Vegan For Thought » Vegan Fact of the Day http://www.veganforthought.com Tue, 15 Mar 2011 22:59:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Vegan Fact of the Day http://www.veganforthought.com/2010/04/vegan-fact-of-the-day/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=vegan-fact-of-the-day http://www.veganforthought.com/2010/04/vegan-fact-of-the-day/#comments Tue, 06 Apr 2010 06:53:47 +0000 Tim http://www.veganforthought.com/?p=207 The “carbon footprint” for New Zealand lamb eaten in Britain has been estimated as equivalent to 1.9kg of carbon dioxide, for each 100gm serving of lamb – 80 percent of that generated by farmers and their livestock on-farm.

Just 3 percent of the greenhouse gas emissions came from processing, and 5 percent from transport, with the [...]]]> http://www.veganforthought.com/2010/04/vegan-fact-of-the-day/feed/ 0 Vegan Fact of the Day: First Vegan Society http://www.veganforthought.com/2009/10/vegan-fact-of-the-day-namby-pamby-vegetarians/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=vegan-fact-of-the-day-namby-pamby-vegetarians http://www.veganforthought.com/2009/10/vegan-fact-of-the-day-namby-pamby-vegetarians/#comments Thu, 15 Oct 2009 05:48:40 +0000 Tim http://www.veganforthought.com/?p=152 The first Vegan Society was created in 1944 to counter the detestable, flexitarian tendencies of early animal rights activists.

Founder Donald Watson called their namby-pamby lacto-vegetarianism “a halfway house between flesh-eating and a truly human, civilised diet!”

Billy-Ray would never drink milk again!

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The very mention of honey and my new found veganism caused some animated debate at a restaurant the other day. So, this will be discussed and debated on this blog in the near future.

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We can feed the world, it just can’t be meat that we are feeding them.

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Source: Your local supermarket!

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]]> http://www.veganforthought.com/2009/09/vegan-fact-of-the-day-deforestation/feed/ 0 Vegan Fact of the Day: Feed The World http://www.veganforthought.com/2009/09/feed-the-world/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed-the-world http://www.veganforthought.com/2009/09/feed-the-world/#comments Tue, 22 Sep 2009 23:58:47 +0000 Jordan http://www.veganforthought.com/?p=34 The population of the United States is: 270 million

The number of people who could be fed by the grain and soybeans eaten by U.S. livestock is: 1.3 billion

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