European Vegetarian Union (EVU) - Newsletter January 2009

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Newsletter January 2009

You can read the complete Newsletter on

www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/newsletter/2009-01-01.php.

Content of the whole Online-Newsletter:

 

 

Norm Phelps: Hopes for 2009

 

Vegetarianism – Health

 

 

Meat - Global warming

 

 

 

Meat means misery

 

 

 

Food Insecurity – Global Hunger

 

 

 

Politics

 

Fishing and whaling

 

Celebrities

 

 

US author Norm Phelps about his hopes for 2009:

... „We cannot separate our own wellbeing from the wellbeing of animals.

As Henry Beston told us, we are all caught up together in the web of life. And

so, I am looking forward to 2009 with the hope that we are awakening from our

national nightmare and are ready to join with people of good will and compassion

around the world in taking up the long, hard, slow process of building Albert

Schweitzer’s ethical civilization: a civilization of peace on earth and good

will toward all living beings.“

 

 

Vegetarianism - Health

'Vegetarians and vegans figured out the health advantages of a meatless

diet long ago'

Peter Fricker, projects and communications director of the Vancouver

Humane Society: 'Vegetarians and vegans figured out the health advantages of a

meatless diet long ago. That's why they have lower rates of obesity, heart

disease, diabetes, colon cancer, hypertension and other diseases.

 

 

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Meat - Global warming

Climate conference addresses problems of meat consumption

 

Recent climate change negotiations in Poznan, Poland, addressed the impact

on global warming of raising animals for food …

 

 

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Meat means misery

Force-Fed: Plea To Ban Foie Gras

 

Animal welfare campaigners are demanding a ban on the delicacy foie gras

after uncovering evidence of cruelty to ducks and geese. Investigations carried

out by the charity Four Paws in Hungary and Bulgaria discovered animals

suffering from the effects of force-feeding....

 

 

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Food Insecurity – Global Hunger

Billions face food shortages, study warns

Half of the world's population could face severe food shortages by the end

of the century as rising temperatures take their toll on farmers' crops,

scientists have warned ...

 

 

 

=> Please sign the petition to the UN

http://un.evana.org/sign.php?

 

 

 

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Politics

US, EU hormone beef ban dispute escalates

On Jan. 15, the United States announced changes to trade sanctions it

applies on European goods, prompting officials in Brussels to accuse Washington

of escalating a 13-year-old beef hormone dispute and threaten new legal action,

according to The Associated Press. ...Susan Schwab, the soon-to-be-departing

U.S. trade representative, said that the U.S. would shift sanctions to new

European goods to pressure the 27-nation European Union to comply with World

Trade Organization rulings against its ban on hormone-treated beef...

 

 

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Fishing and whaling

Ingrid Newkirk: Fish? No, they're 'sea kittens'

Fish feel pain, learn from each other and remember – will 'rebranding'

them stop us treating them so cruelly?

 

 

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Celebrities

OK! Exclusive: Alanis Morissette's Slim-Down Secrets!

Alanis’ vegan diet — one of the more popular in Hollywood these days — has

helped her shed 20 pounds since she began the new regime in September.....

 

 

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Events

31 January 2009: First World Day for the Abolition of Meat

 

EVU Website

More news regarding ethics, health, animal protection and the vegetarian

lifestyle can be found on….

www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php

www.evana.org

 

Diary www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/events/events.php

 

 

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