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How would you like to be a circus animal stolen from your family, beat, and chained for life? we can help each one of them Please attend my protest this saturday evening for a fun and creative protest against "The Great Circus of China" a circus that brags of having the only performing pandas in the world along with asian elephants covered with scars, lions forced to do the "lion dance" and much more. The worst part is that this circus will show 3 times in one day. The animals need us to speak for them! Please join my protest, which will feature distinctive very eye cathing hand made signs, cute ideas like getting those little packages of cleanixes(sold ten little packs for $1.00) and tie a ribbion around each one with a paper attatched that says "cry for the circus animals they are being abused, circues.com" and awesome animal masks and handcuffs to wear simbilzing confinement and of course lots of lit. This circus has been publicized sooo much we need to fight back however we can, because most of these people have never even thought of circuses being cruel so we can make a BIG difference! Please join me at the following date and time if you live in KANSAS, OKLAHOMA or TEXAS:

Time/date: Febuary 19th, protest starts at 6:00 Location: Liberal Kansas at the activity center/fairgrounds, we will meet in the parking lot before the protest

Please attend if you can it's SOO important! if you can attend email me at: ikillmathematics@hotmail.com so I know how many people to expect.

This will be a fun protest I hope to see each of you there!

TAMPA, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--EarthFirst Technologies, Incorporated ("EarthFirst" or "the Company") (OTCBB:EFTI) today announced details of its plans to establish the United States’ first Bio-refinery. This facility will be capable of producing ASTM 6751 biodiesel, as well as other high value products from palm-based methyl esters produced during the biodiesel production process.

Similar projects exist in Singapore and Malaysia, but the facility located in Channahon, Illinois will be the first in the United States.

The key to the Company’s Bio-refinery is the use of palm oil based feedstock. The chemical composition and stability of palm oil make it suitable for refinement into numerous products.

To secure the continuous availability of palm oil feedstock, EarthFirst has entered into a 15-year Supply Agreement with LODERS CROKLAAN USA, LLC (“Loders”), a wholly owned subsidiary of the IOI Group. IOI has an existing supply chain for palm oil products from Malaysia to Channahon, Illinois which serves Loders’ specialty fats business supplying the requirements of the US food industry. The Company also has a 15-year Agreement with Loders to lease a currently unused vegetable oil fractionation facility, located on its own self-contained site, adjacent to Loders’ other operations in Channahon.

... Kate Bush has a new CD out! It is called Ariel. RR.com had a video of the new single "King of the Mountain". I was on the site looking up other info helping one of the reps, and it didn't quite hit me until I looked and put two and two together, then I went to Amazon and lo and behold! So this day is starting out fucking positive! I am going to have to buy the new cd for sure. I hope Kate Bush tours. I will deffinately go, I don't care how much it will cost, and I will buy the shirt to go along with it too. ...

Isn't that exciting?

Ok, it is for me. And I am posting it here because she is a veggie and it has been 12 years since her last release and it is good and I am excited!

John Vidal
Monday August 23, 2004
The Guardian

Governments may have to persuade people to eat less meat because of increasing demands on water supplies, according to agricultural scientists investigating how the world can best feed itself.

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Hello,

Today I decided on a whim to go to Panera bread. This was the first time I have ever dined there and I decided on the portabella mushroom sandwich. I do not eat any meat or cheese (vegan) so I wanted the mozerella off the sandwich. When requesting this I was told that there are no substitutions including aditions or subtractions on the sandwiches. I decided on getting the cold veggie minus the cheese adn cucumber dressing. Although the cold sandwich was adaquite (the roasted pepers was a nice touch on an otherwise bland overdone veggie sandwich) - I had my heart set on the portabela sandwich.

ISA CHANDRA MOSKOWITZ, a vegan chef, does not particularly like to talk about tofu. Ditto seitan, tempeh and nutritional yeast.

“I think vegan cooks need to learn to cook vegetables first,” she said last week during a cupcake-baking marathon. “Then maybe they can be allowed to move on to meat substitutes.”

Ms. Moskowitz, 34, was born in Coney Island Hospital, lives in Brooklyn, and is a typically impatient and opinionated New Yorker. She can’t stand how slowly most cooks peel garlic, makes relentless fun of Rachael Ray and rolls her eyes at the mention of California hippies.

But as a vegan and a follower of punk music since age 14, she is also part of a culinary movement that helped turn the chaotic energy of punk culture of the 1970s and 1980s into a progressive political force.

“Punk taught me to question everything,” Ms. Moskowitz said. “Of course, in my case that means questioning how to make a Hostess cupcake without eggs, butter or cream.”

The charm of Ms. Moskowitz — in person, in her cookbooks and on her public-access television cooking show, the Post-Punk Kitchen — is that she makes even the deprivations of veganism and the rage of punk seem like fun. Like feminism that embraces makeup and miniskirts — the frivolous bits — Ms. Moskowitz’s veganism embraces chocolate, white flour, confectioners’ sugar, and food coloring.

By AMY ROLPH P-I REPORTER
Source: Seattle PI

A Seattle lawyer has filed a class-action lawsuit in response to a nationwide pet food recall and growing concern over the potential health threat to thousands of pets.

"We've been getting swamped with calls and e-mails," said Tom Baisch, an attorney with the Seattle-based law firm Myers and Company, which filed the lawsuit Monday in federal court.

An Oregon man whose cat died two weeks ago is the only plaintiff in the lawsuit now, but Baisch said he hopes he soon will be able to add Washington victims.

A handful of other lawsuits have been filed in the United States and Canada against Menu Foods Ltd., based in a Toronto suburb. The lawsuits are expected to stir debate over the monetary value of beloved animals, and how much emotional hardship a pet owner stuffers when an animal dies.

Thank you for contacting us.

Even though they are not Kosher-certified, as of this date, all of our Grillin' Beans except our Smokehouse variety do not contain any meat or meat-by products.

Again, we thank you for taking the time to contact us. We appreciate your interest in our products.

Sincerely,
Kenna Hess
Consumer Relations Coordinator

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The fake meat at this upscale vegan eatery doesn't taste like mystery meat. Depending on the night it's more like hearty meat loaf with a mushroom sauce, pork tenderloin or Mediterranean grilled chicken skewers.

At Sublime, cascading waterfalls trickle from 10-foot windows in a low-lit dining room filled with live palm trees and customers sampling $19 caviar _ made of seaweed, not fish eggs.

Once a network of grungy, obscure cafes, the vegetarian and vegan experience in some cities has blossomed on par with its carnivorous counterparts, complete with Zagat ratings and celebrity clienteles.

PETA was just alerted to an urgent situation in Central Florida. A permit has reportedly been issued to the Orlando-Orange County Expressway Authority, which has been authorized to pave a new freeway interchange over the habitat of helpless gopher tortoises—a threatened species—as well as dozens of other sensitive species. Click here to read more about this disturbing situation. According to wildlife experts, it could take months—up to a year—for tortoises who are buried alive to die of suffocation, dehydration, and starvation in their burrows.

Please contact Orange County authorities immediately and urge them to halt construction of this expressway at once. Demand that they explore humane alternatives by consulting with experts. There is no justification for allowing these animals to suffer and die in agony.

Please send polite comments to:

Orlando-Orange County Expressway Authority
525 S. Magnolia Ave.
Orlando, FL 32801
407-316-3800
407-316-3801 (fax)
info@oocea.com

The Honorable Richard Crotty
Mayor of Orange County
201 S. Rosalind Ave., 5th Fl.
Orlando, FL 32801
407-836-7370
407-836-7360 (fax)
mayor@ocfl.net

Commissioner Teresa Jacobs (district1@ocfl.net)
Commissioner Fred Brummer (district2@ocfl.net)
Commissioner Mildred Fernandez (district3@ocfl.net)
Commissioner Linda Stewart (district4@ocfl.net)
Commissioner Bill Segal (district5@ocfl.net)
Commissioner Tiffany Moore (district6@ocfl.net)
Board of County Commissioners
201 S. Rosalind Ave., 5th Fl.
Orlando, FL 32801

407-836-7350
407-836-5879 (fax)

Please forward this message to others who might be willing to lend their voices to this important issue.

I am going to add banners to Carrot Juice, My Blog, and Crazy Computing.

Also all profit made from my stores at Carrot Juice political relationships and Crazy Computing in September 2005 will be donated to the HSUS as well. Above the donation I am making I will also match all profits made as well. So if an item sells for $15, and I make $1 I will donate $2 to the HSUS.

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I used to ridicule non-meat eaters mercilessly in my younger days. Why, I thought, would one want to sacrifice something as great as meat simply for the sake of some silly animal? In retrospect, my ignorance is somewhat appalling.

While there are an abundance of arguments for vegetarianism based on animal rights and environmental concerns, the clearest reason that one might change one's diet is simply for the radical health benefits associated with alternative diets. Meat eating has been linked to stroke, type II diabetes, heart disease, a variety of cancers, gallstones, hypertension, constipation, Alzheimer's, asthma, impotence, coronary artery disease, osteoporosis and myriad other ailments.