05/08/2011 JVNA Online Newsletter

Shalom everyone,

This update/Jewish Vegetarians of North America (JVNA) Online Newsletter has the following items:

1. Shavuot and Vegetarianism

2. Very Comprehensive Collection of Facts and Concepts on Vegetarianism and the Environment and on Climate Change

3. Diet for a Low-carbon Planet

4. Annual World Vegetarian Week Scheduled/My Suggested Themes

5. A Call to Progressives to Embrace a Wider Ethic That Includes Animals

6. Review of New Edition of Prisoned Chickens, Poisoned Eggs

7. JVNA Advisor’s Son Seeking Wife

8. Article in the Jewish Forward About Kosher Slaughter by Temple Grandin

9. Article Re a Vegan Returning to Eating Meat in the Forward/My Posting

10. Message From Leaders of 350.org, a Group Dedicated to Getting CO2 Levels Below 350 ppm From Its Present Level of 390 ppm.

11. Veggie Pride Parade Update/JVNA Volunteers Needed

12. Papers On Veg-Related Issues Called For

13. Anti-Fur Society Schedules Conference

14. Nice Reading of the Classic Children’s Story, “The Lorax,” by Dr. Seuss, Showing the Book’s Pictures

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. Shavuot and Vegetarianism

Now that we are counting the days to Shavuot and it is about a month away, I am planning to soon send my article, “Shavuot and Vegetarianism” to the Jewish media. The article can be found in the holidays section at JewishVeg.com/Schwartz. Suggestions very welcome about the article and about ways to use its messages and other Shavuot-related concepts to help promote vegetarianism.

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2. Very Comprehensive Collection of Facts and Concepts on Vegetarianism and the Environment and on Climate Change

Forwarded message from European Vegetarian activist Renato Pichler:

I've collected all environmental facts in this article:

http://www.vegetarismus.ch/info/eoeko.htm

(It is available as a brochure in different languages)

Collection of facts about climate change:

http://www.vegetarismus.ch/klimaschutz/index_en.htm

But we should work with pictures.

Two examples of diagrams (we made is as posters and small cards):

Climate:

http://www.vegetarismus.ch/km/index_en.htm

(Available in 7 languages)

Water:

http://www.vegetarismus.ch/wasser/images/water.pdf

http://www.vegetarismus.ch/wasser/index_en.php

(in 6 languages, yet)

www.vegetarismus.ch - www.v-label.info

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3. Diet for a Low-carbon Planet

Article by Alan Miller on Tue, 05/03/2011

http://blogs.worldbank.org/climatechange/diet-low-carbon-planet

Most of the proposed solutions to climate change such as substitution of fossil fuels require large investments, policies that are politically contentious or difficult to enforce, and years to fully implement. However, some of the most effective and lowest cost opportunities for greenhouse gas (GHG) reductions are lifestyle choices that can be made today that cost little, and that are actually good for us. Chief among them is the decision to adopt a healthier, less meat intensive diet.

The significance of this opportunity was emphasized in a recent presentation at the World Bank by Jonathan Foley, director of the University of Minnesota Institute on the Environment. According to analysis by the Institute, every pound of meat is equivalent to about 30 pounds of grain production in its contribution to climate change when allowance is made for the full life cycle of livestock production. This is primarily because methane emissions from ruminants have a GHG impact roughly 25 times that of carbon dioxide.

Another expression of the resource intensity of meat production, Foley explained, is that even highly efficient agricultural systems like that in the US only deliver about the same calories per hectare in human consumption terms as poor African countries with more grain based diets. The surprisingly large role of livestock in global warming was explored in a 2009 article by Robert Goodland, formerly a World Bank economist, and Jeff Anhang, an IFC environmental specialist. They estimate that when land use and respiration are taken into account and methane effects are properly calculated, livestock could account for half of current warming when using a 20-year time frame. According to Goodland and Anhang, replacing 25% of livestock products with alternatives would liberate as much as 40% of current world grain production with comparable benefits in reduced burdens on land, water, and other resources.

We are increasingly learning about the risks that climate change present to agricultural production, which are very real and increasingly discussed as reflected in a World Bank paper on food security prepared for the recent Spring meetings of the World Bank and IMF titled Responding to Global Food Price Volatility and its Impact on Food Security. Rising temperatures, fires, and drought have already contributed to rapidly rising global grain prices and projections are for much more severe impacts, particularly in Africa, by mid-century. Fortunately, there are significant opportunities for improving agricultural productivity with existing techniques. Because current yields are so low in many parts of the world, the potential for improvement – even allowing for some losses due to climate change – is significant. Research is also being directed toward still more climate resilient seeds and agricultural methods through major initiatives such as that underway at the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR).

While improving agricultural productivity and transforming the global energy system are both possible and perhaps even likely, both will take time, major investments, and coordinated international effort. In contrast, modest changes in diet require no major change in technology or capital investment and would immediately contribute to public health and lower medical costs (read New York Times article on the same subject here).

Despite these multiple benefits, promoting healthy and environmentally sustainable diets won’t necessarily be easy. Unless it takes hold in more affluent countries, it will be virtually impossible to urge on rapidly growing developing countries. People don’t like being told what to eat (as IPCC Chairman Rajendra Pachauri quickly found when he began promoting this message and several prominent UK leaders reacted strongly against it). On the other hand, the public needs to be given information in order to make informed choices.

Relative to almost any other means of addressing climate change, making modest changes in diet is a clear winner that merits much attention and support.

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4. Annual World Vegetarian Week Scheduled/My Suggested Themes

My suggestions for the week are below:

I respectfully suggest that the theme this year should be that a major shift toward vegan diets is essential to avoid an unprecedented climate catastrophe and many other serious threats to humanity.

I suggest that we spell out that the world is increasing facing climate, environmental, hunger, water, and energy crises, and to point how much animal-based agriculture is contributing to these crises, and how vegan diets can help alleviate them.

We could prepare fact sheets on these and other issues and urge veg, AR, environmental, hunger, and other groups to help spread the messages.

I would try to help get many groups behind such a campaign.

All the best,

Richard

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My suggestions received strong support.

I plan to submit an article spelling out the issues for the group’s approval.

Suggestions welcome. Thanks.

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5. A Call to Progressives to Embrace a Wider Ethic That Includes Animals

http://www.care2.com/causes/animal-welfare/blog/a-call-to-progressives-to-embrace-a-wider/

Thanks to Dan Brook, author, educator, and JVNA advisor, for this insightful message.

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6. Review of New Edition of Prisoned Chickens, Poisoned Eggs

3 May 2011

Journal of Animal Ethics 2011 Review of Prisoned Chickens, Poisoned Eggs

Prisoned Chickens, Poisoned Eggs: An Inside Look at the Modern Poultry Industry, Revised Edition. By Karen Davis. (Summertown, TN: Book Publishing Company, 2009. 209+xiv pp. Paperback. $14.95. ISBN: 978-1-57067-229-3.)

Reviewed by Les Mitchell 
Hunterstoun Centre, University of Fort Hare, South Africa

This is a book for anyone who needs a detailed overview of the farmed chicken industry and who seeks to understand the philosophy that guides its practices. Karen Davis writes as an activist for chickens and other birds used in farming and is the director and founder of United Poultry Concerns. She dedicates her writing to “the chicken” but especially to Viva, a “crippled and abandoned ‘broiler’ hen” who, she tells us, deflected her from making a lifelong career as an English teacher to becoming an activist and writer (p. xiii). The first edition, she explains, was written to bring to light a story that has been told largely through the channels of the poultry industry, and this is the story of the transformation of the chicken from an active outdoor bird, “scouring the woods and fields to a sedentary indoor meat-and-egg ‘machine,’ filled with suffering, diseases and antibiotics” (p. v).

For the most part she tells the story of the life and death of chickens used in farming by using industry references and direct quotes from industry publications, which she contrasts with the words of activists. The author’s own voice seldom intrudes, but when it does, it is to make a reasoned comment or pose a pertinent question.

The early part of the book sets out to tell us about who chickens are. Not surprisingly, I found there was a lot I did not know, and I learned much about their natural history, personalities, and behavior in their natural state, reproduction, family life, and special abilities. This was an enjoyable section to read, although it was also sobering and rather depressing to find out that chicken farming is not new and that as long as 4,000 years ago, Egyptians were using chickens in farming on a large scale and even building fire-heated incubators that could hatch 10,000 birds at a time.

But the section on who chickens are is not just a pleasant segment in a dark book; it is critically important to everything that follows. Here we fleetingly rediscover the free bird of the ancient forests, a sentient, complex, social being rather than the object of cartoon fun, a fast-food item, or a living commodity. It is with this conception of chickens as sentient beings who have “interests in life” (Regan, 1988) in mind that we are invited to evaluate what follows. The remainder of the book deals with chickens through the eyes of an industry where the chicken is socially constructed as machine and commodity, where chickens are crammed together, starved, gathered up, minced, gassed, debeaked, clipped, and whatever else might lead to the maximum profit in the minimum time.

Davis documents industry practices with clear, concise, scientific language, well supported by references, and provides the economic justifications and descriptions used by the industry. We learn about such things as transportation; housing; trade-offs between death rates, disease, and profit; calculations of pounds of flesh per square foot; ammonia concentrations; a whole range of farmed chicken disorders; stunning; slaughter; and the disposal of corpses. Descriptions are meticulous; for example, the section on killing explores the advantages and disadvantages of neck cutting (various types), the vacuum chamber, and gassing with carbon dioxide or argon or nitrogen; discusses the problems of using carbon monoxide; and also mentions suffocation and chopping by high-speed blades.

The book is a chilling journey into an often surreal and at times frankly bizarre world. The landscape of Marek’s disease, ammonia blisters, Gumboro, swollen head syndrome, animals grown too heavy for their skeletons, chicken rage, live hang rooms, the gigantic mechanized bird harvester, the national Chicken of Tomorrow program, and the Nozbonz1 is brought vividly to life. This world, we are also reminded, is populated not only by profit-driven multinational agro corporations but also by pharmaceutical companies, government departments, research institutes, and universities.

The text tells us a great deal about the chicken industry, and what we read is deeply disturbing and a moral challenge that is sufficient enough in itself. However, we may also reflect on what it tells us about our own species and will find here abundant and depressing evidence of our human ability to objectify living others and of our capacity to be held utterly in the thrall of a particular ideology. It is a frightening demonstration of complete moral disengagement and objectification (Bandura, 1999).

Toward the end of the book, we look to the future with the hope that apparently more enlightened practices in the industry, such as free-range farming, might offer some respite. Sadly, these often turn out to be false dawns, and research now is moving toward altering the bird to fit the industry rather than the other way around. Experiments with red contact lenses, blind chickens, birds without feathers, and chicks with wings clipped off confirm that it is, for the most part, business as usual.

A question that might be asked is, does the position of the author as an activist make the book any less valid than a so-called academic text on the subject? My answer to that would be no. The book is well referenced using industry and other journals, and there is never any pretence by Davis that she is other than an activist. Universities, research institutes, and government departments have their own agendas, as do the individuals who work for them, and to pretend otherwise would be simplistic. At least in this text the agenda is stated openly.

This is a “one stop” book on the chicken farming industry, detailed enough for most of us and with good leads for those brave individuals who wish to delve further. A great strength of the book is its accessibility; it is clear, well written, and often broken into relatively small blocks. It is also a rich source of texts for those interested in analyzing linguistic constructions and discourses related to nonhuman farming, mass violence, and capitalism.

Note
1. A piece of plastic pushed through the nasal septum of male birds to prevent them from eating the food of female breeding hens.

References

Bandura, A. (1999). Moral disengagement in the perpetration of inhumanities. Personality & Social Psychology Review, 3(3), 193.

Regan, T. (1988). The case for animal rights (2nd ed.). London, England: Routledge.

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7. JVNA Advisor’s Son Seeking Wife

Forwarded message from Dean Kimmel:

To Jewish vegetarian/vegan women of childbearing age who'd like to marry:

From Dean

I welcome correspondence with you as we Veggies are a minority of a minority! I'm grateful to Dr. Richard Schwartz, JVNA president, who knows my family for many years.

I was born at home, nurtured on Mother's milk, the third of my parents' four children. I was happy to be taught much by my parents by home schooling. My mother is a Columbia U. grad. She and Dad will be married fifty years June 29th. I was raised Orthodox Jewish vegetarian from birth, and evolved from vegetarian to vegan.

In my teens I collected first edition comic books, later semi-rare coins, and more recently, investment grade corporate shares of stock. In each case too many people were acquiring the items. They had the same smart idea! Then the speculators came.

I'm a Levi, happily participating in synagogue celebrations.

I love to select my vegetables and fruit. My "high" feeling of well-being comes from vegetables and fruit I eat. I learned physiology and why the Creator made us as we are. I became skilled with the hands, too. Carpentry, concrete work, doors, windows, landscaping, and roofing. Very practical.

I became a real estate salesman, and evolved into real estate broker.

I'm a six-footer, never married, and am 44 and therefore most interested in meeting women 25 to 45. Why not write? Tell me about yourself. I prefer regular U.S. mail for a beginning. Please include my apartment number, above. My email address is ak08129@gmail.

Dean

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8. Article in the Jewish Forward About Kosher Slaughter by Temple Grandin

http://forward.com/articles/137318/

As in most cases, Ms. Grandin ignores the many negative health, environmental, and other effects of animal –based deist. Her focus is on minimizing pain related to slaughter. She is critical of shackling and hoisting, which is still common ofr animals slaughtered in South America.

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9. Article Re a Vegan Returning to Eating Meat in the Forward/My Posting

http://www.forward.com/articles/137484/

Please consider sending comments for posting at the website. Thanks.

My comments posted after the article:

As president of Jewish Vegetarians of North America, I commend Leah Koenig for her concern for how chickens are raised and for only eating chickens that have been raised humanely. However, the vast majority of the 9 billion chickens slaughtered annually in the US and other animals raised for food are treated very cruelly on factory farms.

As a writer on Jewish food issues, Ms. Koenig could do a great public service by discussing the following:

· Animal-based diets and agriculture are inconsistent with basic Jewish mandates to protect human health, treat animals with compassion, protect the environment, conserve natural resources, and help hungry people.

· There are many healthy, nutritious, delicious, kosher substitutes for chicken and other animal products.

· At a time when the world is rapidly approaching an unprecedented climate catastrophe, animal-based agriculture is a major contributor to global warming/scorching.

· At a time when almost a billion of the world’s people are chronically hungry, 70% of the grain produced in the US is fed to animals destined for slaughter.

· At a time when many areas are facing major water scarcities, an animal-based diet requires up to 14 times as much water, mostly for irrigation for feed crops, than a vegan diet.

· Animal-based diets have been strongly linked to heart disease, various types of cancer, and other chronic, degenerative diseases.

For more information on the points above, please visit JewishVeg.com/Schwartz, where I have about 140 articles, 25 podcasts, and the complete text of my book Judaism and Vegetarianism. Also, please visit aSacredDuty.com to see our acclaimed documentary “A Sacred Duty: Applying Jewish Values to Help Heal the World.”

My second post:

The issues related to our diets and the production of food are so critical to the future of our imperiled planet that I invite rabbis and other Jewish scholars to engage with me in a public, respectful dialog/debate on "Should Jews be Vegans?" It could be done through email with mutually agreed on rules. If interested, please contact me at president@JewishVeg.com.

I also hope that the Forward will investigate and report on the many moral issues related to our diets.

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I submitted additional posts that were accepted, as did other JVNA activists, at my request.

Thanks.

Read more: http://www.forward.com/articles/137484/#ixzz1LTjHt7zh

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10. Message From Leaders of 350.org, a Group Dedicated to Getting CO2 Levels Below 350 ppm From Its Present Level of 390 ppm.

Friends,

We knew Moving Planet [a campaign to get people out of cars and onto bicycles] would move--we just didn’t know how fast.

It feels like it’s going 82.8 miles per hour (which happens to be the fastest speed ever recorded on a bicycle). In the week since we launched this global day of action, we’ve already heard from hundreds of organizers in every corner of the planet who are making plans for September 24.

Wherever you happen to be, you can help build momentum for this big day to move beyond fossil fuels:


www.moving-planet.org

A few previews from organizers around the world:

In Wellington, New Zealand, parades will converge from every point of the compass onto the city’s waterfront--some will be bike parades, others will feature roller-skaters or kayakers or boaters or swimmers. And they’ll all be moving together with their demands for real renewable energy solutions.


Sao Paolo, in Brazil, is planning a huge bike action that takes over the streets. That city is so crowded with cars that it holds the dubious distinction of having more helicopters than any place on earth--that’s how the rich get around. On the big day, thousands of regular folks will converge on the Minhocao thoroughfare, a giant road notorious for having been built without a bike lane or sidewalk, preventing cyclists and pedestrians from getting around. But not on Sept 24!

In Papua New Guinea, the “moving” will be from the larger villages inland into the forest in a “symbolic gesture to hold on to the forest for future generations.” Our friends at the Center for Environmental Law and Community Rights are taking the lead on organizing hundreds of young people for this powerful event.

You can check out some more event ideas here -- they will give you inspiration for figuring out what to do in your hometown, or on your campus, or in your neighborhood. Any kind of movement is good: wheels, feet, boards--whatever you can dream up that isn't powered by fossil fuel. We’ve already heard from Dominicans who will be on skateboards, and Vermonters who will be on horseback.
 
We’re aiming for big gatherings, though of course the meaning of “big” depends on where you live. In a dozen or so huge cities around the world we will have huge actions. If you live near those locations we will be contacting you soon with more details.
 


And we’re aiming for real, sharp, powerful political actions. Being on a bike illustrates one solution we badly need, but it also gives you a chance to deliver demands. Imagine what your state capitol or city hall would look like ringed by a thousand bikes. Around the world we will be unified by our demands for the global action necessary to get us back to 350, but in every province and city and state people will also be making the specific demands for the kind of local work that needs to get done now.
 
Nothing gets solved in a day--but we’re never going to win this fight if we don’t show the global solidarity that starts to get the message across to our politicians: you may be stuck, but we’re in motion. If you want to lead, you better catch up.

This day can be amazing--but only if people around the world come together to make it happen. Let's build something incredible on September 24th: www.moving-planet.org

Onwards,

Bill McKibben

P.S. Check out this dispatch that just arrived from Cairo, where youth organizers are blazing a trail for us all to follow. Sarah, a young activist quoted in it, is leading the plans for Egypt on Sept. 24--and it's going to be huge!

P.P.S. Have friends that don't yet know about Moving Planet? Share it with just a couple of clicks on Facebook.


You should join 350.org on Facebook by becoming a fan of our page at facebook.com/350org and follow us on twitter by visiting twitter.com/350

To join our list (maybe a friend forwarded you this e-mail) visit www.350.org/signup

350.org needs your help! To support our work, donate securely online at 350.org/donate



350.org is building a global grassroots movement to solve the climate crisis. Our online campaigns, grassroots organizing, and mass public actions are led from the bottom up by thousands of volunteer organizers in over 188 countries.

What is 350? 350 is the number that leading scientists say is the safe upper limit for carbon dioxide in our atmosphere. Scientists measure carbon dioxide in "parts per million" (PPM), so 350ppm is the number humanity needs to get below as soon as possible to avoid runaway climate change. To get there, we need a different kind of PPM—a "people powered movement" that is made of people like you in every corner of the planet

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11. Veggie Pride Parade Update/JVNA Volunteers Needed

forwarded message fro Veggie Pride Parade Organizer Pam Rice:


RE-POST FREELY AND WIDELY

…

GENERAL TASK LIST FOLLOWS:

WHAT TO DO BEFORE PARADE DAY

* Publicize parade to your social network (Facebook, Twitter, Meetup, Yahoo, Google, etc., etc.)

Go to: http://www.veggieprideparade.org/dept/plaintext.htm to find plain text to post everywhere. Everyone can do this.
* Help our publicity expert by posting parade info to media sites (we'll show you how to do this in one short lesson, even over the phone).
* Arrange for a food donations (vegan only, of course). Some quick clerical work can yield a lot.
* Engage in outreach to the local vegan community. Collect menus for expo menu table; post poster; inform vegan businesses of parade.
* Network with the Meetup groups. Go to vegan Meetup events and work the crowd
* Stuff bags full of donated pro-vegan literature.
* Engage and nurture potential funding sources.

what TO DO ON PARADE DAY

MORNING.
In the morning 9:30 a.m. at Union Square Park area
* Help carting boxes from our office on Union Square West to expo site (north end of Union Square Park).
* Label exhibit tables in morning prior to parade; lay down kraft-paper on tables.
* Be a personal assistant to organizer Pamela Rice.

LINEUP/PARADE
At line-up and during parade (11 a.m. to 1 p.m.)
* Manage the signboards: pass them out, make sure we get them back.
* Assist photographers on ladders (we'll have two).
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Megaphone management: pass them out at parade line-up, and make sure you get them all back later.
* Leaflet during the parade.
* Manage the leafleters.
* Twitter during parade to official parade Twitter site.

AT POST-PARADE EXPO IN PARK
After parade as the expo begins (in the north end of Union Square Park at about 1 p.m.)
* Banner management. Banners need to be properly hoisted on stages, then properly cared for and accounted for after parade.
* Man a Flip (video camera) with tripod; we'll have four pointed at stages and exhibitor tables.
* Be a personal assistant to expo manager Alan Rice.
* Menu table management & oversight. Keep menus neat and tidy throughout the day at the post parade rally & expo. They get picked over awfully fast.
* Assist sound technician and dj throughout the day.
* Oversee exhibitor tables: make sure exhibitors are abiding by all Parks Dept. rules and guidelines.
* Distribute food (food donations) to hungry crowds at post-parade expo.
* Pass out flyers and programs during the post-parade expo.

NOTE: 2 impromptu meetings are also scheduled
Same location (Veggie Center), tomorrow, Saturday, May 7:
(1) video team: 11 a.m.
(2) banner-management team: 5 p.m.

FOR ALL INFORMATION ABOUT THE PARADE, VISIT OUR WEB PAGE
http://www.veggieprideparade.org/

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12. Papers On Veg-Related Issues Called For

CALL FOR PAPERS

Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Deadline: December 30, 2011
Redefining Social Welfare: Connections across Species

A growing body of research supports the notion that human well-being is inextricably connected to the welfare of other animals. Social scientists are exploring these connections in research in social work and various subfields of sociology, including those focusing on the environment, deviance, the family, health, social inequality, and religion, as well as the emerging field of animals and society. This special issue will tap researchers and theorists in a wide range of subfields in order to capture the breadth of the connections among species that affect all aspects of human well-being. 
We want articles that address every aspect of the ways that animals' well-being intersects with human well-being. These could include many subfields of sociology, such as environmental sociology, sociology of health and medicine, deviance and violence, sociology of sports, sociology of religion, and so forth. What we envision is to having articles on any of the following: 


1. socio-emotional connections between species, e.g., the role of companion animals across the life course and other related topics


2. the connection of animal agriculture to climate change and environmental destruction, which of course is inextricably connected to human welfare 


3. health issues--the impact of consumption of animal products on health--cardiovascular disease, diabetes, etc.--directly plus the impact of antibiotics and hormones fed to animals plus pesticides and poisons and contaminants--a big topic 


4. animals and science ranging from the impact of dissection on young people to genetic engineering and cloning of animals (and of course, the impact on human welfare) 


5. animal abuse and interpersonal violence 


6. contributions of companion animals across the life course from children to older adults (of course!)

7. animals in sports and entertainment (hunting, zoos, circuses) 


8. animals and religion (ranging from symbolism and its meaning--or lost meaning--in some traditions to animal sacrifices continuing within some groups) 
All these issues are inextricably linked to human well-being. This is an opportunity to articulate the idea that animal welfare is inextricably connected to human welfare through all the ways that human and animal lives intersect.

Manuscripts can be submitted directly to special editor Dr. Christina Risley-Curtiss at risley.curtiss@asu.edu as email attachments, preferably in MS WORD 2003-2007 by December 30, 2011.

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13. Anti-Fur Society Schedules Conference

FIRST CONFERENCE ON FUR BEARING ANIMALS

http://www.mynewsletterbuilder.com/tools/refer.php?s=3194936759&u=23524907&v=3&key=8599&skey=e5fdbd1b46&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.afsconference.org

HELP KEEP FUR BEAUTIFUL ALIVE!

Dear friends,

We have some exciting updates to share with you. Not only the arrangements are successfully underway but we also have several new "entries" that you will love to know about. Among great speakers and exhibitors, we'll have a great cast of fabulous people hosting our delicious vegan dinner reception. Meanwhile, we would like to introduce our new celebrity who is coming all the way from Hollywood to honor us with his energetic and charming presence. He is none other than Zoli Teglas, the front man of the bands PENNYWISE & IGNITE.

What you may not know about Zoli is that he is a fierce animal rights activist, has his own rescue group and represents Sea Shepherd. He will be exhibiting at our conference: PELICAN RESCUE TEAM. We are not equipped to have a band at our conference, so we're trying to convince Zoli to sing solo for us. Regardless you will have a chance to meet him and check for yourself what a great guy he is!

SCHEDULE:

Please note some exciting changes to our schedule to include a lecture by Joshua Katcher, a fashion journalist in NY whose blog "The Discerning Brute" is very well known. His lecture will be focused on fashion v. animals. Thus the title: Fashion & Animals: Decoding and Harnessing the Dialect of Fashion Culture to Help Animals. click here. You do not want to miss it!

RAFFLES:

We are excited to announce that we have some incredible vegan and cruelty-free items up for auction, as well as some unique collectibles and signed memorabilia for our Silent Auction and Raffles! Check our website often for updates on our item! (note that not all will be posted). We will soon be publishing the names of vegan organizations that are donating cruelty-free items including vegan chocolates for all attendees! CLICK RAFFLES

EXHIBITORS:

Right now we have all of the exhibitors we can accommodate, as well as a couple of organizations on the waiting list. However if we receive applications from FOUR more exhibitors, we will be opening up another room for the additional six exhibitors. So, if you want to exhibit, sign up NOW: HERE.

Hope to see you there!

Rosa Close & Shannon Keith
www.AFSConference.org
www.ARME.TV

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14. Nice Reading of the Classic Children’s Story, “The Lorax,” by Dr. Seuss, Showing the Book’s Pictures

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soRbNlPbHEo&NR=1

Great story to educate children about the importance of environmental sustainability. My favorite children’s story.

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