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The official ANIMAL
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Publisher ~ EnglandGal@aol.com
Issue # 11/17/02
Editor ~ JJswans@aol.com
Journalists ~ ParkStRanger@aol.com
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MichelleRivera1@aol.com
~ sbest1@elp.rr.com
THE ARTICLES IN THIS ISSUE ARE:
1 ~ The Active Activist by Michelle A. Rivera
2 ~ Gentle Thanksgiving Dinner Register
3 ~ Televised National Dog Show by Jim Willis
4 ~ Canned Hunt Bill Clears Important Hurdle
5 ~ Did You Miss It?
6 ~ One By Name by WantNoMeat@aol.com
7 ~ Memorable Quote
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The Active Activist
By Michelle A. Rivera - MichelleRivera1@aol.com
This
month we are all talking about kinder and gentler ways to celebrate
Thanksgiving this year. We activists certainly have a lot to be thankful
for since five out of six of the ballot initiatives for animals on state
ballots passed on November 5th! We are so thankful for all the activists
out there who were working on ballot initiatives to help pregnant pigs,
greyhounds, dogs and cats and roosters!
So let’s get working on helping others to become more aware of the animals this
Thanksgiving and help our friends, neighbors, co-workers and others in our
community learn how they can enjoy the holidays without killing a single soul!
Set your date: A lot of people are hosting their parties on the
Saturday before Thanksgiving. This gives everyone a chance to be with their
vegan families and their biological families. Spend the Saturday before
with all your vegan friends, old and new, and you can still have a traditional
Thanksgiving on Thursday. Either Saturday, before or after is fine.
Get your list: Most of us don’t have a lot of vegan friends
nearby…..or do we? We never know until we reach out. One way I have found to
find other activists in my area is to contact Peta and ask them for a list of
activists in your area. We are often given opportunities to give Peta and
others permission to give our names out to local activists who are planning
demos or who are working on local issues. If you contact Peta, they will send
you a list of the activists in your area who have given this permission.
The Humane Society of the United States Humane Activist Network also keeps a
list of people who want to be contacted by local activists. (If you are in
Florida, I am the State Coordinator for the state of Florida and can give you
that list…contact me if you would like to know other activists in your area.)
If you are not in Florida, contact the regional office (found on www.hsus.org) and
ask them, or contact the Humane Activist Network office. (brosen@hsus.org)
They will be happy to hook you up-and maybe sign you up to be a state
coordinator or area manager too!
Contact your new friends: Send e-mails, make phone calls, send snail
mail --whatever it takes! Your list should be as big or as small as your
home permits. Don’t forget to invite non-vegan friends and family
too. This is a great opportunity to show off all our versatility and
epicurean delights!
Here are some recipes for traditional holiday foods to get you
started. Bon Appetit!
Pumpkin–Rice Soup with Sage and Allspice- (Serves 4 - double for 8).
5 Cups Veg Stock
1 Can pumpkin
3 cloves garlic
½ cup cooked white basmati rice
1 tsp. salt
1/8 tsp ground allspice
pinch black pepper
1 cup soy or rice milk
¼ cup minced parsley
3 tbs lemon juice
½ cup chopped roasted walnuts
4 lemon wedges
In a stockpot combine stock, pumpkin and garlic. Cover and bring to a
boil over medium-high heat, then stir the rice, sage salt, allspice and
pepper. Reduce heat to medium-low and simmer uncovered 20 minutes.
Stir frequently. Add the rice milk, parsley and lemon juice and heat
until steaming. Serve sprinkled with walnuts. Pass lemon wedges.
Source: The Complete Vegan Cookbook (Prima Publishing)
Zesty Cranberry Sauce - Serves 8
2 cups fresh or frozen cranberries (I use organic)
½ cup undiluted orange juice concentrate
2 ripe pears, finely chopped
1 medium apple, finely chopped
¼ tsp. ground cinnamon
1 tsp grated orange rind
½ cup raw sugar (or other sweetener)
Combine all ingredients except sweetener in a saucepan and bring to a simmer
over medium heat. Continue cooking, uncovered, until cranberry skins pop
and mixture thickens slightly. Add sugar to taste. Serve hot or cold.
(Source: PCRM)
Risotto with Portobello Mushrooms and Radicchio – Serves four
½ lb. Portobello mushrooms
3 Tbs. olive oil
3 cloves garlic-minced
2 Tbs. balsamic vinegar
2 Tbs. fresh lemon juice
1 tsp dried thyme
31/2 cups veg stock (I use miso stock)
¼ tsp salt
1 TBS dry sherry
1 cup uncooked Arborio rice
½ cup minced fresh Italian parsley
1 cup finely diced radicchio
Clean mushrooms with brush. Trim and discard the bottoms of the stems, and
remove the stems from the caps. Slice the mushroom caps into ¼ inch
strips. Cut the stems in half lengthwise, then into quarters or eighths,
depending on their size. Heat 2 tbs of the oil in a large skillet and add
the garlic. Sauté for one minute, then add the mushroom caps, vinegar,
lemon juice and thyme. Sauté for about 20 mins. until the mushrooms are
tender and their liquid has reduced. Set aside.
Meanwhile, heat the stock in the sauce pan until just steaming, stir in the
salt and keep this broth handy near the stove. Place the remaining 1 tbs oil
and the sherry in a saucepan over medium heat, then add the rice. Stir for
about one minute to coat the rice, then add the broth, ½ cup at a time,
stirring almost constantly and waiting until the liquid is almost absorbed
before each new addition. Add the parsley, reserving 1 TBS with the last ½ cup
of the broth. When the last addition of the broth has been absorbed and the
rice is tender, transfer the risotto to a warmed serving bowl. Garnish with the
sautéed mushroom strips, diced raw radicchio and remaining parsley. Serve
immediately.
Source: The Complete Vegan Cookbook (Prima Publishing)
Of course, add some Tofurkey, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes and roasted
veggies to all of these wonderful foods, and top it all off with some Tofutti
ice cream or:
POACHED APPLES - Serves 4
An aromatic treat to be enjoyed throughout the year.
20 dried, unsweetened apple rounds or slices
8 dried figs (Calmyrna best)
1-1/2 cups cranberry juice (about)
2 Tablespoons pure maple syrup
3 Tablespoons grated orange peel
Pinch of cinnamon
1 teaspoon arrowroot powder (optional)
Place all ingredients but arrowroot powder in a 2-quart pot with lid. Bring
contents to boil, reduce heat, cover, and simmer for 40 minutes. Stir
occasionally. If desired, thicken juice with arrowroot powder, then bring to a
final boil and remove from heat at once. Let stand at least 15 minutes. Serve
hot or cold.
Source –Vegetarian Resource Group
For more fun and recipes go to www.VRG.org.
Entertainment: For a fun game and ice breaker you can try with your new
friends, hook up your computer to the internet and play the Online Vegetarian
Game found at www.vrg.org
(http://www.vrg.org/game/index.htm)
Another fun game is this: Tell everyone they are animals! They don’t know
what animals they are. Pin tags on the BACK of each person with the name and/or
picture of an animal. Guest take turns acting out the animals without making
noises and the person has to guess what animal they are. The last one to
guess has to host next year’s party!
A variation of that one is this: Divide the number of guests by half, then come
up with that many animals. For example, if you have 10 guests, you will
have five animals. On slips of paper, write down the five animals but two
of the slips will have the same animal. Two slips of frogs, two slips of owls,
two cats, etc. Tell everyone they are an animal on the ark. Each person
is given a slip of paper with an animal’s name on it. The object of the
game is for each person to act out the animal, using sounds. They must find their
mate, for someone else is acting the same way!
Have a fun and gentle Thanksgiving this year.
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Gentle Thanksgiving Dinner
Register
From FARM - farmusa.org
Are
you hosting or attending a public or private Veggie Thanksgiving?
If so, please register the event in the National Gentle Thanksgiving
Register. This is designed to impress the hundreds of food and lifestyle
editors whom we are contacting with the rich diversity of veggie Thanksgiving
observances.
All it takes is a minute to register your dinner on-line:
http://www.farmusa.org/thanksgiving/thanksgiving_reg.html
For more information on Gentle Thanksgiving (including other event
possibilities), please visit: http://www.farmusa.org/thanksgiving or call
888.FARM.USA.
Thank you for being part of the solution.
Sincerely, Dawn Moncrief, Gentle Thanksgiving 2002
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Televised National Dog Show
By Jim Willis - jwillis@bellatlantic.net
The Tiergarten Sanctuary Trust
The
Purina sponsored National Dog Show will be televised for 2 hrs. immediately
following Macy's parade, on Thanksgiving Day:
http://www.purina.com/nationaldogshow/default.asp
and will include: "features on dogs as pets, canine athleticism, service
animals and pet health."
But much as we all love dogs, do we want to show an impressionable public a
bunch of beautiful dogs at the very start of the Christmas shopping season? Did
we learn nothing from the puppy buying frenzies started by the Disney Dalmatian
films, the recent pug-craze after Men in Black II? Do we want to give anyone
the idea that by putting any two dogs "with papers" together, there
is money to be made? Do we want the buying public to assume that the well-bred,
healthy, well-groomed dogs on TV are the same quality they can buy at their
local mall petshop? Is showing the cream of the crop, of dogs, of
breeder-exhibitors, indicative of the true nature of the dog fancy in America?
Of course not, and I'll be very surprised if their features cover those issues.
A better use of this sponsorship and network TV time: That approx. 25% of dogs
taken in by America's shelters are purebred, some relinquished because of
reasons (many correctable, of course!) that derive from how they were bred and
raised (e.g., sold too young, undersocialized, inexperienced buyers). That
mostly volunteer rescuers and breed rescues work to exhaustion and near
bankruptcy to keep dogs out of shelters and pull dogs from facilities where
they often face a death sentence. That "mutts" are just as
"valuable," as any other dog and make wonderful,
loving companions, and by virtue of their "hybrid vigor," may often
be healthier than some purebred dogs. That nobody should ever buy a pet from a
petshop! And that the holidays are usually a terrible time to add a puppy to
your life.
Send the TV cameras instead to the puppy mills and large commercial kennels of
Missouri, and then ask them to televise the "euthanasia" of a
purebred animal who ran out of time and hope in a shelter. Talk about the
facilities that don't use lethal injection, where animals often die horrible
deaths. Talk about the 6-8 million animals killed in America each year. Talk
about the states that have "Puppy Lemon Laws," to protect buyers, and
those states that do not. Talk about the backyard breeders and puppy mills that
don't report income and sales taxes on their sales. Talk about all the
"free to good home" and "puppies for sale" classifieds in
every Sunday paper, and how they contribute to America's growing animal welfare
crisis. Talk about everything the registries and breed clubs are doing (or not)
to improve this situation and the number of revocations of breeding privileges,
and the number of breeders in the news lately who have been charged with animal
neglect or cruelty.
For more info on all these issues, and what you can do to stop the killing,
please see the links page of the below KWK site. Download "How Could
You?" from this link, and ask your local media to publish/broadcast it
along with info about local animal adoption and rescue resources, and to urge
the public to consider carefully before adding a pet to their family:
http://www.crean.com/jimwillis/hcy.html
Maybe a better idea than watching something televised on Thanksgiving Day,
spend those two hours with a dog!
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"Killing With Kindness" - An Act of Compassion
One campaign. One goal: A U.S. FEDERAL law for the HUMANE euthanasia of
surplus, homeless companion animals. One result: Putting an end to the cruel
killing! For more information and a sample letter, please see:
http://www.crean.com/kindness
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Canned Hunt Bill
Clears Important Hurdle
From The Fund For Animals - alerts@fund.org
Today
(11/14) the Senate Judiciary Committee passed by voice vote the Captive Exotic
Animal Protection Act, a bill to combat the practice of private "canned
hunting" operations throughout the United States.
S.1655, which was introduced by Senator Joseph Biden (D-DE), is now ready for a
vote in the full Senate. The U.S has as many as 1,000 canned hunts ranches,
facilities where trophy hunters pay a set fee to shoot tame or habituated
animals in a fenced enclosure, typically in a "no kill, no pay"
arrangement. While gazelles may sell for $800, other exotic animals such as
African lions and giraffes sell for fees ranging into the thousands of dollars.
For more information on canned hunts, see http://action.fund.org/action/index.asp?step=2&item=1270
WHAT YOU CAN DO: Thank Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT)
for moving the canned hunt bill through his committee:
Phone: (202)224-4242/ Fax: (202) 224-3479/ Email: senator_leahy@leahy.senate.gov
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Did You Miss It?
By JJswans@aol.com
Last Sunday we were presented with a rare treat,
and I hope that you didn't miss it. Two of our journalists, Greg Lawson
(ParkStRanger) and Dr. Steve Best hosted a new radio show on station KTEP in El
Paso, that could be accessed through the internet.
The show was simply GREAT. They presented lively discussions on the
Coulston laboratory closure, on veg*ism, on fox hunting in Europe, and an
interview with a person who does animal rescue in El Paso on companion animal
and shelter issues, including the importance of spaying and neutering.
This is such a great opportunity for educating not only the local listeners,
but also educating across the nation through the web. The half-hour went
by all too quickly, leaving the audience wanting more. And that's just
what we'll get - more - because there will be a new show on Sunday, November
24th, at 7:30 pm, Mountain time, and I can't express strongly enough how
worthwhile it is to tune in. The next program focuses on veganism and
features an interview with a vegan M.D.
To tune in next Sunday, go to the following website:
El Paso NPR - KTEP 88.5 :
National Public Radio for the Southwest
http://www.ktep.org/program_detail.ssd?id=103
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One
By Name
By
WantNoMeat@aol.com
Other customs often appall
self-righteousness blinds us all
We dislike what others eat
our loved pets they call meat
Other customs other places
all that differ are the faces
We point and we judge so quick
calling them cruel and sick
Others may eat cats and dogs
but what of our cows and hogs?
Eaten are the ones we adore
but does that mean pets suffer more?
All suffer til they are dead
and the life's blood is just as red
Do they not die the same
though we only call one by name?
We accept our brutal way
and judge our equals every day
Still we blindly refuse to admit
it differs not whose throat was slit
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Memorable Quote
"Nothing
will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on
Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet." - Albert
Einstein
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