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TIMEFOR

CHANGE

Newsletter

Issue No. 14 * 08.11.2009

Write to us!

Got a question?Comment? Response to

something youve read

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mail to:

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Or by phone:

+972542430153

Whats inside?

1. Regular Announcements2. Activism & News

3. Media: Animal Voice Radio and Southpark

4. Veganism as a minimun standard of

decency

5. Baked Soy Shnitzels

NO ONE IS FREE UNTILLAb bAREFREE

This Week:

Veganism as aminimun standard

of decency

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So you decided to get up and join the fight?Were happy to have you on board!

You can join us today and start helping out the animals!

For more information about us please have a look at our website - www.free.org.il.

There are many more private campaigns you can join also, if you didnt find any, you canask on the Forum.

Dont have much spare time?

You can still help! Every animal rights organization is operating on donated funds, if youcould spare even a small amount for them, itll be a great help.

Regular Activities

Information Stalls:

Were operating information stalls in major cities

around the country. The stalls are meant to advocatethe animal rights ideology and educate the publicabout veganism and animal rights.

For more details please contact us:

Tel Aviv - Call Ohad: 054-3078800Haifa - Call Noa: 050-6863498Rehovot - Call Josh: 054-2430153Jerusalem - Call Maayan: 052-4489550

Protets:

Every sunday at 17:00 we hold a vigil about veganism next to the Azrieli Towers in Tel Aviv.Please contact Ohad:

054-3078800

Thats by no means the only stuff going on! You can join our mailing list and visit the forumto stay updated.

Want to talk about it?For any question regardin animal rights, vegetarianism orveganism, feel free to visit the forum and ask!

http://forums.tapuz.co.il/veg

REGULAR ANNOUNCEMENTS

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ACTIVISM

ITS STILL THE WORLD VEGANISM MONTH!We know you really want to organize something for the world veganism month. Come on -

you cant deny it!

So now is the time to do so! If you have any doubts or question, feel free to contact us for

guidance and anything else you may need.

UPCOMINGEVENTS

27/11/2009International Anti-Fur

Friday. A demo will be

held at Rabin Square

between 13:00 - 15:30

Astrazeneca global week of

action!Between Mondaythe 23rd toSunday the 29th November, theSHAC campaign is holding a

worldwide week of action againstAstrazeneca, one of HLSslargest customers.

Now is the time to get up and dosomething about HLS!Go organize a demo, a bannerdrop, an information stall,anything!

For worldwide locations of

Astrazeneca please visit thefollowing page:

http://www.astrazeneca.com/?itemId=373557

Dozens of deer returned to

freedom, in memory of Barry

Horne

anonymous communique:

A few months ago we learnedthat a company called VenisonDeer (www.venisondeer.com)located in Marugn, Segovia, wasengaged in raising deer to selltheir dead bodies to restaurantsand butcher shops. In addition,some of these were used torepopulate hunting grounds andothers sent to a hospital in Toledoas if they were just material to beexperimented on.

Original:http://directaction.info/news_nov01_09.htm

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NEWS

But what does it matter if theydont get any rights anyway?

Full article (Hebrew):http://tinyurl.com/rightsan

Mid-East princess in plea

to Rudd on animal

slaughter

THE King of Jordan's sisterhas appealed to the PrimeMinister, Kevin Rudd, to stopthe ritual slaughter ofconscious animals for halal

meat in Australia, saying itwas not necessary underIslamic principles.

Full article:http://tinyurl.com/jordanpr

with ambivalence overeating meat for most of hislife, but never committeduntil he adopted his dog,George.

Full article:

http://tinyurl.com/foerveg

Netanya: Zoo

discovered under

Marijuana Lair.

When police arrivedfollowing a lead about a

supposed Marijuana flat,they didnt expect to findvirtually a DIY zoo in thebasement.

Full article (Hebrew):http://tinyurl.com/marizoo

Animal Rights or not?

The Knesset hasassembled in order todiscuss the new lawregarding changing thename of The animalsuffering law to Theanimal rights law.

Nepal not to ban animal

killings at Terai fair

KATHMANDU: Despiteurgings by animal rights

activists to prevent thewanton slaughter ofthousands of animals andbirds at a Hindu festival in theTerai plains at theend of this month, Nepalsgovernment Monday said itwould not ban the killings dueto religious sensitivities.

Full article:

http://tinyurl.com/nepani

For Foer, Meat Is

Murder ... And Worse

Foer, bestknown for thenovelsEverything IsIlluminated

and ExtremelyLoud andIncrediblyClose, writes

in his new book, EatingAnimals, that he struggled

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MULTIMEDIA

Southpark episode Whale Whores

Southpark, known to focus on

controversial issues, has issuedan episode with (to our opinion) a

great animal rights message.

While the episode isnt especially An Animal

Rights episode, it does focus on animals all

through the episode, with Sea Shepherd and the

Japanese Whale & Dolphin hunt. Its worth

seeing the whole episode just for the ending

though.And no, were not telling you what it is, we dont

want to ruin the surprise! Go watch it here:

http://tinyurl.com/whalewhores

For more information about sea shepherd visit

their website at:

http://www.seashepherd.org/

Were happy to

inform you (in

case you still

dont know) that

a new program of

the popular

animal rights

podcast Animal

Voice Radio is

available.

Just a quick reminder - the last program

was talking about the dangers of animal

welfare action, and about Prop II in

california.

This time, theyre coming back home,

and are talking about the latest

campaign from Anonymous,

promoting free-range eggs as analternative to battery-cage eggs.

We found the program to be very

informative and a pleasure to listen to.

So its very recommended!

You can listen to the entire show here

(In Hebrew):

http://www.animalvoiceradio.com/

Program No. 8 of Animal Voice

Radio!

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VEGANISM AS A MINIMUN

STANDARD OF DECENCYC R E D I T S T O D A N C U DA H Y

http://unpopularveganessays.blogspot.com

In discussions with non-vegans

particularly non-vegans on the Internet

who are familiar with the assertions of

both the vegan animal r ights

movement and the assertions of the

countermovement the issue of

drawing the line is often raised as a

sort of objection to veganism. While

its true that vegans avoid a lot of

harm, so the argument goes, vegans

also indirectly cause a lot of harm:

animals are killed by crop harvestersand motor vehicles; natural and

artificial pesticides are used in crop

production; and often one cannot tell

exactly what harm might have been

done either to animals directly or to

the environment in any given

purchase, even at the local natural

foods store or farmers market. Since

vegans havent achieved perfection of

purity in the art of non-harming and

non-violence, it is really only a matter

of line-drawing, and until one achieves

absolute perfection of purity, one has

no business criticizing any other lines

that might be drawn. To criticize other

lines is to fail to recognize ones own

s h o r t c o m i n g s f r o m P l a t o n i c

perfection, and therefore to fall into

dare we say it hypocrisy.

veganism - a moral baseline

Drawing lines can be difficult in any

area of morality, and the more

precise the line drawn, often the

more difficulties that arise. However,the difficulty of drawing precise lines

should not deter us from exploring

less precise lines of minimum

standardsor moral baselinesthat are

(or should be) reasonable for the vast

majority of people in society, even if it

would require a complete abolition ofanimal agriculture.

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wrong) laissez-faire policy of refusing

to even d iscuss l ine-drawing

regarding animals, despite their

overwhelming similarities to us in

terms of the morally relevant

characterist ics: sentience and

p e r c e p t u a l i n t e l l i g e n c e a n d

awareness.

Given the morally relevant similarities

and irrelevant differences betweenhumans and other animals, and given

that we are likely to find absolute

perfection in non-harming far too

ascetic or practically impossible in

our modern society, veganism is the

baseline we ought to promote and

live by. Veganism isnot the end pointor the most we can do; rather, it is the

least we can do.

Veganism is essentially refraining

from contributing to the exploitation

and intentional killing or slaughter of

nonhuman beings. Preventing

accidental and incidental human

fatalities in traffic accidents and

police action even foreseen human

deaths is not required by laws

prohibiting slavery and murder. In the

same way, preventing accidental and

incidental deaths in traffic accidents

or harvesting crops even foreseen

Animal agriculture - do we need words?

We establish and philosophically

defend moral baselines regularly in

society in the form of laws regarding

such issues as murder, involuntary

manslaughter, assault, declarations

of war, and speed limits, even though

these issues can be just as difficult to

draw lines in as animal issues. None

of us are pure when it comes to

protecting humans from cruelty and

death either; yet we do draw lines:

we arent cannibals; and most of us

dont knowingly or happily support

human enslavement and slaughter.

[1]

We ought also to establish and

p h i l o s o p h i c a l l y d e f e n d s uc h

baselines regarding animals. Instead,we have a morally relative (and

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partake in such exploitation and

slaughter. In many cases, such as this

one, drawing lines can be very

appropriate and strongly defended,

especially when one acknowledges

that the line drawn is only a minimum

standard of decency, not a maximum

standard of purity.

deaths is not required by veganism.

In other words, abolitionist animal

rights, as currently conceived, and the

corresponding moral baseline of

veganism are precisely the same in

line-drawing as laws prohibiting

chattel slavery and murder. Laws

prohibiting slavery and murder say

nothing about preventing motor vehicle

injuries and fatalities, or how much cost

we should incur in saving an injuredchilds life, or friendly fire (unintended

killing) in a justified war of self-defense.

We should certainly take appropriate

measures to reduce such deaths as

much as possible, but again, veganism

is merely a first and minimum standard,

not the final or the best standard.

Choosing to consume animal products

is a choice to partake in the exploitation

and intentional slaughter of sentient

beings. Given our wide variety of food

choices today, we can easily refuse to

[1] If you live and pay taxes in an industrialized nation with a strong military, such as the United

States, you inadvertently and indirectly, and hopefully unwillingly and regrettably, support the

slaughter of innocent humans in the form of warfare in other countries (waged primarily for economic

reasons; the economic reasons controversially thought to be also national security reasons) and arms

supply to violent militias, just like vegans inadvertently, unwillingly, and regrettably support the

slaughter of innocent nonhumans by living and paying taxes in our animal-exploiting society.

[2] I have edited this essay as of July 9, 2009 to remove two references to Jainism as suggesting an

ascetic standard of non-violence. It was my previous understanding that many or most followers of

Jainism went to ascetic lengths to avoid harming. I have since learned that this is not the case, and that,although veganism is increasing among followers of the religion, many are not vegans, much less

practitioners of an ascetic form of non-violence.

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HE TASTY PART

Did you know?

The Turmeric is believedto counter many kinds of

inflammations.

Baked Soy Shnitzels

Ingredients:

20 Soy Shnitzels (From SoyProtein)

1 Teaspoon Cumin

1 Teaspoon Salt

2 Teaspoons chicken flavouredpowder.

1/2 Teaspoon Turmeric

1 Teaspoon Paprika

A pinch of Pepper

1 Teaspoon Steak spice

1 Tablespoon oil

1 Glass of water

Instructions:

1. Soak the Shnitzels in hot water for 20minutes, then drain.

2. Put the Shnitzels in a baking tray.3. Mix all spices with the water to create a

sauce, and then pour in into the tray. Itshould cover the Shnitzels.

4. Place the tray into an oven pre-heated to180* C.

5. Wait roughly 45 minutes, or until theshnitzels are dry.

Bon Apetite!