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EVU-Talks 2009 - Zagreb, Croatia

Vegetarian Solutions to a Sustainable Environment

The EVU Talks for this year is not one to be missed! It will take place in the great city of Zagreb in Croatia for the first time.

A joint event of the EVU and Animal Friends Croatia, the Talks will be held over the long weekend of Thursday 30 April to Sunday 3 May 2009, and will include a visit to an Animal Sanctuary.

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=43338

 

Medical facts

Eating Meat Kills More People Than Previously Thought

There is no more denying it. Meat contains highly toxic substances that are responsible for many deaths and diseases. Heavy meat consumption increases your risk of dying from all causes, including heart disease and cancer, according to a federal study conducted by the National Cancer Institute and featured in Archives of Internal Medicine on Monday.

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=43143

 

Best sources of omega-3 fats are vegan

...Research published in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association last year compared fish oil supplements to DHA from microalgae. They found that both were equally effective in raising blood levels of DHA in the subjects.

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=43240

 

Vegetarian diet slashes cancer risk

A vegetarian diet could help protect against cancer, new research suggests.....

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=42689

 

Vegetarian diet is healthy

Nutrition for a vegetarian

Vegetarianism represents a positive move toward a cleaner and more compassionate world. Although many people think that it is unhealthy to be a vegetarian; one should know that a well planned vegetarian diet can provide all of the nutrients that one needs to be healthy.

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=43497

 

Vegetarian Diets and Disordered Eating Behaviors

by Jack Norris
Every few years, another study comes out that shows vegetarian teens or young adults to have higher rates of eating disorders than non-vegetarians. The April 2009 issue of the Journal of the American Dietetic Association (JADA) has the most recent one: Adolescent and Young Adult Vegetarianism: Better Dietary Intake and Weight Outcomes but Increased Risk of Disordered Eating Behaviors.

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=43378

 

Medical doctors blame lifestyle for obesity epidemics and related illnesses

Press Statement – SHARAN

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=43267

 

Animal protection

Europe for inclusion of animal welfare in WTO agenda

Animal rights activists across the world have a reason to smile as the European Union (EU) is pushing for the inclusion of animal welfare standards in the World Trade Organisation's (WTO) multilateral trade negotiations (...)

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=43492

 

Claws for concern? Scientists suggest prawns and lobsters feel pain just like humans

Chefs have long asserted that the lobster does not suffer when it is placed into boiling water (the favoured method of dispatch). It is an invertebrate, they say. It hardly has a brain, they add (...)

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=43209

 

Interview with Peter Singer, Princeton philosophy professor and author of 'The Life You Can Save'

...In his latest book, "The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty," published this month in the United States, Singer urges readers to donate at least 1 percent of their income to help those less fortunate around the world. A Web site he set up to promote the cause (www.thelifeyoucansave.com) garnered almost 500 pledges in the first two weeks after the book appeared in Australia.

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=42646

 

Vegetarian stories

Radical kindness: the banker who gave it all away

On the face of it, kindness doesn't sound like a radical idea, just as Philip Wollen, at first glance, does not look like a radical(...)

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=43496

 

USA: Industry speaks out against 'Meatless Mondays'

Organizers of a campaign dubbed "Meatless Monday," which proponents describe as a national health promotion "to help prevent heart disease, stroke, diabetes and cancer" — and is in association with Johns Hopkins School of Public Health — are calling on President Obama to declare national "meatless" days, as former Presidents Woodrow Wilson, Harry Truman and Franklin D. Roosevelt had done.

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=43488

 

 

Ecological consequences

Meat’s Not Green: This Earth Day, Go Vegetarian to Save the Planet

Living green ultimately means eating green. In order to call attention to the meat industry’s devastating impact on the environment, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)has designated the week of Earth Day, April 20-26, as “Meat’s Not Green Week.”

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=43521

 

EVANA Interview with Jens Holm, member of the European Parliament representing the Swedish Left Party:

'get involved in politics. Please!'

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=43341

 

USA: Larry Hagman, Hall Of Fame Honoree, Spent $1 Million Going Solar

Information: Vegetarian Star

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=42436

 

We Need to Stop Eating the Oceans

Commentary by Captain Paul Watson

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=43364

 

Vegetarian Diet Could Cut Climate Change Mitigation Costs by 70%, If Enough Of Us Make the Switch

It's no secret by now that I'm always recommending that giving up meat eating entirely (or at the minimum, becoming a weekday vegetarian) is one of the strongest personal steps that can be taken towards reducing you personal carbon footprint, as well as your ecological footprint more broadly.

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=42530

 

The Breathtaking Effects Of Cutting Back On Meat

by Kathy Freston
I've written extensively on the consequences of eating meat - on our health, our sense of "right living", and on the environment.

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=43218

 

 

 

Famine

Billion people face famine by mid-century, says top US scientist

Nina Fedoroff, the US State Department chief scientist, is convinced that food shortages will be the biggest challenge facing the world as temperatures and population levels rise. Food security in the coming years, she said, is “a huge problem” that has been met with little more than complacency. “We are asleep at the switch,” she said.

Her warning echoes comments by John Beddington, Britain’s chief scientist......
http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=42967

 

See also:

PETITION TO UN - 'FOOD VS FEED' -

Endorsers of the petition wrote the following messages to the UN:

 

It’s not too late to sign the Petition:

Petition to the UN and FAO:

http://un.evana.org/

 

 

 

Genetic engineering

National bans on GM to remain in Europe despite UK pro-GM stance

Friends of the Earth - Press release

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=42483

 

Germany bans Monsanto's GM maize

Greenpeace has long campaigned against the planting of GM maize

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=43510

 

NAIS, Monsanto, and the Genetic Altering and Patenting of Animal Breeds

First the Svalgaard Seedbank, then the Nordic Gene Bank for Farm Animals. The Nordic region seems to be a popular place for storing natural seeds and untainted animal genetic resources. The reasons for the Svalgaard Seedbank are clear enough. When the world is overcome by GM technology, and we the little people are forced to eat whatever genetic trait and/or trigger mechanism Monsanto et al have implanted in our Cheerios, the world´s ruling elite will need a clean seed bank for their own food.......

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=42443

 

 

 

Celebrities

John Robbins patron of the World Vegetarian Week

'For a healthier You and a healthier Planet, go Vegetarian, promote the Vegetarian Week: October 1-7!'

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=42492

 

USA: Smell of meat 'offends' Morrissey

Morrissey walked off stage during his set at the Coachella festival in California on Friday after declaring he could "smell burning flesh".

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=43517

 

Sushil to endorse vegetarian diet

Olympic bronze medalist Sushil Kumar would endorse a pro-vegetarian ad for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals India

Sushil, who won India a broze in Beijing in wrestling follows a healthy, humane vegetarian diet.

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=43305

 

Keziah Jones

Keziah Jones said in an interview (in French): "I have been vegan since the age of 15. I need this diet for my music to be spiritually 'pure', so to speak..."

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=42878

 

 

Medias

Books:

Book: 'Animals and Christianity - A Book of Readings'

Edited by Andrew Linzey, Tom Regan

-Book Description

What does the Christian tradition say about the condition and rights of animals? This helpful and timely anthology of selections from the Bible and from the great Christian thinkers of all times is an essential primer for those who care about animals.

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=43291

 

There is a new children's book called 'That's Why We Don't Eat Animals'

'That’s Why We Don’t Eat Animals' uses colorful artwork and lively text to introduce vegetarianism and veganism to early readers (ages six to ten).

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=43275

 

Book: 'The Foie Gras Wars'

How a 5,000-Year-Old Delicacy Inspired the World's Fiercest Food Fight

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=43271

 

Book: 'The Face on your Plate: The Truth about Food'

by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=42847

 

Films:

'Don't Eat The Planet '- Save the Human

...What are your personally doing to change the world?......

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=43238

 

The Animals Film

For the first time on DVD - the controversial classic film shockingly relevant to today

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=42657

 

Documentary: A Delicate Balance - The Truth

A Delicate Balance - The Truth is a 2008 documentary created by Aaron Scheibner, outlining the disastrous effects of our diet on [health]] and the environment. http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=42645

 

 

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