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Active Vegetarians

 

Paul: I realised I'm a murderer

 

Sir Paul McCartney decided to become a vegetarian after realising he was a murderer on a fishing trip

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=31627

 

USA: Animal freedom fighters rally CSULB troops

A new campus group called Cease Animal Torture promotes veganism, animal rights and radical activism

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=31907

 

UK: Life insurance that rewards!

Animal Friends Insurance is the only UK insurance business to donate 100% of its net profits to animal charities worldwide

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=31887


Fish consumption

Greece: Protest at Excessive Fish Farming

According to National New sheet Ekathimerini, protesters say that the coastal environment is being destroyed by excessive fish farming

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=31923

 

EU: Commission launches major control campaign to clamp down on overfishing of bluefin tuna

The European Commission announced today the launch of a major EU control campaign aimed at preventing a repeat of last year's overfishing of Mediterranean bluefin tuna by a number of EU Member States.

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=31859

 

EU Finalises Deal To Fish Less Off Mauritania Coast

The European Union has renegotiated its single biggest fishing deal, lowering its fee to Mauritania and nearly halving the amount of fish it takes......

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=31795

 

UN Says Warming Threatens Fish Stocks

Major world commercial fish stocks could collapse within decades as global warming compounds damage from pollution and overfishing, U.N. officials said Friday.

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=31556

 

 

 

Animal welfare

Europe: Animal Welfare Intergroup discusses how better treatment of animals

can help to reduce the risk of disease outbreaks

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=31720

 

Meat: An ugly reality show

So it's official: Downers - cows too sick to stand, the ones at highest risk for mad cow disease - were indeed getting into the food supply and being fed to our nation's children in the school lunch program.

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=31730

 

 

 

Ecology

UK: Council's green advice to staff: Go vegetarian

Cutting meat and dairy products from canteen menus will reduce carbon emissions, according to Camden's climate change group.

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=31884

 

Australia: Environment and Livestock Find a Single Voice

With climate change and greenhouse gas emissions two of the biggest issues facing agriculture Meat & Livestock Australia has bolstered its ‘green’ credentials by employing one of Australia’s leading experts in the field.

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=31808

 

EarthSave Report: A New Global Warming Strategy:

How Environmentalists are Overlooking Vegetarianism as the Most Effective Tool Against Climate Change in Our Lifetimes

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=31633

 

A thirsty planet looks for solutions to water shortage

A world without fresh water would be a world bereft of humans, and yet one in five people lacks regular access to this most basic of life-sustaining substances

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=31925

 

50 people who could save the planet

Stranded polar bears, melting glaciers, dried-out rivers and flooding on a horrific scale - these were the iconic images of 2007. So who is most able to stop this destruction to our world?

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=31996

 

Veg 4 Earth

There are some things that require a lot of effort and cost to change. Meat eating is not one of them.

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=32102

 

 

 

Epidemics

China reports new bird flu outbreak

China has reported a bird flu outbreak at a poultry market in the southern city of Guangzhou, state media said on Sunday, prompting neighbouring Hong Kong to suspend live poultry imports from the region.

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=31789

 

USA: Too little testing for mad cow, critics say

Recall renews mad cow worry
After the country's first mad cow case was found in 2003, the federal government ramped up testing cattle for the fatal disease.

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=31693

 

 

 

Vegetarian diet is healthy

World health leaders tout merits of vegetarian diet

At vegetarian congress researchers link plant-based diet, environmental conservation

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=31582

 

Vegan diet 'help' for arthritis

Rheumatoid arthritis patients may be able to reduce their high risk of heart attacks and strokes with a gluten-free, vegan diet, a study suggests.

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=31839

 

Eating Soy Helps Women Prevent Breast Cancer

If you're a tofu-lover, you may be in luck: A new government-sponsored study from Japan claims that women who make soy-based products a regular part of their daily diet face dramatically lower risks of developing breast cancer than those who don't.

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=31705

 

Folate 'may keep sperm healthy'

A diet rich in the vitamin folate may protect men against producing abnormal sperm and children with genetic abnormalities, a study suggests. Researchers found high dietary folate was linked to lower levels of sperm with the wrong number of chromosomes.

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=31928

 

 

 

Videos

There is no paradise on Earth?

Maybe what the Bishnois have created for themselves and the animals comes very close

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=31487

 

From Slovenia: Supersoul Connection - No to Violence

'Ahimsa'

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=31872

 

PETA video:' I am Peter Dinklage and I am a vegetarian'

In Peter Dinklage's vegetarian testimonial, he asks fans to join him in making kind choices by not hurting animals or asking others to hurt animals for them....

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=31709

 

 

 

Good news

India: Vegetarian Croc

For the past 60 years, the Ananthapura temple in Kasargod, Kerala, has a crocodile for its guardian. Named Babia, he is a strict vegetarian and does not touch even the fish in the temple pond.
His austere diet is reported to consist of a gruel made of jaggery and rice offered by the temple staff !

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=31764

 

Greening it

I can’t believe it. I’ve been had.

http://www.euroveg.eu/lang/en/news/news.php?id=31691