Vegetarian Star

“Change happens by listening and starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don’t believe is right.”

–Jane Goodall, primate scientist sand longtime vegetarian. Is it time to initiate dialogue with someone you feel could eat healthier by reducing the amount of meat in their diet? Or convince a person to choose more ethical animal products over those produced on farms that have less humane standards?

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“We are not inheriting Mother Earth from our parents, but rather, we are stealing from our children. And it’s payback time.”

–vegetarian primatologist, philanthropist and conservationist Jane Goodall, during a speech to the children of clients of UBS, Switzerland’s largest bank. The purpose of Goodall’s presentation was to encourage getting involved with philanthropy, animal welfare and human rights. The UBS program is designed to reach out to heirs of the bank’s millionaire clients.

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Ricky Gervais would like the National Institutes of Health to return several chimpanzees who were almost retired back to a sanctuary after being moved into a medical research laboratory in Texas.

Gervais was born in England, where licenses for experiments on chimpanzees were banned over a decade ago. Since then, several countries have followed this lead, including New Zealand, the Netherlands, Sweden, Austria and Belgium.

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A big slice of vegan birthday cake goes out to the following vegetarian or vegan celebrities.

• Jane Goodall (77)
• Alec Baldwin (53)
• Leona Lewis (26)

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Can zoos effectively keep animals healthy and thriving as if they were living in their natural habitats? Do the benefits of education outweigh the consequences of removing them from the wild?

Animal advocates and experts constantly debate this, and Jane Goodall recently shared her thoughts on chimpanzees living in confined conditions.

The wild is by far the most natural way of living for a chimp, but according to Goodall, it may not be the protected sanctuary activists are so willing to label it.

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Jane Goodall. 50 Years At Gombe.

Jane Goodall has received the honor of being selected by Treehugger readers as the Person of The Year for 2010.

About 25% of the votes went to the vegetarian primatologist, conservationist and human and animal advocate, who has been quoted as saying that one “cannot separate the people from the animals” when performing conservation work.

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Jane Goodall. 50 Years At Gombe.

Has it really been 50 years since Jane Goodall stepped on the grounds of Gombe, leading to decades of research and brilliant discovery of how some of the smartest animals on earth function and interact as a community?

The Jane Goodall Institute is celebrating the vegetarian, humanitarian and primate researcher’s life by publishing a followup to the 40th anniversary of the start of her work, Jane Goodall: 40 Years at Gombe.

Since 1999, the Gombe site has expanded its research efforts to humans as well, from AIDS research to improving sanitation, health care and education in the Tanzanian communities nearby and these are highlighted in Jane Goodall: 50 Years At  Gombe.

One of those humanitarian efforts is the TACARE program.

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The Jane Goodall Institute will benefit from these cute, plush toys from miYim.

The company has designed a pink hippo, yellow lion and gorilla for the Jane Goodall Wild Animal Collection, which features endangered species.

Crafted from cotton that is not treated with bleach and colored using only plant and mineral-based dyes, the collection is gentle to the environment, as well as kids’ (and adults’) health.

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