Another evolutionarily novel value is vegetarianism.  It is exceedingly unnatural for humans to be vegetarian. Humans are naturally omnivorous.  We are evolutionarily designed to eat both animal meat and plants.  Anyone who eschewed animal protein and ate only vegetables in...

The growing use of mobile telephones is behind the disappearance of honey bees and the collapse of their hives, scientists have claimed.   Their disappearance has caused alarm throughout Europe and North America where campaigners have blamed agricultural pesticides, climate...

With salt under attack for its ill effects on the nation's health, the food giant Cargill kicked off a campaign last November to spread its own message. "Salt is a pretty amazing compound," Alton Brown, a Food Network star, gushes...

Washington, D.C. - If 100,000 barrels a day of crude oil are gushing out of the damaged sea-floor well underneath where BP's offshore oil rig used to perch, what can be done to offset this pollution immediately? Time is of...

Language's Role in Promoting Vegetarianism Arran Stibbe, PhD, is a senior lecturer in English Language at University of Gloucestershire, UK. He kindly agreed to be interviewed for IVU Online News - for the full June 2010 issue see: www.ivu.org/news/online/June_2010.pdf 1. Hi Arran....

Two interesting videos paint very different pictures of what life is like for cows in the Ohio dairy industry. You can watch both videos, and decide which is the truth. The first is produced by Ohio Dairy Famers, a dairy...

Overweight girls who lose weight before they reach adulthood greatly reduced their risk for developing type 2 diabetes, according to researchers from the National Institutes of Health and Harvard University, who analyzed 16 years of data on nearly 110,000 women....

Middle East Veg Group (MEVEG) presents For the first time in UAE Exclusive Arabic Vegetarian Evening !! In association with XING in Abu Dhabi Date - 29th May (Saturday) Time - 6.00pm to 8.30 pmVenue : AL SAJ Cafe &...

Dear Friends--As many of you know, I've been working toward a long-range goal of establishing 2 permanent annual continuing-education-credit-awarding conferences for health professionals, regarding prevention of degenerative diseases through eating choices. I'm thrilled to announce that the first gathering of...

 John Robbins was heir to the vast Baskin Robbins ice cream fortune and walked away from it in favor of making his own way in the world.  Moving to a small island home with his wife and their son, Robbins...

Got milk? Plenty of people think its perfectly healthy to drink, and advertisements would have you eating dairy all the time. But it may not be as healthy as you think. In this weeks UltraWellness blog Dr. Mark Hyman gives...

A handful of pistachio nuts a day can help destroy bad cholesterol, ward off heart disease and prevent cancer, say scientists.   The findings published in the Journal of Nutrition follows previous research by the same team that discovered pistachios...

National Vegetarian Week in the UK - May 24-30, 2010 - kicks off with a video aimed at parents of children who choose to be vegetarian. Click here to watch the video on the host website, ParentChannel.tv: parentchannel.tv/video/choosing-be-vegetarian - and here for more...

It has been widely reported that Elvis Presley died in 1977 from cardiac arrhythmia, an irregular heartbeat, possibly brought on by drug dependency, obesity and a weak heart. But the music legend's longtime friend and physician, Dr. George "Nick" Nichopoulos,...

EarthSave requests the pleasure of your company for an Evening with John Robbins, for the benefit of EarthSave's Meals For Health program. DATE:  Sunday, June 20, 2010 - 4:00 pm - Beverly Hills...

Many of society's most devastating diseases -- cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and Alzheimer's, to name a few -- share a common denominator: faulty angiogenesis, the body's growth of new capillary blood vessels. Given excessive or insufficient blood vessel growth, serious...

[Togo is a small French-speaking country in west Africa, between Ghana and Nigeria]             I am Mokafo-Brhom Yeleneke, the president of vegan students association of Togo. Recently we organised some activities spreading veganism to population...

THE world faces the nightmare possibility of fishless oceans by 2050 unless fishing fleets are slashed and stocks allowed to recover, UN experts warned. "If the various estimates we have received... come true, then we are in the situation where...

Eating processed meats like bacon, ham and sausages can increase the risk of heart disease and diabetes, according to new research. Processed meats are already linked to a higher chance of developing bowel cancer but a round-up of worldwide research...

To author Upton Sinclair, the hellish world of factory slaughterhouses was as dangerous to human beings as it was to pigs. He filled his 1906 novel The Jungle with meat-packing images that seem ripped from a slasher movie: "... and...