SEPTEMBER 2012 AGN VEG

SEPTEMBER  2012 AGN VEG

These amazing news are brought to you through:

Lorena Mucke

Coordinator

Christian Vegetarian Association

www.ChristianVeg.org

World’s FIRST official PARTY FOR ANIMALS

http://www.partyfortheanimals.nl/

http://herald-review.com/news/local/author-activist-promotes-vegan-diet-as-path-toward-world-peace/article_87aedc2a-fe27-11e1-86c7-001a4bcf887a.html

Would We Be Healthier With a Vegan Diet?

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444184704577587174077811182.html?KEYWORDS=colin+campbell#articleTabs%3Darticle

Rise of the 'semi-vegetarians'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/0/19294585

Meat-Free McDonald's: Fast Food Chain To Open Vegetarian Restaurants In India In 2013

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/04/vegetarian-meat-free-mcdonalds-fast-food-chain-india_n_1855300.html

More black Americans are giving up meat and dairy

http://www.toledoblade.com/Food/2012/09/02/More-black-Americans-are-giving-up-meat-and-diary.html

NASA is in the process of planning their menu for a manned voyage to Mars in the 2030s. And guess what? All 100 recipes will be vegetarian!! Making meals for a mission to Mars 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/kidspost/making-meals-for-a-mission-to-mars/2012/08/13/9b48d776-d2ae-11e1-b33e-54e94fddbe92_story.html?socialreader_check=0&denied=1

This Week’s Famous Quote

 “A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life he is able to assist and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.”

 ~ Albert Schweitzer

The Total Nonsense About “Happy Cows”

 Gary L. Francione, Professor at Rutgers University, challenges the claims that there could be milk and meat from happy cows. Francione refers to the recent New York Times article by Kristof,

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/09/opinion/sunday/kristof-where-cows-are-happy-and-food-is-healthy.html?_r=3&emc=eta1

who claims, Bob Bansen, a close friend of his, raises dairy cows in a way that makes them happy and therefore produce more. However, this idyllic scenario of course has some faults. For once, dairy cows don't happily give their milk. It's taken from them. They don't happily give up their calves. They are taken from them.

And at the end of their productive life? Slaughter comes not so happily. Please visit Nicholas Kristof: Please Wince. Please. 

http://www.abolitionistapproach.com/nicholas-kristof-please-wince-please/

Of course it is not possible for God’s animals to be happy when they are exploited for their milk, eggs or meat. While some farms are less abusive than others, in all of them animals are seen as commodities who are not allowed to exercise their God-given instincts. Even in the best dairy farms, cows are still impregnated against their will, their milk which was intended for their calves is stolen from them, they don’t get to raise their young and they all meet the same fate: the horrifying slaughterhouse.

 I hope the claims of “happy cows” don’t push Christians to believe that as long as animals are given some consideration, is fine to exploit them.

 Have a blessed day!

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Lorena Mucke

Coordinator

Christian Vegetarian Association

www.ChristianVeg.org

Rosie O’Donnell Embraces Plant-Based Diet after Heart Attack

http://www.ecorazzi.com/2012/08/23/rosie-odonnell-embraces-plant-based-diet-after-heart-attack/

Health Concerns about Dairy Products

http://www.pcrm.org/health/diets/vegdiets/health-concerns-about-dairy-products

Dietary Guidelines: Just Say No

What happens when the twin mandates of the USDA to both promote agribusiness and protect our nation’s health come into conflict?

http://nutritionfacts.org/video/dietary-guidelines-just-say-no/

The Pork Industry’s True Face

 Scientific evidence indicates that cramming pigs in gestation crates, where they are immobilized for 2.5 years of their lives, is inhumane. Although this causes sever mental, emotional and psychological pain to sows, the pork industry still defends this practice and still keeps 80% of breeding sows under unnimaginable suffering in these torture devices. Please visit National Pork Producers Council: Anti-Science & Anti-Animal 

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/09/08-0

Why does the pork industry try to defense what is obvisously indefensible? The answer, very sadly, is simply profit. I hope those who call themselves stewards of God’s Creation refuse to give even a cent of their money to this industry that abuses God’s animals and deceives consumers.

10 Billion Lives

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtWO83pf3Mc

Meat reduction: ‘Recommendations should no longer be based on health effects alone’

Dietary recommendations to cut back on red and processed meat could help the UK government toward its target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, as well as providing health benefits for individuals, claims a new study published in the British Medical Journal.

http://www.foodnavigator.com/Science-Nutrition/Meat-reduction-Recommendations-should-no-longer-be-based-on-health-effects-alone

Friend or Food? The Ideology of How We Decide

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stephan-spencer/carnism_b_1876600.html

Eating for Health, Not Weight

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/23/opinion/sunday/the-optimal-diet.html?_r=2&hp

8 Cruelest Foods You Eat

http://www.prevention.com/food/healthy-eating-tips/animal-cruelty-and-food

Making Vegan a New Normal

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/26/dining/vegan-food-is-in-mainstream-in-southern-california.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all

Ex Vivo Cancer Proliferation Bioassay

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=xTIrmOdmil4

PCRM to Launch Spanish-Language Kickstart

http://pcrm.org/good-medicine/2012/summer2012/pcrm-to-launch-spanish-language-kickstart

What It Takes To Put Meat On Your Plate

http://radioboston.wbur.org/2012/09/27/environmental-impact-eating-meat