Posted by nzvs
04-08-2008
Maneka Gandhi is an Indian politician and an outspoken activist for our fellow animals. She is a vegan and chairperson of the organisation People for Animals: http://www.peopleforanimalsindia.org
Here is a sample of her writing on veg topics:
Patna, (Bihar Times): Everyone's life is strewn with incidents wherein they have a chance to become bigger than themselves, to be nobler and kinder and happier. Some people don’t recognize these opportunities but they return again and again – so you still have time to open your eyes. However some people go in the opposite direction – they take the chance that life gives them and they abuse it and strangle it till the little luck they have squeezes itself out the window and runs for its life. They then intellectualise their decisions and blame the loss on someone else.
Take for example someone who has the good fortune to be born finally into a vegetarian household. Why they would lapse into a carnivorous diet and pick up disease, obesity, bad odour, and bad karma is beyond me. But people do. Every now and then, I see people from proud vegetarian families eating meat. When confronted, they do look terribly sheepish and come up with such weird excuses that I thought I would list them for you. These are a selection of the reasons spouted by ex-vegetarians for breaking the faith.
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Posted by nzvs
07-07-2008
Non-governmental organisations express concern about what may be a case of state repression of social activism.
On 21st May 2008 at 6 a.m., heavily armed police officers from an elite unit stormed 21 homes and the offices of a number of non-governmental organisations in Austria. Breaking their way in, the masked police surrounded frightened civilians in their beds at gun point. Ten people were arrested and have been held in custody without specific charge since that day. Despite the statement by the Austrian Federal Ministry of the Interior that "The measures taken by the police (.) were in no way directed against animal welfare or animal welfare organisations", the removal of computers, documents and other assets has effectively crippled some of the organisations involved.
http://www.oipa.org/farms/news/austria.html
Send a message to the Austrian authorities to free the activist prisoners
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Posted in Animal Action, What Can You Do?
Posted by nzvs
07-07-2008
MEDIA RELEASE
4 July 2008
AUCKLAND CITY COUNCIL APPLAUDED
FOR RODEO BAN - A NEW ZEALAND FIRST!
Rodeos are no longer welcome in New Zealand’s largest city. Auckland City Council resolved last week that as a matter of policy no rodeos would be permitted on council land because of animal welfare concerns. The decision, a first for New Zealand, has been applauded by national animal advocacy organisation SAFE.
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Posted by nzvs
07-07-2008
Each daily click on the purple "Click here -it's Free" button on the The Animal Rescue Site automatically generates a donation towards food and care for unwanted animals in the U.S.
This is an easy way to make a difference :-)
The site also has great sponsors with online shopping for various pet-related products.
Posted by nzvs
03-07-2008
Yes says Raj Patel: growing food for animals is a waste of resources
in an overcrowded world.
Sunday June 22, 2008
Observer Food Monthly
America is the most overweight country on earth. Only three out of 10 Americans
have a normal body weight. I should have guessed that one of the side effects of
moving to the US would be bloating.
Since leaving London for America a decade ago, I've put on a couple of stone. It's
easy enough to blame the food environment here. This is, after all, the land where
Reagan pronounced tomato ketchup a fruit and, more recently, where French fries
and chocolate-covered cherries were legally dubbed 'fresh produce' under a US
Department of Agriculture (USDA) regulation known as the batter-coating rule.
Read the full article here
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Posted in Environmental Concerns, Animals
Posted by nzvs
26-05-2008
Take a moment to e-mail a message
to Oprah Winfrey.
Dear PCRM supporter,
On her TV show yesterday, Oprah welcomed bestselling author and spiritual counselor Kathy Freston to talk about her new book Quantum Wellness. In her book, Kathy describes the 8 pillars of wellness, practices she believes are the staples of an engaged life.
There's one wellness practice that Kathy says should be observed above all others. "The mother of all pillars is conscious eating," she says. "It doesn't only make a difference to our own personal health and well-being, but conscious eating means you stay aware of where your food comes from, how the animals are treated, and how the environment is affected by the foods that you eat. You take in the energy of whatever went into creating that food."
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Posted by nzvs
12-05-2008
PETA's Sexiest Vegetarian of the Year Contest - Winners Announced. Check out the winners' profiles and the top two reasons that the 1,000+ contestants gave in response to why they turned vegetarian
Posted by nzvs
28-04-2008
Bears rescued from cruel bear baiting contest
Two bears in Pakistan have been saved from multiple violent attacks by powerful dogs after WSPA member society, the Wildlife Society of Pakistan (WSP), prevented a bear baiting event last month.
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Posted by nzvs
02-04-2008
24 Team Vegan members ran the annual 'Auckland Round the Bays fun run and walk' (along with 70,000 or so others!) A great day for it and an amazing experience, not just to run as a team for the first time, but to run in such a huge community event - it is virtually impossible to run the entire event with such a massive crowd gathered behind the start line (which stretched back for ages), and quite a sensation when everyone starts to move.
Sixteen of us started as a big group altogether (photo above), while another speedier group headed right to the front for a fast start.
The team tops worked great - in fact even walking to our assembly point before the run, we had someone come up to us saying 'wow are you vegans - I've been vegan for 31 years I didn't know there was a team', so we may have gotten a new recruit before we even started! But we definitely also need some branding on our backs, which would be especially good when passing the teams running for meat and dairy companies! (Which there were lots of - especially from Fonterra).
No official times are available yet, but fastest was the teams trainer Michael Bourke who ran the 8.4 km in around 36 minutes.
Great day, and great stuff everyone!!
For photos see the gallery section of the website.
http://teamvegan.net.nz/
Posted by nzvs
02-04-2008
Humans inherently owe animals
Full story: Daily Evergreen
Because other animals are unable to communicate and conceive of themselves collectively, they cannot tell us to stop killing them. They are the silent victims whose voices can never be heard. And because they cannot protest our exploitation of them, we excuse our behavior as a process of nature. Yet, if we are moral animals, we are obligated to take notice of the harm and suffering we cause other beings. "The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can they talk, but, Can they suffer?" Jeremy Bentham wrote, forming the foundation for his ethical philosophy in the 1700s. I know many people who love their pets, recognize their emotional states and intelligence, but still support the slaughter and consumption of nonhuman meat. Because they are aware of their complicated biological and emotional lives, dog and cat lovers would never consume their pets - even if they were factory-farmed and cheaply available. Yet, if animals are not cute, furry and domesticated, it is acceptable to farm, kill and eat them. Our moral consideration should not stop merely at our level of familiarity. |
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