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Please check out the resources below. We will continue to
add much more to this page, so if you have information that
you want us to share with supporters, please let us know.
We aim to offer books, recipes, examples of livestock-induced
destruction, and more.
Please send your ideas and suggestions to Stephany
at bfc-media@wildrockies.org.
Many thanks to those of you who have been sending us great
quotes, web sites and other useful resources - keep them coming!
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Scott Frazier has been raising his voice for the
buffalo since the days before BFC existed. He's been a board
member and spiritual advisor to the group since the beginning.
In this powerful
essay, written in the midst of the 2006 winter when more
than 900 buffalo have already been slaughtered, he makes a
powerful and passionate argument for Boycotting Montana beef.
Buffalo and the World Trade Organization
New international markets have opened up for beef/cattle producers
in recent years with the emergence of global trade. A small
but growing segment of the market for beef/cattle production
now involves lucrative international trade. These often large-scale
ranching operations are actively working to reduce barriers
to trade and increase their profits. Read
more...
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BOOKS TO READ:
"Beyond Beef - the Rise and Fall of the Cattle Culture"
by Jeremy Rifkin
"Diet For A New America" by John Robbins
"Peaceful Palate" by Jennifer Raymond (recipes)
"The
Mad Cowboy", by Howard Lyman, you may remember Oprah
Winfrey getting sued for a show she did. Well this is the
guy that got sued with her. They won. Lyman
is/was a 5th generation MT rancher who refuses to eat meat.
After reading it I wanted to buy a copy for everyone I know.
It goes into more depth about the livestock industry than
we have room for here.
No
more Bull - Howard Lyman
Food Revolution - John Robbins
The China Study - T Colin Campbell
A Book for Kid's:
"The Organic Adventures of Tucker the Tomato" by
Rex Ortego and Amanda Moeckel. Check out http://lists.envirolink.org/pipermail/veg-parent/2003-June/000015.html
for more information.
"Welfare Ranching - the Subsidized Destruction of the
American West." Check out http://www.publiclandsranching.org/book.htm
to purchase the book, and to get a look inside. It's huge,
and it's FULL of incredibly telling photos. The following
link has specific information relating to buffalo: http://www.publiclandsranching.org/htmlres/wr_bison_roamed.htm.
VIDEOS TO WATCH:
* The Peacable Kingdom - A Tribe of Heart Documentary. Visit
http://www.tribeofheart.org
for information.
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YUMMY CATTLE-FREE RECIPES (Printable
View)
JEN'S CONTEST WINNING BANANA BREAD
1/3 cup margarine (try Earth Balance, or anything without
whey)
Sift 1 3/4 cup whole wheat flour with:
2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 cup broken walnuts
1 cup mashed banana
Mix well and put into a bread pan. Bake at 350 for one hour.
ENJOY!
STICK-TO-YOUR-RIBS-CHILI (Recipe
taken from: "Vegan Vittles - Recipes Inspired by the
Critters of Farm Sanctuary" by Joanne Stepaniak)
2 tsp olive oil
1 cup finely chopped onion
1/2 cup finely chopped celery
2 cloves garlic, minced or pressed
2 ripe, medium tomatoes, peeled, seeded and coarsely chopped
1 & 1/2 cups red kidney beans, pinto beans, or black beans
1 cup (8 oz) of tomato sauce
1 cup water
1/3 cup bulgar (medium ground)
2 Tbs tomato paste
1 Tbs chili powder
1/2 tsp dried oregano leaves
1/4 tsp ground black pepper
1/4 tsp ground cumin
1/8 tsp ground allspice or cinnamon
pinch of cayenne pepper, to taste
add salt, to taste
Heat the oil in a 4&1/2 qt. pan. Add the onion celery
and garlic. Reduce
heat, and cook, stirring occasionally for 10-15 minutes. When
onion is
tender, stir in remaining ingredients *except salt* and bring
mixture to a
boil. Reduce the heat to low, cover the pan, and simmer for
20 minutes,
stirring occasionally. Season the chili with salt. Serve hot.
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FOOD
FOR THOUGHT – QUOTES, ETC.:
"In 1876, General Nelson Miles predicted: 'When we get
rid of the Indians and buffalo, the cattle.... will fill this
country.' It soon became apparent that getting rid of the
Indians could best be accomplished by eliminating buffalo
from the western plains, cutting off their primary means of
survival.
Cattlemen joined ranks with eastern bankers, the railroads,
and the U.S. Army in a systematic campaign to exterminate
the bison of the western range. The task was enormous. Buffalo
herds blackened the plains. Herds of tens of thousands of
head were common. A visitor could watch an uninterrupted stampede
of several hours duration without a break in the chain.
William
Hornaday tried to capture the spectacle in words. He wrote,
'It would have been as easy to count or to estimate the number
of leaves in a forest as to calculate the number of buffaloes
living at any given time during the history of the species
previous to 1870.'
Just a few years later, the buffalo were eliminated entirely
from the western range after thousands of years of habitation.
In their place were 600,000 head of cattle. Having killed
off the buffalo and squeezed the Indians off the plains so
they could graze their cattle, ranchers then turned around
and sold beef to the government to feed the hungry Indians
whose source of food they had eliminated. This is the story
of how so many western ranchers made their initial fortunes,
something rarely mentioned in the history books.
Edward Dale writes: 'There can be no doubt that this market
was a factor in promoting the growth of ranching on the plains
and that a number of important cattlemen laid the foundations
of their large enterprises by securing lucrative government
contracts to supply Indians with beef.'
" Today, over a century after their first attempt to
lease public lands at below market value, ranchers, aided
by powerful cattle associations, continue to enjoy favored
treatment, leasing over 270 million acres of public land in
the American west for cattle grazing at a fee per acre that
is well below the market value of the land."
- Jeremy Rifkin, Beyond Beef
"There will come a day when men such as myself will view
the slaughter of innocent creatures as horrible a crime as
the murder of his fellow man."
- Albert Einstein
"The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow
creatures as meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly
fit for life. "
- Albert Einstein
"A human being is a part of the whole, called by us the
'Universe', a part limited in time and space. He experiences
himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separate
from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness.
This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to
our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest
to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison
by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living
creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. Nobody is
able to achieve this completely, but the striving for such
achievement is in itself a part of the liberation and a foundation
for inner security."- Albert Einstein, New York Post,
28 November 1972
If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of
abstinence is from injury to animals.-Albert Einstein
As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures
there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony between people.
Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together. --Isaac Bashevis
Singer
Until he extends the circle of compassion to all living things,
man will not himself find peace.--Albert Schweitzer
Until we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it
is--whether its victim is human or animal--we cannot expect
things to be much better in this world... We cannot have peace
among men whose hearts delight in killing any living creature.
By every act that glorifies or even tolerates such moronic
delight in killing we set back the progress of humanity.
--Rachel Carson
We are the living graves of murdered beasts, slaughtered to
satisfy our appetites. How can we hope in this world to attain
the peace we say we are so anxious for?--George Bernard Shaw
(Living Graves, published 1951)
Cruelty has cursed the human family for countless ages. It
is almost impossible for one to be cruel to animals and kind
to humans. If children are permitted to be cruel to their
pets and other animals, they easily learn to get the same
pleasure from the misery of fellow-humans. Such tendencies
can easily lead to crime.--Fred A.McGrand
Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism,
yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians,
for we feed on babies, though not our own.--Robert Louis Stevenson
Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends.
--George Bernard Shaw
I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the
time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder
of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.--Leonardo
Da Vinci
The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths
than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters,
and all automobile accidents combined. If beef is your idea
of `real food for real people,' you'd better live real close
to a real good hospital.--Neal D. Barnard, M.D
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INTERACTIVE INFORMATION
The Meatrix, a four minute animated movie that spoofs the
Matrix films and stars a cow, a pig and a chicken. The Meatrix
has won many awards, has been seen by millions of people,
and has been critically acclaimed by both press and viewers.
Check it out at http://www.themeatrix.com/
Also
check out: http://www.moremeatrix.com/
WORDS FROM SUPPORTERS:
Dear BFC,
As a vegan and animal rights activist I think it's great that
BFC is going to advocate against eating all animal products.
This is a courageous stand. I'm sure you are aware of how
animals are treated on factory farms - far worse than the
buffalo.
~Tricia
Dear Buffalo Field Friends:
I was very happy to see your urging a boycott of the meat
to protest the
disastrous effect cattle ranching has had on the buffalo,
as you well
documented. I hope that in encouraging people to think about
the effect of
their eating, that we also stress the terror and suffering
that the cattle -
who of course are also innocent victims - go through in the
process of being raised and slaughtered for human consumption,
being solely considered commodities for profit without any
regard to their too being living, sentient beings.
Sincerely,
Bonnie Hurwitz
The
Cows vs. Condos Myth, by George Wuerthner
Range
Restoration and Grazing Reform, Center for Biological
Diversity
WasteoftheWest.com,
Waste of the West Public Lands Ranching, Join the movement
to protect one of America's most valuable resources: our public
lands.
02/10/07-
How the West Was Eaten: Till the Cows Come Home,
by Jeffrey St. Clair
Spot
Light 2006- Livestock impacts on the environment,
Agriculture 21
Livestock:
Myth vs Reality- Western Watersheds Project
03/06-
Sacred Cows, Audubon Magazine- Grazing on public
lands yields less than five percent of the nation's beef but
monopolizes 252 million of its acres. Even so, ranchers are
gunning for the one law that can save fish, wildlife, and
their own industry.
Fear
and Loathing in Montana by John Potter 4/28/05
Click
here for a cartoon
Letter
to Governor Schweitzer by Vicky Millspaugh 4/27/05
Dr
Janez Drnovsek about vegetarianism and animal rights
Jan/2006
Mad
Cow Madness: USDA Stands in the Way of Broader Testing
By Steve Chapman, Balitmore Sun 4/26/06
Livestock-Free Resources:
http://www.veganoutreach.org/
http://www.pcrm.org/
http://www.vegnews.com/
http://vegnews.com/marketplace.html
http://www.veganstore.com/
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