OMNI
VEGETARIAN
ACTION NEWSLETTER #35
FEBRUARY 8, 2017.
Edited by Dick Bennett
for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology
ANNOUNCEMENT
Vegetarian Potluck
Wed Feb 8 - 6:00 pm @ OMNI
Specially Big Day!
Amy Wilson unveils her great new American
cookbook
Little Miss Cornbread!
Little Miss Cornbread!
How about a southern cooking theme with a vegan
touch?
AND
A group of visiting Scandinavian musicians are
visiting Kelly & Donna
They'll attend Veggie Potluck and do music
after. WOW!
Please bring extra food to help feed the
musicians, and come to this amazing opportunity. Once in a
lifetime!
CONTENTS: Vegetarian/Vegan Action Newsletter #35, February 8, 2017:
Health, Nutrition
“The VegNews Bloggy Awards”: Blogs on Latest Recipes,
Products, Restaurants
Antibiotics
New Film on Vegans: Vegan Everyday Stories
Empathy, Compassion, Protection of
Animals
New Film
Related Films
“Spy in the Wild,” PBS Series on Animal Feelings and
Thought
Cruelty at “High-Speed” Pork Plants
Fight for Transparency in Meat Industry
Sue Coe, Animals’
Vegan Manifesto
Climate
Vegetarianism, Veganism, Vegetarian Action vs. Carnivorism
and Climate Catastrophe.
NUTRITION, HEALTH
“The VEGNEWS Bloggy Awards,” VegNews (August 2016).
Describes 21 blogs, including:
“Oh She Glows, a healthy and popular site, ohsheglows.com
“This Rawsome Vegan Life,” by “wildly popular
blogger/cookbook author,” thisrawsomeveganlife.com
“Chocolate Covered Katie,” “a one-stop shop for all things
chocolate,” chocolatecoveredkatie.com
Tom Meersman. “Rules
Aim to Cut Farm Antibiotics.” NADG (Feb. 7, 2017). “The problem is that the more frequently
antibiotics are used…the more quickly bacteria can develop resistance to them,
rendering the lifesaving drugs less effective or ineffective.”
veganmovie.org/
Vegan: Everyday Stories is a
feature-length documentary that explores the lives of four remarkably different
people who share a common thread - they're all vegans.
[This film
fits both Health and Compassion categories.
–Dick]
EMPATHY, COMPASSION,
PROTECTION OF ANIMALS
NEW FILM: Vegan: Everyday Stories
veganmovie.org/about
Vegan: Everyday Stories is a
feature-length documentary that explores the lives of .... Glenn Scott Lacey is
a director, filmmaker, film composer and the owner of ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qedrlO1Gg0
May 6, 2016 - Uploaded by Northwest VEG
Related Films (send
me your review).
“Spy in the Wild: A Nature
Miniseries.” PBS, AETN Wednesdays, Feb.
1-March 1 at 7pm. Animal behavior in the
wild filmed by animatronic cameras. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/spy-in-the-wild-about/14810/
Spy in the Wild, A NATURE Miniseries – a John Downer Production
for BBC, PBS and THIRTEEN Productions LLC premiering Wednesdays, February 1 –
March 1, 8-9 pm ET on PBS stations.
In
the most innovative production Nature has ever
presented, this five-part series employs more than 30 animatronic spy cameras
disguised as animals to secretly record behavior in the wild. These “spycams” reveal animals as having emotions and
behavior similar to humans: specifically, a capacity to love, grieve, deceive,
and invent. Among the featured Spy Creatures are: Spy Orangutan, Spy Croc
Hatchling, Spy Meerkat, Spy Egret, Spy Tortoise, Spy Prairie Dog, Spy Macaw,
Spy Sloth, Spy Cobra, Spy Bushbaby, Spy Squirrel, Spy Adelie, and Spy Baby
Hippo. These robotic, uncanny look-alikes infiltrate the natural world to film
surprising behavior among wildlife from around the globe.
Spy in the Wild: Love
Episode 1 airs Wednesday, February 1 at 8 p.m. ET on PBS
Episode 1 airs Wednesday, February 1 at 8 p.m. ET on PBS
Spy
Creatures explore the rarely seen emotions of animals, revealing if they are as
strong and complex as our own. Join the “spycams” as they are accepted into a
wild dog pack, witness elephant love, and are mourned by a troop of monkeys.
Spy in the Wild: Intelligence
Episode 2 airs Wednesday, February 8 at 8 p.m. ET on PBS
Episode 2 airs Wednesday, February 8 at 8 p.m. ET on PBS
Spy
Creatures infiltrate the world of animal intelligence, ingenuity, and
creativity. Watch our spies disguised as animals observe a gray squirrel
stealing Spy Nut, a sea otter cracking open a meal, and an orangutan washing
with soap.
Spy in the Wild: Friendship
Episode 3 airs Wednesday, February 15 at 8 p.m. ET on PBS
Episode 3 airs Wednesday, February 15 at 8 p.m. ET on PBS
Spy
Creatures and their new wild friends rely on each other to look out for
predators. A Spy Meerkat babysits meerkat pups while a Spy Cobra pretends to
attack the mob. Spy Crocs witness a convenient partnership between real
crocodiles and birds.
Spy in the Wild: Bad Behavior
Episode 4 airs Wednesday, February 22 at 8 p.m. ET on PBS
Episode 4 airs Wednesday, February 22 at 8 p.m. ET on PBS
Spy
Creatures infiltrate the underground world of animal mischief, crime, and
retribution. Spy Monkey is caught between crossfires as real monkeys fight over
beach bar alcohol. Spy Egret is also a waterhole victim when elephants throw
mud everywhere.
Spy in the Wild: Meet the Spies
Episode 5 airs Wednesday, March 1 at 8 p.m. ET on PBS
Episode 5 airs Wednesday, March 1 at 8 p.m. ET on PBS
The
final episode explains how the concept of the Spy Creatures evolved at John
Downer Productions from the original Bouldercam to the Penguincams that
inspired the next-generation “spycams” featured in this series. It shows the
painstaking work that goes into building the lifelike models and how the team
deploys and operates the robotic cameras on location all over the world. It
contains funny and unexpected moments, much of which is experienced from the
viewpoint of the “spycams” themselves.
“GAP Gets Affidavits from Federal Inspectors.” Whistleblower
2016 Year-in-Review. 
Newsletter of
Government Accountability Project.
“Reports show continued violations—legal and ethical—at ‘high-speed’
pork plants.” Article is part of GAP’s
Food Integrity Campaign.
Newsletter of
Government Accountability Project.
“Reports show continued violations—legal and ethical—at ‘high-speed’
pork plants.” Article is part of GAP’s
Food Integrity Campaign.
Ted Genoways. “Close to the Bone: The Fight Over
Transparency in the Meat Industry.” The New York Times (October 2016). Dangers from USDA-approved high-speed pork
inspection sites, also known as “HIMP” plants.
The Animals’ Vegan Manifesto by SUE COE. OR Books, 2017.
"In the Vegan Manifesto, Sue Coe, human champion of rights for those
whose voice most humans do not hear, has crafted a masterpiece: at once
visually stunning and spiritually invigorating." —Dr. Michael Greger, author of How Not to Die
"Sue Coe is the most important and prolific political artist of our
time. Her work explores and exposes every form of injustice suffered by both
humans and nonhumans. With respect to the latter, her incisive eye—both
trenchant and gentle—lays bare the profound immorality of animal exploitation
and constitutes a clarion call to us all to reject it. Coe understands that the
moral status of animals requires that we go vegan and no one who looks at the
stunning work in this book will be able to disagree." —Gary L. Francione,
Distinguished Professor of Law and Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Scholar of Law and Philosophy, Rutgers
School of Law
ABOUT THE BOOK
Sue Coe’s advocacy of animal rights is unmatched in its eloquence,
forcefulness, and lasting impact. She does so with a combination of
extraordinary images and few words. In her unstinting insistence on tolerance
and love, Coe brings us to a life-affirming philosophy that values compassion
over greed, community over self, and life over capital.
In 115 black-and-white woodcut illustrations for The Animals’ Vegan Manifesto, Sue Coe unleashes an outraged cry for
action that takes its rightful place alongside the other great manifestoes of
history. As a prize-winning artist, she bears witness to unspeakable crimes,
and has long advocated that we human beings must take more responsibility for
ourselves, our fellow species, and the planet. Her illustrations, in the
tradition of Goya, Kollwitz, and Grosz, will be familiar to many; her
paintings, drawings and prints have been exhibited in galleries and museum
around the world, including New York’s Museum of Modern Art. 122pp.
CLIMATE
Climate Catastrophe, Capitalism, and Fossil Fuels
For a large guide to reading about the struggle of
vegetarians against climate catastrophe, see past numbers of Vegetarian Action. Comparatively, few climate mitigation
movements offer more practical hope as ending carnivorism.
Vegetarian Action
etc.
CONTENTS: OMNI Vegetarian/Vegan Action Newsletter #34, January 11, 2017
VegNews (February
2017), items cited to indicate range
Health, Nutrition
New film: What the Health!
From the makers of Cowspiracy
US Dept. of Health and Human Services, US Food and Drug Admin.
Government Accountability Project (GAP)
Eggs
Empathy, Compassion,
Protection of Animals
PETA, “Why Animal Rights?”
Practical Guide to Animal Rights
Google Search
Animal Times (#3 2016)
Climate Catastrophe,
Capitalism, Fossil Fuels
Vegetarian Action on Climate
Categorical Responses to Climate Catastrophe
Steve Coll, ExxonMobil
Vegetarian Action #33
END VEGETARIAN ACTION NEWSLETTER #35, FEBRUARY 8,
2017
No comments:
Post a Comment