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Sunday May 20th 2012

Veg Nutrition News

Low-Carb Meat Diet Increases Mortality Low-Carb Meat Diet Increases »

Recent research has found that low-carb meat diets increase mortality by 23% compared a low-carb diet [...]


Elderly Vegetarians Age Well, New Study Finds Elderly Vegetarians Age Well, »

A new study finds that elderly vegetarians are aging well and getting good nutrition compared to elderly [...]


Vegetarianism Recommended for Weight Loss Vegetarianism Recommended for »

Being vegetarian is a healthy way to lose weight, a new study has found. The study, published in the June [...]


Veg Community

Film Festival Winner, Vegucated Set to be Released

Marisa Miller Wolfson's award-winning documentary film Vegucated will be released to DVD on Monday, January 9, 2012. The film had a successful North American screening tour, and won the Best Documentary award at the Toronto Independent Film Festival. The film is a funny, entertaining, and eye-opening look at the vegan lifestyle. Vegucated takes [...]

Gentle Thanksgiving Day Announced by FARM

The Farm Animal Rights Movement (FARM) group, a 501(c)(3) national nonprofit organization that works to end the use of animals for food through education and activism, has announced Gentle Thanksgiving Day. This is commemorated with a website www.gentlethanksgiving.org, that discusses the alternatives to the slaughter of millions of turkeys. [...]

Environmental Group Requests Meatless Day

Leading environmental scientific group The Environmental Working Group (EWG) is asking its subscribers to pledge that they will abstain from eating meat at least one day a week in order to help save the planet. "According to EWG's Meat Eater's Guide to Climate Change + Health, if everyone in the U.S. skipped eating meat and cheese just one day [...]

Animal Kindness News

Animal Group Files Petition »

Mercy For Animals, a non-profit organization dedicated to preventing farm animal cruelty, has filed an FTC complaint against the egg farm, Sparboe Farms, [Read More]


Human Interest News

Film Festival »

Marisa Miller Wolfson's award-winning documentary film Vegucated will be released to DVD [...]


Environmental Group »

Leading environmental scientific group The Environmental Working Group (EWG) is asking [...]


Meat Workers Suffer »

A disorder among slaughter house workers is finally becoming more aware of. For many [...]


Vege Commentary

Climate Data Recalculation: Meat »

A recent Time Magazine report documented a minor calculation error, but slammed the door on the issue by using a meat-industry paid consultant to exaggerate the error.Frank Mitloehner, a consultant paid by the meat industry, pointed out in a recent paper that was presented [Read More]

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