Vegan Forum

Mercy for All Animals More than 10 billion intensively-raised land animals will end up on dinner tables this year in America alone. They’re made of flesh, blood and bone and can feel love, happiness, loneliness and fear just like the dogs and cats we ask our pastors and rectors to bless.Yet because...

Does Disease Begin in the School Lunch Room? According to the American Obesity Association, approximately 30 percent of children ages 6 to 19 are overweight and 15 percent are obese. Rates of obesity-related diseases—such as type-2 diabetes, asthma and hypertension—are rapidly rising in young peopl...

Now companies are going green right from the start GREEN” plants are growing in the motor industry. Companies are investing to give their factories green credentials to complement their products, reducing emissions and using more eco-friendly materials and processes. Ford’s Dagenham diesel engine p...

BA uses own jets to examine effect of air travel on climate British Airways aircraft are to be used to gather data about the hidden impact of air travel on climate change in research that could result in much higher environmental surcharges on tickets than expected. The airline is supporting resear...

Airbus Completes First Civil Aircraft Test Flight With Alternative Fuel An Airbus A380 aircraft has successfully completed the world’s first ever flight by a commercial aircraft using a liquid fuel processed from gas (Gas to Liquids - GTL) in the first stage of a test flight program to evaluate the...

Market Trends show 2007 was busiest vegan year: 2008 most vegan ever MiV, a new vegan consultancy, says “ All the signs point to the fact that key elements within the catering, retail and manufacturing industries have finally grasped the potential of veganism and ethical consumerism.” “More importa...

Meatless meat wins animal rights award People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has named a Richmond business as its company of the year for developing food that looks, tastes and feels like meat, but isn't.Garden Protein International manufactures Gardein, a trademarked meat substitute made ent...

North Carolina Slaughterhouse Workers Fired for Brutally Abusing Pigs Workers at a North Carolina slaughterhouse caught on hidden camera brutally abusing pigs have been fired.Several employees of Murphy Family Ventures, which owns pig-breeding farms that supply the country's largest pork producer S...

Utah State Prison makes PETA top 10 veggie-friendly penitentiaries With veggie burgers, veggie dogs, sweet-and-sour tofu and vegetable-and-tofu chow mein on the menu, the Utah Department of Corrections has ranked on animal rights group PETA's top 10 list for vegetarian friendly prison systems."...

Red Meat Linked To Specific Cancers Meat lovers beware: there is a new warning that has been issued by the National Cancer Institute that states that those that consume a large mount of red meat have a high likelihood of receiving colon and lung cancer.This is stated to be of a huge breakthrough, a...

Darwin Tears: The Devolution of Man In natural selection, favorable heritable characteristics of a species tend to survive the unfavorable heritable traits, allowing for an enhancement of that species. This evolution ultimately influences survival rates as the species evolves to successfully meet i...

Humane Society of the United States Issues Statement on Westland Meat Co. The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) applauded the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) for suspending Westland Meat Co. as a supplier to the National School Lunch Program and other federal nutrition programs, in r...

Vegetarian Guide - Meat Substitutes When the pangs of hunger strike you, you will generally start looking for delicious food to start satisfying these hunger pangs. To satisfy this need you have a range of different foods that you can try. These will include fruits, fast foods, cereals, meats, vege...

Things to know about Vegetarian Diet You will find that you have access to many great tasting foods. These foods will help you to live a good life. For a more quality conscious lifestyle however you may want to look into switching to a vegetarian diet. The different vegetarian diets that you can lo...

Vegetarian Diet and Your Health Being in good health is vital if you want to live well. The different foods that you can eat will help you to attain this goal. When you look at the different types of foods that you can eat, you will notice that vegetables and fruits are ones that seem to offer you ...

Vegetarian Weight Loss A vegetarian weight loss diet can help you to see the changes that you can make to the way that you eat and live. While you are looking at the different vegetables and fruits which can be used in a vegetarian diet you should look to the best ways of preparing these items.You ...

Green Collar Jobs Seen As Prosperous When 1,800 workers lost their jobs after a Maytag appliance factory and headquarters closed last year in the small town of Newton, Iowa, a wind turbine blade company saw opportunity -- an available, skilled workforce in the middle of one of America's hardiest wi...

Video Reveals Violations of Laws, Abuse of Cows at Slaughterhouse Video footage being released today shows workers at a California slaughterhouse delivering repeated electric shocks to cows too sick or weak to stand on their own; drivers using forklifts to roll the "downer" cows on the gr...

Plan to analyse impact of vegan diet on diabetes A trans-Atlantic collaboration is on the cards to analyse the impact of a vegan diet on diabetes in India. Neal Barnard, a US-based clinical researcher, plans to study if the results of his American experiment with the low-fat vegan diet will be simi...

Eco-friendly fashion Thanks to global warming, wacky weather has brought on a whole new set of style dilemmas -- like what to wear when it's 60 degrees in the middle of winter. Luckily, a host of new, fashion-forward designers are offering up stylish solutions to ensure your closet can help combat ...

The goods on a vegetarian lifestyle Vegetarian alternatives such as tofu are carried by most grocery store chains, and many fast-food restaurants feature vegetarian menu options. There are vegetarian and vegan restaurants, bakeries, health-food stores and even consulting firms helping people live h...

Saving with vegetarianism For students looking for a way to eat healthy on a low budget on campus, a vegan or vegetarian diet may be the answer.Anyone who has ever looked at higher quality meat products in a deli will know that trying to eat healthy meats can often run at a steep price.On a dollar-...

Go vegetarian, and save 100 animals every year About 40 million tons of food is needed to eliminate the most extreme cases of world hunger, yet farm animals in Western countries are fed 540 million tons of food every year.The world's cattle alone consume a quantity of food equal to the caloric need...

U.S. Steel Proposes $1 Billion Environmental Upgrade United States Steel Corporation is considering a $1 billion capital investment program at its Clairton plant coke making operation near Pittsburgh to boost the company’s environmental performance. The program, which would take place over a period...

Study: Sales Of Advanced Lighting Products To Reach $4.4 Billion U.S. demand for advanced lighting products is forecast to rise nearly 14 percent per year through 2011, reaching $4.4 billion, according to Advanced Lighting, a new study from The Freedonia Group. Gains will be fueled by consumer desi...

Making Green Choices Gets Easier For Small Businesses While large corporations get most of the headlines on green initiatives, many U.S. small businesses are also cutting energy costs making green choices, USA Today reports. Harbec Plastics, for example, uses wind and natural gas turbines, a state-...

Xerox Opens $60 Million Energy Efficient Toner Plant Xerox is filling more than 20 miles of pipe and stainless steel tanks with billions of micron-sized toner particles with the opening of its first U.S.-based emulsion aggregation Toner plant. The new $60 million, 100,000 square-foot plant located ...

Coke Greens Up in Europe and South America Coca-Cola’s second largest bottler, Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company, has reached an agreement with ContourGlobal to build 15 new combined heat and power plants by the end of 2009. They will be built at facilities in Austria, Czech Republic, Greece, Nor...

Regimens: Cause, Effect and Vegetables
Many large-scale epidemiological studies have found that vegetarians are less likely than meat eaters to have high blood pressure.
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Rethinking the Meat-Guzzler
A SEA change in the consumption of a resource that Americans take for granted may be in store — something cheap, plentiful, widely enjoyed and a part of daily life. And it isn’t oil.It’s meat.
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