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Being Vegan in China with Long Kuan – numbers are set to skyrocket in 2014!

PRI’s The World Reporter – Mary Kay Magistad chatting with Long Kuan – plus other content – a 5 minute audio – Vegan lunch: Going meatless in Beijing China’s ‘vegan’ numbers are set to skyrocket in 2014 & beyond! Taiwan already has numerous vegan businesses. In little Hong Kong another one open every few months. ~ In 2010, former Premier of the People’s Republic of China, Wen Jiabao (温家宝总理) proposed a nationwide campaign of “one day…

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Animal Rights/ General/ vegan history

THE BROWN LINTIES by Jessey Wade

So who exactly were Jessey Wade & Ernest Bell ? Why have they dropped from the memories of  most of today’s animal lovers? About Jessey Wade’s personal life we have discovered very little; we do know that Jessey was working for animals / fighting for animals from the mid-1890s onward. We have records of her  dynamic pro-animal activities for a period of approx. 50 years. The Ernest Bell Library has more than 150 pieces of Jessey’s…

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Animal Rights/ General/ Veganism/ Video

Animal Rights in the Mainstream Media

Last month, Chipotle shared an ad that gained some media attention. Most notably, there were some tear-jerker moments that included the saddened face of a cow and a chicken being injected with hormones to “beef it up” behind closed doors. I admit that even I was emotional during this video. It’s really powerful and even though I don’t think anyone will become vegan or vegetarian after viewing it, there’s certainly…

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Animal Rights/ General/ vegan history/ Veganism/ vegetarian history

The Isle of Vegetariana by G. Bedborough

This is one of the earliest vegetarian children’s stories in English that we have discovered. George Bedborough’s thinking is delightful. I particularly love his reflections on militancy. ! Please remember that this story was written more than 100 years ago – just pre-WWI – it is ‘pre-factory farming’ & does not go ‘all the way to vegan’. The ‘non-vegan’ section is highlighted in purple. Mrs Duck and Mrs Cow are pragmatists –…

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Animal Rights/ vegan history/ vegetarian history

Remembering Vegetarian Pioneers – Henry S. Salt & Ernest Bell

Updated – Mon Oct 13, 2014 The Humanitarian League’s team has had a busy year –  promoting veganism, opposing vivisection & planting many trees. During the past 12 months The Ernest Bell Library has been given / has purchased more that 200 of the items on our main ‘Search List’ & has ‘found’ another 300+ items previously ‘unknown to us’. We now have more than 300 pieces of Ernest Bell’s own writings.…

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Animal Companions/ Animal Rights/ General/ HappyCow Site/ Veganism

The Innocents

It is enormously tragic, that the defenseless, the harmless and the gentle sentient beings from whom we might have learned so much, who would have trusted us, and by whose acquaintance our lives could be so much enriched, are rewarded with imprisonment, torture and slaughter. I am often reminded of, and haunted by, a post to the HappyCow blog on July 30, 2011 from Alisa Rutherford-Fortunati. The piece, entitled “Bruno: A New…

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Animal Rights/ Politics

Traveling Exotic Animal Protection Act

While backpacking along the Appalachian Trail this past spring, I made a brief stop to replenish my dwindling stock of vegan food in the sleepy town of Erwin, Tennessee. While there, I had a conversation with one of the locals who relished in recounting a bit of Erwin’s notorious history for me. Yet much to my dismay, the most poignant story was one involving the tragic end of a traveling…

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cannibal planet

I am convinced that were it not for the convenience and the distance afforded by the myriad available venues from which we purchase all manner of of consumer goods, we would see some changes in our shopping lists. It’s so easy to buy things without the vaguest idea of the real story preceding their arrival in the marketplace. In many cases, perhaps most, the supply-chain history would be of little…

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Animal Rights/ General/ HappyCow Site/ Politics/ Veganism

The Absolute Bottom Line

I feel quite strongly that, at this juncture in evolution, the greatest hurdle for all who would hope to see an end to violence and injustice on earth, is the widespread failure to recognize and denounce the exploitation, fear and suffering that is inflicted, every day, with impunity, upon undeniably innocent and sensitive animals. I am, at once, both inspired and confounded by the genuine concern and good will of…

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Animal Rights/ Events/ General

Animal Rights Conference 2011

“It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.” – Voltaire In a country dominated by fast food restaurants, milk mustaches, and slaughterhouses, it can be quite isolating to live contrary to established norms.  Many times, the animal rights community is seen as idiosyncratic and eccentric, lacking the fundamental structure of analogous social justice movements.  Thus, it is paramount to provide a forum for…

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Animal Rights

Living, Breathing Marionettes

Sixteen hundred. One thousand six hundred, prisoners, slaves, dancers. Sixteen hundred every single year are captured and stuffed in jackets after being torn away from their mother’s forever listless corpse. From here, they are sold to various industries worldwide that harvest Sloth Bears for their bile, their “fresh” dance moves, and their spirit. Seven to ten thousand are left in the wild. Do the math. At this rate, if there…

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