February 2001, Vol. 10, No. 1

Veggie Center relocates: VivaVegie settles in at 118 E. 28th St. Ł page 2

Reef madness: Magnificent coral habitats, eaten to extinction Ł page 5

Crazy humans in the EU: Europeans freak at cow menace Ł page 8

Near-instant death: Catastrophic mortalities for farmed fish Ł page 6

Battery cages: Americans surveyed express overwhelming horror Ł page 7

The VivaVine is a publication of the VivaVegie Society, New York City’s premier vegetarian-outreach organization.

Xmas with Penelo Pea Pod (Rockefeller Center). Thanksgiving with Penelo Pea Pod (Macy’s Parade).

VivaVegie signs 5-year lease on new Veggie Center on East 28th Street. See page 2.

The tragic demise of the world’s coral reefs. See page 5. PROGRAMS • VEGGIE CENTER NEWS FLASH

VEGETARIAN CENTER PROGRAMS VivaVegie’s Vegetarian Center of NYC All events are at 121 East 27th Street, Suite 704. Where appropriate, partici- • hosts lectures, video screen- • houses a notebook of menus pants may bring dinner with them. Infor- ings, workshops, and discus- from local veggie restaurants mation: 646-424-9595. sion groups • offers pro-vegetarian T-shirts • offers a referral service for and lapel buttons Lecture series (6:30 P.M.) restaurants, stores, vegan • houses an archive of books, Thurs., Feb. 22 and Mar. 22: Govern- products, and vegetarian ment giveaways to the meat indus- pamphlets, magazines, and try: A primer (Pamela Rice) organizations cataloged news reports for An introduction to the dozens of tax breaks • functions as a meeting place students and journalists to and subsidies the government hands over to for groups use in research the meat industry. Suggested donation: $3. • serves as a drop-in space for • is a place to get involved with passers-by to pick up a restau- vegetarian advocacy Seminar (6:30 P.M.) rant guide, pro-vegetarian lit- • is a place for visitors to speak Tues., Mar. 6: Workshop for wanna- erature for leafleting, and one on one with a real, live be vegetarian-issue journalists other vegetarian information vegetarian! Learn about the inverted pyramid, copy style, the importance of proper grammar, 118 East 28th Street, Suite 704, in Manhattan and the who, what, where, and why of cov- ering our issues. Suggested donation: $3. Office hours: 3:00 to 6:00 p.m., M – F • Always call ahead to confirm. OFF-HOURS ENTRANCE: 121 East 27th Street • 646-424-9595 SUNDAY Veggie Center moves its office here are lots of plusses our programs, a meeting space/office/ SOIREES about our move to East 28th research room, and an archive. at VivaVegie’s Veggie Center Street (off-hours entrance on T And there’s more: Light snacks • BYO beverage 27th Street) and really only one nega- Admission fee: One news- tive—we lost our 212 phone number. • We’re a little closer to a subway paper/magazine article on a vegetari- So when you call to confirm your stop: The #6 stops right on the cor- an issue. Recommended, but next visit to the Vegetarian Center, ner at 28th Street and Park Avenue optional: Bring your favorite music CDs and potluck dish. please be advised South. that despite our 646 Losing our 212 number • We’re steps away Feb. 25 and Mar. 25 • 6:30 P.M. area code, we are from four Indian is a small sacrifice for still in Manhattan! vegetarian restau- It’s a small sacri- more space, a quieter rants in nearby Rap ’n’ Wrap (6:30 P.M.) fice for more space, Little India, not to Tues., Feb. 13 & Mar. 13: A time for veg- a quieter space, a space, a space that is mention Vatan etarians to shoot the breeze and sort space that is ours one block up and ours for five years— things out from our own perspective for five years—the one avenue over. Why should livestock operators be allowed length of our lease. the length of our lease. • Hangawi and Zen to administer nontherapeutic antibiotics to Our current 200 Palate are also their animals? Why is tobacco settlement square feet gives us close by. money going to cattle ranchers in Ten- nessee? Where can I get a vegan meal in plenty of room to carry on with all • We have two fabulous health-food Timbuktu? Suggested donation: $3. that we have offered in the past— stores on Park Avenue South, one a block up, one a block down. OPEN HOUSE AT THE • Our copy editor, Glen Boisseau Workshop VEGETARIAN CENTER Becker, is close at hand. With his LIGHT REFRESHMENTS By appointment: Getting started with day job just across Park Avenue your new veggie diet SUGGESTED DONATION: $5 South, we have Glen’s rare abilities What do you eat, now that you’ve decided Sat., Feb. 17 • 5:00–11:30 P.M. in the English-language depart- to go vegetarian? Free. USE SERVICE ENTRANCE: ment conveniently located! 121 East 27th Street • We have two huge windows, a real Open house at Veggie Ctr. Suite 704 treat in the Big Apple. Buzzer #: 0704 • We have 24/7 buzzer access to the FEB. 17• SEE INFORMATION AT RIGHT (DON’T FORGET THE FIRST ZERO) building from 27th Street.

The VivaVine • February 2001 • 2 VIVA VEGIE ON THE MOVE New Home: More square feet and a 5-year lease

The process in pictures ! Above photos, left to right (from Obtain VivaVegie’s “Vegetarian upper left): First, we had our lawyer, Guide to New York City” or Barry Flashner, check the lease—all VivaVegie’s “Vegetarian Guide to 29 pages! And he explained every New Jersey,” free! clause. Next, Pamela Rice signed the Simply send an SASE to our post-office box lease; that meant initialing every (see page page, too. (We saved the pen.) Next, 4), indicate we got the signatures of our new land- which lords, Don and Phillip Kiamie. Shown guide you here are Matt Kiamie—Phil’s would like nephew—and Phillip Kiamie. Then it us to send. was on to a little demolition and paint- ing (actually quite a lot). Pamela ! Rice—paintbrush in hand—stands Stop ‘em in their tracks with next to a Dumpster full of debris that VivaVegie’s “mighty convincer.” just days before was a completely un- “101 Reasons Why I’m a Vegetarian,” our pop- necessary wall with a doorway that ular itemized booklet documenting the ills of the landlord agreed to remove. Fi- meat and the virtues of veggies (by Pamela nally, our illustrious spacklers and Rice), is available in single copies and in painters: Left to right are Murray bulk. An order form appears on page 15. Schechter and Kate Garrison (our vol- unteers) and Rodc Terrell (our invalu- able paid employee). Now it’s time for people to come and see the results! http://www.vivavegie.org

The VivaVine • February 2001 • 3 GRAPEVINE Meat Reminder: So, so horrible Stunned by VVS Web site If you feed them, VivaVegie.org came up when I did a they will come word search on the Internet. I was We held our first vegetarian aware- stunned by all I discovered at your ness meeting on October 1 (World site alone. Consequently, I’ve just be- Vegetarian Day) at our neighbor- come a vegan. hood library in Johnstown, New Susan Howe York. Fifteen people came! We Bisbee, Arizona served -ricotta stuffed shells with almond “Parmesan cheese” and Long live our scaly, furry, mock-chicken (gluten) potpies, with a publication of and fine-feathered friends! hummus and salad on the side. We VivaVegie Society, Inc. talked about all the reasons to be Bravo! You just helped me educate vegetarian—health, environment, Vol. 10, No. 1 some of my meat-eating friends. I will and the animals. We showed pro-veg- FEBRUARY 2001 soon be purchasing multiple copies etarian videos and offered literature P.O. Box 294 • Prince Street Station of your “101 Reasons” as well as back for people to take away with them. New York, NY 10012-0005 issues of your VivaVine to share with We talked recipes, of course! We now 646-424-9595 (vegetarian center) friends and the kids at my summer have a motto: “If you feed them, they 212-871-9304 (hot line) camp who are considering becoming will come!” We’re not always sure [email protected] vegetarian. Long live our scaly, furry, the people leave with the whole and fine-feathered friends! package of ideas we want them to Publisher: Pamela Rice Susan Jeffreys take, but perhaps we’ve planted a Editor: Alan Rice Huntington, Pennsylvania few seeds. Copy editor: Glen Boisseau Becker Rosemary Benedict Contributors: Glen Boisseau Becker, Options dismal at cafeteria The Ful-Mont Veg Group Karen Iacobbo After reading “101 Reasons Why I’m Johnstown, New York Webmaster: Marian Cole a Vegetarian,” I have decided to be- Calendar editor: Evelyn Gilbert come a vegetarian (again). My goal VVS volunteer profile: Gaggle of veg-evangelists: has been to be healthy and thinner (I have been between 30 and 50 Kate Garrison, Joan Zacharias, Geoff Watland pounds overweight over the past 4 Danielle Dunbar, Laura Dauphine, years). I am glad to be reminded of Judea Johnson, Jean Thaler, all the reasons meat is horrible! I did Murray Schechter, and Rob Dolecki not know about factory farming be- Editorial consultants: fore. By the way, today I have not • : United eaten any meat, but it was difficult Poultry Concerns because at work 75 percent of the • Richard Schwartz: author, food in our cafeteria is meat-based. I Judaism and was going to order soup, but all they Special thanks to: had was turkey soup and clam chow- • David Sielaff • Nalith der. It’s going to be a challenge. I wonder if you could suggest any really good vegetarian eating JOIN VivaVegie guides/books? Thanks for any help. Ellen Sometimes in a moment of excitement To become a member of the Chesapeake, Virginia people say things like: “I would like to VivaVegie Society for one year, send volunteer for VivaVegie!” Unfortu- $15 to the above address. Member- Editor’s note: A couple of great nately, statements like these are not al- ship entitles you to a membership books for the stage you are in are Be- ways sincere. So when Geoff Watland card, five issues of The VivaVine, a coming Vegetarian and Becoming said he would call every number in our copy of “101 Reasons Why I’m a Veg- Vegan, both published by Book Pub- vegan guide to confirm and update the etarian,” and VivaVegie’s “Vegetarian lishing Company. The first can be pamphlet’s information, we at Viva- Guide to New York City” or Viva- read at the Veggie Center (see page Vegie headquarters were a bit skepti- Vegie’s “Vegetarian Guide to New 12), and both can be obtained by cal. But lo and behold, this is exactly Jersey.” calling 888-260-8458. what he did. Kudos, Geoff!

The VivaVine • February 2001 • 4 FEATURE STORY: CORAL REEFS IN PERIL Cyanide Eco-Suicide: Rainforests of the sea undone blood. Sediment runoff from coastal development also Coral reefs first appeared can block sunlight, essential for coral reef growth. about 225 million years ago. In Many interests each take just a little fact, some in the world today The world’s coral reefs tend to predominate in underde- may have been in existence for as veloped regions of the world where the poorest people live. Though fishermen from rich countries cause a sub- long as 2.5 million years. stantial portion of reef destruction, simply because they have the means to harvest the ocean on a larger scale, a BY PAMELA RICE lot of reef exploitation is done by burgeoning popula- tions in the developing world just to feed the locals. oral reefs are resplendent concentrations of bio- Coral reefs are the source of about one-quarter of all the logical diversity accounting for more than 25 per- fish harvested in the third world, providing food for a bil- Ccent of the known marine fish species, despite lion people in Asia alone. their taking up only one-quarter of 1 percent of the But reef species can just as easily be overexploited by ocean. According to Marjorie local fishermen to fulfill demand Reaka-Kudla, a prominent scien- from foreign countries. This often tist, anywhere between 1 and 9 happens when one kind of fish million species inhabit the suddenly becomes popular world’s coral reefs. Yet no more halfway around the globe. At than about 4,000 species of fish times like this, such target vari- and 800 species of reef-building Divers dissolve concentrated eties provide quick cash; never coral have been even cataloged. tablets of cyanide into mind that as the exploiters rush Determining the extent of ma- to pluck the fish, reef by reef over rine destruction due to human ac- plastic squirt bottles filled many ecosystems, species are dri- tivity is especially difficult for the with sea water. Fish are ven to extinction. simple reason that the damage is Clams and sea urchins in the done out of sight below water. Bi- stunned but still need to be Philippines followed this disas- ologists have tried to evaluate the extracted from corals with trous scenario, as have some large health of most of the world’s destructive tools. predator reef fish such as reefs, but the studies are admit- grouper*, which have become lo- tedly sketchy. The damage is cally extinct in many places to largely unknown. Theories have been put supply the ever-popular live-fish trade generated out of forth about the rate of extinction on the reefs China. And when a particular species becomes the rage today. Some experts tell us that if the deci- on the plates of far-off countries, even ex- mation continues over the next four tremely remote reefs can be affected by decades, over a million species could be the slash and burn of target-species gone forever. sweeps. Though such destruction is A comprehensive assessment of the difficult to document reliably, it can ecosystem destruction of the world’s coral safely be said that thanks to this en- reefs was done in 1998. Though there were viro-economic reality, nearly every reef many participants in the study, the World on earth is at least somewhat defiled. Conservation Monitoring Centre and the Eating into the capital International Center for Living Aquatic Re- sources Management were the primary re- with cyanide searchers. The resulting report concluded There can be big money in coral-reef that 58 percent of the world’s reefs are potentially cuisine. In Hong Kong, for instance, certain threatened by human activity, of which overfishing is business occasions demand a show of wealth, and noth- just one part. Reefs are also destroyed by the dumping of ing will do short of serving fillets of reef fish cut from se- human sewage, by the buildup of coastal areas (reefs are lected specimens pulled ceremoniously from a live-fish literally paved over), by shipping lanes, by mining (reefs tank at $300 per plate. The suppliers of such consumptive are ground to make cement), by consumer demand for Continued on page 12 seafood (mostly in Europe and North America) and aquarium fish, and by natural causes such as climatic * Grouper, it bears noting, tends to be tame around humans, so is easily killed with spear guns. Today, predator fish, which are changes. In addition, nutrient runoff from fertilizers and essential to reef ecosystems, are becoming a rarity thanks to manure quickly pollute the waters that are reefs’ life ravenous human demand.

The VivaVine • February 2001 • 5 VEGETARIAN NEWS Soy polloi: Joe Sixpack now opting for mock meats Federal prisoners can have 300,000 catfish on an Arkansas fish The guidelines advise people to shift farm last summer. A power failure whole categories of food choices, it their way: Vegetarian caused paddlewheels that aerate the the result being that a lot of dietary In terms of timing, the recent in- sins are solved all at once. We veg- auguration of a federally imple- A power failure caused etarians, of course, have been say- mented pro-vegetarian rule paddlewheels that aerate ing this for years! could not have been more ap- Later in November, the AHA sur- propriate. On the day that the water with vital oxygen prised a lot of people with the bold much of the -only–eating to stop. In two hours most recommendation that soy be a part world celebrates as World Veg- of the fish were dead. of one’s diet, not just more often etarian Day, October 1, the na- but every day! The reasoning, aside tion’s 98 federal prisons began from the copious nutrients that this a sweeping policy of offering meat- water with vital oxygen to stop, ac- noble bean contains: Eating protein less meals to inmates for lunch and cording to an article in Feedstuffs, an from soy crowds out calories that un- dinner. The new program ushers in industry publication, in August. In healthful meats would provide. such entrees as soyburgers and fried two hours most of the fish were dead. Finally, consumers seem to be on eggplant as options for the 126,000 Many others died from the physical the right track when it comes to federally convicted felons incarcer- stress in the days that followed. phasing out meat now, at least a little ated nationwide, according to an Oc- The economic loss to the farmer bit. They’re already eating more soy. tober Associated Press story. came to $250,000. When 2,000 grocery shoppers were The policy comes on the heels of polled recently by the marketing firm numerous lawsuits inmates have AHA inching to our side, HealthFocus, 22 percent said they brought over the years concerning but consumers seem to be purchase meat substitutes. In 1992, dietary requirements, most of which the same survey showed only 7 per- pertained to adherence to religious on the right track already cent of shoppers to be so inclined. dictates. A recent court case in- Good news all around is in the offing. volved a man who sued for vegan Between the American Heart Associ- Salmonella tech-fix: Cure meals at the penitentiary in Lewis- ation and general consumer habits, a may be worse than disease burg, Pennsylvania. The prison was vegetarian revolution could be qui- “Competitive exclusion” is not ex- ordered in May to give him soymilk, etly percolating. Clues that a new era actly a household term. But in labora- but the rest of his food could contain is dawning started in early October tories dedicated to outwitting salmo- dairy products. Officially, the new with the unveiling of revised dietary nella contamination, it’s all the rage. policy comes not in response to any guidelines by the AHA. The new rec- It refers to a strategy that makes particular lawsuit, but simply as an ommendations emphasize the posi- sense in theory but remains contro- answer to the changing dietary tive—more whole plant-based foods, versial in the field. habits of the general population. such as , , whole When you attempt to eradicate and . Deemphasized bacteria such as salmonella with an- Power outage kills 300,000 is the nebulous strategy of tracking tibiotics, the strongest strains tend farmed fish in Arkansas percentages of fat and cholesterol. to survive, leaving you with antibi- otic-resistant superbugs— We’ve heard of so-called cata- Obituary: Théodore Monod, renowned French exactly what you want to strophic mortalities in refer- naturalist and lifelong vegetarian advocate avoid. ence to intensively confined héodore Monod was warning the world Enter “competitive exclu- turkeys caught in a heat wave, T (1902–2000), the re- about pollution. But more sion,” which occurs when or caged hens in a tornado, or nowned French naturalist, than any other cause, he harmless bacteria are feedlot cattle in a snowstorm. brought into the picture. In a didn’t have much use for advocated vegetarianism. We don’t generally think of salmonella-prone environ- “progress.” As a witness to According to an obituary tens of thousands of farmed the advent of the modern ment, such as a modern fac- in The Economist, Monod fish perishing similarly en automobile, he wanted tory henhouse, the idea believed that animals had masse. nothing to do with it. He’d works in practice when to be respected, and that Factory farming is a horri- rather travel by camel in chicks are doused with be- if there was to be a true re- ble pact with the devil, what- the desert, where most of nign bacteria that act to ligion, it would be one that ever the species. For the ani- his study was done. crowd out the ones that mals, confinement is both And long before the protected the earth, and make people sick. The un- prison and life support at the rest of us had the slightest its adherents would nec- wanted strains have less same time. And so it was for consciousness of it, he essarily be vegetarian. chance of gaining a foothold.

The VivaVine • February 2001 • 6 VEGETARIAN NEWS, CONTINUED “Unacceptable!”: Public outraged by battery cage The idea is already being employed stock, the drug’s noneffective rate in on a chicken-by-chicken basis. If one in Brazil and Japan. humans went from 1 percent to 17 animal is treated, a whole shedful The Food and Drug Administra- percent, according to the Baltimore (about 20,000 at a time) will be, since tion in the United States, how- the drug is administered via com- ever, says, “Not so fast!” It re- No matter the categories in munal water supplies. mains cautious, to the intense which respondents placed The FDA targeted fluoro- dismay of a U.S. chicken indus- quinolones, specifically, because it try hell-bent on getting several themselves, they were largely was able to find a definable link be- products that use the technol- appalled by the use of battery tween the degeneration of the an- ogy approved. The FDA fears cages, according to the poll. tibiotic’s effectiveness in humans that some of the introduced and the use of the drug on the bacteria that are considered be- farm. The ban, the first of its kind, nign could be antibiotic-resistant. Sun, quoting FDA statistics in an early is considered a test case for future We at The VivaVine will be watching December article. Antibiotic resis- bans on other livestock antibiotics. to see whether the industry holds tance to fluoroquinolones in humans Feed makers not comply- sway in its quest to gain access to a occurs as the result of low-level expo- tool that could hammer it—and the sure to the drug, something that hap- ing with remains ban rest of us—later. pens when people—again—eat Although the United States has Americans of every stripe chicken. never had a documented case of To the relief of the World Health mad cow disease, in 1997 the Food down on battery cages Organization, the Centers for Dis- and Drug Administration banned the Jamming hens into battery cages is ease Control, and the American Med- use of feed for cows, sheep, or goats not acceptable to over 85 percent of ical Association, the FDA officially that contained the protein remains respondents surveyed in a recent banned fluoroquinolones for use in of cows, sheep, goats, deer, or elk. Zogby America poll. Of those against animals on November 30. But the The measure came in response to re- the widespread farm practice, nearly main company that makes the drug, search that linked such substances 70 percent said that it was “totally Bayer Corp., is going to fight what with the dreaded bovine disorder unacceptable.” Very few character- appears to be an all-out battle to re- and new-variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob ized such intensive practices as “to- verse the ruling. disease. Victims of nvCJD, it is be- tally acceptable.” Fluoroquinolones, unlike other lieved, contract the disease by eat- No matter the categories in which antibiotics used on chickens, are not ing meat from cattle with mad cow respondents placed themselves—De- used routinely to boost growth rates. disease. (See the story on next page.) mocrat, Republican, or independent; They are used more sparingly, for the In mid-January, the FDA announced white, African American, or Hispanic; actual treatment of disease. Still, the that a large percentage of U.S. render- highly educated or not—they were drug cannot cost-effectively be given Continued on page 8 largely appalled by the use of battery Ⅵ cages, according to the poll. INDOOR GARDENING SUPPLIES BEER-MAKING KITS GROW LIGHTS Resistance is futile, or is it? Ⅵ EVERYONE’S DOING IT Oops! The critics were right, admits the Food and Drug Administration. But now Pandora’s box is going to be GROW LIGHT tough to close up again. HYDROPONIC Five years ago, opponents to FDA GARDEN CENTERS approval of fluoroquinolones for use Ⅵ 2 GREAT LOCATIONS • EAST COAST HYDROPONICS INC. on livestock said that if bacterial re- HYDROPONIC KITS sistance developed, it could cause GROWING BOOKS QUEENS STATEN ISLAND Ⅵ the drug’s curative properties for hu- 146-49 Horace Harding Exp. 439 Castleton Ave. mans to be jeopardized. Human use (Service Rd. of LIE) Staten Island of fluoroquinolones is generally a Flushing 718-727-9300 last-ditch effort in combating gas- ( 718-762-8880 OPEN 5 DAYS OPEN 7 DAYS trointestinal illnesses such as campy- Happy Hydroponic ) lobacteriosis, a food poisoning most growing kit

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The VivaVine • February 2001 • 7 VEGETARIAN NEWS, CONTINUED

Continued from page 7 engineering of chickens to lay eggs pany in the United States, the Roslin ers and feed mills are not complying that carry proteins needed for Institute said that it plans to with the ban in all of its particulars, drugs—some that are de- have the disease-fighting according to the Associated Press. signed to fight cancer in eggs off the assembly humans. To pass the line before the year is Genetic engineering, traits along perfectly, out. According to an cloning, and egg whites the chickens are to be Associated Press story, cloned. the institute has geneti- that fight cancer All of this is part ofg a cally engineered both Does it seems that every time you planned project announced in early sheep and cows to produce medi- turn around there’s a new way sci- December by the same people who cine in their milk—to make drugs out ence can exploit animals to fix human created the first cloned sheep, Dolly. of eggs would be much more cost- problems? This time, it’s the genetic Collaborating with a biotech com- efficient.= Mad Humans: BSE making people go berserk

BY GLEN BOISSEAU BECKER suffering that other species endure. “Mad cow” (bovine spongiform encephalopathy) n December, feature stories in The New York and related diseases are presumed to be spread by the Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Newsweek ingestion of tainted meat, byproducts like gelatin, Isounded some dramatic notes. Fears. Frenzy. blood, or bone meal, and even animal droppings used Panic spreading throughout Europe. No, it wasn’t a as fertilizer; hence the mounting concern when ground- precarious stock market or a threat of nuclear war. It up cattle parts are mixed with livestock feed and fed to was mad cow disease, which has been causing a drop other cattle—a notorious practice that tougher U.S. in beef sales throughout the continent. laws have not succeeded in fully eliminating. Ironically, To be sure, many have tried to counter with a mes- it remains legal to feed cattle parts to chicken and cer- sage that Beef Is Still Good For You. Ten years ago, tain other farm animals, and later to feed their car- Britain’s minister of agriculture was televised feeding casses back to cattle, regardless of the risks. a hamburger to his little daughter, displaying his con- fidence that here was a safe food. In the words of The urther complicating the picture, the cause of Wall Street Journal: “That proved dead wrong.” mad cow disease—a recently discovered In England, the bovine ailment—unimagined a gen- F “renegade protein” called an infectious prion— eration ago—has taken the lives of an estimated 80 cannot be readily destroyed by washing or heating or people. And though official figures are much lower, it even burning. And though mad cow disease, as such, may have claimed as many as 900,000 cows, according has yet to be seen in the United States, researchers and to CNN.com (some 4,300,000 were destroyed in an ef- farmers are concerned to observe how easily forms of fort to contain the epidemic). Portugal and Switzer- the disease seem to migrate across distance, and from land have reported hundreds of cases. In France, an one species to another. Recent outbreaks have affected estimated 100 tainted beef carcasses were found last sheep in New England and elk in Saskatchewan. year, setting off the latest outcry. And individual cases Most alarming, the human equivalent of mad cow in places like Belgium and Holland suggest that no disease—properly called new-variant Creutzfeldt- matter how energetically European nations are putting Jakob disease—incubates so slowly that no one can each other on the “banned beef” list, this modern even guess the extent of the problem with certainty. plague may be no respecter of national boundaries. The incubation period can take up to 25 years. Con- ceivably, some experts speculate, there could be half hat exactly is mad cow disease? By now, a million related human fatalities in England by 2030. everyone in America has heard of it, and We do know that the new disease, unlike standard W no one seems to understand it. No wonder, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, attacks both young and old. when a number of aspects continue to baffle the lead- The stories hit close to home for those who have been ing scientists. eating beef from France—or Spain and , We also see some complacency. After all, a tiny per- where the first bovine cases were spotted recently, centage of meat eaters have fallen victim—so far. causing meat prices to plummet and anxieties to soar. What we may fail to picture is almost too grim to de- With uncharacteristic hyperbole, the front page of scribe: a slow, painful, degenerative ailment that eats The New York Times reported: “Europeans are not let- away at the brain, turning it into a spongy mush and ting beef pass their lips. They are even inspecting their causing incapacity, dementia, and death. To think of a cosmetics and candy to see if they are made from a base single human victim is appalling, not to mention the of beef gelatin.” That sounds like a good idea to us.=

The VivaVine • February 2001 • 8 VEGGIE NUGGETS

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The VivaVine • February 2001 • 9 SUBSIDIES UPDATE We’re All Meatless & Tobacco settlement money slated for We’re All OKAY!! cattlemen and fish farmers The meat-eating world can have some twisted logic at Tr y Ou r times—as witness some of the places one state is think- Custom-Baked ing of putting its tobacco settlement money. Vegetarian Everyone knows that recovering the costs associated Specialties! with the treatment of smoking-related illnesses was the reasoning behind all the lawsuits states brought against the tobacco companies. But now that the spoils of victory are here, some of the booty is ending up in places that should have vegetarians scratching their heads. In the case of Tennessee, the scramble is on for al- most $5 billion over the next 25 years. In general, the state has already decided that pro-health programs should get a lot of it, but oddly, only half. The other half We all can be soldiers for good… has been earmarked for agriculture—the idea being that Through our efforts and the efforts of some very brave individuals various agricultural interests were hurt by tobacco’s and organizations, together we have helped raise awareness of downsizing. Named as possible benefactors in the agri- healthy alternatives for animals. Let’s all keep joining hands… culture category, according to a December 12 story in We have, and will continue to make a difference. the Knoxville News-Sentinel: cattle and aquaculture inter- Call today for information on our extensive line of alternative therapies, our great selection of vegan and vegetarian pet foods, ests. Perhaps word has not reached Tennessee of the and the most humane meat-based foods and, of course, health risks of beef and fish. our famous handmade fresh-baked biscuits! Wow-Bow Distributors LTD. Alaska: Where reindeer and caribou play 1.800.326-0230 Hey, if you were a reindeer in Alaska and a bunch of guys 13B Lucon Drive, Deer Park, NY 11729 • email us at: [email protected] were trying to round you up to sell your meat and make aphrodisiacs and tonics out of your antlers, you might run off with the caribou, too! In fact, about 3,000 reindeer across western Alaska have done just that over the past decade, according to state officials, and now herders are Dine out asking the federal government for disaster relief money. They’ll probably get it: approximately $100,000 this year, and save according to a January 5 story posted to the CNN Web site—this after the herders have already received a zillion* $300,000 over the past 2 years. Reindeer defection has been on the rise as herds of cari- with your bou have increased and encroached on reindeer range- land. Caribou numbers rose to about 400,000 in 1990 from VegDining 75,000 in 1976. When reindeer mix with their wild caribou cousins, it’s good-bye to the domesticated life; and since card the animals are physically indistinguishable from each other, ranchers are unable to retrieve their stock.

(*a slight exaggeration Sneak preview into new ag secretary With the new Bush administration, the country has a new but the food will be great!) agriculture secretary. According to the Washington Post in December, the new head of the 100,000-employee, $72 bil- lion bureaucracy, Ann Veneman, served on the board of $ Calgene, the biotech company that developed the so- called Flavr Savr tomato—one of the first “Frankenfoods,” VegDining.com which at one time boasted a shelf life of 14 days. As a lawyer, she represented various agriculture clients, in- Your online guide to cluding Dole Foods. Perhaps to her credit, her roots are vegetarian restaurants less from the entrenched feed-/livestock sector and more of the newfangled California variety. She grew up on around the world a peach farm in the San Joaquin Valley. Ms. Veneman, we’ll be watching your every move; you can count on it.=

The VivaVine • February 2001 • 10 FOR THE HEALTH OF IT The original Candle Cafe Meat-eating mothers, more dioxin in milk 1307 Third Avenue at 75 Street (212)472-0970 Numerous studies have confirmed that any presence of dioxin floating around in the human body tends to be linked to the consumption of animal-based foods. Now we have even more evidence of the connection, this time out of Japan. A study, which monitored the breast milk taken from 487 women across Japan from 1997 to 1998, found that dioxin levels in human milk are higher the more meat a woman has in her diet. The study was con- ducted by the Japanese government, according to the newspaper Asahi, as the Associated Press reported late GO TO in December. According to the AP report, “Dioxin levels rose with the frequency with which women consumed ham, cow milk, dried sardines and eel, the survey said.” Busted: Antibiotic use on the farm much higher than the livestock industry reports Be kind to animals In nothing short of a bombshell early this year, the Union Don’t eat them of Concerned Scientists blew away the livestock indus- try’s estimated numbers on antibiotic use on the farm. In a January 8 press re- The Union of Concerned lease, the group de- Scientists declared that clared that 70 percent 70 percent of antibiotic of total antibiotic pro- production is fed to live- duction is fed to chickens, pigs, and stock for nontherapeutic cows for nonthera- purposes—40 percent more peutic purposes like HEALTH than the livestock indus- growth promotion. try estimates for all uses. The group’s assess- ment—a total of about 25 million pounds—amounts to 40 percent more than the the livestock industry estimates for all uses. Fur- thermore, the UCS asserts that this use accounts for 8 times as many antibiotics as human medicine. organic seasonal vegan menu “The meat industry’s share of the antibiotic-resis- tance problem has been ignored for too long,” said Dr. Margaret Mellon, Director of the Food and Environment Program at UCS and coauthor of the new report. “Antibi- otics are a precious resource and should be used in ani- mals only when necessary.” Overuse of antibiotics is currently a pressing public problem, and although overuse of antimicrobials in hu- mans is the largest contributor to drug resistance, anti- biotic use on the farm has been setting off alarm bells. The widespread practice can substantially reduce the ef- ficacy of the lifesaving drugs in humans. Obesity percentages rise, yet again It seems that every time we look away, even for a minute, the percentage of people considered overweight or obese continues to rise. The latest figures from the Cen- Zagat Survey 2001 ters for Disease Control and Prevention show that a award of distinction whopping 61 percent of adults are considered over- weight, with more than a quarter considered obese. It’s www.candlecafe.com time to bring out the high-fiber fruits and veggies to trim down the masses. That or bring on the clowns.=

The VivaVine • February 2001 • 11 BOOKS • CORAL REEFS IN FOCUS, CONTINUED Pulp Kitchen: Books and cooks at the Veggie Center VivaVegie’s Vegetarian Center is • The Consumer’s Guide to Effective 225 Recipes, by Linda Haynes a treasure trove of resource material. Environmental Choices: Practical Ad- • Mad Cowboy, by In a previous issue we gave a run- vice from the Union of Concerned • Vegan: The New Ethics of Eating (the down of our file folder subjects for re- Scientists, by Michael Brower, latest edition), by Erik Marcus searchers. For the generalist, the fol- Ph.D., and Warren Leon, Ph.D. • Animal Factories, by Jim Mason lowing are just a few of the books that • Reefs at Risk, by Dirk Bryant, Lau- and are also located on the premises. (See retta Burke, John McManus, and • Becoming Vegetarian, by Vesanto Mark Spalding Melina, R.D., Brenda Davis, R.D., page 2 for our new location.) • Slaughterhouse, by Gail Eisnitz and Victoria Harrison, R.D. • The Power of Your Plate, by Neal • Discover the Health Equation: A Guide • The Vegan Sourcebook, by Joanne Barnard, M.D. for Those Requiring Substantial Weight Stepaniak, M.S.Ed. • Famous Vegetarians and Their Fa- Reduction, by , M.D. • The Sunfood Diet Success System, vorite Recipes, by • The Vegetarian Lunchbasket: Over by David Wolfe

Coral-Reef Fishing: Plunder of the natural world Continued from page 5 found, comes in the cumulative effect Reference plunder tend to do whatever is nec- of many divers. But when live reef Dirk Bryant et al., Reefs at Risk, World Re- essary to make such ostentatious “food fish” are a $1-billion-per-year sources Institute, International Center for scenes hap- business, as it was before the East Living Aquatic Resources Management, pen, whatever Asian economic crisis, cyanide fish- World Conservation Monitoring Centre, the risks. If certain meth- ing easily becomes an integral part of United Nations Environment Programme, ods of harvesting fish are il- a lucrative business transaction.= 1998. (Available at the Veggie Center.) legal, or if harvesting a par- ticular species Fishermen blast fishing in protected waters: is off limits, ad- herence to the Authorities parade them through the town rules for re- t’s not nice to blast later used to vacuum up the bro- sponsible fish- coral-reef fish with ken bodies of the catch. As pun- ing may be- I make-shift bombs. It’s ishment, two of the culprits pub- come all the illegal, too, in Komodo Na- licly had to carry the compressor more rare. tional Park (an Indone- hoses the fishermen were caught Cyanide fishing in sian marine sanctuary). with. The gear, according to the particular is illegal And if you get caught ENN story, would later be used as in all Indo-Pacific doing it here, you could be evidence against them in court. countries—but publicly shamed. Just ask 24 sadly only in name. The fishermen—including 11 teenage lthough local authorities rewards of corruption and weak en- boys—who were apprehended by excelled in public sham- forcement are simply too large. park authorities in November. For Aing this time, they gener- Cyanide fishing is a quick though their crime, 10 of them were pa- ally lack consistency in enforcing not always easy or safe way to get raded past the locals, stripped to the rules. “Blast fishing,” accord- highly prized fish to those $300-per- the waist while walking on their ing to the ENN story, is common, fillet plates. First, a diver dissolves a haunches with their hands behind but this November arrest was the concentrated tablet of the poison their heads repeating the words first that took place in the Ko- into a plastic squirt bottle filled with “Saya melakukan,” which means “I modo area in 2000. In fact, when sea water. Then, as he attempts to use bombs,” according to a No- explosions are observed by po- stun his prey, full immobilization vember 7 story by the Environ- lice, it’s easy for bombers to throw tends not to take place until after the mental News Network, which was the gear that could be used as in- fish has had a chance to burrow posted to the CNN.com Web site. criminating evidence overboard. back into the reef; the diver has to As is common in the area, these In this case, two dozen fisher- extract his catch using destructive fishermen had used fertilizer and men in three dilapidated boats tools. Tests have shown that cyanide kerosene to fuel underwater ex- were apprehended after a dra- kills coral. It’s effect on fish is, of plosions to kill fish, willy-nilly. matic chase. A fourth boat was course, indiscriminately deadly. “Hookah” compressor hoses are able to escape. Damage to the reefs, it has been

The VivaVine • February 2001 • 12 SEA BEAT GE Escapees: Falling through cracks in the law tinction. Many of them swim off the coasts of North Amer- Fast-growing fish; holes in protective law ica. Habitat destruction and pollution have played a part enetically altering fish to grow at a much faster in the fishes’ collective demise, but fishing is the primary rate than normal may seem like a timely gift to cause for reduced numbers of stocks, according to a No- Gan increasingly ravenous world, as well as a vember 3 story in the San Francisco Chronicle. The story shining light in the distance for many of those concerned also noted that the species that have been identified as about world hunger—not to mention those fish farmers threatened share common characteristics: They all tend interested in growing more fish on less feed. But many to be slow to grow, slow to reach sexual maturity, and scientists warn that the new technology could just as slow to reproduce. Scientists conclude from the findings easily touch off a cascade of environmental disasters, that an extensive marine refuge system is desperately particularly if the GE fish escape from their pens. And needed, although in the case of some species, the dam- legal experts are warning that there are gaping holes in age may never be reversible. the law that could otherwise protect the environment, The study was conducted by the American Fisheries thanks to a Reagan administration determination that an Society and was published in the November issue of Fish- antiquated regulatory infrastructure was adequate to eries magazine. A PDF file of the study is available at oversee this wildly new technology. http://fisheries.org/fisheries/fishery.shtml.= According to a January 2 story in the Los Angeles Times, it falls, in one particular case, to the Food and Drug Administration to regulate a gene-altered fish, because the fish’s extra hormone is considered a drug. In addition, ac- cording to the LA Times article, the FDA is required by law to protect companies’ trade secrets, shutting out the pub- lic during the agency’s approval processes. The article did Japanese Macrobiotic Food note that in May President Clinton ordered federal regula- 566 Amsterdam Avenue tors to probe for such holes in the law. The review was to at 87th Street be completed by the end of January. 212-787-8316 Disturbing finding may benefit anglers Open for lunch and dinner, 7 days a week Take a lake, any lake, in the United States. It probably has Our foods are naturally prepared fish living in it. But did it always? Probably not. In fact, without dairy products or refined sugars. only 1 in 20 lakes in the western United States originally We serve organic vegetables. contained species of fish. Of course, today U.S. lakes are teeming with fish. They got that way with 100 years of stocking programs to benefit sport fishermen. So, what is the VivaVegie Society? Now, the U.S. government is intent on restoring lake he VivaVegie Society takes vegetarian advocacy ecosystems to their pristine past. Sadly, a new study by to the streets. VivaVegie advocates approach the U.S. Geological Survey and the University of Washing- Mr. and Ms. Pedestrian to get the ton has shown that even after the nonnative fish are re- T facts out about their healthful, ethical, moved, the lakes do not recover. Sport fishermen see the and environmentally conscious vegetar- study as a vindication of their view that the fish should re- ian diet. Advocates assemble where main to support their dubious pastime. there is plenty of pedestrian traffic. They come donned in brightly col- New study finds 82 slow-growing, slow- ored and expressive sandwich reproducing fish species at risk boards, like the one shown on Mayra Ortiz at right, and T- Yet another dire warning has come out about fish. In No- shirts. They carry plenty of vember, a study revealed that 82 species and subspecies fact-filled information. The mis- of fish—an exceptionally large number—are at risk of ex- sion? To distribute, for donations, the flyer “101 Reasons Why I’m a Vegetarian,” written by Pamela SATYA A Magazine of Vegetarianism, Rice and inspired by John Rob- Environmentalism and Animal Advocacy bins’s book Diet for a New Amer- ica. The VivaVegie Society wel- To read current and back issues, visit our comes new outreach activists. website at http://www.stealthtechnolo- gies.com/satya Call 212-674-0952 for sub- DONATIONS ARE scription information and advertising rates. TAX-DEDUCTIBLE.

The VivaVine • February 2001 • 13 VEGETARIAN ROOTS Jacksonian Veg: Couldn’t stomach pork & whisky

BY KAREN IACOBBO habits contended was the only thing cluding physicians, that meat was that could cut through the grease. needed in the body to build strength. f you have ever been asked Those who could afford to dine out For example, the idea was: Eat pork whether you are getting enough found a buffet of assorted animal and gain sinewy muscles like the I protein, calcium, or B12, or if flesh that today could horrify even a pig’s. anyone has ever made a sour face as hunter—if he was the least bit con- you munched on your seitan stew or servation minded. Lamb, deer, rabbit, f the alleged risk of death or —consider what vege- grouse, pigeon, squirrel, squid, fish, emasculation did not frighten tarians of the past put up with as a and lobster, as well as pig, turkey, I the potential vegetarian away minority in meat-eating America. cow, and other animal remains, were from rejecting flesh foods, the fear of Yesterday—that is, in the Jackson- on the menu at the poshest restau- losing the mind might. Strange as it ion era of 1830—per-capita meat rants. While some nonvegetarian might seem today, vegetarians of consumption was approximately half physicians preached that ailing pa- yesteryear were observed by con- a pound per day. That meat, often tients had been cerned meat pork, was accompanied by thick, eating too much, Vegetarians of the 19th eaters, who fatty gravy, potatoes cooked in lard, it was common century were observed by would vigilantly and later grease-laden pastries made for doctors to watch for signs from white flour. The meat was often recommend that concerned meat eaters, who of insanity. This washed down with whiskey, which the sick eat meat would vigilantly watch for kind of insan- one observer of the nation’s eating and drink liquor ity—that is, the to stimulate the signs of insanity. belief that a lack body back to of meat in the health. Com- diet caused lu- plaints of dys- nacy—was even pepsia—with argued by a such symptoms physician in a as stomach leading medical upset, gas, con- journal of the stipation, and di- day. Yet despite arrhea—were this, a substan- rampant in the tial number of nation. iron-willed and It was in this strong-hearted climate that the Americans American vege- chose to go veg- tarian movement was born (not offi- etarian—enough, at least, to have cially until 1850, but unofficially with created a movement that survived to the advent of lectures by Sylvester our own era. Graham). Not surprisingly, reaction Those who were able to withstand to vegetarianism and vegetarians the onslaught of concerns of the was mixed. Those meat eaters seek- nonvegetarians, and the all-too-typi- ing relief from their health woes, and cal ridicule that accompanied the Stop by VivaVegie’s Vegetarian Cen- escape from the horrific drugs and concern, were people interested in ter, 118 East 28th Street in Manhattan other treatments administered by much more than just their stomachs. (office hours: 3:00–6:00 P.M., Monday through Friday), and pick up one of the regular physicians of the day, ei- Evidence shows that vegetarians our T-shirts, modeled here by Yichun ther rejected the food of the flesh- who stayed vegetarian, then as now, Lin. The khaki shirts, silkscreened in pots or reduced their intake. In gen- were those who rejected meat eating navy, are available in most sizes (S, eral, it seems friends and relatives for ethical reasons, including religion M, L, XL) and are yours for half off would carefully scrutinize the new and animal rights, and not just be- the regular $12 price, because our vegetarian—seeking signs of emacia- cause of health.= old phone number is on the back. tion and impending death. The “veg- Add $3.50 for mail-order purchases etable diet” (usually lacto-ovo, al- Karen Iacobbo is a writer and expert in (see page 4 for the mailing address). though vegans and even fruitarians vegetarian history. She can be reached You will be able to display the words were present in America) was also c/o American Lyceum, 409 Pine Street, “Vegetarian Center” on your back wherever you go! believed to emasculate the male. It First Floor, Providence, RI 02903. was claimed by nonvegetarians, in- E-mail her at [email protected].

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See page 2 for programs at the Veggie 802-8655, [email protected]. Veg- 5320 (Sis Moutique). Center, including a seminar, a lecture Out goes to Zenith on March 11. Tues., March 20 series, “Wrap ‘n’ Rap,” ”Sunday Sat., Feb. 10 Meatout 2001. Nationwide events: Soirees” and an open house. Veggie Singles’ Valentine’s Day 800-MEATOUT, www.meatout.org. Dance Party, 137 Duane St., #203, Sat., March 17 Please call to confirm details. Events 718-437-0190, veggies@webspan .net. Join VivaVegie at the St. Patrick’s are in Manhattan unless otherwise Sun., Feb. 11 Day Parade with its special noted. Lacto veg pot luck, 6:00 P.M., Green- Meatout message. 646-424-9595 Sun., Feb. 4 wich Village, 212-475-9879. Also Sat., April 17 NYC Vegetarians and Big Apple mark your calendar for March 11. Eco-Rap for Earth Day at the Veg- Vegetarians‚ scavenger hunt, 1:00 Sat., Feb. 17 gie Center, 6:30 P.M. Share a news- P.M., The Brooklyn Museum of Art. Open house at the Veggie Cen- paper article that demonstrates the Call Brett for reservations, 212- ter. See details in box at right. environmental impact of society’s 726-1529. meat-centered diet. 646-424-9595. Thurs., Feb. 8 Sun., Feb. 25 VegOut’s Mardi Gras dinner, 5:00 VegOut’s dinner, 6:30 P.M., Good OPEN HOUSE AT THE Health Café. RSVP by Feb. 6, 212- P.M., The Center, One Little West VEGETARIAN CENTER 12th Street, 212-802-8655, Veg- LIGHT REFRESHMENTS [email protected]. Mark your calendar for March 25 for VegOut’s welcome SUGGESTED DONATION: $5 dinner at The Center. Sat., Feb. 17 • 5:00–11:30 P.M. Sun., Mar 4 USE SERVICE ENTRANCE: The International African Vege- 121 East 27th Street tarian Network and Friends’ Suite 704 monthly dinner, 4:00 P.M., the Buzzer #: 0704 (DON’T FORGET THE FIRST ZERO) House of the Healing Fire, 212-368-

MORE NYC(+)-AREA RESOURCES The Accent on Wellness Natural Brooklyn Raw holds a potluck the Hygiene support group meets last Friday of each month, 7:30 P.M., every Monday at 7:30 P.M. at the at Eco Books, 192 Fifth Avenue, Hygeia Center, 18 East 23rd Street. Brooklyn. Support groups are held A $3 donation is suggested. A raw the first and third Wednesdays of potluck is held the first Saturday of the month. 718-499-6984. each month at 6:00 P.M. 212-253- The Central Jersey Vegetarian Jean Thaler fans expressed their 2262, [email protected]. Group holds meetings and dinners. gratitude in June when they cele- NYC Vegetarians have monthly An international potluck dinner will brated the woman who gave six and a dinners at local restaurants. Call take place in March. 908-281-6388. half years to organizing vegetarian 718-805-4260 (Sunday to Thursday, The Boston events in New York City. Her award before 10:00 P.M.), [email protected]. hosts monthly dinners, speakers, was a red apple on a stand with the Iron Vegans’ Raw Food Connec- and cooking classes. Also, don’t inscription “In loving tribute: Jean tion holds a potluck the second forget the annual Boston Vegetar- Thaler, founder and president of Big Saturday of each month in Queens. ian Food Festival on Sat., Oct. 13. Apple Vegetarians.” 718-263-7160. 617-424-8846, www.Bostonveg.org.

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