Outreach for Animals Week 2008

Help the animals by joining an energetic team of leafleters who will be hitting Minnesota streets throughout the week of October 13th.

Outreach for Animals Week 2008 is an outreach and fundraising event to help countless farm animals. Participants will collect pledges and then leaflet at colleges, places of worship, concerts, and other events. They will help raise awareness about the cruelty of factory farming and empower individuals to make compassionate choices in their diet.

Sign up today to be part of our team!

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Volunteer Opportunity: Get Animals on TV

Reach thousands of local television viewers with the message of compassion by helping CAA air videos on cable! Getting educational videos played on community cable channels is a great way to spread awareness about animal cruelty - at no cost and with very little time commitment.

Although CAA has been airing VegVideo and Undercover TV in various localities for several years now, we need your help to bring these shows to thousands more in the greater Twin Cities metropolitan area. The videos have segments ranging from vegan cooking classes and undercover investigations to interviews and documentaries.

If you live in a city (or suburb) in Minnesota and would like to get involved, please contact Beth at beth@ExploreVeg.org to get started. It's as easy as submitting the video to your community station just once a month - we'll even mail you the videos to submit.

Article: One Million Vow to Reduce Carbon by Being Vegetarian

Via Radio Taiwan International
June 4, 2008

More than one million people in Taiwan have pledged to help cut carbon emissions by being a vegetarian. Taiwan's population is about 23 million, and the one million vegetarians would reduce at least 1.5 million tons of carbon emissions in Taiwan in one year. The Union of NoMeatNoHeat made the announcement during its anti-global warming drive. Many prominent politicians, such as the legislative speaker, the environment minister, and Taipei and Kaohsiung Mayors all pledged to become vegetarians.

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Article: The Meat of the Matter

Our Livestock Industry Creates More Greenhouse Gas than Transportation Does

By Jim Motavalli, as printed in E Magazine
July/August 2008 Cover Story

Ask most Americans about what causes global warming, and they'll point to a coal plant smokestack or a car's tailpipe. They're right, of course, but perhaps two other images should be granted similarly iconic status: the front and rear ends of a cow. According to a little-known 2006 United Nations report entitled "Livestock's Long Shadow," livestock is a major player in climate change, accounting for 18 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions (measured in carbon dioxide equivalents). That's more than the entire transportation system! Unfortunately, this incredibly important revelation has received only limited attention in the media.

...Jim Mason, coauthor of the book The Ethics of What We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter (Rodale Books), offers another possible reason we've kept vegetarianism off the mainstream agenda. "People who eat meat and animal products are in denial about anything and everything having to do with animal farming," he says. "They know that it must be bad, but they don't want to look at any part of it. So all of it stays hidden and abuses flourish---whether of animals, workers or the environment."

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