http://www.thepetitionsite.com/49/stop-killing-our-animals---find-another-way
We want Mr Fitzpatrick to embrace some of the less destructive, modern, cleaner, organic and fair trade farming methods being developed around the world. These advanced methods are kinder to the environment, Eco-systems, health and future of our planet and prohibit the killing of animals. Please sign this petition and tell our Minister to introduce new caring farming principals and methods.
Please add your name to this petition for pardoned turkeys to live in Sanctuary. It only takes a couple of moments.
https://secure2.convio.net/fsi/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=315&autologin=true&JServSessionIdr003=q8utglmf26.app208b
A member of one of my Yahoo veg groups made the video in the following link - of the 4 October March for Farm Animals in Vancouver, B.C. I think you will find it moving and, yes, charming despite its message. Well worth your time.
http://www.youtube.com/user/theroaringbutterfly#p/a/1/XI01LPbwNtw
http://www.care2.com/news/member/857820953/1248912
From the IVU news, this item on meat-eater logic with, as they point out, a lively debate from readers under the article on (wait for it) keeping pet pigs and then . . . .
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/agriculture/farming/5990655/The-joy-of-pigs.html 
/>Will your city be next? In May, Ghent City Council in Belgium attracted worldwide media and public attention when it announced that it would promote one meat-free day a week to encourage the city's inhabitants to reduce their contribution to climate change and, simultaneously, boost their health. Animal Aid is encouraging UK city councils to follow Ghent's example and declare a weekly meat-free day. To support this initiative we have produced the following resources, which you can use to influence your city councillors.
- Template letter to send to your city councillors
- Supporting Meat-Free document for councillors
- Template letter to newspaper editor
Saturday July 25th is Meat-Free Monday day of action. Our new leaflet, featuring a polar bear as the iconic symbol of the impact climate change is having on the planet, is perfect for streets stalls, giving to friends and family or placing in libraries and other public places. It encourages people to think about how they can help to save the polar bear (and other animals) by giving up meat at least one day a week. Order copies of the leaflet and other resources for the day of action.
The hunt supporters are winning!)More than 50,000 of you signed the Healthy School Lunch Petition. You let Congress know that bad food is unfair to students and can risk their health. You told your representatives that students deserve healthy options—more fruits, vegetables, vegetarian meals, and nondairy beverages. And last month, your signatures were presented on Capitol Hill. But the petition needs 50,000 more signatures.
Fourteen-year-old Wyntergrace Williams visited Capitol Hill to present Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., chairwoman of Congressional Black Caucus, with the petition. More than 50,000 students and adults signed, backing low-fat meatless lunch options. High-fat school lunches are damaging students’ health and contributing to skyrocketing obesity rates, says Montel Williams’ daughter.
Wyntergrace, who also met with Rep. Jesse L. Jackson Jr., D-Ill., has joined PCRM in calling on Congress to fight childhood obesity by helping schools serve more fruits, vegetables, and low-fat vegetarian meals. PCRM is asking the Congressional Black Caucus to support reform during the upcoming reauthorization of the Child Nutrition Act, which regulates the National School Lunch Program and other federal nutrition programs.
“Eighty percent of schools still serve too much greasy, fattening food to meet the government's own nutrition guidelines,” says PCRM president Neal Barnard, M.D. “Healthy vegetarian choices could help improve the health of all students, including African-Americans and other minorities disproportionately affected by diabetes and other chronic diseases.”
PCRM’s petition also asks Congress to support the addition of nondairy calcium-rich beverage options in the National School Lunch Program. Current guidelines require school lunches to include cow's milk, despite that many students cannot tolerate lactose.
Wyntergrace was the first to sign PCRM’s Healthy School Lunch Petition. Thousands of you have joined her. But if you haven’t, please sign it now. Then find out about the other ways you can become a Healthy School Lunch Revolution activist.
To learn more about the Healthy School Lunch Revolution, watch Wyntergrace’s new Healthy School Lunch TV commercial, and add your name to the petition, visit HealthySchoolLunches.org.
The ADA just published its updated position paper on vegetarian diets.
Since it's peer reviewed and written by experts, this has always been
my go-to document when dealing with the Nina Plancks of the world.Please sign the petition - it's an EU petition but everybody can sign (no postocode etc. needed)
Thank You
Please sign the petition:
Stop EU subsidies to livestock industry
In the last fifty years, in Europe and elsewhere in the developed countries, there has been an exponential growth in the consumption of animal products (meat, fish, eggs, milk and dairy products). These foods are consumed at each meal in every household; quite unlike 50 years ago, when these were rare food items. Today these items cost extremely little, with respect to production costs, often even less than vegetable products, which inevitably require far less raw materials, energy and labor.
This is because farmers and fishermen receive direct and indirect funding both from the state and the European Union; in effect, what we do not pay for at the cash register we pay for in taxes. It is also paid for by those who choose not to buy animal products.
This is all the more serious as the consequences of the high consumption of meat, food and other animal products are greater on the environment, on human health and on the development of poorer countries. It would be justifiable and positive if individual states and the European Community supported and promoted only the consumption of foods that are healthy and have little environmental impact. Instead they do so with foods whose production has a devastating impact... and this is neither acceptable nor justifiable. It is up to us citizens to put an end to this situation and press for a more farsighted, sensible and sustainable policy in this matter, which will protect the environment and human health rather than harm them as it does now.
What we propose is to reverse this self-destructive trend, resulting in the following steps.
1. Put an end to every kind of subsidy for breeding, fishing, crop cultivations intended for farmed animals feed;
2. Charge for the purchase of farmed animals feed;
3. Ensure that the animal products the final consumer buys show their real price, not distorted by subsidies and other facilities granted to the producers and that also includes the environmental cost for the enormous negative impact of breeding (internalization of costs).
4. Put an end to campaigns for the promotion of animal products consumption financed by public money;
5. To support, with subsidies and information campaigns, the consumption of healthy plant-based food, to be less expensive for the final consumer, an easily obtainable result after the withdrawal of the enourmous costs of subsidies to farming and fishing.
We propose in the meantime a petition in support of Point 1 of this series of proposals.
The petition has the purpose to both bring forward this issue with the European Parliament and to raise the matter in various areas, because not enough attention is ever put to how damaging the practice of farming is and how therefore unacceptable it is to finance it with public funding.
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/> Green Lifestyle
Teresa
- 21 hours ago - youtube.com
What happened the first day:
This is pretty special, pretty unique," said Tobias Leenaert, an
anti-meat campaigner. "An entire city proclaiming one day a week a
veggie day." Ghent embarks on a radical experiment today, seeking to
make every Thursday a day free of meat...
http://www.care2.com/news/member/857820953/1145036
The Belgian city of Ghent is about to become the first in the world to
go vegetarian at least once a week. Starting this week there will be a
regular weekly meatless day, in which civil servants and elected
councillors will opt for vegetarian meals.http://www.care2.com/news/member/857820953/1141337
What you choose to eat affects more people than you think. It is
estimated that 40 thousand people are dying each day from starvation.
This is not how it's supposed to be, and we all know this in our
hearts. Animal agriculture is a major culprit...
http://www.care2.com/news/member/857820953/1106536
Teresa
- 14 minutes ago - care2.com
Teresa
- 37 minutes ago - care2.com
Hi all!!
The University of California, San Diego student organization:
VEG (Vegetarian Environmentalist Group) is happy to present an online
petition which aims to reduce the livestock industry via means of
removal of governmental subsidies for livestock farmers as well as
implementation of tax for livestock products for their detrimental
external social burden on the environment.
Here is our petition link: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/2/livestock-production-reduction-for-the-environment
Please support us and help us spread the word!
Thank you!
---UCSD VEG
http://ucsdveg.blogspot.com/
Be Vegan & Green
Be Peace & Love
Be the Change you wish to See 
send green star]
Over 40% of breast and bowel cancer cases in rich countries are
preventable through diet, physical activity and weight control alone,
experts say.http://www.care2.com/news/member/857820953/1062917
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Thanks - this is exceptional and still as fresh and poignant today as it was when she spoke 17 years ago. We really need to DO something! 
Teresa
- 13 minutes ago - youtube.com
just silence....we have to learn a lot from this kid.
A kid with values and morals and intelligence, a girl like this one is an example of good education and good feelings for others.
Petition: stop meat and dairy commericals Monday, 4:10 AM
petition to stop meat and dairy commericals Sunday, 8:58 PM
I believe as veg/vegans we should not be have to be subjected to commercials that use meat and dairy in their advertising. I know it upsets and sickens me to see such commercials. I have put together a petition to be sent to The Food Standards Agency requesting that meat and dairy not be allowed to be used in commercials on TV, radio, magazines, or any public display. I think as veg/vegans we should have the right just as non smokers do not to have this pushed in our face.
Please sign my petition if you find these types of commercials unacceptable to you.
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/ban-all-advertizing-of-meat-and-dairy-products
(I know this is off-topic, but it's so cool!)
It's like almost stopping time. The years won't fly by with nothing achieved, but crawl by, packed with experiences to treasure.
http://www.care2.com/news/member/460272365/1037641
PANOS brands, of Saddle Brook, NJ is recalling Vegan Rella Cheddar Block, (a cheese substitute) with a Sell by date of 12/09/2008.
This product is being recalled because it may possibly contain an undeclared milk protein. People who have an allergy or severe sensitivity to milk protein run the risk of serious or life-threatening allergic reaction if they consume this product. No other lot or variety of Vegan is involved.
The product was sold directly to the consumers from their retail stores located nationwide.
The recalled product is packed in 8oz packages with UPC Code 0 37983 00015 4 and a sell by date of 12/09/2008.
There was one reported incident of an allergic reaction associated with the consumption of the product. The product is manufactured by Swan Gardens/Tree of Life, Austell, GA. This recall is being conducted with the knowledge of the Food and Drug Administration.
Consumers who have purchased this product are urged to return it to the place of purchase for a full refund. Consumers with questions may call (800) 494-8839 ext. 425
Swapping fried and salty foods for fruit and veg could cut the global
incidence of heart attacks by a third, a study of eating habits
suggests. Researchers analysed the diet of 16,000 people in 52
countries and identified three global eating patterns.http://www.care2.com/news/member/857820953/926056
I am a member of this group and they are fantastic fighters for animal rights. The founder and pres of this group is Dr. Neal Barnard. He tours the country lecturing and teaching about the Vegan lifetstlye. They have been instrumental in getting the 5 food groups used since the 40's changed to these 4 food groups now. fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and legumes. Meat and dairy are now considered like sugary foods in our diets. Anyway this is a great way to help future the Vegan lifestlye and also help animals. Please forward this to anyone you think could help.
Julie Ann
ATTENTION:
DO YOU OR ANY OF YOUR FAMILY MEMBERS, FRIENDS, OR PATIENTS EAT GRILLED CHICKEN OR HOT DOGS?
THESE ARE FOODS THAT INCREASE YOUR RISK OF CANCER, AND BIG BUSINESS WILL DO ANYTHING TO CONCEAL THAT FACT.
PCRM plans to file two law suits protecting consumers from fraudulent business practices where consumers are not warned about the increased risk of cancer from eating grilled chicken or hot dogs.
One suit will be against national restaurant chains (McDonald’s, Burger King, etc.) for failing to alert consumers about the presence of a known carcinogen (PhIP) in their grilled chicken products.
PCRM will also file a lawsuit against manufacturers and large-scale sellers of hot dogs and other processed meats for failing to alert consumers about the increased risk of cancer due to consumption of processed meats. A comprehensive report released late last year by the American Institute for Cancer Research and the World Cancer Research Fund concludes that processed meat increases one’s risk of colorectal cancer, on average, by 21 percent for every 50 grams consumed daily. (A 50-gram serving is approximately the size of a typical hot dog.)
In order to bring these suits, we need your help. We need people who bought and consumed grilled chicken products from a national restaurant chain, but did not know about PhIP. We also need people who purchased and consumed hot dogs, without knowing about the cancer risk from processed meats.
These lawsuits will raise public awareness about the unseen, unhealthful properties of processed meats and grilled chicken. The primary relief sought in these lawsuits is warnings to consumers.
If you or someone you know is interested in helping, please contact PCRM at rbernstein@pcrm.org or 202-686-2210, ext. 314.
Thank you so much for your help,
PCRM General Counsel
5100 Wisconsin Ave., N.W., Ste. 400
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A fibre found in most fruit and vegetables may help ward off cancer,
experts believe. An ongoing study by the Institute of Food Research
suggested pectin, a fibre found in everything from potato to plums,
helped to fight the disease.http://www.care2.com/news/member/857820953/910485
Here's the spot to post those petitions which you can't resist posting even to a recipe group! 
Don't get carried away now - there are better places to post them and,
indeed, groups specially set up for them - but for the odd few, okay,
put em here!
Thanks a bunch 
guys!
