Shalom everyone,
This update/Jewish Vegetarians of North America (JVNA) Online Newsletter has the following items:
1. Update on A SACRED DUTY
2. Update on Israel's Worst Drought in Its History
3. L.A. Times Op-Ed Article Considers the True Cost of Steak
4. Continued Indications That Global Warming is Already Having Major Effects
5. Getting Our Issues Onto the Presidential Election Agenda
6. Review of Book on the Destruction of the Public Lands by Cattle Ranching
7. Compilation of Factory Farm Videos, Films, PSAs
8. Multifaceted Crises Threaten Poorer Nations
9. National Public Radio Airs Programs Re Agriprocessors
10. Petition to Halt Animal Experiments at the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot, Israel
11. Meat Consumption Continues to Rise
12. Marketing on the Internet
13. NY Times Article Re Agriprocessors
14. NASA Seeks Proposals for Global Climate Change Education Project
15. World Farm Animal Day and World Animal Day Events Being Planned
16. Update From Green Course, Israel's University-based Environmental Group
Some material has been deferred to a later update/newsletter to keep this one from being even longer.
[Materials in brackets like this [ ] within an article or forwarded message are my editorial notes/comments.]
Opinions expressed do not necessarily represent the views of the JVNA, unless otherwise indicated, but may be presented to increase awareness and/or to encourage respectful dialogue. Also, material re conferences, retreats, forums, trips, and other events does not necessarily imply endorsement by JVNA or endorsement of the kashrut, Shabbat observances, or any other Jewish observances, but may be presented for informational purposes. Please use e-mail addresses, telephone numbers, and web sites to get further information about any event that you are interested in. Also, JVNA does not necessarily agree with all positions of groups whose views are included or whose events are announced in this newsletter.
As always, your comments and suggestions are very welcome.
Thanks,
Richard
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1. Update on A SACRED DUTY
Message re a TV Station in Petaluma, CA.
Hi Neal,
We've had several calls that people like your video "A Sacred Duty".
Here's the schedule for this week: Channel 26 Sunday 11:00PM, Wednesday 5:00PM, and Friday 3:00PM. This video has been airing from Sunday 10th, 2008, but we've gotten many requests for repeat viewings.
Thank you,
Sincerely
Francisco Morales
Programming Director
Petaluma Community Access
Please help us get A SACRED DUTY shown on your local TV station. Thanks.
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2. Update on Israel's Worst Drought in Its History
Facing worst drought in history, Israel relies on innovations, cuts
August 22, 2008 JTA
http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/news/article/200808200819watercrisis.html
Dina Kraft
Published: 08/20/2008
http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/news/article/200808200819watercrisis.html
GILAT, Israel (JTA) -- In the sands of the Negev Desert here, small groves of eucalyptus, olive and pomegranate trees grow in shallow depressions dug out to catch floodwater, a method used by the Nabateans thousands of years ago.
The ancient technique is one way Israelis are trying to harness every drop of water, an effort that has become critical as the country reels from its fourth straight year of drought.
Experts say Israel is in the worst water crisis it has ever seen.
"We don't have any water to waste," says Elisha Mizrahi, the director of the Jewish National Fund's Southern Region, which initiated the project. Mizrahi looks out onto the groves, the only hint of green for miles.
As Israel's population swells, increasing water demands have exacerbated the effects of below-average rainfall rates and less consistent rainfall, which some scientists suggest are a consequence of global warming.
The country's three main reservoirs, including Lake Kinneret, have passed their "red," or emergency, lines. If the water levels continue to drop, Israel may have to limit water use from the Kinneret in the wintertime.
The government has cut back on water allocations for farmers and industry, and the Israeli public is being urged to reduce usage in an aggressive TV campaign featuring a woman whose face cracks up like a parched piece of earth as an ominous voice-over intones, "We don't have any water to waste."
SNIP
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3. L.A. Times Op-Ed Article Considers the True Cost of Steak
Opinion LA Times Op-ed article
The cost of steak
Factory farms produce cheap meat, until you consider the rivers of sewage, the contaminants and the superbugs.
By Paul Roberts
August 23, 2008
If you are searching for signs that today's high food prices won't last, the latest report on the meat industry isn't promising. In May, a distinguished panel of scientists and meat industry officials concluded that the current "factory farm" method for mass-producing meat poses so many threats to public health -- from contaminated water supplies to deadly epidemics of E. coli -- that the whole system needs to go. The good news: Even meat companies agree that change is unavoidable. The bad news: Replacing factory farms with something "sustainable" likely means an end to 50 years of falling meat prices.
The report, from a Pew Charitable Trusts commission, takes a hard look at "confined animal feeding operations," or CAFOs, which produce most of the U.S. meat supply. These massive facilities house tens of thousands of cattle, hogs and chickens and generate not just huge amounts of meat but rivers of sewage, clouds of contaminated dust and nearly a fifth of all greenhouse gases.
The crowded, often unsanitary conditions promote disease, which has led to the overuse of antibiotics and to a class of superbugs that are resistant to those same antibiotics. Even the modern corn-based livestock diet causes problems. It makes meat fattier and may have helped some strains of the E. coli bacteria evolve from benign microbe to one of the deadliest pathogens in the food supply. And, of course, to grow all the grain we now feed our livestock, we've converted much of the Midwest into a huge corn and soybean plantation.
The only solution, the report concludes, is to replace the giant factory farms with models such as "free-range" operations that give animals more space and use different methods of feeding, sewage disposal and medical treatment. And that's where things get tricky, because most of the practices the industry is being asked to abandon have been pivotal in making meat cheap.
For example, grazing cattle on pasture grass would probably mean less disease and leaner meat, not to mention happier cows. But because the mega-farms confine livestock specifically to restrict animals from moving (and thus burning calories unnecessarily), and because corn is more calorie-dense than grass, CAFO-raised animals fatten faster and thus more cheaply. Likewise, reducing antibiotics in meat production, though it may improve our health, will deprive the industry of the meat equivalent of Miracle Gro.
Because small, steady doses of antibiotics kill the low-grade infections that normally plague livestock, dosed animals spend fewer calories fighting infection and thus have more calories available for building muscle and bone. When fed antibiotics, livestock can grow 25% faster on the same intake of feed -- a critical point, given that feed is a meat companies' biggest cost.
Of course, we've long known that our meat miracle wasn't quite a free lunch. Yet we were willing to overlook the negatives because CAFOs made meat so abundant and cheap. Since 1960, for example, U.S. poultry output has jumped sevenfold while the price per pound, adjusted for inflation, has fallen by two-thirds. Prices for beef and pork also have fallen precipitously. And as we exported CAFOs to other countries, the entire world began to benefit from falling meat prices and rising dietary standards.
But as the downsides of factory farming have grown too large to ignore, we've had to admit that our meat is cheap only because we don't count all the costs: Taxpayers spend $4.1 billion cleaning up livestock sewage leaks and $2.5 billion treating salmonella. All told, according to the Union of Concerned Scientists, CAFOs may be costing taxpayers $38 billion a year -- costs that aren't reflected in the retail price of meat.
If cheap meat is an illusion, will meat produced under better conditions necessarily be more expensive? Probably, even figuring in the savings in environmental and public health costs.
Today, ground beef from grass-fed cattle -- which would meet the goals in the Pew report -- sells for about a $1 a pound more than hamburger from a CAFO cow, while grass-fed beefsteaks are $7 more. Poultry and pork raised "sustainably" are also more expensive than their factory-farmed counterparts.
Some of that price difference will narrow in the future as meat producers refine a post-CAFO production model; even now, a small hog farm, if efficiently managed, can boast lower per-pig costs than the average mega-farm 10 times its size. The Pew commission argues that if taxpayers are willing to support small and medium producers with incentives such as accelerated tax depreciation and tax credits, the cost to consumers might be further reduced.
But don't expect to end CAFOs and keep super-cheap meat. Sustainably fed animals take longer to reach slaughter weight, thus reducing a farmer's annual output. Likewise, shifting from confined operations to a "free-range" model will require more land, at a time when farm acres are already in short supply. All of which means we won't be able to produce nearly as much meat as we used to, and a smaller meat supply means higher prices.
Paying more isn't what consumers want to hear just now. But when it comes to food, we're beginning to learn that cheaper may not always be better.
Paul Roberts' newest book, "The End of Food," was published in June.
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My Letter in Response to the Article:
August 24, 2008
Letter@LATimes.com
Dear Editor:
Kudos to Paul Roberts for pointing out so well the many negative environmental effects of raising animals in "confined animal feeding operations." (“The Cost of Steak”) However, he fails to consider the possibility of switching to vegetarian plant-based diets, something that would also sharply reduce the epidemic of diseases afflicting so many people today. It is time that we recognize that reducing animal-based diets and agriculture is essential to avoid the unprecedented catastrophe that the world is rapidly approaching from global warming and other environmental threats and to help shift the world to a sustainable path.
Very truly yours,
Richard H. Schwartz, Ph.D.
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4. Continued Indications That Global Warming is Already Having Major Effects
New worrisome cracks in Greenland ice
Northern Arctic area had seemed immune from global warming
AP
An 11-square-mile chunk of ice is hemorrhaging off a prominent glacier in northern Greenland. The crack, at center, right, is seven miles long and about half a mile wide. It is about half the width of the 500-square-mile floating part of the glacier. If the cracking continues, the floating part of the glacier could lose up to one third of its size. Most viewed on msnbc.com
updated 7:31 p.m. ET Aug. 21, 2008
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26337374/
Thanks to JVNA advisor and activist Rom Landskroner for forwarding this article:
WASHINGTON - In northern Greenland, a part of the Arctic that had seemed immune from global warming, new satellite images show a growing giant crack and an 11-square-mile chunk of ice hemorrhaging off a major glacier, scientists said Thursday.
And that's led the university professor who spotted the wounds in the massive Petermann glacier to predict disintegration of a major portion of the Northern Hemisphere's largest floating glacier within the year.
If it does worsen and other northern Greenland glaciers melt faster, then it could speed up sea level rise, already increasing because of melt in southern Greenland.
The crack is 7 miles long and about half a mile wide. It is about half the width of the 500 square mile floating part of the glacier. Other smaller fractures can be seen in images of the ice tongue, a long narrow sliver of the glacier.
"The pictures speak for themselves," said Jason Box, a glacier expert at the Byrd Polar Research Center at Ohio State University who spotted the changes while studying new satellite images. "This crack is moving, and moving closer and closer to the front. It's just a matter of time till a much larger piece is going to break off .... It is imminent."
The chunk that came off the glacier between July 10 and July 24 is about half the size of Manhattan and doesn't worry Box as much as the cracks. The Petermann glacier had a larger breakaway ice chunk in 2000. But the overall picture worries some scientists.
"As we see this phenomenon occurring further and further north - and Petermann is as far north as you can get - it certainly adds to the concern," said Waleed Abdalati, director of the Center for the Study of Earth from Space at the University of Colorado.
The question that now faces scientists is: Are the fractures part of normal glacier stress or are they the beginning of the effects of global warming?
SNIP
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5. Getting Our Issues Onto the Presidential Election Agenda
Opposition to AETA (Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act)
Angela writes: Please send letters to Abolish AETA as a presidential proposal.
[We should also contact them re reducing meat consumption to, among other things, reduce global warming and other environmental threats.]
Candidate contacts:
Senator Barack Obama
Obama for America
P.O. Box 8102
Chicago, IL 60680
Phone: 866-675-2008
Online Contact: http://my.barackobama.com/page/s/contact2
Website: www.barackobama.com
Senator John McCain
John McCain 2008
P.O. Box 16118
Arlington, VA 22215
Phone: 703-418-2008
Online Contact: http://www.johnmccain.com/Contact
Website: www.JohnMcCain.com
sample letter
Dear _____________
As a constituent and a registered voter, I am very concerned about the trend to eradicate fundamental civil liberties that, historically, have made this country a beacon of hope around the world. I am respectfully appealing to you as my representative to consider this issue.
On November 27, 2006, S. 3880 [109th]: Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (a bill to provide the Department of Justice the necessary authority to apprehend, prosecute, and convict individuals committing animal enterprise terror) became Public Law No: 109-374. While there is no room in our society for any actions that threaten public safety, I find it extremely worrisome that “terror” is increasingly being interpreted to include peaceful demonstrations --a cornerstone of American freedom.
While this Act explicitly protects any expressive conduct (including peaceful picketing or other peaceful demonstration) from prosecution as terrorism, the interpretation of this subject has been a point of debate since the law's inception.
On October 30, 2006, the National Lawyers Guild released a statement strongly opposing the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, saying that "if enacted into law, the Act could define as a terrorist act any activity causing a business classified as an "animal enterprise" to suffer a profit loss - even if such financial decline is caused by peaceful protests, boycotts, media campaigns or leafleting." Guild President, Marjorie Cohn said, "The AETA could lead to the prosecution of undercover investigators, whistle-blowers and other activists as 'terrorists.'"
Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) was the sole voice opposing the legislation when it passed by voice vote on November 13, 2006. He warned that passage of S. 3880 would endanger First Amendment protections, "I am not for anyone abusing their rights by damaging another person's property or person, but I am for protecting the First Amendment and not creating a special class of violations for a specific type of protest."
"Animal enterprise terror" is a vague term, but it seems under the Act to include anything which in any way interferes with the conduct of any commerce whatsoever, be it legal or illegal, involving animals or animal products.
This Act has been expanded to encompass activity with the intent to cause physical alterations for the purpose of damaging or impairing a company using animals. In this case, “alteration” means any activity that results in losses of $10,000+ due to peaceful protests, consumer boycotts, or the advocacy of reforms of harmful practices. As a committed animal advocate who from time to time participates in peaceful protests or other peaceful campaigns to educate the public, I find the implications of the current trend to restrict my rights by prosecution frightening.
As we look toward the election of a new president and the prospect of a restoration to a country where freedom is a basic right rather than an elusive concept, I am confident that you will give serious consideration to the dire implications of continuing along this path.
Thank you in advance for your attention to this important issue.
Sincerely,
Petition on line against AETA, S. 1926 and H.R. 4239
http://www.petitiononline.com/Stop4239/petition.html
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6. Review of Book on the Destruction of the Public Lands by Cattle Ranching
The Politics of Public Lands Ranching
Western Turf Wars
By Mike Hudak
Review by JAMIE NEWLIN
The New Print Edition of CounterPunch, Only for Our Newsletter Subscribers!
For those interested in understanding and maybe influencing the management of public lands, a new and so far under-appreciated resource is making its way onto the bookshelves. It's Western Turf, Wars: The Politics of Public Lands Ranching, by Mike Hudak.
If you've ever suspected that current public lands management isn't in the best interests of public lands and wildlife, Western Turf Wars will confirm your suspicions. But it will do so in a more personal way than most activist works on the subject. There are no pages of statistics in Western Turf Wars, no maps or charts. There are life stories.
Western Turf Wars is a window into the lives of individuals dedicated to improving public lands management, through the medium of interviews with scientists, activists and public lands agency personnel.
Although the book focuses on grazing issues, anyone interested in the subject of reformers versus government agencies, or reformers versus the vested interests and traditions that hide behind government agencies, should find interest in reading Western Turf Wars. The interviews provide insight into the relationships between both citizen-activists and concerned government personnel, and the agencies that manage US public lands. Through the interviews, we get a sense of the relationship between the agencies and the resource users that in a de facto sense manage the agency personnel and their bosses. Western Turf Wars shows us paths of influence. It shows why the more agencies change, the more they pin up the green bunting, the more things stay the same. These insights are applicable to the politics of all resources on public lands, -sheep, lumber, gravel, recreational uses, you name it.
The interviews with now-retired agency personnel, -some retired a bit early because of their efforts to manage for the resources instead of for livestock interests, are particularly telling. It should be noted that these commentaries are likely to be relevant and useful for generations to come. The comments of out-going range managers will give new activists a lifetime of experience to draw upon, experience that will be every bit as useful twenty years from now as it was yesterday. Management, at least for the better, changes slowly on public lands.
But Western Turf Wars isn't just tales from the last of the agency curmudgeons. It also features interviews with citizen activists, who in their turn find out why the agency personnel are so slow and so few to jump on the reform bandwagon. From social and political pressure to PR front groups and in some cases to death threats, established resource users are quick to defend their interests against reformers of either the governmental or citizen stripe.
If you're going to be idealistic enough to tackle a subject like public lands resource abuse, you need to be cynical enough to know when everything presented to you by both the resource users and the managing agencies is pure cow manure. It can get downright surreal, the layers of denial. Along these lines I was particularly struck by Julian Hatch's interview. Julian lives in rural Utah. He recounts, rather starkly and unflinchingly, everything from control of local government and federal agencies by livestock interests to the shooting of his dog by a rancher, apparently in revenge for complaining about cattle being let into Hatch's vegetable patch. This one interview is worth the price of the book, and there are many good interviews.
Perhaps more than most conservation issues, the public lands grazing issue goes in and out of fashion, and then stays out of fashion. It always suffers as an issue in terms of its accessibility to the public, compared to obvious catastrophes like clear-cut forests or the impending extinction of spectacular animals. Thus the industry is easier to protect with PR structures than other resource extraction industries. Yet grazing is the dominant use of the USA's western public lands, and arguably the dominant influence on the publ= ic lands environment in terms of habitat degradation. Roughly 80 percent of federal public land in the west is grazed. Livestock have shaped the western habitat so completely that we now perceive degraded states as natural. Thus Western Turf Wars is a welcome reminder, a window into an issue to which most of us are blind.
It's a great book to browse. Opening it is like going to a public land management fiesta, of the reformist variety to be sure, and finding everyone you had hoped to talk to all under one roof. The more I look through this book, the more I am grateful that someone took the time to collect this wealth of experience and make it available to all of us. Without Hudak's efforts, the experience of all the individuals interviewed would surely have been lost.
Efforts to reign in the negative effects of the livestock industry have so far been limited in results. The tide of rangeland improvement may even be running out again in this age of agency-mandated “categorical exclusions” from environmental protections, of congressional trimming of environmental laws, of professional ranching apologists, of rising food prices, and climate change. Too few people turn their attention to this issue.
So far, as activist Steve Johnson put it while being interviewed for Western Turf Wars: “Progress has been very slow. So slow, in fact, that we can't really afford it.”
Read the book, and get inspired to reverse the decline.
Jamie Newlin lives in El Paso, Texas.
The book can be purchased NEW from the book's website (www.westernturfwars.com)
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7. Compilation of Factory Farm Videos, Films, PSAs
Thanks to JVNA advisor and activist Ron Landskroner for compiling this list and sending it to us.
Message from Ron: There you go, Richard. Throw in the various global warming videos/films and you got yourself one helluva film festival. Let me know if you'd like a list of those as well. Be advised that there is some overlap/repetition here.
http://www.mercyforanimals.org/CAEggs/
http://www.mercyforanimals.org/hor/
http://www.meatthetruth.nl/content/view/113; http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=R0PR2DXZXlM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uKhp9B2M5I
http://www.cok.net/camp/inv/auction/videos.php
https://secure2.vegsource.com/farmsanc/item.cgi?rm=edit_item&item_id=22263
http://www.nhes.org/articles/view/381
http://www.vegforlife.org/animals_resources.htm#dvd
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPJMg1GeRBc&mode=related&search
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=vegan (multiple)
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=vegetarian (multiple)
http://www.cok.net/lit/publicaccess.php
http://www.goveg.com/feat/chewonthis/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axygZ8aXSlo; http://www.petatv.com/tvpopup/video.asp?video=butterball_investigation&Player=wm">; http://www.petatv.com/tvpopup/Prefs.asp?video=butterball_investigation; http://www.goveg.com/feat/butterball/butterball.asp
http://www.onlinevideoservice.com/clients/ida/vid2.html
http://www.linktv.org/programs/knor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q10hx8nS5DA
http://www.cok.net/camp/mtv/
**http://www.goveg.com/kosher.asp
Forwarded message:
Make a Film for Farm Animals!
If you're between the ages of 18 and 26 and you're an aspiring filmmaker, we need you! Farm Sanctuary has partnered with Film Your Issue, an unprecedented “issue film” competition, to raise awareness about animal welfare issues. VIP judges, including Walter Cronkite, George Clooney and Philip Seymour Hoffman, are accepting entries on issues that matter to you! We would love nothing more than to see Farm Sanctuary members submit a film on behalf of farm animals. They need you to be their voice and we can help you make that happen! Click here for more details. http://www.farmsanctuary.org/media/media_FYI.htm
Open Letter from
George Clooney
Heathcliff Rothman, a long-time friend of Farm Sanctuary, has created an opportunity for animals' issues to be heard, by launching Film Your Issue (FYI), a competition for young filmmakers to submit 30-60 second films about issues that matter to them. MSN Spaces, MSNBC.com, USA Today, Entertainment Weekly, mtvU, the Maui Film Festival and others have joined forces with Rothman to make this competition a lasting influence on American culture. Judges include Walter Cronkite, George Clooney, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Senator Barack Obama, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Brian Williams, Amy Gross, Anderson Cooper and Gillian Sorensen.
Animal Welfare is a main category of this competition, and we hope that Farm Sanctuary members will join in this effort to bring farm animal issues front and center. These animals need you to be their voice and we can help you make that happen! Farm Sanctuary has one of the most extensive libraries of factory farming footage in existence. We are happy to provide footage for use in your issues film. Just contact media@farmsanctuary.org and let us know what images you need and that you are submitting for the Film Your Issue competition.
If you do not plan to submit a film, you can still help! Print this flyer and pass along to your friends and acquaintances. If you're a college student, please consider posting this flyer around campus to raise awareness.
Top finalists and entries will be presented at Park City, Utah, during film festival season in January 2007. Top-voted entries will be broadcast on mtvU, showcased at the Maui Film Festival, and the five filmmakers and their advisor will be flown to New York City for a reception at the United Nations Headquarters, co-hosted by USA Today.
MSN Video will host public voting. MSN Spaces will host an FYI community forum for blogging on the issues and where all entrants will create their personal profile page. Ten web-pages will also receive awards from MSN Spaces for best integration of film and new media.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hks86Xxx1ZE
http://www.wegmanscruelty.com/
http://www.veganstore.com/books-and-videos/videos/dvd:-life-behind-bars/Page_2/207.html
http://www.petatv.com/tvpopup/Prefs.asp?video=fostering_cruelty
http://www.petatv.com/tvpopup/Prefs.asp?video=fostering_cruelty
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vo2-4RnTk8k; http://technorati.com/videos/youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dvo2-4RnTk8k
http://www.undercovertv.org/WatchVideos.php
http://www.farmsanctuary.org/actionalerts/thanx/thanksgiving05_end.htm (very timely with the holidays coming up before you know it but of course the cruelty neither begins nor ends then)
http://www.petatv.com/veg.html
http://www.meat.org/
http://www.petatv.com/tvpopup/Prefs.asp?video=turkey_terrorism
http://www.petatv.com/tvpopup/Prefs.asp?video=turkey_terrorism
http://www.goveg.com/crestview.asp
http://www.petatv.com/tvpopup/video.asp?video=shirley_jones&Player=wm
http://www.spannerfilms.net/mclibel; http://www.spannerfilms.net/?lid=161
**http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1432315846377280008; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEM0T1Ar5Qo; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Size_Me
http://www.petatv.com/tvpopup/video.asp?video=fostering_cruelty&Player=wm
http://www.petatv.com/tvpopup/video.asp?video=foie_gras_long&Player=wm
http://www.goveg.com/factoryFarming.asp
http://www.chickenindustry.com/
http://www.kentuckyfriedcruelty.com/u-undercover.asp
http://www.cok.net/camp/inv/mdefi/video.php
http://www.madcowboy.com/02_VVFprods.002.html#MCD
http://www.farmsanctuary.org/mediacenter/videos.html; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v3GMv9FAPY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZpt3DfejRA; http://www.cok.net/camp/mtv/
http://www.chickenindustry.com/cfi/videogallery; http://www.chickenindustry.com/cfi/documentary/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IWN8UGDyC0; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SD3KIgjlrpE
http://www.petatv.com/tvpopup/video.asp?video=pigfarminv&Player=wm; http://www.goveg.com/belcross.asp
http://getactive.peta.org/campaign/tortured_by_tyson
http://www.petatv.com/tvpopup/video.asp?video=pilgrims_web&Player=wm&speed=_med
***http://www.vivavegie.org/vvs/rg/video.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_Run; http://www.chickenrun.co.uk/
http://www.hfa.org/photo/index.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zT2M7PkcDt0 (multiple)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylSgGXOkQhg
http://www.all-creatures.org/book/r-cowtable.html; ; http://thevegetariansite.com/cgi-bin/miva?Merchant2/merchant.mv+Screen=PROD&Store_Code=S&Product_Code=A+Cow+At+My+Table&Category_Code=videos
http://www.shoppbs.org/product/index.jsp?productId=1428832
http://www.animalplace.org/apvideo.html (Have visited Animal Place a number of times; wonderful people; they will soon be moving into a much larger facility; I'd definitely would recommend making contact with Kim Sturla, one of the co-founders)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthlings_ (documentary); http://www.earthlings.com/
http://www.renewalproject.net/
http://www.sustainabletablemovie.com/home.html (more an overview about sustainable ag/sustainable eating/food system but definitely related)
http://www.theanimalsfilm.com/
http://www.thegreatwarming.com/ (focus on global warming but, also, very much connected to the issue of factory farms)
http://www.hsus.org/farm/multimedia/
http://www.themeatrix.com/
http://www.hfa.org/photo/video_gallery.html
http://technorati.com/videos/tag/factory+farm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g2rUeeyBuU
http://video.yahoo.com/watch/1660746/5602565
http://www.farmsanctuary.org/actionalerts/Dairy/Dairy_expose.html
http://www.cowsunite.org/
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8. Multifaceted Crises Threaten Poorer Nations
Food, Fuel and Water Crises Converging
http://www.truthout.org/article/food-fuel-and-water-crises-converging
Thalif Deen, Inter Press Service: "A spectre is haunting the cities and villages of most developing nations, warns a senior official of a World Bank-affiliated organisation. 'It's the spectre of a food, fuel and water crisis,' says Lars Thunell, executive vice president of the Washington-based International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank group. 'I believe we are at a tipping point,' he said, because the scarcity of water poses a threat to the food supply just when the agricultural sector is stepping up production in response to riots over food prices, growing hunger, and rising malnutrition."
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9. National Public Radio Airs Programs Re Agriprocessors
NPR debate.
Faith Matters
Kosher Slaughterhouse Raises Ethical Dilemma
Listen Now [17 min 29 sec] add to playlist
Tell Me More, August 8, 2008 · A recent immigration raid targeting the nation's largest kosher meatpacking plant exposed dangerous and brutal working conditions there. That's left many questioning whether meat handled by an abused workforce can ever be considered kosher. Rabbi Menachem Genack, of the Orthodox Union's Kosher Division, and Rabbi Shmuel Herzfeld of the National Synagogue, discuss the debate sparked by the questionable processing of kosher food.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93411669
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An Overview of the Situation at Agriprocessors
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93807894
Thanks to Rina deych for forwarding this information:
They interviewed the head of Hechsher Tzedek.
Message from Rina: I wrote them that they should have interviewed you and should next time, plus about the vegetarian issues. He was the alternative option, but the alternative option of vegetarianism wasn't mentioned. Outrageous.
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10. Petition to Halt Animal Experiments at the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot, Israel
Forwarded message:
Cease Animal Experimentation at Weizmann Institute
From: Michal
http://www.petitiononline.com/WZMN/petition.html
Must be signed by as many people as possible, from every single corner of the globe, regardless of nation, politics or race, because we are all created from One Fabric of Humanity and because what transpires in Israel - ripples out to the entire world.
Be a Light. Sign.
Let's get the message to where it needs to be going and start becoming a saner nation.
http://www.petitiononline.com/WZMN/petition.html
* help and pass on, thanks ***
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11. Meat Consumption Continues to Rise
More Meat
David Groth/flickr
Global meat production is once again on the rise, with total production expected to top 280 million tons in 2008 and 465 million tons by the year 2050, = according to the latest Vital Signs Update. Trends show that rising food costs are driving the expansion of cheaper meats, like chicken, which experienced a 4 percent increase in 2007-roughly twice the growth rate of pork and beef.
Read: Vital Signs Update: Meat Production Continues to Rise
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Meat Production Continues to Rise
by Brian Halweil | August 20, 2008
http://www.worldwatch.org/node/5443?emc=el&m=136135&l=5&v=46f8229e94
In 2007, meat production remained steady at an estimated 275 million tons; in 2008, output is expected to top 280 million tons.1 (See Figure 1.) Experts predict that by 2050 nearly twice as much meat will be produced as today, for a projected total of more than 465 million tons.2 For more than a decade, the strongest increases in production have been in the developing world-in 1995 more meat and dairy products were produced in developing than in industrial countries for the first time, and this trend has continued ever since.3 In fact, in 2007 at least 60 percent of meat was produced in developing nations.4
Consumption of meat and other animal pro-ducts also continues to grow. Currently nearly 42 kilograms of meat is produced per person worldwide, but meat consumption varies greatly by region and socioeconomic status.5 In the developing world, people eat about 30 kilograms of meat a year.6 But consumers in the industrial world eat more than 80 kilograms per person each year.7 (See Figure 2.)
Rising food prices are pushing consumers to choose cheaper cuts of meat, like chicken. (See Figure 3.) Global poultry output in 2007 was expected to reach 93 million tons, a 4-percent increase from the previous year.8 The United States is the biggest poultry producer, but other major producers, including Argentina, Brazil, China, the Philippines, and Thailand, are all expecting increases in production. India, however, is likely to have lower poultry production because of the spread of the H5N1 avian flu virus and the culling of millions of chickens.9
Pig meat production in 2007 was expected to rise nearly 2 percent, to 101 million tons.10 It declined the previous year as a result of Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Disease in China and the massive culling of at least 1 million pigs.11 China, however, continues to be the world's largest producer = of pig meat, although production is expanding in South America. Argentina, Brazil, and Chile are all increasing pig production, thanks to ample supplies of feed.12
Beef output rose by 2.3 percent, with nearly 67 million tons produced in 2007.13 The United States is still the world's largest beef producer, but 56 percent of production now takes place in the developing world.14 China's beef production is expected to grow by 3 percent in 2008, and despite traditional religious beliefs about the sacredness of cows, India, along with Pakistan, is responding to growing consumer demand for more-western diets by increasing beef produc-tion and slaughter.15
Much of the growing demand for animal products worldwide is being met by concen-trated animal feeding operations, or factory farms.16 Worldwide, some 56 billion animals are raised and slaughtered for food each year.17 Factory farms account for 67 percent of poultry meat production, 50 percent of egg production, and 42 percent of pork production.18 These facilities rely on commercial breeds of livestock, usually pigs and chickens, that have been bred to gain weight quickly on high-protein feeds. Factory farms are also very crowded, confining animals closely together-many of the world's 17 billion hens and meat chickens each live in an area that is less than the size of a sheet of paper.19 Cattle in feedlots often stand knee-high in manure and arrive at slaughterhouses covered in feces.20
In addition, such operations are increasingly located in or near cities in the developing world, making urban areas the center of industrial meat production in some countries. And while city dwellers have kept livestock privately for centuries to help dispose of some urban waste, as well as a source of income and food, large industrial operations can create a host of environmental and public health problems. According to the World Bank, the "extraordin-ary proximate concentration of people and livestock poses probably one of the most serious environmental and public health challenges for the coming decades."21 Diseases such as avian flu, pig fever, and Nipah virus can all spread very quickly among animals living in confined animal feeding operations because of the crowded and filthy conditions. BSE, or mad cow disease, was= likely the result of feeding cattle the ground-up bits of other ruminants.22 And the use of antibiotics in factory farming is leading to antibiotic resistance.23 In the United States, livestock now consume 70 percent of all antimicrobial drugs.24
Livestock are also responsible for 18 percent of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, as meas-ured in carbon dioxide equivalent, which is higher than the share of GHG emissions from transpor-tation.25 They produce 37 percent of methane, which has more than 20 times the global warming potential of carbon dioxide, and they emit 65 percent of nitrous oxide, another powerful GHG, most of which comes from manure.26
Another environmental problem is water use: livestock operations are major water users and polluters. The irrigation of feed crops for cattle accounts for nearly 8 percent of global human water use.27 The large amount of waste pro-duced on factory farms exceeds the capacity of nearby cropland to absorb it. As a result, manure goes from being a valuable agricultural resource to what is essentially toxic waste. Nitrates, heavy metals, and antibiotics present in manure can seep into groundwater and pollute surface water, threatening public health.28
One way to prevent some of these problems is to discourage large producers from keeping animals in or near cities. A combination of zoning and land use regulations, taxes, incentives, and infrastructure development can encourage them to raise animals closer to croplands, where manure can be used as fertilizer and where there is less risk of disease transmission to people. Controlling land and livestock nutrient imbalances means raising livestock in areas that have enough land to handle the waste from large operations. Thailand= , for example, has levied high taxes on poultry production within a 100-kilometer radius of Bangkok.29 As a result, over the last decade poultry production near Bang-kok has dropped significantly.30
Consumers will need to rethink the place of meat and other animal products in their diets to promote better human and environmental health. A recent article, for example, in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition notes that "vegetarian and vegan diets could play an important role in preserving environmental resources and in reducing hunger and malnutrition in poorer nations."31 And the authors of a September 2007 article in the highly respected medical journal The Lancet recommended that people in the industrial world eat 10 percent less meat as a way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions as well as improve human health: "The unprecedented serious challenge posed by climate change necessitates radical responses... For the world's higher-income populations, greenhouse-gas emissions from meat-eating warrant the same scrutiny as do those from driving and flying."32
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12. Marketing on the Internet
Thanks to author, editor, publisher, speaker, activist and JVNA advisor Roberta Kalechofsky for sending us this message:
]Please conside using this information to help promote Jewish vegetarianism. Thanks.]
I just attended a webinar on how to market on the internet. The woman who conducted it said you can make a 50 second video for YouTube--or other--similar outlets---for $200. They go up to $2500, depending on how complicated the video gets---but you should be able to make one for about a minute for a few hundred dollars. But it takes a lot of practice to get a message down to about minute.
The website of experts on how to market on internet is www.amarketingexpert.com.
Go to this website for many interesting ideas on how to market on the internet.
Check it out for names of video makers and how to get sites to host the video for free. One such site is squidoo
Also, there are lots of little magazines on the internet, called ezines. Articles should be about 500 words
Check out www.amarketingexpert.com for more ideas---most of which are free.
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13. NY Times Article Re Agriprocessors
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/23/us/23kosher.html?_r=1&ref=us&oref=slogin
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14. NASA Seeks Proposals for Global Climate Change Education Project
[Perhaps one or more people on this list might be interested in submitting a proposal relating animal-based agriculture to global warming and other environmental threats. Thanks.]
Deadline: August 29, 2008 (Notice of Intent)
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration Office of Edu- cation ( http://education.nasa.gov/home/index.html), in cooper- ation with NASA's Science Mission Directorate, is soliciting proposals for the NASA Global Climate Change Education project.
The GCCE project is designed to improve the quality of global climate change and Earth system science education at the elemen- tary, secondary, and undergraduate levels.
Each funded proposal is expected to take advantage of NASA's unique contributions in climate science to enhance students' academic experiences and/or to improve educators' abilities to engage and stimulate their students.
The GCCE project considers proposals in three funding categories. Proposals are invited in the following categories:
* efforts to improve K-12 teacher competency for global climate change edu- cation;
* efforts that strengthen the teaching and learning about global climate change within formal education systems;
* and/or efforts that provide opportunities for undergraduate students, pre-service teachers, and/or in-service teachers to actively engage in global climate change science research.
It is anticipated that approximately twenty small awards and four larger awards will be made through this RFP.
Small awards may be up to $150,000, in total, dispersed over a period of up to two years.
Larger awards may be up to $500,000, in total, dispersed over a period of up to three years.
Proposals will only be accepted from educational institutions or other nonprofit organizations pursuant to the authority of the NASA Grant and Cooperative Agreement Handbook Section 1260.12(c)(2).
NASA Centers, Federal Agencies, Federally Funded Research and Development Ce= nters, education-related companies, and other institutions may apply through partnership with the lead organization.
See the NASA Office of Education Web site for further information on this and other education funding opportunities. RFP Link:
http://fconline.foundationcenter.org/pnd/15014576/nasaedu For additional RFPs in Education, visit:
http://foundationcenter.org/pnd/rfp/cat_education.jhtml
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15. World Farm Animal Day and World Animal Day Events Being Planned
[Please consider scheduling events around these two occasions. Thanks.]
Forwarded message:
WORLD ANIMAL DAY
14 Hewlett Road, Cheltenham,
Gloucestershire GL52 6AA ENGLAND
Telephone: +44 (0)1242 252871
Email: info@worldanimalday.org.uk
Website: www.worldanimalday.org.uk
WORLD ANIMAL DAY - 4 OCTOBER 2008 - BE PART OF SOMETHING SPECIAL
Show the Animals you Care & Help Make World Animal Day 2008
the Biggest and Best Yet!
Dear Ron, [Message initially sent to JVNA advisor Ron Landskroner, who we that for forwarding this message to us.]
My email today is to follow up your confirmation that you will helping to unite the animal welfare movement throughout the world by participating in World Animal Day celebrations this year. We are keen to enter your event in the online Diary as this listing facility provides free publicity to any group or individual who is doing something special connected with animals on or around 4 October and effectively serves to motivate others to get involved. Events must take place within 2 weeks either side of 4th October and be advertised as a 'World Animal Day' event.
The free publicity doesn't end with the Online Event Listing. Once your event has taken place, all you need to do is send us a short report about it, with photographs, and we will show the world what you have achieved in the 'Roundup of World Animal Day Events 2008'.
www.worldanimalday.org.uk
The aim of the World Animal Day website is to encourage everybody interested in animals throughout the world to use this day to commemorate their love and respect for animals and celebrate our special relationship with the animal kingdom. Since the website was launched in 2003, the number of events taking place throughout the world to heighten public awareness of animal issues has increased year upon year.
The 'Get Involved' section of the website includes plenty of ideas and everything needed to organise a successful World Animal Day event. Many of the ideas are relatively easy to organise, however, for those who want to be more adventurous, there are also ideas that require a little more time and effort - but with some keen helpers on board anything is possible - the sky's the limit!
We are sure you will agree that building the World Animal Day initiative is a wonderful way to unite the animal welfare movement and it's something that everyone can join in with whether they are part of an organisation, group, or as an individual.
World Animal Day 2007
In celebration of World Animal Day last year, events took place in Africa (Tanzania, Morocco, Congo, Kenya, Cameroon, South Africa), Asia (Sri Lanka, Syria, Philippines, Nepal, India, Cambodia, Jordan, Singapore, China, Malaysia, Pakistan, Armenia), South America (Mexico, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Bolivia, Honduras, Peru, Grenada, Puerto Rico), Europe (Ireland, France, Holland, Italy, Ukraine, Lithuania, Cyprus, Romania, Russia, Greece, Serbia, Bulgaria, Malta), New Zealand and throughout Australia, United Kingdom and USA.
Be inspired - for more information about the events that took place in 2007 and to see some images, please visit the website roundup pages. Simply click on the link at the end of this paragraph which will take you to the World Events Overview page and from here you can click on links to Africa, Asia, Australia & NZ, Europe, South America, UK and USA. http://www.worldanimalday.org.uk/2007/EventReports/2007_overview.asp
World Animal Day Ambassadors
In February we launched the World Animal Day Ambassador project and have already appointed 36 highly motivated individuals who are passionate about animals and their welfare, and committed to encouraging support for the World Animal Day initiative in their own countries. Some of the recently appointed Ambassadors read about this successful project on the website and then contacted us offering their services as they could see the huge potential of this wonderful initiative. We aim to appoint an Ambassador in each country to help World Animal Day achieve its goal for the animals: to unite the animal welfare movement throughout the world at this special time and become a powerful central platform from which to embrace all animals and highlight the unique concerns of each, in every country.
History of World Animal Day
You may be aware that World Animal Day was started in 1931 at a convention of ecologists in Florence as a way of highlighting the plight of endangered species. Since then it has grown to encompass all kinds of animal life and is widely celebrated in countries throughout the world. October 4 was chosen as World Animal Day as it is the Feast Day of St Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of animals.
It is intended as a day of celebration for anyone in the world who cares about animals and welcomes all nationalities, creeds, religions, political beliefs and ideologies.
Get Involved - Be Part of Something Special
As you either work for an animal-related organisation or are a committed individual who cares deeply about animals, we are calling on you to help unite the animal welfare movement - building the 'World Animal Day' initiative is a major opportunity to do just that!
Please help raise awareness of World Animal Day by providing this information to anyone you know who might be interested in getting involved. You can also help by including information in a newsletter and / or by creating a website link. (Full instructions for a number of different styles of weblink are available in the 'Resources' section of the website where you will also find the World Animal Day Logo in various formats.)
I'd like to highlight the fact that World Animal Day is not linked to any on= e individual, organisation or campaign, but belongs to everyone. Interest in participating in World Animal Day celebrations is growing rapidly and presents everyone who cares about animals with a wonderful opportunity to be seen standing united with animal welfarists throughout the world in order to heighten public awareness of animal issues - an opportunity far too good to miss!
World Animal Day is the only day of the year designated to all the wonderful creatures with whom we share this earth. If you truly care about animals then you have a duty to get involved - the animals can't speak for themselves so we must shout loudly on their behalf. If you don't do anything who will?
We look forward to hearing from you very soon.
!! BE PART OF SOMETHING SPECIAL - GET INVOLVED
CELEBRATE WORLD ANIMAL DAY 2008 !!
Kind regards
As you either work for an animal-related organisation or are a committed individual who cares deeply about animals, we are calling on you to help unite the animal welfare movement - building the 'World Animal Day' initiative is a major opportunity to do just that!
Please help raise awareness of World Animal Day by providing this information to anyone you know who might be interested in getting involved. You can also help by including information in a newsletter and / or by creating a website link. (Full instructions for a number of different styles of weblink are available in the 'Resources' section of the website where you will also find the World Animal Day Logo in various formats.)
I'd like to highlight the fact that World Animal Day is not linked to any on= e individual, organisation or campaign, but belongs to everyone. Interest in participating in World Animal Day celebrations is growing rapidly and presents everyone who cares about animals with a wonderful opportunity to be seen standing united with animal welfarists throughout the world in order to heighten public awareness of animal issues - an opportunity far too good to miss!
World Animal Day is the only day of the year designated to all the wonderful creatures with whom we share this earth. If you truly care about animals then you have a duty to get involved - the animals can't speak for themselves so we must shout loudly on their behalf. If you don't do anything who will?
We look forward to hearing from you very soon.
!! BE PART OF SOMETHING SPECIAL - GET INVOLVED
CELEBRATE WORLD ANIMAL DAY 2008 !!
Kind regards
As you either work for an animal-related organisation or are a committed individual who cares deeply about animals, we are calling on you to help unite the animal welfare movement - building the 'World Animal Day' initiative is a major opportunity to do just that!
Please help raise awareness of World Animal Day by providing this information to anyone you know who might be interested in getting involved. You can also help by including information in a newsletter and / or by creating a website link. (Full instructions for a number of different styles of weblink are available in the 'Resources' section of the website where you will also find the World Animal Day Logo in various formats.)
I'd like to highlight the fact that World Animal Day is not linked to any on= e individual, organisation or campaign, but belongs to everyone. Interest in participating in World Animal Day celebrations is growing rapidly and presents everyone who cares about animals with a wonderful opportunity to be seen standing united with animal welfarists throughout the world in order to heighten public awareness of animal issues - an opportunity far too good to miss!
World Animal Day is the only day of the year designated to all the wonderful creatures with whom we share this earth. If you truly care about animals then you have a duty to get involved - the animals can't speak for themselves so we must shout loudly on their behalf. If you don't do anything who will?
We look forward to hearing from you very soon.
!! BE PART OF SOMETHING SPECIAL - GET INVOLVED
CELEBRATE WORLD ANIMAL DAY 2008 !!
Kind regards
Caroline Barker
Project Manager, World Animal Day
Tel: +44 (0)1242 252871
A celebration of animals and their contribution to our lives
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16. Update From Green Course, Israel's University-based Environmental Group
On July 22nd, after three years in the making, the Knesset passed Israel's Clean Air Act, with 39 MKs voting in favor of it and none objecting.
The Clean Air Act, for the first time in Israel, will oblige the Ministry of Environment to create a national plan to reduce air pollution, both from industry and transportation; the new law will also determine the exact authorizations and scope of responsibility for enforcement and punishment and will allow civil enforcement.
Throughout the last year, Green Course held major events and activities to raise the issue to public awareness through the media, to create public pressure and to influence decision makers. These include clean air parades, and protests with hundreds of participating volunteers and citizens.
Noteworthy was the media coverage of the Clean Air Act vote following the pa= rade as the public became increasingly aware of it.
Key to the success of this campaign has been the continuous effort made by volunteers on all Green Course campuses.
Green Course volunteers, in coordination with the Coalition for Public Health and other environmental organizations, facilitated public demonstrations and protests in northern Israel and at the Knesset in order to promote the Polluter Pays Act. In addition Green Course actively lobbied for the law to pass in the Knesset's Committee for the Environment.
After much work, on the 29th of July the Knesset passed the law; according to the law, it will no longer be more economically feasible for companies to pollute than to treat and prevent pollution.
The Polluter Pays Law was proposed by MKs Dov Henin (Hadash) and Michael Melchior (Labor-Meimad). It doubles the fines on 13 environmental violations already on the books, such as the one that prohibits polluting the sea. Fines of up to NIS 2.4 million can now be leveled, as well as prison sentences of up to three years. What's more, companies can now be fined before the end of criminal proceedings against them.
Green Course would like to thank the many volunteers that took part in the activities that led to these achievements. We would like send a special thank you to the Beracha Fund, the Tal Fund, the First Narayever Congregation and the Green Environment Fund for supporting our above work and enabling us to promote a healthier environment in Israel.
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