 Notes
from Vegan Outreach
A Hire and a Move
We are pleased to announce that
Anne Green, Ph.D., (here with lifelong
vegan
kid Ellen Green) has
started working full-time for Vegan
Outreach. You can read more here.
After 12
years away, Vegan Outreach's
mailing office is returning to Tucson,
Arizona in mid-June. Look for updated
address information next month.
Product of the Week
Recent birthday girl Jenna Calabrese:
I'd like to nominate the new Little
Vegan Monsters cookbook, available
now from Little
Vegan Monsters press
in New Haven, CT! This book is jammed
full of delicious vegan recipes,
from drinks to desserts and everything
in between. And it's always great
to support those local cruelty-free
businesses!
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:
"In China, some farmers try
to maximize the output from their
small plots by flooding produce
with unapproved pesticides, pumping
livestock with antibiotics banned
in the United States, and using
human feces as fertilizer to boost
soil productivity. But the questionable
practices don't end there: Chicken
pens are frequently suspended over
ponds where seafood is raised, recycling
chicken waste as a food source for
seafood, according to a leading
food safety expert who served as
a federal adviser to the Food and
Drug Administration.
"China's suspect agricultural
practices could soon affect American
consumers. Federal authorities are
working on a proposal to allow chickens
raised, slaughtered, and cooked
in China to be sold here, and under
current regulations, store labels
do not have to indicate the meat's
origin."
Excerpt:
"During an ongoing media
teleconference call, USDA/FDA officials
have revealed that melamine-tainted
'protein concentrate,' imported
from China, contaminated fish meal
manufactured in Canada. The tainted
fish meal was then distributed to
an unknown number of fish farms
in the US and Canada. ... 50,000
swine have been quarantined in Illinois
due to suspect feed."
Excerpt:
"Researchers from Iowa State
University found that allowing pregnant
pigs to move freely in group housing
structures called hoop barns could
be less costly and just as productive
as the narrow, individual crates.
... The pork industry has defended
the use of the gestation crates,
which allow producers to house as
many pigs as possible in one building."
Feedback from Our
Members
At Harvard today, I
met a number of vegans and vegetarians
who were excited to see me out there
leafleting and receive GCFEs.
One student took a Why Vegan,
smiled to himself, and  stopped
to tell me that it was three years
ago that he received a WV
and became vegetarian. We talked
for a while about veg nutrition
and why vegan vs. vegetarian, and
as he walked away he said, "Well,
getting another one of these brochures
might prompt yet another change
in my diet."
-Jenna Calabrese, 5/8/07
At right, Jenna leaflets at
CUNY Baruch; photo by Chris Roberts.
At Monroe Community
College today, I bumped
into an old American Sign Language
instructor from the University of
Rochester (who is deaf) and struggled
to remember the signs for "help"
and "animal" as I fumbled
for a pamphlet. He read while walking
to his car, stopping in his tracks
not once, but three times as he
grew increasingly engrossed in it.
This encounter was especially rewarding
to me, since in class I was never
fluent enough (nor was there time)
to explain the whys of veganism.
-Hoss Firooznia, 5/14/07
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