News From Around the World

• "Animal Rights and Human Rights: Perfect Together" - AbolitionistApproach.com, by Gary L. Francione
• "The World's First Vegetarian City" - Fair Home, by David Masters
• "Myths and Truths about Vegan Diet"- Examiner.com, by Virginia Messina, MPH, RD
• "Shattering The Meat Myth: Humans Are Natural Vegetarians" - HuffingtonPost.com, by Kathy Freston 
• "Veganism and Vegetarianism for Weightloss" - Examiner.com, by Nicole Eckert
• "Montana OKs Equine Slaughter Plants" - DVM Newsmagazine, by James M. Lewis 
• "The New "Food, Inc." Documentary Raises Questions about What We Eat" - HSUS Press Release
• "Agriculture Eyes Animal Protection Bills" - Modesto Bee, by Courtenay Edelhart
• "Their Calling is Defending Rats, Yet These Folks Aren't Lawyers" - The Wall Street Journal, by Dionne Searcey 
• "Eating for the Planet" - Philippine Daily Inquirer, by Tessa Salazar

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National & International Events

• "Let Live" NW Animal Rights Conference - June 26-28, 2009 (Portland, OR)
• Dr. McDougall's "2009 Vegan Celebrity Chef Weekend" - June 26-28 (Santa Rosa, CA)
• The North American Vegetarian Society "Vegetarian Summerfest 2009" - July 8-12, 2009 (Johnstown, PA)
• Dr. McDougall's "Vegan Costa Rica Adventure" - July 8-15 (Costa Rica)
• The 2009 International "Minding Animals" Academic & Community Conference on Animals & Society - July 13-18, 2009 (Newcastle, Australia)
• Animal Rights 2009 National Conference - July 16-20, 2009 (Los Angeles, CA)
• The Humane Society of the United States "Taking Action for Animals" Conference - July 24-27, 2009 (Arlington, VA)
  

Action Alerts

• Ask Congress to protect former Pets from research! (From the American Anti-Vivisection Society - AAVS.org) Class B dealers purchase animals from facilities such as animal shelters and sell them to laboratories. Because the primary role of a shelter is to provide safe haven for lost or relinquished companion animals, it is a violation of public trust for them to be sold and shipped across the country to supply cheap animals to research institutions (pound seizure). Sign the American Anti-Vivisection's online form to let your Senators and Representative know that random source Class B dealers should be outlawed and the practice of taking animals directly from pounds to use in research (pound seizure) should be banned.
• Ask the USDA to improve nondairy Vegetarian options in school lunches! (From the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine - PCRM.org)  Americans now eat more than 1 million animals per hour. At the same time, American children are in the worst physical shape of any generation in the history of our country. Schools need to serve more vegetarian foods, both for animals' sake and for human health. But unfortunately, the National School Lunch Program makes no provision for plant-based foods. Sign PCRM's online form to request that the U.S. Department of Agriculture mandate vegetarian meals and nondairy beverages in school lunches.
• Ask your Congressional Representative and Senators to extend the ban on torture to include Animals used in military trauma-training exercises! (From People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - PETA.com) Thousands of live animals are shot, stabbed, dismembered, burned, and poisoned every year in Department of Defense (DoD) training exercises designed to train medics and infantry in how to treat various human battlefield injuries. Sign PETA's online form asking President Obama to issue an executive order requiring the DoD to replace animals with non-animal methods.
• Join international animal welfare organizations in urging China to ban the live skinning of cats & dogs for meat and fur (From StopLiveSkinning.wordpress.com) Millions of cats and dogs in China are bred in inhumane conditions and sold to markets for their meat, or skinned (sometimes not completely unconscious) for their fur. The methods at which these animals are slaughtered are cruel and must be stopped immediately. Many international animal welfare organizations and humane societies have joined together in protest against the live skinning of animals for fur.  Sign the online petition urging China to ban this barbaric industry.
  
  

Informative Links & Resources

• Worldwide Vegan Bake Sale
• Peaceful Prairie Sanctuary
• New Dawn Montana Farm Animal Sanctuary 
• Vegetarian Times Magazine
• VeggieThing.com
• PanGarden Studio
• Animal Concerns
• The Animals Voice
• Vegan Essentials 
• Vegetarianism and the Major World Religions
• "Food, Inc." (the movie)
• "I Am Mercy For Animals" (the video)

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