Vegan Summer Picnic

Join Compassionate Action for Animals for a vegan potluck picnic at the beautiful Minnehaha Park in Minneapolis this Saturday. We will enjoy games, music, and, of course, plenty of delicious vegan food! Please bring a vegan dish to share; for recipe ideas, check out CAA's recipe page or VegWeb.

CAA will provide some place settings, but please bring your own fork, spoon, plate, and cup if possible. Hope to see you there!

Time: Saturday, August 9, 5-8 p.m.
Location: Minnehaha Falls (near the picnic pavilion), 4801 Minnehaha Ave, Minneapolis

Volunteer Opportunity: Website Designer Needed

CAA is looking for a website designer to help us build VegWeek.com, a site to promote our upcoming 5th Annual Veg Week this fall.

We'd like to find someone with solid HTML and CSS skills who can build aesthetically pleasing, standards-compliant, accessible sites (no tag soup!).

If you're interested contact info@exploreveg.org. Please include some links to your previous work.

Vote for CAA and More in the VegNews Awards!

Cast your vote for several CAA and Minnesota nominees for the VegNews 2008 Veggie Awards! The Veggie Awards showcase the best vegan dining, services, people, and places, and is the largest survey of its kind in the world.

Take a couple minutes and show your support in the following categories:

• Favorite Non-Profit Organization - Compassionate Action for Animals (of course!!)
• Favorite Veg Website - Select "Other" and type in CAA's awesome resource VegGuide.org
• Favorite VegNews-Sponsored Event - CAA's Midwest Animal Advocacy Conference (also known as Their Lives, Our Voices)
• Favorite Vegan Storefront: Fast and Furless (the Twin Cities' only all-vegan boutique)
• Favorite Press Pass Blog Adventure - Type in the great "Their Lives, Our Voices" blog write-up!

Need an extra incentive to vote? All submissions will be entered into grand prize drawing for fabulous prizes! Take a moment and vote today!

Article: Unanimous Decision of New Jersey Supreme Court Results in Precedent-Setting Victory for Farm Animals

The Court strikes as invalid the definition of 'routine husbandry practices'

As published on MarketWatch.com
July 30, 2008

In a unanimous landmark decision, the New Jersey Supreme Court today struck down the New Jersey Department of Agriculture's (NJDA) regulations exempting all routine husbandry practices as "humane" and ordered the agency to readdress many of the state-mandated standards for the treatment of farm animals...In this monumental case, the Court ruled that factory farming practices cannot be considered humane simply because they are widely used, setting a legal precedent for further actions to end the most egregious abuses on factory farms throughout the U.S. The Court also rejected the practice of tail-docking cattle, and the manner in which the NJDA had provided for farm animals to be mutilated without anesthesia.

"This is a major victory for farm animals in New Jersey, and will pave the way for better protections of farm animals nationwide," said Gene Baur, president and co-founder of Farm Sanctuary. "Setting a legal precedent in a unanimous vote that clarifies that commonly used practices cannot be considered humane simply because they are widely used will build on our momentum in challenging the cruel status quo on factory farms."

Read the full article.