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Christian And Other Vegetarian Links and Articles

Christian Vegetarians
http://www.christianveg.com
http://www.all-creatures.org
http://www.jesusveg.com
http://groups.msn.com/catholicveg
http://www.compassionatespirit.com
http://groups.msn.com/christianveg
http://www.christianveg.com/elliot.htm
http://www.matthewscully.com
http://www.ldsveg.org
http://www.egroups.com/messages/christianveg
www.ivu.org/history/christian/christ_veg.html by Ted Alter
also
http://gbgm-umc.org/umw/corinthians/theclabackground.stm Paul's Veg
http://www.adventist.org promote vegan diet as church
but hospitals vivisect
http://www.animalliberationfront.com/Philosophy/Religion/Early%20Christian%20Vegetarians.htm
Bible Quotes:
http://www.thenazareneway.com/index_vegetarian.htm
http://www.thenazareneway.com/Biblic...esh_Eating.htm
http://www.thenazareneway.com/biblic...enis_giron.htm
http://www.thenazareneway.com/thou_shalt_not_kill.htm
JEWISH
http://www.jewishveg.com
http://www.jewishveg.com/schwartz/ online course in Judaism and veg
http://www.micahbooks.com
MUSLIM
http://www.egroups.com/messages/muslim-vegetarians
HINDU
http://www.hindu.org

Quote:

from http://www.all-creatures.org

"And He said to them, "Go into the world and preach the gospel to all creatures'

(Mark 16:15)

The Greek word for creation, ktisis, relates to all creation! Taking The Great Commission in combination with several other passages relating to God�s concern for, and salvation of, His creation leads us to the Christian�s obligation to actively care about and for animals. Remember, all creation is known as "General" or "Natural" Revelation; that is, God�s visible proof of His act as Creator (Romans 1:20). Following The Great Commission by sharing the Gospel with all people as well as caring for animals can be uniquely done in a joint effort.

GREATER THINGS SHALL YOU DO THAN I HAVE DONE
SAID JESUS CHRIST TO HIS FOLLOWERS:

What you have done to these the least of My brethren you have done unto Me.
CATHOLIC VEGETARIAN SAINTS
St Francis of Assisi, St Clare, stigmatist St Therese Neumann, St. Martin de Porres, St John Chrysostom, St Anthony of Padua who preached to fishes when humans would not listen.. St Nicholas of Tolentino* believed they were following the example of Jesus in not eating His animals. Trappists, Cistercians, Benedictines, Franciscans all have had a tradition of vegetarian diet, to which many still adhere. The pretzel was says George Cornell former AP religion writer a Lenten bread, symbolizing arms folded in prayer.. Lentils were named as such because they were a Lenten vegetarian alternative to animal flesh. Meatless Fridays were the last vestige of early Christian abstinence from meat in following
Christ's example. A papal bull once excommunicated anyone who attended a bullfight because the barbaric cruelty in them. This was later amended to excommunicate only priests who blessed bullfighting.
BIBLICAL ORIGINS

Genesis 1: 29, Isaiah 65, Daniel 1 Exodus 26: 34 are some of the thousands of quotes in the Bible on vegetarian diet. The command to feed the hungry, given by Jesus in His Sermon on the Mount, implies vegetarianism since the flesh of animals yields 100 to 1000 lbs an acre, dairy products around 10,000 lbs. an acre, some vegetables, 81,000 lbs. an acre, and fruits from centenarian fruit trees 450,000 or more lbs. an acre. Therefore Genesis fruit trees yield 450 times what slaughterhouses yield. Daniel O'Steen, of National Right To Life, felt he must be consistent in his prolife stance and so many years ago became a vegetarian. Paul Obis, founder of Vegetarian Times, is a Chicago Catholic who cares deeply about not hurting others' feelings in regards to diet. His wife Clare, mother of 6 boys, created a successful media campaign when Mike Royko refused to allow her vegetarian gluten ribs in his cooking contest. Fr. Ron Lengwin of KDKA Radio in Pittsburgh believes that the apple Adam ate was the first heart of a butchered animal. Rep Dennis Kucinich (Democrat Cleveland) is a vegan who has worked for the rights of blue collar laborers, for the
environment, and for peace. Vegetarian monasteries in Massachusetts, New York, Kentucky, Ohio serve only meatless meals.. Ron Pickarsky, former Catholic brother, now married,
has worked with commercial establishments helping them to transition http://www.eco-cuisine.com
JB exec of an Ohio corporation, rings a bell for the Knights of Columbus in public places, and has in the past inquired where he could get vegan no feather sleeping bags to be consistent in his vegetarian diet. D. Marshall, New York homeless shelter worker, is a vegetarian who does not proselytize the poor who come in to his welcoming inn. Catholic colleges such as Georgetown have responded to the growing number of their vegan students by providing options. Thomas Merton, author of Seven Story Mountain and Trappist monk, was a vegetarian, and activist for interfaith cooperation. For this he may have been murdered. EL, New York environmentalist, poet, and mystic, originally became vegetarian for economic reasons, while one of his teachers, Fr. Daniel Berrigan, eats no meat. CW, Catholic nurse, was nursing her child one day when a mosquito landed on her arm. She decided to nurse him too. One Catholic seminarian experimented with pot once.. and his perceptions slowed down. The chicken leg he was gnawing on became the leg of a chicken. That day he stopped eating meat and stopped smoking pot. A Catholic secretary for Cleveland Amory's Fund For Animals became vegan. K Fromer Blanc, Brooklyn nun, is a vegetarian as are millions of other Catholics. Father Mario Mazzoleni, now deceased, wrote on his decision to become vegetarian. His book is translated
by a Notre Dame professor.The temptation to eat meat is chemical in nature, as the uric acid in meat is more addictive than caffein since it is trioxypurine or 3 oxypurines while caffein is dioxypurine or 2. Exodus 26: 34 is a command not to kill. Governor Jesse Ventura in reference to the death penalty (for animals too) has said that that command is not asterisked with exceptions. St Thomas in the Thomasine Gospel
has many references to the fruiteating of Christ. Thomas, the skeptical apostle, went to Madras India where even today are millions of Catholic descendants of his preaching.
Cesar Chavez, the saintly activist for the rights of farm workers, continued the tradition of nonviolence in his labor organizing as well as his diet. He and Gandhi looked to Leo Tolstoy, Russian Catholic, who wrote The Kingdom of God is Within You.
Albert of Michigan, a Catholic paraplegic, has spent much time researching Catholic vegetarianism in history. He says that the word 'opsarian' means 'pickled fish' and is the Greek word for the fish Jesus created, meaning that Jesus did not materialize freshly suffocated fish but materialized processed fish. http://www.nofishing.net
Francisco Martin, Madrid Spain secretary of the IVU http://www.ivu.org is a Catholic vegan activist. Colman McCarthy, former Trappist and syndicated columnist, lectures around the world on peace studies and has long been mostly fruitarian. Bruce Friedrich, Catholic of PETA, ran their Jesus Was Vegetarian campaign.
(http://www.jesusveg.com) St Blaize's throat protection is not necessary if one stops
eating innocent fishes, suffocated and smothered, with their eyes and throats ripped out by vicious hooks. http://www.nofishing.net The countries with the most
fish consumption have the most stomach cancer. Many members of the Catholic Worker community as their founder Dorothy Day follow vegetarian diet
in Matthew 25 and many other homes. http://www.catholicworker.org
http://www.paxchristiusa.org Dr. Virginia Bourquardez, who once
hitchhiked for the first time at the age of 77 when her ride dematerialized,
worked her entire life for animals, and became a vegetarian in her 70's.
Malcolm Muggeridge the British intellectual abstained from meat in later years..
Helen Jones of the National Catholic Soc. For Animal Welfare worked with her
sister Ruth out of their Clark Summit Pennsylvania home. Leonardo Da Vinci,
a Catholic, was also a fruitarian. Danny DeVito protects insect life as well
as mammals.
Christian vegetarian sites
http://www.egroups.com/messages/catholicveg http://www.jesusveg.com
http://www.compassionatespirit.com http://www.all-creatures.org
http://www.hacres.com http://www.egroups.com/messages/salvarmy/2
Others
http://www.pcrm.org http://www.notmilk.comhttp://www.madcowboy.com http://www.ivu.org http//www.acorn.net/fruitarian
http://www.meatout.com http://www.wfad.org http://www.animalsagenda.org
tp://www.peta.net http://www.hsus.org
http://groups.msn.com/bioterror
http://www.egroups.com/messages/catholicveg/118
http://groups.msn.com/stopmowing
Fr. Mario Mazzoleni on his decision to become vegetarian (after 3 years as a strict vegetarian, Fr. Mario Mazzoleni speaks of a desire for meat. * see above
the addictive trioxypurine in meat) I would be a hypocrite if I led the reader to believe that I was strong enough to be perfectly faithful to my Lenten resolution. ..I
hadn't yet completely resolved my desire for meat - and so the repressed desire
was floating to the surface. It is a fact that the minute I would sit down to meditate, the most succulent meals would pass in front of my mind, full of fragrant roasted chickens and various sausages. What to do? If I was going to ruin all my meditations for a
roast chicken, it would be better to eliminate the problem by facing it head on. And so after 3 years of strict vegetarianism, I decided to get rid of the desire once and for all by satiating myself with a meat dinner. After all, I told myself to quiet my sense of guilt, "It isn't a crime to eat meat, and I can't say that because I'm vegetarian I'm better than many people who are carnivorous." It was almost a traumatic experience. I remembered an analogous experience of Gandhi's that he recounted in his autobiography. Convinced by a friend that India could be liberated only by the grit
of someone who ate meat, he hid himself on a river bank to consume some barbecued baby goat meat, and the next night he could feel bleating in his chest. Instead of enjoying the coveted snack in peace, the minute this little faithbreaker set his teeth into the cruel repast* (* a reference to Dante's Inferno.. in which
meat is described as a cruel repast in XXXIII.1) he was himself bitten by remorse and anxiety. I kept seeing the animal alive in front of me, and this inhibited the desire that was so enticing when it was simply mental. I immediately noticed some other effects, physical as well as psychic. My intestines held that food much longer than they kept vegetables,and my sense of smell, made sensitive by several years of vegetarianism,
was able to detect the odor of the cooked animal on my skin. It was a disagreeable sensation. As for my psyche, I noticed that my mind, which during my 3 year "Lent" was no longer seriously agitated by unwanted thoughts, suffered a set back from that carne-vale (meat festival); polluting throughts started to enter again in triumph. It
was a lesson. As always it is experience more than words that has the
greater power of persuasion. The decision to adopt a vegetarian diet
was motivated also by a religious actor. I knew that I was going to a sacred place.
quoted from Don Mario Mazzoleni's book, published by Leela Press of Faber, Virginia USA
Genesis 1: 29 Behold I have given you herbyielding seed.
To you it shall be for meat. (The fruitarian Garden of Eden)
Methusaleh.. the oldest man in the Bible, achieved 969
orbits of the sun.
Exodus: 26: 34 Thou Shalt Not Kill (not asterisked with
exceptions)
Jesus: Ye are whited sepulchres (Greek sarcophagi sarx flesh ..phagi eater)
Jesus threw the butchers out of the temple. Daniel was vegetarian
in the lions' den and therefore was
not harmed. Daniel was in jail 10 days and his
condition as a vegetarian was better than those who
were not.
Paul: If your flesheating offends your brother, forego it.
Jesus: Feed the hungry (450 times as many people per acre
can be fed tree products in comparison to slaughterhouse
products)
Many Catholics are praying that the Holy Father who takes such a strong stand
in preventing the violence of war and execution, will withdraw his
endorsement of the cruelty of lab research. Many Catholic churches have blessing of the animals ceremonies.

Abba in the name of Jesus thank You that You are now ending all violence to people, animals, and all beings on Your planet now and forever.
* Thank you Cohdra for telling us about St Nicholas

Footnote: Martin de Porres lived in Peru

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THOMAS AQUINAS ON THE ONE SIDE.... JESUS AND FRANCIS ON THE OTHER

the Dominicans were related to Thomas Aquinas who taught
that animals do not have souls...
whereas St Francis taught that they do.. as did Jesus Christ

this pollution by Thomas Aquinas (as opposed to St Thomas the apostle
who preached Jesus' vegetarian gospel in India) still affects
some Catholic hospitals today which are involved in vivisection

PROCHOICE PROLIFE

http://groups.msn.com/catholicveg/cv9.msnw
http://catholicveg.blogspot.com

Many Catholics are separating themselves from the provivisection
stance of John Paul II in his book
and the politicization of the sacraments by Benedict 16,
whose order that Kerry not be given communion was obeyed by
only 4 of the US Catholic bishops...

the hierarchy is a boat which on the sea of being spirit floats

Prolife issues include
ending the war in Iraq
ending executions
ending slaughterhouse and all forms of violence to any animal or fish
ending insecticides and all forms of violence to insects
ending lumbering and all forms of violence to plants

GEORGETOWN: COME INTO THE 21ST CENTURY

God end Georgetown's role as one of the 2 dozen or so medical schools in the
country killing animals for 'instruction' to medical students.
http://www.pcrm.org

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CHRISTIAN
http://groups.msn.com/catholicveg
http://catholicveg.blogspot.com
http://www.christianveg.com
http://www.all-creatures.org
http://www.jesusveg.com
http://www.compassionatespirit.com
http://groups.msn.com/christianveg
http://www.egroups.com/messages/christianveg
http://www.egroups.com/messages/vegchristian
http://www.hacres.com
http://www.adventist.org (The 7th Day Adventists, Methodists, and
Franciscans
were all founded by vegetarians who believed Jesus was vegetarian.
http://www.ldsveg.org Latter Day Saints are controversial to
Christians.. but
this is a good group
http://www.egroups.com/messages/epiveg
http://www.egroups.com/messages/methodistveg
http://www.egroups.com/messages/baptistveg
http://www.egroups.com/messages/quakerveg

Edenite Society of Imlaystown New Jersey published WAS THE MASTER A
VEGETARIAN

JEWISH
http://www.jewishveg.com
http://www.egroups.com/messages/jewishvegans
http://www.jewishveg.com/schwartz online course
http://www.micahbooks.com

HINDU
http://www.hindu.org
http://www.sathyasai.org

BUDDHIST
http://www.plumvillage.org
http://www.dalailama.com

MUSLIM

http://www.bmf.org Bawa Muhaiyaddeen
http://sss.vn.ua/sb_mm.htm Sai Baba and the Muslim Mind
http://ipaki.com/content/html/28/1203.html Muslim
vegetarians
http://www.afic.com.au/Muslims%20ag...l%20Cruelty.pdf
Australian Federation of Islamic Councils condemns animal cruelty
http://www.egroups.com/messages/muslim-vegetarians
http://www.ivu.org/news/1-96/muslim.html
http://www.islamveg.com
http://www.crescentlife.com/dietnut...ian_muslims.htm
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Muslim-Vegetarians/http://www.allaahuak...
http://www.islamicconcern.com
http://members.aol.com/yahyam/muslim_vegetarian.html
http://www.veda.harekrsna.cz/bhaktiyoga/islamveg.htm
http://www.veg.ca/newsletr/janfeb96/Islam_recipes.html
http://www.islamicconcern.com/fatwas.asp
http://www.petatv.com/tvpopup/video...r=wm&speed=_med
http://www.answers.com/topic/druze The Druze are Muslim
vegetarians of Lebanon. One wellknown vegan Druze is Casey
Kasem.
http://www.saibaba.org/ The Saint of Shirdi who left his
body in 1918 is revered by Muslims and nonMuslims
http://www.saibaba.org/saisatc.html is an online book
about the Saint of Shirdi
http://www.saibaba.ws/teachings/quranicmyths/sbqm.htm

For each of the spiritual paths above there are thousands of vegetarian
links.
Jain, Sikh, Rastafarian, Taoist and many other paths also have
vegetarian links.

SPIRITUAL DIET

It has been my habit since 1994 to practice a vegetarian diet. It is
not necessary for me to take life to sustain my own. I believe that all
life is sacred from the house fly to the human. God is the Creator of
all Life. In the beginning God created all life vegetarian, both human
and animal. It was not until after the flood that living beings began
to eat meat. I do not preach that it is sin to eat flesh but I will say
in this day and age it is unwise. God's original design was a
vegetarian diet until sin entered the world and death by sin. I choose
to honor God's original design with my diet. I do not have the ability
to eat animals. I cannot do this in good conscience. I have offered my
diet to God as a perpetual fast. I have chosen to honor His original
diet and to reverence the life He created. In order to eat an animal
she must first be dead. It is not wise to devour death.

-Brother James Marcus-

Editor's note: General Booth treated alcoholism with vegetarian diet..
and found that this treatment severed the meat-alcohol chemical
marriage. His success spread the SA
around the world. )

GENERAL BRAMWELL BOOTH OF THE SALVATION ARMY
ON VEGETARIAN DIET:

These passages are taken from a pamphlet written by General Bramwell
Booth, former director General of the Salvation Army, and a son of
founder General William Booth.

"Here are some of my reasons for doing so (becoming vegetarian):
1. Because I have myself tried a vegetarian diet with the greatest
benefit having been for more than 10 years at l time a strict
vegetarian.
2. Because according to the Bible God originally intended the food for
humans to be vegetarian. (here he quotes Genesis 1:29 "Behold I have
given
you herb yielding seed. To you it shall be for food.")
3. Because a vegetarian diet is favourable to purity, to chastity,and
to
perfect control of the appetites and passions which are often a source
of great temptation, especially to the young. (http://www.notmilk.com)
4. Because a vegetarian diet is favourable to robust health and
strength. With very few exceptions, and these only confirmed invalids,
I believe the people would be stronger....
http://www.pcrm.org
5. Because tens of thousands of our poor people (could save
money)...http://www.ivu.org
6. Because a vegetarian diet of wheat, oatmeal and other grains,
lentils, peas, beans, nuts and similr food is more than ten times as
economical as a flesh diet. Meat contains half its weight in water
which has to be paid for as though it were meat. A vegetarian diet,
even if we allow cheese, butter and milk will only cost about a quarter
as much as a mixed diet of flesh and vegetables.
7. Because a vegetarian diet would stop the enormous waste of all kinds
of animal food.
http://www.acorn.net/fruitarian
8. Because a vegetarian diet is a great protection against our drinking
(this belief of General Booth has been upheld by modern biochemistry
research about the relationship of meat and alcohol)....
9. Because a vegetarian diet is favorable to industry and hard work...
10. Because it is proved that life, health, and happiness are all
favoroued by a vegetarian diet.**
11. I favour a vegetarian diet because the digestive organs of humans
are not well adapted to the use of flesh....
12. Because it is very difficult.. especially in hot weather and warm
climates to keep flesh food sweet long enough to cool and eat it and
a great deal of meat is eaten after it has begun to decay...
13. Because a great deal of the flesh meat which is supplied for human
food is already diseased, and because it is nearly impossible to be
sure than any flesh is quite free from the germs of disease. Much
common meat, which is often that of old animals, is well known to be
sold to the butchers because the animals are sick, or unhealthy.
http://www.egroups.com/messages/kyvegans/9
And the best meat is nearly always the flesh meat of young animals who
are fattened and killed before the germs of many diseases have had time
to develop so as to show themselves. So that many animals re killed,
which though believed to be healthy, are really diseased.
This is especially the case with calves for veal, young bullocks for
beef and with lambs and young pigs.
14. Because I believe that the great increase in consumption and cancer
during the last hundred years has been caused by the great increase in
the use of animal food, and that a strict vegetarian
diet would greatly help to ward off these most terrible and 'incurable'
diseases.
15. Because I believe that a flesh diet brings on many very painful
diseases, which though not perhaps immediately dangerous to life cause
much suffering and loss. I mean such complaints as eczema,
constipation, piles, worms, dysentery, severe heaches and the like. A
vegetarian would do much to relieve if not cure them.
16 Because of the awful cruelty and terror to which tens of thousands
(now billions)of animals killed for human food are subjected in
traveling long distance by ship and rail and road to the
slaughterhouses of the world. God disapproves of all cruelty whether to
man or beast.
17.Because of the terrible cruelties practised for killing animals in
many slaughter houses. The whole busines of killing is cruel.. even
when it is done with care, and we know that in the case of millions of
creatures it is done with very little care. Ten thousand pigs are
killed for food every hour in Europe alone. (Now Oscar Mayer kills 1100
pigs an hour at their Madison Wisconsin plant.)
18. Because the occupation of slaughtering animals is brutalising to
those who are required to do the work. "The highest sentiments of
humane
men" says a certain writer, and I agree with him, "revolt at the
cruelty, the degrading sights, the distressing cries, the perpetual
bloodshed, and all the attendant horrors which must surround the
transit and slaughter of suffering creatures." *
19. Because a flesh diet is not necessary to hard work. A great part of
the work of the world is done by animals which subsist on vegetable
food..
namely, horses, mules, camels, oxen, etc.
I believe this matter is well worthy the serious consideration of
Christian leaders. It has an important bearing not only on their own
health and happiness but upon their influence among the people, as men
and women who are free from the bondage of that selfish gratification
which so often afflicts the professed servants of Christ. Let us
remember the Apostle's direction: 'Whether ye eat or drink, or
whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.' "
(published by the LVS 53 Marloes Rd. Kensington London UK WCool
(We copied from an old pamphlet.. to have the full text write or
webvisit the London Vegetarian Society)

http://www.worldanimalnet.org 6000 links
http://www.highvibrations.org/archive3/veg.htm
http://www.highvibrations.org/archive3/veg.htm online book
http://www.notmilk.com
http://www.ivu.org/recipes
http://www.pcrm.org 7000 vegan MD's
http://www.madcowboy.com
http://www.acorn.net/fruitarian
http://www.vrg.org/recipes
http://www.vrg.org/recipes
http://www.goveg.com/meetmeat.html
http://www.hogwatch.org
http://www.hogwatchmanitoba.org
http://www.vegansociety.org
http://www.peta.net
http://www.meatout.com
http://www.farmusa.org
http://www.egroups.com/messages/nomow108/1
http://www.vegweb.com/food
http://www.vegdining.com

originally reprinted by the London Vegetarian Society
Most Biblical scholars believe Jesus was vegetarian
Bible quotes on vegetarian diet

1. Thou Shalt Not Kill (not asterisked with exceptions)
(kill no animal.. eat no animal)
2. Feed The Hungry (an orchard yields 450 times as much food
per acre as a cruel slaughterhouse)
3. Isaiah: I delight not in your blood sacrifices
4. Genesis 1 29 Behold I have given you herb yielding seed..
to you it shall be for food
5. Daniel 1 Daniel was a vegetarian and his health was better than that
of nonvegetarians
6. Isaiah 65: The lion shall lie down with the lamb.. they shall not
hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain for the earth shall be full of
the knowledge of the Lord.
* British juries for a time would not allow
butchers to sit in judgment of others. It was
felt their jobs brutalized them.
** Now some life insurance companies give discounts
to vegetarians.. based on fewer incidences of
heart disease, cancer, food poisoning, diabetes,
kidney dysfunction, etc.
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all Canadian tourism, products such as lumber, meat,
alcohol, fish until
sealclubbing is banned.
http://seashepherd.org/seals/seals.html
http://www.petatv.com/tvpopup/Prefs.asp?video=martha

Posted: Sun Apr 09, 2006 7:52 pm

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Sharon
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Joined: 30 Jan 2005
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Location: BC Canada

Thanks!!!!!! Very Happy

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Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 4:00 am

danielle86
The silent one

Joined: 18 Nov 2009
Posts: 3

Easy Way to Be a Cruelty Free Shopper

Thanks to People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, now there is an easy way to see if the beauty and skin care products you buy are tested on animals. Peta2.com, the youth activism portion of PETA, had launched a page that makes finding which companies are cruelty free and which are not much easier than it used to be.

The page consists of three drop down menus. The first allows you to see the names of companies that DO test on animals, grouped by name.

The second lets you search for cruelty-free brands by product type. I absolutely love this menu, and it is very complete, it includes listings for items such as deodorant, bleaching cream, pregnancy care, healing salve, insect bite treatment, massage oil, Rosacea treatment, first aid, massage oil, feminine hygiene, Generic Levitra and Ayurvedic supply, just to name a few.

The last drop-down menu is a list of cruelty-free companies, grouped by name.

Finally, in the product and brand listings, the letter "V" has been placed next to the name of any company that makes vegan-only products. (Though many of the companies that are not marked do offer some animal-free items as well).

Ready to really check everything you own? I know many vegans have put this off because of the daunting task it is to look at a giant list or search product-by-product on a search engine, so now you can stop procrastinating!

http://aveganlife.blogspot.com/

Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2009 6:29 pm

Geoff
Animal Rights Guru

Joined: 30 Jul 2004
Posts: 1089
Location: Brisbane Australia

Re: Easy Way to Be a Cruelty Free Shopper

danielle86 wrote:

Ready to really check everything you own? I know many vegans have put this off because of the daunting task it is to look at a giant list or search product-by-product on a search engine, so now you can stop procrastinating!

How on earth does it help animals if we throw away any non vegan products we've already acquired?

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Posted: Fri Nov 20, 2009 7:32 am

panthera
Animal Guardian Angel

Joined: 30 Aug 2006
Posts: 3455
Location: Chicago, IL

I think the point is to see if you can keep buying the same stuff or need to find an alternative. I don't think most vegans actually throw away their "pregan" things. They might finish using them or, more likely, give them away.

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