For those who enjoyed the Time Magazine cover story on animal intelligence, or who may not have picked it up yet, I wanted to mention that PBS's Charlie Rose, on Friday August 6, interviewed Richard Kluger, who wrote the article. (Thanks to Elaine Livesey-Fassel for telling us about that one.) You watch it on line at http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/11157
You can join the discussion on the web page, or just send a quick note of thanks to Charlie Rose at charlierose@pbs.org . Positive feedback for animal friend coverage encourages more of it.
Then yesterday, August 9, NPR's Morning Edition covered the Meatless Monday campaign. While our health and that of the animals and the planet would be better if everybody did Meatless Monday through Sunday, this is a start, giving people something they think they can embrace. And Meatless Mondays is proving to be a good educational campaign. It teaches people about the health benefits of plant-based eating, and also about the pleasure of it, as more and more top chefs get involved. The NPR story, for example, describes Monday lunch at the trendy "Dovetail" restaurant in New York, where patrons were eating tempeh curry and loving it.
The story also discusses some of the environmental impact of meat laden diets.
Please check out the story at http://tinyurl.com/29ovrys You can either listen to it on line or read the text. Then, more importantly, you can click on the link to "recommend" it to your committed carnivore friends, or click "share" to post it on your facebook page. NPR notes which stories get the most recommendations and keeps those stories easily accessible, so please take a moment to make that click.
You can also login and comment, joining the discussion on the page, or just send a note directly to the producers by going to http://tinyurl.com/399sxre and choosing "Morning Edition" from the pulldown menu. Positive feedback for Meatless Monday coverage will encourage more of it.
Yours and the animals',
Karen Dawn
(DawnWatch is an animal advocacy media watch that looks at animal issues in the media and facilitates one-click responses to the relevant media outlets. You can learn more about it, and sign up for alerts at http://www.DawnWatch.com. You may forward or reprint DawnWatch alerts only if you do so unedited -- leave DawnWatch in the title and include this parenthesized tag line.)
Please go to http://tinyurl.com/254ulkx to check out Karen Dawn's book, "Thanking the Monkey: Rethinking the Way we Treat Animals," which was chosen last year by the Washington Post as one of the "Best Books of The Year!"
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Date: Tue Aug 10 17:09:42 2010
