A few bits rounded up from around the vegan and AR web… from the link between animal flesh and cancer, to this year’s seal hunt in Canada, to a garbonzo bean recipe, and more, we’ve got your vegan and animal rights news here.

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• “Eating red meat [aka the flesh of animals such as cows] increases the chances of dying prematurely, according to a large federal study offering powerful new evidence that a diet that regularly includes steaks, burgers and pork chops is hazardous to your health.” link
• “An annual seal hunt on ice floes off Canada’s eastern seaboard got underway Monday, amid renewed opposition from animal rights groups and a looming European ban on seal products.” [...] “The seals are hunted mainly for their pelts, but also for meat and fat, which is used in beauty products. ” link
• “Russia announced a ban on killing all harp seals less than one year old” link
• “An animal rights group wants Alaska State Troopers to open a criminal investigation into the deaths this year of five Iditarod dogs, including two on the team of a musher who says they froze to death.” link
• Cheezy Garbanzo Spread link
• “State lawmakers have introduced a pair of bills designed to make it easier to prosecute those who engage in this blood sport [of dog-hog fighting] by expanding the definition of animal fighting beyond cock fighting and dog fighting to include all forms of animal fighting.” link
• “A group of people who bought sickly puppies from Petland Inc. have filed a federal lawsuit against the chain, accusing it of selling dogs bred in puppy mills to unsuspecting customers.” link
• “Singer hold his ground on the fact that fish–yes, fish–do suffer terrible deaths, and we don’t need to inflict suffering and death on them because we don’t need to eat them” link
• “Have you read Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser? Then you remember the chapter detailing how slaughtering cows is an especially careless enterprise and the line ‘There is sh-t in the meat.’That’s right, folks. If you’re eating factory-farmed carcass then you’re eating sh-t (and a host of other bacteria-laden nasty stuff). YUMMY.” link
• More recipes from Vegan Culinary Experience. link
• “Let Live” is taking place in Portland, Oregon, June 26th-28th, 2009. It will be held this year on the campus of Portland State University in the Smith Memorial Building. It is being organized by Vegans for Animal Advocacy, with support from Let Live Foundation as well as local area businesses such as Herbivore Clothing, and Food Fight Grocery. link

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