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Religion

Vegetarian Diet and climate change

Agriculture

Aquaculture

Animal protection

Vegetarian diet: A good choice

Veggies everyday life

Vegetarian children

Media

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Religion

A Religious Proclamation for Animal Compassion -- For The Pope To Support

Letter
His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI
When you are finished reading "A Religious Proclamation for Animal Compassion" please ask yourself the following questions …

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=27357

Jewish Vegetarians of North America (JVNA) produces documentary to promote vegetarianism

Because the world is heading rapidly toward an unprecedented catastrophe from global warming and other environmental threats, Jewish Vegetarians of North America (JVNA) has produced a documentary, A sacred duty: applying Jewish values to help heal the World, to address these threats from a positive Jewish perspective. JVNA will send a free copy to anyone who will help arrange a screening or help promote the movie in some other way.

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=27826

Israel: Vegan community popularly known as "the Black Hebrews"

… is about to get its own piece of the Holy Land
http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=27259

A Religious Proclamation for Animal Compassion

launched by Best Friends Network
As people from diverse religious traditions, we are united in our belief that animals have intrinsic value as part of God’s creation and are entitled to live lives free of cruelty and exploitation. We therefore invite and encourage people of all faiths to speak with one voice on behalf of those who cannot speak in an effort that will define our legacy as stewards of God’s creation.

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=27244

Bishnoi rule number 28:

'Not to eat meat or non-vegetarian dishes to protect the man, the best creation of the nature, from stooping to such low standards as eating meat of dead animals/birds ...’

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=26919


Vegetarian Diet and climate change

USA: Vegetarians co-opt the green movement

NBC's "Green is Universal" campaign, launched Monday, features a week of the network's programs incorporating environmental messages into its usual repertoire - or in NBC's words, "green-themed programming aimed at entertaining, informing and empowering Americans to lead greener lives."

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=27294

Highlights of U.N. climate panel summary report

Following are findings of the U.N. climate panel in a 26-page summary about the risks of global warming issued in Valencia, Spain, on Saturday:

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=27586

Diet could combat global warming

Diet is one of the lesser-known tools that individuals can use to combat global warming, some studies suggest

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=27460

Norway: Doomsday vault begins deep freeze

Engineers have begun the two-month process of cooling down a "doomsday vault", which will house seeds from all known varieties of key food crops. The temperature inside the Svalbard Global Seed Vault will drop to -18C (0F) in order to preserve the seeds.

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=27635

Agriculture

'New agriculture' needs new FAO

Climate change, population growth and FAO’s own future among key challenges
http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=27733

Paying Farmers to Protect the Planet is Future - UN

Paying farmers to protect the environment -- rather than just for their produce -- will be an important way to ensure a rapidly increasing demand for food does not destroy the planet, a UN agency said on Thursday.

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=27549

FAO: Meat and meat products

Rebounding demand together with tight supplies and rising production costs sustain meat prices in 2007
http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=27356

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EU: Call for Evidence on the Economics of Biodiversity Loss

Today the European Commission launched a six-week-long internet-based call for evidence on the economics of biodiversity loss.

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=27655

Fishing and aquaculture

FAO: Aquaculture only way to fill the coming 'fish gap'

Top ministers debate the future of fish farming
http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=27731

EU: The way ahead for European aquaculture debated in Brussels

(Note: the best solution is to stop eating fish)

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=27650

Blow for fans of boiled lobster: crustaceans feel pain, study says

Sensitive chefs, avert your eyes now. An investigation into the most contentious of kitchen dilemmas has reached its unpalatable conclusion: lobsters do feel pain

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=27293

Store-bought freshwater fish contain elevated levels of mercury, arsenic and selenium

A University of Pittsburgh study, presented at a special session on “Contaminants in Freshwater Fish: Toxicity, Sources and Risk Communication,” expressed study results that mercury levels in freshwater fish were 2.2 to 4.8 times higher in fish caught in the Canadian Lake Erie than in those caught near former iron and steel mills on the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers in Pittsburgh.

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=27262

Fishes in Europe threatened

More than a third of freshwater fish species in Europe face extinction due to overfishing, pollution and dams which have caused rivers to dry up, a scientific study said on Thursday....

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=27087

Animal protection

Animal lives matter, so let's stop eating them now

Lessons from Babe and Bubbles
Nonhuman animals ("animals") have many of the same feelings we do. They experience contagious joy and the deepest of grief, they get hurt and suffer, and they take care of one another. They have a point of view on what happens to them, their families, and their friends. Nonetheless, in innumerable situations their lives are wantonly and brutally taken in deference to human interests.

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=27679

Heroes Star In Japan Dolphin Cull Clash

Heroes star Hayden in tears
TV star Hayden Panettiere has been involved in a violent confrontation with Japanese fishermen as she tried to disrupt their annual dolphin slaughter.

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=27088

Vegetarian diet: a good choice

Put down the bacon! Report emphasizes cancer-fat links

There is more evidence than ever that a person who weighs too much is more likely to develop cancer, a landmark report said Wednesday.

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=27603

Fruits, vegetables and whole grains ...protect against heart disease, diabetes and cancer

"We need to think about cancer as the product of many long-term influences, not as something that 'just happens,' “ Dr. Walter Willett, a nutrition expert at the Harvard School of Public Health in Massachusetts, told a news conference.

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=27086

Western Diets spreading breast cancer to Asia

Source: PCRM Good Medicine - Autumn 2007
A new study finds that a Western diet rich in meat, dairy products, and sweets is associated with an increased risk for breast cancer.

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=26908

Vegetarianism is good for human health

A lifestyle without meat consumption

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=27030

Vegan bodybuilder proves meat and muscles aren't synonymous

Contrary to stereotypes, not everyone who is a vegetarian or a vegan is small and scrawny; a plant-based diet is sufficient for creating a strong, muscular body.

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=27596

Veggies everyday life

Coming out vegetarian

For a practicing vegetarian or vegan it is hard to know when exactly you should share your dietary ethics with a potential mate.

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/de/news/news.php?id=27556

Tips for teens on becoming vegetarian

Being a teen vegetarian can be healthy and rewarding
Teens around the world are increasingly making the transition to a vegetarian lifestyle. But like any diet, vegetarianism requires that teens develop good eating habits. With the right knowledge, teens can become vegetarians without relying on a diet of soda and potato chips.

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=27555

Vegetarian children

Clever veggies

… British research shows that a child's IQ predicts his likelihood of becoming a vegetarian as a young adult. You guessed it: the smarter the child, the more likely he'll eventually shun meat ...

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=27398

PETA: Meet the Winners of the World's Cutest Vegetarian Kid Contest!

Congratulations to Caitlin Rosendorn and Ian Kaminski, the winners in PETA Kids' first-ever World's Cutest Vegetarian Kid contest!

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=27393

Media

Movie Animal Rights

EARTHLINGS - now available for free download

Narrated by Joaquin Phoenix. Music by Moby.
Written, Produced, and Directed by Shaun Monson

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=26905

 

"... animals are subjected to the most inhumane treatment

… we have to fight very, very had to stop it....."

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=27380

Worldwide one of a kind, the Vegetable Orchestra

Worldwide one of a kind, the Vegetable Orchestra performs on instruments made of fresh vegetables.

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=27789

 

Good news

Dr. Tom Gross: Vegetarian by choice

A guy I know recently announced that he was becoming a vegetarian. Immediately, all of his friends tried to talk him out of it, as though becoming a vegetarian were somehow contagious. They asked him why he wanted to become a vegetarian and when he gave his reasons, they tried to argue with him about it. They claimed that he would waste away.

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=27699

UK: A landlady who has been a passionate vegetarian for 20 years has banned meat

from her historic Suffolk pub
Jan Wise, an experienced chef who has run restaurants and pubs for years, hopes the move to a completely vegetarian menu will attract people from far afield to the Red Lion, in Great Bricett near Needham Market.

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=27573


 

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