Notes
from Vegan Outreach
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A French language version of Why
Vegan is now on-line (pdf).
Many thanks to Jean-Philippe Rioux
for translation, Lauren Panos for
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At right, Andy Pollens leaflets
at the University of Michigan; photo
by Jon Camp.
Product of the Week
Bruce says he and his wife use
their Vitamix
every day: With one smoothie, each
of us get our 5 fruit servings and
plenty of Omega 3s [with added flax
seeds and/or walnuts] for the day.
Send your nominees for Product
of the Week to product
(at) veganoutreach (dot) org;
previous products can be found here.
Notes from All
Over
excerpt:
"[S]ome of the 2.2 million
lb of roxarsone mixed in the nation's
chicken feed each year converts
into inorganic arsenic within the
bird, and the rest is transformed
into inorganic forms after the bird
excretes it. According to the Environmental
Protection Agency, long-term exposure
to inorganic arsenic can cause bladder,
lung, skin, kidney, and colon cancer,
as well as deleterious immunological,
neurological, and endocrine effects.
Low-level exposures can lead to
partial paralysis and diabetes.
'None of this was known in the 1950s
when arsenicals were first approved
for use in poultry,' says Ellen
K. Silbergeld, a toxicologist at
Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg
School of Public Health. ... Even
though the drinking water standard
for arsenic has been strengthened,
the standards for arsenic residues
in poultry-2,000 ppb for liver and
500 ppb for muscle-have remained
unchanged for decades. ... Chicken
manure introduces huge quantities
of arsenic to agricultural fields.
"
Reform News
"Cargill
Phasing Out Crates for Sows."
Houston Chronicle uses
recent agreements to highlight
conditions on standard farms:
"Consider the 9 billion chickens
Americans eat every year. Almost
all the fowl pass their lives in
filthy, windowless sheds, brightly
lit day and night to prompt constant
eating. Hens are jammed into wire
cages so crowded they cannot turn
or stretch. To keep the stressed
birds from pecking each other to
death, the ends of their nerve-filled
beaks are sawed off. Starving, for
up to two weeks, stimulates the
birds' egg output. Pigs have it
worse...."
Agribusiness journal Feedstuffs
recently (April 2) editorialized:
"Very recent developments would
suggest that producers are now losing.
If producers are losing, others
are also losing -- everyone who
has a stake in dairy, meat and poultry
production... [I]t's not about animal
welfare. It's not about cages and
stalls... It's about raising animals
for food, and the activists' agenda
is to end the practice. It will
take decades, but they are the ones
who are winning -- piece by piece
by piece."
Feedback from Our
Members
You have opened my
eyes, and I'm really
trying to go vegan. It is difficult
when you are 12 and your parents
aren't vegan.
-KP, 4/14/07
Here is a letter
from a 12-year-old vegan; and a
page
of vegan kids.
 At
Cal State Chico today,
I distributed 1,200 Even If
booklets. This school is very "Ag"
compared to most of the schools
near where I live -- lots of camo
baseball caps. At times, I encountered
very high turn-down rate. After
the 2pm class change the reception
rate had really slowed ("I've
already got one") and was thinking
it about time to pack it in when
a guy approached, leaflet in hand:
"I turned you down the first
two times you offered because I
eat meat everyday. But the third
time I figured, 'What the heck'
when I heard you mention 'Factory
Farming.' Then I read the bottom
about cutting consumption in half
and this really seems like something
I can do."
He
went on, "Just because animals
are 'lesser beings' does not mean
we should treat them this way."
I think this is a terrific leap
in philosophy from someone who "eats
meat everyday" and I was also
impressed with his honesty, since
I think we all have heard how everyone
doesn't "eat that much meat."
This great conversation inspired
me to stay and hand out 50 more.
-Susan Rattenbury, 4/10/07
At right, a student studies
an Even If at Syracuse
U; photo by Amber Coon.
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