 | |  | | | |||||
| Home |
About Contact |
News Publications | Events Campaigns |
Veggie Resources |
News & Publications
> Newsletter
> February 2008
display for printing
language versions
of this page :
en de fr pt es
it nl tr dk ro
Obituary
World Hunger
Ecology
Oceans
Animal Transport
Meat consumption is unhealthy
Health
Go veggie
Religion
Movie, Book and Videos
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Commentary by Captain Paul Watson On Board the Sea Shepherd ship Steve Irwin
http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=30296
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
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
Handle with
care
http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=30933
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
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
see also:
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
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
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
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
Are vegetarian diets healthful?
http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=30366
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
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
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
'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
PETA: 'Too chicken
to go
vegetarian?'
http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=30993
Commentary ref. the
article 'Lesson from a
chicken'
http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=30965
'...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
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
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
A sci fi movie with over 300 special effect shots in 120 minutes.
http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=30631
"Heart attacks... God's revenge for eating his little animal friends."
http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=30365
Why do we cause so
much destruction in the animal kingdom.....?
http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=30905
Official video for
Disco Lies
http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=30806
Reviewed by Richard H. Schwartz