Vegan Bites: October 29, 2009
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“if supermarket meat sections were required to display photographs of how most livestock is raised — in crates, cages and crowded feedlots — then factory farms, legally known as concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs), would go out of business.” read more >>
“The human cost of factory farming — both the compromised welfare of slaughterhouse workers and, even more, the environmental effects of the mass production of animals — is staggering. Foer details the copious amounts of pig shit sprayed into the air that result in great spikes in human respiratory ailments, the development of new bacterial strains due to overuse of antibiotics on farmed animals, and the origins of the swine flu epidemic, whose story has gripped the nation, in factory farms.” read more >>
“although there are many respectable ways to think about meat, there is not a person on Earth whose best instincts would lead him or her to factory farming.” read more >>
“Former television game show host Bob Barker, who ended episodes of ‘The Price is Right’ by asking viewers to spay and neuter their pets, donated $1 million to Drury University to establish a professorship on animal rights that he hopes will lead to a full undergraduate degree program.” read more >>
“intake of soy products reduced the risk of hip fractures as much as 36 percent among women who consumed more than the least amount of soy.” read more >>
“A 2006 study by the University of Chicago concluded that compared to the Standard American Diet, a strict vegetarian diet produced 1485 kg less carbon dioxide per person per year.” read more >>
“Carrie Feldman, 20, an activist from Minneapolis, said after being subpoenaed, she appeared before a federal grand jury on Oct. 15 in Davenport but declared she would not testify” read more >>
“The Wisconsin state assembly on Tuesday approved unanimously, 96-0, legislation that would regulate puppy mills.” read more >>
“The 2009 conference put on by the Let Live Foundation in Portland, Oregon, can now be experienced online.” read more >>
“It was in 2007 that we finally got the last two states with legal cockfighting—Louisiana and New Mexico—to enact legislation to criminalize the activity. Now, we are methodically going state by state to make it a felony and to fortify other provisions of these laws.” read more >>
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