Daily Facts Listed by Date

May 2008

1 May 2008 - Vegetarian diets are appropriate for all stages of the life cycle.
2 May 2008 - World Wildlife Fund supports the Canadian seal slaughter (seals are bludgeoned and skinned alive) because “it is not a conservation issue.”
3 May 2008 - The USDA recalled 143 million pounds of beef on Feb. 17, 2008, marking the largest meat recall in U.S. history to date.
4 May 2008 - Research indicates the extract from cranberries inhibits proliferation of human tumor lines, causing an anticancer effect.
5 May 2008 - Capsaicin (an ingredient found in hot peppers) triggers cancer cell death without harming surrounding healthy cells.
6 May 2008 - Dead cats and dogs from shelters and vet clinics are often mixed into livestock feed for cattle and hogs on factory farms.
7 May 2008 - Scientific evidence proves that fish do in fact, feel pain and react to it.
8 May 2008 - A recent study found that higher IQ's in childhood are associated with an increased likelihood of being vegetarian as an adult.
9 May 2008 - Calcium absorption from vegetables is better than that of milk.
10 May 2008 - The U.S. government is exempt from false advertising laws.
11 May 2008 - A 12-year Harvard study of nearly 78,000 women, found that women who drank milk three times a day actually broke or fractured more bones than women who drank little to no milk at all.
12 May 2008 - Declawing cats is an unnatural, painful and inhumane act; the surgery is actually an amputation of the last joint of a cat's "toes".
13 May 2008 - Throughout ancient history, some of the most revered, influential, and brilliant thinkers of have embraced animal compassion and vegetarian ideology.
14 May 2008 - Chickens are excluded from the U.S. Animal Welfare Act and from the Humane Methods of Slaughter Act.
15 May 2008 - A vegetarian, including vegan, diet can meet current recommendations for all essential nutrients.
16 May 2008 - Raising animals for food generates more greenhouse gases than all the cars, SUVs, and trucks in the world combined.
17 May 2008 - Researchers at the University of Chicago have determined that switching to a vegan diet is more effective in countering global warming than switching from a standard American car to a Toyota Prius.
18 May 2008 - Albert Einstein supported vegetarianism.
19 May 2008 - Likelihood of a vegetarian reaching the age of 80 compared to a non-vegetarian :1.8 times greater.
20 May 2008 - There are no federal laws requiring humane protection of animals in fur factory farms.
21 May 2008 - Bananas as part of a regular diet can cut the risk of death by strokes by as much as 40%
22 May 2008 - Young women eating just 2 to 4 servings a week of beans or lentils seemed to cut their risk of developing breast cancer by about a quarter, compared to those that ate servings less than once a month.
23 May 2008 - Animal testing on cosmetics is not required by the federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act.
24 May 2008 - During slaughter, many hogs are alive when they reach the scalding-hot water baths.
25 May 2008 - Pigs are capable of high levels of cognitive thought - more so than dogs and certainly [more so than] three-year-old humans.
26 May 2008 - Gelatin is derived from soaking animal (usually pig or cow) hides and bone in acids, then boiling them to extract the gelatin, and finally turning it into a dry powder.
27 May 2008 - Artificial coloring in foods and cosmetics is sometimes made from crushed bugs.
28 May 2008 - Milk is a maternal lactating secretion, a short term nutrient for newborns - nothing more, nothing less.
29 May 2008 - The 2007 Dairy Checkoff Unified Marketing Plan (UMP) reported a budget of $175.2 million.
30 May 2008 - In addition to other serious health concerns, dairy products may play a major role in the development of allergies, asthma, sleep difficulties, and migraine headaches.
31 May 2008 - In 2007, a tenured, and widely admired school teacher was fired for providing students with FACTS about the meat and dairy industry.

June 2008

1 June 2008 - The dairy industry allocates the majority its marketing budget to kids.
2 June 2008 - Carl Lewis, winner of 9 Olympic gold medals, credits his best year of performance in part to the vegan diet he adopted in 1990.
3 June 2008 - Legumes provide a good source of protein and can be a healthy substitute for meat.
4 June 2008 - "Dolphin Safe" labels on tuna fish products do not necessarily mean that dolphins were not harmed or killed in the process.
5 June 2008 - In both the U.S. and abroad, investigations have documented egregious cruelty to animals in kosher farms and slaughterhouses.
6 June 2008 - Raising animals for food causes pollution to surface water, groundwater, air, and soil.
7 June 2008 - The Dairy Checkoff works on behalf of U.S. dairy farmers to increase sales of demand for U.S. dairy products and ingredients.
8 June 2008 - Veganic farming uses no synthetic chemical fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, genetically modified ingredients, nor the use of any manure or slaughterhouse byproducts.
9 June 2008 - “Livestock are one of the most significant contributors to today’s most serious environmental problems. Urgent action is required to remedy the situation.”
10 June 2008 - 75% of all the grain exported from the US to other countries goes to feed livestock rather than to feed hungry people.
11 June 2008 - Scientific data identifies a positive correlation between a balanced vegetarian diet and a reduced risk of of several chronic degenerative diseases and conditions, and some types of cancer.
12 June 2008 - The benefits of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) to alleviate menopausal symptoms can be obtained from HRT derived from plants and from processes that do not require any animal suffering.
13 June 2008 - Premarin and Prempro are hormonal replacement drugs that contain pregnant mare urine (PMU).
14 June 2008 - Thoroughbred racetracks in the U.S. have reported 5,000 horse deaths within the last 4.5 years.
15 June 2008 - Whole grains contain protective antioxidants in amounts near or exceeding those in fruits and vegetables.
16 June 2008 - Steve Mendell, president of the Westland/Hallmark slaughterhouse, acknowledged his company introduced sick cows into the hamburger supply.
17 June 2008 - Male chicks, of no economic value to the egg industry, are typically gassed or ground up alive.
18 June 2008 - Many former racing horses are slaughtered for profit.
19 June 2008 - Most chicken meat sold in the U.S. contains traces of fecal matter.
20 June 2008 - Avocados contain nearly 20 vitamins and minerals and are high in healthy fat.
21 June 2008 - New research finds that vegetables appear to help keep the brain young and may slow the mental decline sometimes associated with growing old.
22 June 2008 - Pigs can play joystick controlled video games.
23 June 2008 - Fur farmers often use genital electrocution to kill animals for fur mainly because it's cheaper than other killing methods.
24 June 2008 - Sometimes merchandise that is labeled or advertised as fake or 'faux' fur is actually real fur.
25 June 2008 - In China, dogs and cats are brutally killed and sometimes skinned alive so that their fur can be made into clothes, fashion accessories, and toys.
26 June 2008 - Results from a 10 year study found that cat owners "appeared to have a lower rate of dying from heart attacks" compared to feline-free households.
27 June 2008 - Results from recent clinical studies indicate a strong possibility that dogs can be trained to detect various forms of cancer in humans.
28 June 2008 - A 2007 survey found 88% of Americans with companion animals consider their pets to be "a member of the family."
29 June 2008 - On the typical egg farm, an average of 5.6 hens are confined for their entire productive lifetime in a single wire cage.
30 June 2008 - Debeaking is a common procedure within the poultry and egg industry in which a hot blade is used to chop off half of a birds beak without any painkillers.

July 2008

1 July 2008 - One cup of mushrooms provides about one-third of the recommended daily intake of copper, which helps to produce red blood cells.
2 July 2008 - Broccoli contains chemicals that activate cancer-fighting genes and inhibit others that fuel tumors.
3 July 2008 - A recent study shows protein from soy products significantly reduced participants' LDL cholesterol, especially those who had high cholesterol.
4 July 2008 - 73% of USDA poultry inspectors surveyed no longer eat chicken.