A week or so ago, I finally composed my letter to Gov. Schwarzenegger regarding the crisis of the people of California being sprayed against their will with toxic chemicals. What follows is the response I received. My rebuttals to the downright lies in this letter are in bold. —- Thank you for writing Governor Schwarzenegger [...]

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Please, check out this post from Billy Amon, a fellow vegan who lives in Washington and runs the terrific Vegan Talk blog. We are so grateful to Billy and his readers for caring about this. My experience with the aerial spraying disaster in California is that once people know it’s happening, they are horrified. We [...]

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Take ten minutes to watch this LBAM Myth Debunking YouTube Video. UC Davis Entomologist Dr. James Carey and UC Santa Cruz Arboretum Executive Director Dr. Daniel Harder present the results of their New Zealand research at a March 13, 2008 hearing held in San Rafael by State Senator Joe Simitian, Chair of the Senate Environmental [...]

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Prior to the atomic bomb testing that took place in the American southwest in the 1950s – 1960s, a government propaganda film was shown to the small rural communities that ranged around the bomb testing site. In that film, a kindly preacher quieted a young man’s fears about the bomb, telling him that mushroom clouds [...]

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What follows is our letter, appealing to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, asking them to help protect the women of California from the chemical in the LBAM spray known to cause breast cancer: —- Dear Ladies, The women of the Monterey Bay Area of California have been aerially sprayed with 2-hydroxy-4-n-octyloxybenzophenone. This is [...]

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We have until the 20th of March 2008 to send written comments to Jim Rains, California Department of Food and Agriculture Plant Health and Pest Prevention Services. This is your chance to answer the CDFA’s call for public comments regarding the aerial spraying of California for the so-called threat of the LBAM (Light Brown Apple [...]

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‘They’re always a-hammering and a-letting out a smoke and a stench, and there isn’t no peace even at night in Hobbiton. And they pour out filth a-purpose; they’ve fouled all the lower Water and it’s getting down into Brandywine. If they want to make the Shire into a desert, they’re going the right way about [...]

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When you think of Santa Cruz, surfers may be one of the first images that comes to mind. Few people know the beaches around Monterey Bay like the men and women who have been surfing it – many for 40+ years. Following the illegal and horrific aerial spraying around the Monterey Bay Area, the worst [...]

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With the governor of California clearly up to his ears in political payola and private, yet obvious, deals with special interests, it is nice to know that there are still elected officials capable of giving human rights priority over corporate profits. Vegan Reader applauds this clearheaded and just letter from Mayor Lieber of Albany, California, [...]

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When my husband and I launched this blog a couple of weeks ago, we envisioned this as a nice project that would enable us to share what we know about compassionate living, drawing on our combined 22 years of experience living a vegan lifestyle. We looked forward to sharing helpful tips, inspirational humanitarian stories, and [...]

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