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Herbie gets rescued from slaugter

(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

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02/13/07
Dairy Products Fail to Stop Weight Gain
Category: General
Posted by: vegtampabay.com
by Harvard's Health Professionals
A new study from Harvard's Health Professionals Follow-up Study gives no support to the advertising claim that milk helps control weight. In a group of 51,529 men, aged 40-75 years, those who consumed the most calcium or dairy products at the study's onset gained the same amount of weight as those who consumed the least of these products.
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02/13/07
Couple fights cancer with Vegan diet
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Posted by: vegtampabay.com
By Cindy VanSchalkwyk, East Bay Newspapers
In 1992 Barry Brown, 58, was diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma and given five years to live. Fourteen years later, he's still around, and credits much of his successful cancer story with a radically changed diet. He has been in clinical remission for the past five years.
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02/13/07
Dogs and Cats Abused for Their Fur
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CNN Transcript of Larry King Live
Good evening from Los Angeles. I'm Ryan Seacrest in for Larry King tonight. There is no way to know the exact numbers, but animal rights groups estimate that up to 2 million cats and dogs are slaughtered in China every year for their fur. Undercover video from China and elsewhere in Asia shows dogs and cats being beaten, strangled and skinned.
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02/13/07
Protein in the Vegan Diet
Category: General
Posted by: vegtampabay.com
by Reed Mangels, Ph.D., R.D.
It is very easy for a vegan diet to meet the recommendations for protein, as long as calorie intake is adequate. Strict protein combining is not necessary; it is more important to eat a varied diet throughout the day.
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01/09/07
Why Don't Vegans Eat Dairy?
Category: General
Posted by: vegtampabay.com
by FactoryFarming.com
... all dairy cows must give birth in order to begin producing milk. Today, dairy cows are forced to have a calf every year. Like human beings, cows have a nine-month gestation period, and so giving birth every twelve months is physically demanding. The cows are also artificially re-impregnated while they are still lactating from their previous birthing, so their bodies are still producing milk during seven months of their nine-month pregnancy.
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Vegan and Vegetarian Groups

Tampa Bay Veg Groups
  • Tampa Animal Rights
    Local animal rights group joining with Florida Voices for Animals to help with outreach events to bring awareness to animal suffering and how we can all help. Check out our website and contact us for volunteering, or join us us at one of our many events. Contact jodi(atsign)vegtampaby.com for more information.
  • Florida Voices for Animals
    Florida Voices for Animals (FVA) is an all-volunteer, non-profit 501(c)-3, education organization dedicated to informing the public about the wonderful benefits of veganism (vegetarian - no milk, eggs or dairy) and also about the abuses that animals endure via factory farming, entertainment, rodeo, fur industry, experimentation, military, clothing industry, neglect, criminal and sadistic tendencies.
  • SPOT Stop Pet Over Population Together
    The most important thing you can do for your pet is Spay/Neuter him or her! It's healthier... he or she can live up to 6 years longer, it prevents unwanted behavioral issues, such as spraying, escaping, fighting, and it prevents unwanted and accidental litters!
  • Food Not Bombs
    Food Not Bombs is one of the fastest growing revolutionary movements active today and is gaining momentum. There are hundreds of autonomous chapters sharing free vegetarian food with hungry people and protesting war and poverty throughout the Americas, Europe, Asia and Australia. Food Not Bombs is organizing for an end to the occupations of Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine. We also support actions against the globalization of the economy, restrictions to the movements of people and the destruction of the earth.
  • New Tampa Vegans
    New Tampa Vegans is a group based in New Tampa that gets together for friends and fun in a vegan environment.
  • Pasco Raw/living Food Group
    Come joins us for our Pasco County Raw Food Pot-Luck Luncheons. This is a great place to be introduced to raw/living food, and find other people who share a mutual interest in a healthy way of eating/living! No membership fees. Open to everyone: Raw Foodist, Raw curious, Vegan, & Vegetarian.
  • Pasco Veg*n Society Monthly Dinner
    Pasco Vegan/Vegetarian Society meets the third Saturday of each month. Our monthly veg*n dinners are buffet style at Lanna Thai Restaurant at 5:00pm. Join us for food fun and a great vegan buffet dinner. Open to everyone. NO membership fees. Please RSVP Our mission is to educate and bring public awareness to an alternative plant based lifestyle and the beneficial impact this choice has on Animals, the Environment, and our Health. Click the link to visit our web-site for future events.
  • Tampa Bay Vegetarians
    Tampa Bay Vegetarians is a social group that meets for dinner each month at local restaurants in and around the bay area. Feel free to visit our web-site and join us for a great dinner, meet like minded people, and socialize at some of the bay areas veg friendly restaurants.
  • Tampa Raw Food Monthly Party
    Monthly pot-lucks, meetings, guest speakers, and more. Organizers of raw food meetup are the owners of the Grass Root Organic Restaurant.
  • Tampa Vegan Monthly Dinner
    Tampa Vegan Monthly Dinner • Second Saturday of every month. • 5:00 PM • Where: Trang Viet Cuisine 1524 E. Fowler Ave., Tampa 33612 • Everyone is welcome non-vegetarians, vegetarians, vegans, and veg curious. • No membership fees. • We only pay for the items we order from the menu. • This place has 4 pages of veg*n options including 2 vegan cheesecakes and vegan carrot cake.
  • Tampa Vegetarian Meetup
    Vegetarian group that meets monthly at different restaurants around the bay area.
  • The Health Hut
    A member of the American Herbalists Guild and the Florida Herb Society, Rose Kalajian is the practicing herbalist at the Natural Health Hut Clinic, Educational Center & Organic Herb Farm. She personally formulates the herbal remedies she uses, as well as the products for her IMHERBALIST line. All the ingredients are vegetarian. All of Rose’s herbal remedies are raw and alive; they are carefully hand-made in small batches, using only the heat of the sun to gently heat them in order to retain the full healing properties of their living ingredients. Because Rose loves the opportunity to teach, she offers many workshops and classes. She hosts lectures and workshops with guest educators from both the local and global health communities, including internationally-acclaimed author and raw food specialist, Paul Nison. She is available for outside speaking engagements and/or cooking demonstrations for people of all ages, to groups large or small. The Health Hut 26403 Chianina Dr. Wesley Chapel, FL 33544
  • VegSarasota.com Sarasota Bradenton
    VegSarasota.com is Sarasota's online resource for anyone interested in reducing the amount of animal products they consume, for whatever reason and at whatever pace. We are volunteer community group dedicated to uniting the vegetarian, vegan, raw food, conscious eating community by posting related events, bringing you the latest news and bringing forth a forum for veg education. Our goals are to promote human health, fight for animals rights and seek protection of the environment.