Vegan Bites: Random Bits About Veganism
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Here is your roundup of vegan related news and resources for this week.
Enjoy!
News:
- VegNews Veggie Awards (link)
- Nebraska Beef, Ltd. Recalls Beef Products Due To Possible E. Coli Contamination (link)
- No Meat Week: “We will not buy or eat any meat for one week ” (link)
- “NYT Says Animal Rights is ‘Easy to Mock’” (link)
- “Pressing Need for Non-Lethal Police Tactics” (link)
- “The animal rights group PETA has tried unsuccessfully to run a newspaper ad comparing the beheading and cannibalizing of a passenger on a Greyhound bus in Canada last week to the treatment of animals by the meat industry,” reports the AP (link)
“His struggles and cries are ignored … the man with the knife shows no emotion … the victim is slaughtered and his head cut off … his flesh is eaten,” reads the ad posted on the PETA site.
“If this ad leaves a bad taste in your mouth, please give a thought to what sensitive animals think and feel when they come to the end of their frightening journey and see, hear and smell the slaughterhouse,” it says.
- From Green Is The New Red:
“[T]wo incendiary devices exploded at the homes of two UC Santa Cruz scientists who experiment on animals. [...] The FBI has attributed the crimes to animal rights activists because fliers left at a coffee house four days earlier contained the names and addresses of university scientists.
“First, it should be noted that no animal rights group like the Animal Liberation Front has claimed responsibility. Yet the FBI has recklessly labeled this “eco-terrorism,” [...] We’ve seen plenty of instances when the government later says “oops, it wasn’t ‘eco-terrorism’ after all.” And we’ve seen other instances, like the attempted murder of Judi Bari, when the FBI framed activists. In short: reporters, activists, and the general public need to slow down, step back, and stop blindly trusting the “official” story provided by the FBI.”
Resources:
- Reverse Diabetes webcast from PCRM (link)
- Animal rights pamphlets (link)
- PETA podcast “Snappy Comebacks” is less about snappiness or comebacks and more about persuasion. Don’t get me wrong, there’s an element of humor in this podcast, but it probably wasn’t intentional (link)
- Vegan Freaks podcast “Summer cooking with Dreena, Joy, and Dino” (link)
- Food For Thought podcast “Conversations With Strangers” (link)
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