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The latest news to the following topics:
At the EVU Talks in May 2007, the new MOA- and bylaw-proposals were passed.
Here are the links:
http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/about/role/moa.pdf
http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/about/role/bylaws.pdf
The minutes of the AGM 2007 are also online:
http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/about/role/2007_agm_minutes.php
The next EVU Talks take place in Switzerland from the 1. - 4. May 2007, near the EVU Secretariat. Details follow.
http://www.evana.org/index.php?id=15238⟨=en
The AGM will take place on 28 July 2008, during the 38th IVU World Vegetarian Congress
http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/about/role/2007_agm_minutes.php
Important question: Why is the problem 'meat' completely ignored?
http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=23395
Speaking through his blog, the vegan dance veteran quoted the UN statistic that livestock breeding and the gases the animals emit is a huge contributor to worldwide the greenhouse gases in the environment.
http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=23427
Questions from the public had been invited for this interview and in case you were among those who obliged, wanting to hear Al Gore's opinion regarding the issue 'meat and heat', you'll be disappointed that he did not talk about the bloody stuff at all.
http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=23373
Mr. Global warming expert, stop gor-ging yourself with dead animal flesh! http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=23465
Al Gore wants to hear from you!
http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=23228
The former Beatle: "Livestock farming is one of the biggest destroyers of the planet...."
http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=23519
by Richard H. Schwartz, Ph.D., President of the Jewish Vegetarians of North America (JVNA)
http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=22965
Desertification could displace up to 50m people over the next decade
http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=23104
Want to help the environment? Then all you have to do
is become a vegan, says a report. But what does this lifestyle really entail?
http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=23052
Finally, the successful documentary «Devour the Earth» has been produced on DVD with the support of the EVU. This impressive short film is in English with commentary by Sir Paul McCartney. Thanks to the subtitles however, the film can also be understood in 16 languages.
The documentary is divided into sections, each showing the global consequences of meat consumption: Wasted food, wasted land, Deforestation, Global warming, Soil depletion, Acid rain, Suffering seas, Health and Welfare.
The key facts of the film are also listed in the enclosed booklet (in all languages). Thanks to the co-operation with the European Vegetarian Union, the booklet also contains a foreword from the Slovenian President Dr. Janez Drnovsek.
The complete text can be read on the internet: www.GlobeTransformer.org.
The video can also be seen online at this address.
The DVD can be ordered from the EVU for € 6 plus postage.
Please send an email to evu@euroveg.eu to order a copy.
http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=23523
Dear Secretary of State,
My friend, who
is in farming at the moment, recently received a cheque for £3,000 from the Rural Payments Agency for not rearing
pigs. I would now like to join the "not rearing pigs" business. In your opinion, what is the best kind of farm
not to rear pigs on, and which is the best breed of pigs not to rear?
http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=23510
Why, Matthew Scully asks, is cruelty to a puppy appalling and cruelty to livestock by the billions a matter of social indifference?
http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=23480
There will come a day when the irrational extermination of the non-human animals of our age, in nearly every society, will be the subject of museum exhibitions, to the incredulity of visitors
http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=23399
Many firms in the industry have moved to undertake a number of changes in response to customer concerns
http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=23238
Anti-Foie Gras protesters at the ‘French Products’ stall in Cambridge, receive a response that’s more than a little hostile…
http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=23040
Eye-opening scenes of animals in factory farms, slaughterhouses deemed ‘too graphic’
http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=22940
A Taiwan restaurant has been condemned by the public for serving fish whose body has been fried but its head still moves when the fish is served to diners, a newspaper reported Sunday.
http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=23438
The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced the award of a $190,000 grant this week to help ranchers on the Kodiak Archipelago build a sea-going abattoir — a mobile slaughter facility — which on dry land would be carried ranch-to-ranch on one or two trucks and could be carried down the Aleutian Islands by barge...
http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=23404
Hundreds of dead seabirds that washed up along the Southeast coast in recent weeks apparently starved to death, but experts don't know why.
http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=23309
The Food and Drug Administration today issued an alert challenging imports of five major types of farm-raised seafood from China, including shrimp and catfish, because testing found recurrent contamination from carcinogens and antibiotics....
http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=23211
PETA: Many people have never stopped to think about it, but fish are smart, interesting animals with their own unique personalities—just like the dogs and cats we share our homes with.
http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=23043
A new study in the "Journal of Clinical Oncology" reinforces existing evidence showing that women with breast cancer can greatly reduce their risk of recurrence by eating a healthy plant-based diet rich in fruits and vegetables and making other healthy lifestyle choices, according to nutrition experts with The Cancer Project....
http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=23405
Summer is around the corner and grills of all shapes and sizes are being readied for action. But is our dedication to this American summer ritual worth the risks to our health?
http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=23021
http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=22982
A few years ago, Robert Farmer’s family made — in his opinion — a change for the better. They became vegetarians out of medical necessity, but he took an additional step to a complete vegan diet and lifestyle because of his sense of moral responsibility. Vegans don’t consume any animals or animal byproducts, such as milk, cheese or honey....
http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=23156