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In this edition...
Featured Video |
 Porcupine fish refuses to abandon trapped friend |
Top Stories |
| Why factory farming is not just cruel - but also a threat to all life on the planet |
| Meat giant Cargill invests in 'clean meat' startup |
| Goodbye - and good riddance - to livestock farming |
| Why animals should be given the same legal rights as humans |
Health |
| Going vegan propelled NBA veteran Wilson Chandler to his best season ever |
| 62-year-old vegan powerlifter smashes world records |
| Is my medication vegan? |
Environment |
| Collapse at salmon farm renews debate about fish farming |
| We've grossly underestimated how much methane from livestock is contributing to global warming |
| Sixth mass extinction of wildlife also threatens global food supplies |
Lifestyles and Trends |
| Pea protein just got the Cameron bump |
| Five fabulous vegan experiences in Paris |
| Battle lines drawn in German debate on meat substitutes |
Signs of the Times |
| China inks deal to buy lab-grown meat from Israel |
| Organization plans to make factory farming illegal In Switzerland |
| Plant-based foods top $3.1 billion in sales |
Animal Issues and Advocacy |
| If not now, when? If not you, who? |
| Whales and dolphins have human-like social structures and culture, say researchers |
| A baby wails, and the adult world comes running |
Books and Perspectives |
| Natalie Portman narrates essential documentary on meat consumption |
| Vegan with a side of humor |
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(Excerpts are included from current news stories. Click on the "Full story" link to read the full article.)
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Why factory farming is not just cruel - but also a threat to all life on the planet
Full story: Guardian, UK
The world desperately needs joined-up action on industrial farming if it is to avoid catastrophic impacts on life on earth, according to the head of one of the world's most highly regarded animal campaign groups. Philip Lymbery, chief executive of Compassion in World Farming (CIWF) and the author of Farmageddon: The True Cost of Cheap Meat and more recently Dead Zone: Where the Wild Things Were, said: "Every day there is a new confirmation of how destructive, inefficient, wasteful, cruel and unhealthy the industrial agriculture machine is. We need a total rethink of our food and farming systems before it's too late."
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Meat giant Cargill invests in 'clean meat' startup
Full story: WSJ
Cargill Inc. is betting you won't always need cattle to make hamburgers. The agricultural conglomerate has invested in Memphis Meats Inc., a startup developing technology to grow meat from self-reproducing animal cells. The stake marks the first investment by a traditional meat company in the nascent "clean meat" sector, where startups are creating products they say are better for the environment than meat derived from traditional sources.
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Goodbye - and good riddance - to livestock farming
Full story: Guardian, UK
What will future generations, looking back on our age, see as its monstrosities? What madness of our times will revolt our descendants? There are plenty to choose from. But one of them, I believe, will be the mass incarceration of animals, to enable us to eat their flesh or eggs or drink their milk. While we call ourselves animal lovers, and lavish kindness on our dogs and cats, we inflict brutal deprivations on billions of animals that are just as capable of suffering. The hypocrisy is so rank that future generations will marvel at how we could have failed to see it.
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Why animals should be given the same legal rights as humans
Full story: Maclean's, Canada
Around the world, environmentalists have been arguing for the rights of animals and entire ecosystems in the courts-and they're winning. For environmental lawyer and University of British Columbia professor David Boyd, author of The Rights of Nature: A Legal Revolution That Could Save the World, such legal developments are, "the first cracks in the wall of the way we treat individual animals."
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Maclean's, Canada - September 14
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| Health
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Going vegan propelled NBA veteran Wilson Chandler to his best season ever
Full story: Stack
Wilson Chandler knew he needed to do something different. After being told he'd miss the entire 2015-2016 NBA [U.S. National Basketball Association] season with a hip injury, a frightening pattern had emerged. Injuries had also hampered him in the past. Interested in keeping himself healthier on and off the court, Chandler started following a pescatarian diet (which is similar to a vegetarian diet but allows for fish). But as he continued to do more research, he came to the conclusion a vegan diet would be best-suited to his needs. His play last season speaks volumes. Chandler appeared in 71 games while posting new career highs.
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62-year-old vegan powerlifter smashes world records
Full story: AZ Family
Forget every preconceived notion you have about weightlifters; one Arizona [U.S.] athlete defies all expectations. She is a 62-year-old, completely vegan, record-breaking powerlifter. Rocky Luedeker has 13 world records and 26 state and national records, to be exact.
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Is my medication vegan?
Full story: UK Vegan Society
Many of us, including vegans, need to take medication at some time in our lives. However, many medications contain ingredients or excipients (the bits they add to make the medicine into a tablet etc.) which are not suitable for vegans. We need to ask a number of questions to ascertain if a medicine is vegan... [Advice from a vegan pharmacist.]
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UK Vegan Society - October 13
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| Environment
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Collapse at salmon farm renews debate about fish farming
Full story: CTV, Canada
A marine net pen holding 305,000 farmed Atlantic salmon collapsed recently, releasing thousands of fish into Puget Sound [BC, Canada] and renewing concerns that a new proposed salmon farm could harm wild salmon stock and cause other environmental damage.
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We've grossly underestimated how much methane from livestock is contributing to global warming
Full story: Gizmodo
A new NASA-sponsored study shows that global methane emissions produced by livestock are 11 per cent higher than estimates made last decade. Because methane is a particularly nasty greenhouse gas, the new finding means it's going to be even tougher to combat climate change than we realized.
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Sixth mass extinction of wildlife also threatens global food supplies
Full story: Guardian, UK
The sixth mass extinction of global wildlife already under way is seriously threatening the world's food supplies, according to experts. "Huge proportions of the plant and animal species that form the foundation of our food supply are just as endangered [as wildlife] and are getting almost no attention," said Ann Tutwiler, director general of Bioversity International, a research group that published a new report.
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Guardian, UK - September 26
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Pea protein just got the Cameron bump
Full story: Good Food Institute
Pea protein had its breakout role when it was featured in Beyond Meat's product line, and gained additional notoriety playing the lead in Ripple's plant-based milk. Now, Oscar-winning director James Cameron (of Avatar and Titanic fame) and wife Suzy Amis Cameron are giving pea protein a place on the A-list. The Camerons are launching the largest pea protein fractionation plant in North America: Verdient Foods Inc. in Saskatchewan, Canada. Beyond processing, the plant will also develop plant-based foods for producers and provide a profit structure and mentorship program to keep young Canadian farmers engaged in organic, plant-based farming.
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Good Food Institute - October 6
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Five fabulous vegan experiences in Paris
Full story: VegNews
The City of Light's vegan scene is on fire, and we've got a hotlist for your next trip...
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Battle lines drawn in German debate on meat substitutes
Full story: Food Navigator
Controversy is mounting over how vegetable-based meat substitutes should be labelled in Germany as draft regulations backing "meaty names" is released.
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Food Navigator - October 18
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| Signs of the Times
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China inks deal to buy lab-grown meat from Israel
Full story: Independent, UK
China has signed a $300m deal to purchase meat grown in a laboratory in Israel in a deal that could open a lucrative floodgate for vegan food manufacturers into the world's most populous country.
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Independent, UK - September 16
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Organization plans to make factory farming illegal In Switzerland
Full story: Plant Based News
An 'antispeciesist political think tank' is calling for the end of factory farming in Switzerland. Sentience Politics - which was headed up by thought-leader Adriano Mannino for some time - plans to collect 100,000 signatures on a petition, then instigate a vote proposing to change the law.
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Plant Based News - October 16
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Plant-based foods top $3.1 billion in sales
Full story: Mercy for Animals
A study commissioned by the Plant Based Foods Association and The Good Food Institute revealed that the plant-based foods market topped $3.1 billion in sales. The results showed an overall growth in plant-based foods of 8.1 per cent from last year.
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Mercy for Animals - September 14
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| Animal Issues and Advocacy
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If not now, when? If not you, who?
Full story: Gentle World
Have you ever been driving on a highway and come alongside a cattle truck? Or perhaps you've had the experience of going fishing and feeling a pang of sympathy for both the worms wriggling on the hooks and the fish flapping their bodies, in a desperate struggle to return to life-giving water... If they could, every animal in the world would rise up, and with one pleading voice, say to you: "What on earth are you waiting for?"
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Whales and dolphins have human-like social structures and culture, say researchers
Full story: CBC
Cetaceans form complex alliance relationships, work together for mutual benefit of the group, teaching one another how to hunt and hunt co-operatively. They are also capable of complex vocalizations, including regional group dialects and 'name' recognition.
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A baby wails, and the adult world comes running
Full story: New York Times
In almost every mammal species, an infant's
cry has a primal impact on nearby adults.
Scientists are beginning to figure out why.
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New York Times - September 4
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| Books and Perspectives
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Natalie Portman narrates essential documentary on meat consumption
Full story: The Wrap
Eating Animals is not a preachy, militant vegan documentary, but rather an affectionate and thoughtful examination of traditions that helped build this country in the early days: actual farms with actual farmers raising livestock naturally, rather than pumping antibiotic after antibiotic into our food production system as we barrel toward superbugs we can't control. Produced and narrated by notable vegan Natalie Portman and directed by Christopher Dillon Quinn from novelist Jonathan Safran Foer's memoir, Eating Animals may be the most important documentary that screened this year at the Telluride Film Festival, though it could be hard to get audiences across America to watch it. Why? Because most people don't want to know where their food comes from.
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Vegan Outreach Blog - September 11
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