. [Way to go Philippines!]
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Meet the guy who envisions a 'meat brewery' to help solve a global problem
Full story: Washington Post
Bruce Friedrich, 46, is the executive director of the Good Food Institute and managing trustee of New Crop Capital, which both promote restructuring the meat industry away from animal slaughter ... [On lab-grown meat:] It's meat. It's the exact same thing, just grown in a different way. It's cleaner, safer, transparent. There are tens of millions of illnesses from contaminated meat annually, thousands of people die. All of that goes away. At scale, it will be cheaper than beef, because it's so much more efficient.
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Washington Post - July 28
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| Lifestyles and Trends
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8 chefs reveal their go-to vegetarian restaurants in Australia
Full story: Yahoo! Australia
Luckily, Australia and New Zealand's hospitality scenes have been embracing the meat-free revolution with open arms. More and more restaurants are including delicious veggie options on their menus and some have even changed their entire menu. These eight Aussie chefs have jumped onboard the green bandwagon and revealed their go-to vegetarian cafés they recommend you try...
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Yahoo! Australia - August 4
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The best vegetarian dishes in New Zealand
Full story: Stuff, NZ
A creative take on the humble beetroot took out the top award at the New Zealand Vegetarian Dish Challenge 2016. Chef Drew-Anne Weeds of Christchurch's Peppers Clearwater Resort scooped the coveted 'Dinner' dish title with a fine-dining creation featuring beetroot-coated tofu, beetroot fondant and raspberry powder.
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Vegan muscle man pumps iron, smashes stereotypes
Full story: CNN
Meet Patrik Baboumian, a German bodybuilder who is smashing soy-based stereotypes. "I'm probably the most unthinkable vegan on the planet for several reasons," says Baboumian, who's built like Popeye and has broken several powerlifting world records. He is a gentle giant whose concern for animal welfare [world hunger, and the environment] made him Baboumian wants to inspire others to become vegans like himself, proving that you can be super strong by living off plants alone.
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Mayor of Turin to create Italy's first 'vegetarian city'
Full story: Guardian, UK
Meat dishes have been central to the food tradition of northern Italy for centuries. But Chiara Appendino, the new mayor of Turin and a force in the populist Five Star Movement (M5S), could be about to change all that with her pledge to promote vegetarian and vegan diets as a "priority" in her administration. According to M5S's 62-page manifesto - which also called for better urban planning and the protection of public land - Turin's new mayor said the endorsement of meat-free and even dairy-free living was fundamental to the protection of the environment, health, and the wellbeing of animals.
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China plans to cut meat consumption in half
Full story: Food Revolution Network
China's health ministry released new dietary guidelines - with profound implications. The guidelines encourage the nation's 1.3 billion people to reduce their meat consumption by 50 per cent between now and 2030. If achieved, these guidelines would lead to a reduction in meat consumption that would be greater than all the meat currently consumed in the United States. The primary goal of these new guidelines is to improve the health of the Chinese people. But this dramatic change would also have an extraordinary impact on the world's climate, water supplies, and food security.
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Food Revolution Network - July 13
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| Animal Issues and Advocacy
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Summer camp raising the next generation of vegans and activists
Full story: Care2
"Young people when they learn about a problem in our world, they want to fix it," says Nora Kramer, founder and executive director of Youth Empowered Action Camp (YEA Camp, which is now offered in California, Massachusetts and New York). Kramer says some parents find out about the camp and tell their kids about it, but in most cases, it is the kids who persuade the parents to enroll them.
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Canada to move up battery cage ban and introduce rigorous cage-free standards
Full story: News release
Barren battery cages for Canada's egg-laying hens may be on their way out 5 years earlier [but still 15 years] than expected thanks to the tenacity of negotiators from the Canadian Federation of Humane Societies. The new draft code would also see the introduction of world-leading cage-free standards in response to public concern about the lack of guidelines for how cage-free systems operate in Canada. [Editor's note: This came just before more cruelty exposed at Canadian egg facility.]
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Pups saved from dog meat festival - going to Canada
Full story: Toronto Sun
Toronto is set to become home to approximately 100 dogs that were saved from certain, brutal deaths at this year's infamous Yulin dog eating festival in China.
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Eggs that clear the cages, but maybe not the conscience
Full story: New York Times
Pressure from animal rights activists has led many of the biggest food companies to commit to what are being described as more humane alternatives. In recent months, Walmart, Costco, McDonald's and others have pledged to transition to buying only cage-free eggs in the years to come. A big change is underway. But raising a hen in a "cage free" environment doesn't mean it will live in a bucolic setting, pecking for bugs in a great green field.
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Why this cruelty-free leather is better than the real thing
Full story: Care2
One start-up is trying to prove that animals do not need to be sacrificed or harmed in order to make quality leather. Modern Meadow, a Brooklyn-based biotech startup, is making biofabricated leather that's made in a lab from collagen cells that can be used to make a material that mimics the real thing - all without hurting or killing any animals. While many see leather as a byproduct of the meat industry that shouldn't go to waste, it's really just making animal agriculture more profitable and perpetuating the slaughter of many other species who are raised and killed just for their skin.
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| Books and Perspectives
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Four new books explore the morality of meat
Full story: Times Literary Supplement
It takes some effort to remind ourselves that the way we see other animals is rarely the way they see themselves. But we must think about it because we know enough to be sure that billions of them are conscious, form bonds, feel physical and psychological pleasures and pains. To give their welfare no more thought than we do that of rocks would be shamefully callous.
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Times Literary Supplement - July 20
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Making progress against animal cruelty: An interview with Wayne Pacelle
Full story: The Progressive
In his new book, The Humane Economy, Wayne Pacelle examines the forward movement that has come from pressing corporations to make decisions that reflect society's changing values. For example, Petco and PetSmart now help adopt out rather than sell dogs and cats. [An interview by Karen Dawn.]
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The Progressive - July 20
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