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• 1 in 200 Kids Is Vegetarian
• A call to nonviolence
• A Carnist’s Opinion
• A Challenge to the Republican House of Representatives
• A Change of Heart that Led to a New Beautiful Beginning
• A Checklist for Compassionate Living
• Advice for Obama on Overfishing
• A Compassionate Life
• A Fable to Share
• A Happy Ending
• A Joyous Vegan
• A Love Lesson
• A Moral Obligation
• A Plant-based Diet for the Planet
• A Steer Who Escaped Slaughter
• A Step Forward
• A Vegetarian New Year
• AETA approved by Congress
• Agnostic Carnism
• Agriprocessors Faces Child Labor Charges
• Agriprocessors’ Gruesome Cruelty
• Airports offer more healthy vegetarian food
• Al Gore video
• Always Choose Kindness
• American dies of Mad Cow disease
• And what about cruelty to animals?
• And… what about fish?
• Animal Abuse Leads to Human Abuse
• Animal Advocate Heads the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs
• Animal Advocates Thanksgiving Meal
• Animal Compassion
• Animal compassionate labels?
• Animal cruelty in a chicken factory farm in a Trappist Monastery
• Animal Cruelty Might Lead to Criminal Behavior toward Humans
• Animal Emotions
• Animal-human Controversy
• Animal-rights candidates to win election to the Dutch parliament
• Animal sacrifices
• Animal sacrifices
• Animal Victimization
• Animal Welfare is Hot Topic
• Animals’ feelings
• Animals Have Feelings
• An Open Letter to Pope St. Francis from Tom Regan
• Another Campus Adopts Meat-Free Mondays
• Another of God's Animals Declared Extinct
• Another Meat Recall
• Anti-whaling and Pro-whaling Supporters Unable to Have a Dialogue
• Are Current Versions of the Bible Speciesist?
• Are Humans “True” Omnivores?
• Are Humans True Predators?
• Are We Close to a Bird Flu Pandemic?
• Are Our Beliefs Aligned With Our Diet?
• Argentines’ View of Vegetarianism Might be Changing
• Arizona Proposition No. 204
• Arsenic use in chicken feed
• Asian seas going empty
• Atlantic bluefin tuna catch reduction quota not enough
• Attempts to grow meat in a lab
• Australia Says No to Japan
• Australian Fine Wool Source of Controversy
• Australians Favor Cage-Free Eggs
• Bald Therapy Chickens
• Being Vegan… Being Angry
• Bird Flu Claims Another Human Victim
• Bird flu in pigs
• Bird flu misconceptions
• Bird Flu Pandemic: Why Factory Farming Could Be Blamed
• Bird-flu update
• Blog Suggestion - Challenge Oppression
• Blood transfusions and Mad Cow disease
• BOCA to Go Egg-Free
• Breast cancer and diet
• Britain’s Oldest Man is Vegetarian
• BSE Cost the US $11 Billion
• Burger King’s new policies
• California Prevention of Farm Animal Cruelty Act — Proposition 2
• Cameras in Slaughterhouses
• Chef Wolfgang Puck taking steps to alleviate animal suffering
• Chicken Farms Polluting the Environment
• Chinese river dolphin extinct
• Choice of Diet Affects the Environment
• Choice of Diet Crucial for the Environment
• Christian view of “dominion”
• Christianity and Animals
• CIK Sues Poultry Producer
• Colbert interviews Paul McCartney
• College Students Welcome Compassionate Meals
• Colorado Senate Bill 201
• Common Legal Animal Abuses Reviews by New Jersey Court
• Compass Group Encourages “Flexitarianism”
• Compassion in World Farming Trust (CIWF Trust) Conference
• Compassionate Presidential Contender
• Complex behavior of chickens
• Confession of a former hunter from Sevnica
• Confirmed case of bird flu in England
• Confirmed H5N1 Strain Bird Flu Outbreak in India
• Contended vs. happy
• Counting Animals, A Place For People Who Love Animals And Numbers
• Court blocks horse meat inspection
• Cow’s love
• Cruelty and horror at an Oklahoma ranch
• Cruelty and neglect of transporting farm animals
• Cruelty Case at North Carolina Turkey Slaughterplant
• Cruelty to God’s Animals is Cruelty to People, Too
• Crusader for the Oceans
• Cured Meat Linked to Lung Disease
• Dairy Companies Unite to Defend Dairy Claims
• Dairy farm exposed
• Dairy Linked to Parkinson’s Disease
• Deadly Bacteria: Factory Farms Are The Reason
• Debeaking poultry
• Decrease in Farm Subsidies?
• Despair Among Dairy Farmers
• Did You Get It?
• Dirty chicken
• Do Animals Have Emotions?
• Do children really know where food comes from?
• Double Moral Standard
• E. coli Loophole
• E. coli vaccine
• Earth’s Vital Signs in Bad Shape
• “Eating Animals” Selected for UNC and Duke Summer Reading Program
• Eating for Planetary Survival - Video
• Eat This!
• Economy Impacts Meat Department
• Effective Activism
• Egg Farm Fires Back
• Egg Industry News
• Eggs Represent Suffering and Death: Want to Kill Fewer Animals? Give Up Eggs
• Elle Magazine Addresses Veganism
• Environmental problems caused by factory farms
• Esbenshade Farms cruelty case resumed
• Ethical food might help UK farmers
• EU Plans to Ban Med Bluefin Tuna Fishing
• EU Rejects Import of US Poultry
• Even Hunters Agree
• FDA decision on clones animals as food
• Factory farming: A moral issue
• Factory Farming Contributing to Global Poverty
• Faith and Animal Welfare
• Faith and Ethics
• Faith and Food
• Famous Vegetarians and Vegans
• Farm animals going extinct
• Farmers’ Moral Dilemma
• Fast Food Chains on Trial
• Fast Food Nation
• Fat to fuel
• Favorable Changes in the WIC Program
• Felons in a poultry plant
• Firefighter Foam Used to Kill Poultry
• First City in the World to Go Veg Once a Week
• Fish Personalities
• Five Myths About Vegans Put To Rest
• Florida Bill is Dead
• Flu virus can survive in frozen lakes
• Food, Faith, Animals and Environment
• Food Inspector Blows the Whistle
• Foie Gras and more
• Foie Gras cruelty
• Forks Over Knives
• Former Burger King Board Chairman is Now in the Veggie Business
• Former Hallmark/Westland Meat Packing Plant Reopens
• Free Vegan Food
• Fruits and vegetables help prevent cancer
• Gene-engineered cattle resistant to mad cow disease
• Global Warming
• God’s Animals Under Human Domination
• Going Vegetarian for a Day
• Good News for Five Little Pigs
• God’s Animals and Theology
• Good News for US horses
• Got Money?
• Grass-fed beef
• Great Advice from Dr. Will Tuttle
• Great Britain might consider food rationing
• Greece fails to meet animal welfare standards
• “Green” Faith
• H5N1 Bird Flu Strain Confirmed in the UK
• Hanging Pigs in Ohio is Legal
• Have a Laugh!
• Healthcare Deceit
• Health news
• Health news
• Heartbreaking Expose of the Lives of Farmed Animals
• Helping to Feed the Poor and the Hungry
• Hormones in beef
• Horse for dinner
• Horse slaughter for meat is now illegal in Texas
• Hospitals in the UK Will Cut Down on Meat
• How bad US factory farms are
• How Humane is Your City?
• How to Be an Effective Vegan Advocate
• How to Deal with Family?
• How to transition to a plant-base diet
• HSUS Sues USDA over Downer Cattle Loophole
• Hugh Dowding: Pioneer Animal Advocate
• Human Compassion - Video
• Human Rights Violated at Meat Packing Plants
• Humane Eating?
• Humane farm initiative
• Humanity’s Survival at Risk
• Iceland faces boycotts
• Iceland resumes commercial whale hunts
• Iceland Resumes Whale Exports
• Iceland Stops Whale-Hunting for Now
• Impact of animal agriculture on the environment
• Increase of Cancer Rates Expected in Asia
• Increase of “Flexitarians”
• India is Turning more Vegan-Friendly
• India's first vegetarian airline
• Industrial Pig Farming
• Inspiring Stories of Those Who Chose Compassion Over Profit
• Insurance Companies Invest in Fast Food Chains
• Interactive Map of Bird Flu Expansion
• Interview to Director of Food, Inc.
• Interview with Dr. Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D
• Interview with Jonathan Balcombe
• Is Beef Safe?
• Is Eating Animals A Social Justice Issue?
• Is Eating Meat Ethical?
• Is there Humanity in the Christian Church?
• Is there “organic” fish?
• “Jane’s Fight for Animal Rights” Tonight
• Japan cuts short whale hunt
• Japan Fell Short on Whaling Quota
• Japan Prepares for Whale Hunting
• Japanese whaling ship and protest boat collided
• Jay, A Very Brave Bull
• Judge’s Rule on Poultry
• Kentucky Fried Cruelty
• KFC Canada and PETA's Agreement
• KFC Partners with Komen to Fight Cancer
• Killing a Turkey
• Kill It, Cook It, Eat It
• Kosher Slaughterhouse Immigration Raid
• Kucinich Talks about Health and Diet
• Kyokuyo Co. Ltd. Faces Pressure to Stop Selling Whale Meat
• Lake Sturgeon on the verge of extinction
• Largest Beef Recall in US History
• Lawsuit against farm animal cruelty
• Life and Death of Chickens
• Link between Slaughterhouses and Violent Crime
• Link between Western Diet and Health Defects
• Little Cesar’s Caters to Vegans
• Little Girl Possible Victim of Salmonella-Infected KFC Chicken
• Living Donkey Ad
• Live turkeys used as targets
• Living beyond the Earth’s means
• Lobsters Do Feel Pain
• Love Is More Effective than Anger
• Mad cow disease update
• Making a Case for Veganism More Effectively
• Manly Vegetarian
• Mark Twain Animal Advocate
• Male fertility news
• Many medical students are vegetarian
• Matthew Scully
• McCartney Urges People to Go Vegetarian
• McDonald's see animal welfare gaining ground in the UK
• McDonalds to Use Cage-Free Eggs in Trial Study
• Meat-based diet and global warming
• Meat Consumption Increases Global Warming
• Meat–eating environmentalist?
• Meat Industry Lacks Inspectors
• Meat Processing Plant Accused of Exploiting Disabled
• Meatout 2007
• Meat safety
• Media Coverage Affects Consumer Choices
• Mega dairy farm pollution
• Mexican Dairy Farming Threatens Mexico's Rare Desert Oasis
• Milk-fed porcelet
• Misconceptions about Agriculture
• Mislabeled Vegan Foods at UGA
• “Molly” Escapes the Slaughterhouse
• Moral Animals
• Morality and Vegetarianism
• More Appalling Statistics
• More benefits of a plant-based diet
• More cattle in feedlots as the drought continues
• More concerns about mad-cow-disease
• More “dead zones” in the oceans
• More E. coli Testing in Light of Meat Recalls
• More on horse-slaughter issue
• More people adopt a plant-based diet in the UK
• MTV to Show Veg Ads
• Myths vs Facts of a Veg Diet
• NBA goes leather-free
• National Pork Board’s New Slogan
• New American Carnivore
• New Attitude toward “Mock” Meats
• New Case of Birdflu in Ostrich
• New evidence on dairy and prostate cancer link
• New findings on breast cancer and red meat link
• New Study Suggests Link between Choline and Cancer
• New study on bone health and different diets
• No More Foie Gras at Giant Eagle
• Norway's whalers won permits
• Nutrition and Violence
• OFE’s Permit Revocation Reversed
• Ocean life could collapse by 2048
• Ohio Hog Farm in the news
• On a Dollar a Day
• On Eating Animals
• On stewardship
• One Million Pounds of Beef Recalled
• One more reason not to eat eggs
• One third of all fish species in China’s Yellow River are lost
• Organic Dairy Farm Not Following Organic Rules
• Organized Crime Linked to IllegalFishing
• Ornish Diet Best for Heart
• Our Daily Bread
• Our Pale Blue Dot, Planet Earth Video
• Over-fishing problems
• Overuse of antibiotics
• Oxford Center for Animal Ethics
• Pardon One Turkey… But Eat Another?
• “Pardoned” Turkeys Stand No Chance
• Peace on Earth?
• People of faith speak up
• People Want More to Say in the Treatment of Farmed Animals
• PETA Suggests Tax Breaks for Vegetarians
• PETA Urges Memorial for Slaughtered Cows
• PETA’s Offering to Archdiocese of Milwaukee
• Pig ads rejected
• Piglet Castration Debate
• Pigs are Smart
• Plan to save tuna fish not effective
• Pono, the happy Hawaiian cow
• Pork Bailout
• Pork Producers Affected by Swine Flu
• Positive or Negative Veg*n?
• Possible Bird Flu Pandemic Bad for the Economy
• Post election Animal Welfare news
• Poultry slaughter
• President Bush signs legislation to prevent overfishing
• Presidential Candidates on Climate Change
• “Proposition 2” Passed!
• Proposition 2 to Encourage Veganism
• Prosecutors Failed to Charge Foie Gras Company with Animal Cruelty
• Religious Conference on Protecting Creation
• Religious Proclamation for Animal Compassion
• Response to Armstrong’s Article
• Response to ignorant attack
• Result of AZ initiative for humane farming
• Rhymes with Vegan
• S. Korea Rejects US Beef Shipment
• Salads More Expensive than Hamburgers
• Salmonella outbreak in Sweden
• Sara Palin’s Interview at a Family Farm
• Satellite carrying fruit and vegetable seeds
• Saul William’s Argument for Going Vegan
• Save Money by Going Vegetarian
• Seal hunt
• Seeking Protection for Poultry
• Shocking cruelty on Canadian egg farm
• Slaughterhouse Workers More Prone to Be Violent
• Slaughterplants’ Link to Crime
• Soy Safety
• Spotlight on Gene Baur
• State University chooses cage-free eggs
• Study on “disgust for meat”
• Support our Work!
• Supporting Animal Cruelty
• Survey indicates Americans prefer healthful foods to medicines
• Takoma Park, MD Vegetarian Week
• Teaching children about nutrition
• Teaching children to be kind to animals
• The Animal Rights Movement
• The Benefits of Not Eating Animals
• The Blessing
• The consequences of Confined Animal Feeding Operations
• The Cost of Cheap Food
• The Cost of Raising Dairy Cows in the Desert
• The Dangers of Processed Meats
• The effect of diet on body odor attractiveness
• The effect of global warming on ocean life
• The fate of UK race horses
• The Garden of Eden was vegetarian
• The Ghosts In Our Machine - Video
• The healing power of animals
• The “Humane” Myth
• The Importance of a Good Attitude
• The Inner World of Farm Animals - Book Recommendation
• The Meat Paradox
• The misery of Thanksgiving turkeys
• The Philosophy of Vegan Values: The Practice of Non-Violence - Video
• The Pig Farmer - Book Recommendation
• The Pope’s Environmental Plea
• The powerful voice of animal advocates
• The Power of the Ag Industry
• The Price We Pay for Cheap Meat
• The Real Cost of Cheap Animal Products
• The Strive for Animal Welfare
• The Tale of Five Little Pigs
• The True Costs
• The Truth Behind Eating Chicken and Eggs
• The Truth Behind Labels
• 'The World Peace Diet’ # 1 on Amazon
• Third expansion of beef recall
• Three species of shark endangered
• Three Wild Birds Die from Bird Flu
• Time is Running Out
• Too Fat Due to Working at McDonald’s
• Topps Meat Co. Goes out of Business
• Tough Penalties for Processing Downer Cows
• Trawling threatens turtle nesting
• Treatment for hypertension
• Trend in US Meat Consumption
• Tribute to Gretchen Wyler
• Tribute to Jack LaLanne
• Tuna Stock Rapidly Declining
• Turkey abuse case reached to an end
• Turner Eggs Tries to Change Image After Animal Cruelty Allegations
• Turn Your Sorrow into Action!
• Turning Despair Into Hope
• Twitter Co-Founder Biz Stone talks about turkeys and Farm Sanctuary
• Tyson Fires Workers
• Tyson Foods Looking into Global Expansion
• Tyson Foods, yet another quarterly loss
• Unitarian Universalists for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
• Unreliable pollution reports
• New USDA Animal Research Facility
• USDA Prevents Mad Cow Disease Testing
• USDA’s Rejection of Downer Cows Ban
• Veal tethering will stop at Marcho Farms
• Veal trade, the cruelty resumes
• Vegan athlete
• Vegan Athlete - Steph Davis
• Vegan Chamber of Commerce
• Vegan diet for athletes
• Vegan diet would benefit the environment
• Veg for Lent
• Vegan for Lent
• Vegan Jesus statue? No thanks, says Ohio church
• Vegan Lifestyle
• Vegan Myths Debunked
• Vegan Teacher Dismissed From School
• Vegan Vacation
• Veganism Opposes Speciesism
• Vegans Are Needed!
• Vegetables and Fruits Increase Breast Cancer Survival Rates
• Vegetables found to be good for the brain
• Vegetables in the solution to African hunger
• Vegetarian Couple Denied Chance of Adopting a Child
• Vegetarian Internet Connection
• Vegetarian option at 7-Elevens
• Vegetarian Options in NFL’s Player New Restaurant
• Vegetarian LSU running back Keiland Williams
• Vegetarianism and intelligence
• Vegetarianism and veganism spreading in the US
• Veganism for Men
• Vegetarianism Curbs Terrorism
• Vegetarianism popular among teens
• Vegetarians More Empathetic Toward Humans and Animals
• Vegetarians on the news
• Veterinarian’s Oath Updated
• Veggie Pride Parade
• Veg-friendly Cities
• Video: Alicia Siverstone
• Video from Protest against Egg Producers Meeting
• Video: McDougall’s Program Success -1
• Video: McDougall’s Program Success - 2
• Virgil Butler died
• Violence in God’s Name
• Volusia County Schools Offer Nutritious Plant-based Choices
• Wake Up!
• Wal-Mart Milk Hormone-Free
• Want to Save Money on Life Insurance? Go Vegetarian!
• We can eat anything with four legs, except the table
• “Welfarist” Approach Works
• What and Why We Eat What We Eat
• What Do Labels Really Mean?
• What ducks endure
• What Our Government Official Say Vs. What They Do
• What’s on Your Plate?
• What is a Vegan Diet
• What is Behind Small Family Farms?
• What the Animal Rights Movement Should Be All About
• What Will Future Generations Think of Factory Farming?
• Where your tax dollars might go
• Why animals matter
• Why Eat a Pig and Not a Dog?
• Why Is a Big Mac Cheaper than a Salad?
• Why Is Chicken So Cheap?
• Why Paul McCartney Turned Vegetarian
• Why People Become Vegetarian
• Why Some People Choose Meat
• Why the Lack of Compassion?
• Writing to Change the World
• Worker Sentenced for Abusing Cows
• Year of the Dog
• Yum brands rejects PETA offer of free property
• Zombie chickens