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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- A hunting lodge with antler chandeliers and stuffed ducks on the walls seems a strange place to celebrate the comeback of the ivory-billed woodpecker, but wildlife officials are doing exactly that. They credit hunters in particular with helping bring the rare bird back from presumed extinction in the Big Woods section of Arkansas.

Experiments for NASA space missions have shown that small amounts of edible meat can be created in a lab. But the technology that could grow chicken nuggets without the chicken, on a large scale, may not be just a science fiction fantasy. In a paper in the June 29 issue of Tissue Engineering, a team of scientists, including University of Maryland doctoral student Jason Matheny, propose two new techniques of tissue engineering that may one day lead to affordable production of in vitro - lab grown -- meat for human consumption. It is the first peer-reviewed discussion of the prospects...

With no apparent sense of irony, they chose the dumpster of a Piggly Wiggly supermarket to drop off the carcasses, wrapped in black plastic bags. Among them were a mother cat with her two very healthy kittens, and seven little puppies – dead by injection. Nor did either of them appear to evince the slightest cognitive dissonance in acting as agents, and employees, of the very inaptly named “People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals” (PETA). For at least two months they had been slaughtering and dumping animals that they obtained under false pretenses from shelters: they assured the attendants...

April 5, 2005   The New Anti-Meat 'Humane' Goliath When long-time animal rights activist Wayne Pacelle took over as president of the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) last June, he sent a memo to all HSUS staffers articulating his vision for the future. The HSUS's new "campaigns section," Pacelle wrote, "will focus on farm animals." For those keeping track, the group's new budget is about three times the size of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals' (PETA). Its new president (like his counterparts at PETA) is a strict vegan whose goal is to create "a National...

Vegetarian diet can reduce high blood pressure Asian News International Washington, A new study titled 'The Silent Killer' and published in 'Nutrition Reviews' has revealed that high blood pressure can be reduced with diet changes, especially a vegetarian diet. The study has analyzed the results of published studies and reached the conclusion that vegetarian populations have lower rates of hypertension. The researchers said that vegetarians tend to be slimmer, on average, and that is one reason their blood pressure is often in the healthy range. Other mechanisms include vegetarians' higher intake of potassium as well as the tendency of plant-based...

Posted on Fri, Mar. 04, 2005 THE SEXIEST VEGETARIAN ALIVE? Monterey man vies for title in PETA contest By JONATHAN SEGAL Herald Staff Writer One Monterey beefcake is made of pure tofu. He's soy sexy it almost hurts. Paul Chetirkin, 33, is competing for the title of Sexiest Vegetarian Alive, an award given annually by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, an animal-rights group. While friends pressured Chetirkin, a local animal-rights activist, into entering the contest, he's unconvinced of his own sexiness. "I guess it depends on how you define sexy. I think that compassion is a sexy characteristic....

"There's absolutely no question that it's unethical for parents to bring up their children as strict vegans." Meat contains important micronutrients. Meat is a vital part of a child's diet, according to a two-year study of Kenyan schoolkids. Without it, children grow up smaller, less strong and less intelligent, the results suggest. So clear are the benefits, in fact, that denying children meat or dairy products in the first few years of life is unethical, argues Lindsay Allen of the University of California, Davis, who carried out the research. The 544 children in the study, who had an average age...

Meat is a vital part of a child's diet, according to a two-year study of Kenyan schoolkids. Without it, children grow up smaller, less strong and less intelligent, the results suggest. So clear are the benefits, in fact, that denying children meat or dairy products in the first few years of life is unethical, argues Lindsay Allen of the University of California, Davis, who carried out the research. The 544 children in the study, who had an average age of seven years, were given two spoonfuls (about 60 grams) of minced beef each day to supplement their ordinary diet. Other...

Last Updated: Monday, 21 February, 2005, 01:01 GMT Children 'harmed' by vegan diets By Michelle Roberts BBC News health reporter, in Washington DC Meat, milk, butter and cheese are all avoided by vegans Putting children on strict vegan diets is "unethical" and could harm their development, a US scientist has argued. Lindsay Allen, of the US Agricultural Research Service, attacked parents who insisted their children lived by the maxim "meat is murder". Animal source foods have some nutrients not found anywhere else, she told a Washington science conference. The Vegan Society dismissed the claims, saying its research showed vegans were...

Some say meat is murder, while others dismiss a meal without animal products as rabbit food. Now a leading US nutritionist has given both sides something to chew on with a claim that parents who refuse to feed children meat are acting unethically. Professor Lindsay Allen of the University of California said that to deny growing children animal products during the critical first few years of life could cause permanent damage. She said foods made from meat contain some nutrients not found anywhere else and are hard to replace in the diet of vulnerable groups. "If you're talking about feeding...

Putting children on strict vegan diets is "unethical" and could harm their development, a US scientist has argued. Lindsay Allen, of the US Agricultural Research Service, attacked parents who insisted their children lived by the maxim "meat is murder". Animal source foods have some nutrients not found anywhere else, she told a Washington science conference. The Vegan Society dismissed the claims, saying its research showed vegans were often healthier than meat eaters. 'Development affected' Professor Allen said: "There have been sufficient studies clearly showing that when women avoid all animal foods, their babies are born small, they grow very slowly...

Please see: http://www.jasonlvandyke.com/liberal1.htm This is an article I wrote on PETA for all who are interested. Its public domain; feel free to distribute it or publish it anywhere.

- 03-22-2004, 07:40 PM By Gilien Silsby and Gia Scafidi When our human ancestors started eating meat, evolution served up a healthy bonus - the development of genes that offset high cholesterol and chronic diseases associated with a meat-rich diet, according to a new USC study. Those ancestors also started living longer than ever before - an unexpected evolutionary twist. The research by USC professors Caleb Finch and Craig Stanford appeared in the Quarterly Review of Biology. "At some point - probably about 2 1/2 million years ago - meat eating became important to humans," said Stanford, chair of the...

[A] study conducted by the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston... found no reduced risk of cancer among those who consumed at least five servings of fruits and vegetables a day. However, on the positive side, they found eating fruits and vegetables did lower the risk of developing heart disease.

ROANOKE -- For telephone company CEO Norm Mason, a vegan and lifelong animal lover, there was never any doubt what he'd offer at his company cafeteria. Soy steaks and soy sloppy joes, veggie burgers, nachos and other meatless, eggless, butter-free delicacies are cooked daily using heavy bags of texturized vegetable protein. If that doesn't sound so great, consider this: It's all free. Mason says he created the "Vegeteria" out of concern for the well-being of his 200 employees of Cat Communications International. So he's giving them all the fresh vegetables, meat substitutes, cakes and drinks they could ever want. "This...

No more mystery meat  CNN.com Monday, September 13, 2004Some schools go organic for lunch clip....The biggest hurdle to getting organic food in schools -- especially in schools not in liberal, crunchy-granola cities on the West Coast -- is the cost. Organic food, produced without pesticides, growth hormones or other additives, generally costs more. That's a tough sell when schools are struggling to pay for books and teachers.clip........."Pizza, chocolate milk and Skittles," was the reply. Not terribly shocking, except that Hirshberg is president and CEO of the New Hampshire-based Stonyfield Farm, the largest organic yogurt company in the country. Attn:...

World water supplies will not be enough for our descendants to enjoy the sort of diet the West eats now, experts say. The World Water Week in Stockholm will be told the growth in demand for meat and dairy products is unsustainable. Animals need much more water than grain to produce the same amount of food, and ending malnutrition and feeding even more mouths will take still more water. Scientists say the world will have to change its consumption patterns to have any realistic hope of feeding itself. Losing the race The World Water Week conference is held annually in...

A Queens guru who's been accused of seducing women despite his vow of chastity has stacked U.N. headquarters with scores of followers in a bid to promote himself as an advocate for world peace, according to ex-cult members. As many as 60 U.N. clerical workers and mid-level managers are devotees of Sri Chinmoy, 73, a spiritual leader espousing a philosophy of vegetarianism, celibacy, meditation and extreme athletics, ex-members said. The guru, whose actual name is Chinmoy Kumar Ghose, presides over a worldwide spiritual empire from his home in Jamaica Estates. In recent years, the self-avowed chaste holy man has been...

I AM A conservative Republican on most issues. But I can't donate to the GOP or vote for President Bush based on his - and the party's - stance on animal rights. I am a vegan and a proud member of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. I'm disappointed that the Bush administration has done nothing to improve animals' lives. I saw a video of President Bush at a campaign stop during the 2000 election. In it, a reporter asks "What do you think about PETA?" Then-Gov. Bush responded sarcastically, "I'm glad I ate my bacon for breakfast today."...

My friend, the artist Libby Hague, is an intellectual vegetarian, by which I mean she won't eat beings she regards as sentient. Chickens became safe from Libby's table the day she discovered they could play tic-tac-toe. Beings that can't pass the tic-tac-toe test are, however, fair game. Fish, for instance, are out of luck. My friend follows a beaten path. Using intellectual accomplishment to distinguish life forms that are worthy of preservation from life forms that aren't is quite traditional. The law used to make such distinction even between human beings. For instance, the original meaning of the phrase "benefit...

CONCORD, N.H. -- Even after five years, Christy Pugh has no trouble sticking to her vegetarian regimen.The secret to her success? Eating meat."Sometimes I feel like I'm a bad vegetarian, that I'm not strict enough or good enough," the 28-year-old bookkeeper from Concord said recently. "I really like vegetarian food, but I'm just not 100 percent committed."Pugh is one of a growing number of part-time vegetarians whose loose adherence to the meat-free diet is transforming a decades-old movement and the industry that feeds it.These so-called flexitarians are motivated less by animal rights than by a growing body of medical data...

Even after five years, Christy Pugh has no trouble sticking to her vegetarian regimen. The secret to her success? Eating meat. Pugh is one of a growing number of part-time vegetarians whose loose adherence to the meat-free diet is transforming a decades-old movement and the industry that feeds it. "Sometimes I feel like I'm a bad vegetarian, that I'm not strict enough or good enough," the 28-year-old bookkeeper from Concord said recently. "I really like vegetarian food but I'm just not 100 percent committed." These so-called "flexitarians" — a term voted most useful word of 2003 by the American Dialect...

Already benefiting from the “Atkins” effect, beef sales have increased 867% in the past three months, according to industry analysts who say that the amazing increase is directly attributable to the success of the “Hitler Was a Vegetarian” ad campaign funded by the American Beef Council. “Yeah, Hitler has been real good for beef,” says Mel Saatchi, Creative Director of ad giant Saatchi & Saatchi, the creators of the campaign. “Images of Hitler and hordes of SS and brownshirts eating carrots and tofu have successfully branded in the public’s mind the idea of beef as the food of freedom. From...

Presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich is in Madison on Monday. He spoke to an overflow crowd Monday morning in a state Capitol hearing room. The Ohio congressman got the loudest cheers for his statements opposing the war in Iraq. In his words, "It was wrong to go in, it was wrong to stay in." Kucinich also told the overflow crowd of about 150 people, including many college students, that as president he would offer free tuition at two-year and four-year public colleges. That proposal also was popular. Kucinich had words of advice for voters who like what he stands for but...

ST. PETERSBURG - Atkins diet devotee Lisa Shelton tossed proof of her shrinking waistline - a pair of dark-blue denim, size 20 Lee jeans - over the bike rack at the Blimpie franchise downtown. Since August, the 29-year-old has lost 70 pounds. Her fast- food diet menu includes bacon cheeseburgers without the bun. Shelton and a long line of customers were attracted by heavy radio advertising by Blimpie promoting a new Carb Counter Menu of subs, chips and drinks - and the idea that a chain called Blimpie can help oversized Americans melt fat. In exchange for Blimpie food coupons,...

View Current Signatures   -   Sign the Petition To:  The Internal Revenue Service of the United States. Peta (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) have been making over 10 million dollars per year in donations over the last 5 years. On their website, it is shown that your donation will go to help the animals, but it has been discovered otherwise. Peta has been granted a tax-exempt status on all donations they receive. To be eligible for 501(c) (3) tax exemption, a group must be organized and operate exclusively for charitable purposes. Its activities cannot be illegal,...

Just finished watching an interview with Dr. Neal Barnard on CBS's morning Show. The show began with the standard line about the dangers of the Atkins diet. The interview was with Dr. Neal Barnard who was very vociferous in his arguments against the Atkins diet. Well, I googled the guy and it turns out he and the organization he fronts favor a Vegan diet and the elimination of meat in any diet. Was there a disclaimer? Was there any qualification about who this doctor was and his agenda? Of course not, this is CBS Links: http://archive.salon.com/people/conv/2001/03/12/barnard/ Personally I've been quite...

<p>IF YOU TOOK every failed, trendy educrat idea, packaged them in a school and put radical animal-rights activists in charge of it, you'd end up with something like the Humane Education Learning Community -- a K-6 charter school approved by Sacramento's San Juan Unified School District.</p>

<p>The good people of Rodeo -- who like animals as much as anyone else, especially for breakfast -- declared Tuesday that their precious heritage is worth more than $20,000 in veggie burgers.</p> <p>"They can keep their veggie burgers,'' said Doug Boyum. "I'm not going to sell out for a veggie burger. I'm not going to sell out, period.''</p>

The Least Harm Principle Suggests that Humans Should Eat Beef, Lamb, Dairy, not a Vegan Diet. The following abstract and the aforementioned title were written by S.L. Davis, Department of Animal Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331.Wildlife Damage Control has received permission to reprint this abstract in its entirety which was "Previously published in the Proceedings of the Third Congress of the European Society for Agricultural and Food Ethics, 2001, pp 449-450." Again, this article was NOT written by Stephen Vantassel. See my version of this principle written long before this article at Uneasy Conscience of the Animal Rights...

SULTAN, Wash. (AP) - Snohomish County mink farmers, who produce almost half the mink raised in Washington, worry there will be more ecoterrorism attacks like Monday's release of about 10,000 animals from a family farm here. ``These farmers are on pins and needles,'' said Teresa Platt, executive director of the industry group Fur Commission USA. ``People should be on alert because the pattern with these groups is to hit again and in a short period of time.'' The FBI, which is leading the investigation, suspects an out-of-state group is responsible for the mink release at the Roesler Brothers Fur Farm...

<p>SAN FRANCISCO -- A naked woman painted like a tiger spent the today's lunch hour turning heads in San Francisco's Financial District in an effort to make people think twice before going to the circus, according to Lisa Franzetta, spokeswoman for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.</p>

PETA (people for the ethical treatment of animals) has done some outrageous things in the name of getting more donations, so they can keep their jobs and organization viable. Things like writing and publicizing a letter to Yassir Arafat asking him to make sure that he sees to it that the next suicide bomber not set off his bomb near animals, and just aim to kill people. PETA is also famous for offering various cities across the globe 10 to 15 thousand dollars to change their name from Hamburg to a more vegetable sounding name. PETA people have even attacked...

"Lammentations of a Dieter" Posted by Doc Farmer < http://www.chronwatch.com/site_search.asp?auth=90 > Saturday, May 24, 2003 I've made no secret of the fact that I'm fat, bald, and ugly. For those who think I'm putting myself down, though, I'm not. There's a difference between that and simple honesty of self. If I can't be honest with myself, how can I be expected to be honest with anybody else? That said, though, I don't like being fat. Bald is okay, mind you (thank God for the Gillette Mach 3) and ugly keeps me from being mistaken for a Hollywood type. But fat...

PENSACOLA, Fla. - Christian and Jewish clergy say a billboard that promotes vegetarianism by claiming "Jesus was the prince of peas" is historically inaccurate and sacrilegious. The billboard includes a picture of Jesus with an orange slice in place of a halo and was erected by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or PETA, to coincide with Passover and Easter. PETA's Bruce Friedrich said the campaign is meant to provoke the thought that if people are eating meat, they are promoting cruelty to animals. "The way that animals are treated on factory farms and slaughterhouses is egregiously cruel and...

<p>A chicken protest led by the Pretenders' Chrissie Hynde turned into a near riot over the weekend when angry diners attacked her for ruining their meals.</p> <p>The rocker joined a dozen animal activists in a protest raid on a Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) fast food restaurant in Seattle, Wash.</p>

<p>CHICAGO (AP) -- A Cook County judge is delaying the division of a $10 million settlement from McDonald's over beef-laced french fries until the tax-exempt status of some of the vegetarian recipients is clarified.</p> <p>Judge Richard Siebel on Tuesday asked attorneys for plaintiffs in the class-action lawsuit to determine the tax-exempt status of some groups and find out whether others affiliated with tax-exempt groups intend to seek the status for themselves. He set a new hearing date to award grants March 25.</p>

PETA's Peace Plan "Your Excellency," PETA President Ingrid Newkirk wrote in the note faxed on Monday to Arafat's headquarters in Ramallah. "We have received many calls and letters from people shocked at the bombing. . . If you have the opportunity, will you please add to your burdens my request that you appeal to all those who listen to you to leave the animals out of this conflict?"... Yesterday we asked Newkirk if she considered asking Arafat to persuade those who listen to him to stop blowing up people as well. "It's not my business to inject myself into human...

The breast-fed infants of two mothers who did not eat any animal products, including milk and eggs, developed brain abnormalities as a result of a vitamin-B12 deficiency, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (news - web sites) (CDC) reported Thursday. The primary sources of vitamin B12, which is essential for brain development, are animal products like meat, dairy products and eggs. Since the mothers ate little or no animal products, too little vitamin B12 was transmitted to their children through breast milk, according to the CDC's Dr. Maria Elena Jefferds. Jefferds added that these cases serve as a...

<p>Vegans don't eat, wear or use animal products, but that's a moral philosophical practice, not a religion, a state appellate court ruled Friday.</p> <p>Thus, the court said, vegans can't sue for religious discrimination.</p> <p>In the nation's first known ruling on the issue, the three-judge Court of Appeal panel in Los Angeles threw out a lawsuit by a vegan who claimed he was denied a job because he refused a mumps vaccine that was grown in chicken embryos.</p>

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Despite their healthy diets, vegetarian youth in Sweden and Norway do not practice other healthy lifestyle behaviors such as exercising more or using alcohol or tobacco less frequently than do their peers, according to recent study findings. "Contrary to findings from other studies, adherence to a low-meat diet may not correlate with other health promotion practices among adolescents in Sweden and Norway," write lead study author Dr. Christel L. Larsson of Umea University in Sweden and her colleagues. This finding is based on a survey of 2,041 Swedish and Norwegian 15- to 16-year-old students, 149...

NOTE: Article is EIGHT pages long, I am only posting the first page, feel free to add other pages as you see fit f the members of the American medical establishment were to have a collective find-yourself-standing-naked-in-Times-Square-type nightmare, this might be it. They spend 30 years ridiculing Robert Atkins, author of the phenomenally-best-selling ''Dr. Atkins' Diet Revolution'' and ''Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution,'' accusing the Manhattan doctor of quackery and fraud, only to discover that the unrepentant Atkins was right all along. Or maybe it's this: they find that their very own dietary recommendations -- eat less fat and more...

Environmental impact of a vegan's food source: Environmental impact of a hunter's food source: Any questions?

Canadian Cat-Torturers Escape Jail, Activists Fume Fri Apr 19, 2:11 PM ET By Natalie Jikerjian TORONTO (Reuters) - Two Canadians who skinned a cat alive, and video-taped their venture claiming it was a performance art project, were sentenced to jail on Thursday, but one will serve his sentence at weekends, while the second walked free because of time served during the trial. In comments and sentences that infuriated animal rights activists, Ontario Court Judge Ted Ormston ignored the prosecution's plea to jail the two for the maximum of 2-1/2 years. The crime was "not the worst offense possible," he said....