New Mexico Vegan - May 2021 by Arenas Nancy

NewMexicoVegan May 2021

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I’m Running For City Council - Here’s How I Want To Help Animals

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New Mexico Facts & Trivia

Diet Is More Important Than Exercise

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Simple Vegan Meal – Avocado Burrito

Inconvenient Kindness

Magnesium Is A Powerful Natural Anti-Inflammatory Mineral

Revisit With Previous New Mexico Vegan Magazine Issues

The Cost of Meat

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Dan Brook

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Julia Doherty

Tammy Fiebelkorn

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Akil Taher

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New Mexico Vegan Volume 7 – Issue 3 May 2021 Editor: Nancy Arenas NMV Photographer: N. Arenas

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I feel a sense of good fortune, with the coming of Summer 2021. Veganism, as a global justice movement, has been accelerated-forward …by the pandemic. And I want to continue raising the flag of non-violence for our home planet. Corona Virus, day by day, is making one thing ‘nearer and clearer’ …there are deadly consequences to: humans …handling “carnivorous foods.” One example: human consumption of animals, leads to pandemics. Recently, I spoke at the Vegan World 2026 Convergence Apr 2021 and the Vegan World Expo Conference & Marketplace (VWECM 2021). I shared about a transformation of myself …that began in my childhood, …and continues to light my way, today. The exact term for this ongoing inner metamorphosis is: “human revolution.” Furthermore, it was on the paths of Buddhism and Veganism …that I, finally, learned to “step out of the box” of behavioral-conditioning that society had built around me. There came a time, when I felt I had successfully “escaped society” …but, ironically, that was the moment I… “understood society.” And I realized, “I can not live, …in total isolation. Humanity is …my own people.” Nevertheless, I had to search for the truth …within me …because every external-hope, turned out to be …a “dangling carrot” of deceit. So, I was driven to this conclusion, “I must: undo-the-lie in my mind, and …teach-myself-the-truth.” And when I did so …self-power …came to me. And it can come to you, …to anyone. “Positive-change” …can happen. If you are not yet vegan, please start your journey today. If you need help, you may reach out to me… (email: heartnsole3@yahoo.com). Hopefully… soon… we will all be venturing out of our homes with un-guarded smiles …sharing with family, friends, and colleagues …in a compassionate cruelty-free manner. Also …commemorate by celebrating ALL mothers… this Mother’s Day …ant, antelope, eleph-ant, …your aunt, …and all. Together we will achieve a world filled with compassion for all sentient beings. We will respect and celebrate …all …life.

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I’m Running For City Council - Here’s How I Want To Help Animals Tammy Fiebelkorn

I’m running for Albuquerque City Council in District 7 for many reasons. First, I want to move us toward a clean energy future to help address climate change while ensuring that the benefits of this transition reach our lowincome neighbors. Second, I know that COVID-19 relief for individuals and small businesses is desperately needed, and the City can help. Further, we need to improve the safety in Albuquerque for everyone – which entails better mental healthcare, improved services for the homeless, and a focus on social justice and equality in everything we do. All these things are important to me, and I dedicate a great deal of my time to designing, advocating, and implementing policies to help with each. There is one more important reason I want to be your city councilor: animals. They need a voice on City Council to help them live lives free from violence by humans. We can do a lot to elevate animals in our society and provide them respect and protection, and I’ll advocate strongly for them. Here are just a few examples of the types of policies that Albuquerque City Council can pass to help animals: 1. Update the HEART (Humane and Ethical Animals Rules and Treatment) Ordinance to better protect all animals. Specific areas that should be updated include the animal cruelty, exotic animal display, and “nuisance” animal sections of the code. This was a groundbreaking ordinance when it was introduced back in 2006, but it’s been 15 years with no updates. I often get calls about suspicions of animal cruelty. Of course, I report these to animal care and control, and they do all they can to help the animals. An update to the animal cruelty section of the HEART ordinance would give officers more tools to properly investigate and stop cruelty to animals. I would also push for policies to encourage more use of the state’s stronger animal cruelty statute when charging animal abusers in the court system.

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I’m Running For City Council - Here’s How I Want To Help Animals-Cont’d Tammy Fiebelkorn

I often get calls about suspicions of animal cruelty. Of course, I report these to animal care and control, and they do all they can to help the animals. An update to the animal cruelty section of the HEART ordinance would give officers more tools to properly investigate and stop cruelty to animals. I would also push for policies to encourage more use of the state’s stronger animal cruelty statute when charging animal abusers in the court system. HEART doesn’t allow exhibitions of exotic animals, which is good. However, the definitions of exotic animals are incomplete and hard to understand. A few years ago, I spent several weeks trying to block a “fair” from exhibiting camels here in Albuquerque. Although exotic animals are clearly defined in the HEART ordinance, only a few of those exotic animals are included in the section that specifically prohibits exotic displays. We need to update this to protect all exotic animals from the abuses that occur during transport and public display. An update to HEART must also include new provisions for dealing with “nuisance” wildlife. Currently, under Game & Fish rules, animals such as raccoons may not be relocated. If they are trapped by a “pest control” company, they must be killed. The HEART ordinance should include required mitigation efforts before animals can be removed (and therefore killed). A focus on coexistence, or wildlife deterrence and wildlife exclusion methods when coexistence isn’t an option, should be front and center in all city policies and should be included in the HEART ordinance. 2. Include the benefits of plant-based foods in policy discussions at the city level. These benefits include the well-being of animals, better health for humans, and reduction in greenhouse gases that cause climate change. I will focus on policies to provide plant-based food at city functions, city buildings, city-run farmers markets, and more. All too often, events – even those focused on human health or environmental protection – offer predominantly animal-based foods. The hypocrisy is not intentional; we need to better educate community leaders and the general public. I’ll be that unrelenting voice on city council. 3. Raise awareness of The Link between animal abuse and human violence. I will propose a training program on The Link for all City staff working with the public. This training would teach them about The Link and how to spot signs of family violence: child abuse, animal abuse, domestic violence, or elder abuse. The training will also emphasize the importance of reporting any suspected family violence to the proper authorities.

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I’m Running For City Council - Here’s How I Want To Help Animals-Cont’d Tammy Fiebelkorn

As founder and board president of Positive Links, I’ve seen awareness of this issue grow immensely over the past few decades, but we still have a long way to go. For every presentation or training I provide to law enforcement, social workers, and professional associations, I get at least one person who comments that they never thought about animal abuse before. When pressed, most will remember an instance of an abused animal whom they did not help. Thankfully, after the trainings, they all agree that – in the future – reporting suspected animal abuse is important for both the animal and the humans in the family. These are just a few of the initiatives I’d like to implement for the animals as City Councilor for District 7. Please join me in making a difference for the animals, for the environment, and for our own health!

Tammy Fiebelkorn is a longtime vegan animal rights activist running for Albuquerque City Council in District 7. She’s an environmental economist and energy efficiency advocate. She’s also the founder and board president of Positive Links, a nonprofit dedicated to reducing all forms of family violence – animal abuse, child abuse, domestic violence, and elder abuse. Tammy lives with her partner, Paul; four senior and special needs mutts, Frida, Cinderella, Mr. Pickles, and Frijolito; and a 68-year-old paralyzed Amazon parrot, Mr. T. Tammy Fiebelkorn Albuquerque City Council District 7 Candidate tammyforabq@gmail.com tammyforalbuquerque.com

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1. Four different flags have flown over New Mexico. These are the Spanish, Mexican, Confederate, and U.S. flags. The Republic of Texas, which was an independent nation for a decade, claimed some of New Mexico as its territory. However, the Mexican government never ratified the Treaties of Velasco, so it’s not clear if that one counts or if a flag was ever flown here. 2. Much of New Mexico’s landscape has been shaped by volcanic activity. Our state experienced over 700 eruptions during the last 5 million years. In the course of the next 100 years, there is about a 1% chance of a volcano erupting in New Mexico. 3. Agriculture began in New Mexico around 2500 years ago, when the Mogollon people started cultivating corn, squash, and beans. 4. The first atomic bomb was dropped in Jornada del Muerto in New Mexico on July 16, 1945. The same design was dropped in Nagasaki Japan only a few weeks later. 5. Among the youngest American states: New Mexico was not an American state until 1912. This is because the state is dominated by the Hispanic community and catholic, which kept it from being admitted as a state. 6. An event that happened in New Mexico inspired the invention of the polaroid: the Polaroid or instant photos are a great deal, especially when you are on vacation. The next time you think of taking a Polaroid to remember the inventor by the name Edwin H. Land. He was inspired to develop the technology because her daughter wanted to take instant photos. 7. Home to Bandera Ice Cave: the Bandera ice cave dates back to the 1100 B.C. This makes it one of the oldest caves in the area. 8. It was once the uranium capital of the world: Grants, N.M produced a lot of uranium in the 20th century than any other place in the US. This led to the area to be referred to as the uranium capital of the world. 9. Have a large number of UFO reports.The state is known for the many reports about UFO’S. In a recent event, the pilots of at least three separate aircraft encountered an unidentified flying object high above southern Arizona and New Mexico on 24th February 2018. 10. the founder of another American giant Amazon.com–Jeff Bezos–was born (January 12, 1964) in Albuquerque.

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Diet Is More Important Than Exercise Dr. Akil Taher As a doctor, recovered bypass surgery patient, mountaineer, marathoner, consumer of food products, and as someone who has tried various diets—compulsive carnivore, flexitarian (primarily vegetarian or plant-based foods with the occasional indulgence of meat or fish), pescatarian (a vegetarian diet that includes fish and seafood), junk food vegetarian (replacing meat, dairy, and eggs with refined and processed foods), and finally, a whole-food, plant-based diet—I can say with conviction that a WFPB/Vegan diet can reverse heart diseases, improve cholesterol, lower blood pressure lower blood sugar and prevent obesity.

Like most people, my belief that heart disease won’t happen to me compounded matters, until it came calling at the ages of fifty-six (leading to stents angioplasty) and sixty-one (culminating in open-heart surgery in 2009). I felt that my whole world had turned upside down. After the surgery, I realized I had two choices—first, lead a cautious, mediocre, and sedentary life, as I’d seen in most patients after a heart-bypass surgery; or second, change my lifestyle to

incorporate healthy eating habits, an exercise regimen, meditation, and regular practice of yoga.

I could have retired immediately, sat on my rocking chair all day, lived vicariously through my children and grandchild, and resigned myself to the inevitability of eventual death. Instead, I chose to live life to the fullest, turning a setback into an opportunity. Opting for the second choice, I embraced life with an infectious, positive mindset, even as I continued in my role as a physician.

Fifteen years ago, when I first confronted health problems, I decided to overcome them by practicing yoga and other forms of regular exercise. But there was something missing. How could I solve my eternal problems of constipation, diverticulitis, hemorrhoids, distention , bloating and also avoid further heart problems?

I decided to deal with my heart disease first, as this is the biggest killer in the United States, India, and many other countries. As I understood diet and nutrition better, I gave up meat but occasionally ate fish. The next thing I quit was dairy. Being lactose intolerant, I really didn’t care for it. Then I stopped eating eggs, and finally I cut fish from my diet. But at the back of

my mind, I was nervous.

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Diet Is More Important Than Exercise-Cont’d Dr. Akil Taher As an athlete, I was worried plant-based protein wouldn’t be enough. I was also concerned about my preparation time (time to get ready for the race) performance time (time taken to run the race) and my recovery time after a race, including healing after an injury.

At first, consuming a large piece of chicken or fish after each long run was a must, and it became a habit that I thoroughly enjoyed. But after each race, it would take me at least five to seven days to recover. Why? Was I overdoing it, or was it something else?

I distinctly remember the 100-kilometer (62.13 miles) bike ride that I completed in November 2017 with my friend and trainer, Stacey. I was a vegan then. After finishing the bike ride, we stopped at a restaurant, and I had a vegan meal. Our plan was to stay overnight and travel the next morning. But I felt so good that we decided to drive back to Gadsden that night, a four-hour drive. Halfway into the drive, I got a call from my clinic that the doctor who was supposed to work the next day had called in sick. The

following morning, I took his place and worked ten hours straight like it was any other day.

It was then that I wondered what I was doing differently that made me feel so energetic. The only thing different was that I was now eating a whole-food, plant-based diet. I have, since then, run several 5Ks and 10Ks, as well as finished a 100-mile bike race (November 2018). After careful deliberation, I realized— although this is not scientifically based—that that was the only significant change I had made. I attributed the extra energy to my plant-based diet. I now knew and understood that diet is more important than exercise, and I am a living proof to that.

Plant-based diets are environmentally sustainable, health promoting, and in perfect alignment with most peoples’ moral codes. The vegan diet is certainly not a fad. It is definitely here to stay.

And while the debate rages on about what is the best diet for human beings, it is becoming increasingly clear that exercising the body and mind together with a diet that leans toward the whole-food/Vegan plant-based is the key to vitality and longevity. Furthermore, it’s conducive to maintaining a body structure that would be the

envy of our predecessors and will improve the quality of our lives.

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Diet Is More Important Than Exercise-Cont’d Dr. Akil Taher While people in both developed and developing countries are living longer than generations before them, the extra years are not healthy ones. We are living longer but not necessarily healthier.

What Can You Do to Prevent Heart Disease Risk? Heart disease is the leading cause of death for both men and women worldwide.

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Exercise thirty minutes (under stress-free conditions) six days a week.

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Eat heart-healthy food. Add more fruits, vegetables, legumes, nuts, beans, and whole grains to your diet.

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Reduce simple carbohydrates (simple sugars like glucose, fructose, fats and sucrose) and increase your complex carbohydrates (whole grains and starchy vegetables).

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Avoid meats, eggs and dairy. These are the biggest competitors to your health. Meat protein is detrimental to your health. It is high in cholesterol, low in fiber and causes renal problems.

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Milk does a body bad. It has a protein, casein, that humans cannot digest, lactose that most humans

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Bring yoga, spirituality, and meditation into your life.

I have found that lasting happiness does not come from unlimited possessions, or from how important or famous you are in a community or society. It comes from an active body, healthy eating, a positive mindset, a compassionate heart, a passionate curiosity for lifelong learning, the ability to step out of your comfort zone and face your fears, balance between materialism and spirituality, the capacity to look for humor in a time of crisis, the pursuit of meaningful goals, and more importantly, being supportive of the dreams, aspirations, and unconventional choices of your loved ones.

It is then that you escape the trap of a mundane existence, seek new adventures for a life of meaning and purpose, and enable Mother Nature to do surgery on you (rather than a physician) to create an Open Heart.

Live by my credo: Adventure may hurt you, but monotony will kill you.

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Inconvenient Kindness Julia Doherty

To every animal taken from their tree to everyone removed from their sea to every animal who will die today slaughtered and hidden away for every animal made into clothes from shoes to lounge suites, and what knows to everyone chained and caged in despair for all the lives that have paid the price including insects and mice You are my world You have my heart Together life we breathed I am so sorry in 2021 still, there’s no reprieve for kindness ends at a taste, a smell, a habit known for some kindness ends at an inconvenience no words, no pics makes them lenient, we cannot change their mind sadly, these apparent people, call themselves humankind though have no fear the vegans are here, and we will not give up on you You have a voice, you will be heard Until the meaning of kindness is true.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------*** #bethechange …so we can … #end harm – Julia Doherty ***

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The Cost of Meat Dan Brook, PhD Meat is much more expensive than most people realize. When it comes to meat, we pay for it many times over. Here are a dozen major ways we pay for meat and it’s busting our personal, local, national, and global budgets. 1. We pay for meat at the cashier when we buy it in markets and restaurants. People who eat plant-based diets save an average of $750 per year. Some of the healthiest, tastiest, most compassionate, most sustainable foods are plant-based and inexpensive: rice, beans, lentils, carrots, potatoes, onions, tomatoes, beets, squash, tofu, peanut butter, pasta, and others. 2. We pay for meat through massive government subsidies, money that could be allocated in productive ways that help people, animals, and the environment, such as organic agriculture, food programs, and education about plant-based diets.

3. We pay for meat through massive environmental destruction, including air and water pollution, soil degradation, wasting resources, deforestation, species extinction, and more. The livestock industry is a leading cause of nearly every environmental problem.

4. We pay for meat through our climate crisis, which affects all countries and all species. The livestock industry is the leading cause of climate change, resulting in record heat, melting glaciers, rising sea levels, submerged coastlines, evaporating lakes, extreme weather events, droughts, wildfires, floods, spreading disease, ocean acidification, the destruction of infrastructure and other property, higher insurance rates, environmental refugees, and other disasters, making tragic instances of hunger, ethnic violence, terrorism, and war more likely. 5. Animals pay for our meat — their formerly-living bodies — through their abuse, torture, and death. This happens every single day to billions of animals, despite the fact that we can survive, indeed thrive, on plant-based diets. They deserve better.

6. We pay for meat when workers on factory farms and in slaughterhouses, disproportionately people of color, get repetitive stress injuries, amputations, nightmares, PTSD, antibiotic-resistant diseases such as MRSA, and other health threats. As the most dangerous jobs in America, some workers also tragically, though unnecessarily, die there.

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The Cost of Meat – Cont’d Dan Brook, PhD 7. We pay for meat through inefficiency and wastefulness. According to a study in Science, meat and dairy account for only 18% of calories, but 33% of fresh water withdrawals, 56% of air pollution, 57% of water pollution, 58% of agricultural greenhouse gas emissions, and 83% of farm land. Beans, lentils, rice, wheat, vegetables, and fruits are much more efficient, inexpensive, healthy, socially just, and sustainable.

8. We pay for meat by paying higher prices for water, fuel, crops, and other resources, which get inefficiently diverted to the wasteful and inefficient livestock industry. And for those at or near subsistence level — about a billion people — these higher prices result in higher levels of hunger and starvation.

9. We pay for meat through heart disease and heart attacks, various cancers, strokes, obesity, diabetes, hypertension, kidney disease, gout, etc. and also doctor visits, surgeries, and medicines to treat these serious health problems as well as the pain, suffering, and loss of productivity as a result. In the U.S. every year, there are about half a million open-heart surgeries at a cost of $117,094 on average for each heart

bypass surgery, totaling over $58.5 billion per year, regardless of whether those people survive or not. With heart disease the number one killer by far, many do not survive.

10. We pay for meat with shorter lives with more disease. Vegetarians and vegans live longer than meateaters, extending their healthy lives by 7.8 years on average. 11. We pay for meat by having it deplete our spirits. We know what we are doing to animals is wrong — especially to cows, pigs, chickens, turkeys, and fish — and most of us don’t want to watch it or know too

much about it because it’s absolutely and disgustingly horrifying. This weighs on our conscience, even when we are not explicitly thinking about it or directly involved in it.

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The Cost of Meat – Cont’d Dan Brook, PhD 12. We pay for meat by creating the conditions for pandemics to arise. Whether it is the Spanish flu or Covid-19, swine flu or bird flu, AIDS or MRSA, Ebola or others, all of these and other deadly diseases that have become epidemics or pandemics originated in exploitative human interactions with animals, costing us millions of lives, trillions of dollars, and untold suffering. Wouldn’t it be better to stop the next pandemic before it happens?

The costs of meat are impoverishing and killing us. We can save a lot by ditching meat and dairy, while creating a more compassionate, healthy, just, and environmentally-sustainable world.

Copyright 2021 Dan Brook Dan Brook, PhD teaches in the Department of Sociology and Interdisciplinary Social Sciences at San Jose State University, is on the Board of San Francisco Veg Society and the Advisory Board of Jewish Veg, and is the author of the free Eating the Earth: The Truth About What We Eat and editor of the non-profit cookbook Justice in the Kitchen

Reprinted with permission. https://voxpopulisphere.com/2021/04/17/dan-brook-the-cost-of-meat/

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Spaghetti Squash Burrito Bowls INGREDIENTS ROASTED SPAGHETTI SQUASH • • •

2 MEDIUM SPAGHETTI SQUASH (ABOUT 2 POUNDS EACH), HALVED AND SEEDS REMOVED 2 TABLESPOONS OLIVE OIL SALT AND FRESHLY GROUND BLACK PEPPER

CABBAGE AND BLACK BEAN SLAW • 2 CUPS PURPLE CABBAGE, THINLY SLICED AND ROUGHLY CHOPPED INTO 2-INCH-LONG PIECES • 1 CAN (15 OUNCES) BLACK BEANS, RINSED AND DRAINED • 1 RED BELL PEPPER, CHOPPED • ⅓ CUP CHOPPED GREEN ONIONS, BOTH GREEN AND WHITE PARTS • ⅓ CUP CHOPPED FRESH CILANTRO • 2 TO 3 TABLESPOONS FRESH LIME JUICE, TO TASTE • 1 TEASPOON OLIVE OIL • ¼ TEASPOON SALT

AVOCADO SALSA VERDE • ¾ CUP MILD SALSA VERDE, EITHER HOMEMADE OR STORE-BOUGHT • 1 RIPE AVOCADO, DICED • ⅓ CUP FRESH CILANTRO (A FEW STEMS ARE OK) • 1 TABLESPOON FRESH LIME JUICE • 1 MEDIUM GARLIC CLOVE, ROUGHLY CHOPPED INSTRUCTIONS 1.To roast the spaghetti squash: Preheat the oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit and line a large baking sheet with parchment paper for easy clean-up. On the baking sheet, drizzle the halved spaghetti squash with olive oil. Rub the olive oil all over each of the halves, adding more if necessary. 2.Sprinkle the insides of the squash with freshly ground black pepper and salt. Turn them over so the insides are facing down. Roast for 40 to 60 minutes, until the flesh is easily pierced through with a fork. 3.Meanwhile, to assemble the slaw: In a medium mixing bowl, combine the cabbage, black beans, bell pepper, green onion, cilantro, lime juice, olive oil and salt. Toss to combine and set aside to marinate. 4.To make the salsa verde: In the bowl of a blender or food processor, combine the avocado, salsa verde, cilantro, lime juice and garlic. Blend until smooth, pausing to scrape down the sides as necessary. 5.To assemble, first use a fork to separate and fluff up the flesh of the spaghetti squash. Then divide the slaw into each of the spaghetti squash “bowls,” and add a big dollop of avocado salsa verde. Finish the bowls with another sprinkle of pepper, cilantro and optional crumbled feta or pepitas.

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Vegan Mac n Cheese Cupcake

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Animals can feel empathy just like humans do. Empathy for each other, for us, and even for other species.

Kangaroos 1. Kangaroos can hop around quickly on two legs or walk around slowly on all four, but they can't walk backwards. 2. Kangaroos can jump very high, sometimes three times their own height. 3. Kangaroos can swim. 4. Kangaroos are indigenous to Australia, New Guinea and surrounding islands and belong to the Macropodidae family, meaning ‘big-footed’, which includes kangaroos, wallaroos, wallabies, hare-wallabies, nail-tail wallabies, rock-wallabies, pademelons, quokka, tree-kangaroos and the swamp wallaby. 5. Like other ruminants such as cattle, kangaroos are strict herbivores with two-chambered stomachs. They feed on grasses, flowers, leaves, ferns and moss and regurgitate their food to re-chew before digesting in the same way as cows. 6. Kangaroos are marsupial mammals and carry their young in pouches following a short 21 to 38-day gestation period. 7. When a joey is born it is the size of a jellybean and will stay in its mum’s pouch for at least four months. After that they hop in and out until they are about 10 months old. 8. Kangaroos are not only found in Australia, but also New Guinea. 9. They are highly social animals; kangaroos tend to live in groups called mobs. These can range in size from several individuals to hundreds. They often touch noses and sniff to ‘build cohesion within the group’ and dominance is established between males, who perform what looks like a boxing match. 10. It’s not just human guys that flex to impress the ladies, male kangaroos do it too!

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Introducing Sprouting Compassion, a 501C3 Non-Profit organization, dedicated to raising awareness about the connection of veganism and its link to social justice issues. Sprouting Compassion offers the following programs: cooking demos (Eat Without Violence); vegan mentorship; school humane education for kids (EducateDuCare); Vegan Swap Meet; Red and Green VegFest Albuquerque; weekly mini podcast, Vegan Pulse. Of course, we also do live and virtual presentations, tabling, and so forth. Please visit our website to find out more or to schedule an event, www.sproutingcompassion.org. TOGETHER LET’S MAKE A BRIGHTER FUTURE.

Sprouting Compassion is very appreciative of one of our own board members, Tammy Fiebelkorn, for her fundraising campaign, Sweets for your Sweet! Which was a wonderful success. We are so happy to have her in this organization. We also want to thank the community which made this campaign, Sold Out! This was our initial fundraiser for Sprouting Compassion, which funds the Red & Green VegFest Albuquerque and other programs to help with our goal to greatly expand education on veganism as a social justice movement. Thank You Tammy for all the work you do for the animals and your wonderful support! NM Vegan | 37

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