July Dine-Out at Pizza Luce

Join Compassionate Action for Animals for a dine-out Wednesday, July 2nd at Pizza Luce Uptown. Pizza Luce has great food and a lively atmosphere. Although they are well known for their fantastic pizza, they also offer delicious vegan appetizers, pastas, and sandwiches. This is a great chance to meet other animal friendly people while enjoying amazing animal-friendly foods.

Please RSVP to Becca at (763) 221-0770 or becca@exploreveg.org.

Time: Wednesday, July 2 at 6:30 p.m.
Location: Pizza Luce Uptown, 3200 Lyndale Ave S, Minneapolis

August Book Club: Animal Equality

Join CAA's next meeting of the book club for a discussion of Joan Dunayer's Animal Equality: Language and Liberation.

Animal Equality has been described as "a book of monumental importance for animal rights" and "a giant step for animal-kind...intensely powerful." The author argues that the cruel treatment of nonhuman animals is often masked by the euphemisms we use, and that the language we use erases the individuality of animals. She dispels the myth that language separates humans from nonhumans. This book is a great resource for those who want to explore how our language shapes our reality!

This book is available through online booksellers or as a loan from the CAA office library. There is one copy available through the Ramsey County Library.

Anyone is welcome to join in the discussion! If you would like to join the book club or have any questions, please contact Suzy at suzy@exploreveg.org.

Time: Wednesday, August 6, 6-8 p.m.
Location: Birchwood Cafe, 3311 East 25th Street, Minneapolis

KFC Canada Adds Vegan "Chicken" Sandwich to their Menu

For more than five years, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has been pressuring fast-food chain KFC to stop the worst abuses of chickens, like scalding birds to death, slitting their throats while they're still conscious, and drugging and breeding them to grow so large that they cripple beneath their own weight. Now PETA has scored a major victory and is ending its Kentucky Fried Cruelty boycott in Canada.

Perhaps most notable is that now more than half of all the KFCs in Canada will be adding a vegan faux-chicken sandwich (minus the mayo) to their menu. Veg dining will be even more accessible for Canadians at the 461 KFC locations.

The boycott will continue in other countries where KFC has restaurants, including the United States, until they follow KFC Canada's lead.

Learn more about the changes.

Article: I Love Moo

Tales From A New York Animal Sanctuary

By Andrea Sachs, as printed in the Washington Post
June 15, 2008

Moo had a little crush on me, and I could all but return his affections.

The brown-haired boy possessed saucer-size eyes, a sturdy build and a sweet disposition. But what really tugged at my heart was his story of survival. The super-friendly bull, who had trailed me through the pasture like a lovelorn teen, had been found tied to a car during his calfhood. He was saved by one animal shelter, then recently relocated to another, Farm Sanctuary near Watkins Glen, N.Y.

Moo is not alone -- here, at the country's largest farm animal-rescue facility, or with his grim history. The safe haven takes in hundreds of farm animals, who, if they could talk, would tell similar stories. There's Morgan, a snow-white rooster discovered in a Brooklyn pet store dyed like an Easter egg; Mayfly, an experiment in a school hatching project; and Winnie, a 500-pound pig who escaped a backyard barbecue (featuring her) in Connecticut. She now is the alpha pig of the pen.

Read the full article.