The Weekend Vegan Roundup You’ll Want to Read

By Published On: 5 May 2013Last Updated: 17 January 2017

Sundays are the perfect time to relax and catch up on all the editorials, news snippets, and more you might have missed during the week. So grab a cup of coffee, tea, juice, or smoothie- relax and enjoy.

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Sundays are the perfect time to relax and catch up on all the editorials, news snippets, and more you might have missed during the week.  So grab a cup of coffee, tea, juice, or smoothie- relax and enjoy.

From The Daily Vegan Spin.

7 Ways You Can Help Elephants Right Nowv

It certainly seems that the largest land mammal on Earth is in a fight for its very existence. Zoos like to say that they exist in part to help with conservation of species – and many of us take them for their word. Picture an excited child watching an elephant in its “habitat” – maybe with its baby – at a zoo. Do you see them? Maybe it was you, not so many years ago. Now picture that same excited child at the circus, watching the elephants do tricks. Yep, could’ve been you again, before you were aware of the horrible treatment of circus animals. Once you know better, you do better. And elephants?  They deserve better than we give them.  There are things we all can do to help elephants, right now. Here are just a few:

How To Deal with Illness Through Veganism

In this time of extreme sickness with cancers, heart disease, autoimmune disorders, and more, it is unlikely any of us don’t have people in our lives that are suffering from one or more of these ailments.  It is so painful to watch people we love deteriorate, especially when death seems likely and soon.  What’s even more difficult is the knowledge that there are potentially life-saving alternatives but individuals refuses to accept it.  It’s easy to understand why people are skeptical, the medical industry dominates our culture.  When one gets sick, doctors often write a script and never once ask about diet- not that they should, as most have little to no nutritional training.  The overall message about the usefulness of plants seems to be that they are great and all, but we need drugs to cure disease.

Why Whole Foods Is Not As Conscious As They’d Like You To Believe

Whole Foods, and its co-founder, seem to be a mixture of purpose-based marketing and complacency with the way things are. I hope that some day, we can get to the point where the company doesn’t feel it needs to sell dead animals to stay in business. But before we get to that point, it would be nice if it considered animals as beings with meaningful lives, beyond an April Fool’s joke and absolutely identified as an earthling.

10 Reasons Why You Should Go to Cleveland VegFest (Plus Information You’ll Need to Plan Your Trip)

It’s hard to contain our excitement for Cleveland VegFest! It’s going to be a jam-packed day of incredible speakers with tons of exhibitors. There’s so many reasons why you should go, here’s just ten

Ask Anya: What Gives Vegans Energy to Have Healthy Workouts?

What foods are best to consume, how much and of what?  What gives vegans the energy they need to have good healthy workouts?  Anya has the answer!

Catholic Priest’s Awakening to Animal Compassion Inspires NYC Premiere

What do two award-winning upstate filmmakers, a former beef farmer from Michigan, and a 34-year veteran of the priesthood from Queens, NY, have in common? A passion for helping animals that is behind the New York City premiere of Peaceable Kingdom: The Journey Home, an award-winning film that is opening hearts and minds around the world. Sponsored by The Tablet newspaper of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn, this event is the latest offering of the Tablet Forum, an ongoing series of screenings and speakers organized by Father Frank Mann and offered free to the public as a way of inspiring lively and productive community dialogue.

Holding the Mirror Up on National Honesty Day

Being honest with ourselves means holding a mirror up and asking if our actions are in line with our values.  Often people feel strongly about their love for animals and concern for human/worker rights and the environment.  Yet personal actions can be way out of line with those beliefs.

Abuse on Your Plate: Preventing Cruelty Through Education and Change

The only way to stop the cycle is by starting with the children. School meal programs are created following the Food and Nutrition Board’s RDAs (or Recommended Daily Allowances) with the objective to “minimize risk for chronic disease.”  Dr. T. Colin Campbell’s The China Study has shown that average unhealthy meals technically fall within the RDAs, which, again, are supposed to help decrease chances of chronic diseases.  Think about the fact that the majority of children eat school lunches, and many of those kids will eat other government-provided meals/snacks on a regular basis.  Basically, the low quality food kids are fed for most of their youth set them up for life long health problems and poor eating habits.

Vegan News from around the globe.

A Utah Woman Is Being Prosecuted for Filming a Slaughterhouse from a Public Street. “The United States’ first prosecution under so-called ag-gag legislation has begun. Will Potter reports at Green Is The New Red that a Utah woman, Amy Meyer, has been charged under the state’s new law prohibiting filming or photographing an agricultural operation, factory farm, slaughterhouse, or the like without permission. Critical in all this is that Meyer was standing alongside a public street, documenting something occurring in plain view.”

State Assembly bill would ban pet tattoos and piercings as animal abuse. “A Manhattan pol is trying to stop tattooing and body piercing from going to the dogs. Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal, a Democrat, has introduced legislation to ban the piercing or permanent tattooing of companion animals. ‘These are living beings and they should not be subject to human whims and fashion choices,’ Rosenthal told the Daily News Thursday. Rosenthal said subjecting pets to body piercing or tattooing is cruel and ‘just like any other abuse.’ The bill has the support of the Humane Society of New York.”

Koala Photo Shows Forest Destroyed By Loggers, Animal’s Heartbreak After Losing Home. “The little guy wandered back to his home in New South Wales, Australia last week only to find it had been cut down and chipped by logging operations. A volunteer with WIRES, a rescue operation licensed by the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service, said the koala had been sitting on top of the wood pile for over an hour looking confused, the Daily Telegraph reported.”

Hunter Allowed to Import Rhino Trophy into U.S. for First Time in 33 Years. “David K. Reinke, president and CEO of a laserjet printer parts wholesaler called Liberty Parts Team and a big donor to Republican political candidates, shot his black rhino in Namibia back in 2009. According to a 2010 report from Businessweek, he paid a total of $215,000 for the hunt. This appears to include a $175,000 contribution to the Namibian government’s Game Products Trust Fund, which helps to support wildlife conservation and management efforts. An organization called Conservation Force, headed by lawyer John Jackson, spent the past four years arguing that Reinke should be allowed to import the trophy from his hunt back into the U.S. Conservation Force holds the position that ‘that hunters and anglers are an indispensable and essential force for wildlife conservation,’ and has also argued for the right to import hunting trophies from polar bears, Canadian wood bison and straight-horned markhor, among other endangered species. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) granted that license in March.”

Wildlife & Fisheries offers iPhone, Android app to help bust poachers. “The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries is now offering apps for both Android and iPhone users to report outdoor-related violations to Enforcement Division agents through the tip411 program. Users can download the apps from iTunes or Google Play free of charge. Citizens can also send an anonymous tip to LDWF by texting LADWF and their tip to 847411.”

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