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Vegetarian/vegan guide to Yorkshire
- Have a cruelty-free 2008
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Go Vegetarian! Go Vegan! Help stop the slaughter of animals
Video footage obtained in a new PETA undercover investigation reveals
horrific abuse to mother pigs and their piglets at a supplier to the
largest pig-killing company in the world, Smithfield Foods. For more
details and video footage please go to www.peta.org
Get your non-veggie and non-vegan friends and family: in fact whoever you
can - to watch the video, it truly is sickening
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Help change the life for circus animals
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Real men are kind to animals!
"Compassion for animals is intimately connected with goodness of character;
and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot
be a good man." Arthur Schopenhauer - German Philosopher
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Listen to the foul mouth of the Ring Master for the Great British Circus
www.myspace.com/abolishanimalcircuses Follow this link to find out the true nature of the ring master Martin Lacey of the so-called 'Great British Circus.'
News from ActiVeg
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Feldmans Recreate Lennon + Ono Love-in For Peta Veggie Ad
Lost Boys star Corey Feldman and his wife Susie have recreated John Lennon and Yoko Ono's famous peace `bed-in' for a new People For The Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) campaign poster.
Check out this story on www.showbizspy.com.
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Vegetarian Consumer Trends: Vegetarians and Vegan Consumers
If you are a vegetarian food manufacturer, distributor, retailer or marketer, the new Vegetarian Consumer Trends reports will give you new insights on your key consumer segments.
Check out this story on www.researchandmarkets.com.
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WELSH Assembly Members have been urged to put pressure on the Minster for Rural Affairs to follow England and throw out proposals for a badger cull in an attempt to control Bovine TB.
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Meat habit is fueling world famine
Photo: Martin Heigen
Approximately 854 million people do not have enough to eat. Thirty-three countries are facing food crises, according to the World Bank, and food riots have recently erupted in Egypt, Haiti, Yemen, Malaysia and other poor nations. This is hard for most Americans to comprehend. The closest many of us will ever come to a food riot is when someone cuts in line for more nachos and hot dogs at the baseball-stadium concession stand.
Check out this story on www.americanchronicle.com.
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Asthma risk from pregnancy nuts?
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Mothers-to-be who eat nuts every day may increase their child's risk of developing asthma by 50%, claim Dutch researchers.
Check out this story on news.bbc.co.uk.
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Fishing ban brings seas to lif
Photo: Martin Heigen
Five years without fishing around Lundy Island off the coast of Devon have brought a significant revival in sea life, scientists report.
Check out this story on news.bbc.co.uk.
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Good News For Veggies: Personal Values Deceive Taste Buds
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Many heavy meat eaters believe they eat a lot of meat because of the taste. But according to groundbreaking new research in the Journal of Consumer Research, the reason that a beef burger tastes better than a veggie burger to some people has more to do with values than actual taste.
Check out this story on www.medicalnewstoday.com.
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Discarded cow eyes could replace live animals in toxicity tests
A technique that allows experiments to be carried out on cow eyes thrown away by abattoirs could lead to thousands fewer rabbits being used in scientific research each year.
Check out this story on www.guardian.co.uk.
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Government figures reveal that animal testing has risen by 21% since the Government came to power.
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Grasping the bars from inside a jail cell next to the tagline "I Am Not a Guinea Pig", respected actor Jenny Seagrove stars in a brand-new ad from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). The ad (attached) - which debuts to mark the Home Office's release today of the animal experimentation statistics for 2007, showing a 6% rise on 2006 - goes on to say, "As many as 92% of drugs that pass animal trials fail in humans. Animals and people are different - except when it comes to feeling fear and pain".
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Cows or Beans - which is the better source for milk?
Photo: Martin Heigen
Which is better for the environment, soy milk or cow's milk?
Check out this story on www.slate.com.
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Rose Elliot's top 10 vegetarian cookbooks
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Rose Elliot is a renowned writer on vegetarian cooking. She has written over 50 cookery books,including Not Just a Load of Old Lentils, The Bean Book, Rose Elliot's Vegetarian Cookery and Vegetarian Express. She is a patron of the Vegetarian Society and in 1999 was appointed MBE for services to vegetarian cookery. Her latest book is Forget the Lentils (Little Books). Fast Fresh and Fabulous (BBC Books) will be out in September.
Check out this story on www.guardian.co.uk.