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No July Monthly Gathering!
Because of the Independence Day holiday, there will not be the usual first-Monday presentation on 7/7/08.
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The Vegan Lifestyle --- It's For Real!
Dr. John Gobble,
DrPh, MPH, RD, LD, CHES
Monday, 6/2/08, 7p, McNail-Riley House, 601 W. 13th (at Jefferson), Eugene FREE - Map
Veg Spotlight
Toby - EVEN's special vegan canine - at peace and in harmony with all.
Veg Wisdom
There is strong medical evidence that complete freedom from eating animal flesh or cow's milk products is a gateway to optimal nutritional health. - Dr. Michael Klaper
Become a Member
Veg Spotlight
Veg Wisdom
Cruelty to animals can become violence to humans. - Ali MacGraw
Edu-Stat
Cows used for their milk are drugged and bred to produce unnatural amounts of milk; they have their babies stolen from them shortly after birth and sent to notoriously cruel veal farms so that humans can drink the calves' milk.
Resources > Recommended Links
National Links
All is One
http://globalcommunity.org/flash/wombat.shtml
The American Anti-Vivisection Society
www.aavs.org
The mission of the American Anti-Vivisection Society is to unequivocally oppose and work to end experiments on animals and to oppose all other forms of cruelty to animals.
American Vegan Society
www.americanvegan.org
56 Dinshah Lane
PO Box 369
Malaga NJ 08328
Ph 856-694-2887 Fx 856-694-2288
American Vegan Society is a nonprofit educational membership organization teaching a compassionate way of living that includes veganism. Together we explore and apply compassionate living concepts, and reflect on them and ourselves. We learn how to revere the Earth, how to save the animals, and how to care for ourselves. People follow a vegan lifestyle for ethical reasons, for health, for the environment.
The vegan diet excludes flesh, fish, fowl, dairy products (animal milk, butter, cheese, yogurt, etc.), eggs, honey, animal gelatin, and all other foods of animal origin. It is an adventure in taste; and displays an amazing variety, the fundamentals of which are vegetables, grains, fruits, legumes, nuts and seeds. Foods from plants best provide for all people in the world.
Vegans exclude products of cruelty such as leather, wool, fur, and silk, in clothing, upholstery, etc. They dress with care. Fashion with compassion is the style.
The society motto is: Ahimsa lights the way.
Animal Protection Institute
www.api4animals.org
Since 1968, the nonprofit Animal Protection Institute has been working to protect animals from abuse and exploitation using legislation, litigation, public education and advocacy. In addition, we also manage the API Primate Sanctuary located in Texas. Home to more than 400 nonhuman primates, many of our residents were rescued from grim conditions in research facilities, roadside zoos, and private possession and now live in as natural a setting as possible with minimal human interference.
The Animals Voice Magazine
www.animalsvoice.com
1354 East Avenue #R-252, Chico CA 95926
800-82-VOICE (800-828-6423)
Best Friends Animal Society
www.bestfriends.org/
5001 Angel Canyon Road
Kanab, Utah 84741-5000
Ph 435-644-2001
Best Friends is working with you -- and with humane groups all across the country -- to bring about a time when there are No More Homeless Pets. The sanctuary, at the heart of Southern Utah's Golden Circle of national parks, is home, on any given day, to about 1,500 dogs, cats, horses, rabbits, birds and other animals. In our home state, Best Friends manages a model No More Homeless Pets campaign with shelters and humane groups statewide to ensure that every healthy dog or cat that's ever born can be guaranteed a loving home. And Best Friends reaches across the nation, helping humane groups, individual people, and entire communities to set up spay/neuter, shelter, foster, and adoption programs in their own neighborhoods, cities, and states. The mission of Best Friends is driven by the simple philosophy that kindness to animals helps build a better world for all of us.
Bizarro
www.bizarro.com
Bizarro.com is the web site of the syndicated newspaper cartoon feature, Bizarro. Its creator, Dan Piraro, is an avid animal rights advocate and uses his site to promote both his cartoon career and his beliefs about the value of a compassionate lifestyle. You can visit Bizarro.com for a few laughs, valuable links to other animal compassion and environmental organizations, and books, posters and other products that feature Piraro's art.
Compassion Over Killing
www.cok.net
Compassion Over Killing {COK) is a nonprofit animal advocacy organization based in Washington, D.C. Working to end animal abuse since 1995, COK exposes cruelty to farmed animals through undercover investigations, litigation, and media exposés, and promotes vegetarian eating as a way to build a kinder world for all of us, both human and nonhuman. P.O. Box 9773, Washington, DC 20016 | 301-891-2458
Compassionate Cooks
www.compassionatecooks.com
P.O. Box 18512
Oakland, CA 94619
510-531-2665
Compassionate Cooks is dedicated to empowering people to make informed food choices and to debunking myths about vegetarianism and animal rights through cooking classes, recipes and resources, workshops and lectures, articles and essays, the popular Vegetarian Food for Thought podcast, a vegetarian cooking DVD, and their new cookbook The Joy of Vegan Baking.
Farm Animal Reform Movement (FARM)
FARM (Farm Animal Rights Movement) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, public-interest organization promoting vegan, plant-based diets to save animals, protect the environment, and improve health. We operate from the nation's capital and work through our Compassionate Activist Network (CAN) with volunteers in all 50 states and two dozen other countries. Learn more about FARM.
Farm Sanctuary
www.farmsanctuary.org
Farm Sanctuary is the nation's leading farm animal protection organization. Since incorporating in 1986, Farm Sanctuary has worked to expose and stop cruel practices of the "food animal" industry through research and investigations, legal and institutional reforms, public awareness projects, youth education, and direct rescue and refuge efforts. Farm Sanctuary shelters in Watkins Glen, NY and Orland, CA provide lifelong care for hundreds of rescued animals, who have become ambassadors for farm animals everywhere by educating visitors about the realities of factory farming.
Front Porch Productions
www.msgmyth.com
Go Vegan Radio
www.goveganradio.com
Go Vegan Radio is hosted by Bob Linden.
GreenPeople
www.greenpeople.org
GreenPeople is the world's largest directory of eco-friendly and holistic health products. Buy Green, Sell Green, Be Green!
Happy Cow
www.happycow.net
HappyCow is a free worldwide internet guide created in to assist travelers and people everywhere find vegetarian and healthy food options, with over 6,000 listings in 95+ countries. HappyCow promotes vegetarianism as a compassionate, healthy, and environmentally sustainable way of living. When planning a trip of travel, or just craving some delicious wholesome grub, be sure visit HappyCow first!
In Defense of Animals
www.idausa.org
5428 NE 30th
Portland, OR 97211
503-249-9996
In Defense of Animals is an international animal protection organization dedicated to ending the exploitation and abuse of animals by raising the status of animals beyond that of mere property, and by defending their rights, welfare and habitat. IDA’s efforts include educational events, cruelty investigations, boycotts, grassroots activism, and hands-on rescue through our sanctuaries in Mississippi and Cameroon, Africa.
Dr. McDougall's Health and Medical Center
www.drmcdougall.com
The McDougall Program uses a plant-food based diet to prevent and cure common diseases, such as obesity, heart disease, hypertension, diabetes, arthritis, MS and various intestinal disorders. Most people are able to avoid surgeries and discontinued their medications after the change. Dr. McDougall is the author of many books and DVDs, and runs a 10-day live-in program for patients in California. The diet is low-fat, vegan and delicious.
National Anti-Vivisection Society
National Anti-Vivisection Society
Founded in 1929, the National Anti-Vivisection Society is dedicated to abolishing the exploitation of animals used in research, education and product testing.
NAVS promotes greater compassion, respect and justice for animals through educational programs based on respected ethical and scientific theory and supported by extensive documentation of the cruelty and waste of vivisection.
NAVS' educational programs are directed at increasing public awareness about vivisection, identifying humane solutions to human problems, developing alternatives to the use of animals and working with like-minded individuals and groups to effect changes which help to end the suffering inflicted on innocent animals.
Natural Awakenings Magazine
www.naportland.com
phone: 503.957.0783
fax: 866.488.5490
Natural Awakenings Magazine---your resource guide to healthy living. Download an issue of Natural Awakenings at www.naportland.com!
North American Vegetarian Society
www.navs-online.org
The North American Vegetarian society is a non-profit educational organization dedicated to promoting vegetarianism. NAVS serves its members, over 150 affiliated groups, the general public, and the media, throughout North America. NAVS is host of the annual Vegetarian Summerfest conference and publishes the quarterly news magazine, Vegetarian Voice. See also www.vegetariansummerfest.org.
Northwest Veg
http://www.nwveg.org/index.html
The Northwest Vegetarian Education & Empowerment Group is an all-volunteer non-profit 501(c)(3) group in the Portland (OR)-Vancouver (WA) area. Founded in 2003, we are dedicated to bringing awareness to the power of a veg lifestyle and helping support people in their transition toward making healthier, more sustainable & compassionate food choices. We welcome everyone, vegetarian or not, and encourage you to explore veg issues at your own pace.
NotMilk
www.notmilk.com
Robert Cohen is the NotMilkMan.
NutritionMD
www.nutritionmd.org
NutritionMD.org provides information for both health care providers and consumers on the role of vegetarian diets in overall health, as well as how it relates to the prevention and treatment of specific conditions. You can also find guides on how to make over your diet, answers to specific nutrition questions, and delicious recipes.
People For the Ethical Treatment of Animals
www.peta.org
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), with more than a million members and supporters, is the largest animal rights organization in the world. Founded in 1980, PETA is dedicated to establishing and protecting the rights of all animals. PETA operates under the simple principle that animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, or use for entertainment.
PETA focuses its attention on the four areas in which the largest numbers of animals suffer the most intensely for the longest periods of time: on factory farms, in laboratories, in the clothing trade, and in the entertainment industry. We also work on a variety of other issues, including the cruel killing of beavers, birds and other "pests," and the abuse of backyard dogs.
PETA works through public education, crue lty investigations, research, animal rescue, legislation, special events, celebrity involvement, and protest campaigns.
Physicians Committee For Responsible Medicine (PCRM)
www.pcrm.org
Founded in 1985, the PCRM is a nonprofit health organization that promotes preventive medicine, especially good nutrition. PCRM also conducts clinical research studies, opposes unethical human experimentation, and promotes alternatives to animal research.
Pleasurable Kingdom
By Jonathan Balcombe, PhD
www.pleasurablekingdom.com
Animal pain and stress, once controversial, are now acknowledged by legislation in many countries, but there is no formal recognition of animals' ability to feel pleasure. Pleasurable Kingdom is the first book for lay-readers to present new evidence that animals — like humans — enjoy themselves. It debunks the popular perception that life for most is a continuous, grim struggle for survival and the avoidance of pain. Instead it suggests that creatures from birds to baboons feel good thanks to play, sex, touch, food, anticipation, comfort, aesthetics, and more. Combining rigorous evidence, elegant argument and amusing anecdotes, leading animal behavior researcher Jonathan Balcombe proposes that the possibility of positive feelings in creatures other than humans has important ethical ramifications for both science and society.
Truth in Labeling
www.truthinlabeling.org
United Poultry Concerns
www.upc-online.org
United Poultry Concerns (UPC) is a nonprofit organization that promotes the compassionate and respectful treatment of chickens and other domestic fowl. We urge people: Don’t Just Switch from Beef to Chicken – Go Vegan! Founded in 1990 by UPC President Karen Davis, UPC is the only organization in the country (and possibly the world) exclusively devoted to the plight of domestic fowl. UPC focuses on these birds because they are the largest number of abused warm-blooded animals in the world.
Along with the billions of birds who are slaughtered each year for food, millions more of these birds suffer in laboratories, get dumped in animal shelters, and die miserably in poultry houses without anyone knowing they ever lived. In fact, it was Karen Davis’s discovery of a little crippled hen named Viva, abandoned in a filthy chicken house in Maryland, which led her to start UPC on behalf of all the “Vivas” in the world who desperately need their voices to be heard.
United Poultry Concerns’ quarterly magazine Poultry Press won praise from UTNE magazine in 2005 as one of the best publications produced by a nonprofit organization. To learn more and become a member, visit www.upc-online.org or contact UPC, PO Box 150, Machipongo, VA 23405. (757) 678-7875.
Vegan Bodybuilding & Fitness
www.veganbodybuilding.com
Robert Cheeke
Founder & President
Vegan Bodybuilding & Fitness
6214 NE 12th Ave
Portland, OR 97211
541-231-6269
robert@veganbodybuilding.com
Vegan bodybuilding is about fueling your body with a vast array of natural, healthy foods, combined with resistance weight training and exercise, providing your body with the appropriate tools to build your physique and achieve your fitness goals.
Vegan Bodybuilding & Fitness is dedicated to educating the public on the benefits of a plant-based diet and exercise as important components of a healthy lifestyle. We do this through outreach: events, education, film and literature. We also sponsor athletes and sell vegan fitness clothing on our www.veganbodybuilding.com website.
Vegan Outreach
www.veganoutreach.org
VEGAN OUTREACH (VO) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. VO is dedicated to reducing animal suffering by promoting a vegan lifestyle. VO is working to expose and end cruelty to animals through the widespread distribution of their illustrated booklets, Why Vegan, Even If You Like Meat, and Try Vegetarian (formerly Vegetarian Living).
Vegan Peace
www.veganpeace.com
Striving towards peacefully sharing our Earth. Includes information about veganism, animal cruelty, recipes, nutrient information, e-cards, sweatshops, organic farming, parenting, quotes, gun control and cookbooks.
Vegetarian Resource Group
www.vrg.org
P.O. Box 1463
Baltimore, MD 21203
Phone: (410) 366-8343
Fax: (410) 366-8804
E-mail: vrg@vrg.org
Our health professionals, activists, and educators work with businesses and individuals to bring about healthful changes in your school, workplace, and community. Registered dietitians and physicians aid in the development of nutrition-related publications and answer member and media questions about vegetarian diets. The Vegetarian Resource Group is a non-profit organization. Financial support comes primarily from memberships, donations, and book sales. The Vegetarian Journal, a print magazine, is a benefit of membership in The VRG. (For more information, please see the Vegetarian Journal online.)
Vegetarians in Paradise – a Los Angeles Vegetarian Web Magazine
www.vegparadise.com
With a touch of humor, Vegetarians in Paradise makes it easy to be vegan/vegetarian with popular features like Vegetarian Basics 101 and The Road to Vegetaria, Protein Basics, Cooking Beans and Grains Charts, book and media reviews, cooking advice. associations directory, bookshelf, vegetarian food companies, and a giant Recipe Index.
VeggieDate
www.veggiedate.org
VegNews Magazine
www.vegnews.com
Vegetarianism is hotter than ever. The premier vegetarian lifestyle magazine, VegNews serves up the latest in vegetarian news, health information, global events, the best new veg products, must-read books, tantalizing recipes, celebrity buzz, and even vegetarian weddings to this growing segment. Our readers are living the vegetarian lifestyle and want more than recipes. Again and again, VegNews delivers.
The World Peace Diet
By Will Tuttle, PhD
www.willtuttle.com
The World Peace Diet has been called the most important book of the 21st century: the foundation of a new society based on the truth of the interconnectedness of all life. It is provocative and transformative. The World Peace Diet is the first book to make explicit the invisible connections between our culture, our food, and the source of our broad range of problems—and the way to a positive transformation in our individual and collective lives. If you want to understand the big picture of our culture and why we have the unyielding dilemmas we face, and how we can solve them, this book is for you.
youth for environmental sanity
www.yesworld.org