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There's still time to become an Action for Animals member and receive vegan chocolate truffles and caramels!
Join with a donation of $50 or more and we will send you a box of vegan chocolate truffles and vegan caramels!
Hurry, you must join by tomorrow, Tuesday, February 9th in order to receive your vegan sweets by Valentine's Day!
Regular AFA membership is only $16 and entitles you to a one year subscription to our print newsletter, an Action for Animals bumper sticker, and a 10% discount at our online store.
Increase your membership to $50 or more and receive these great benefits PLUS a box of vegan chocolate truffles and caramels!
Upcoming Events
Tofurky Italian Sausage Feed-In
Date: Friday, February 12th
Time: Noon - 1:00pm
Location: Westlake Center, 4th & Pine, Downtown Seattle
We will be giving out samples of Tofurky Italian Sausage. This is a simple yet effective way to get people interested in vegan fake meat products. If you can help pass out samples and veg literature please RSVP.
Valentine's Day Veg Leafleting
Date: Sunday, February 14th
Time: Noon - 1:00pm
Location: Westlake Center, 4th & Pine, Downtown Seattle
We will be passing out our Veg Valentines flyers. If you can help please just show up at noon at the NE corner of 4th and Pine in downtown Seattle. We will provide the leaflets.
Volunteer Opportunities
Valentine's Day is a great time to show your love of animals and the earth by educating people about the cruelties involved in raising animals for food and the destruction of the environment that is caused by the meat, egg, and dairy industries.
Please view and print out copies of our Veg Valentine's Day flyer.
Our leaflet is divided into four sections that address reasons to eat a plant-based diet:
- Have a Heart (animal cruelty)
- Vegetarians Make Better Lovers (impotence)
- Be Kind to Your Heart (heart disease)
- Love Your Mother (environmental destruction)
Some distribution ideas include:
- Pass out flyers in front of a grocery store.
- Leaflet at your local college or high school campus, or on the main strip [street] near the campus.
- Pass out flyers at shows and concerts.
- Pass out flyers at your church.
- Pass out flyers at the mall.
- Distribute flyers to your friends and family.
- Include the flyers with your Valentine's Day cards.
Don't forget to Tweet the link to the flyer and add it to your MySpace Bulletins and Facebook News Feed.
Thank you for taking action for animals!
Announcements
Far from leading the carefree lives portrayed in the dairy industry's "happy cow" commercials, the vast majority of cows used for dairy production today lead lives of deprivation, confinement, painful mutilations, and cruel handling, as you will see in this new undercover investigation. These curious and intelligent animals are denied access to open pasture and treated as mere milk-producing machines - forced to live on manure-coated concrete floors in overcrowded sheds.
Watch and share the YouTube video.
via PCRM.org
Bacteria from chicken products may be a major cause of urinary tract infections, according to a new study published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Researchers examined urine samples from women who had urinary tract infections and matched E. coli in the samples to E. coli from contaminated foods. They found that most of the E. coli was ingested through retail meat products (61 percent of which were chicken products) and ready-to-eat products (73 percent of which were meat products). The authors concluded that chicken was the main source of urinary tract infection-causing E. coli. Researchers also warned that animal product sources of E. coli might be drug-resistant which can require more costly and complicated treatments.
Vincent C, Boerlin P, Daignault D, et al. Food reservoir for Escherichia coli causing urinary tract infections. Emerg Infect Dis. 2010;16:88-95.
Action Alerts
Items of Interest
Narrated by Paul McCartney
Please share this video with your non-vegan friends and family and post to your Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter.
In the News
Consumption of eggs and poultry with skin double risk of prostate cancer recurrence
Approximately 1,300 men who had been diagnosed with prostate cancer were followed for two years to document their dietary
patterns and recurrence or progression of their disease. In this study, two specific animal foods were found to be risky - the men who ate the most eggs or poultry with skin were twice as likely to have their disease recur or progress.
Shrimp's Dirty Secrets: Why America's Favorite Seafood Is a Health and Environmental Nightmare
It's the most popular seafood in the country, but unfortunately much of the shrimp we eat are a cocktail of chemicals, harvested at the expense of one of the world's productive ecosystems. ...researchers have examined imported ready-to-eat shrimp, they found 162 separate species of bacteria with resistance to 10 different antibiotics.
...shrimp farming is credited with destroying 38 percent of the world's mangroves. ... An estimated average of 1.4 pounds of wild fish are used to produce every pound of farmed shrimp. ... Additionally, some shrimp are wild-caught... Football field-sized nets are dragged along the ocean floor, scooping up and killing several pounds of marine life for every pound of shrimp they catch and demolishing the ocean floor ecosystem as they go.
Cold Turkey
Jonathan Safran Foer's "Eating Animals'
Foer describes KFC, the purchaser of nearly 1 billion chickens per year, as "arguably the company that has increased the sum total of suffering in the world more than any other in history". He tells us that at a slaughterhouse supplying chickens to KFC - which had been recognised as a Supplier of the Year - workers were witnessed tearing the heads off live birds, spray-painting their faces and violently stomping on them, not once, but dozens of times.
Foer... visits a pig farm and a cattle ranch, both places where the animals are able to go outdoors and behave in ways that satisfy their instincts. These producers meet standards set by the Animal Welfare Institute, which are among the strictest in the US. But Foer still finds some of the procedures permitted by these standards objectionable, such as castration without anaesthetic and hot-iron branding. And, of course, at the end of the road is always the slaughterhouse.
Foer doesn't spare the fish-eaters either. He describes the crowded, stressful lives lived by farmed fish; the devastation done to the ocean and its creatures by fishing fleets that devastate fish stocks; and the waste of sea life caused by shrimp trawlers that throw back - dead - 80% to 90% of the sea animals they catch, because this "bycatch' is of insufficient commercial value to bother keeping. Moreover, he reminds us, there is no humane slaughter of fish: "You never have to wonder if the fish on your plate had to suffer. It did."
MORE NEWS...
Moby Questions Author Mark Bittman About Veganism And Factory Farming
Animal Protein Linked to Increased Diabetes Risk
Meat safety: How well done?
Smithfield to Close Large Iowa Pig Slaughterhouse
USA Starbucks Now Selling Vegan Cookies
Dark Chocolate Eases Stress
Finally... We want to share this article excerpt with those of you who still eat dairy thinking it is not causing cows to be killed:
According to an Associated Press Article in the Chicago Tribune:
"The CWT program kicks in when supply outstrips demand, including in 2008 and 2009 when it paid to have more than 250,000 cows killed. The figure represents about 10 percent of the total number of dairy cows slaughtered each year for food."
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