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> VegSource Newsletter <vegbot

> Thu Jan 23, 2003 07:17:12 PM US/Central

> stews9

> VegSource Newsletter -- Special Bulletin

>

> This is an unusual bulletin. We don't normally use our newsletter for

> news releases, but this is a one-time special case, and something we feel

> is of importance to people in the vegetarian community.

>

> For those interested or following the McDonald's lawsuit this is a quick

> update. This is a suit filed by vegetarians who had received letters from

> McDonald's stating their French fries were vegetarian, when in fact they

> weren't. McDonald's apologized and agreed to make a $6 million donation

> to " vegetarian organizations, dedicated to the values of vegetarianism "

> as part of the settlement.

>

> However, a number of the groups on the proposed McDonald's list are

> anything but vegetarian, and include an animal experimenter at the

> University of North Carolina who plans to use the " vegetarian

> organization " money to help fund a study already being funded by the Egg

> Board. The researcher believes this study will prove his hypothesis that

> a vegan diet is " dangerous " for pregnant women.

>

> I attended and spoke at the first hearing, on January 13th, in Chicago.

> For those who want to object in person at court, there is another hearing

> on January 27th at 2:00 pm. I encourage people who are interested in

> fairness to attend and speak out

>

> Details on how to attend the hearing:

> http://www.vegsource.com/index.htm

>

> Read a report on last Monday's hearing:

> http://www.vegsource.com/articles2/mcdonalds_court_011303.htm

>

> If interested, you can also read a recently filed declaration by one of

> the lawyers in the case, detailing allegations that McDonald's and the

> attorneys who were supposed to represent vegetarians instead colluded to

> subvert terms of the settlement by giving the monies to non-vegetarian

> and anti-vegetarian groups (pdf file):

> http://www.vegsource.com/mcdonalds/BHARTI_DECLARATION_17Jan03.pdf

>

> Even Freya Dinshah, of the American Vegan Society -- which stands to

> receive $500,000 from the McDonald's allocation -- has risked McDonald's

> ire and taken a stand against McDonald's mischief. In our opinion, Freya

> is heroic and an example to all of us, exemplifying what we aspire to be,

> people of ethics and high moral standards. Read her statement recently

> filed the court asking that non-vegetarian groups be removed:

> http://www.vegsource.com/mcdonalds/dinshah_declaration.pdf (pdf file)

>

> Excerpt from article on VegSource:

>

> T. Colin Campbell PhD paid his own money to fly to Chicago. He told the

> judge that this settlement will " set back vegetarianism as a class for 10

> to 20 years " if it is approved. Dr. Campbell is well aware of the impact

> in the academic and scientific community of awarding monies forvegetarian

> research to universities which are hostile to vegetarianism.

>

> Do you want an anti-vegetarian researcher to get research money, which

> the media will later report on as a result of his being singled out by

> the court as representing the best of vegetarian research? Do you want to

> read a headline that could arise from this bogus settlement, like:

> " Scientist Specializing in Vegetarian Research Says Vegetarian Diet

> Unsafe " ?

>

> If not, you should consider traveling to Chicago to tell the judge in

> person. In all fairness this settlement money should go to vegetarian MDs

> or researchers to fund *actual* vegetarian research, or to *actual*

> vegetarian organizations, and not be used to fund Egg Board studies or

> studies not supported by vegetarians.

>

> Cheers,

> Jeff Nelson

>

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