Vegan Bites: Dec. 28, 2010
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Here are some vegan related current events:
“Eating a vegetarian diet lowers kidney disease patients’ levels of potentially toxic phosphorus in the blood and urine, says a small new study.” details >>
“The Shark Conservation Act addresses loopholes in a law passed a decade ago in an effort to curb “finning,” the practice of cutting off a shark’s valuable fins and dumping its body overboard.” [...] ”The law on the books was complicated and difficult to enforce,” said Wayne Pacelle, president and chief executive of the Humane Society of the United States, “but this new set of standards will ensure that sharks will no longer be mutilated and thrown back in the water to face a gruesome death just for shark fin soup.” read more here >>
I absolutely hate the term “fur hag” and I can’t stand it when men use derogatory words about women, so I cringed when I read Erik Marcus call Jennifer Grayson a “fur hag.” But I agree with Marcus that there’s no such thing as a defense of fur on ethical or environmental grounds. link >>
Anne Hathaway “admitted that while giving up meat was relatively simple, her addiction to sushi and fish remained an obstacle— that is until she read Jonathan Safran Foer’s book, Eating Animals.” more here >>
“Most dinosaurs were vegetarian rather than meat-eating beasts, research suggests.” Dr Lindsay Zanno of the Chicago Field Museum said: “Most theropods are clearly adapted to a predatory lifestyle, but somewhere on the line to birds, predatory dinosaurs went soft.” more here >>
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