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"Animals are my friends....and I don't eat my friends" George Bernard Shaw

"A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral." Leo Tolstoy

"I love animals so much because I have a spiritual and moral bond with them, there's no way that it's justified that we should eat them, why should they suffer for us when there are other alternatives like fruit and vegetables?." BV

Everything is Connected, when one being suffers, all of humanity suffers
We all live on this one single planet, mankind and the plant and animal kingdoms, Are we co-existing in peace, mind, spirit and body harmony?
Or, is there war, suffering, disease, destruction of our habitat and mental confusion?
This is not our natural state and therefore not sustainable.

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is
upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a
tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. Genesis 1:1,29

pdf Read a TOP Book: Leaves from the Tree of Life
 

Watch a Movie Online - Earthlings (highly recommended)


Watch a Video on our Diet Choices and it's Consequences on the Planet

See more video clips at the bottom of this page

       pdf Why a Hindu is a Vegetarian by Swami Adhedananda, March 22, 1898
 
       pdf Ayurvedic Recipes
 
       pdf Indian Recipes, 14 Categories including Gujarati, Breads, South Indian, Sweets, Spices, Punjabi, Rice, Soups and Salads, Cocktails and Snacks, Mocktails, Tiffin Snacks, Pickles, Cakes (in one zipped file)
 
       pdf Vegetarian Basics
 
       pdf Vegetarian - 101 Reasons Why I'm a Vegetarian 2007(courtesy P Rice)
 
       pdf Vegetarian - 101 Reasons Why I'm a Vegetarian (courtesy P Rice)
 
       pdf 100's of Indian Recipes (zipped file)
 
       pdf 332 Indian Recipes
 
       pdf 101 Recipes from God's Garden
 
       pdf A Meaningful Life Animal Advocacy, Human Nature by Matt Ball
 
       pdf Cooking with Kurma - learn Vaishnava cooking (website)
 
       pdf Eating for Peace by Thich Nhat Hanh
 
       pdf Food for Life
 
       pdf Food, Cells, Physical and Mental Development
 
       pdf Food, Values and Ecology
 
       pdf Go Green, Eat Veg, Save the Planet by Master Ching Hai
 
       pdf Guide to Going Vegan/Veggie (with recipes)
 
       pdf Guide to Vegetarian Eating (courtesy Humane Society)
 
       pdf Herbs that Heal
 
       pdf How to Win an Argument with a Meat Eater
 
       pdf Lifestyle to Health Recipes (Vegan)
 
       pdf Medicinal Herbs
 
       pdf Indian Foods/Recipes
 

       Indian Cooking/Recipes (courtesy Sify Foods): 
 
          pdf Breads                 pdf Chutneys
          pdf Daals 1                pdf Daals 2
          pdf Dosa 1                pdf Dosa 2
          pdf Fruits                pdf Fruity Desserts
          pdf Shri Ganesh Festival Recipes 1
          pdf &Shri Ganesh Festival Recipes 2
          pdf Halwa (sweetmeats)           pdfHealth Related Recipes
          pdf Idli
          pdf Navarathri Recipes            pdf Paneer
          pdf Pickles and Chutneys         pdf Pulses and Lentils
          pdf Starters
          pdf Z - All the above in one zipped file
 
        
 
       pdf The Case against Milk (courtesy Earthsave - Canada)
 
       pdf To Cherish All Life by Roshi Philip Kapleau
 
       pdf Veg for Life, Guide to Veg Living - courtesy Farm Sanctuary
 
       pdf Vegan - the New Ethics of Eating - Erik Marcus
 
       pdf Vegan Pleasures - Recipes
 
       pdf Vegan Recipes - A Taste of Vitality
 
       pdf Vegan Recipes - Desserts of Vitality
 
       pdf Vegan Starter Guide by Friends of Animals
 
       pdf Vegan - Why Vegan?
 
       pdf Vegetarian Cookbook
 
       pdf Vegetarian Diet Packet
 
       pdf Vegetarian Edge
 
       pdf Vegetarianism, For Our Bodies, Our Minds, Our Souls and Our Planet By His Holiness Pujya Swami Chidanand Saraswatiji
 
       pdf Vegetarianism Recommended in Vedic Scriptures
 
       pdf Vegetarian Starter Guide (courtesy Compassion over Killing)
 
       pdf Vegetarian Starter Kit with Recipes
 
       pdf Vegetarian Starter Kit (courtesy PETA) with Resources
 
       pdf Vegetarianism - Powerpoint Presentation
 
       pdf Vegetarianism Slideshow - MacroFlash
 
       pdf Vivisection in America - Albert Leffingwell
 
       pdf Why Vegetarian (Brazil Conference notes)
 
       pdf Why Hindu's Don't Eat Meat?
 
       pdf World Peace Diet - Courtesy of Dr Will Tuttle
 

Websites

Indian Cooking and Remedies
 
American Dietetic Association's Position Paper on Vegetarian Diets
 
American Natural Hygiene Society
 
Action for Animals Store (books, DVDs, etc.)
 
Ban Battery Cages (Egg Production)
 
Beyond Beef: The Rise and Fall of the Cattle Culture
 
Beyond Beef Fact Sheets (Environment, Family Farms, Global Hunger, Poverty)
 
CAA Resource Library of Videos and Photos
 
Charles Attwood, MD
 
Christian Vegetarian Association
 
Circle of Compassion (Free Humane Education Presentations)
 
Coalition for Consumer Information on Cosmetics (Cruelty-free Lists)
 
Community Supported Agriculture Resources
 
Compassion in World Farming (UK)
 
Compassionate Cooks
 
Cows Are Cool (Leather Alternatives)
 
Defending Farm Animals
 
Joel Fuhrman, M.D.
 
Effects of Livestock Production on Western Public Lands
 
Factory Farming
 
Famous Vegetarians
 
Farm Animal Reform Movement
 
Farm Sanctuary
 
Farmed Animal Net (Fact Sheets, Action Alerts, Comprehensive Links, News
Digest)
 
Fishing Hurts (Commercial and "Sport" Fishing, Fish Feel Pain)
 
GoVeg.com
 
Grass Roots Veganism with Joanne Stepaniak
 
Michael Greger, M.D.
 
Guide to Leather Alternatives
 
Happy Cow's Global Guide to Vegetarian Restaurants
 
William Harris, MD, The Scientific Basis of Vegetarianism
 
Humane Farming Association
 
Humane Society of the United States
 
International Vegetarian Union
 
Jewish Vegetarians
 
Michael Klaper, MD
 
Macrobiotics Online
 
The McDougall Wellness Center (John McDougall, MD)
 
Nutrition Advocate - (affiliated with T. Colin Campbell, PhD)
 
NOFA/Mass (Northeast Organic Farming Assn./MA chapter-guide to organic growers & farmers' markets)
 
North American Vegetarian Society
 
Organic Consumers Association
 
Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
 
Quotations
 
Regional Veg
 
Sentient Beings Campaign
 
Tribe of Heart (Animal People Film Documentaries)
 
Unhappy Cows (Contrasts dairy ads with actual conditions)
 
United Poultry Concerns (Treatment of Domestic Fowl)
 
Veg Families (Raising Vegan Children)
 
Vegan.com
 
Vegan Action
 
Veg Family/Vegan Parenting
 
Vegan Food Pyramid (Vesanto Melina & Brenda Davis, RDs)
 
Vegan Outreach
 
The Vegan Society (U.K.)
 
VegDining Guide to Vegetarian Restaurants Worldwide
 
Vegetarian Nutrition Dietetic Practice Group of The American Dietetic Association
 
Vegetarian Resource Group
 
Vegetarian Society of the U.K.
 
Vegetarian Travel Guide
 
Vegetarian Union of North America
 
Veggie Heaven (UK)
 
VegRD Nutrition Answers from Virginia Messina, RD, MPH
 
VegWeb
 
Viva USA Guides
 
Waste of the West: Public Lands Ranching
 
World Animal Net (Directory of 10,000 organizations)
 
Veg TV
 
VegSource Interactive
 
Vegetarian Resource Group
 
Vegan Society, UK
 
HappyCow’s Vegetarian Guide
 
Swell Vegan

Factory Farming Information

Global Resource Action Center for the Environment
FactoryFarming.com
Farmed Animal Watch
Humane Society of the United States: Factory Farming Campaign
DawnWatch
The Meatrix

Vegetarian/Vegan Resources

Woodstock Sanctuary - Vegan Tips
Choose Veg
Go Veg
VegSource
Veg for Life
Vegetarian Information Alliance
The Vegetarian Resource Group
Veg Web
I Can’t Believe It’s Vegan!
The Vegetarian Site
Vegan.com
The Girlie Girl Army
Kind Green Planet

Vegan Shopping

Arbonne Skincare 20% of sales via this link are donated to WFAS
Vegan Essentials
Pangea Vegan Products
MooShoes
Cow Jones Industrial
May Wah Healthy Vegetarian Food Inc.
Alternative Outfitters
Olsen Haus shoes
Vaute Couture
Herbivore Clothing
Brave Gentle Man
Cynthia King Dance Studio’s Vegan Ballet Slippers

Vegan-Related Art

Cartoonist Dan Piraro
Veganica
Maggie Suisman’s Factory Farm Art
J.T. Yost Illustration (Pet Portaits and Art Prints)
Carol Lieberman Pet Portraits

Veg Magazines/Podcasts

VegNews Magazine
Vegan Radio Podcast
Erik’s Diner Podcast
Vegan Freak Podcast

Some of Our Favorite National Organizations

Farm Sanctuary
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
In Defense of Animals
The Fund for Animals
Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
EarthSave
Compassion Over Killing
The Animals Voice
Friends of Animals
Kinship Circle
Vegan Outreach

Local Organizations

Woodstock Sanctuary
Meat Free Zone
League of Humane Voters of NYC
Mid-Hudson Vegetarian Society
Animal Welfare Adoption Network
Coalition to Ban Horse-Drawn Carriages

World Hunger & Poverty

Plenty International
Food for Life Global
Food Not Bombs

Activism

Animal Rights and Welfare

Art, Music, Photography & Poetry

Athletes & Vegetarianism

Bakeries & Baked Goods (Vegan)

Blogs

Catering, Personal Chef Services & Meal Delivery Services

Companion Animals

  • Boston Baked Bonz (organic vegan dog treats)
  • VeganCats.com (vegan food for cats & dogs)
  • VeganVet.net (Armaiti May, DVM, vegan house call veterinarian in the West Los Angeles, CA area)
  • VegePet (recipes to make vegan food for companion animals & vegan supplements to fill in the gaps)
  • VegePets (information about meat-based and vegetarian cat & dog diets)

Cooking Classes & Schools

Cosmetics / Personal Care Products

(Note: These companies offer vegetarian & vegan cosmetics, but you may need to check with the company to verify certain ingredients.)

Environmental Information

Articles on Climate Change/Global Warming

Articles on Deforestation

Articles on Economic Costs

Articles on Farm Animals/Livestock

Articles on Nutrition

Articles on Water

Environmental Products & Retailers

Events

Food Allergy Information

Food Pyramids

Food Safety

History of Vegetarianism

Investing (Socially Responsible)

Job Search

Leather & Clothing Alternatives

New Vegetarian / Vegan

Nutrition / Food Information

Articles on Dairy

Other

Publications

Radio/Podcasts/Apps/Video/TV/Films

Raw/Living Foods

Recipes

Religion

Social

Soyfoods

U.S. Government

Vegetarian Organizations

Vegetarian Parenting

Vitamins / Supplements

(Note: These companies offer vegetarian & vegan vitamins and supplements, but you may need to check with the company to verify certain ingredients.)

Youth & Educator Resources
Vegetarian Documentaries/Movie Clips 
A Delicate Balance (Australia)
 (84 minutes)
A Delicate Balance documents the latest discoveries of some of the most prominent experts on nutrition in the world. Over 50 years of research is skilfully woven into what feels like a detective unravelling the mysteries behind the disease epidemic which has struck affluent countries with a vengeance - disease has been escalating over the last 50 years resulting in 1 in 2 men and 1 in 3 women being diagnosed with cancer.  Watching this film will help you make informed choices about your health and the environment around you and how to reduce your personal impact.
Website: adelicatebalance.com.au
A Life Connected
 (12 minutes)
“We believe people are born with values that connect them to humanity and the rest of the world in which they live — values of justice, kindness and compassion. Our task is to help each other reconnect.”
Website: Watch it online
A Sacred Duty: Applying Jewish Values To Help Heal The World
(60 minutes)
Jewish Vegetarians of North America produced this documentary about how Jewish teachings can help address current environmental crises. It is especially suitable for synagogues, temples, JCCs, Jewish schools and other Jewish institutions.  However, its universal message speaks to people everywhere about the ethics of our relationship to the natural world, and why it is imperative that we respond quickly to help shift our imperiled planet to a sustainable path.  It is an expose of the dangers of global warming that highlights how religious responses can make a difference, and why a shift toward plant-based diets is an essential part of efforts to reduce global climate change and other environmental threats.  Includes interviews with Rabbis, Israeli environmentalists, and prominent Jewish activists.
Order a free DVD or watch online at www.jewishveg.com/asacredduty/
Earthlings
(90 minutes)
Narrated by Joaquin Phoenix, music by Moby
Award-winning documentary film about the suffering of animals for food, fashion, pets, entertainment and medical research.  Caution: content is graphic and disturbing throughout. In an interview with Katie Courick, Ellen DeGeneres says this is the film that made her go vegan.
Website: http://www.earthlings.com/
Eating
 (88 minutes)
Join over 20 million people throughout the world who have watched this award-winning film. It covers a lot of ground very comprehensively. Among the many highlights are interviews with Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn, Dr. Neil Pinckney, Dr. Ruth Heidrich and Dr. Joseph Crowe... What you will get is a virtual one-on-one consultation with some of the world's leading authorities on heart disease reversal.  Includes segments on environmental and ethical issues.
Website: http://www.ravediet.com/
Food, Inc.
(91 minutes)
The word "vegetarianism" is never mentioned once in this Academy Award nominated documentary, even though it would be the solution to so many of the wrongs vividly exposed in the film.  This is an omnivore's view of the problem of our industrialized food system and its effect on our environment, health, economy, and workers' rights.   Nevertheless, its high production quality and exposé of factory farming and agribusiness make it worthy of inclusion on our list.  Through its broad commercial distribution and recognition, many people may have gotten their first inside view of what is involved in producing meat in America.
Website: http://www.foodincmovie.com/
Forks Over Knives
(96 minutes)
This feature film examines the profound claim that most, if not all, of the degenerative diseases that afflict us can be controlled, or even reversed, by rejecting our present menu of animal-based and processed foods.  The major storyline traces the personal journeys of two pioneering nutrition and health researchers, T. Colin Campbell PhD and Caldwell Esselstyn Jr, MD.  The idea of food as medicine is put to the test.  Throughout the film, cameras follow “reality patients” who have chronic conditions from heart disease to diabetes.  Doctors teach these patients how to adopt a whole foods plant-based diet as the primary approach to treat their ailments—while the challenges and triumphs of their journeys are revealed.  The film features many nutrition experts, and utilizes state of the art 3-D graphics and rare archival footage.
Website: forksoverknives.com
Read the excellent Boston Globe review, which opens,
"What 'An Inconvenient Truth' did for global warming, Lee Fulkerson's persuasive documentary does for a vegan diet."
Here is film critic Roger Ebert's terrific review, which opens,
"Here is a film that could save your life.
Mad Cowboy
(58 minutes)
Based on the book Mad Cowboy: Plain Truth from the Cattle Rancher Who Won't Eat Meat, by Howard Lyman.  This is the story of the fourth generation cattle rancher and dairy farmer turned vegetarian and food safety activist who was co-defendant with Oprah Winfrey in the infamous "veggie libel" case brought by Texas ranchers.  Lyman uncovers the dangerous and potentially deadly practices of the cattle and dairy industry.  The film is a manifesto for change from an industry insider whose firsthand experiences may alter the way you think about your food, and the people who produce it.
Website: http://www.madcowboy.com/02_VVFprods.002.html#MCD
Meat the Truth
(73 minutes)
A Dutch-produced documentary, Meat the Truth is done in the style of Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth and presents the case for meat production’s impact on climate change.  It is a must-see companion film to An Inconvenient Truth, presenting the critical information omitted from the earlier film and contributing to societal discussion about movement towards plant-based diets and thus also a more humane society.
Website: http://www.meatthetruth.com/ and http://www.meatthetruth.nl/content/view/114
Peaceable Kingdom: The Journey Home
(78 minutes)
A story of transformation and healing, this film 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. With honest interviews and rare footage demonstrating the emotional lives and intense family bonds of animals most often viewed as living commodities, this groundbreaking documentary shatters stereotypical notions of farmers, farm life, and perhaps most surprisingly, farm animals themselves.
Website: http://www.tribeofheart.org/
PLANEAT
(71 minutes)
PLANEAT is the story of three men's life-long search for a diet, which is good for our health, good for the environment and good for the future of the planet. With an additional cast of pioneering chefs and some of the best cooking you have ever seen, the scientists and doctors in the film present a convincing case for the West to re-examine its love affair with meat and dairy. The film features the ground-breaking work of Dr. T Colin Campbell in China exploring the link between diet and disease, Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn's use of diet to treat heart disease patients, and Professor Gidon Eshel's investigations into how our food choices contribute to global warming, land use and oceanic deadzones.
With the help of some innovative farmers and chefs, PLANEAT shows how the problems we face today can be solved, without simply resorting to a diet of lentils and lettuce leaves.  When buying access to the film, viewers also get an 8 minute interview with Prof. Peter Singer, and PLANEAT with Spanish and German subtitles.   Here is a review.
Website: http://planeat.tv/
Processed People(40 minutes)
Processed People features in-depth discussions with leading health and environmental experts/advocates detailing why so many of us are sick, and offers solutions to our current devastating health crisis. It features insightful interviews from nine preeminent health and environmental experts/advocates. They discuss how and why Americans got into this mess, and what we can do to break the ‘processed people’ cycle.  The DVD contains the full documentary (40 minutes) along with 140 additional minutes of extended personal interviews with the experts, plus another 25 minutes of special feature items.
Website: http://www.processedpeople.com/
Seeing Through the Fence
(83 minutes)
Through a series of humorous and poignant interviews conducted across the US and in Greece with “random people,” the documentarian’s family, and activists, Seeing Through the Fence explores our attitudes about the role of food in modern society and our connection, or lack of connection, with both the processes and animals from which our food originates, asking the question, “What prevents ethical principles from being advanced to action?”
Website: http://www.porchlifeproductions.com/
Sustainable Table
(52 minutes)
Over a period of nine months, Mischa Hedges and Digital Sense Productions traveled the west coast to learn more about our food system. During production, he found that the standard methods of producing food do not take environmental or human health costs into consideration. He also explored the many alternatives to the current agricultural system.  Includes interviews with Howard Lyman (Mad Cowboy) and Kenneth Williams (vegan bodybuilder).
Website: http://www.sustainabletablemovie.com/
The Animals Film
(25th Anniversary Edition, 120 minutes)
The most impressive film maudit, possibly too hot to handle, is Victor Schonfeld’s The Animals Film, a polemical onslaught, stuffed with footage never before shown, and a wealth of newly-shot material often taken undercover, which documents...mankind’s degradation, exploitation, and often pointless torture, of the creatures who share our planet... I do not know when I have come out of a screening so moved by the power of the cinema as a medium to transform the entire sensibility of an audience.
Website: http://www.victorschonfeld.com/
The Emotional World of Farm Animals
(53 minutes)
Aired nationally on PBS, this is a documentary for viewers of all ages about the thinking and feeling side of animals who are all too often just viewed as food.  Jeffrey Masson leads viewers through the personal journey he underwent while writing his book, The Pig Who Sang to The Moon.  This journey into the sentient, emotional lives of farm animals brings Masson to animal sanctuaries around the country where caregivers and the animals themselves tell their stories of rescue and escape.  Masson delves into the rich ancestry of these curious and intelligent animals and interviews top experts in animal behavior.  A 50 page study guide to accompany the film is also available.
Website: http://www.animalplace.org/shop.html
The True Cost of Food
(15 minutes, and a 7-minute abridged version; DVD or watch online)
Produced by The Sierra Club Sustainable Consumption Committee Mission, this film’s goal is to encourage people to think about the environmental impacts of their consumption choices by providing specific information.
Website: http://www.sierraclub.org/truecostoffood/movie.asp
The Witness
(43 minutes)
The Witness is one man's truth that cries out for mass exposure, it may be the most important and persuasive film about animals ever made.
In this award-winning documentary, a construction contractor from a tough Brooklyn neighborhood explains how he feared and avoided animals for most of his life, until the love of a kitten opened his heart, inspiring him to rescue abandoned animals and bring his message of compassion to the streets of New York. With humor and sincerity, he tells the story of his remarkable change in consciousness.
Website: http://www.witnessfilm.org/ and
www.tribeofheart.org
To Your Health
(60 minutes)
To Your Health is an in-depth study of whole food, plant-based nutrition, debunking the most common myths associated with modern nutrition.  Part road movie, part documentary, the film takes the viewer on an entertaining and educational journey across the country, interviewing some of the biggest names in the plant-based world.  Visits with nutrition researchers, MDs, athletes, a farm animal sanctuary, chefs, and vegan restaurants come together in a presentation of life-changing information and hope for a future of better health for all.
Website: http://goingveg.net/
The Meatrix (movie clip)
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