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The West Palm Beach City Commission unanimously passed a resolution opposing the factory farming practice keeping egg-laying hens in small battery cages.

The resolution stated that the commission “opposes battery cage egg production, based on the inherent cruelty of confining egg-laying hens in battery cages,” and further “encourages consumers of eggs not to purchase eggs produced by caged hens.”

Commissioner Kimberly Mitchell introduced the resolution. “Animal cruelty has no place in our society, and I’m proud that West Palm Beach has joined the growing number of cities opposing battery cage confinement in the egg industry. Keeping animals in restrictive cages so small they can hardly move is inhumane,” Commissioner Mitchell said.

West Palm Beach becomes the third Florida city and seventh in the nation to pass a resolution condemning battery cage confinement, joining other Florida cities Winter Springs and New Port Richey.

Florida-based Burger King has also announced it is moving away from using eggs from caged hens.

Animal activists claim that U.S. factory farms confine approximately 280 million hens in barren battery cages that are so small, the birds can’t even spread their wings.

————- Mr. SoVeg - Talk about a step in the right direction. If I was not such a happy and proud Canadian, I would totally be on my way to Florida. This puts lack-luster announcements like the recent one made by the American Veal Association to shame. Baby steps get you nowhere. Slow and steady does not win the race (as much as I do love that Care Bears episode). Real announcements, that make a real impact, are what is needed here.

Just like plastic shopping bags, battery cage usage should not be phased out. They should be simply eliminated. What is wrong is wrong.

-Mr. SoVeg

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Check out the carnival everyone! YAYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

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Should have the net back by the 28th. I certainly hope so anyway!

-Mr. SoVeg

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Yay! I found something to do. I have not been tagged, but i did read Veggie Chic’s post. She broke the rules, but I do not mind.

First, the rules:

* Post these rules before you give your facts.
* List 8 random facts about yourself.
* At the end of your post, choose (tag) 8 people and list their names, linking to them
* Leave a comment on their blog, letting them know they’ve been tagged

Now, what you’ve all been waiting for… my 8 random facts.

My girlfriend was a vegetarian long before myself, and many think she has influenced me. Well, that is 100% incorrect. I was sent THIS LINK by a friend, and it changed my life forever. That friend went vegetarian for a few days and decided to forget what he saw. I now cannot help but think when it comes to putting things into my mouth.

I have actually gained weight since becoming vegetarian. This could probably be blamed on how lazy I have been this past year, and not on my diet.

I have two pets that eat mice (besides my 5 cats). I have a snake named Daemeon, and a frog named Lily. On one of my other blogs you will find a video of Lily having a snack. Does this make me a bad vegetarian? I don’t think so. She would choke on a carrot.

I have only been a vegetarian for about one year and I already write about it. Some may think I am an idiot, but since making the switch I have done endless research, and I have become one of the most passionate vegetable lovers that I know.

I only miss one meat product, and that product is jerky. Seems like a nasty thing to miss, but I miss it so much I ordered some vegan jerky from PETA’s store, and even though it kinda tastes like hell, I eat it anyway.

I still love and eat honey. I feel that no one gets hurt at a bee farm. The bees choose to be there, and they could leave at any time. They are never kicked, shocked, crowded in, or slaughtered. Veganism disses all animal products, and that is why I am not a full-blown vegan.

I am as much an environmentalist as I am a vegetarian. Here is another one of my blogs: Earth Threat dot Org. There is no such thing as a meat-eating environmentalist.

Although many accuse me of looking like some kind of vegetarian hippy, I have never once tried smoking. Not cigarettes, and not marijuana. I’ve tried to be a healthy person my entire life. Eventually I realized hot dogs and hamburgers and not healthy either, and they had to go.

Well that was half enjoyable. I’m sorry I did not have any really nasty skeletons to pull out of my closet, but I am not big on secrets and I guess I do not really have any.

Since I am still quite new to veggie blogging, I am going to break the rules much like Veggie Chic did before me. I think Vegan Momma would enjoy this one though. I also invite anyone who reads this to participate, and link to your post by commenting here. Of course if you do not own a blog, start one, or post your entire ramble in a comment. I look forward to reading some others.

-Mr. SoVeg

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Bear attacks unlucky hunter in Finnish season opener
Mon Aug 20, 8:39 AM ET

A wounded bear attacked an unlucky hunter in Finland on the first day of the
hunting season Monday, but the man survived suffering only a big fright and
a few stitches, officials said.

Together with two hunting buddies, the man was tracking a brown bear he had
just wounded with a bullet in a thick forest in Kiite, in eastern Finland
near the Russian border, when the bear released its anger on the shooter.

The animal escaped another round of heavy-calibre fire and the jaws of the
man’s hunting dog before turning on the hunter.

The bear bit the man in the arm and clawed his neck, head and back before
the two other men succeeded in scaring off the animal and shooting it dead.

The hunter suffered only minor wounds, the head of the local hunting
federation Hannu Tahvanainen told AFP.

The bear quota for the 2007 season, which runs from the end of August until
the end of October, has been set at 79 out of a population of about 1,000
animals.

——– This is a depressing article, but at least that wonderful bear left some permanent marks on the ass that shot him. To quote the band 311, “Guns are for pussies.”

-Mr. SoVeg

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