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ve·ge·ta·rian - (vj-t‚r-n)
n. A person who does not eat meat or fish. They may however, eat eggs, cheese and other dairy products. Ethical vegetarians often avoid fur or leather.
ve·gan - (vgn, vjn)
n. A strict vegetarian who eats plant products only, especially one who uses no products derived from animals, such as honey, fur or leather.
a·him·sa- (-hms‰)
n. A Buddhist and Hindu doctrine expressing belief in the sacredness of all living creatures and urging the avoidance of harm and violence.
jai·gong slang. Cantonese for the word 'vegetarian' (useful to know in a chinese restaurant).
“Free Video Night” featuring the documentary “Meet Your Meat” showing the routine practices of factory farms exploring the conditions endured by animals that are raised for meat, eggs, and milk.
All footage was obtained through investigations at U.S. factory farms in recent years.
Date: Friday, January 27, 2006 Time: 7:00 p.m. Place: Red Victorian Peace Café, 1665 Haight Street, near Ashbury, San Francisco
For more information, call 415-273-5481.
“Meet Your Meat” makes a compelling cause that the factory-farming mindset producing the most product (meat, milk, or eggs) with the smallest investment (time, money, etc.) is responsible for routine cruelty to animals, such as confining them to spaces that prevent free movement and proper hygiene, inflicting mutilations without the use of pain killers, breeding animals for quick growth or production as opposed to optimal health, prematurely separating mothers and their young, rough handling, and slaughtering fully conscious animals.
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