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Eugene Veg Education Network (EVEN) - serving as a vegan resource since 2005
Veg Wisdom
In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. - George Orwell, English author, journalist (1903-1950)
Veg Spotlight
I wish I'd known that food addiction and compulsive eating is a disease syndrome that comes from a combination of processed foods, and lack of guidance for filling the spiritual emptiness we all show up on this planet seeking to fill. - Victoria Moran
Read EVEN's exclusive interview with Victoria HERE.
Veg Wisdom
An old error is always more popular than a new truth. - German Proverb
Veg Wisdom
The high-minded man must take care more for truth than for what people think. - Aristotle (384 - 322 BC)
A Bitter Pill...
When he's not too busy connecting people across the universe, Mark Zuckerberg is pursuing a new "personal challenge," as he calls it. "The only meat I'm eating is from animals I've killed myself," says the Facebook founder and CEO. It's an odd dietary direction for the 27-year-old Internet billionaire, but since he has taken to killing goats, pigs and chickens, "I'm eating a lot healthier foods. And I've learned a lot about sustainable farming and raising of animals," he says. After the lobster, the next animal to fall at his hands was a chicken. What's next on this journey? He's told people that he's interested in going hunting.
Veg Wisdom
Hell is 'truth realized too late.' - E. O. Wilson, American biologist, naturalist (1929 - )
Veg Wisdom
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. - Mark Twain, American author, humorist (1835 - 1910)
Veg Wisdom
No scoundrel is so stupid as to not find a reason for his vile conduct. - Shakti Gawain
Veg Wisdom
The truth is the one thing that nobody will believe. - George Bernard Shaw
EVEN Featured In:
~ Vegan Voices
(Beyond Joy)
~ Health Science Magazine (Member Spotlight)
~ Boomer News Interview (NW Boomer and Senior News)
~ 24 Carrot Award (Vegetarians in Paradise)
~ Vegan Awareness Year (Mayoral Proclamation, City of Eugene)
~ American Vegan Magazine (American Vegan Society)
~ Volunteer of the Year (United Way)
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Veg Wisdom
By eating these whole foods, getting away from the dairy – anything with a mother, anything with a face – meat, fish, and chicken, it's so incredible how powerful the body can be. And if we're going to have a seismic revolution of health, which is really right at our fingertips, the major behavior that has to change is interestingly enough: our food. That is the absolutely key card, it trumps everything. - Caldwell Esselstyn, MD, Leading Cardiology Consultant, Vegan
Veg Wisdom
Ceasing to eat food products made from animals, and in particular those from factory farms, is my effort to reduce and prevent a bit of the suffering. - John Robbins
Read EVEN's exclusive interview with John >> Here
Edu-Stat
In a world where an estimated one in every six people goes hungry each day, the politics of meat consumption are increasingly heated, since meat production is an inefficient use of grain---the grain is used more efficiently when consumed directly by humans. Continued growth in meat output is dependent on feeding grain to animals, creating competition for grain between affluent meat eaters and the world's poor. -- The Worldwatch Institute
Veg Wisdom
"It is no measure of good health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." - Jiddu Krishnamurti, Writer, Philosopher, Spiritual Leader (1895-1986)
Veg Wisdom
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. - Aldous Huxley, English writer (1894 - 1963)
The Scoop > If Truth Be Known
...for I search after truth, by which man never yet was harmed.
- Marcus Aurelius, Meditations. vi 21
Meat is the dead body of someone who
wanted to live.
Think about it.
Go VEGAN today!
On Non-Violence and Peace by Mahatma Gandhi
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Egg Facts and Dairy Facts
12 Egg Facts the Industry Doesn't Want You to Know
10 Dairy Facts the Industry Doesn't Want You to Know
A Life Connected
People everywhere are making choices more connected with their values.
We are simplifying our lives, buying less and living more because we know that the Earth provides enough to satisfy everyone's need, but not everyone's greed.
We recycle because we know the Earth's resources are limited and that we must share those resources with those yet to come.
>> A Life Connected
Source: "VEGAN. For the People. For the Planet. For the Animals" by NonviolenceUnited.org
The First Thanksgiving by Rynn Berry
The story of the Pilgrim's First Thanksgiving---and turkey's place in it---has been shown to be largely a myth. It was only in 1863 >> MORE
RIGHT Now...RIGHTS Now!
Rights movements never go away. They always get stronger.
- Ingrid Newkirk
Native Americans and Vegetarianism
How well we know the stereotype of the rugged Plains Indian: killer of buffalo, dressed in quill-decorated buckskin, elaborately feathered headdress, and leather moccasins, living in an animal skin teepee, master of the dog and horse, and stranger to vegetables. But this lifestyle,
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Excitotoxins: The Taste that Kills by Russell L. Blaylock, MD
Excitotoxins are substances added to foods and beverages that literally stimulate neurons to death, causing brain damage or varying degrees. It is linked to neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's, Dementia, Lou Gehrig's Disease and others. These excitotoxins are found in ingredients such as Monosodium Glutamate (MSG), Aspartame (Nutrasweet®), Sucralose (Splenda), cysteine, hydrolyzed protein, and aspartic acid. More >> >>HERE
MUTTS is written by veg, Patrick McDonnell. Patrick says: "In MUTTS I try to see the world through the eyes of animals. This has made me more conscious of how tough many of them have it on this planet. In 2000 I was asked to join the Board of Directors of The Humane Society of the United States, and became even more aware and involved. I felt that my strip could address (hopefully, for the most part, in an entertaining way) some of these issues and help give the animals a voice...Most readers know that animal protection issues are integrated into MUTTS. I hardly ever get negative feedback about these topics. On the contrary, many people respond positively--my favorite aspect in doing MUTTS is hearing from people who are inspired to adopt from a shelter or rescue group, or to volunteer to help animals." Thank you, Patrick!
Is Man Carnivore, Omnivore or Herbivore?
According to biologists and anthropologists who study our anatomy and our evolutionary history, humans are herbivores who are not well suited to eating meat.