World's Largest Veggie Brat Fest 2008 is on May 24 - mark your calendars!
Memorial Day weekend marks our annual World's Largest Vegetarian Brat Fest, so get your brat-loving self ready for a delicious, FREE vegan Tofurky brat on May 24!
The World's Largest Vegetarian Brat Fest, held the same weekend as the World's Largest Brat Fest, is Wisconsin's healthy and humane alternative to the annual public gorging of almost 200,000 meat-based brats (that's 120 million calories, by the way) at the Alliant Energy Center in Madison.
For more info, go to www.veggiebratfest.com. See you there!
Vegan and Vegetarian Resources
Whether you're looking to decrease the amount of meat in your diet, already vegetarian and thinking about becoming vegan, or a knowledgeable vegan, click here for online resources to help you plan your diet!
What happened to the Vilas Zoo Monkeys?
On Saturday, March 4, 1998, nearly 150 rhesus monkeys - born and living at the Henry Vilas Zoo and protected by three written agreements from UW-Madison that they would remain there - were loaded onto trucks and sent to Tulane University where they would eventually be used and killed in infectious disease and other experiments.
After their arrival at Tulane, the monkeys endured ninety days of solitary confinement which Tulane termed quarantine. Their family groups were destroyed. Some were placed into breeding situations, some died (at least one during solitary confinement), and others were experimented on and then killed.
All of this happened in spite of three written agreements, promises by the graduate school dean, and limitations written into the primate center's federal grant.
No one has ever been held accountable for the 201 monkeys who were secretly stolen over that nine-year period.
The university had the monkey house bulldozed to the ground.
How did this happen? Read more here.
Gloria Steinem Says NO to Covance Cruelty!
MADISON- Covance, Inc., one of Madison's largest employers, is no longer welcome as a sponsor of a local fundraising event. Gloria Steinem, who will appear in Madison to help celebrate the 30th anniversary of a local human services agency, asked that the organization drop Covance as a sponsor of their October 16th event.
Ms. Steinem, one of the stars of the modern feminist movement and founder of Ms. Magazine, has taken a public stand against animal research. In its sprawling laboratory complex near Madison's airport, thousands of monkeys, dogs and other live animals are used by Covance to test drugs, cleaning products and other chemicals. When alerted by the Alliance for Animals Primate Freedom Project, a partnership between a Madison-based animal rights group and a small national nonprofit, that Covance was a major sponsor of the 30th anniversary celebration, Ms. Steinem was concerned and issued a statement through her New York office:
"Gloria Steinem expressed her severe discomfort at participating at an event for [a local human services agency] sponsored by Covance after she was alerted to the fact that thousands of animals suffer in the Covance laboratories. She stated, ‘Animal abuse is so connected to domestic abuse -- literally in a household, but societally in a more general way, too.' Using one's power to harm others is contrary to Ms. Steinem's life's work and Covance was dropped as a sponsor for the event.”
For the entire press release, click here.
MILWAUKEE'S TMJ 4 TELEVISION NEWS EXPOSES WISCONSIN PUPPY MILLS
Milwaukee's Channel TMJ4 investigated puppy mills in Wisconsin and found "puppies covered in their own waste, and dogs so stressed out that they chew each others' feet and tails off."
See the investigative report by clicking here:
Part One (with footage from "Puppyhaven" in Kingston, WI)
Part Two (highlighting puppy mills in Wisconsin's Amish country)
Wisconsin has very little regulation aimed at puppy breeding facilities; as a result, "puppy mills" are thriving. Please contact your legislators (call 608-266-9960 or 800-362-WISC or go to http://www.legis.state.wi.us to find out who your legislators are) and ask that they sponsor and support legislation regulating puppy mills. Please also contact Governor Doyle at 608-266-1212.
See the Wisconsin Puppy Mill Project's website for more information on what you can do to help. Please also thank TMJ4 for this animal-friendly coverage by emailing them at tmj4feedback@todaystmj4.com.
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