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- What's My Global Footprint and How Can I Change It?
- Something to Think On!
- Diabetes Epidemic Reversible with Diet
- Rethinking the Meat-guzzler
- The MEATRIX---Back by Popular Demand
- The Real Forbidden Fruit:
- Vegan Whipped Cream
- Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease
- The RAVE Diet and Lifestyle
- Supporting Community and Local Agriculture
- Free Lectures from Vegetarian Society of Hawaii
- When Friends Ask: Where do you get your protein?
- Something Fishy
- USDA, Dairy Industry End Dairy Weight-Loss Advertisements
- Nutrition MD
- Green People
- Leather: Dead Skin, Environmental Nightmare
- A Message from Dan Piraro
- Rice Milk
- Let's All Have a Global MindShift!
- Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations
- Livestock Destroy The Environment...
- Great American Meatout
- Watch Videos from Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM)
- Free As a Bird?
- 15 Reasons Not to Eat Bacon
- "Free Hugs" Campaign
- Artificial Sweeteners Are Unnecessary and Unwise
- Stick Up for Chickens!
- Most of Us Are Environmentalists...
- Marcus Math - Let's Be Millionaires!
What's My Global Footprint and How Can I Change It?
Global Footprint Network is an international think tank working to advance sustainability through use of the Ecological Footprint, a resource accounting tool that measures how much nature we have, how much we use and who uses what. By making ecological limits central to decision-making, they are working to end overshoot and create a society where all people can live well, within the means of one planet.
http://www.footprintnetwork.org/
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Something to Think On!
Have you ever considered??:
diet vs. drugs? ??
oatmeal vs. obesity? ??
peas vs. pills? ??
cabbage vs. CABG (coronary artery bypass grafting)? ??
supper vs. surgery?
Then consider meeting Dr. John McDougall!
Everything you need to make intelligent, compassionate, healthful decisions for your life can be found >> HERE
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Diabetes Epidemic Reversible with Diet
The Scientifically Proven System for Reversing Diabetes Without Drugs
Dr. Neal Barnard's Program for Reversing Diabetes shows low fat, vegan diet more effective than other treatments. Studies show that by adopting a low-fat vegetarian diet—free of all animal products and added vegetable oils—individuals can lower their cholesterol, reduce their blood pressure, and lose weight. Best of all, the diet doesn't demand one count calories, cut portion sizes, or give up all carbohydrates. On the contrary, you can eat as much as you want.
A Vegan Diet How-To Guide from PCRM
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Rethinking the Meat-guzzler
It's the Meat---Not the Oil!
Written by Mark Bittman for the The New York Times
Global demand for meat has multiplied in recent years, encouraged by growing affluence and nourished by the proliferation of huge, confined animal feeding operations. These assembly-line meat factories consume enormous amounts of energy, pollute water supplies, generate significant greenhouse gases and require ever-increasing amounts of corn, soy and other grains, a dependency that has led to the destruction of vast swaths of the world's tropical rain forests. >> MORE
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The MEATRIX---Back by Popular Demand
So many folks have asked about this award-winning video, here's a reminder. The Meatrix is great to send to your family and friends who can't fathom why vegans do what they do.
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The Real Forbidden Fruit:
How Meat Destroys Paradise And How Veganism Can Get It Back
by Jeff Popick
It's not news that eating meat is unhealthy, destructive to the environment, and cruel to animals, but what is new is Jeff Popick's new book, The REAL Forbidden Fruit, which offers compelling evidence that meat was the real "forbidden fruit." Using spirituality, physiology, sociology, environmentalism, and logic, The REAL Forbidden Fruit demonstrates how meat eating is destroying our health, our planet, our societies, and even our connection to God. But there is hope. Popick shows in a comprehensive, clear, and entertaining style how veganism overcomes all of society's problems in one fell swoop, and can put us back on the path to the paradise our world once was.
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Vegan Whipped Cream
EVEN loved this simple vegan replacement for the traditional cow whipped cream and Wendy and Ivy Rose Liberko were nice enough to pass it along for all of us to enjoy!
3/4 cup vanilla soy milk
1 Tbsp lemon juice In a blender, mix on high speed. Remove part of blender lid. While machine is running, slowly pour in 1 cup oil (we used an almond and organic canola mix) in a thin stream.
Add 1/2 tsp vanilla extract.
Add 1 tbsp liquid sweetener, such as agave syrup or maple syrup. Keep blending until really thick. If you need it to be stiffer, add a little granulated type sugar to get it to "whip".
This kept for a week in the fridge very well. A little goes a long way! We stirred a tablespoon in at the end of some soups we were making, used in macaroni and cheese, as well as a dessert recipe topping. Yum!
Thank you, Wendy and Ivy Rose, for sharing this with everyone at EVEN!
For more vegan recipes, see EVEN's Recipes page with sources for thousands of delicious, cruelty-free, vegan recipes.
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Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease
View free by Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr.
Heart disease remains the leading cause of death in the United States for men and women. But, as Dr. Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., a former internationally known surgeon, researcher and clinician at the Cleveland Clinic, explains in this book, it can be prevented, reversed, and even abolished.
In Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease, Dr. Esselstyn argues that conventional cardiology has failed patients by developing treatments that focus only on the symptoms of heart disease, not the cause.
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The RAVE Diet and Lifestyle
by Mike Anderson
The best health insurance money can't buy.
Read about the RAVE Diet here and see the numerous links and articles (under Resources and Miscellaneous/Newsworthy) The RAVE Diet can save your life!!
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Supporting Community and Local Agriculture
by Hilliard Gastfriend
For decades the United States has shifted away from traditional, sustainable agriculture and moved towards high-energy, artificially-fertilized, and petrochemical pesticide-based farming, primarily to allow for mega farms and other corporate farming practices. With the advent of industrial organic chemistry that mushroomed after WWII, many farmers embraced, or were encouraged to forgo, a number of traditional farming practices. Where farmers once rotated crops, left portions of fields fallow for a season, and depended upon natural fertilizers, they now plant mono crops and use herbicides and chemical fertilizers to increase their yields and artificially enrich their soil. But this gain of crop yields comes at a severe price: the erosion of topsoil and the increased risk of more powerful insect pests that requires increasingly large doses of herbicides in a never ending cycle.
In addition >> MORE
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Free Lectures from Vegetarian Society of Hawaii
You can become a "virtual" member of the Vegetarian Society of Hawaii by pointing your web browser to:
http://www.vsh.org/videos.htm
There you will find over 100 lectures by such veggie speakers as:
Dan Piraro,
Brenda Davis, RD
Joel Fuhrman, M.D.
Michael Greger, M.D.
William Harris M.D.
Ruth Heidrich, Ph.D.
Michael Klaper, M.D.
Howard Lyman
John McDougall, M.D.
Milton Mills, M.D.
Karl Seff, Ph.D.
Peter Singer, PhD
John Westerdahl, Ph.D.
and many more!
So much good information for free, you simply must check it out.
Thank you, VSH!
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When Friends Ask: Where do you get your protein?
If you don't know where you get your protein while following a plant-food-based diet, you're in good company. The Nutrition Committee of the American Heart Association, scientists from the Human Nutrition Research Center and Medical School at Tufts University, and registered dietitians, research nutritionists and physicians of Northwestern University, and the Harvard School of Public Health are just a few examples of "experts" you look to for advice who have the protein story wrong.
>> MORE
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Something Fishy
Billions of fish die every year in nets and on hooks.
Learn about sports fishing, what's wrong with catch-and-release fishing, and other hazards to fish and to you!
>> HERE.
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USDA, Dairy Industry End Dairy Weight-Loss Advertisements
Cheese and Milk Actually Likely to Cause Weight Gain, Doctors Say
Thousands of Americans were duped into thinking that dairy product consumption is associated with weight loss by a slick multimillion-dollar advertising campaign. However, in response to a petition filed by PCRM with the Federal Trade Commission, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the dairy industry agreed to halt this deceptive advertising.
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Nutrition MD
Sponsored by Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM)
Now you can start putting nutrition to work for better health. NutritionMD is here to help. This Website, operated by PCRM, provides information for both health care providers and consumers on the role good nutrition plays in overall health, as well as how it relates to the prevention and treatment of specific conditions. You can also find guides on how to makeover your diet, answers to specific nutrition questions, and delicious recipes.
http://www.nutritionmd.org/index.html
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Green People
One of the Largest Online Green Directories
Here is another valuable resource where you can find eco-friendly products, services, organizations and more, including VeggieDate.org for vegetarian singles. Free search and free listings!! It takes only 2-3 minutes to list your business or organization and only 2-3 seconds to do a search. Finding the product or service (or person!) is made simple with their easy-to-use search engine.
More here >> http://www.greenpeople.org
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Leather: Dead Skin, Environmental Nightmare
by Bruce Friedrich
The Green Issue of Vanity Fair correctly notes in discussing the impact of our purchasing decisions that "fur and leather...mean slaughtering animals," but in an issue packed with otherwise thoughtful analysis, they missed the fact that in addition to the sad fact that wearing fur or leather means, literally, wearing a part of an animal's corpse (or many of them, if you're wearing a full length fur), both products have adverse environmental impacts that far outpace their faux fur and pleather (i.e., faux leather) counterparts.
It's an odd irony, isn't it? You think of leather or fur and you think "natural product." You think of faux fur or faux leather and you think "unnatural," or even "petrochemical." But once you investigate what goes into creating this "natural" (dead) product, whether you're talking about fur or leather, you're talking environmental nightmare that far outpaces the synthetic alternatives.
More at >> common dreams
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A Message from Dan Piraro
"I just wanted to mention that there is a great magazine, well worth the subscription price, that you should look into.
Go to >> The Animals Voice Magazine
I don't own any part of the magazine or get any kickback from the subscriptions, so don't get wise on me, see? I just know the folks who run it and I read it myself and I wanted to tell you about it. I'd also like to tell you about a weird pain I'm having in my elbow, but that will have to wait until another time."
Visit award-winning, vegan cartoonist, Dan Piraro.
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Rice Milk
by Dr. John McDougall
EVEN member Rich Richardson submitted this simple and tasty recipe for Rice Milk, crediting Dr. John McDougall and his wife, Mary, for its creation.
2 Cups water boiling
1/4 Cup Cream of Rice Cereal (ingredients - granulated rice only!)
Add cream of rice slowly to boiling water while stirring. Continue stirring and boil for about 1 or 2 minutes. Allow to cool a bit and place in blender. Blend a few seconds to make smooth and then while blending, add 2 cups water. Now you can add salt, or any flavorings you wish. Place in fridge. This doesn't need to be filtered and always stays mixed and very silky.
Rich says, "Works great in my recipes that call for milk."
Thank you, Rich Richardson!
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Let's All Have a Global MindShift!
Global MindShift, formerly Foundation for Global Community, offer this bit of wisdom as "underpinning the culture of peace."
In less than a minute, this rapid-fire animation tells you everything you need to know about how to get along on earth for the next million years.
Listen to what the wombat has to say.
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Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations
Helping to build a world without hunger
Finally! FAO report from the United Nations is finally linking the enormous animals-for-human-food industry to global warming as well as all the many other harms caused to our environment.
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Livestock Destroy The Environment...
so fill your bowl with veggies instead of veal.
Vegetarian is the New Prius. President Herbert Hoover promised "a chicken in every pot and a car in every garage." With warnings about global warming reaching feverish levels, many are having second thoughts about all those cars. It seems they should instead be worrying about the chickens.
Last month, the United Nations published a report on livestock and the environment with a stunning conclusion: "The livestock sector emerges as one of the top two or three most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems, at every scale from local to global." It turns out that raising animals for food is a primary cause of land degradation, air pollution, water shortage, water pollution, loss of biodiversity, and not least of all, global warming.
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Great American Meatout
Why Kick the Meat Habit?
For the Earth
Animal agriculture produces more greenhouse gases than automobiles.
Livestock farming pollutes the water more than all other activities combined.
Meat-based diets require 10-20 times as much land as plant-based diets.
For Your Health
Kicking the meat habit will reduce your risk of heart disease, stroke, cancer, and other chronic diseases that kill 1.3 million Americans annually.
For the Animals
More than one million animals are slaughtered every hour to supply Americans with meat. Going veg will save innocent, sensitive animals from crowding, drugging, mutilation, and other factory farm and slaughterhouse atrocities.
Did You Know...?
Animals raised for food are just as intelligent, lovable, and sensitive as the animals we call pets. Yet, they never have "a nice day." From birth, most are caged, crowded, deprived, drugged, mutilated, and manhandled in factory farms.
Attempts to improve the treatment of animals have not worked. Our best option to end these atrocities is to stop subsidizing them at the market checkout counter.
Dropping meat and other animal products from our diet is more than an act of compassion. It also reduces our risk of heart disease, stroke, cancer, and other diseases that cripple then kill 1.3 million Americans every year. It reduces pollution of our waterways by animal waste and destruction of wildlife habitats.
Source - Farm Animal Reform Movement (FARM)
Are you ready to kick the meat habit? Get your FREE Veg Starter Kit now at www.VegKit.org
or 888-ASK-FARM.
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Watch Videos from Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM)
and public service announcements (PSAs) on YouTube, the popular—and free—video sharing site!
Sharing YouTube videos with friends and family is not only easy, it's also a great way to help spread PCRM's message of healthy vegetarian eating and humane alternatives to the use of animals in medical research and education.
Click here for PCRM's page on the YouTube Web site
Click the "Share Video" icon to let others know about PCRM's YouTube videos.
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Free As a Bird?
NOT IN THE EGG INDUSTRY!
A Message from the Humane Society of the US
More than 95 percent of the country's nearly 300 million egg-laying hens are confined in battery cages that are so crowded the birds can't even spread their wings. Each hen has less floor space than the area of a single sheet of letter-sized paper. They live in these intensive conditions for more than a year---unable to nest, forage, dust bathe, or even walk. Egg-laying hens are among the most abused animals in modern factory farming.
Join the fight to ban battery cages!
www.NoBatteryEggs.com
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15 Reasons Not to Eat Bacon
America's favorite pigs, Babe and Wilbur, have shown the world just how cute, clever and compassionate pigs really are. Most people don't know that pigs are very similar to "man's best friend": dogs. Pigs are friendly, loyal, and very intelligent—they are even considered to be smarter than 3-year-old children.
If you're not convinced, check this out.
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"Free Hugs" Campaign
Even though we do not typically refer non-related info, we all felt this was too good to pass up. We received so much positive response to this video, we're sending it again. As you know, EVEN doesn't normally forward items like this, but we're thrilled we made this one exception just this one time. Hundreds responded in the most positive of ways agreeing that it truly did represent the love, compassion and interconnectedness of all life---part of EVEN's Mission Statement---that should be present in vegan values. So here it is back by popular demand.
[Click on the picture to view video. Don't forget to turn up the volume on your speakers to hear the music.]
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Artificial Sweeteners Are Unnecessary and Unwise
Life on earth for us begins with breast milk, a food that is half sugar. And sugar in the forms of simple and complex carbohydrates, found in starches, vegetables, and fruits, ideally makes up the bulk of our diet for the next 83 years (after weaning). The food industry is well aware of our inborn love affair with sweet-taste. These profiteers lace our food supply with concentrated and purified sugars, such as fructose and sucrose (white table sugar), totaling up to 158 pounds per person annually. >> MORE
Source: Dr. John McDougall
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Stick Up for Chickens!
Support United Poultry Concerns
United Poultry Concerns (UPC) is a nonprofit organization that promotes the compassionate and respectful treatment of chickens and other domestic fowl. We urge people: Don't Just Switch from Beef to Chicken – Go Vegan!
Founded in 1990 by UPC President Karen Davis, UPC is the only organization in the country (and possibly the world) exclusively devoted to the plight of domestic fowl. UPC focuses on these birds because they are the largest number of abused warm-blooded animals in the world.
Along with the billions of birds who are slaughtered each year for food, millions more of these birds suffer in laboratories, get dumped in animal shelters, and die miserably in poultry houses without anyone knowing they ever lived. In fact, it was Karen Davis's discovery of a little crippled hen named Viva, abandoned in a filthy chicken house in Maryland, which led her to start UPC on behalf of all the "Vivas" in the world who desperately need their voices to be heard.
United Poultry Concerns' quarterly magazine Poultry Press won praise from UTNE magazine in 2005 as one of the best publications produced by a nonprofit organization. To learn more and become a member, contact UPC, PO Box 150, Machipongo, VA 23405. (757) 678-7875.
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Most of Us Are Environmentalists...
Until We Sit Down To Eat!
These days, most Americans consider themselves to be red, white, and blue and green. According to polls, three-quarters of us are environmentalists. We recycle our garbage, hang our wash on the line to dry, and even compost our supper scraps to make the world a better place. But if we really want to soothe Mother Earth's ills, we can't do it on a diet of chicken, fish, pork, and beef. Try as you might, you simply aren't an environmentalist until you start eating green.
Environmental groups, including the National Audubon Society and the Union of Concerned Scientists, have recognized that raising animals for food has a worse effect on the planet than just about anything else we can do.
America's meat addiction is steadily poisoning and depleting our clean water, arable land, and fresh air. In fact, raising animals for food requires more water than all other uses of water combined, causes more water pollution than any other activity, is responsible for 85% of soil erosion, and requires 1/3 of all raw materials used in this country (with the air pollution that entails). According to the Environmental Protection Agency, hog, chicken, and cattle waste has polluted 35,000 miles of rivers in 22 states and contaminated groundwater in 17 states.
Source: PETA
http://prime.peta.org/2009/03/love-animals-be-a-real-environmentalist
The water used to produce a 1000 lb beef steer is enough to float a battleship.
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Marcus Math - Let's Be Millionaires!
"When I was a teenager, my greatest ambition was to one day be a millionaire. In my twenties, as my primary ambition shifted away from making money and toward protecting animals, I adapted the millionaire concept for purposes of activism. I decided that I still wanted to be a millionaire, but not in terms of earning a million dollars. I wanted to be a millionaire in terms of keeping a million animals out of slaughterhouses.
Some people may scoff at the idea that one person can save a million animals. But I've met at least a dozen people in the movement who've achieved this level of success. I think saving a million animals is a lifetime goal that every serious activist would do well to adopt.
But is it realistic to think that a typical person could keep a million animals from slaughter? Absolutely! A twenty-year-old college student is likely to live for at least fifty years. And the average American eats more than forty chickens a year. So if you can convince a college student to give up meat, you've saved around two thousand birds, hundreds of fish, plus several pigs and cows. At two thousand animals saved per new vegetarian, this means that during your life, if you convince five hundred young people to become vegetarian, a million animals will be saved."