Petition Tag - vegetarian

An international movement to help people reduce their meat consumption by 15% to improve personal health and the health of the planet.

We are a non-profit initiative of The Monday Campaigns, in association with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

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We urge the Indonesian government, especially the President and the Minister for the Environment and Minister for the Health as well as environmental and animal rights organisations to recognise the many benefits of a meat-free diet.

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization released an astonishing report on June 5th 2009, stating that livestock agriculture is responsible for contributing a significant part of causing environmental pollution around the world. Animal agriculture’s 'contribution' to global warming is larger than the emissions from the entire transportation sector from around the globe. A 2006 a UN Report titled, “Livestock’s Long Shadow” supported this with the conclusion that global livestock farming generates roughly one-fifth of greenhouse gas emissions, more than all of transport combined.

This petition calls for the Indonesia government to take immediate action by adopting “Meat Free Mondays” and promoting the many health and environmental benefits of a vegetarian lifestyle to the general public.

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Due to a stranglehold on research funded by drug companies and lobbying from Food Manufacturing lobbyists it's relatively impossible to get funding for research on preventable medicine and health solutions from better diets as this can't be turned into a patentable drug.

Professor Smith from UK Oxford University, with help from Olso University in Sweden, recently published well publicised research on halting dementia and Alzhiemer's just with B Vitamins. Professor Smith admitted the problems of researching food and nutrients rather than drugs. He revealed “The dogma is strong and there is money involved. If it is not produced by the pharmaceutical companies, you have a hard time getting funded.”

Important scientific proof of the need for nutrition not drugs will struggle to surface whilst most research is funded by drug companies.

The only solution is for responsible governments and the World Health Organisation to commit to prove what professional Nutritional therapists demonstrate every day in clinics that food can heal. President Bill Clinton under Dr Esselstyne is using food to beat heart disease, PCRM has shown food can reverse Diabetes.

The BMJ reveals "When the report, Diet, Nutrition, and the Prevention of Chronic Diseases, was released (BMJ 2003;326: 515), American food manufacturers' groups began lobbying to prevent their government from accepting its proposals. The Sugar Association wrote to the director general of WHO, threatening to “exercise every avenue available to expose the dubious nature” of the report. Congressmen recruited by the food industry urged the secretary of health, Tommy Thompson, to cut off the $406m (£226m; €334m) annual US contribution to WHO (BMJ 2003;326: 948).

If we continue to ignore Hippocrates' ethos of “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food” there will be dire catastrophic consequences.

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Did you know that by not eating meat for just one day a week, you really can help to slash levels of dangerous greenhouse gas emissions in the air you breathe?

A “meat-free” day of the week is not a new idea. Countries across Europe have already suggested the idea to their respective governments, some of which have embraced the idea. Belgium’s Brent City Council introduced a “Meat-Free Thursday” in 2009, which is still going strong.

By opting to take part in a similar campaign here in Ireland, you too can make a contribution to the environment. Dangerous greenhouse emissions are a direct result of mass cattle farming and, as we all know, Ireland is a major beef farming nation.

Our country must now accept a slice of responsibility for the global increase in greenhouse gas emissions. It can, and should, demonstrate to the world a commitment to make its carbon footprint smaller.

The benefits of ‘Meat-free Monday’ are immense: you lower your intake of meat and reduce your carbon footprint. You also improve your health and make sure fewer animals in Clare are slaughtered for food. Consider this: if demand for meat lessens – even just a small bit - more land, typically used for cattle grazing, can be used instead to cultivate trees, organic vegetables and grains. This is good news, especially for Clare. Why?


• The Centre for Environmental Living and Training (CELT) is based in Clare. CELT is dedicated to environmental awareness and is right now driving forward their Agroforestry campaign. Agroforestry involves the integration of trees into farming systems to create more diverse, profitable, healthy and sustainable land-use systems. It also reduces the need for fertilizers by providing habitats for natural predators. These natural predators eat ‘pests’, negating the need for harsh chemical fertilizers.

We can help CELT’s Agroforestry policy by spearheading a campaign to eat less meat and therefore reduce the amount of space needed on farms for cattle grazing. The government has already showed its support for CELT’s scheme. Will you?

If you want to commit yourself to Clare Veg Group’s meat-free Monday campaign, please sign our petition here. Remember, all movements start out small and grow bigger and bigger the more people get involved. We want Clare can be the first county in Ireland to launch “Meat-Free Monday?” We can lead by example and get the whole country on board. It’s down to you.

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Veg Heads Unite!

Join us in requesting that Chef Guy Fieri & The Food Network feature Foodswings, a vegan gem, on Diners, Drive-ins & Dives! Help us wow the Triple D/Food Network mainstream audience, by getting an extremely worthy Brooklyn joint on this FN show!

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Byron Bay Organic Doughnut Company makes the most delicious doughnuts you'll ever taste - for anyone who has waited in a line of 20+ people for one of these hot, fresh, organic doughnuts can attest to this - if this isn't enough to win you over - They have 1000+ facebook fans - the people have spoken, with numbers like that they've gotta be good, right?

I'm a longtime fan of the company. I became vegan 2 years ago and in the last few years I've had to sadly walk past their van at festivals and markets, my tummy crying out for one of these yummy treats.

They're already organic and the ingredients are minimal (keeping it simple keeps it tasty, right?) but the company is only one ingredient off becoming completely vegan. The doughnuts contain butter.

With the amount of a good, organic margarines with no transfats/hydrogenated oils on the market, it's not hard or more expensive to replace.

With this small change doughnuts would be available to vegans! And as vegans know - it's hard to get vegan doughnuts...it's nearly impossible to get great vegan doughnuts....but hopefully not for long :)

So we're asking Byron Bay Organic Doughnuts to please bin the butter, it's not needed.

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We help to save a lot by being a vegetarian.

Vegetarianism is the practice of following a plant-based diet including fruits, vegetables, cereal grains, nuts, and seeds, with or without dairy products and eggs.

A vegetarian does not eat meat, including: red meat, game, poultry, fish, crustacea, shellfish, and products of animal slaughter such as animal-derived gelatin and rennet. There are a number of vegetarian diets. A lacto-vegetarian diet includes dairy products but excludes eggs, an ovo-vegetarian diet includes eggs but not dairy products, and a lacto-ovo vegetarian diet includes both eggs and dairy products.

A vegan diet excludes all animal products, such as dairy products, eggs, and honey. Vegetarianism may be adopted for ethical, health, environmental, religious, political, cultural, aesthetic, economic, or other reasons.

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During the month of March a survey was conducted at the University of Lethbridge.

What Does the University of Lethbridge Community Think of Sodexo Food?

The objective of this survey was to receive an empirical answer to the question of what the University of Lethbridge (UofL) community think of Sodexo food services on campus. This survey was commissioned by the Service Employee’s International Union (S.E.I.U) after consultation with the University of Lethbridge Students Union (ULSU) and the Lethbridge Public Interest Research Group (LPIRG). If the answer was found to be a negative one then a second action-research projected would attempt to get better food service on campus.

Initially the goal was to collect 400 responses but with the survey approaching 250 a very clear trend had emerged and we decided we had enough data. With 244 surveys returned there was a very high (95.1%) completion rate.

The University of Lethbridge has a population of over 10000 including 8200 undergraduates and the survey has a 95% confidence rating that the results are accurate within 6points.

The clearest message from both the quantitative and qualitative data is that the price of food is too high for the quality received. 70% picked the worst category on the price of food in the quantitative section and in the qualitative section over 150 wrote that the food was too expensive.

Another significant statistical response was overall satisfaction with 48.5% rating it as “poor”. The comments section revealed a significant number are unhappy with the exclusivity contract, the mandatory residence meal plan, greasy food, the lack of healthy food and vegetarian options and choices for those on restricted diets.

Perhaps most significant though was that eight students reported getting food poisoning after eating at Sodexo establishments at the UofL. The results of this survey provide a very clear mandate for changes to food services at the University of Lethbridge.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIjanhKqVC4

The video that all meat-eaters should watch and every vegetarian should own, "Meet Your Meat", narrated by Alec Baldwin, covers each stage of life of animals raised for food.

No PETA videos are copyrighted, so copy them for everyone you know.

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“채식의 날, 월요일” – 지구를 구하는 첫걸음

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We urge the Singapore government, especially the Prime Minister, Lee Hsien Loong, and the Minister for the Environment and Water Resources, Dr Yaacob Ibrahim, as well as environmental and animal rights organisations to recognise the many benefits of a meat-free diet.

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization released an astonishing report on June 5th 2009, stating that livestock agriculture is responsible for contributing a significant part of causing environmental pollution around the world. Animal agriculture’s 'contribution' to global warming is larger than the emissions from the entire transportation sector from around the globe. A 2006 a UN Report titled, “Livestock’s Long Shadow” supported this with the conclusion that global livestock farming generates roughly one-fifth of greenhouse gas emissions, more than all of transport combined.

Although Singapore's carbon dioxide emissions appear “small” (0.2% of global carbon dioxide emissions in 2005) and its methane emissions are “negligible” as Singapore is not an agricultural-based country, Singaporeans can almost match the Americans in meat consumption. According to the Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority of Singapore, Singaporeans ate an average of 90 kg of meat and fish per person per year in the year 2007, as compared to Americans who ate an average of 90.7kg of meat and fish per person per year.

This petition calls for the Singapore government to take immediate action by adopting “Meat Free Mondays” and promoting the many health and environmental benefits of a vegetarian lifestyle to the general public.

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There are now literally hundreds of thousands of vegans in the UK. What we want more than anything when it comes to our food is to be able to walk into the supermarket and pick our food off the shelf just like everyone else. Tesco provide a full and varied range of vegetarian alternatives including burgers, sausages, vege bacon and pies, yet ALL of these products contain milk and/or eggs, meaning the entire range in unsuitable for vegans.

If it costs an extra 20p per pack to make them vegan, we would pay it. If it costs an extra 50p per packet to have egg substitute rather than egg in the burgers, we would pay it.

I want to get as many signatures as possible to send to Tescos (I chose Tesco as they are the largest and most recogniseable supermarket chain in the UK) to show them there is great support for them to convert their vegetarian range to vegan and we will simply queue up at the frozen section to buy their vegan range if only they gave us the chance to do so.

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The impact of livestock on human health, the environment, world grain and water security and climate change has never been more clear.

With the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change stressing our planetary peril with ever increasing urgency, the recognition of the significant role of factory farming in the genesis of swine flu, and new research by the Global Humanitarian Forum (GHF) stating that 315,000 people per year die as a result of climate change (with another 325 million affected), it is time to let our leaders know that we are ready to do anything we can to alleviate these crises and help the world.

By pledging to keep Mondays Meat-free, we can make a sure start. Join Sir Paul, Mary and Stella McCartney as they too are promoting Meat Free Monday to encourage people to avoid meat once a week. Check out Sir Paul's message here: http://www.supportmfm.org/

END WORLD HUNGER
If you want to stop 1 billion people from going hungry each day; If you want to stop the needless deaths taking place every 5 seconds due to starvation then a vegan lifestyle is the solution to solve these dier diet-driven situations resulting from the inefficient use of resources directed towards animal agriculture. Grain currently fed to livestock is enough to feed ２ billion people. According to a recent report by Compassion in World Farming, "[c]rops that could be used to feed the hungry are instead being used to fatten animals raised for food." It takes up to 16 pounds of grain to produce just 1 pound of edible animal flesh.

Let's show the UK government and the European Union that we are ready and willing to act, and support the Earth saving and humanitarian concept of Meat-free Mondays.

This petition will be forwarded to Gordon Brown and to influential members of DEFRA (Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs) in the UK plus the President of the European Parliament, the President of the European Commission, the Directorate-General for the Environment (of the European Commission) and the Directorate-General for Health and Consumer Protection (of the European Commission).

The Meat Free Mondays petition in the European Union and the United Kingdom (UK) asking UK & Gordon Brown, DEFRA as well as the President of the European Parliament, the President of the European Commission, the Directorate-General for the Environment (of the European Commission) and the Directorate-General for Health and Consumer Protection (of the European Commission) to support Meat-free Mondays was written by Concerned_Citizen and is hosted free of charge at GoPetition.

Romanian translation:
Scop: Să-i ceară primului ministru Gordon Brown din Anglia, DEFRA şi la fel şi Uniunii Europene să sprijine iniţiativa Ziua de Luni fără Carne!

Impactul zootehniei asupra sănătăţii umane, mediului, producţiei de grâne a lumii şi securităţii apei nu a fost niciodată aşa de evident.

În timp ce Panelul Interguvernamental pentru Schimbarea Climei stresează cu şi mare urgenţă riscul planetei noastre, recunoaşterea rolului semnificativ al fermelor industriale în geneza gripei porcine, alături de cercetări noi de la Forumul Global Umanitar (GHF) care arată că 315.000 de oameni mor anual din cauza schimbării climei (alături de alţi 320 milioane afectaţi), este timpul acum să le spunem liderilor noştri că noi suntem gata să facem orice ca să ameliorăm aceste crize şi să ajutăm lumea.

Prin a promite să ţinem Lunea Fără Carne, noi punem bazele unui început sigur. Veniţi alături de Sir Paul, Mary şi Stella McCartney care promovează Lunea Fără Carne, ca să încurajeze oamenii să nu consume carne o zi pe săptămână. Urmăriţi mesajul lui Paul McCartney aici: http://www.supportmfm.org/

PUNEŢI CAPĂT FOAMETEI ÎN LUME
Dacă vreţi să opriţi 1 miliard de oameni să sufere de foame zilnic, dacă vreţi să opriţi decesele inutile care au loc la fiecare 5 secunde din cauza foametei, atunci un stil de viaţă de post (vegan) este soluţia pentru a rezolva aceste situaţii fatale din cauza alimentaţiei, care duc la folosirea ineficientă a resurselor, care sunt îndreptate spre agricultura animală. Grânele date acum animalelor sunt suficiente ca să hrănească 2 miliarde de oameni. După un raport recent de la Compasiunea în Fermele Lumii: “recoltele care ar putea fi folosite să-i hrănească pe cei înfometaţi, sunt folosite în schimb la îngrăşarea animalelor crescute pentru carne.” Se cer aproape 8 kg de grâne să produci aproape 0,5kg de carne de animal comestibilă.

Haideţi să le arătăm guvernelor din Anglia şi din Uniunea Europeană că noi suntem gata şi dorim să acţionăm şi să sprijinim idea umanitară şi salvatoare al lumii - „Lunea Fără Carne”.

Această petiţie va fi trimisă primului ministru Gordon Brown şi membrilor cu influenţă din DEFRA (Departamentul Afacerilor Rurale, ale Mediului şi Hranei) din Anglia, Preşedintelui Parlamentului European, Preşedintelui Comisiei Europene, Directoratului General pentru Mediu (din Comisia Europeană) şi Directoratului General pentru Sănătate şi Protecţia Consumatorului (din Comisia Europeană).

Daţi glas voinţei voastre şi fiţi primii din prietenii voştri care să semnaţi!

Petiţia Lunea Fără Carne din Uniunea Europeană şi Anglia (UK) care îi cere Angliei şi primului ministru Gordon Brown şi DEFRA, Preşedintelui Parlamentului European, Preşedintelui Comisiei Europene, Directoratului General pentru Mediu (din Comisia Europeană) şi Directoratului General pentru Sănătate şi Protecţia Consumatorului (din Comisia Europeană) să sprijine iniţiativa Lunea Fără Carne, a fost scrisă de Cetăţeanul Îngrijorat şi este înscrisă gratuit la GoPetition.

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Canada is the #4 biggest polluter on earth, yet has a relatively small population. Canada reputation for being a dinosaur in the Climate Crisis must change ASAP.

This petition calls for Canadian officials to take immediate action by adopting “Meat Free Mondays” and promoting the many health and environmental benefits of the pure vegetarian (vegan) lifestyle to the general public

LIVESTOCK’S ROLE IN GLOBAL WARMING IS HUGE

According to a 2006 report by the Food and Agriculture Organization of The United Nations (FAO), entitled “Livestock's Long Shadow”: The FAO report found that livestock production causes 18 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions, including nine percent of all carbon dioxide emissions, 37 percent of methane and 65 percent of nitrous oxide which is 296 times more potent than CO2 as a global warming gas. According to Dr. Kirk Smith, a member of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and professor at University of California-Berkeley, methane is 100 times more potent than CO2 within 5 years of being emitted.

Scientists across the globe have recognized that climate change is happening so fast, human civilization is under threat if we don’t do something within the next few years to significantly reverse the trend of global warming. At the same time, researchers have also realized that although CO2 is the most prevalent gas by weight, even if we were to achieve a zero carbon economy today, the earth will continue to warm hundreds if not thousands of years.

For this reason, if we want to preserve the planet for our children’s generation, we need to reduce those gases and aerosols causing the greatest effect on global warming in the short term, thus giving us time to develop CO2 reduction technologies that can be commercially deployed.


RAPID PLANETARY COOLING SOLUTIONS:

In March 2009, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stated that in order to achieve rapid cooling in the short term, we need to reduce methane, ozone (the second most prevalent gas after methane), and black carbon. Reducing the consumption of animal products is the single fastest way to reduce these emissions.


• Reduce Methane: Livestock are the single largest source of human-caused methane in the US and on the planet, and 2/3 of it dissipates from the atmosphere in about 10 years. Note also that the IPCC estimated that even if we were to change the feed of animals and capture methane from manure lagoons, by 2030 we would only reduce 9 percent of the methane from agriculture, so these methods are not viable options for seriously reducing emissions rapidly.
• Ozone, the third most prevalent gas after methane, and CO2, depends upon methane as a building block. Because it dissipates out of the atmosphere in a few hours or days, as soon as we reduce breeding of livestock and the numbers decrease due to lower demand, we will see planetary cooling within hours or days.
• Black carbon is 800 times more potent than CO2, and NASA scientists have begun to realize black carbon plays a role in the melting of the Arctic and Antarctic. Brazilian scientists measuring black carbon in Antarctica found greater levels of black carbon than NASA estimated, and estimated 70 percent of it came from South America, where the single largest source of black carbon is the burning of the rainforests to create crops and grazing for livestock. Livestock are responsible for over 80% of Amazon destruction in Brazil.

MEAT REDUCTION AROUND THE GLOBE

Ghent, Belgium has shown leadership and recognized the importance of promoting vegetarianism as a solution to addressing climate change and reducing its carbon footprint by ask its citizens to go meatless one day a week.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8046970.stm

Other countries and institutions are also recognizing the need to promote pure vegetarianism (veganism). The United Kingdom’s National Health Service (NHS) will be cutting meat (and dairy) from the menus of hospitals across the UK in an effort to cut costs and carbon. Its one part of NHS hospitals strategy to reduce carbon emissions throughout the hospital system.

Following Paul McCartney's Meat Free Monday mission in the UK, Israeli restaurants are also participating in going veggie for at least one day a week.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/5621148/Paul-McCartneys-Meat-Free-Monday-missio n.html
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3736884,00.html

VEGAN RESTAURANTS ARE BOOMING DUE TO STRONG DEMAND

Most people have become aware of the health promoting effects of a plant-based diet, and want to reduce their consumption of animal products but 1) subsidies make meat and dairy cheaper and 2) restaurants do not offer them enough vegan options to delight their palate. Their desire is reflected in the growth of vegan restaurants and vegan options in food service.

In spite of the economic downturn, Restaurant & Institution Magazine has noted in several articles in the last year that vegan restaurants are booming.

Cruzer Pizza in Los Angeles demonstrated this dramatically in May 2009 when they added vegan cheese and veggie meats as pizza toppings and their sales went up by 63 percent in one month.

ENDING WORLD HUNGER
If you want to stop 1 billion people from going hungry at night each day; If you want to stop the needless deaths taking place every 5 seconds due to starvation then a vegan lifestyle is the solution to solve these dyer diet driven situations due to the inefficient use of resources directed towards animal agriculture. Grain currently fed to livestock is enough to feed ２ billion people. According to a recent report by Compassion in World Framing, "[c]rops that could be used to feed the hungry are instead being used to fatten animals raised for food." It takes up to 16 pounds of grain to produce just 1 pound of edible animal flesh.

Animal agriculture is having detrimental impacts on the health of the environment as well as on human health; thus reducing our consumption of this carbon and methane intensive product as an effective solution to halt climate change.

So please sign this petition and forward it to you friends and family.

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In recent headlines, the city of Ghent in Belgium has taken steps to reduce its carbon footprint and has made the brave decision to ask its citizens to go meatless one day a week. Every Thursday will be veggie day.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8046970.stm

According to a 2006 report by the United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), entitled Livestock's Long Shadow: it stated that livestock production is responsible for 18 percent of all greenhouse gas (ghg)emissions which is more than all the cars, trains and planes combined. However a recent report published by the World Watch Institute stated that the livestock sector is responsible for 51% of all greenhouse gases.

Due to the impact that meat has on the environment, we need to reduce our consumption of this carbon intensive product as an effective solution to the climate change crisis. This petition calls for Taiwanese officials to take action now that will show Taiwan’s commitment to tackling Climate Change.

We urge the government to promote every Monday as a day when the citizens of Taiwan will abstain from meat products in an effort to protect the environment and halt global warming.

We call on everyone’s support in expressing to Taiwanese officials the need for Taiwan to adopt and promote a meat free Monday.

So please sign this petition and forward it to your friends and family.

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The Belgium town of Ghent is the first town in the world to go vegetarian at least once a week. There will be a regular weekly meatless day, in which civil servants and elected councillors will opt for vegetarian meals. Schoolchildren will follow suit with their own veggie day.

It is hoped the move will cut Ghent's environmental footprint and help tackle obesity. Around 90,000 so-called "veggie street maps" have printed to help people find the city's vegetarian eateries. The British city of Liverpool is also following Ghent's lead. We would like Reading to also become vegetarian once a week.

If Reading's citizens went vegetarian one day a week that would save the equivalent of 25,000 tons of CO2 p.a. (that's the same as removing 8300 cars from the roads). If they went vegan (no diary or eggs) then that would be nearly 50,000 tons (that's 16,600 cars!). This initiative would also have a very beneficial effect on our citizens health.

Debate this issue at the Reading Eco Veggie Fayre

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In school lunch programs across the nation, not many vegetarian choices where provided. more and more people are starting to become a vegetarian now a days.

And at school, i starve from the lack of food because all food has meat. this isn't fair for meat eating children to not go hungry, but vegetarians are because there are no choices that are filling. a bag of very unhealthy chips just won't do it. having more choices is good for all the schools and its children.

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The Vegetarian & Vegan Foundation (VVF) has recently published a new guide, White Meat Myths which investigates the links between the consumption of white meat (chicken, turkey, ducks and geese) and health.

Our research has found links between white meat consumption and a diverse range of health problems and diseases - including obesity, diabetes and certain cancers.

It is not compulsory for school children to be offered meat, as long as alternative food sources of protein are on the menu. For nursery and primary school children, one item from this food group must be offered each day, rising to two items a day for those at secondary school.

Alternative protein sources include soya products (eg tofu, veggie mince), pulses (eg baked beans, chickpeas, kidney beans, lentils), nuts and seeds. Bean burritos, Spaghetti Bolognese made with veggie mince, spicy beanburgers, and vegetable soup with added lentils all go down well with children. Diets based around these foods are much lower in harmful cholesterol, saturated fat and total fat, and higher in fibre.

The VVF therefore calls on LEAs in the Midlands to reduce or remove the amount of all meat – including white meat – from local school meals, and to consider alternative protein sources instead.

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The Vegetarian & Vegan Foundation (VVF) has recently published a new guide, White Meat Myths which investigates the links between the consumption of white meat (chicken, turkey, ducks and geese) and health.

Our research has found links between white meat consumption and a diverse range of health problems and diseases - including obesity, diabetes and certain cancers.

It is not compulsory for school children to be offered meat, as long as alternative food sources of protein are on the menu. For nursery and primary school children, one item from this food group must be offered each day, rising to two items a day for those at secondary school.

Alternative protein sources include soya products (eg tofu, veggie mince), pulses (eg baked beans, chickpeas, kidney beans, lentils), nuts and seeds. Bean burritos, Spaghetti Bolognese made with veggie mince, spicy beanburgers, and vegetable soup with added lentils all go down well with children. Diets based around these foods are much lower in harmful cholesterol, saturated fat and total fat, and higher in fibre.

The VVF therefore calls on LEAs in the North East of England to reduce or remove the amount of all meat – including white meat – from local school meals, and to consider alternative protein sources instead.

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The Vegetarian & Vegan Foundation (VVF) has recently published a new guide, White Meat Myths which investigates the links between the consumption of white meat (chicken, turkey, ducks and geese) and health.

Our research has found links between white meat consumption and a diverse range of health problems and diseases - including obesity, diabetes and certain cancers.

It is not compulsory for school children to be offered meat, as long as alternative food sources of protein are on the menu. For nursery and primary school children, one item from this food group must be offered each day, rising to two items a day for those at secondary school.

Alternative protein sources include soya products (eg tofu, veggie mince), pulses (eg baked beans, chickpeas, kidney beans, lentils), nuts and seeds. Bean burritos, Spaghetti Bolognese made with veggie mince, spicy beanburgers, and vegetable soup with added lentils all go down well with children. Diets based around these foods are much lower in harmful cholesterol, saturated fat and total fat, and higher in fibre.

The VVF therefore calls on LEAs in the North West of England to reduce or remove the amount of all meat – including white meat – from local school meals, and to consider alternative protein sources instead.

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The Vegetarian & Vegan Foundation (VVF) has recently published a new guide, White Meat Myths which investigates the links between the consumption of white meat (chicken, turkey, ducks and geese) and health.

Our research has found links between white meat consumption and a diverse range of health problems and diseases - including obesity, diabetes and certain cancers.

It is not compulsory for school children to be offered meat, as long as alternative food sources of protein are on the menu. For nursery and primary school children, one item from this food group must be offered each day, rising to two items a day for those at secondary school.

Alternative protein sources include soya products (eg tofu, veggie mince), pulses (eg baked beans, chickpeas, kidney beans, lentils), nuts and seeds. Bean burritos, Spaghetti Bolognese made with veggie mince, spicy beanburgers, and vegetable soup with added lentils all go down well with children. Diets based around these foods are much lower in harmful cholesterol, saturated fat and total fat, and higher in fibre.

The VVF therefore calls on LEAs in the South East of England to reduce or remove the amount of all meat – including white meat – from local school meals, and to consider alternative protein sources instead.

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The Vegetarian & Vegan Foundation (VVF) has recently published a new guide, White Meat Myths which investigates the links between the consumption of white meat (chicken, turkey, ducks and geese) and health.

Our research has found links between white meat consumption and a diverse range of health problems and diseases - including obesity, diabetes and certain cancers.

It is not compulsory for school children to be offered meat, as long as alternative food sources of protein are on the menu. For nursery and primary school children, one item from this food group must be offered each day, rising to two items a day for those at secondary school.

Alternative protein sources include soya products (eg tofu, veggie mince), pulses (eg baked beans, chickpeas, kidney beans, lentils), nuts and seeds. Bean burritos, Spaghetti Bolognese made with veggie mince, spicy beanburgers, and vegetable soup with added lentils all go down well with children. Diets based around these foods are much lower in harmful cholesterol, saturated fat and total fat, and higher in fibre.

The VVF therefore calls on LEAs in the South West of England to reduce or remove the amount of all meat – including white meat – from local school meals, and to consider alternative protein sources instead.

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I am sure you are all aware of Pop Tarts, the delicious pre-baked toaster pastry made by the Kellogg company. However, myself and many people i know were shocked to find that the frosted version of Pop Tarts contain beef gelatin, therefore not making them suitable for vegetarians or anyone who has restrictions regarding eating beef due to circumstances, for example, religion.

This is obviously a daunting fact to anyone who pursues a lifestyle choice to not eat meat, yet loves the taste of a Pop Tart. No doubt that Kellogs are losing customers... They can replace gelatin with vegetarian alternatives such as Agar-agar which is seaweed based and gain customers, while still maintaining taste.

So sign for vegetarian Pop Tarts!

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McDonald's vegetarian optitions for a vegetarian is 3 items. Fish fingers, fillet o-fish, spicey veggie there should be a more wider variety of choices.

I asked McDonald's for more on the menu that includes meat free food they said yes only if there is a big customer demand. That means the more people sign this there will be more vegetarian food.

Please sign this even if your not a vegetarian because the more people sign
the less animals die.

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I recently had the experience with rescued baby chicks who would have been destined to the slaughter house in months. The drugs had already gotten to them, and in a month 3 of the 8 we recieved have died. Two of broken necks, on had a boken leg and healed but disappeared. I have reason srongly to believe that my aunt, who hates animal rights, killed them purposely. Their necks had been fine until one weekend. She held them in extreme heat in the house and outside she left them in extreme cold, blamed me for their deaths as well.
Here are links to the stories:
1.)
~*~If You Care About Chickens- The Story of Symphony~*~

2.)
~*~DEEP REGRET~*~

3.)
~*~ANOTHER Regret~*~

4.)
~*~BABY CHICKEN NEWS!~*~

5.)
~*~Once More, A REGRET~*~

I have been through an emotional roller coaster loving these little ones and it goes to show the hardships chicken factory farms cause. It has ade me sick to the point I will not eat.

If you show support for these babies and other chickens on factory farms please show sympathy. I will edit soon and post pictures.

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Northwestern is filled with vegetarians, vegans, and lactose intolerant students. All these people are having a hard time eating lunch at school because of the lack of interest in providing their menu items.

A school malnourishing their students shouldn't happen.

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Labels are often made to be deliberately misleading. They put hidden animal products in sweets, and don't tell you what's in it (big complicated words don't count. I'm 12 years old, how do I know what they're on about!?).

Labels rarely say "This product is NOT suitable for vegetarians". They only tell you if it is. And they often lie. "This product is not tested on animals." What about the ingredients, huh? And what about other products, like those toys they sell at fairs and in amusement arcades? They don't tell you how they were produced, do they? How do we know that we aren't buying something that was made by an exploited child in a sweatshop somewhere? We don't know, because they don't tell us.

Companies like Proctor and Gamble and GlaxoSmithKline market their products to look "good". If they told you that Aquafresh toothpaste and Febreze fabric spray was tested on animals, who in their right minds would carry on buying it? They don't want you to know. But if they had to tell us the truth (I'm sure they've never tried this before), we could tell straight away what to buy to help make the world a better place.

Currently the only way to tell how your products were made is by looking for an ethical consumer logo. But not all products have them, so you don't know what you're buying.

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You cant be an animal lover and a non-vegetarian. This is for all the people who love animals to stop eating tham and animal products.

Animal lovers should be a voice for these voiceless innocent animals. Please discourage non vegetarians from eating animal meat and also try to make your pets vegetarians.

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I am a vegetarian at LMHS and I want veretarian options for our lunch periods. Our lunches do have choices but both of them are meat related. Some of my friends don't even eat because there are no options.

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October 29, 2004

You all will be sad to know that inside IITs, the popular institutes of the world, vegetarian & non vegetarian food is prepared at the same place. The people who are pure vegetarians face a lot of problems regarding their food. On the days when non-veg is prepared in the hostels, people have to remain hungry or they have to go to far off places to have their food.

The administration is so strict that no one dares to go to dean or director to ask for the solution.If atleast one pure vegetarian mess is opened inside IITs, then the people who are pure vegetarians could go there and have their food.

So its an appeal to all of you to oppose this and join with IITians to request the IIT administration for veg. mess.

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