An Episcoveglist member posted this yesterday, under the subject ‘There is hope’:

1st Article: Where’s the Beef? Health and Animal Welfare Concerns Are Driving
More Teens to Be Vegetarians
By Nancy Averett, as printed in The Morning Call

May 23, 2003

Jane Chardiet’s epiphany about not eating flesh came at the tender age of
2, when her grandmother took her to a Japanese restaurant and told her to pick out one of the fish swimming in a glass tank.

When the ill-fated fillet arrived on her dinner plate a few minutes later,
Chardiet panicked.

“I started screaming and crying,” the now 15-year-old recalls. “I realized
I was eating that fish and I just couldn’t handle it.”

Visit http://www.mcall.com/features/all-teenvegmay23,0,7081359.story for
the full article.

2nd Article: Vegging Out
By Shawna Richer, Tralee Pearce, Ingrid Peritz, and Alexandra Gill, as
printed in Canada’s Globe and Mail

May 24, 2003

Jennifer Surrette rarely hits a fast-food drive-thru, but the other day the
28-year-old Halifax schoolteacher found herself rushed and in a lunch-time
lineup at Burger King.

A vegetarian for the past 10 years and a vegan for five, Ms. Surrette, who
counsels kids as young as elementary-school age about vegetarianism, was
keen on a meatless burger as she idled behind a pickup truck loaded with
four ravenous, male construction workers.

“I totally expected to hear ‘Whopper, Whopper, Whopper, Whopper’ from their
window, and I thought I was hearing things when they all ordered veggie
burgers,” she says. “It was unbelievable and wonderful. I was sitting in my
car cheering.”

Visit
http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030523.wveg0523/BNStory/Front/
for the full article.

[This posting replaced 'To Serve Christ in All Creation' -- excerpts and linked full pastoral letter from the Bishops of New England, along with comments about including all animals, including captive and domesticated, in our concept of "Creation". The letter (and especially their confession and promise of future commitment) is too important to gloss over, just because it's a linked page/article. If you haven't seen it, please check it out.]