European Vegetarian Union

The latest news to the following topics:

 

Whaling and fishing

Meat consumption

Eggs and Chicken

Health

Environment

GMO and cloning

Movies and videos

Vegetarian people

EVU-Agenda

 

Whaling and Fishing

Whaling showdown strains partnerships

'Many people are saying Japan is not balancing its interests, with a vocal minority dictating a course that risks some of our most cherished relationships'

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=29730

 

Despite Japan's insistence on whaling, it acknowledges that it has more whale meat than consumers are eating.

Many younger Japanese have never eaten whale, which is rarely found in non-speciality restaurants.

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=29743

 

Empty Seas: Europe’s Appetite for Seafood Propels Illegal Trade

Europe’s dinner tables are increasingly supplied by global fishing fleets, which are depleting the world’s oceans to feed the ravenous consumers who have become the most effective predators of fish.

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=29638

 

Peter Singer: Harpooned by hypocrisy

Until western states treat all animals ethically, the case against the whalers will always be weakened

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=29834

 

Meat consumption

UK: Michele Hanson: I'm sick of this raving mad meat industry

Now we're to eat more veal - as well as everything else that moves

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=29903

 

India: Meat of the matter: Veg is the way to go

Four days after the deadly avian flu virus was detected in parts of West Bengal, and criticism of the state government's slack response to the crisis, Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has admitted the situation is indeed grave.

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=29733

 

UK: Why can't James just tell us to eat less meat?

Hugh is weeping over a fluffy chick before he kills it. Jamie is berating us all and making people sick by electrocuting and bleeding a chicken on television. Gordon Ramsay is in on the act because there is no act these days that he is not in on. All these new chicken champions are telling it like it is and it's not very nice, is it?

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=29540

 

Humane meat?

It's all very well saying we should be kind to farm animals, but meat eaters still end up killing them unnecessarily

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=29403

 

Brazil: Pro-meat institute's website hacked

Brazilian Pro-meat institute's website has been hacked by activists who sign on behalf of Animal Liberation Front.

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=29199

 

 

Eggs and Chicken

UK: Jamie Oliver electrocutes chicken on TV

Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver has electrocuted a chicken and suffocated male chicks on television, outraging animal rights groups.

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=29364

 

EU: Commission report confirms the potential benefits of banning conventional battery cages for laying hens

Animal Welfare: Commission report confirms the potential benefits of banning conventional battery cages for laying hens

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=29360

 

UK: Stores to ban ‘cruel’ eggs from battery hens

Britain's supermarkets are to ban the sale of eggs from battery hens amid a growing consumer backlash over the impact of cheap food on animal welfare(...)

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=29399

 

What Are We Eating?

So you only eat free-range eggs, and spend the extra on organic sausages. But what's life really like for the animals that end up on your plate?
http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=29259

 

Health

Vegan diet to control diabetes

India/Hyderabad: Neal D. Barnard, a nutrition researcher from the US, has said that the assault on vegetarian tradition by westernisation was the biggest challenge facing India in tackling diabetes

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=29545

 

Study: Legume and soy food intake and the incidence of type 2 diabetes

in the Shanghai Women's Health Study

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=29501

 

Healthy living 'can add 14 years'

All social classes are at risk from an unhealthy lifestyle
http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=29358

 

USA: Vegans seek grilled meat warning

A vegan group is trying to force U.S. restaurant chains to warn California consumers about a cancer-causing chemical that forms in grilled meat, using a state law designed to protect consumers from toxins in drinking water.

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=29811

 

Childhood dairy intake and adult cancer risk

Background: Dairy consumption affects biological pathways associated with carcinogenesis. Evidence for a link between cancer risk and dairy consumption in adulthood is increasing, but associations with childhood dairy consumption have not been studied adequately(...)

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=29164

 

 

Environment

Open Letter to the President of the European Parliament

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=29950

Climate Change: 'The pressing problem of meat must not be excluded from future debates'

If you want to endorse this letter please inform EVANA, so that your name/organisation can de added to the list. info@evana.org

 

Don't eat meat, ride a bike, and be a frugal shopper

Vegetarian IPCC chief made a plea for people around the world to tame their carnivorous impulses

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=29689

 

USA/Loma Linda: Cold turkey vegetarian

David Dyjack has a confession. He's a meat lover.
http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=29892

 

GMO and cloning

EFSA launches its draft opinion on animal cloning for public consultation

EFSA is launching a public consultation on its draft scientific opinion on the implications of animal cloning on food safety, animal health and welfare and the environment. The work follows a request from the European Commission (EC) to EFSA for advice on this issue in February 2007.

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=29735

 

EU Food Agency Backs Cloned Meat, Dairy Products

Meat and milk from cloned animals moved a step closer to European Union supermarket shelves on Friday after the bloc's top food safety agency said cloned food products are safe to eat...

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=29536

 

USA: Cloned animals miserable, but safe to eat

Cloned animals may often be born deformed and die young but scientists, who have looked at every aspect of their biology to try to explain why, can find no evidence that it would be dangerous to eat them......

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=29648

 

Ethics group warns of animal welfare implications of cloning

The European Group on Ethics (EGE) has advised against the production of food from cloned animals and their offspring on animal welfare grounds.

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=29781

 

French Activist Bove Launches Anti-GMO Hunger Strike

French radical farmer Jose Bove, who became a worldwide celebrity for his fight against junk food, went on a hunger strike from Thursday to try and get the government to do more to ban genetically modified (GMO) crops.....

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=29172

 

Movies and videos

Wake Up Now “Before It Really Is Too Late”

The purpose of this presentation is to persuade you to stay completely awake and concentrate while you view the one hour major masterpiece documentary film that millions of people throughout the world will be talking about *real soon* titled:
A SACRED DUTY

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=29780

 

see also:

A sacred duty: Applying jewish values to help heal the world

Interview of Richard Schwartz by the European Vegetarian and Animal News Agency (EVANA)

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=29563

 

Video: Richard Dawkins with Douglas Adams

Humane meat?

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=29466

 

USA/PETA: Road to the Greenhouse!

'Give peas a chance'
http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=29461

 

France's Besson Plans Film Focusing on Environment

French film maker Luc Besson is to make a full length movie inspired by French photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand's "Earth from the Air" images of the planet, French retailer PPR, the film's sponsor, said on Monday.

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=29587

 

Russian Animation: 'Fish are not vegetables'

....This animal-friendly animation has been shown at the 2007 Suzdal-festivalo in Russia.....

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=29258

 

Eleni Vlachos' veganism documentary

Eleni Vlachos knows how to do a lot of things. The 35-year-old Durham resident can turn out a mean drum beat in her band Beloved Binge. She can spark minds and rumble tummies through her blog, Binge Café, and cook a tasty vegan pot roast for Christmas dinner. She can also document her experience as a vegan on video.

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=29157

 

Vegetarian people

The vegan Scott Jurek is course record holder

and consecutive seven-time champion of Western States 100 Mile Endurance Run, two-time champion of the Badwater Ultramarathon, defending two-time Spartathlon champion....

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=29257

 

USA: Chelsea Clinton a rebel … vegetarian

Chelsea Clinton, whose father was once the U.S. president and whose mother is seeking the same office, rebelled in her youth by becoming a vegetarian.

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=29260

 

USA: I’m not the norm here

I'm a Wyomingite and I am a vegetarian

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=29809

 

UK: Fauja Singh, The Great Sikh Runner

Fauja singh was born on 1st April 1911. Most of his life was spent in farming, village near Jalandhar like any other farmer of Punjab who toils for bread and in turn produces food grains for the whole of India. Fauja Singh toiled like all other Sikhs who made Punjab ‘the Food bowl of India.’

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=29832

 

EVU-Agenda

Don’t forget the EVU Talks 2008 in Switzerland!

'Vegetarianism, the ultimate animal welfare'

More Information and Registration

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/events/evutalks/2008.php

 

Germany: 'Vegetarier-Bund Deutschlands e.V.' is organising the 38th IVU World Vegetarian Congress

100 YEARS OF FOOD REVOLUTION

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/events/congress/2008.php

 

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