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April 2015 Newsletter

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 CowspiracyMovie                  
Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret 



Wednesday, April 22nd- Earth Day- 7pm at Thomas Theater in Marquette

Thomas Theater is located at 1525 Commerce Dr. 

LET'S CELEBRATE EARTH DAY TOGETHER!

COME ON Y'ALL!  If there is ever a movie we need to see to inspire change- it is this one!   Cowspiracy on Earth Day. April 22nd. JOIN US AND LET'S MAKE A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE FOR US ALL!


"Cowspiracy may be the most important film made to inspire saving the planet." Louie Psihoyos, Oscar-Winning Director of "The Cove"

Cowspiracy is considered by many to be the best environmental documentary in recent years and what Darren Aronfsky, director of Noah, says is "A documentary that will rock and inspire the environmental movement."

Find out how animal agriculture is the leading cause of rainforest destruction, desertification, species extinction, water use and pollution and virtually every other environmental ill facing the planet. Kip Andersen, star and filmmaker of Cowspiracy, sets out on a quest asking why the contribution of livestock to ecosystem degradation is missing from the world's environmental agenda.

You can see trailer here: www.cowspiracy.com

PLEASE INVITE AND SHARE WITH OTHERS!

Northern Vegans is so excited about this upcoming film. We plan to show this film in the Thomas Theater's largest theater and our goal is to fill it. BUT WE NEED YOUR HELP!

PLEASE INVITE AND SHARE WITH OTHERS! Let's get the community out to see this film!

$5.00 admission. Free movie passes available by April 1st at:
(in alphabetical order)
City Green Market in Negaunee: www.facebook.com/CityGreenMarket 
Marquette Food Co-op in Marquette: http://marquettefood.coop/ 
Rare Earth Goods in Ishpeming: http://rareearthgoods.net/ 
Thomas Theater in Marquette: http://www.thomastheatregroup.com/ 

Each movie pass will admit one person free. Get them while supplies last!

More info on our Upcoming Events page on our website: http://northernvegans.com/upcoming-events-2/  or Facebook page here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1548469598764927/

The Thomas Theater sells vegan popcorn! The popcorn is non-GMO and they use coconut oil.  Natural. Vegan. GMO-Free.

YOU CAN JOIN THIS EVENT ON FACEBOOK HERE: https://www.facebook.com/events/1548469598764927/


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Monthly Dinner at Thai House 
Join Northern Vegans for our monthly dinners every first Wednesday of the month. Everyone is welcome.

For April we meet on Wednesday, April 1st at 6pm at Thai House.

Please order vegan* options when joining us.
No RSVP is required. Everyone is welcome. 

Thai House is located at 1031 N. Third St. in Marquette.  Thai House has several vegan entrees to choose from.

You can join this event on Facebook here:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1562234114053556/

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

  

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The Vegan Scoop

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." Margaret Mead


 

You Tube Video of Founding Member Jeff Plummer on TV 6 Morning News

A founding member of Northern Vegans and a co-owner in the all vegan natural food store, City Green Market, Jeff Plummer talks about Meat Out Day on TV 6 Morning show.  4 Minute You Tube Video Here: Jeff Plummer of City Green Market on the TV6 Morning News


All Vegan Cooking Show On Public TV 13 should be back in about 13 weeks
"Jazzy Vegetarian" on WNMU Public TV 13 was aired every Saturday at 12 noon. They will consider bringing it back in about 13 weeks. Please contact Public TV 13 to let them know you would like it back on. Their phone number is 800-227-WNMU.
"Be Happy, Be Healthy, and Be Well!"

Borderland Vegans
In the Iron Mountain area: http://www.borderlandvegans.com/ 
 
Vegan Mentors Available
Are you a new vegan or an aspiring vegan? If so, we can connect you with a vegan mentor- someone you can contact with questions or when you need encouragement. If you would like us to connect you with a vegan mentor please contact us at [email protected].

Veg Michigan's Veg Fest
Vegan Tastefest and Expo on April 19th at Suburban Collection Showplace in Novi, Michigan
Many speakers including Alicia Silverstone. More at: http://vegmichigan.org/activities/vegfest/

Why Vegan? 
A moving 4 minute video on why vegans choose to be vegan:
Watch!

Cowspiracy: The film environmental organisations don't want you to see by Alison Waters
"So controversial is the subject matter of a new eco-documentary that funders backed out and many environmental groups refused to give interviews to the filmmakers..."
"Some organisations were incredibly resistant or outright refused to discuss the topic, while others seemed completely oblivious to what animal agriculture is doing to our planet," says Kuhn (Co-Director of Cowspiracy)
 
About Cowspiracy (Northern Vegans is showing this revolutionary environmental film on April 22- Earth Day)

See trailer here: www.conspiracy.com 

Milk, Type 1 Diabetes & Autoimmune Diseases
Check out this 9 minute video with Dr. John McDougall who is an expert in plant-based nutrition and autoimmune diseases:
 
Kip Andersen of Cowspiracy Live on Breaking the Set


Cowspiracy Teaser (on global warming and species extinction):
2 minute video here: http://www.cowspiracy.com/facts

Cowspiracy Short (the water footprint of animal agriculture)
Watch this 1 minute teaser from the producers of Cowspiracy:
..."California is suffering from the worst drought in over 100 years, with 80% of the state classified as areas of "extreme drought." Some experts predict the scarcity will last for decades.
In response to the extreme drought, the federal government has granted California livestock ranchers at least *$100 million* in additional funding for disaster recovery relief.  Meat and dairy require an enormous amount of water before making it onto your plate. 1 pound of California hamburger beef requires 2,463 gallons of water. 880 gallons of water are needed to produce just 1 gallon of milk. 1 egg equals 60-120 gallons of water...."  (it takes 18 gallons of water for 1 apple)

The Dandelion Prerogative By Carrie Plummer (A founding member of NV)
..."Dandelions are very high in vitamins and minerals like Vitamin A and have as much Vitamin C by weight as grapefruits.  In fact, the U.S. Department of Agriculture says dandelions pack more nutritional punch than even broccoli and spinach.  You can make a coffee substitute, wine, and jelly out of them.  They stimulate and aid the liver in the elimination of toxins from the blood and are used for breast tumors, cysts, fevers, kidney and gall stones, P.M.S., menopause, hypoglycemia, recent onset diabetes, high blood pressure, digestive disturbances, and hepatitis. They are also used as a skin cleanser and help increase production of mother's milk!  Oh, and best of all - they're free!..."  Read Full Article Here (5 down): http://northernvegans.com/about/our-voices/carrie/carries-writings/

Another 1 minute Cowspiracy teaser here:

Want to know the staple baking ingredients in my family's kitchen?
By Allison Rivers Samson
Here are the ingredients I recommend keeping on hand:
Baking powder - leavening agent used to provide lift.
Baking soda - leavening agent that creates spread and browning.
High-quality salt - my favorites are pink himalayan salt or sea salt.
Agar agar - vegan gelatin, sourced from seaweed.  My Vegan Kitchen Staple Baking Ingredients More Here

Cashew Fudge Recipe

 
A Compilation of Long-Term Vegans: Our Powerful Message
This is very inspiring!  

Vanda Kadas has been vegan for over 20 years
"My dear friends, I prefer to refer to myself as 'Vegan Vanda'..lol...Veganism is what I live by...veganism is what I live for! I am envisioning a vegan world, where the ethical baseline is veganism! I envision the liberation of all our fellow sentient beings, aka the nonhuman animals, from slavery! Nonhuman animals are not ours to exploit! The change is happening, and I know the world has no choice but to get to veganism! I have been a vegan for 20 years and I came a long way, and now at age 48, I am very proud to be a vegan! Having been born and raised in small town in Hungary, in Eastern Europe, my upbringing was as violent as it can get. I spent a lot of time as a child on my grandparents' farm in my formative years. I witnessed the regular slaughter of my playmates at the time: the pigs, chickens, ducks, rabbits, and more.. I witnessed with shock how grandma was forcefeeding poor ducks... who could not move their head between grandma's strong knees..hmmm.. I witnessed hunting, the disposal of newborn kitties, and much more.. I feel thankful for all horrors I saw, since these events shaped me to become Vegan Vanda!" 

Indian State Bans Consumption of Beef by Colleen Holland
In landmark legislation, the sale and consumption of beef has been banned in India's second largest state.  Full Article From VegNews Magazine Here

What is your water footprint?
Take a water tour and find out here: 

The Vegan Roadie
Episode One, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Plant-Powered Professionals; Vegan doctors, R.D.'s, vets, nutritionists
  
The Free Range Myth
On this page: http://www.peacefulprairie.org/freerange1.html Peaceful Prairie Sanctuary has several links on their website about the misconceptions of free range chickens- including their video "watch the faces of 'free range' farming."

The Zoochotic Report
Mentally Damaged Animals in Captivity
Video observations by the late Bill Travers, taken over 3 years in over 100 zoos in Europe, North America and the Far East, the Zoochotic

The Vegan Body Care Guide

Vegan products contain no animal ingredients and are not tested on animals.

This page is a fantastic up to date guide: http://thevegantruth.blogspot.co.nz/2014/07/the-vegan-body-care-guide.html  


Watch Earthlings for Free

Narrated by actor and vegan Joaquin Phoenix.  This is a film that exposes the realities of all kinds of animal exploitation.  This is a very important film.  Watch free on You Tube Here: Earthlings.  More at: www.earthlings.com.
"Then I watched the video Earthlings and my path was clear." Helen Atthowe, veganic farmer/gardener
    
Best 15min Vid EVER!!! "Trailer of Truth"  
Warning!  Not for young children.  Some graphic images. Great video: You Tube Video Here  Get the TRUTH!

FUNNY VIDEO! If Vegans Said Things Meat Eaters Say

You will LOVE this 2 minute video. If the roles were reversed:

Have you hugged your chicken today?
This is a 15 second video of a young boy at a farm animal sanctuary who reaches his arms out to a chicken who then comes over for a real snuggly hug. You must watch this!  Video Here:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdxo1mZeY68 

  

Check out Northern Vegans' Vegan Recipe Facebook Album
Beautiful photos and some awesome recipes. Yum yum!  More Here
  
Going vegan is as easy as 1, 2, 3!
Check out: www.vegankit.com
 
Free Why Veganism? Leaflets, slips, and tear offs here: www.whyveganism.com 
  
You can check out our Newsletter Archives here:
  
Recommended Media:
The Meaty Truth: Why Our Food Is Destroying Our Health and Environment-and Who Is Responsible By Shushana Castle and Amy-Lee Goodman
The Meaty Truth is an eye-opening look at the massive problems caused by the American population's food supply. Water, meat, and milk and other dairy products are filled with toxins, antibiotics, untested growth hormones, ammonia, and animal pus and manure. The current conditions of the food production industry must drastically improve, and until they do, it is absolutely vital to monitor what you eat. Castle and Goodman take a hard-hitting look at what America is putting into its food, the negative effects this has on the world, and the best ways to make healthy, informed decisions about eating.

As the antibiotic age ends, the rise of pandemic diseases is approaching. Approximately half of the illnesses that claim American lives today are related to what we eat, and our health-care system is focused on treating the sick, not preventing illnesses from occurring. To fix our health problems, to continue feeding the world's ever-growing population, and to save our planet from ecological destruction, we can no longer avoid making changes to how American meat and dairy are produced. This guide is easy to read, applicable to anyone's lifestyle, and impossible to put down.
 
Health Tip of the Month (finding ways to heal or to live naturally using animal-free/cruelty-free methods):
When we eat organic plant foods we save enormous amounts of resources. Plant agriculture versus animal agriculture requires far less land to feed people and far less water and fossil fuels.  Someday with the absence of animal agriculture we can free up millions of acres of land and bring them back to their natural and wild states. Animals who were once endangered would now thrive. Slaughterhouses, gruesome places for both human and non-human beings, would no longer exist.  Avoiding eating animal products and pesticide grown foods = good health for you and the planet and equals not supporting the exploiting and slaughtering of non-human animals.  By moving away from seafood all the flora and fauna could also make a great comeback (for every 1 pound of fish caught, an average of 5 pounds of unintended marine species are caught and discarded as by-kill, for example). Organic, veganic, and sustainable plant farming practices will also phase out mono cropping- the growing of only one crop in a large area- which is so hard on the land and the pollinators.  If we want healthy and bio-diverse soils we need to buy organic and naturally grown.  Organic plant foods also means NO synthetic chemicals; NO GMOs; and NO irradiated foods (for longer shelf life).  Let's help the bees. Let's help the animals. Let's help the soil.  Let's help ourselves. Go vegan and organic!

Quote of the month:
"There are entirely new 'Ag-Gag' laws being created to silence whistleblowers who document and reveal all the atrocities animal agriculture is responsible for. It's a pretty shocking and troubling issue that there are laws preventing us from knowing how food is raised...  We first and foremost want to inform as many people as possible about this destructive industry. But I'd say the overall message is that we want to empower people to feel they can actually do something to help the environment, rather than feeling helpless at the mercy of what industries are doing to our planet... We want to inspire people to speak up and take a stand!"  Kip Andersen- Co-Director of Cowspiracy

Get the Cowspiracy Facts:
Livestock covers 45% of the earth's total land.
  
  

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We are excited to announce that we will be presenting the movie Cowspiracy on Earth Day, Wednesday, April 22nd at 7pm at the Thomas Theater in Marquette!  
 

Northern Vegans is always in need of donations to continue our great work in the community and this year the need is even more critical as we plan our biggest documentary screening ever.  As most of you know, not only are we a not for profit group, with no paid employees, but we also often fund our group with our personal funds as board members.  Northern Vegans has existed since 2006 and a short list of our accomplishments in the community include: library donations of vegan related books and media numbering in the hundreds; dozens of movie/documentary showings; over a hundred restaurant meet ups and other socials; numerous vegan presentations; countless tabling events; immense amount of vegan literature dispersed; and the list really goes on and on. Help us continue spreading the message and consider donating to us today.  No amount is too small and we use every bit of it to our fullest extent.  


Please send donations to:

Northern Vegans

P.O. Box 126

Negaunee, MI 49866


 

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We Need Help Promoting Cowspiracy


PLEASE JOIN US FOR WHAT MANY ARE SAYING IS THE GREATEST ENVIRONMENTAL FILM IN RECENT YEARS TO INSPIRE CHANGE AND MOVE US TOWARD A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE. 


 

EARTH DAY!  APRIL 22ND AT 7PM AT THOMAS THEATER IN MARQUETTE. 


 

PLEASE SHARE WITH AND INVITE OTHERS!

 

If you are on Facebook please join the Cowspiracy event here and invite and share with others: https://www.facebook.com/events/1548469598764927/


We have free movie passes! 


Movie Passes available come April 1st at:

(in alphabetical order)

City Green Market in downtown Negaunee

Marquette Food Co-op in Marquette

Palomaki Family Chiropractic in downtown Negaunee

Rare Earth Goods in Ishpeming

Thomas Theater in Marquette

(links to each location are in the first block of this newsletter above)


More at www.northernvegans.com or www.facebook.com/NorthernVegans.


Cowspiracy is a phenomenal film that we think is so important for our community to see.  We need your help in spreading the word in any way you can!  (Through distributing posters, passing out movie passes, sharing through media and more.)


For more on how you can help promote Cowspiracy please email us at [email protected] or send us a Facebook message.


 

THANK YOU!



 

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