Today on Go Vegan Texas!: Meatout, the largest beef recall and Rodeo cruelty - March 10, 2008

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Tune in every Monday at 10:00 AM CST on 90.1 FM KPFT Houston (89.5 in Galveston), or live on the web at www.kpft.org For local events, visit www.govegantexas.org and to the Society of P.E.A.C.E. Events Calendar. Monday, March 10, 2008 Our Topics today include: Meatout - the world's largest grassroots diet education campaign since 1985. The USDA's largest beef recall ever and

why there should be a "Total Recall". Exposing rodeo cruelty and the connections between rodeo & livestock shows and slaughterhouses. Today on Go Vegan Texas! Featuring our guests Dawn Moncrief Executive Director of FARM Dawn Moncrief is the Executive Director for FARM (Farm Animal Rights Movement). Headquartered in the nation's capital, FARM is a nonprofit, public-interest organization which advocates plant-based (vegan) diets to save animals, protect the environment, and improve health. Meatout is the world's largest grassroots diet education campaign and was created by FARM in 1985. Every year around the first day of Spring, activists from around the globe encourage others to "kick the meat habit" and enjoy the benefits of a plant-based diet. Meatout outreach events are scheduled in Houston and throughout the world. In response to the recent beef recall, the theme for this year's Meatout is "Total Recall". Click HERE to see the HSUS undercover video investigation of the Hallmark slaughterhouse in California,

which documents "downed" animals (animals too sick to move) being abused by slaughterhouse workers. This video set in motion the largest beef recall in U.S. History. (Warning: video contains images of animal abuse) and Steve Hindi President & founder of SHARK Showing Animals Respect and Kindness

(SHARK) was founded in 1993 by Steve Hindi, a former hunter. Steve has led the organization to several victories for the animals: statewide bans on horse-tripping and live pigeon shoots in Illinois, shutting down various hunting clubs and canned hunts across the country, international exposure of the truth behind rodeos and bullfighting, helping to prosecute domestic animal cruelty cases... This list goes on and on and continues to grow today. Click HERE to view a 10 minute SHARK video on YouTube of animal cruelty that was filmed at rodeos throughout the country. (Warning: video contains images of animal abuse) Demonstrations will be held again this weekend at the Houston Rodeo. Please attend at least one demo and speak up for Animals! Contact Danielle at 832-257-7200 for more info. Go Vegan Texas! "A Peaceful Diet for a Peaceful Planet" Airs every Monday @ 10am (Central) on Pacifica Radio KPFT-Houston 90.1 FM and 89.5 FM-Galveston. Listen live at www.govegantexas.org, or later on the KPFT Archives at www.archive.kpft.org Today's show Produced and hosted by Kristen Lee Ohanyan President & founder, Society of PEACE and a member of the Go Vegan Texas! Collective Also co-hosted by Danielle Seger Co-director of In Solidarity With Animals and organizer of this year's rodeo demonstrations Filling in for Mike McGuire Laura KPFT Sound Engineer Music for today's show: "Rise up" by Maria Daines, from the CD Music United for Animals www.maria-daines.com

Contact information for today's guest(s) Dawn Moncrief Executive Director of FARM (Farm Animal

Rights Movement) Email: Dawn www.farmusa.org www.meatout.org Phone: 888-FARM-USA Steve Hindi Founder of S.H.A.R.K (SHowing Animals Respect and Kindness) Email: Info www.sharkonline.org www.rodeocruelty.com www.thecrueltruth.com Phone: 630-557-0176

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