The abnormal proteins linked to "mad cow" disease and other brain-wasting
illnesses can form in muscle much more easily than previously thought, new
research suggests.

The accumulation of these proteins, known as prions, has been thought to be
concentrated mainly in the central nervous system and lymphatic tissues,
but California researchers have demonstrated that high levels of prions can
form in muscles throughout the body.

The report suggests that current strategies aimed at protecting the food
supply, which include taking precautions to ensure that meat does not
contain any neurological or lymphatic tissues, may not be adequate for
reducing the risk of prion diseases. However, the study's authors caution that
the results are preliminary, and it is too soon to know whether prions
naturally form in the muscle of animals infected with brain-wasting diseases.

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Is the human version of mad cow disease a ticking time bomb that will
eventually kill more than 100,000 people, or has it run its course by killing
just 120?

Millions of Europeans and tourists may have been exposed to the deadly
brain disease by eating the beef from infected cattle. But the disease can
take years or even decades to show up in its victims, so medical researchers
know they may be in a race against time to find a treatment.

full story:
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Hickory Lane Farms is a small city of pigs.

About 3,400 grunting animals live in two giant barns,
separated into 14-foot-square pens, 25 animals in each.

An electric timer delivers scientifically formulated grain from
overhead plastic pipes at regular intervals. Automatic "nipple
feeders" let pigs drink when they want. Their manure falls - or
is tramped - through slits in the concrete floor into giant,
concrete-lined "lagoons" beneath the barns.

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Since the European Union made tests for mad cow mandatory in Jan. 2000,
Italy has found 59 cases of the disease in animals, the country's Health
Ministry said Monday.

To date tests have been carried out on over 638,200 animals, the ministry
said.

full story:
http://www.al.com/newsflash/international/index.ssf?/newsflash/get_story.ssf?
/cgi-free/getstory_ssf.cgi?a0541_BC_Italy-MadCow&&news&newsflash-
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Got cloned milk?

Infigen Inc., a DeForest, Wis.-based biotechnology company does. With 34
of its 170 cloned cattle currently in a "milking barn," Infigen is ready to
place
bottles of the herd's output on America's breakfast tables.

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Eatery touts Irish food traditions, alternatives
http://www.pressrepublican.com/Archive/2002/03_2002/031720025.htm

"A vegetarian since 1989, Trank spent some of those family gatherings
filling up on vegetables like cabbage, potatoes and leeks while skipping
out on the recipes with meat.

"Now, she's got a vegetarian version of all her favorite Irish foods,
including corned beef and cabbage.

"To be specific, the recipe is vegan, meaning it contains no animal
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McDONALD'S has said it would shut a record 130 stores in Japan this year
and cut the number of new burger bars planned by 23 per cent, as recession
forced large shopping complexes to close.
...
McDonald's had opened between 300 and 500 branches annually from 1995
to 2000. The discovery of mad cow disease in Japan has also hit business,
Kaniya said.

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Fears of mad cow disease will force McDonald's Co (Japan) Ltd to close a
record 130 outlets this year, casting a shadow over its fast growth since its
establishment in 1971, a report said on Sunday.

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Dr. Neal D. Barnard, head of the Physicians Committee for Responsible
Medicine, a Washington-based group that advocates better nutritional habits
to prevent disease, said the study underscores the need for Americans to
stop eating meat hot dogs and shift to meatless ones made of tofu or
vegetable ingredients.

full story:
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danger_in_franks+.shtml

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After pressuring Burger King Corp. last year to implement stricter animal
welfare standards, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or PETA,
now is promoting the burger chain’s national rollout of the $1.99 BK Veggie
burger, which is scheduled for launch on Monday.

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If anyone on ivu-veg-news can help with the problem below please reply
directly to Kobie on  sanae@... - not to the list.

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  From: "kobie" <sanae@...>
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  Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 6:02 AM
  Subject: Antarctica


  Dear Webmaster,

  I'm part of the South African National Antarctica Expedition dor this year.
  Our doctor in the team is a vegeterian and for us its always a problem to
  prepare meals for her.  We want  to have a barbeque and now I'm looking for
  a Hambuger patty recipe.  All our veggies are frozen or tinned.  If someone
  can help me out it will be appreciated.

  Hope to hear from you.

  All the best
  Kobie

  Kobus Steyn
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this could be a good opportunity to promote vegetarianism... if anyone can
help please reply to the address below - not to the list.

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----- Original Message -----
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Sent: Saturday, March 16, 2002 3:19 PM
Subject: Special Request


> Mrs. Kelly Munsell
> Erickson Elementary School
> 6750 East Stella Road
> Tucson, AZ 85730
> March 14, 2002
>
>
> Dear International Vegetarian Union,
>
>
> Hi!
> My name is Kelly Munsell and I teach in a low income area in Tucson,
> Arizona.  As an incentive to get my students to learn, study, and read,
> I have a reward system that I call "The Classroom Store." When my
> students do their work, homework, and read, they have opportunities to
> earn fake nickels, dimes, quarters, etc.  With their fake money, they
> get to go "shopping," something they really love!
> This teaches them to be responsible with and to count money (which
> otherwise are really difficult concepts to teach!), and to save up for
> a
> bigger item that they might want to "buy" later.
> My classroom store means a lot to the kids because coming from low
> income families, many do not have the opportunity to spend money on
> themselves.
> I am writing to ask if you could possibly donate some of your
> promotional items with your logo and/or web address
> to my classroom store.
> The kids in my class are a terrific bunch!!
> Your donation would be greatly appreciated!!
>
> Thanks so much,
>
> Kelly Munsell
> Breast Cancer at 27?!
> http://www.azstarnet.com/~pud/
> Remission Accomplished
> http://www.azstarnet.com/~pud/cancer/remission.html
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Gardenburger, Inc. creator of the original Gardenburger vegetarian burger,
stated today that the company commends Burger King's decision to offer a
vegetarian burger in its restaurants nationwide.

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Fast food chains like McDonald's have in the past few years sparked more
change in animal welfare than in the previous 50 years, according to a
Canadian animal welfare specialist.
...
Restaurants like McDonald's and Burger King have outlined expectations for
livestock and poultry handling and processing.

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Thursday March 14, 2:49 am Eastern Time
Associated Press
Milk in School Vending Machines Urged
By SEANNA ADCOX
Associated Press Writer

FARM SCENE: New York Senator Promotes Placing Milk Vending Machines in
Schools

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer has urged the federal
government to promote putting milk vending machines in school hallways, an
attempt to boost health and dairy farmers.

The New York Democrat cited a successful "vendi-milk" program in
Buffalo-area schools as proof that students will make healthier eating
choices if given the opportunity.

The vending machines, selling locally produced milk in assorted flavors,
also create a new market for ailing dairy farmers, Schumer said Wednesday.

Full story:
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/020314/farm_scene_1.html

Related links:

Milk doing well in school vending machines
http://www.nwcn.com/health/HEmilk_school040401.329989.html

Milk drinking at school
http://www.nutritionexplorations.org/pdf_files/milkatschool.pdf

Burger King said Thursday it will begin selling a veggie burger that will be the
first to be nationally available at a fast-food restaurant.
...
Kellogg Company (K: Research, Estimates)'s Morningstar Farms is the sole
supplier of the vegetable patties, a Burger King spokeswoman said.
Morningstar already markets and sells vegetable patties to the general public
under the Garden Veggie brand.

But the Burger King patties are different from the Garden Veggie brand, as
they were developed exclusively for Burger King. For example, Morningstar's
Garden Veggie patties include soy protein concentrate, but Burger King
works with the nonprofit Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network (FAAN) allergy-
information clearinghouse, and it didn't want soy included in its patties
because some people are allergic to soy.

full story:
http://money.cnn.com/2002/03/14/news/companies/burgerking_veggie/index.h
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Press release on Burger King's site:

BURGER KING Launches First-ever Veggie Burger with the Great Taste of
Flame-broiling
http://www.burgerking.com/CompanyInfo/onlinepressroom/fullpresspass/press
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Burger King Corp., Miami, will introduce a veggie burger as its latest
permanent-menu item.

The meatless sandwich, which will sell for $1.99, will be backed by a
dedicated print ad from McCaffrey, Ratner, Gottlieb & Lane, New York. The
sandwich is set to launch March 18.

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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Muslim-Vegetarians/

There is a discussion list for Muslim Vegetarians.


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Jul 7 - 13 Ethics and Food in Modern Society. Food Ethics: A New Branch of
Applied Ethics? (The Netherlands)

Summer School Research School for Applied Philosophy, The Netherlands.

More information:
Hella van den Elshout,
Department of Philosophy,
Free University of Amsterdam,
De Boelelaan 1105,
1081 HV Amsterdam,
The Netherlands,
phone + 31 20 444 66 79 , fax +31 20-444 66 35,
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Ethics as a Policy Dimension
4th EurSafe Congress
March 20 - 22, 2003
Toulouse, France

Contact
Emmanuel Jolivet, e-mail: Emmanuel.Jolivet@...

  Program Outline

The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is one of the pillars on which the
structure of the European Union has been based. In the founding principles, a
close connection existed between the ethical concerns of political
decision-makers and the rights of farmers on the one hand, and economic
imperatives on the other hand. It was necessary to reconstruct European
agriculture and to achieve universal food self-sufficiency, in order to ensure
the elimination of poverty and to contribute – as far as possible – to peace
between the nations.

Nowadays, this harmony between ethics, politics and economics has been lost for
a number of reasons. Among these are: over-production as a direct consequence of
the CAP, globalisation and the introduction of agriculture and food products
into the agreements of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), and the vertical
integration of agricultural activities between
supply-industries and food-distributors. Furthermore, the growing capacity to
control life, particularly through genetic engineering (GMOs, animal cloning,
etc.), and the huge efforts by some multi-national companies to monopolise
commercial use of these techniques on the one hand, and the growth of ecological
concerns, due to risks to the environment, on the
other hand also contribute to the tension between ethics, politics and economics
in the field of agriculture.

To be more specific, important ethical questions are raised by, among others,
the following issues: public support for farming and for the way its benefits
are distributed; competition between land use and environmental interests;
consumer demand; the partnership between public research and private industry;
international trade rules and the development of southern countries. These
problems cannot be addressed without identifying and analysing the conflicts in
values that lie behind
them. Other issues, of a more social nature, are also worth considering from an
ethical point of view. One example is the social status of farmers involved
nolens volens in the globalisation process; another is the role of public debate
in the process of introducing innovations, keeping in mind that social
acceptance and ethics are highly distinct concepts.

The fourth EurSafe congress in Toulouse (France) in March 2003 will address the
economic and technical developments in the fields of agriculture and food
production from various ethical perspectives. This may help to identify the
agenda for future agricultural policies and thereby be of particular relevance
for a European association.

Practical Information

The conference will take place at the Diagora Congress Centre – Labège Innopôle,
in the Toulouse suburbs, a very well equipped location for a successful meeting.
By the end of May 2002, the website of the conference will be open to provide
all the useful information.

Contact
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veg-news list is being discontinued.

The yahoo groups will be down for maintenance for about 36 hours from this
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that time will be held as forwarded when service is resumed, none will be
lost.  (the timing is unfortunate when we've only just moved but they don't
do this very often - enjoy the quiet weekend :-)

The read-only web version of ivu-veg-news is available at
www.ivu.org/news/veg-news  - that brings up the archives on yahoo and has
been made open to the public (the old web version on envirolink.org is still
available but impossibly slow as anyone using it recently will know).

The email version of the list is now moderated - all posts will have to be
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The 1970s were the time of looking for Mr. Goodbar. Today, two Hawaii
businessmen are hoping people are looking for Mr. Goodburger.

Tony Spadaro and Wes Zane opened the first Mr. Goodburger's vegetarian
burger and power drink shop in downtown Honolulu in February. The Alakea
Street eatery is the first of a chain that is expected to grow to 200 units
within the next three years as the pair sells franchise rights, Spadaro said.

The company is opening a flagship store in Chicago by July, Spadaro said.

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Wow!  This is from "New Scientist":
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992033
Pretty cool... (Tks to Ms. Tricker on a UK Veg List for the URL)
Note the acidity in the blood of Buddhist monks
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Organic food might reduce heart attacks

09:40 14 March 02 Rob Edwards

Eating organic food may help reduce your risk of heart attacks, strokes and
cancer. The finding will reignite the debate over its health benefits and
may force regulatory agencies to reconsider their position.

Until now there has been little scientific evidence to suggest that organic
food is any healthier than conventional produce. The head of the British
Food Standards Agency, John Krebs, has gone so far as to say it is no
better. But John Paterson, a biochemist at Dumfries and Galloway Royal
Infirmary, criticises Krebs for making such statements "on the basis of
very little information".

Now Paterson and a team from the infirmary and the University of
Strathclyde have found that organic vegetable soups contain almost six
times as much salicylic acid as non-organic vegetable soups. The acid is
responsible for the anti-inflammatory action of aspirin, and helps combat
hardening of the arteries and bowel cancer.

"Eating organic may be good for you," says Paterson. "I'm not an evangelist
for the organic food movement, but there was a fairly substantial
difference."


Carrot and coriander

The average level of salicylic acid in 11 brands of organic vegetable soup
on sale in Britain was 117 nanograms per gram, compared with 20 ng/g in 24
types of non-organic soup. The highest concentration of the acid, 1040
ng/g, was found in carrot and coriander soup made by Simply Organic based
in Bilston Glen, Scotland, while it was not detectable in four traditional
soups made by Scottish company Baxters.

Salicylic acid is produced naturally in plants as a defence against stress and
disease. This could explain why levels are higher in organic vegetables, which
are generally grown without protection from pesticides.

Earlier research by Paterson's team discovered significantly higher
concentrations of the acid in the blood of vegetarian Buddhist monks compared
with that of meat-eaters.

The Food Standards Agency now promises to study the new evidence. "We are aware
of the suggested benefits of high levels of salicylic acid and will look at what
the report has to say," says a spokeswoman.
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Five cattle in Kansas tested negative for the potentially devastating foot-and-
mouth disease, not seen in the United States since 1929, the US Agriculture
Department said on Wednesday.

Reports of a possible foot-and-mouth outbreak rattled commodity markets
and food company shares, like restaurant company McDonald's Corp. and
pork and meat processor Smithfield Foods, earlier on Wednesday.

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A new public campaign against battery hen cages has been launched in
Wellington by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

Agriculture Minister Jim Sutton has appointed a committee to review the
Welfare Code for laying-hens later this year and the campaign organisers are
hoping to influence its decision.

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The ad, via Mendelsohn/Zien, Los Angeles, introduces "Chicken Breast
Strips," and shows three "scientists" examining a live chicken, searching for
its "nuggets." The idea is to poke fun at chains that offer nuggets, not strips.
But United Poultry Concerns wants the ad plucked. The Machipongo, Va.-
based group, which promotes "respectful treatment of domestic fowl," says
the ad "models itself on scenes of gang rape." UPC founder Karen Davis tells
Shoptalk that the bird in the ad was probably sedated because it doesn't
make a fuss when turned upside down.

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Corn futures fell sharply Wednesday on the Chicago Board of Trade amid
rumors denied by the U.S. Department of Agriculture of foot-and-mouth
disease in some Kansas cattle.

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