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Across the internet this past week (late!)

Monday, December 7th, 2009

Sorry I’m late in posting this. I had a busy weekend. So I’m rolling last week and the past couple of days all together for this collection of links to some interesting articles and thought-provoking pieces from across the internet. Don’t miss Lesley’s article about gifting of animals, and also don’t miss Virginia Messina’s articles on the same subject. There’s also a post in here on the new Change.org Animal Welfare Blog, which has been quite good so far. The post is well worth reading and thinking about.

Enjoy!

Digging Through the Dirt: Chicken Council Balks at Consumer Reports Study

Vegan Soapbox: Salmonella And Campylobacter Found In Most Chicken

Minneapolis/St. Paul News: Mist of pig brain tissue sickened slaughterhouse workers

USA Today: Why a recall of tainted beef didn’t include school lunches

Fox News: H1N1 Flu Strain Found in Canadian Turkey Flock

Reuters: U.S. finds pandemic H1N1 virus in turkey flock

JAVMA News: Pigs, people, and now, pets

Making Hay: Go Tell it on the Mountain: Think Globally, Act Locally

Peter Fricker: Animal shelters must combine compassion with responsibility

Animal Blawg: Are Seahorses Becoming Extinct?

Vegan.com: Europe Grants Animals Legal Status of Sentient Beings

Vegan Dietician: Promoting Veganism: Finding the Message that Works

Animal Person: On Scheduling Epiphanies . . . and Coral Snakes

Vegan Soapbox: Veganism Is More Than A Personal Choice

Change.org Animal Rights Blog: The Mass Killing of Wildlife for Your Burger, Cheese, and Leather

Digging Through the Dirt: ‘Julie & Julia’ Writer Assaults More Dead Bodies

Vegans of Color: Gender policing has no place in AR/vegan movements

Change.org Animal Welfare Blog: The Globalization of Animal Welfare

Vegan Etsy Blog: Eating Animals: Hiding / Seeking – the fourth chapter of the new book by Jonathan Safran Foer

Vegan Etsy Blog: Eating Animals: Influence / Speechlessness – the fifth chapter in the new book by Jonathan Safran Foer

Veg Climate Aliance: CopenVegan

Lesley Fox: If you care about world hunger, don’t give a cow

Seattle Vegan Examiner: Donations to Heifer International may do more harm than good

Seattle Vegan Examiner: Sustainable and ethical choices for reducing world poverty

Making Hay: Holiday Gifts with Compassion

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Tags: activism, charities, Christmas, disease, eating animals, endangered species, extinction, factory farming, gender, gifts, hunger, links, outreach, poverty, racism, swine flu, turkeys

The week in review

Friday, November 20th, 2009

Eating Animals

Many pieces appeared this past week about Eating Animals, the new book by Jonathan Safran Foer. There are some reviews and a few interviews. There was even a live Q and A with readers that appeared on the Washington Post website.

The Huffington Post: My Q and A With Jonathan Safran Foer

The Vegan Dietician: Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer: Some of My Favorite Reviews

On the Eating Animals forums, someone posted that he was inspired by Eating Animals to go vegan, and he chronicling his journey on his new blog: I Quit Eating Meat. Check it out and offer some support!

Striking at the Roots: The Power of Storytelling

Vegan Etsy: Eating Animals: All or Nothing or Something Else – the second chapter of the new book by Jonathan Safran Foer

The Gothamist: Jonathan Safran Foer, Author

VegDaily: Jonathan Safran Foer NYC Book Signing Packs the House…And A Punch

Washington Post: Jonathan Safran Foer on ‘Eating Animals’

Washington Post: Jonathan Safran Foer’s animal farm

Vegan.com: Jonathan Safran Foer on Martha Stewart

Geoff Nicholson in The SF Chronicle: ‘Eating Animals,’ by Jonathan Safran Foer

Pig farm investigation

There was a whole bunch of coverage around Mercy For Animals’ pig farm investigation.

Digging through the Dirt: Pig Video Too ‘Disturbing’ for Fox News

Discerning Brute: Bacon Bumption & The Pork Industry Shocker

Change.org Animal Rights Blog: Undercover at the Pig Farm: This Is Where “Bacon” Comes From

Vegan.com: Pork Industry’s Pathetic Response to MFA Investigation

And in other news…

Change.org Animal Rights Blog: Willful Slow Food Ignorance and the Pain Animals Feel

New York Times: Going Vegetarian for Thanksgiving

Glenn Gaetz in the Georgia Straight blogs: A little bit of veal is in every glass of milk

Digging through the Dirt: Game Gives Kids Distorted Glimpse of Dairy

Forbes: Drop That Burger

Change.org Animal Rights Blog: Compassionate Giving Does Not Involve Cruelty to Goats

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Tags: dairy, eating animals, links, pigs, veal

Reading from the past week

Thursday, November 12th, 2009

Here, in no particular order (except possibly accidentally chronological) is a highlight of some of the articles I’ve read around the internet this past week. There’s a lot about Eating Animals, which I imagine will be in the news (especially animal rights news) for some time yet to come (right now it’s #49 on Amazon.ca, #51 on Amazon.com, and #14 on the NYT hardcover nonfiction bestseller list).

Enjoy!

Change.org Animal Rights Blog: Jonathan Safran Foer and Eating and Killing Animals

Vegan Soapbox: Where Jonathan Safran Foer Gets It Wrong

Vegan.com: Wall to Wall Eating Animals Coverage

The Discerning Brute: Ginnifer Goodwin stars in PSAs for Farm Sanctuary, produced by Joshua Katcher

V for Vegan: Intersectionality ‘Round the Interwebs, No. 11: Battered, Bruised & Consumed

Change.org Animal Rights Blog: The Underestimated Compassion and Understanding of Children

Huffington Post: Children’s Health And The Meat Industry

LA Times: Healthy Vegetarian Kids

Digging through the Dirt: Pigs to Get Swine-Flu Vaccine

Peta University of Utah Lab Investigation (troubling treatment of research animals, including animals purchased from local shelters.)

Animal Person: On Not Eating Animals

Animal Blawg: The Pig, The CAFO, & The Flu (Links to some great stories about pigs, plus the cutest pig picture you’ve ever seen.)

Peter Fricker: Pharmaceutical cruelty in your ham sandwich

Animal Person: On Peaceable Kingdom, Part Deux

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Tags: children, disease, eating animals, film, links, Meatless Mondays, Peaceable Kingdom, pigs, swine flu

Reading: a bunch of links from the past week

Sunday, November 8th, 2009

Here is a batch of links from the past week or so, for your reading pleasure. Sorry to get to it so late. The biggest story was probably the HSUS veal slaughterhouse investigation, but I’ve only included one link to a story about it below. I’ll try to do a recap post about that story sometime this week.

NPR: For Foer, Meat is Murder …And Worse

New Yorker review of Eating Animals

Wolves, moose and biodiversity: An unexpected connection

Hearts on Noses pig sanctuary fundraiser at Karmavore

HSUS veal slaughterhouse investigation

Poultry giant Tyson sued by the state of Oklahoma

Meat loving cowboy is still vegan

Supervegan: Does it matter that Jonathan Safran Foer isn’t vegan?

Digging through the dirt: ‘Bones’ Features Factory Farm, Slaughterhouse Footage

VegNews interview with Jonathan Safran Foer

Change.org Animal Rights blog: There Is No Such Animal as “Seafood”

Animal Place: Divine Turkey Talk

The Vegan Dietician: No Need for Vegans to Give Up Fat, Gluten, Soy or Cooked Foods

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Tags: agribusiness, chickens, eating animals, factory farming, health, Karmavore, links, nutrition, sanctuaries, vegan, wildlife

Some light reading…

Saturday, October 31st, 2009

I’ve decided I’m going to jump in on the tradition of doing a weekly “roundup” of interesting links. I’ll try to do mine on Friday evening (sorry, this time it’s Saturday), to give everyone a bunch of reading material for the weekend. If you’d like it on a different day, let me know.

Vancouver Courier: Groups call for a boycott of Petcetera

Vancouver Courier: Meatless on Monday

Better LCDs Trump an Animal’s Right to Live and Be Left Alone?

Food miles: meaningful enviro-activism or wacky nonsense? Wacky nonsense.

The Vegan Theory of Relativity

Ag Industry Calls for Prosecutions of Undercover Animal Activists

The methane makers

The Tiniest Rescues and the Building of Compassion

HSUS Investigation Uncovers Veal Calf Abuse, Closes Plant

Cooperatives Working Together to Kill Cows

There have been a whole bunch of articles by and about Jonathan Safran Foer, mostly around the publication of his new book, Eating Animals.

Eating animals is making us sick