Marin VEG December Newsletter
Subject:
Marin VEG December Newsletter
From:
Patti Breitman <eatplants@gmail.com>
Date:
2023-11-30, 2:45 PM
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December 2023
Marin VEG

Hello to you and to the last month of the year.  May the long nights nourish and replenish us. May the hills turning green delight us. And may every good blessing find its way into our hearts, our homes and our world.

Rest in Peace Karen Davis

Karen Davis, the founder and director of United Poultry Concerns and a tireless advocate for chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese, and all birds used for food, died in November.  She was a pioneer, calling attention to some of the most consumed, most abused, and most ignored animals.  Her obituary in the New York Times attests to her influence and her unique place in the animal rights movement.  She will be missed.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/11/us/karen-davis-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.CU0.7BkI.hF9JC9nrhRDm&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare


Confusing News from Miyoko's Creamery

Miyoko's Creamery will be closing its facility in January and laying off 40 people, but I don't understand why.  "to increase production and efficiency" does not begin to answer my questions.

https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/north-bay/miyokos-creamery-to-close-petaluma-production-facility-in-2024-up-to-40-j/


If Cats and Dogs Went Vegan

I was always under the impression that cats cannot be healthy on a vegan diet, but dogs thrive without animal products.  There were a few articles last month about how it would slow climate change if we fed our companion animals a vegan diet, but I didn't see much on how to keep a cat off meat. Below are links to the study showing the change that is possible if we could switch dogs and cats to a vegan diet and a less technical article about the study. Here's one excerpt from the article:

"If all U.S.-based dogs and cats went vegan, researchers estimated that the lives of 2 billion livestock animals a year could be saved, along with billions of aquatic animals.

If pets around the world stopped eating meat, around 7 billion livestock animals a year would be spared from slaughter, according to the study."

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0291791

https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2023-10-05/going-vegan-healthy-for-dogs-cats-and-the-planet


How Meat Harms Wildlife

This insightful article from the Center for Biological Diversity is an eye opener.  Just reading the headings gives you an idea of the scope of the detrimental influence of animal agriculture.  The details in the text are important and heartbreaking.

https://takeextinctionoffyourplate.com/how-meat-harms-wildlife/?utm_source=foodx&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=foodx28&emci=94959e5d-5162-ee11-9937-00224832eb73&emdi=2eb35f55-0965-ee11-9937-00224832eb73&ceid=2246221


Peace on Earth

Every December I like to share this piece from C. David Coat's 1989 book Old MacDonald's Factory Farm.   Unfortunately, despite being first published in 1989, the message is  still relevant.

“Isn`t man an amazing animal? He kills wildlife - birds, kangaroos, deer, all kinds of cats, coyotes, beavers, groundhogs, mice, foxes, and dingoes - by the millions in order to protect his domestic animals and their feed. Then he kills domestic animals by the billions and eats them. This in turn kills man by the million, because eating all those animals leads to degenerative - and fatal - health conditions like heart disease, kidney disease, and cancer. So then man tortures and kills millions more animals to look for cures for these diseases. Elsewhere, millions of other human beings are being killed by hunger and malnutrition because food they could eat is being used to fatten domestic animals. Meanwhile, some people are dying of sad laughter at the absurdity of man, who kills so easily and so violently, and once a year sends out a card praying for 'Peace on Earth.”

― C. David Coats



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