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Book Club Meeting at Common Roots Cafe

Next Tuesday, we'll be discussing /The Compassionate Carnivore/ by Minnesota author Catherine Friend. In the book, she discusses her desire to be compassionate toward animals while still eating meat, and how she reconciles these two priorities.

Time: Tuesday, August 25th from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Location: Common Roots Cafe, 2558 Lyndale Ave. S., MPLS

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Volunteer of the Month: Leah Kodner

Leah Kodner graduated from the University of Minnesota this spring with a degree in American History. Leah started to consider becoming a vegetarian in high school, but it was in her freshman year of college, when she learned about factory farming, that she made the switch...

Leah is the Communications Coordinator at CAA until August 21st. Her main task is the Weekly Update you are reading. She is also co-organizing the fall Food Showcase, and is a proud member of the Writer's Group; every week she responds to articles in newspapers or writes her own and submits them...

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Article: Understanding the Mentality of Meat to Communicate More Effectively with Meat Eaters

By Melanie Joy, Ph.D., Ed.M., as written for CAA.
August 19, 2009

For many vegetarians, living in a meat-eating world is a daily challenge. Vegetarians are minorities in the dominant, meat-eating culture and are surrounded by images, behaviors, and attitudes that often offend their deepest sensibilities. They are incessantly forced to witness the profoundly disturbing consequences of our culture of meat, from the body parts of dead beings lining the aisles of the grocery store to speciesist slurs that degrade farmed animals (e.g., "disgusting pig" or "fat cow"). And their strong emotional reactions, such as grief, despair, anger, and horror--which are normal, appropriate responses to witnessing violence and exploitation--are often dismissed or ridiculed, as they may be labeled "sentimentalists" or "tree huggers."...

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