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Human Diet and the Natural Environment
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Boston Vegetarian Society
Seeks to make a better world for people, animals, and the earth through advancing a healthful vegetarian diet and a compassionate ethic.
Compassionate Spirit
A web site for people interested in simple living, nonviolence, vegetarianism, and spiritual concerns.
EarthSave International
Promotes a shift toward a healthy plant-based diet.
Healthy Planet
Educates people about the deep connection among all life on Earth, and the powerful effect our everyday choices can have on creating a cleaner, healthier and more compassionate world.
Rochester Area Vegan Society
Provides educational resources on the impact of animal-centered diets on human health, on the integrity of our environment, on world hunger, and on cruelty needlessly inflicted on billions of living, feeling, creatures every year.
Vivavegie Society
Promotes a plant-based diet through brochures and street activism. Noted for its pamphlet “101 Reasons Why I’m a Vegetarian.”
Public Lands Ranching
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Center for Biological Diversity
Works to secure a future for animals and plants hovering on the brink of extinction, for the wilderness they need to survive, and by extension for the spiritual welfare of generations to come.
Grazing Reform Project
Since its inception in 2009, The Project to Reform Public Land grazing in Northern California has utilized volunteers and interns to monitor grazing on-the-ground within Northern California wilderness and other public lands.
Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER)
An organization “protecting employees that protect our enviroment.”
Sierra Club Grazing Team
Advocate for eliminating the adverse effects of livestock production on native species and their habitats on all federal public lands of the United States.
Vegcast interview with Mike Hudak
Vegcast host Vance Lehmkuhl interviews Mike Hudak, director of Public Lands Without Livestock, about the recent article¹ by Cornell University researchers regarding which diet consisting of foods produced solely within New York State can feed the most people. Hudak addresses misleading pro-meat statements found in the Cornell press release about the article. Hudak also takes the opportunity to speak about his recent book Western Turf Wars which exposes the mismanagment of ranching on federal public lands that leads to squandering tax dollars and natural resources.
1. Christian J. Peters, Jennifer L. Wilkins, and Gary W. Fick. “Testing a Complete-diet Model for Estimating the Land Resource Requirements of Food Consumption and Agricultural Carrying Capacity: The New York State Example.” Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems: 22(2) (2007): 145–153.
Western Watersheds Project
Works to protect and restore western watersheds and wildlife through education, public policy initiatives and litigation.
WildEarth Guardians
Works to protect and restore the native biological diversity and watersheds of the American Southwest; educate and enlist citizens to support protection of the forests, rivers, deserts and grasslands of this arid region; advocate for the principles of conservation biology in plans to restore degraded ecosystems and watersheds; enforce and strengthen environmental laws; support communities in efforts to protect their land and to practice and promote sustainable use of natural resources.
Wildlife
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Wolf Recovery Foundation
Fosters our heritage of wild wolf communities by advocating their presence forever in places where they have been extirpated.
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