Medi-Studies info for Vegetarians and Vegans

A new Mercy For Animals undercover investigation into a McDonald’s egg supplier exposes the fast-food giant’s secret ingredient: shocking cruelty to animals.

Hidden-camera footage taken at Sparboe Egg Farm facilities in Iowa, Minnesota and Colorado reveals:

* Hens crammed into filthy wire cages with less space for each bird than a standard-sized sheet of paper to live her entire miserable life, unable to fully stretch her wings or engage in most other natural behaviors

* Workers burning off the beaks of young chicks without any painkillers and callously throwing them into cages, some missing the cage doors and hitting the floor

* Rotted hens, decomposed beyond recognition as birds, left in cages with hens still laying eggs for human consumption

* A worker tormenting a bird by swinging her around in the air while her legs were caught in a grabbing device – violence described as “torture” by another worker

* Chicks trapped and mangled in cage wire – others suffering from open wounds and torn beaks

* Live chicks thrown into plastic bags to be suffocated

Common sense tells us that animals should be given at a minimum the freedom to walk, stretch their limbs, turn around and engage in natural behaviors. Yet, this McDonald’s supplier deprives hens of even
these most basic freedoms.

Barren battery cages are so cruel that the entire European Union and the states of California and Michigan have banned their use. Additionally, leading food retailers, such as Whole Foods, Hellmann’s, and Wolfgang Puck, and hundreds of colleges and universities refuse to use or sell eggs from hens subjected to the inherent abuses of battery cages.

MFA is calling on McDonald’s Corporation to end its use of eggs from hens confined in battery cages in the United States, as it has already in the European Union.

Sadly, not a single federal law currently provides any protection to birds at the hatchery, on the factory farm, or during slaughter. Further, most states – including those in which this investigation was conducted – have sweeping exemptions for farmed animals, which allow for abuses to run rampant without prosecution.

While McDonald’s has the moral obligation and purchasing power to lessen the cruelty suffered by the millions of hens who are abused and exploited to produce eggs for its restaurants, consumers also hold enormous power of their own in preventing animal abuse by adopting a compassionate vegan diet.

http://www.MercyForAnimals.org

http://www.McDonaldsCruelty.com

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Isn’t the planet and humanity more important than a cheeseburger?

Evidence Shows that Our Meat-Based Diet is Bad for the Environment, Aggravates Global Hunger, Brutalizes
Animals and Compromises Our Health

http://www.emagazine.com/view/?142

PBS Interview on the Safety of Meat

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/meat/interviews/foreman.html

Pew Commission Says Industrial Scale Farm Animal Production Poses Unacceptable Risks to Public Health, Environment

http://www.pewtrusts.org/news_room_detail.aspx?id=38438

Rethinking the Meat Guzzler

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/27/weekinreview/27bittman.html?_r=2&pagewanted&oref=slogin

Rearing Cattle Produces More Greenhouse Gases Than Driving Cars http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?newsID=20772&CR1=warning

So Youre An Environmentalist Why Are You Still Eating Meat?

http://www.alternet.org/story/12162

Can the US Go Organic Without Going Vegetarian?

http://www.thevegetariansite.com/ed_organic.htm

Pollution from Giant Livestock Farms Threatens Public Health

http://www.nrdc.org/water/pollution/nspills.asp

The Risk of Diets High in Animal Proteins

http://thechinastudy.com/about.html

The Truth Behind the Spinach Scare: Cheap Beef

http://www.livescience.com/health/060926_bad_ecoli.html

Organic? Free Range? Fact or Fiction?

http://www.goveg.com/organic.asp

An Animals Place

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/10/magazine/an-animal-s-place.html

Vegan Products Guide

http://www.vegproductsguide.com/

Vegan Products Guide

http://www.vegcooking.com/shoppingGuide.asp

Guide to NON-vegan Ingredient lists

http://www.veganwolf.com/animal_ingredients.htm

Guide to Vegan and Non Vegan Ingredients

http://www.vegan2050.org/Article-15-Additives.html

Another Animal Ingredients List

http://www.happycow.net/health-animal-ingredients.html

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So Youre An Environmentalist Why Are You Still Eating Meat?

http://www.alternet.org/story/12162

Can the US Go Organic Without Going Vegetarian?

http://www.thevegetariansite.com/ed_organic.htm

Pew Commission Says Industrial Scale Farm Animal Production Poses Unacceptable Risks to Public Health, Environment

http://www.pewtrusts.org/news_room_detail.aspx?id=38438

Rethinking the Meat Guzzler

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/27/weekinreview/27bittman.html?_r=2&pagewanted&oref=slogin

Evidence Shows that Our Meat-Based Diet is Bad for the Environment, Aggravates Global Hunger, Brutalizes Animals and Compromises Our Health

http://www.emagazine.com/view/?142

Rearing Cattle Produces More Greenhouse Gases Than Driving Cars http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?newsID=20772&CR1=warning
Pollution from Giant Livestock Farms Threatens Public Health

http://www.nrdc.org/water/pollution/nspills.asp

The Truth Behind the Spinach Scare: Cheap Beef

http://www.livescience.com/health/060926_bad_ecoli.html

Study Links Meat Consumption to Gastric Cancer

http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/prevention-genetics-causes/causes/meatconsumption

Cancer facts Meat Consumption and Cancer Risks

http://www.cancerproject.org/diet_cancer/facts/meat.php

Red Meat & Diabetes Linked

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0FKA/is_12_66/ai_n7576823/

Study links Red Meat to Cancer & Heart Disease

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=102306407

Red Meat Increases Risk for Heart Disease, Cancer and Macular Degeneration

http://www.healthnews.com/blogs/melanie-grimes/nutrition-diet/red-meat-increases-risk-heart-disease-cancer-macular-degeneration-3397.h

The Risk of Diets High in Animal Proteins

http://thechinastudy.com/about.html

Daily Red Meat Raises Chances of Dying Early

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/23/AR2009032301626.html

PBS Interview on the Safety of Meat

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/meat/interviews/foreman.html

The Case Against Meat

http://www.creationsmagazine.com/articles/C84/Motavalli.html

Organic? Free Range? Fact or Fiction?
http://www.goveg.com/organic.asp

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Ahimsa is a Sanskrit word that means no harm or no violence. It is the philosophy by which Gandhi led his life. In this film we journey to a farm animal sanctuary in Colorado and meet people who live by the concept of Ahimsa and see how it affects the choices they make what to eat, what to wear, how to treat all life around them: choices that we all make that affect this world in profound ways. For more info: Wilderness Ranch Sanctuary (Loveland) 970.493.7153
rebecca.blackbyrd@gmail.com
TO FIND A SANCTUARY NEAR YOU: http://www.sanctuaries.org/

❤ It is time for us to awaken; feel with our hearts and listen to our Souls. One of the most self-empowering, compassionate, and environmentally sound actions we can take to raise our vibration mentally, emotionally, physically, and spiritually, is to no longer create and consume the trauma of other sentient beings.

Ⓥ Mother Nature is telling us that we are Vegan Beings (Plant-Based Diet) – epidemic levels of disease and environmental destruction! At this point of our evolution, humans are biologically Herbivore/Frugivore: http://vitalveda.wordpress.com/our-beliefs-meat-and-dairy-mad-consumers-the-facts-plant-based-diet

http://twitter.com/#!/VitalVeda

http://vitalveda.wordpress.com

http://www.linkedin.com/in/vitalveda

https://www.facebook.com/VeganZeitgeist

If we want Peace in our World – Hearts-Minds-Bodies-Souls – why would we create and consume violence? Thank you for being and/or becoming Vegan so ALL may LIVE!

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For more information on the Dr. McDougall Diet please visit: http://www.youtube.com/user/drmcdougallmd

http://www.drmcdougall.com/

I❤ It is time for us to awaken; feel with our hearts and listen to our Souls. One of the most self-empowering, compassionate, and environmentally sound actions we can take to raise our vibration mentally, emotionally, physically, and spiritually, is to no longer create and consume the trauma of other sentient beings.

Ⓥ Mother Nature is telling us that we are Vegan Beings (Plant-Based Diet) – epidemic levels of disease and environmental destruction! At this point of our evolution, humans are biologically Herbivore/Frugivore: http://vitalveda.wordpress.com/our-beliefs-meat-and-dairy-mad-consumers-the-facts-plant-based-diet

http://twitter.com/#!/VitalVeda

http://vitalveda.wordpress.com

http://www.linkedin.com/in/vitalveda

https://www.facebook.com/VeganZeitgeist

If we want Peace in our World – Hearts-Minds-Bodies-Souls – why would we create and consume violence? Thank you for being and/or becoming Vegan so ALL may LIVE!

VitalVeda claims no rights to this video or its contents – for educational and enlightenment purposes only.

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In her new book, The Kind Diet, actor and activist Alicia Silverstone explains her reasons for switching to a vegan diet, describes the many positive effects it has had on her life, and shares her favorite recipes! http://www.youtube.com/user/officialpeta

If we want peace in our soul, then why would we put trauma of another in or on our body. LIVE with INTEGRITY…don’t Wish for it…BE IT!…Thank you for BEing or considering a Vegan or Vegetarian life so others may LIVE!
FREE VEGAN Starter Kit

http://www.mercyforanimals.org/vegan-starter-kit.aspx

http://www.vegan.org/

http://www.vegan.com/

http://www.vegansociety.com/

http://www.peta.org/vsk/

http://www.animalsuffering.com/

http://www.veganoutreach.org/whyvegan/

http://www.veganvixens.com/

http://www.vegancooking.com/

http://www.diaryofavegan.com/

http://www.youtube.com/user/officialpeta

http://www.facebook.com/pages/EVOLVE-Campaigns/101225828768?v=wall

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/about/ships/the-rainbow-warrior/

VEGAN Shopping:

http://www.veganessentials.com/

http://www.cosmosveganshoppe.com/

http://www.vegangoods.com/

http://origin.www.peta.org/living/vegetarian-living/vegetarian-shopping.aspx

http://store.naturalnirvana.com/index.html

FREE VEGAN Starter Kit

http://www.mercyforanimals.org/vegan-starter-kit.aspx

I claim no rights to this video or its contents – for enlightenment and educational purposes only.

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So many risks.

PBS Interview on the Safety of Meat

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/meat/interviews/foreman.html

Pew Commission Says Industrial Scale Farm Animal Production Poses Unacceptable Risks to Public Health, Environment

http://www.pewtrusts.org/news_room_detail.aspx?id=38438

Rethinking the Meat Guzzler

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/27/weekinreview/27bittman.html?_r=2&pagewanted&oref=slogin

Rearing Cattle Produces More Greenhouse Gases Than Driving Cars http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?newsID=20772&CR1=warning

So Youre An Environmentalist Why Are You Still Eating Meat?

http://www.alternet.org/story/12162

Can the US Go Organic Without Going Vegetarian?
http://www.thevegetariansite.com/ed_organic.htm

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We kill 49 Billion Chickens each year as “food” ( UN FAO 2007 PDF http://bit.ly/56billion ) , my Hen Friend is perfectly sane for being afraid of a fork.

What was she doing? She definitely held it with her beak, she didnt just peck at it, she wanted to …pick it up? Push it out of her way? Not sure!

Check out the cool metallic “clunking” noise it makes in slow motion!

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http://RadioactiveChickenHeads.com http://Facebook.com/RadioactiveChickenHeads
Try the high protein diet that really works! Stop eating animals and start eating children today. The Radioactive Chicken Heads cover “I Eat Kids” a song by Barry Louis Polisar. Starring Carrot Topp, Cheri Tomato, El Pollo Diablo, Bird Brain, Punky Rooster, Wikkan Chicken, Bone Head, Puke Boy, Pastafarian, Sgt. Psyclopps, and Frankenchicken. Cameo by the Cowgod from Green Jello / Green Jelly

Lyrics:

WELL, I ALWAYS THOUGHT THAT COWS LOOKED PRETTIER IN A FIELD
THAN ON MY PLATE AT SUPPER BEING SERVED AS A MEAL
AND I NEVER DID LIKE HAMBURGERS, I NEVER DID LIKE STEAK
I PREFER CHICKENS CACKLING INSTEAD OF FRIED, COOKED, OR BAKED

WELL, I STOPPED EATING ANIMALS AND I’M GLAD I FINALLY DID
BUT I GET MY PROTEIN ‘CAUSE I EAT KIDS

WELL, IT USED TO BE A PROBLEM JUST EATING RICE AND BEANS
AND I THINK YOU PROBABLY KNOW EXACTLY WHAT I MEAN
AND I NEVER REALLY KNEW IF I WAS EATING ALL I SHOULD
BUT I DON’T HAVE THAT PROBLEM KNOW AND IT FEELS PRETTY GOOD

WELL, I STOPPED EATING ANIMALS AND I’M GLAD I FINALLY DID
BUT I GET MY PROTEIN ‘CAUSE I EAT KIDS

SO IT’S GOODBYE LIVER, GOODBYE ROAST BEEF
HELLO TOMMY, MICHAEL AND DENISE
I DON’T EAT CHICKENS AND I DON’T EAT COWS
I DON’T EAT ANIMALS, I EAT CHILDREN NOW

WELL, I STOPPED EATING ANIMALS AND I’M GLAD I FINALLY DID
BUT I GET MY PROTEIN ‘CAUSE I EAT……
KIDS, KIDS, (chomp, chomp, chomp) KIDS!

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My reasons for becoming and staying a vegetarian. I think I might go into how being a vegetarian has affected by life and perceptions about vegetarians more tomorrow.

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