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MFA Launches New Ad!
Mercy for Animals recently launched a powerful new ad. More consumers than ever before are witnessing the suffering behind every sausage, burger, and wing—encouraging millions to choose compassion over cruelty.
Nathan Runkle, executive director of Mercy For Animals, appeared on ABC's Nightline to discuss the dangerous proliferation of ag-gag legislation.
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Bring It On Down to Veganville
Justin Timberlake on Saturday Night Live last month
Check it out here on Daily Motion
or
on Alicia Silverstone's The Kind Life Blog
Either way, once you get past the commercial, you'll love it!
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The Mediterranean Diet
Is a Weight-Gainer
The Asian Diet Should Be Our Goal
by Jeff Novick, RD
...Comparing rates of obesity
worldwide gives the most compelling
clues about the best diets for
achieving and maintaining a trim
body weight.
In Asia, where the
bulk of the food is rice, with no
dairy foods, and very little meat,
fewer than 5 percent of people are
obese.
Make nuts and olive oil a
focus of eating, i.e. the Mediterranean Diet, and the obesity rates hit 20
percent. In the US and other Western countries, where meat, dairy
products, and veg
etable oils satisfy people's appetites, overweight and
obesity have become the norm.
(Obesity is a more severe form of being
overweight, which affects nearly two
-
thirds of Americans.)... >> MORE
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A Well-Fed World
Feeding Families / Saving Animals
A Well-Fed World has just launched a new gift-giving campaign, Feed More International. Instead of giving "gifts" of animals to be used for food, we provide vegetarian/vegan food to communities in Haiti, Ethiopia, Belize, and the U.S..
Find out more about our new campaign and the Dark Side of Heifer International.
Supporters include inspiring activists such as Marianne Williamson, John Robbins, Andrew Harvey, actor Josh Radnor, former U.S. Representative Tony Hall, plus representatives from Save the Children, Oxfam and other organizations who are leading the effort to solve world hunger.
Dawn Moncrieffe,
Founding Director
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Freya Dinshah
President, American Vegan Society
Read an exclusive EVEN interview HERE with Freya Dinshah, President, American Vegan Society
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Live Vegan
For the Animals, For Your Health, For the Planet
Every animal values his or her own life, and strives to avoid suffering and death. Farmed animals are as capable of feeling pain, sorrow, and affection as dogs and cats.
The most important step one can take to end animal cruelty is to phase animal products out of their food choices.
>> Learn More
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Low-Fat Milk Does Not Prevent or Reverse Childhood Obesity
The choice of low-fat over whole milk does not lower obesity rates in children, according to a new study published in Archives of Disease in Childhood. Researchers examined milk consumption and body weight in 10,700 children at ages 2 and 4 as part of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Survey, Birth Cohort (ECLS-B).
Those children who drank 1 percent or skim milk were more likely to be overweight or obese. The American Academy of Pediatrics' recommendations to choose low-fat milk as a way to manage weight appear ineffective. Although skim milk is somewhat lower in calories, compared with whole milk, it remains highly caloric, similar to soda.
The authors note that milk should not be the only consideration in obesity prevention and suggest other risk factors, such as parental guidance, high-fat diets, and lack of exercise, play important roles.
Scharf RJ, Demmer RT, DeBoer MD. Longitudinal evaluation of milk type consumed and weight status in preschoolers. Arch Dis Child. 2013;0:1-6.
Source: Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
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Meat's Not Green
Live Green Go Vegan
The connection between the environment and what—or rather, whom—we eat is undeniable. PETA's video proves that "meat's not green." >> MORE HERE
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Krissi Vandenberg
Executive Director, Vegan Action
Read an exclusive EVEN interview HERE with Vegan Activist, Krissi Vandenberg.
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Got Milk? Don't Need It!
Bad for Us --- Bad for Cows
For years, we've been told that milk does a body good. But does it really? Though touted as the healthier option at home and in restaurants, milk has roughly the same calorie count as soda and 2% milk contains the same amount of saturated fat as french fries. Given these two facts, the correlation between high milk consumption and high rates of Type 1 diabetes and heart disease makes sense.
Even though one-third of Americans are lactose intolerant, the U.S. still consumes nearly 9 times the amount of milk that China does. So why do we drink so much milk? Because cows are making more of it. With the introduction of growth hormones like rBST, milk cows are producing nearly twice as much as they did in 1970.
Milk — bad for us, bad for cows.
http://www.learnstuff.com/got-milk/
[EVEN NOTE: Although anything is better than cow milk, no one actually needs to eat their cereal dry (unless that is preferred). So many delicious non-dairy milk alternatives are available, you can continue to enjoy your cereal and everything else, by switching to almond milk, organic soy milk or organic rice milk. Or any other non-GMO and organic nut and seed milks. Be sure to select those with the fewest additives! Choose the lowest fat, sugar and sodium content. Or make your own!]
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Get Vegucated!
3 People. 6 Weeks. 1 Challenge.
Vegucated is a feature-length documentary that follows three meat- and cheese-loving New Yorkers who agree to adopt a vegan diet for six weeks. There's Brian, the bacon-loving bachelor who eats out all the time, Ellen, the single mom who prefers comedy to cooking, and Tesla, the college student who avoids vegetables and bans beans.
They have no idea that so much more than steak is at stake and that the fate of the world may fall on their plates. Lured with true tales of weight lost and health regained, they begin to uncover hidden sides of animal agriculture and soon start to wonder whether solutions offered in films like Food, Inc. go far enough. Before long, they find themselves risking everything to expose an industry they supported just weeks before. >> Watch Trailer Here
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30 Activities Your High School Vegetarian Group Can Do
by Shelby Jackson
Vegetarian Resource Group Intern
Starting a vegetarian club in high school is a powerful way to spread the word about the nutritional benefits, animal rights issues and the
ecological advantages of vegetarianism. Bringing together individuals with similar ideas and interests makes advocating more enjoyable and productive. When it comes to activism, numbers are important. Every person brings something new and different to the table. Having a
multitude of diverse perspectives and skills is valuable when it comes to formulating and executing successful advocacy efforts....
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A Well-Fed World
Feeding Families, Saving Animals
A Well-Fed World is a hunger relief and animal protection organization based in Washington, DC. helping to distribute vegan food to those in need. We work to provide immediate assistance to people and animals, as well as reform practices to produce long-term results.
And we provide issue-based research and fact sheets on broad spectrum of related topics for the general public and decision-makers.
Mending our food system is a crucial part of solving the world's most destructive and persistent problems. Fortunately, the foods that promote health and well-being are the same foods that conserve scarce resources to better feed the world, while reducing greenhouse gas emissions and protecting the environment.
Eating Green & Eating Well =
- Maximizing plant-based foods - Minimizing animal products.
- Maximizing whole foods - Minimizing processed food.
- Maximizing organic foods - Minimizing "conventional" pesticide-laden foods.
- Maximizing local, sustainable farming - Minimizing long-distant travel.
- Maximizing nutritious food choices - Minimizing junk foods.
You have the power! Learn what you can do every day at every meal to make choices that improve our health and the health of our planet.
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Vegan for the Holidays
by Zel Allen
Holidays inspire everyone to cook, even people who rarely step into the kitchen. Who doesn't look forward to special festive meals when joining with friends and family to celebrate? Vegan cooking expert, Zel Allen, demonstrates that plant-based holiday foods are as delicious, innovative, and elegant as their hallowed meat-based counterparts. Vegan for the Holidays establishes modern food traditions with a compassionate focus that everyone can enjoy with guilt-free gusto. >> MORE
Zel Allen partners with her husband, Reuben, to publish Vegetarians in Paradise, a popular online vegetarian magazine that spotlights Zel's humorous illustrations and innovative recipes. She is also author of The Nut Gourmet cookbook and has contributed travel and food articles in the Vegetarian Journal.
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