http://thevegetarianblog.today.com Vegetarianism and all things related Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:39:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Thanksgiving is not a happy time for turkeys, an American native bird notorious for their family bonding skills and gracefulness. Unfortunately, Thanksgiving became associated with eating the flesh of this beautiful bird  and factory farms destroy the lives of millions of them, besides having genetically modified them so grotesquely that they ... http://thevegetarianblog.today.com/2009/11/21/martha-stewart-recommends-vegetarian-thanksgiving/ It will sound ridiculous to anyone with common sense but, still, a lot of people who eat fish claim to be vegetarians. A new, meaningless term was created to describe these people: flexitarians. The phenomenon caught the attention of the UK Vegetarian Society, who said it loud and clear in ... http://thevegetarianblog.today.com/2009/11/11/vegetarians-don%e2%80%99t-eat-fish-2/ A Humane Society investigation led to the closure of Vermont-based Bushway Packing Inc. slaughterhouse. Videotape from the investigation reveals that veal calves only a few days old - many with their umbilical cords still hanging from their bodies - were unable to stand or walk on their own. The tape ... http://thevegetarianblog.today.com/2009/11/03/vermont-veal-slaughterhouse-closed-down/ October and November are important months for the vegan community as this is when we celebrate and promote veganism. This week specifically is WORLD GO VEGAN WEEK (25-31 October, thanks to an initiative by San Francisco-based advocacy group In Defence of Animals) and it’s meant to send out a message ... http://thevegetarianblog.today.com/2009/10/29/world-go-vegan-week/ Since 2006 we have been aware that livestock’s greenhouse emissions account for 18% of the total that goes into the atmosphere and causes global warming. Contrast that with transport’s share at 13% and you get an idea of how environmentally unsound animal agriculture and its products and byproducts are. Did ... http://thevegetarianblog.today.com/2009/10/22/livestock-accounts-for-51-of-greenhouse-emissions-says-new-report/ TV man Larry King hosted a discussion about the safety of eating meat last night, following the national interest in how dancer Stephanie Smith’s life was destroyed by eating E Coli contaminated meat. Stephanie went into weeks-long coma and emerged from it brain-damaged and unable to walk. Three people from families ... http://thevegetarianblog.today.com/2009/10/14/is-meat-safe-well-it-certainly-isn%e2%80%99t-necessary/ PostPunk Kitchen is once again organizing Vegan Month of Food, a food blogging extravaganza to spread the word about the wonders of vegan cuisine. “The idea is to write as much as you can for the month of October about vegan food. The blog entries can be about anything food ... http://thevegetarianblog.today.com/2009/10/07/vegan-month-of-food/ You have likely heard of the devastating floods that have hit the Philippines. Last weekend, Tropical Storm Ketsana, dumped 42 centimeters of rain on Manila in just 12 hours, flooding 80% of the city and causing the deaths of 143 people and hundreds of thousands of animals.The floodwaters rose so ... http://thevegetarianblog.today.com/2009/10/02/animals-in-the-philippines-need-help/ Virgina Messina, a well-known vegan dietician , has given her approval to the USDA's new fact sheet for vegetarians. Says Ms. Messina:While the fact sheet lists some nutrients that vegetarians need to focus on, it doesn’t have any of that annoying verbiage about the need to carefully plan meals. (Vegetarians and ... http://thevegetarianblog.today.com/2009/09/29/usda-publishes-tips-for-vegetarians-and-gets-it-right/ Sometimes you wonder what kind of society we live in when courts debate whether making a profit out of videos depicting animal cruelty staged for the purpose of ‘entertainment’ is legal or not.A man called Robert J. Stevens (pictured) produced videos showing gruesome dogfighting scenes. He was sentenced to 37-months ... http://thevegetarianblog.today.com/2009/09/21/videos-showing-animal-cruelty-for-fun-must-be-considered-illegal/