Once again, cruelty in the chicken industry and in slaughterhouses has been documented.

Time to kill off cruel live cattle and sheep export (The Courier Mail, December 6). Paul Williams condemns ALP National Conference decision.

Christmas's guilty gobble (Advertiser, December 5) Rex Jory muses on the annual Christmas slaughter but can't face the logical conclusion.

An interstate picket at a Victorian chicken slaughterhouse is spilling over into South Australia with the chickens being caught in the middle.

SA Minister supports pre-slaughter stunning

 An in-vitro, cell-based test has been approved for testing Botox instead of using mice.

Thousands of people around Australia rallied on June 18 to show their disgust at the live export trade. Enlightened politicians such as Andrew Wilkie, Nick Xenophon and the Greens spoke at rallies about the urgent need to stop this cruelty.

For decades duck shooters across the world used lead shot, despite knowing full well that this killed many birds slowly and painfully long after the shooting stopped ... that old lead is still killing.

In December 2010, the US Departments of Agriculture and that of Health and Human Services launched their updated Dietary Guidelines. It gives one of the clearest statements yet that non-meat diets are healthier than the normal western meat based diet.

New and exclusive to our on-line shop ... from Adelaide's own Di Cornelius, an inexpensive cookbook to get you started with a nucleus of plant based recipes.

Fish oil's magical properties just keep vanishing when people do properly controlled double blind trials. The latest failure is its supposed impact in preventing Alzheimers disease.

Fish oil is the new snake oil. It won't reduce your chances of a heart attack and now a new study shows that taking it when pregnant won't reduce postpartum depression or improve your babies brain ... two common claims.

Ex US President Bill Clinton's almost vegan diet gets the headlines.

A core human attribute is the ability to empathise with others. Psychopaths aren't too good at this. A new study investigating differences between omnivore, vegan and vegetarian brains using functional MRI found interesting results.

Sunday 14th November 2010 ... Adelaide Vegan Festival, 10am to 5pm Whitmore Square, Adelaide CBD.

Since when are slaughterhouses fashionable?

MLA has sunk to new lows in its latest ad campaign encouraging people to eat lambs.

Genetically modified cows were born with ovaries that grew so large they caused ruptures and killed the animals.

The bungled experiment happened during a study by AgResearch scientists at Ruakura, Hamilton, to find human fertility treatments through GM cows' milk.

The City of Fremantle has called for live animal exports to be phased out in the next five years.

A study as yet unpublished has shown that the blood guzzling image of the Maasai is false ... porridge and milk is the go.

A recent article in the prestigious Science journal drew attention to the good performance of Cuba on health and longevity. Despite being a poor country fighting various US imposed trade embargos, the country has a life expectancy in line with that of the US. Naturally, the authors of the article neglected to mention food in Cuba. As life expectancy has risen in the last 3 decades from its developing country levels of the 1960s, there has been a decline in animal product consumption ... animal products provided 25% of calories in Cuba in 1980 (FAO statistics) and this had dropped to under 10% by 2005. You don't need high tech medicine when people don't eat the foods which make them sick.