Vegan Bites: The Humane Myth, 30 Days, & More
Vegan Food & Recipes
Vegan News
- New Food For Thought podcast from Compassionate Cooks >>
- New podcast from Vegan Freak Radio >>
- Food banks need petfood too. If you want to donate, do it! (Thanks to SuperVegan for the heads up.)
- “[Hallmark Meat Company Plant Manager] Navarro was convicted of two felony counts of animal cruelty [...] The conviction marks a milestone because animals raised for meat, eggs, and milk in the United States are normally denied — either because of legal loopholes, cultural disregard or by virtue of being kept out of public sight — the most basic protections afforded other animals.” reports the HSUS.
- “A Massachusetts inmate had his civil rights violated by prison officials who denied him a vegan diet [...] U.S. Chief District Judge Mark L. Wolf found that officials at Old Colony Correctional Center are required to provide vegan meals to inmate Daniel Yeboah-Sefah because of his religious beliefs”. This is both good and bad. The good is that he’ll get vegan meals (and likely a few other inmates will, too) and that refusing to give him vegan meals was considered an unjust denial of civil rights. The bad news is this is all based on religion and not veganism. Vegans who are atheists don’t likely have this legal protection and can probably legally be denied food while in places like prisons, schools, hospitals, military, and other institutions. (News article here via Food Fight)
- In the category of anti-animal propaganda and anti-free speech comes this Herb Kaufman quote: “[PETA and similar organizations] are a brand of activist that is undistinguishable from al Qaeda, Hamas, and Hezbollah.” Perhaps you want to leave a peaceful, pro-animal comment? If so, go here >> (thanks to Will for blogging about this)
- Here’s another reason not to shop at traditional pet stores…
“at the request of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), U.S. Marshals seized various animal food products stored under unsanitary conditions at the PETCO Animal Supplies Distribution Center [...] The distribution center in Joliet, Ill., provides pet food products and supplies to PETCO retail stores in 16 states including Alabama, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, and Wisconsin.” reports the FDA in their recall news. - Here are some more comments on the 30 Days episode about animal rights:
- It’s a Vegan Revolution! Veganism Given a Positive Turn in the Media
- 30 Days, Sandwich, and Red Pepper Curry
- Damn you Morgan Spurlock
- I Ain’t Mad Wit’cha Morgan Spurlock
- My opinion: Spurlock caricaturized animal rights advocates by his intro statement, “Should animals have the same rights as us (human beings)? Should they have the right to vote, the right to bear arms, the right to not be deep-fried, battered and eaten?” He belittled, mocked, and misinterpreted the notion of animal rights. George, the hunter, didn’t do that. George, though he doesn’t fully embrace animal rights and he doesn’t accept the AR foundational belief that animals should not have to live, breed, and die according to human whims, he does actually seem to care about animals and he doesn’t want to see them suffer. Spurlock on the other hand, according to this statement as well as his “experiments” eating factory farmed animal flesh, doesn’t seem to care about animals at all. Spurlock makes it all just a joke. What do you think?
Vegan Resources
- There’s a new website called The Humane Myth. It’s packed with information about so-called humane farming. Check it out here: http://www.humanemyth.org/ (hat tip: Animal Person). This website is extremely important because people are very confused. For example, I just saw on CNN they admitted “cruelty-free” doesn’t mean anything and they recommended looking for the label “certified humane” if you care about animals. As we vegans know the better label to look for is “vegan.”
Vegan Activism
- Buy and give away Food For Thought podcast sampler CDs here.
- UVE wrote about vegan education a while back. This tidbit ought to motivate you:
“Blogging and Cyberactivism”
“One very cost effective way of educating people about veganism and abolitionist animal rights is to start a blog. A blog’s topics can span a wide range of vegan and animal-related topics or stick to one theme, such as vegan cooking. As an exploration of the vegan and animal advocacy blogosphere will indicate, the potential topics are sufficiently numerous – even within one theme of veganism or animals rights – that it is difficult to run out of raw material. The potential topical areas are numerous: health, nutrition, and vegan athletic training diets; environmental issues regarding animal agriculture versus plant agriculture; social change and justice; cooking and baking; moral philosophy and psychology; stories of rescued animals; book reviews; and bearing witness to the endless atrocities inflicted on the innocent.”
So what are you waiting for? Start a vegan blog already!
Great roundup! (Although instead of working I’m now checking out all those recipes…)
Starting a blog is easy and free from many blogging tools, such as blogger.com
I recently started a vegan blog, Think Outside the Cage, where I’ve been writing unusual approaches to animal advocacy.
There’s lots of great vegan blogs out there and it can be hard to keep track of them all, save time and never miss a post by using a blog reader like Google Reader. reader.google.com
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