Vegan Resources/Factsheets/Essays/Blogs (Nutrition & Ethics)

Articles about veganism, factsheets, essays, documentaries/videos or related blog-sites for the purposes of outreach and informative commentary collected by David Catherine


VITAMIN B12:

* "B12 and the Vegan Diet: All You Need To Know About Vitamin B12 in Vegetarian and Vegan Diets" by Dr Justine Butler:
http://www.vegetarian.org.uk/factsheets/b12factsheet.pdf

* "Vitamin B12: Are you getting it?"
http://www.veganhealth.org/b12/

* "The Vitamin B12 Issue" by Dr Gina Shaw:
http://www.living-foods.com/articles/b12issue.html

* "Vitamin B12 Importance" by Dr Gabriel Cousens:
http://www.living-foods.com/articles/b12article.html

* "What every vegan should know about vitamin B12" by Stephen Walsh Ph.D:
http://www.vegansociety.com/lifestyle/nutrition/b12.aspx


PROTEIN:

* "The Protein Myth: Why vegetarian and vegan diets contain all the protein that you need" by Amanda Woodvine, BSc Nutrition:
http://www.vegetarian.org.uk/factsheets/Protein-vegetarian-vegan.pdf

* "Vegan Protein Sources" by Thomas Stearns Lee:
http://www.naturodoc.com/library/nutrition/protein.htm

* "Protein in the Vegan Diet" by Reed Mangels:
http://www.vrg.org/nutrition/protein.htm

* "Protein"
http://www.vegansociety.com/lifestyle/nutrition/protein.aspx

* "Quinoa: A Great Vegetarian Protein Source":
http://www.vegathletic.com/quinoa-vegetarian-protein

* "The Queen of Protein, Quinoa!"
http://vegancampus.com/2009/03/16/the-queen-of-protein-quinoa/

* "Hemp Protein" by Jennifer Walker, BSc (Nutr.):
http://www.alive.com/4490a12a2.php


IRON:

* "Ironing out the facts: Why plant iron is best" by Dr Justine Butler:
http://www.vegetarian.org.uk/factsheets/Ironing_out_the_facts_2008.pdf

* "Iron in the Vegan Diet" by Reed Mangels:
http://www.vrg.org/nutrition/iron.htm

* "Iron"
http://www.vegansociety.com/lifestyle/nutrition/iron.aspx


CALCIUM:

* "Boning up on Calcium! Why Plant Calcium is Best" by Dr Justine Butler:
http://www.vegetarian.org.uk/factsheets/calciumfactsheet.pdf

* "Calcium":
http://www.vegansociety.com/lifestyle/nutrition/calcium.aspx

* "Are you getting too much calcium?" by Micki Misiaszek, RD, LDN:
http://www.aakp.org/aakp-library/too-much-calcium/

* "Health risks from excessive calcium" by the National Institute of Health:
http://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/calcium.asp#h8


VEGAN ETHICS / ANIMAL RIGHTS / ENVIRONMENT:

* Vegan Ethics (various booklets)
http://www.veganoutreach.org/advocacy/resources.html

* Abolitionist Approach (pamphlet)
http://www.abolitionistapproach.com/media/pdf/ARAA_Pamphlet_A4.pdf

* "The Dark Side of Dairy"
http://milkmyths.org.uk/

* "Environmental Degradation"
http://www.veganoutreach.org/whyvegan/environment.html

* "Greenhouse Emissions and exacerbated Climate Change"
http://www.veganoutreach.org/globalwarming.html

* "UN urges global move to meat and dairy-free diet"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jun/02/un-report-meat-free-diet

* "Expanding Our Compassion Footprint: Minding Animals As We Redecorate Nature" by Marc Bekoff:
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/animal-emotions/200906/expanding-our-compassion-footprint-minding-animals-we-redecorate-nature

* "Why 'Good Welfare' Isn't 'Good Enough': Minding Animals and Increasing Our Compassionate Footprint" by Marc Bekoff:
http://www.animalrightsafrica.org/Archive/Berkoff_ARBS_2008.pdf

* "The Problem of the 'Welfarist' Approach: The 'humane' myth of effectively regulating ongoing abuse"
http://humanemyth.org/

* "Minding the Animals: Ethology and the Obsolescence of Left Humanism" by Dr Steve Best:
http://www.inclusivedemocracy.org/journal/vol5/vol5_no2_best_minding_animals.htm

* "Revolutionary Environmentalism: An Emerging New Struggle for Total Liberation" by Dr Steve Best:
http://www.drstevebest.org/Essays/RevolutionaryEnvironmentalism.htm

* "The Misleading Language of Species-ism" by Joan Dunayer (intro by David Catherine):
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=407211014765

* "First Strike: The Connection Between Animal Cruelty and Human Violence"
http://www.hsus.org/hsus_field/first_strike_the_connection_between_animal_cruelty_and_human_violence/

* "Empathy is What Really Sets Vegetarians Apart (at least Neurologically Speaking)" by Daniel R. Hawes:
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/evolved-primate/201005/empathy-is-what-really-sets-vegetarians-apart-least-neurologically-speak

* "Rational Ignorance and Rational Irrationality" by Dan Cudahy
http://unpopularveganessays.blogspot.com/2009/03/rational-ignorance-and-rational.html


GENERAL:

* "The Comparative Anatomy of Eating" by Milton R. Mills (MD):
http://www.earthsave.ca/files/anatomy.pdf

* "A-Z Of Hidden Nasties! Alphabetical Glossary of Animal Substances" by Juliet Gellatley, Director of VVF and Laura Scott, MSc Nutrition:
http://www.vegetarian.org.uk/factsheets/hiddennastiesf_sheet.pdf

* "The Safety of Soya" by Dr Justine Butler, VVF Senior Health Campaigner:
http://www.vegetarian.org.uk/factsheets/safetyofsoyafactsheet.pdf

* Vegan Factsheets (various):
http://www.vegetarian.org.uk/factsheets/


BLOG-SITES FOR VEGAN / ANIMAL RIGHTS :

* "Unpopular Vegan Essays" by Dan Cudahy:
http://unpopularveganessays.blogspot.com/

* "Abolitionist Animal Rights" by James Crump:
http://abolitionistanimalrights.blogspot.com/

* "Animal Rights: The Abolitionist Approach" by Gary Francione:
http://www.abolitionistapproach.com/

* "On Human-Nonhuman Relations: A Sociological Exploration of Speciesism" by Roger Yates:
http://human-nonhuman.blogspot.com/

* "My Face Is on Fire: Abolitionist vegan education, animal rights issues and the misrepresentation of veganism in pop culture or mainstream media":
http://my-face-is-on-fire.blogspot.com/

* "Thomas Paine's Corner: Comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable" (various authors/editors):
http://thomaspainescorner.wordpress.com/

* "Vegetarianism, Environmentalism, Animal Rights, and Social Theory" by Dr Steve Best:
http://www.drstevebest.org/essays.htm

* "The Earth Blog: Giving The Earth A Future " by Keith Farnish:
http://earth-blog.bravejournal.com/index.php

* "The Permavegan: A conversation at the intersection of plant-based nutrition, permaculture, and vegan ethics" by Jonathan Maxson:
http://permavegan.blogspot.com/2010/05/bare-bones-outline-veganic-permaculture.html


ONLINE DOCUMENTARIES/VIDEOS:

* "Earthlings" (3 trailers, plus full version)
http://www.earthlings.com/earthlings/trailer-streaming-2.php

* "Meet Your Meat"
http://www.goveg.com/factoryFarming.asp

* "The Milk Documentary"
http://www.milkdocumentary.com/Site/About.html

* "Dr. Jay Gordon: No one needs meat for health"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eD3QWtoGQ14

* The Witness" (trailer excerpt)
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1059070815082&ref=share

* "The Witness" (full version)
http://www.tribeofheart.org/sr/sr_witscreeningroom_english.htm