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April 2013 Newsletter

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Monthly Dinner at Jasper Ridge Brewery 

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Join Northern Vegans for our monthly dinners every first Wednesday of the month. Everyone is welcome.

 

Next dinner at Jasper Ridge Brewery on Wednesday, April 3rd at 6pm.

 

Join us for a vegan pizza (no cheese).  Their pizza crust and sauce are vegan. Add veggie toppings and you got yourself a vegan pizza!

Please order vegan* options when joining us.

No RSVP is required. Everyone is welcome.

 

Jasper Ridge is located at 1075 Country Lane in Ishpeming. 

 

Their website: http://www.countryvillageresort.com/httpdocs/html/brewery.html

  

 

*Vegan omits all animal products including meat, dairy, eggs, and honey. Anything from the plant kingdom is vegan.

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Mexican Vegan Potluck on May 4th 

 

For May instead of meeting the first Wednesday of the month, we will be having a vegan Mexican potluck celebrating Cinco de Mayo on Saturday, May 4th at 1pm at the Immanuel Lutheran Church in Negaunee.  Mark your calendars!

 

 

Vegan Cinco de Mayo recipes:  http://www.peta.org/living/vegetarian-living/cinco-de-mayo-recipes.aspx and http://www.veganmexicanfood.com/

 

                                    

 

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Available at many U.P. Libraries:
      
Northern Vegans has donated many vegan related materials to area U.P. libraries. Please consider checking out any of these items by going to:

 

You can check out any of these materials if your library is an affiliated library. Most in the U.P. are and beyond. We also suggest to go to the above website and do a keyword search with the word "vegan" and see the many items that come up. For all future donations we are now asking the librarians to please correlate the titles that don't have the word "vegan" in them to still come up when doing a vegan keyword search. Some of the previous titles (like: The China Study or The Food Revolution) might not come up using the keyword search "vegan". But so many still will.

If there is an asterisk symbol * this indicates that although NV did not donate this particular item, it is still recommended reading as it promotes veganism in some form and is available through the U.P. library loans (the above website).

 

Highlighted ones below.

In a shocking and heartbreaking expose, Green examines the fate of unwanted animals cast off by U.S. zoos and theme parks. Many of the nation's leading zoos, he reports, sell their unwanted animals whether surplus, aging and decrepit, or babies bred for sale to supposedly reputable dealers who, in turn, dump the animals onto roadside attractions, unaccredited petting zoos, private hunting parks and bogus sanctuaries that will hand over endangered species to anyone for a buck. Using easily doctored documents, the animals are laundered into obscurity, shunted from opportunistic breeders to wretched menageries, auctioneers, backyard hobbyists and even university research centers...

  

Children's Book:

Vegan is Love  

Vegan is Love: Having Heart and Taking Action By Ruby Roth

"Leaping and bounding toward a more peaceable world, this heart-centered book shows just how far our actions can go when we use love to fuel change." -Jason Mraz, singer and songwriter

 

Eating Right for Cancer Survival By Neal Barnard, M.D. (DVD) (available at Peter White Public Library and Dickinson County Library, among others)

 

For more info go to: www.uplibraries.org.  MIchigan residents can also check out materials at Michigan elibrary at: www.mel.org.

 

 

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The Vegan Scoop 

 

Borderland Vegans Presents

"Genetic Roulette, the Gamble of our Lives," the film which has won two international awards. It pictures for us the long-term results, collected from places around the world, of how genetically engineered foods affect our health.

On Saturday, April 13TH, 10:00 A.M., Iron Mountain Library Multipurpose Room.

A MUST SEE for anyone who is truly seeking to improve their health.

For more info please contact Terri Selvey at 906-874-1234 and go to: http://northernvegans.com/BorderlandVegans.html

 

Vegan Doctors Heal.

Dr. Michael Klapper: http://doctorklaper.com/

Dr. John McDougall: http://www.drmcdougall.com/

Dr. Neal Barnard: http://www.nealbarnard.org/ or http://www.pcrm.org/

Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn: http://www.heartattackproof.com/

Dr. Michael Greger:  http://www.drgreger.org/ or http://nutritionfacts.org/

Dr. Joel Fuhrman: http://www.drfuhrman.com/

Dr. Jay Gordon: http://drjaygordon.com

Dr. Pam Popper, Naturopath: http://wellnessforum.com/meetpam.html

Dr. Mary Clifton: http://drmarymd.com/ (From Traverse City)

 

And so much more.

 

Directory of physicians (MD & DO) knowledgeable and supportive of vegan and vegetarian diets: http://www.americanvegan.org/links.htm

 

Plant-Powered Professionals: vegan doctors, registered dieticians, vets, and more:

http://thevegantruth.blogspot.com/2012/12/plant-powered-professionals-vegan.html

 

The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine is happy to announce the first Food for Life program certification training in 2013! Become certified to teach the award-winning Food for Life program within your community. 

Wednesday, June 26 to Friday, June 28, 2013 in Washington, D.C.. To learn more about the training, fees, and benefits for instructors: http://www.pcrm.org/health/diets/ffl/training/food-for-life-training-apply
 
Do you like to write and do you want to help farm animals? Join the Farm Animal Writer's Network! Every day, animal advocates in the Farm Animal Writer's Network are writing and submitting letters to the editor of newspapers, and many are being printed, exposing countless readers to the plight of animals on factory farms. As a member, you'll receive 1-2 emails per week about an article relating to farm animals or meat-free eating in either a major national media outlet or a media outlet local to you. You'll also get tips on writing a letter to the editor about the article and links for information to help support your position.Even if you have little writing experience, it's totally fine. All you need to do is express your opinion. The Farm Animal Writer's Network is also a low-pressure volunteer opportunity; you don't have to write a letter about every article that's sent to you - only when you have time. To join the Farm Animal Writer's Network get in touch with Kenny from The Humane Society of the U.S.: [email protected]. Just send him your full name, city and state, and you'll get added to the network. 
  
Rare Earth Goods in Ishpeming is a new natural foods grocery store. Along with offering fresh, local, organic produce they also offer a great vegan selection of meat and dairy substitutes that you won't find anywhere else locally- including Field Roast's Frankfurters (free of any soy protein isolates) and Amy's Pizza with Daiya cheese. Check out the store when you get a chance. More at: http://rareearthgoods.net/ or https://www.facebook.com/#!/RareEarthGoods?fref=ts.
  

Super One Foods in Negaunee is now offering several vegan frozen dinners including: Amy's vegan rice pizza; Amy's vegan no cheese pizza with a delicious balsamic sauce; and Amy's vegan enchiladas. Check it out! For location: http://www.superonefoods.com/

 

VegFest 2013/Tastefest and Expo in Novi, Michigan on April 21st presented by Veg Michigan

And the Ann Arbor Veg Week April 22-28 also presented by Veg Michigan.

Great vegan food and speakers.  For more info visit: www.vegmichigan.org or https://www.facebook.com/VegMichiganFan.

  

Mouthwatering Vegan Recipes (one of the best online websites for vegan recipes)

http://mouthwateringvegan.com/

  

Animal Rights 2013 National Conference, the world's largest and longest-running animal rights gathering! The Conference will take place June 27th-30th at the Hilton Alexandria Mark Center, just outside of Washington, DC.  More info at: http://www.arconference.org/

 

Need some help going vegan?  www.vegankit.com is such an awesome resource! Great website for all of us vegans and especially those that are aspiring to be.

 

Is your booze vegan? Find out at: http://www.barnivore.com/

 

Vegan Earthday on Facebook: Vegan Earthday

 

 

Quote from Gary Francione (professor of law and philosophy at Rutgers University) : "At this point in time, it makes no sense to focus on the law, because as long as we regard animals as things, as a moral matter, the laws will necessarily reflect that absence of moral value and continue to do nothing to protect animals. We need to change social and moral thinking about animals before the law is going to do anything more." 

 

 

 

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Highlight of the Month 

Thought to exist  

Thought to Exist in the Wild:

Awakening from the Nightmare of Zoos

By Derrick Jensen

 

Recommended Reading.
 
Excerpts: "How do zoos teach us to perceive nonhuman animals and our relationship to them?"
 
"I push a button. I hear, All the animals in the zoo are eagerly awaiting you."
 
"The traditional method for capturing many social creatures including elephants, gorillas, chimpanzees, and many others was- and remains- to kill the mothers."
 
"One former assistant director of the National Zoological Park wrote, in a book entitled, significantly enough. The World's a Zoo, 'One reason we have so many species is that that zoo men, like museum curators, are enthusiastic collectors. If a zoo director has never had kiwis, lesser pandas, colobus monkeys, Chinese alligators, marbled cats, or Komodo monitors, he wants them. A curator of reptiles wants almost any species he has never had before, the rarer the better. In zoo circles, it is a mark of distinction to have what no one else has. A collection of common species may please the public, but it is the rare items that make for status in the zoo community.'"
 
"Some animals do reproduce in zoos... Often an older, less attractive member of the species must go to make room... Zoos usually decide what to do with "surplus" animals based on 'what the market will bear.'.. . Consequently, many thousands of other 'surplus' animals per year are sold to circuses, animal merchants, auctions, individual pet owners, game farms, hunting ranches, and trophy collectors."
 
Book Review:
To counter most books being written about zoos that present zoos favorably, never questioning their very existence, activist Jensen and photographer Karen Tweedy-Holmes produce their examination of what zoos are and what their effect is on their animal inmates and the human animals who observe them. Jensen writes in a deliberately polemical style, challenging the reader with language that is in turn sarcastic and poetic but always urgent and angry: 'A zoo is a nightmare taking shape in concrete and steel.' Tweedy-Holmes' photos, in stark black and white, are views of animals in obvious incarceration-bars or mesh often obscure the view; cement-formed pools, rocks, ledges, or walls predominate; doors, walls, and buildings hint at unnatural enclosures; and the animals are all obviously captive. Captions give the species and where they are found in the wild, though not which zoo is illustrated (photographer's note at the end lists them). A good choice for presenting the other side in the moral debate about zoos. (Booklist )
 
This sensitive and thought-provoking volume by ecological activist and author Jensen (A Language Older Than Words) and photographer Tweedy-Holmes raises more questions than it answers but compels nonetheless. Are we our brother's keeper? And, if so, just who (or what) is our brother? The book is not about conditions in which animals are held captive; instead, it explores the question of why animals are held captive at all as Jensen examines the who, what, and why of animal captivity, balancing the historical facts with his own strong personal experiences and beliefs. There is little tolerance for differing views, and in this aspect, this work fits the publisher's aim of 'creating unique voices on behalf of those who are unseen, ignored or disregarded by society.' Its strength and objectivity comes from Tweedy-Holmes's photographs that depict animals as contained, confined, and imprisoned. Shot at some of the finest zoos in the world, these pictures do not exhibit or exploit an animal's sufferings or even display them in degrading conditions. Tweedy-Holmes simply allows viewers to form their own conclusions. A beautifully constructed if polemical work, this text is recommended for large public and academic animal rights collections. (Library Journal )
 

 

 

 

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