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Obituary

Janez Drnovsek, ex-Slovenian president who helped lead country to independence, dies

Slovenia--Former President Janez Drnovsek, who helped lead Slovenia to independence from Yugoslavia and later enthralled many of his countrymen by adopting a New Age lifestyle, died Saturday, his office said. He was 57.
Mild-mannered but resolute, Drnovsek became a political icon in part for working to keep violence at a minimum when Slovenia gained independence in 1991. He later led the country to European Union and NATO membership.
In recent years, as he battled cancer, he made a radical transformation to a holistic lifestyle and wrote several New Age-influenced books........

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=31028

 

World Hunger

High food prices may force aid rationing

The United Nation’s agency responsible for relieving hunger is drawing up plans to ration food aid in response to the spiralling cost of agricultural commodities...

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=31130

 

Meat Means Misery for the World's Hungry

It takes up to 16 pounds of grain to produce just 1 pound of edible animal flesh
There is more than enough food in the world to feed the entire human population. So why are more than 840 million people still going hungry?

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=30849

 

What is the Vegetarian Beef About World Hunger?

20 million people die annually due to hunger and its effects. Although this is a result of many complex interrelated geographic, social and economic factors, the remedy to this tragedy is ideally quite simple. An even slightly more equitable distribution of food resources (which could be fueled by a larger agrarian output) would alleviate much human suffering.

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=30369

 

Ecology

A Thirst for Meat: Changes in diet, rising population may strain China's water supply

China's rapid industrialization and increasing population, along with a growing dietary preference among its citizens for meat, are straining the country's water resources to the point where food imports will probably be needed to meet demand in coming decades......

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=30351

 

Save the planet – change your diet

According to UN’s report, the meat industry is the main producer of greenhouse gas emissions: carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and ammoniac. Besides, the FAO ensures that ranching is “the major driver of deforestation worldwide” and overgrazing is turning a fifth of all pastures and ranges into desert. Pesticides, antibiotics and hormones used to treat cattle get into drinking water and endanger human health.
http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=30590

 

UK: Shoppers care more about animals than climate

Animal welfare and fair trade are far bigger concerns to UK consumers than climate change, according to a huge new poll of UK shoppers

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=30331

 

Oceans

The Ecological Insanity of Fish Farming

Commentary by Captain Paul Watson On Board the Sea Shepherd ship Steve Irwin

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=30296

 

Human Impacts on Ocean: Shocking

A new map shows the world’s oceans in serious decline
Researchers unveiled the first detailed map of human impacts on the world’s oceans last week, and the news is not good. A team of 20 acclaimed marine scientists from around the world collaborated on the project, finding that humans are having a major impact on marine ecosystems, leaving only four percent of the world’s oceans unaffected by human activities.......

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=31159

 

World Fisheries Face Collapse Within Decades - UN

A deadly combination of climate change, over-fishing and pollution could cause the collapse of commercial fish stocks worldwide within decades, said Achim Steiner, head of the United Nations Environment Programme.

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=31043

 

Animal transport

Stop long distance transport of animals for slaughter

Handle with care
http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=30933

 

Exposed: The long, cruel road to the slaughterhouse

Millions of animals are suffering unnecessarily at the hands of meat traders by enduring cruel, drawn-out journeys across the world to be slaughtered on arrival.

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=30749

 

Australia as world leader in live export cruelty

A new report, Beyond Cruelty. Beyond Reason. Long Distance Transport and Welfare of Farm Animals (2008), highlights Australia as a world leader in the cruel live export trade of animals for slaughter.

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=30699

 

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Australia: Magistrate Rules that Live Export is Cruel

In a landmark animal cruelty trial, a Perth magistrate has today ruled that Australia's live export industry is cruel.

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=30582

 

Meat consumption is unhealthy

USDA Makes Nation's Largest Beef Recall

The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Sunday ordered the recall of 143 million pounds of frozen beef from a California slaughterhouse, the subject of an animal-abuse investigation, that provided meat to school lunch programs.
Officials said it was the largest beef recall in the United States, surpassing a 1999 ban of 35 million pounds of ready-to-eat meats.....

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=30838

 

Bloodbath in Germany: 7,3 million tons of meat in 2007

For the massacre had to die:
53,0 million pigs (TV report about pigs in a German farm)
3,3 million cows, bulls and steers,
305 000 calves,
1,1 million sheep and
29.100 goats and horses.
About 1,1 million tons of poultry meat needs to be added, namely
651.700 tons chicken-meat,
374.500 tons turkey-meat,
46.800 tons duck-meat.

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=30630

 

Cloned or conventional, meat is unsafe

The Food and Drug Administration recently declared that meat and milk from cloned cows, pigs and goats and their offspring are "as safe to eat as food from conventionally bred animals." That's like saying that brand A cigarettes are as safe to smoke as brand B. The question isn't whether meat and milk from cloned animals pose additional health risks - it's why would anyone want to consume meat and milk at all?

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=30548

 

Health

American Heart Asc.: Many studies have shown that vegetarians seem to have a lower risk of obesity

Are vegetarian diets healthful?

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=30366

 

Milk Consumption and Prostate Cancer

By Neal D. Barnard, M.D.
Abstract
Prostate cancer is one of the most common malignancies worldwide, with an estimated 400,000 new cases diagnosed annually. Its incidence and mortality have been associated with milk or dairy product consumption in international and interregional correlational studies.

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=30633

 

Diet change gives hyperactive kids new taste for life in Norway

Tears streak Rita's cheek as she recalls what it was like trying to figure out what was wrong with her son more than a decade ago, but she breaks into a smile when she explains how changing his diet made all the difference.

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=31156

 

Go veggie

There has never been a better time to go vegetarian

There are 20 billion head of livestock on Earth, more than triple the number of people

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=31055

 

Go vegetarian, and save 100 animals every year

'The world's cattle alone consume a quantity of food equal to the caloric needs of 8.7 billion people.......'

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=30287

 

Greening it - Your guide to greener living

PETA: 'Too chicken to go vegetarian?'
http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=30993

 

Karen Davis,United Poultry Concerns: 'Teach kids something useful, like vegan cooking'

Commentary ref. the article 'Lesson from a chicken'
http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=30965

 

Religion

EVANA Interview: Chief Rabbi David Rosen:

'...I had to join in on spot checks on the slaughterers in the abattoir and was sickened by the sight of the slaughter...'
http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=30959

 

Vegetarianism: Supported in the Bible

The Bible has many quotations against meat-eating as can be seen from the following: "But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat. And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it." (Genesis 9.4-5)

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=30594

 

Buddhism: On Meat Eating

Meat, the sinful food, is not permitted according to the three vows: the vows of individual liberation, the Bodhisattva vows and the tantric vows
http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=30586

 

Movie, Book and Videos

First vegetarian super hero movie: 'Alien Grey Zone X'

A sci fi movie with over 300 special effect shots in 120 minutes.

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=30631

 

Video - Veggie Quotes

"Heart attacks... God's revenge for eating his little animal friends."

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=30365

 

Videos show how humans exercise their stewardship over helpless creatures

Why do we cause so much destruction in the animal kingdom.....?
http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=30905

 

Moby ....KFC clip, taken from the album 'Last Night'

Official video for Disco Lies
http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=30806

 

Book: Hitler: Neither Vegetarian Nor Animal Lover by Rynn Berry

Reviewed by Richard H. Schwartz

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=31169

 

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