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Monthly Dinner at Cafe Bodega
For January we meet on Wednesday, January 3rd at Cafe Bodega
Join Northern Vegans for our monthly dinners every first Wednesday of the month. Everyone is welcome.
Please order vegan* options when joining us.
No RSVP is required. Everyone is welcome.
Cafe Bodega is located at 517 N. 3rd St. in Marquette
*Vegan omits all animal products including meat, dairy, eggs, and honey. Anything from the plant kingdom is vegan.
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Northern Vegans Second Monday Potluck on January 8th at 6:00pm
Northern Vegans Second Monday Potluck & Movie Showing
Location: Peter White Public Library, 217 N Front St, Marquette, MI 49855
Time: 6 to 7:30pm
When: Second Monday of the Month
Who: Everyone welcome!
Please join us on the second Monday of each month at 6 pm for a *vegan potluck. Everyone is asked to bring a vegan dish to share, their own table service (plates, bowls, napkins, glass, utensils, etc.), and their own beverage. If you love to cook, feel free to bring more than one dish. If you don't cook or don't have access to a kitchen, come anyway. If you just want to attend the potluck and not the movie or vice versa, no problem.
The important thing is that you come. All are welcome!
We usually meet on the second floor in the Shiras room but may be in another room depending on availabilty. Call Natasha at 906-235-5430 for any questions. More on our Facebook page:
www.facebook.com/NorthernVegans
*Vegan omits all animal products including meat, dairy, eggs, and honey. Anything from the plant kingdom is vegan.
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What's UP Locally Vegan!
Another vegan group up in Copper Country!
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New Local Resource for U.P. Vegans and Those Interested in Making the Transition
Natasha Lantz, one of the founding members of Northern Vegans, recently started
Plant Centered Living (PCL). PCL helps people to better understand the joys and challenges their transition to a plant centered lifestyle will bring and how to articulate what being plant centered truly means to those around them-family, friends, health care providers, co-workers, etc. Having confidence in one's decision to lead a plant centered lifestyle is critical to the successful navigation of daily living in a world that is not designed to make the healthy and ethical choice, the easy choice. PCL offers a range of resources from mentoring to
Natasha's Notes, a practical 75-page resource guide. Plant Centered Living services and resources are available to those living in the U.P. and anywhere around the world, so please help Natasha get the word out by sharing the website with your personal networks. Visit
www.plantcenteredliving.com , email
[email protected] or call 906.235-5430 to learn more.
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The First Vegan Grocery Store in the Entire Midwest!
Located at 331 Iron St. in downtown Negaunee
Owners Jeff and Carrie Plummer, also founding members of Northern Vegans, run an all vegan grocery store in the Old Bank Building in the oasis of downtown Negaunee called City Green Market. The Old Bank has been an antique store since 1987 and continues to run as an antique store as well. Customers have been saying that it has an old mercantile vibe to it with the mix of antiques and groceries all under one roof!
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The Vegan Scoop
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"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." Margaret Mead
You Tube Video of Founding Member Jeff Plummer on TV 6 Morning News
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| Vegan Mac and Cheese Recipe - No Dairy or Eggs! |
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| Natural Home Remedies For Cold & Flu | Love Raw Vegan |
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The Free Range Myth
On this page:
http://www.peacefulprairie.org/freerange1.html
Peaceful Prairie Sanctuary has several links on their website about the misconceptions of free range chickens- including their video "watch the faces of 'free range' farming."
The Zoochotic Report
Mentally Damaged Animals in Captivity
Video observations by the late Bill Travers, taken over 3 years in over 100 zoos in Europe, North America and the Far East, the Zoochotic. 10 minute video.
The Vegan Body Care Guide
Vegan products contain no animal ingredients and are not tested on animals.
Northern Vegans founding member Natasha Lantz interviews NV member Josh Brown
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| Northern Vegans founding member Natasha Lantz interviews NV member Josh Brown |
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Northern Vegans founding member Ken Damro talks with Bob Linden of Go Vegan Radio!
Guest Ken Damro, former hunter and trapper and author of The Northwoodsman's Guide to Everyday Compassion"
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| Plant Centered Nashville with founding member Natasha Lantz |
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Are Zoos Educational?
When polled by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums, the National zoo accreditation organization in the United States, 94% of people believe that zoos teach their children about how to protect animals and the habitats they depend on.[1] Dale Jamieson, Professor of Environmental Studies and Philosophy at New York University raises an important nuanced point:
"Of course, it is undeniable that some education occurs in some zoos. But this very fact raises other issues. What is it that we want people to learn from visiting zoos? Facts about the physiology and behaviour of various animals? Attitudes towards the survival of endangered species? Compassion for the fate of all animals? To what degree does education require keeping wild animals in captivity?" Full article here: http://bitesizevegan.com/vegan-lifestyle-2/are-zoos-educational/
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A step in the right direction. This is good news!
#boycottanimalcircusesandshows
Mexico City is banning dolphin shows, taking a lead on animal rights
"Watch Earthlings for Free
Narrated by actor and vegan Joaquin Phoenix. This is a film that exposes the realities of all kinds of animal exploitation. A very important film. Watch free here:
https://vimeo.com/209647801. Warning: graphic footage. "Then I watched the video Earthlings and my path was clear." Helen Atthowe, veganic farmer/gardener
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| JAMES ASPEY - PLANET SLAUGHTERHOUSE - PART 1/2 | London Real |
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Check out Northern Vegans' Vegan Recipe Facebook Album
Beautiful photos and some awesome recipes. Yum yum! More Here
Going vegan is as easy as 1, 2, 3!
You can check out our Newsletter Archives here:
GMO News:
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Are GMOs Safe? | Dr. T. Colin Campbell (3 minute video)
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| Ronnie Cummins of the OCA on GMOs (30 minute video) |
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Recommended Media:
What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins By Jonathan Balcombe
What a Fish Knows is an underwater exploration that overturns myths about fishes and reveals their complex lives, from tool use to social behavior. "There are more than thirty thousand species of fish- more than mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians combined. But for all their breathtaking diversity and beauty, we rarely consider how fish think, feel, and behave. In What a Fish Knows, the ethologist Jonathan Balcombe takes us under the sea and to the other side of the aquarium glass to reveal what fishes can do, how they do it, and why. Introducing the latest revelations in animal behavior and biology, Balcombe upends our assumptions about fish, exposing them not as unfeeling, dead-eyed creatures but as sentient, aware, social, even Machiavellian. They conduct elaborate courtship rituals and develop lifelong bonds with shoal-mates. They also plan, hunt cooperatively, use tools, punish wrongdoers, curry favor, and deceive one another. Fish possess sophisticated senses that rival our own. The reef-dwelling damselfish identifies its brethren by face patterns visible only in ultraviolet light, and some species communicate among themselves in murky waters using electric signals. Highlighting these breakthrough discoveries and others from his own encounters with fish, Balcombe inspires a more enlightened appraisal of marine life." More at: http://jonathan-balcombe.com/about/
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| What A Fish Knows with Jonathan Balcombe (57 minutes) |
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Health Resource for this issue
(finding ways to heal or to live naturally using animal-free/cruelty-free methods
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| Dr Pam Popper: Breast Biopsies Often Inaccurate; Exercise as Treatment for Breast Cancer |
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Quote of the month:
"They (animals) are not just living things; they are beings with lives... that makes all the difference in the world...next time you are outside...notice the first bird you see...you are beholding a unique individual with personality traits, an emotional profile, and a library of knowledge built on experience...what you are witnessing is not just biology, but a biography." Jonathan Balcombe
Get the Cowspiracy Facts:
Animal agriculture is the leading cause of species extinction, ocean dead zones, water pollution, habitat destruction, and climate change.
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| By Cowspiracy: The Most Shocking 1.5 Min Video the World Must See! |
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Join Northern Vegans on Facebook
And "Like" us.
Stay informed of upcoming events here locally as well as nationally and internationally. Keep yourself apprised of veganism on so many levels. Get the latest vegan recipes and so much more!
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Northern Vegans is always in need of donations
to continue our great work in the community. As most of you know, not only are we a not for profit group with no paid employees, but we also often fund our group with our personal funds as board members. Northern Vegans has existed since 2006 and a short list of our accomplishments in the community include: library donations of vegan related books and media numbering in the hundreds; dozens of movie/documentary showings; over a hundred restaurant meet ups and other socials; numerous vegan presentations; countless tabling events; immense amount of vegan literature dispersed; and the list really goes on and on.
Help us continue spreading the message and consider donating to us today. No amount is too small and we use every bit of it to our fullest extent. In fact it is not outlandish to say that for every $1.00 that is donated we put at least 50 cents more into that $1.00 simply because we work on a 100% volunteer basis, no salaries, and several of us continuously put our own personal money into the necessary expenses for the group.
Please send donations to:
Northern Vegans
P.O. Box 126
Negaunee, MI 49866
THANK YOU!
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Highlight For This Issue
Baxter Montgomery | MD, Cardiologist and Plant-Based Doctor
Dr. Baxter D. Montgomery is a Board Certified Cardiologist with years of experience in the latest medical practices and nutritional health. He is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiology at the University of Texas in Houston, a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology (FACC) and the founder and president of the Houston Cardiac Association (HCA).
Having seen many patients suffer the consequences of chronic heart disease, Dr. Montgomery founded the Montgomery Heart & Wellness Center in 2006 with the mission to reverse and prevent life-threatening illnesses. Located in Houston, Texas, The Montgomery Heart & Wellness Center is a state-of-the-art wellness facility complete with all the technology and resources to provide comprehensive medical and wellness care.
Combining his medical practice with a food-driven lifestyle intervention, Dr. Montgomery introduces patients to a novel food classification system that helps reverse chronic conditions such as heart disease, hypertension, obesity and diabetes without medications or surgeries. He has refined this process over the past 10 years with profound positive results in severely ill patients.
In addition to running Montgomery Heart & Wellness, Dr. Montgomery manages arrhythmias and coronary disease, performs angiographies, defibrillator implants and other hospital procedures, and teaches young physicians.
Dr. Montgomery earned his undergraduate degree from Rice University in Houston and his Medical Degree from The University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas. He is also the author of The Food Prescription for Better Health, a comprehensive guide for reversing chronic illnesses. His website:
http://montgomeryheart.com/
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| Dr. Baxter Montgomery |
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| Switching To A Whole Food-Plant Based Diet: Study with Baxter Montgomery |
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