Dr. Sulekh Chand Jain
These days there are hundreds, if not thousands, of websites, societies, groups, books, magazines, and videos all devoted to vegan and vegetarian practices and lifestyles. For more information, one only has to search on Google. Below is a listing of just a few.
One very good source on vegan resources that I have come across is the book Making Kind Choices by Ingrid Newkirk. This book is a wealth of information. Others include:
- Prof. Gary Francione’s website, www.abolitionistapproach.com,
- Prof. Glenn Paige’s website on the Global Center for Non- killing, www.nonkilling.org,
- The Jiv Daya website, www.jivdaya.org,
- The website for the Physicians’ Committee for Responsible medicine (PCRM), www.pcrm.org; they can also be reached by phone at +1 202.686.2210.
Still others include:
- The website for the organization, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), www.peta.org
- Farm Animal Rights Movement (FARM), www.farmusa.org and at +1 301.530.1737
- Vegetarian Resource Group (VRG), www.vrg.org, and at +1 410.366.8343
- Compassion Over Killing (COK), www.cok.net
- Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), www.humanesociety.org
- Poplar Spring Animal Sanctuary, www.animalsanctuary.org
- United Poultry Concerns (UPC), www.upc-online.org
- Vegan Society, www.vegansociety.com
- Vegetarian Society of DC (VSDC), www.vsdc.org, and at +1 202.362.8349
- Jewish Vegetarians of North America (JVNA), www.jewishveg.com
- Christian Vegetarian Association, www.christianveg.org
- Vegan Outreach, www.veganoutreach.org
- European Vegetarian and Animal News Agency (EVANA), www.evana.org
- London Vegans, www.londonvegans.org
- UK Vegetarians, www.vegetarian.org.uk
- Not Milk, www.notmilk.com
- China Study, a source for a whole-food, plant-based diet, www.thechinastudy.com
- End Factory Farming, www.factoryfarming.org.uk
- Jain Vegans: Jain Vegans supports members of the Jain community in the transition towards a plant-based low-himsa lifestyle, and helps raise awareness about the abuse, violation and killing of cows in milk production. You can find out more about Jain Vegans online (www.jainvegans.org)
And additional helpful articles and resources can be found on the following pages and sites:
- Natural Mom, a compendium of articles related to food choices and parenting, www.naturalmom.com/milk.htm
- Earth Save, www.earthsave.org
- www.Vegan.com
- www.Supervegan.com
- www.GoVeg.com
- “vegetarian” page on Love to Know, www.vegetarian. lovetoknow.com
Here is a fact that many may not know: 60 billion animals give their lives annually for an industry that confines, tortures, and brutally slaughters them to feed us and to make a profit.
Watch the documentary “Earthlings”, whichl looks in depth at the daily horrors animals endure throughout the world and you will likely have a change of heart about why one should be vegan.
Finally, film actress and activist Alicia Silverstone has a fantastic cookbook called The Kind Diet and has a website called The Kind Life: http://thekindlife.com/.
And the Post Punk Kitchen has dozens of delicious recipes and is full of extra resources: http://www.theppk.com/
A general ignorance about vegetarianism means that eating non-veg is taken for granted and so, many aspects of our daily life contain animal products and by-products. It is extremely disheartening that many companies are fooling vegetarians by adding non-veg ingredients to day to day consumable products, meaning that well-intentioned vegetarians unknowingly participate in animal cruelty.
