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Recent News
September 27, 2003
Honk if You Hate Foie Gras
My friend Arthur considers himself a sophisticate, especially when it comes to food. The subject came up recently as an antidote to the soggy sandwiches we had grabbed for lunch one day. I nodded blankly as he rattled on about the pleasures of cinnabar chanterelles, morels and other wild fungi, but when he switched to the subject of pâté de foie gras, I jolted back to attention.
Activists' attacks prompt foie gras chef to change his tune
A prominent Bay Area chef and his partners, staggering under attacks by animal-rights activists, say they will improve conditions at their farm near Stockton where they force-feed ducks to make a French delicacy called foie gras.
September 25, 2003
Bicyclist from Seattle pickets KFC restaurant in Heights
Wearing a rooster's comb on her helmet and peddling a message, Rachel Bjork rode to the KFC restaurant on Main Street Wednesday.
Bjork, a PETA member and strict vegetarian, picketed the restaurant to protest what she characterized as the inhumane treatment of chickens sold to KFC, the fast-food franchise formerly known as Kentucky Fried Chicken.
Reconsider your order at a restaurant near you
YALE UNIVERSITY - I was recently shocked to discover that several New Haven area restaurants such as Zinc, Roomba, the Union League Cafe, and the Central Steak House, feature foie gras on their menus either as standard entrees or on their lists of specials. Foie gras is a French term meaning "fatty liver." Its production involves force-feeding ducks and geese to induce them to develop hepatic lipidosis or more simply, "fatty liver disease."
September 23, 2003
PETA PR man Friedrich practices what he preaches
Bruce Friedrich is the man behind PETA's attention-grabbing PR activities. But his ultimate objective is to change the way companies like Burger King and KFC do business.
September 21, 2003
Activists Take Ducks From Foie Gras Shed
FARMINGTON, Calif. — With only the dim light of a half-moon to guide them, four self-proclaimed "duck freedom fighters" made their way early Wednesday across an abandoned field, around dilapidated, foul-smelling chicken pens, and over a narrow passage through a large manure-filled pond.
September 15, 2003
80 year old half marathon runner credits vegetarian diet
ASHEVILLE - Road race organizers around Western North Carolina shouldn't take offense that Haywood County runner Charlie Dotson recycles most of the age-group plaques and trophies he wins.
Dotson, who'll compete in Saturday's fourth annual Citizen- Times Half Marathon one month shy of his 81st birthday, simply doesn't have room for all the pewter and gold plastic inside his brick home in Lake Junaluska.
September 14, 2003
Veggie diet as effective as cholesterol lowering drugs?
July 22, 2003 — A low-fat vegetarian diet including soy, eggplant and almonds can reduce cholesterol levels about as much as widely used statin drugs, a small, one-month study suggests. NBC’s Robert Bazell reports. Links to video coverage.
September 12, 2003
NAACP president endorses PETA campaign
Kweisi Mfume, president and chief executive of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, has signed a letter in support of an animal rights group's campaign against Kentucky Fried Chicken.
The one-page letter, dated Sept. 10 and written on NAACP letterhead stationery, is addressed to David Novak, chairman and chief executive officer of Yum! Brands Inc., which owns Kentucky Fried Chicken, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut brands. It asks the company to require its suppliers to employ more humane methods in breeding and slaughtering chickens.
September 09, 2003
PETA wants FCB to chicken out
Why did the crippled chicken cross the road? To embarrass Foote Cone & Belding/Chicago and make the agency back out of a pitch for the $225 million KFC account. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, an organization that knows how to generate publicity for its causes, is coming to Chicago at noon today to stage a protest in front of the FCB offices at 101 E. Erie. The protest is tied to what PETA maintains is KFC's cruel handling of hundreds of millions of chickens it raises and kills each year.
September 07, 2003
New Zealand farmers raise stink over 'fart tax'
WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND - About 1,000 farmers descended on New Zealand's Parliament Friday morning to protest against a proposed tax on greenhouse gas emissions from sheep and cattle.
September 05, 2003
IDF: Vegetarian Diet Helps Manage Lipids in Diabetics
PARIS, FRANCE -- August 29, 2003 - A high-fibre, low-fat vegetarian diet helps control lipids in patients with type 2 diabetes, say researchers.
Julie Chester, RN, and a group from the University of California in Davis, tested the impact of the regimen in 34 patients who followed the diet as part of an overall lifestyle program. She presented their findings on August 26th at the Eighteenth International Diabetes Federation (IDF) Congress.
PETA animal defenders drop KFC lawsuit
LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Militant animal defenders PETA said they had dropped a lawsuit against KFC, after the fast-food giant agreed to change its statement on how its chickens are treated before reaching the restaurant.
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