VEGETARIAN

VEGETARIAN

Boje's (October 2001) presentation for Goa, India:- "Vegetarianism is the opposite of terrorism" - latest effort to put the concepts of a non-violent, Ahimsa capitalism into words, and talk of what would managing and organizing look like. Relates to new influence theories for a veggie political economy

List of Famous Vegetarians (press here)

101 Reasons Why I am a Vegetarian (press here).

Voice for All Animals Web Page (press here) - good coveage of animal rights issues and local campaigns.

Free Radicals (press here).

Vegan Advocacy Resources (press here).

Vegan Products - No Sweat and No Animal Products (including Sneakers)

Lettuce Girls

http://www.notmilk.com/graphics/moofrig.jpg www.notmilk.com

Paul and Linda McCartney once said, "If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegetarian."

Vegetarianism in a Nutshell - good info on nutrition, etc.

There are an estimated four billion vegetarians in the world today, about 2.3 billion in China and India alone.

FACTS ABOUT MEAT:

Meat from factory farmed cow, sheep, pig and goat industries kills
7,000 to 8,000 people or more each year in the U.S. alone, and
millions are made sick from eating contaminated meat (Environment News Service).

Environmentally, meat production results in life threatening pollution
in water supplies around the world from a buildup of nitrates in the
groundwater which is tainted by runoff polluted with fecal matter (Environment News Service).

People in developing countries, where cancer rates are historically
low, begin to develop the cancers found in the West when fast food
burger chains set up shop (Environment News Service).

NEWS

August 20, 2001 Canyon High grad doesn't mind raising eyebrows for animal rights By Scott Huddleston - San Antonio Express-News - She's been arrested or detained in cities worldwide, usually in a skimpy outfit... Waples, assistant to the director of campaigns for the People for the
Ethical Treatment of Animals, or PETA, insists she's promoting not just animal rights, but choices for
women. "The true measure of feminism is
being able to do with your own body what you want," said Waples, 26, a Texan who has held one-hour protests in nothing more than underwear and a banner.

June 8, 2001 - Healing Our World: Weekly Comment By Jackie Alan Giuliano, Ph.D. Skinned is Skinned: There Is No Correct Leather - Many people labor under the erroneous assumption that leather products are acceptable because they are a necessary byproduct of the food industry. Even if you choose not to eat meat, some believe that since the animals are going to die anyway, why not use the products rather than let them go to waste (Environment News Service).

April 13, 2001- Beware of the meat taco - Worm on the Brain Woman Recuperating After Doctors Remove Parasite — An Arizona woman says she's feeling good, a little more than a week after undergoing six hours of surgery to remove a worm that had lodged in her brain. Dawn Becerra and her doctors believe the parasite got into her system three years ago, when she ate a pork taco while on a visit to Mexico. Becerra said she was ill for three weeks after eating the taco. Soon after, she began suffering violent seizures. Later, doctors determined she had a parasitic worm in her brain and it had caused neurocysticercosis — a lesion in her brain. ... Some experts point out that it is difficult to know for certain that the taco was the source of the worm. However Becerra ingested the parasite, it attached itself as an egg to her intestinal wall. Eventually, the egg developed into the worm, which moved into her blood stream and to her brain, said Dr. Joseph Sirven, who operated on Becerra.

April 13, 2001 - With virtually every country in Europe now reporting cases of the brain-wasting BSE, or mad cow disease, and Britain brought to a near standstill by a foot-and-mouth epidemic, people everywhere are radically changing their eating habits, turning to exotic meats such as kangaroo and ostrich, smuggling in beef from disease-free countries and even opting to go vegetarian. (USA Today, 13 April, 2001) For More on Mad cow See Steve Best’s (2001) article in TAMARA journal

11 April 2001 GMO food giants unmasked
Greenpeace: Thai consumers being made guinea pigs
Ploenpote Atthakor
Bangkok Post

Laboratory tests have confirmed the presence of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in seven food products, including baby food, on local market shelves, Greenpeace said yesterday.

The seven products are Nestle{AAC} baby food (Baby Cerelac); Unilever's Knorr instant cream of corn soup; Nissin Cup Noodle (duck flavour); Vita-Tofu soybean curd; Good Time instant cereal beverage; Lay's stax and Pringles potato crisps.

Except for Lay's stax and Pringles, which are imported from the US, the remaining items are produced locally.

The seven products were among 30 food items sent to a Hong Kong-based laboratory for genetic testing in February this year, Greenpeace said.

"It is shocking to know that these genetically engineered items are already ending up in our food without the public's knowledge or consent. Scientists still do not know the long-term effects of releasing GMOs into our environment and people's diet.

"Thai consumers have the right to refuse being treated like guinea pigs in what is a massive experiment with potentially far-reaching and irreversible consequences," said Auaiporn Suthonthanyakorn, of Greenpeace Southeast Asia.
www.thailabour.org

January 31, 2001 - (press here) General Motors will use Hormel animal protein product to make car parts 9.35 p.m. ET (0235 GMT) AUSTIN, Minn. — The food company that gave the world Spam is teaming up with General Motors Corp. to use pork and turkey byproducts to help make car parts. (Fox Market Wire).

March 12th, 2001- Watch out for those Veggie Dogs? - Greenpeace learned that the British Health Foods Association Has Declared: Morningstar Farms Products Are Not Natural Food (Greenpeace)-- check out http://www.truefoodnow.org/graphics/poster3.pdf to download a free poster of genetically engineered and non- genetically engineered veggie burgers.

March 6, 2000 - Ottawa Observer -on line (press here) "The ethics of vegetarianism The commitment to renounce flesh-eating has its foundations in many philosophies, from the concerns about animal suffering, world hunger, and health, to the belief that it is part of a spiritual journey towards purity. Maria Cook reports.

Feb 29, 2000 Study Urges Pre-Processed Beef Test WASHINGTON (AP) -(press here) Up to half the cattle in the nation's feedlots, far more than previously thought, are infected with deadly bacteria, the government said today. Discovery.health.

LINKS

Voice for All Animals

Vegetarians Unite of NMSU

OTHER LINKS

Mad Cow

Finding alternatives to leather is easy. Visit the PETA website at:
http://www.cowsarecool.com/alt.html and find links to many sellers
of non-leather products.

Learn more about the cruelties of factory farms from Farm
Sanctuary at: http://www.farmsanctuary.org/ and the Humane
Farming Association at: http://www.hfa.org/

	List of Famous Vegetarians (press here)
	101 Reasons Why I am a Vegetarian (press here).
	Voice for All Animals Web Page (press here) - good coveage of animal rights issues and local campaigns.
	Free Radicals (press here).
	Vegan Advocacy Resources (press here).
	Vegan Products - No Sweat and No Animal Products (including Sneakers)
	Lettuce Girls
	http://www.notmilk.com/graphics/moofrig.jpg www.notmilk.com
	Paul and Linda McCartney once said, "If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegetarian."
	Vegetarianism in a Nutshell - good info on nutrition, etc.

	August 20, 2001 Canyon High grad doesn't mind raising eyebrows for animal rights By Scott Huddleston - San Antonio Express-News - She's been arrested or detained in cities worldwide, usually in a skimpy outfit... Waples, assistant to the director of campaigns for the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or PETA, insists she's promoting not just animal rights, but choices for women. "The true measure of feminism is being able to do with your own body what you want," said Waples, 26, a Texan who has held one-hour protests in nothing more than underwear and a banner.
	June 8, 2001 - Healing Our World: Weekly Comment By Jackie Alan Giuliano, Ph.D. Skinned is Skinned: There Is No Correct Leather - Many people labor under the erroneous assumption that leather products are acceptable because they are a necessary byproduct of the food industry. Even if you choose not to eat meat, some believe that since the animals are going to die anyway, why not use the products rather than let them go to waste (Environment News Service).
	April 13, 2001- Beware of the meat taco - Worm on the Brain Woman Recuperating After Doctors Remove Parasite — An Arizona woman says she's feeling good, a little more than a week after undergoing six hours of surgery to remove a worm that had lodged in her brain. Dawn Becerra and her doctors believe the parasite got into her system three years ago, when she ate a pork taco while on a visit to Mexico. Becerra said she was ill for three weeks after eating the taco. Soon after, she began suffering violent seizures. Later, doctors determined she had a parasitic worm in her brain and it had caused neurocysticercosis — a lesion in her brain. ... Some experts point out that it is difficult to know for certain that the taco was the source of the worm. However Becerra ingested the parasite, it attached itself as an egg to her intestinal wall. Eventually, the egg developed into the worm, which moved into her blood stream and to her brain, said Dr. Joseph Sirven, who operated on Becerra.
	April 13, 2001 - With virtually every country in Europe now reporting cases of the brain-wasting BSE, or mad cow disease, and Britain brought to a near standstill by a foot-and-mouth epidemic, people everywhere are radically changing their eating habits, turning to exotic meats such as kangaroo and ostrich, smuggling in beef from disease-free countries and even opting to go vegetarian. (USA Today, 13 April, 2001) For More on Mad cow See Steve Best’s (2001) article in TAMARA journal
	11 April 2001 GMO food giants unmasked Greenpeace: Thai consumers being made guinea pigs Ploenpote Atthakor Bangkok Post Laboratory tests have confirmed the presence of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in seven food products, including baby food, on local market shelves, Greenpeace said yesterday. The seven products are Nestle{AAC} baby food (Baby Cerelac); Unilever's Knorr instant cream of corn soup; Nissin Cup Noodle (duck flavour); Vita-Tofu soybean curd; Good Time instant cereal beverage; Lay's stax and Pringles potato crisps. Except for Lay's stax and Pringles, which are imported from the US, the remaining items are produced locally. The seven products were among 30 food items sent to a Hong Kong-based laboratory for genetic testing in February this year, Greenpeace said. "It is shocking to know that these genetically engineered items are already ending up in our food without the public's knowledge or consent. Scientists still do not know the long-term effects of releasing GMOs into our environment and people's diet. "Thai consumers have the right to refuse being treated like guinea pigs in what is a massive experiment with potentially far-reaching and irreversible consequences," said Auaiporn Suthonthanyakorn, of Greenpeace Southeast Asia. www.thailabour.org
	January 31, 2001 - (press here) General Motors will use Hormel animal protein product to make car parts 9.35 p.m. ET (0235 GMT) AUSTIN, Minn. — The food company that gave the world Spam is teaming up with General Motors Corp. to use pork and turkey byproducts to help make car parts. (Fox Market Wire).
	March 12th, 2001- Watch out for those Veggie Dogs? - Greenpeace learned that the British Health Foods Association Has Declared: Morningstar Farms Products Are Not Natural Food (Greenpeace)-- check out http://www.truefoodnow.org/graphics/poster3.pdf to download a free poster of genetically engineered and non- genetically engineered veggie burgers.
	March 6, 2000 - Ottawa Observer -on line (press here) "The ethics of vegetarianism The commitment to renounce flesh-eating has its foundations in many philosophies, from the concerns about animal suffering, world hunger, and health, to the belief that it is part of a spiritual journey towards purity. Maria Cook reports.
	Feb 29, 2000 Study Urges Pre-Processed Beef Test WASHINGTON (AP) -(press here) Up to half the cattle in the nation's feedlots, far more than previously thought, are infected with deadly bacteria, the government said today. Discovery.health.