June 2011
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Glow in the Dark Pork.
Next time you’re eating bacon, flip off the lights and check to make sure it’s not glowing in the dark.
A woman in Shanghai was startled when she awoke to find the pork on her kitchen table glowing bright blue in the dark. After reporters broke the story, local health department experts investigated the incident. They found that the blue glow came from phosphorescent bacteria living...
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'Anonymous' Declares War on Orlando.
Hacker group Anonymous has declared war on the City of Orlando for their refusal to allow vegan activist group Food Not Bombs to feed the hungry.
Earlier this month, four people from Food not Bombs were arrested in Orlando for feeding the homeless. The activists could face 60 days in jail and have to pay a $600 fine. The city maintains that public feedings violate a local ordinance unless the...
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Botox Cuts 95% of Animal Tests.
After making one of the largest investments in cruelty-free cosmetics research ever, the makers of Botox have announced that their scientific advancements will eliminate more than 95% of the company’s animal testing.
Allergan, the makers of Botox, injected $65 million into scientific research aimed at reducing and eliminating the use of animals in experimentation. Their investment paid...
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Dog Meat Festival Cancelled.
If you were planning on attending this year’s “dog meat festival” in Seongnam, Korea, you’re out of luck, the event has been officially cancelled.
Korean activists put a stop to the dog meat industry’s first attempt at a promotional festival in Korea’s Gyeonggi province. Dog meat producers were hoping to normalize the sale of dog meat by giving out free...
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Popeye Helps Fight Iron Deficiencies.
Popeye: defender of good, sworn enemy of Bluto, and US Government propagandist. Most people are shocked to hear why Popeye ate so much spinach. What seemed like a silly and fun addition to a children’s cartoon was actually part of a government campaign to get Americans to eat better and stay strong through the Great Depression.
Popeye was created in the 1930s as a symbol of American...
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Blogger Jailed For Bad Beef Review.
A blogger in Taiwan has been sentenced to 30 days in jail, two years probation, and will be forced to pay a NT$200,000 (US $7,000) fine for saying a restaurant served bad beef noodles.
The blogger criticized the restaurant on her blog for serving beef noodles that were “too salty.” She also added that restaurant had unsanitary conditions as evidenced by the number of cockroaches...
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Does This Picture Offend You?
Artist Ryan Desmond of Spokane, Washington is unintentionally stirring up controversy and sparking a debate over what vegans actually find offense.
Desmond earned the opportunity to place some of his work in a Downtown restaurant called Soulful Soups and Spirits as part of citywide art walk. The works he chose to display were some detailed and realistic paintings of meat products on vibrant...
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One More Chance to Win!
Only one more day to ‘Like’ us on facebook and be entered to win a bag of Dandies vegan marshmallows from Chicago Soydairy.
Here’s how you can win:
1. Go to The Informed Vegan’s facebook page and click ‘Like.’
2. Find the post about this contest on our wall and leave a comment.
That’s it!
Good luck. I hope you win.
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Bear Cub Killed for Being Too Friendly.
This bear cub was euthanized this week for being too friendly and curious of humans near the Terra Nova National Park in Newfoundland, Canada.
The Department of Fish and Wildlife says the bear was so friendly to humans that there was no other choice than to euthanize him. They had made an attempt previously to relocate the little bear but he came back. He liked people but more importantly,...
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Man Asks to be Hunted.
A brave and daring soul has created a website where he offers sportsmen the opportunity to hunt and possibly kill him for cash.
The site, HuntMe4Sport.com, popped up on tumblr a few days ago and it’s creator is trying to earn some cash to help support his family. He had this to say on his site:
“I seek hearty gents who fancy themselves sportsmen and board of the usual game. I am a...
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Satellite Photos Bust Clearcutting Cattle...
Cattle ranchers in Paraguay face jail time after their rainforest clear cutting activities were exposed by satellite photos.
The cattle ranchers were caught on satellite camera clear cutting over 4000 hectares of protected rainforest in Paraguay. The particular patch of land they were destroying is home to the indigenous Ayoreo Indians who rely on the forest for their survival. Because of the...
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Vegetarians Save Everyone Money.
Two brilliant researchers decided they would look into the claims made by animal rights advocates about how realistic a vegetarian world could be. What they found may change the debate forever.
First, researchers wanted to know how much it actually costs to produce calories for human consumption. They looked at the production costs associated with various food products and found that vegan...
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UK Beagle Farm Blocked.
Activists and concerned citizens have put a stop to the construction of what would have been one of Europe’s largest beagle farms.
A US-based company, Marshall Farms, planned to build a 2,000 beagle farm in Yorkshire used to breed the little dogs for animal experimentation all across the UK. The facility would have been one of Europe’s largest.
The thought of experimenting on dogs...
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Meat Prices Rise 30% by 2013.
Food costs are going up across the board but it turns out the item that will hit consumers hardest will be meat.
Market experts are predicting that meat prices will skyrocket 30% in the next few years. This means that an average pound of ground beef will go from about $3.87 to over $5 per pound. This is largest increase that any of the food sectors will face.
Food prices fluctuate all the time...
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Make Your Own Animal Mummy.
An independent learning space in Brooklyn called Observatory is offering a unique set of summer school courses including a hands-on DIY course on mummification.
Students in the mummy class will practice their skills by making their very own animal mummy. Everyone who signs up will be issued an animal procured through pet feeder supply stores or meat markets. Following the directions written...
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KFC Fights Diabetes With 'Mega Jug.'
Help KFC fight diabetes by grabbing a ‘Mega Jug’ of soda on your next visit.
The Mega Jug is KFC’s unholy bucket-o-pop which contains a half gallon of syrupy 800 calorie soda - that’s the equivalent of an entire six-pack of 12 oz cans. This thing makes 7-Eleven’s Big Gulp look child’s size. After guzzling a half-gallon of soda, you might feel a little guilty...
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Henry Rollins and the Frog Smoothie.
Hardcore music pioneer and acclaimed poet Henry Rollins has signed on to host a new National Geographic show featuring people doing weird things with animals including liquefying them into smoothies.
The new show, called Animal Underworld, will appear on the Nat Geo channel. Rollins will travel around exploring how animals play a part in people’s lives. He will interview people who make...
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Win A Bag of Vegan Marshmallows!
Chicago Soydairy has teamed up with The Informed Vegan to bring three lucky readers a free bag Dandies vegan marshmallows.
Dandies cook and brown just like traditional marshmallows but have even more flavor and sweetness. Your Fourth of July or summer camping trip won’t be complete until you’ve scarfed down an entire bags worth of vegan s’mores or tray of vegan rice crispy...
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Japan Makes Burgers From Poop.
This is what a poopburger looks like.
Scientists in Japan are hoping to save the world from the destructive nature of meat production by taking that burger you ate last night, waiting a few hours, and feeding it back to you. Introducing the world’s first known burger made from human feces.
Mitsyuki Ikeda, has developed a way to extract the protein found in poop, mix it with soy powder,...
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Israel's Cottage Cheese Rebellion.
If consumer advocates get their way, July in Israel will forever be known as the month of the cottage cheese rebellion.
In response to the rising cost of food and the removal of government price controls, consumer advocates in Israel are planning a massive social media driven campaign. The campaign will focus on targeted boycotts of a different food staple each month. The first boycott will be...
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Tobey Maguire the New Face of Prada.
Things that make ya go, huh?
Prada has announced that vegan and animal rights supporter, Tobey Maguire, will be their new spokesmodel for Prada’s fall menswear line.
Many people, myself included, are baffled by Tobey’s new job. Prada is one of the worst offenders when it comes to pushing products made of fur and snakeskin and Tobey is a hardcore vegan. In 2008, Ecorazzi reported...
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Wisconsin Wants Animal Researchers Exempt from...
The Wisconsin legislature is pushing a measure that would allow people who experiment on animals to be exempt from state animal cruelty laws.
Representatives are set to vote on a controversial budget proposal which contains an item that will pave the way for animal researchers to inflict more cruelty and pain. The measure would exempt animal researchers at UW Madison from state animal cruelty...
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BBQ King Loses Contest Over Tofu.
Dave Anderson, BBQ legend and founder of the Famous Dave’s restaurant chain which bears his name, recently lost the ‘BBQ Master’ title and $50,000 all because of tofu.
Dave was competing in the Food Network’s latest ‘why the hell is this even a show?’ series when his dreams of being crowned ‘BBQ Master’ were dashed by a few little bean curds. The...
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Airline Serves Diseased Donkey Meat.
An airline has been accused of serving passengers donkey meat from Tunisia despite warnings that meat from that country could be diseased.
Saudi Arabia Airlines has been accused of serving passengers donkey meat and telling them that is was from a different animal. From what very limited information there is on the incident, it appears the donkey meat arrived in Cairo for use at the local zoo....
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Princeton Cited for Animal Cruelty.
Princeton University’s neuroscience lab has received six citations from the USDA for excessive abuse of animals used for experimentation.
As if experimenting on primates for unnecessary research wasn’t cruel enough, Princeton has been cited for six different offenses that go beyond the acceptable levels of cruelty associated with animal testing. The most egregious of these offenses...
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France Must Save the Hamsters or Pay.
The European Court of Justice has ruled that the French government must do more to save the wild hamster or be forced to pay up to $24.6 million for what, in essence, amounts to environmental negligence.
Two years ago the wild hamster population was near 1,500 and now has fallen to just 800. An increasing amount of suburban sprawl and a shift to new types of crops planted in the Alsace of...
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Suge Knight will do PETA ad.
Suge Knight, CEO of Death Row records and possibly the most dangerous man in music, will star in a new anti-dog chaining ad for animal rights group PETA.
This one made me do a double-take.
Knight has been a key figure in both the music and crime worlds since the early 90s. He was riding next to Tupac when he was shot and killed in an SUV and he is believed by many to be the one...
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Thanks to Morrissey, Festival Goes Veg
Former Smiths frontman and last of the famous international playboys is once again making major demands of concert promoters and getting his way. Morrissey may be a diva but at least it’s for a good cause.
Morrissey left the Lokerse Feesten promoters to sweat and spend many sleepless nights waiting for the singer’s reply after they asked him to headline the festival. After nearly a...
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Great White Sharks Love Heavy Metal.
An Australian tour guide has switched over to a fish-free bait pioneering a new form of attractant for great white sharks, heavy metal music.
The tour guide has been taking people out on his boat for years to see and appreciate great whites in their natural habitat off the coast of Australia. For nearly all that time, he’s used thousands of gallons of chum made of dismembered fish parts....
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Animal Testing Puts People In Hospital.
Recent numbers released from the UK based Safer Medicines Trust estimate that adverse reactions to drugs which tested safe on animals put over 1 million people into the hospital every year.
The Safer Medicines Trust tells The Daily Mail that 1-in-15 hospital admissions, or over one million a year, are due to adverse reactions to drugs proven safe in animal testing. Ninety-two percent of all...
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Barbie and Ken Destroying Rainforests.
Barbie and Ken, and their maker Mattel, are under pressure from environmental protection groups like Greenpeace who are exposing Mattel’s use of paper products made from endangered rainforests.
Mattel uses paper from Asia Pulp and Paper in the creation of packaging for toys like Barbie and Ken. Asia Pulp and Paper have been called “one the most environmentally...
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Sean Kingston Upsets The Manatees.
Animal friendly superstar and recent jet ski accident victim Sean Kingston may be fined up to $32,500 for disturbing Florida manatee habitat.
During Memorial weekend, Kingston crashed a jet ski into a bridge putting him into the ICU with a broken jaw and a fractured wrist. Kingston is in stable condition now and when investigators looked into the crash they discovered that the speed at which...
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What Iggy Pop's Dior Snakeskin Means.
A photograph by acclaimed fashion photographer Mikael Jansson of punk rock legend and animal rights activist Iggy Pop holding a Dior snakeskin handbag is going viral on the web but what does it mean?
Iggy Pop is a bold and daring performer and a confident and outspoken advocate of animal rights. Over the years he’s used his fame to draw attention to the brutal seal slaughter and...
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Sara Lee Starts Robo-Meat Plant.
Sara Lee, parent company of Hillshire Farms, has announced the purchase of a fully operational meat processing plant where most of the employees are robots.
The plant reportedly cost Sara Lee $140 million and will reduce their human staff by more than half. The robots de-bone, cut, slice, and package all the company’s meat and do it at twice the speed of human workers. More robots and...
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NBC Brings Back Fear Factor.
Fear Factor, NBC’s insane but ridiculously popular reality series, is coming back to television to entertain millions of viewers with their “gross-out” and “stunt” challenges that involve animal mistreatment and abuse.
On the show, contests compete for prize money by accepting challenges that often involve eating a live animal, disgusting animal product, or sitting...
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Did Pork Covered Bullet Kill Osama?
Makers of a pork fat based gun oil claim their product was used on the gun and bullets that killed Osama Bin Laden, theoretically denying him a place in paradise.
The Silver Bullet Gun Oil Co. claims that their pork fat gun oil was used by members of the elite Navy Seal Team 6 when they killed Osama Bin Laden last month. It’s not known if anyone on Navy Seal Team 6 even purchased the pork...
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NY Factory Farm Secrecy Bill Advances.
A bill that would outlaw photography and video of animal abuse on factory farms is one step closer to becoming law.
A 5-to-1 vote has moved the draconian bill out of committee and onto the floor for debate and eventually a vote.The bill, nicknamed the “ag-gag” bill, is similar to the defeated bills in Minnesota and Florida and the pending bill in Iowa.
If passed, unauthorized...
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Last Day To Win A Free Tofurky Pizza!
Just a reminder to everyone who has not yet entered to win. We are giving away 3 tasty Tofurky Pizzas and want YOU to be the one who wins.
Check out the link to enter (HINT: It only requires a few clicks).
Winners will be selected tonight at midnight EST.
Good luck!
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Idaho Wants Animal Cruelty to be a Felony.
Forty-seven states currently allow animal abusers to be charged with a felony but Idaho is not one of them. Activists are pushing for a voter initiative that would allow animal abusers to be prosecuted at the felony level.
Idaho, North Dakota, and South Dakota are the only states left without felony animal cruelty laws. Currently, animal abuse in Idaho carries a misdemeanor charge with a $100...
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Food Pyramid Dead, Food Plate Lives.
So long food pyramid and hello…food plate and floating cup? To help you understand the food groups and to eat balanced meals, the USDA has unveiled their new nutrition chart.
The redesign reportedly cost a cool $2 million and although is easier to understand, is still flawed in its representation of a healthy diet. The plate is divided into four sections: grains, fruits, vegetables,...
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Kids Take Denny's All-You-Can-Eat Pancakes to the...
A group of teenage boys in California sat down at Denny’s for the $5 all-you-can-eat pancake platter and ended up gorging themselves for 24 hours.
The seven teens devoured every pancake in the restaurant and staff had to be sent to the store to buy more mix just to appease them. After 24 hours, 43 pancakes, and 14,000 calories apiece, the crew had swallowed 301 pancakes. Not counting...
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18% Of Americans Implement Meatless Mondays.
Two surveys from two different sources have come back with surprising results about the awareness and impact of Meatless Monday.
The first, commissioned by the Meatless Monday organization and performed by research firm FGI Research, found that 50.22% of Americans are at least “aware” of Meatless Monday. Shocking mostly because the same survey conducted 6-months ago found that only...