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Veg Starter Guide
Download PDF Guide to Vegetarian Eating by The Humane Society of the United States.
Video Library
(CBS) BROOKLYN The 4-month-old calf that made a break for it three days ago, dashing out of a truck taking it to the slaughterhouse and setting off a wild chase by police through the streets of Bay Ridge, has escaped certain death. See the video
by Michael Greger, MD
October 2001, 34-year-old Washington State native Peter Putnam started losing his mind. One month he was delivering a keynote business address, the next he couldn’t form a complete sentence. Once athletic, soon he couldn't walk. Then he couldn’t eat. After a brain biopsy showed it was Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, his doctor could no longer offer any hope. “Just take him home and love him,” the doctor counseled his family.[1,2,3] Peter's tragic death, October 2002, may have been caused by Mad Cow disease.by Matt Bear, NonViolenceUnited.org
I loved spending summers on my grandparents’ farm. I remember waking up to roosters crowing and the wonderful aroma of Grandma’s breakfast wafting upstairs. I’d rush out to help Grandpa feed our 40 sheep, two steers and the 50 or so pigs.by Vegparadise News Bureau
Traditionally, the first step in making cheese was to kill a newly-born, milk-fed calf and remove its stomach to make rennet. The rennet was derived from the inner lining of the abomasum, the fourth stomach of the calf or any other animal classified as a ruminant.by Jonathan Leake — News.Com.AU
Cows are capable of strong emotions such as pain, fear and even anxiety about the future. But if farmers provide the right conditions, they can also feel great happiness. The findings have emerged from studies of farm animals that have found similar traits in pigs, goats and chickens. They suggest such animals may be so emotionally similar to humans that welfare laws need to be reconsidered.by Donald G. McNeil, Jr., New York Times
The F.D.A. proposed banning from animal feed the brains and spinal cords of cows more than 30 months old. It also proposed banning the same parts of any animal not passed by inspectors as suitable for human food, any tallow that contained more than 0.15 percent protein and any meat contained in brain or spinal column that was separated from carcasses by machine.
Egg Replacement
Why replace eggs?
There are approximately 300 million egg laying hens in the U.S. confined in battery cages — small wire cages stacked in tiers and lined up in rows inside huge warehouses. In accordance with the USDA's recommendation to give each hen four inches of 'feeder space,' hens are commonly packed four to a cage measuring just 16 inches wide. In this tiny space, the birds cannot stretch their wings or legs, and they cannot fulfill normal behavioral patterns or social needs. Constantly rubbing against the wire cages, they suffer from severe feather loss, and their bodies are covered with bruises and abrasions.
In order to reduce injuries resulting from excessive pecking — an aberrant behavior that occurs when the confined hens are bored and frustrated — practically all laying hens have part of their beaks cut off. Debeaking is a painful procedure that involves cutting through bone, cartilage, and soft tissue.
Laying more than 250 eggs per year each, laying hens' bodies are severely taxed. They suffer from "fatty liver syndrome" when their liver cells, which work overtime to produce the fat and protein for egg yolks, accumulate extra fat. They also suffer from what the industry calls 'cage layer fatigue,' and many become 'egg bound' and die when their bodies are too weak to pass another egg. This is just the tip of the iceberg, read more about the horrors of eggs at FactoryFarming.com
Vegan Baking and Cooking
Replacing dairy, such as milk or butter in baked goods is easy. Just use soy, rice, or almond milk to replace the cow's milk. Use Earth Balance or another type of vegan spread to replace the butter. Replacing eggs in recipes like cookies or cornbread, you can use EnerG Egg Replacer. It's found the kosher or ethnic aisle of your supermarket, or the health food store. Most vegan baker find that EnerG Egg Replacer does the trick most of the time. But some things you just don't need eggs for at all. The vegan Magic chocolate cake, which is super divine, moist, and all around awesome, requires no eggs or replacement at all! Another thing you can use in loaves or neat balls, which delivers fantastic results is flax powder and a few drops of water. This makes a healthy, sticky paste that binds easily. If you make oatmeal cookies, flax is the perfect binder for that. You can also use pruen puree, applesauce, mashed banana in baked goods. The best source to learn all about vegan baking is Isa Chandra Moskowitz and Terry Hope Romero's web site and books. Check them out at The Post Punk Kitchen. There's even cooking videos!!
Tofu Scramble: Good Any Time of Day...
Tofu (extra firm, non-silken) is perfect for scrambling, and there's a ton of recipes out there that are sure to please. Here's a few of our favorites.
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