 Cruelty Free!
"When we are drawn toward a plant based way of eating, it is in no way a limitation on us; rather it is a harmonious fulfillment of our inner seeing. At first we think it's an option we can choose, but with time we realize that it's not a choice at all but the free expression of the truth that we are. It's not an ethic that we have to police from the outside, but our own radiant love spontaneously expressing, both for ourselves and for our world."
LOCAL GROUPS
www.myspace.com/njveg:
www.myspace.com/nyvegfun.com: Amazing and Fun Vegan Potlucks and Parties. Everyone is welcome! Bring your favorite vegan dish, friends or just yourself!
www.happytailsyoga.com: Yoga teachers across NJ teaching classes for the benefit of the animals
www.jivamuktiyoga.com: A style of Yoga created by David Life and Sharon Gannon in 1984. It is a vigorously physical and intellectually stimulating practice leading to spiritual awareness with a focus on animal rights and social activism.
www.farmsanctuary.org: Farm Sanctuary works to end cruelty to farm animals and promotes compassionate living through rescue, education and advocacy. “We envision a world where the violence that animal agriculture inflicts upon people, animals and the environment has ended, and where instead we exercise values of compassion.”
www.animalmukti.org Animal Mukti promotes well-being for all animals, with the intention that all beings live happy and free. By sponsoring a free spay and neuter program at the Humane Society of NYC, Animal Mukti has consistently reduced the large number of unwanted and uncared for animals in New York City.
www.aplnj.org: Animal Protection League of NJ (APLNJ) is a statewide nonprofit
organization dedicated to ending animal exploitation.
Films
THE WITNESS
A Tribe of Heart Documentary www.tribeofheart.org/wit1.htm
The Witness is one man’s truth that cries out for mass exposure… may be the most important and persuasive film about animals ever made.” Howard Rosenberg, Los Angeles Times
EARTHLINGS www.earthlings.com This is the single most powerful and informative movie about society's treatment of animals.
PEACEABLE KINGOM
www.peaceablekingdomfilm.org A riveting story of transformation and healing, PEACEABLE KINGDOM: THE JOURNEY HOME explores the awakening conscience of several people who grew up in traditional farming culture and who have now come to question the basic premises of their inherited way of life.
DEATH ON A FACTORY FARM www.hbo.com/docs/programs/deathfactoryfarm/index.html
Each year, ten billion animals are raised for consumption in the U.S., mostly on sprawling, industrialized farms, where virtually no federal laws mandate how the animals are treated - though guidelines exist - and state laws are ineffective. As a result, animals are frequently subjected to what many consider cruel treatment and inhumane conditions in the interest of economic efficiency. DEATH ON A FACTORY FARM chronicles an investigation into alleged abuses that took place at a hog farm in Creston, Ohio.
MEET YOUR MEAT
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIjanhKqVC4
The video that all meat-eaters should watch and every vegetarian should own, "Meet Your Meat", narrated by Alec Baldwin, covers each stage of life of animals raised for food.
WHO’S SKIN ARE YOU IN?
www.peta.org/whoseskin/index.asp
Let's end the intense suffering of millions of animals that are slaughtered for their fur and skins around the world.
No PETA videos are copyrighted, so copy them for everyone you know.
FOWL PLAY
www.foulplaymovie.com
Fowl Play illuminates the plight of factory-farmed laying hens through interviews with people who are fighting diligently to save them inside factory farms www.peta.org/whoseskin/index.asp. This includes footage of what “cage free” and “free range” really mean.
Books
Yoga and Vegetarianism by Sharon Gannon
By co-founder of Jivamukti Yoga. Gannon offers truth and wisdom from a tradition of spiritual practice thousands of years old and explains how to apply these practices to our modern lifestyle.
Diet for a New America by John Robbins
How Your Food Choices Affect Your Health, Happiness, and the Future of Life on Earth, is widely considered to be one of the most influential books on health, compassion, and the environment ever written in the English language.
World Peace Diet by Will Tuttle, Ph.D
Eating for Spiritual Health and Social Harmony
Empty Cages by Tom Regan
Described by Jeffrey Masson as "the single best introduction to animal rights ever written,"
Making A Killing: The Political Economy of Animal Rights by Bob Torres (
Making a killing explores the intersections between human and animal oppressions in relation to the exploitative dynamics of capitalism.
Websites
www.vegstarterpack.com: A guide to becoming Vegan!
www.vegnj.com Delicious healthy vegetarian food right in your neighborhood!
www.peta.org People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)
PETA focuses its attention on the four areas in which the largest numbers of animals suffer the most intensely for the longest periods of time: on factory farms, in laboratories, in the clothing trade, and in the entertainment industry.
www.hsus.org The Humane Society of the United States
The Humane Society of the United States is the nation's largest and most effective animal protection organization—backed by 10 million Americans, or one in every 30. Established in 1954, The HSUS seeks a humane and sustainable world for all animals—a world that will also benefit people.
www.fishinghurts.com/fishFarms2.asp Fishing Hurts
In the United States, there are no regulations to ensure the humane treatment of fish, despite the fact that billions of farmed fish are slaughtered every year. Though they may seem alien to us, fish are unique and intelligent individuals who feel pain, just as all animals do.
Creutly-Free Shopping
www.veganessentials.com Vegan Essentials is both an online store and a retail shop located in Waukesha, Wisconsin. They are a vegan owned and operated store that specializes in only offering the highest quality animal-free products, and our mission is to offer unparalleled service and selection all in one location, making us a one-stop shopping destination for all things vegan.
www.mooshoes.com MooShoes, Inc. is a vegan-owned business that sells an assortment of cruelty-free footwear, bags, t-shirts, wallets, books and other accessories. MooShoes offers its services through an online store as well as in its retail store in New York City, the first cruelty-free store of its kind in New York City.
www.caringconsumer.com By purchasing only cruelty-free products, you can help save rabbits, mice, guinea pigs, rats, and other animals.
www.cosmosveganshoppe.com Cosmo's Vegan Shoppe is a vegan owned, vegan operated online/retail store in Atlanta, GA. They are passionate about being vegan and are committed to providing the best cruelty-free, vegan products.
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