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Animal Advocacy
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Farm Animal Rights Movement (FARM)
A 501(c)(3) nonprofit, public-interest organization advocating plant-based (vegan) diets to save animals, protect the environment, and improve health. Operates from the nation’s capital and works through a network of volunteer activists in all 50 states and two dozen other countries.
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Humane Carolina
A grassroots animal advocacy organization established in 1999, committed to eliminating animal neglect, suffering, and exploitation. Promotes a compassionate lifestyle and works to advance social change for animals through community outreach, public education, and grassroots lobbying.
Human Diet and the Natural Environment
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Boston Vegetarian Society
Seeks to make a better world for people, animals, and the earth through advancing a healthful vegetarian diet and a compassionate ethic.
Compassionate Spirit
A web site for people interested in simple living, nonviolence, vegetarianism, and spiritual concerns.
EarthSave International
Promotes a shift toward a healthy plant-based diet.
Healthy Planet
Educates people about the deep connection among all life on Earth, and the powerful effect our everyday choices can have on creating a cleaner, healthier and more compassionate world.
Pittsburgh Vegetarian Society
An all volunteer, nonprofit, and educational organization, with the mission of promoting vegetarianism for health, animal rights, and the environment.
Rochester Area Vegetarian Society
Provides educational resources on the impact of animal-centered diets on human health, on the integrity of our environment, on world hunger, and on cruelty needlessly inflicted on billions of living, feeling, creatures every year.
Sierra Club’s True Cost of Food Campaign
A campaign to promote sustainable food choices from the Sierra Club National Sustainable Consumption Committee.
Vivavegie Society
Promotes a plant-based diet through brochures and street activism. Noted for its pamphlet “101 Reasons Why I’m a Vegetarian.”
Public Lands Ranching
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Center for Biological Diversity
Works to secure a future for animals and plants hovering on the brink of extinction, for the wilderness they need to survive, and by extension for the spiritual welfare of generations to come.
Forest Guardians
Works to protect and restore the native biological diversity and watersheds of the American Southwest; educate and enlist citizens to support protection of the forests, rivers, deserts and grasslands of this arid region; advocate for the principles of conservation biology in plans to restore degraded ecosystems and watersheds; enforce and strengthen environmental laws; support communities in efforts to protect their land and to practice and promote sustainable use of natural resources.
National Public Lands Grazing Campaign
A multi-year, multi-organization strategy to end abusive livestock grazing on the nation’s public lands.
Oregon Natural Desert Association (ONDA)
Works to protect, defend and restore the health of Oregon’s native deserts.
RangeNet
A network of individuals who are working to improve the ecological conditions of America’s public rangelands.
Sierra Club Grazing Committee
Works to promote the health of our federal public lands by eliminating the adverse effects of livestock production on native species and their habitats on all federal public lands.
User’s Guide for the Rapid Assessment of the Functional Condition of Stream-Riparian Ecosystems in the American Southwest
Peter B. Stacey, Allison L. Jones, Jim C. Catlin, Don A. Duff, Lawrence E. Stevens, and Chad Gourley. 2006. This document describes an integrated, multi-dimensional method for rapid assessment of the functional condition of riparian and associated aquatic habitats. The protocol is particularly appropriate for small- to medium-sized streams and rivers in the American Southwest, but with slight modification it also should be applicable to reaches in other temperate regions and geomorphic settings.
Vegcast interview with Mike Hudak
Vegcast host Vance Lehmkuhl interviews Mike Hudak, director of Public Lands Without Livestock, about the recent article¹ by Cornell University researchers regarding which diet consisting of foods produced solely within New York State can feed the most people. Hudak addresses misleading pro-meat statements found in the Cornell press release about the article. Hudak also takes the opportunity to speak about his recent book Western Turf Wars which exposes the mismanagment of ranching on federal public lands that leads to squandering tax dollars and natural resources.
1. Christian J. Peters, Jennifer L. Wilkins, and Gary W. Fick. “Testing a Complete-diet Model for Estimating the Land Resource Requirements of Food Consumption and Agricultural Carrying Capacity: The New York State Example.” Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems: 22(2) (2007): 145–153.
Waste of the West: Public Lands Ranching
An online adaptation of Lynn Jacobs’ comprehensive book that documents the destructive practice of grazing cattle on public lands.
Western Watersheds Project
Works to protect and restore western watersheds and wildlife through education, public policy initiatives and litigation.
Wildlife
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Wolf Recovery Foundation
Fosters our heritage of wild wolf communities by advocating their presence forever in places where they have been extirpated.
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