Sunday, January 25, 2009
Here's what is going on this weekend...
-Say it ain't so: Peanut plot thickens.
-China knows how to handle food contamination, execute responsible parties.
-Turkey stompers still on the clock.
-F*CKED UP TREND WATCH: Dogs cut and dyed to look like pandas.
-Cops bust Nigerian goat for armed robbery.
-Antibiotics from factory farms spilling over into produce.
-ACTION ALERT! End hermit crab cruelty in one minute.
As always, something to keep you smiling:
VEGAN MARSHMALLOWS ARE ON SALE!!!!!
Sunday, January 11, 2009
The latest and the greatest, here's this week's round-up.
- Animal testing does not work.
- Don't swat! Mosquitoes sing love songs.
- Veganism and the end of global warming.
- Tyson CEO steps down due in part to poor sales.
- Pressure builds to end Japan's whaling.
- PETA seeks Top Chef to make "faux gras."
- The term "owner" replaced with the term "guardian" in animal related ordinances.
- ACTION ALERT! Fort Dix burns, stabs, shoots, and breaks the limbs of live pigs and goats.
As always, something to keep you smiling...real live dragons!
Have a great week!
Labels: animal testing, Fort Dix, global warming, PETA, Top Chef, vegan, Weekly Vegan Reader, whales
Sunday, January 4, 2009
The first weekend round-up of 2009:
- Alanis Morrissette goes vegan!
- Rachel Ray wants you to poison your dog.
- Milk industry needs a bailout to continue selling pus laden staple.
- Coral growth slows to frightening levels.
- ACTION ALERT! Help free pigs from gestation crates and chains.
And something to keep you smiling...
Have a good week.
Sunday, December 28, 2008
Hope you've all had a good holiday. Here are some stories for you to check out this lazy Sunday.
- Man tries to lose weight on an all-jerky diet.
- ALF and SHAC 7 get international (negative) attention.
- New bill could reduce animal cruelty.
- Student poses as bidder and disrupts corrupt auction.
- Germany open soup kitchen to help hungry pets.
- Asia devours endangered U.S. animals.
- Aussies dump glue traps.
- Threatened species returns to England.
- ACTION ALERT: Pledge to go Veg in 2009!
As always, something to keep you smiling.
Have a good week.
Labels: ALF, PETA, pets, SHAC 7, United Kingdom, vegan, vegetarian, Weekly Vegan Reader
Sunday, December 21, 2008
From the obscure to the bizarre, here they are.
- Doctors warn of a new mad cow strain.
- FDA decides to protect the public and animal welfare.
- SHAC 7 prisoner Jake Conroy moved to new prison.
- Actor Jeremy Piven suffers from mercury poisoning possibly from eating fish.
- A WARNING: Animal activist turned police informant.
- Gang of wild cats raise baby.
- "Fashion" designer Donna Karan is gonna shit herself.
- Tyson Foods struggling to stay afloat.
- Vegetarian food producer Lightlife, looks to go more vegan.
- ACTION ALERT! Tell Urban Outfitters to Ditch Fur.
And as always, here's something to keep you smiling.
Take care.
Labels: action alert, donna karan, FDA, jeremy piven, PETA, urban outfitters, Weekly Vegan Reader
Sunday, December 7, 2008
Here's a few of the most interesting stories that are floating around the web this weekend.
- Berlin zoo looks to sell baby polar bear.
- Burger King proves once again that they have zero taste.
- Once thought to be endangered, turns out they were just hiding.
- The meat industry caused a land scarcity but there may be another vegan solution.
- The 'fart tax' may not be as bad as it sounds.
- Hunter learns that karma is a bitch.
- Giant flying reptile may be dead; but alive he was a badass.
And as always, something to keep you going...
Think he knew exactly what he was doing.
Labels: The Guardian UK, vegan, Weekly Vegan Reader, youtube
Sunday, November 30, 2008
Here's some of the this week's most interesting articles to read while you're pretending to work this Monday.
- Hope fades for 90 year giant tortoise Lonesome George in his search for love.
- Greed is killing the world's tuna population and ultimately us.
- "Mountains of manure" being produced by the factory farms in Maryland getting crap from the locals.
- Farmers in a Catch-22 over saving the endangered lynx.
- Some of the world's cutest vegetarians caught on camera.
- Sign-up to be in a new documentary about veganism.
ACTION ALERT! Tell Amazon.com to stop selling fur.
And as always...something to keep you smiling.
Have a good week.
Labels: activists, fur industry, lynx, tuna, veganism, Weekly Vegan Reader