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!
Madison Area Vegetarian Meetup Group
The Madison Area Vegetarian Meetup Group was started as a way for vegetarians of all ages to meet and socialize. Some have asked if this is a singles group. It is not. There are many families in the group. Simply put, everyone is welcome to join. The atmosphere at events is friendly and casual.
For the Record - Debate on Primate Research
June 22, 2008 WISC-TV's Neil Heinen and a panel including Richard Davidson, Eric Sandgren, Rick Marolt, and Rick Bogle debate the ethics, politics, and potential of primate research and the University of Wisconsin-Madison's significant role in these controversial studies. Watch it here.
Alliance for Animals Shows Support for Milwaukee Brewers Homerun Hitter (and vegetarian) Prince Fielder
Vegetarian Prince Fielder didn't disappoint his fans as he homered in back-to-back innings to lead the Milwaukee Brewers in a 7-3 victory over the Baltimore Orioles. A group of 26 Fielder fans from the Alliance for Animals held signs and cheered Prince on after feasting on veggie brats, hotdogs, and beverages before the game at a traditional pre-game tailgaiting party.
Read ESPN's article by Jonah Keri, Who Says You Have to Eat Meat to Be a Man.
UW-Madison Chancellor finalist's performance, philosophy challenged
According to the Cap Times, on or about March 21, the UW-Madison Chancellor Search Committee postponed its selection of the next chancellor. On March 16, the Alliance submitted a letter to the Search Committee and the Board of Regents detailing Mulcahy's history and involvement in four specific scandals having to do with the university's primate experimentation. Apparently, even the search committee recognized the problems of hiring someone with so much negative baggage. Mulcahy went on to "withdraw his name" from consideration citing an interest in "spending more time with his family."
Pirates on the High Seas! Yar Matey!
The 2008 The Psychoneuroimmunology Research Society (PNIRS) annual conference took place between May 28-31, 2008 at the Monona Terrace Convention Center. The view of the lake was somewhat disturbing to the attendees...
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.
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All are invited to attend our cook-off. Delicious vegan chili from a dozen different fabulous cooks. This year we will be holding the cook off at the new Goodman-Atwood Community Center, so just that is enough reason to come. Plus if you're planning on attending 
