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If you want to do more for animals, this brand new 12-minute talk by Jon Camp is a great place to start. Jon is Vegan Outreach’s all-time leading leafletter, with more than 600,000 books handed out. He knows outreach as well as anyone, and this talk reflects it.
Visit the Adopt a College website to get involved in the leafletting program. You can also fund the leafletting of others by making a credit card donation to Vegan Outreach, with zero transaction costs. Link.
A PETA investigator just spent nine months working undercover at Professional Laboratory and Research Services, Inc.; an animal testing laboratory that assesses the toxicity of consumer products.
After reading the description, I can’t bear to watch the video. The details sound every bit as horrifying as Mercy For Animals’ Conklin Dairy investigation.
As long as there are factory farms and animal testing laboratories, there will be employees perpetrating the most extreme of cruelties. Link.
Pasteurization equipment failed, and four brands shipped to five states are included in the recall. I’d love to find out how it was determined that improperly pasteurized milk had shipped. (Thanks, David.) Link.
This is pretty great: Men’s Journal just published a short health-oriented guide to going vegan, and they even posted it to a prominent URL:
http://www.mensjournal.com/vegan
It’s amazing how quickly we’re seeing the vanishing of the stereotype that real men eat meat. (Thanks, David.) Link.
How would a nationwide switch to cage-free eggs affect egg prices and consumption? A group of egg industry economists estimates that eggs would cost 40 percent more, but since demand for this product is fairly inelastic consumption would only drop by about 10 percent.
Still, 10 percent fewer eggs is a big deal, and it represents a tremendous amount of suffering and slaughter that would be prevented. And since the birds still in the system would no longer be in battery cages, there would be less suffering on that front as well.
I occasionally hear from animal advocates who adamantly assert that banning cruel farming practices doesn’t significantly increase the cost of animal products or reduce demand. So much for that idea. (Thanks, Paul.) Link.
recipe.The New York Times has an incredibly upbeat article about Chloe Coscarelli’s life-changing, world-dominating vegan cupcakes. Every once in a great while you see a major newspaper article put vegan living front and center, without including a single sentence that’s wrong or stupid. This is one of those rare moments.
And speaking of Chloe, check out her Mexicali Sliders recipe from last month. The summer’s best vegan food photo? (Thanks, Carrie.) Link.
This is bad. Morrissey just called Chinese people a “subspecies” because of the country’s track record of animal abuse. There’s no doubt that animal welfare standards in China are abominable, but it’s impossible to see any good to animals coming from what will be seen as overtly racist remarks.
Tragic, considering that it’s hardly stretching the truth to say Morrissey singlehandedly pushed vegetarianism into the mainstream in 1980s Britain, with the release of The Smiths’ “Meat Is Murder.”
I hope he has the good sense to quickly and graciously apologize. (Thanks, Matt.) Link.
Ellen just sent out this tweet to her 5 million followers:
Hey @Starbucks. How about some more options for non-dairy folks other than just vanilla soy. Please.
I love that woman. In her own gentle, unfailingly polite, and nonconfrontational way, she does more than anyone else to push veganism into the mainstream.
You do have Twitter account, right? If so, go retweet this! If not, take five minutes to start one: every animal advocate needs to be on Twitter. Link.
