Talking About What Vegan Means: Friends of Animals New Website Blends Values and Verve
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Talking About What Vegan Means
Friends of Animals' New Website Blends Values & Verve
For Immediate Release: 18 June 2008
Contact: Priscilla Feral, President of Friends of Animals
Phone: 203.656.1522
Darien, Conn. and Victoria, BC - Friends of Animals staffers in the
U.S. and Canada are ready to announce their lively new online venue,
bringing together the vegan community and people everywhere who wish
to explore vegan living and ideas.
Vegan Means respects animals, values habitats, and works to promote a
stable climate and a way to feed the world. Powered by an animal-
rights advocacy group that's five-decades strong, Vegan Means will
help cultivate a human culture that outgrows its reliance on animal
products and grows as quickly as possible. To this end, Vegan Means
has distilled some of the very best information, and brought carefully
considered new commentary, to provide an attractive base of knowledge
about the decision to opt out of animal-based businesses.
Vegan Means explores the whys and the hows of the matter, providing
material about the freedom of animals, and how that freedom is
abridged for food, clothing, research and entertainment of one species
alone. The impact of animal agribusiness on our environment, and how
we as individuals can address this, is introduced, and kept updated.
Also included are vegan history, the vegan's role in peace and social
justice, and approaches to activism and education.
The site includes nutritional guidance to illuminate some realities
that are as important to human well-being as they are to fairness for
other animals. New vegans will find useful tips to navigate social
situations, such as helping friends and family understand what a vegan
commitment is all about.
The "Ask a Vegan" section will be an Internet café for vegans who are
curious about what long-time vegans think about their commitment, and
how they deal with the trickiest situations and questions.
Vegan Means also features recipes from Friends of Animals' acclaimed
cookbook, Dining with Friends: The Art of North American Vegan
Cuisine. These delectable and nutritious recipes, along with useful
culinary tips like how to convert traditional recipes into winning
vegan dishes better than their original counterparts!
FoA president Priscilla Feral said, "We're talking about a revolution:
challenging centuries of domination and starting with our next meal."
Vegan Means will be a valuable part of the movement begun by Donald
Watson and friends, to change for the better our whole cultural view
of animals' lives and human moral progress.
Feral adds, "By becoming vegan we work at the roots to refresh our
world, ensuring respect - and indeed a future - for our planet and all
of its inhabitants."
And that's what being vegan means.
Welcome! www.veganmeans.com
About Friends of Animals: We are a non-profit, international advocacy
organization dedicated to the cultivation of a respectful view of
nonhuman animals, freeing them from cruelty and institutionalized
exploitation around the world.