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On Killing Cows to Save Elephants

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While reading a blurb about the much-anticipated Babycakes cookbook at Forbes.com (gluten-free, vegan baked goods galore. In other words, it's so tragic that elephants are in mortal danger that you should kill cows to help protect the imperiled elephants? Here 's the book.) Those pondering a pair should act fast.

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On "That's Why We Don't Eat Animals"

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" That's Why We Don't Eat Animals: A Book About Vegans, Vegetarians, and All Living Things ," written and illustrated by Ruby Roth, has gorgeous and haunting illustrations. And it gently tells the story of why we shouldn't eat factory farmed animals.

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Where Does Entertainment Begin and End?

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Juluri is referring to something specific: the Supreme Court's examination of First Amendment protection of acts of cruelty to animals. And is video of a cow being pummeled to death with a bat worse than a cow being "processed" in a slaughterhouse? And the article is worth reading just for that. What do you think?

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Reasons Consistently Applied

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And there are religious reasons: According to the Bible , the original divinely-prescribed diet was an entirely plant-based, vegan diet: "And God said, 'Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. These birds are some of the most abused animals in agriculture.

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From Today's New York Times

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Steiner might feel less lonely as an ethical vegan—he says he has just five vegan friends—if he recognized that he has allies in mere vegetarians (like me), ethical omnivores and even carnivores. Go vegan, go vegetarian, go humane or just eat less meat. How far do we go in protecting them? Jean Kazez Dallas, Nov.

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The One Animal Product You Should Feed Your Children

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The breast milk of vegan mothers is fully nutritious for infants, and contains the full compliment of energy, protein, and vitamins, needed for the rapid growth of life's first half year. Michael Klaper, Pregnancy, Children, and the Vegan Diet , p. There is no need for infants to be raised on cow's milk formulas.

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