Hey all,

This might have been the most important week yet in the egg wars. Never before has a supermarket chain pledged to go 100 percent cage free. This week, the parent company of Giant and Stop & Shop has promised to make the switch by 2022. None of this would be possible without the unrelenting work of the Humane Society of the United States, and in particular their Farm Animal Protection Group.

Also, this week produced a couple great Bill Clinton headlines. This one from People: "Bill Clinton on His Diet: ‘I Might Not Be Around If I Hadn’t Become a Vegan’", and this one from The Hill, "Bill Clinton: Going vegan has kept me alive."

And if you want a clear indication of why we aren't further along in having a vegan world, look no further than some of the Facebook responses the Vegan.com page has received this morning to The Hill article. We're sadly still a movement that consists of a huge number of fundamentalists spewing rhetoric that will disgust people who are contemplating a move towards a vegan diet. I wish I knew what the hell to do about it, because patience and reason doesn't do a damned thing.

Here I am getting all snippy again. Let's just move onto the week's news. Some great stuff has gone down this week.

Top News Stories of the Week (via @Vegan on Twitter):

1. A bombshell investigation by Harpers on "Wildlife Services"—the fed agency that does the meat industry's dirty work. Link.
2. The only thing worse than eating beef is throwing it away—and UK households throw out 34,000 TONS a year! Link.
3. Wired has some superb reporting about Burger King's decision to get into the hot dog business. Link.
4. Could you look your dinner in the eye? Group asks meat-eaters to meet pigs headed to slaughter. Link.
5. Great looking vegan cookie recipe in the Los Angeles Times. Link.
6. New study says EU can't meet its climate change emissions targets without steep cuts in beef & milk consumption. Link.
7. 29 percent of Brits say they have cut back on meat. Link.
8. The milk industry is shrinking fast. Link.
9. After 1000 years, UK to stop writing its laws onto calf skin. Link.
10. When it comes to sustainable water use, global dairy interests are environmental criminals. Link.

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Tweet of the week: "No step in a vegan direction is too small to be worthwhile."

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