OMNI
VEGETARIAN/VEGAN
ACTION NEWSLETTER,
JANUARY 13,
2021
Edited by Dick Bennett
for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and
Ecology
http://omnicenter.org/donate/
Christian Vegetarian Association
HEALTH
Vegetarian
Journal
Articles from Good Medicine: Vegan for
Love, Hearts, Native Americans
Articles
in NADG: organic v. natural and soap v. virus.
Articles
in Eco-Watch: Plant-based v. Vegan; Sustainable
dietary guidelines; Protein sources for vegetarians and vegans; mustard greens;
Keto-friendly fruits.
Reducing Mowed Lawns
Documentary Film on Mushrooms
UN Honors Health Workers
Rob Wallace. Big
Farms Make Big Flu. 2020
ANIMALS
Justice for Animals
Newkirk and Stone. Animalkind:
Remarkable Discoveries about Animals and the
Remarkable
Ways We Can Be Kind to Them. 2020.
Safina’s New Book Becoming Wild. 2020.
Preston,
“Animal Democracy.”
Survival
of Species
Environmental
Costs of Eating Meat
Articles
from PETA
New
Film v. Using Animals for Tests
Article:
Notorious Experimenters with Animals
Against
Animal Testing: 4 Articles in Good
Medicine
Nibert, Meat Eating and Covid-19
Tyson’s Faux Shrimp
Eamon Whalen. “Meatheads.”
TEXTS
Christian
Vegetarian Association (CVA), Google search 9-8-20
christianveg.org
All-Creatures.org ... The CVA web
site is sponsored by The Mary T. and Frank L. Hoffman Family Foundation and
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HEALTH, NUTRITION
Vegetarian Journal :
Science, Caring, and Vegan Living since 1982.
Vegetarian Journal | Vegetarian Resource Group, Google
Search 4-12-20
www.vrg.org › journal
Vegetarian Journal : The practical magazine for those interested in Health,
Ecology, and Ethics.
Vegetarian
Journal is a publication where health
professionals evaluate current scientific literature and present it in
practical fashion to readers .
””Articles from Good Medicine (Spring 2019)
“’Go Vegan for Someone
You Love’ Urge Billboards in India.” Good Medicine (Spring 2019).
“Heather Shenkman, M.
D. “Healing Hearts with a Plant-Based
Diet.” Good Medicine (Spring 2019).
“Native Americans Are
Healing Diabetes with Plant-Based Diet.”
Good Medicine (Spring 2019).
NADG
(3-30-20) 3D provides a useful
explanation of the distinction between organic and natural food.
Nearby is an excellent article (2D)
on the molecular features of SOAP that make it so effective against viruses,
better than sanitizing liquids. “Trap
and Kill, Soap’s Bubbly Attack on Dirt.” I spoke to a Wal-Green’s pharmacist who agreed and said the W-G
employees were washing their hands frequently—with soap.
ARTICLES FROM ECO-WATCH
VEGAN
What’s the Difference
Between a Plant-Based and Vegan Diet?
Healthline Mar. 14, 2020 09:11AM ESTHEALTH + WELLNESS By Lauren Panoff, MPH, RD
https://www.ecowatch.com/plant-based-vs-vegan-diet-2645486232.html
A growing number of
people are choosing to reduce or eliminate animal products in their diet.
As a result, a larger
selection of plant-based options have become noticeable at grocery stores,
restaurants, public events, and fast food chains.
Some people choose to
label themselves as "plant-based," while others use the term
"vegan" to describe their lifestyle. As such, you may wonder what the
differences between these two terms are.
This article examines
the differences between the terms "plant-based" and "vegan"
when it comes to diet and lifestyle. https://www.ecowatch.com/plant-based-vs-vegan-diet-2645486232.html
Is the U.S. Ready for Sustainable Dietary Guidelines? New Research Makes
a Compelling Case. EcoWatch (March 18, 2020).
“”13 Nearly Complete Protein Sources for Vegetarians and Vegans.” .
Eco-Watch (5-3-20).
“Mustard
Greens: Nutrition Facts and Health Benefits. “
By Kelli McGrane, MS, RD. EcoWatch (3-28-20). Healthline.
Mar. 26, 2020 12:24PM ESTFOOD
Mustard greens are
peppery-tasting greens that come from the mustard plant (Brassica juncea L.).
Also known as brown mustard, vegetable mustard, Indian mustard, and Chinese
mustard, mustard greens are members of the Brassica genus of
vegetables. This genus also includes kale, collard greens, broccoli, and
cauliflower.
There are several
varieties, which are usually green and have a strong bitter, spicy flavor.
To make them more
palatable, these leafy greens are typically enjoyed boiled, steamed,
stir-fried, or even pickled.
This article provides
a complete overview of mustard greens, including their nutrition, benefits, and
uses.
Nutritional Profile
Mustard greens are one
of the most nutritious foods you can eat, as they're low in calories yet rich in fiber and micronutrients. MORE
https://www.ecowatch.com/mustard-greens-nutrition-2645577834.html?rebelltitem=9#rebelltitem9
Summary
Mustard greens are low
in calories yet high in fiber and many essential vitamins and minerals. In
particular, they're an excellent source of vitamins C and K. Mustard greens are rich in important plant compounds and
micronutrients, specifically vitamins A, C, and K. As a result, eating them may
have benefits for eye and heart health, as well as anticancer and
immune-boosting properties. How to Prepare and Eat Mustard Greens MORE
https://www.ecowatch.com/mustard-greens-nutrition-2645577834.html?rebelltitem=9#rebelltitem9
EcoWatch (March 18, 2020).
HEALTH
“9 Nutritious Keto-Friendly Fruits”
Healthline Mar. 19, 2020 12:50PM ESTFOOD By Rachael Link, MS, RD
The ketogenic, or keto, diet is a very low carb, high fat
eating plan on which carb intake is often restricted to less than 20–50 grams
per day.
As such, many high carb foods are considered
off-limits on this diet, including certain types of grains, starchy vegetables,
legumes, and fruits.
However, some fruits are low in carbs and can fit into a well-rounded keto
diet.
Some are also high in fiber, an indigestible type of carb that doesn't count
toward your total daily carb count. That means they contain fewer net, or
digestible, carbs. This is calculated by subtracting the grams of fiber from
the total grams of carbs.
Here are 9 nutritious, tasty, and keto-riendly
fruits.
1. Avocados
Though avocados are often
referred to and used as a vegetable, they're biologically considered a fruit.
Thanks to their high content of heart-healthy
fats, avocados make a great addition to a ketogenic diet.
They're also low in net carbs, with around 8.5
grams of carbs and nearly 7 grams of fiber in a 3.5-ounce (100-gram) serving (1Trusted Source).
Avocados provide an array of other important
nutrients as well, including vitamin K, folate, vitamin C, and potassium (1Trusted Source).
Summary
A 3.5-ounce (100-gram) serving of avocado contains
around 1.5 grams of net carbs. They're also high in vitamin K, folate, vitamin
C, and potassium.
2. Watermelon MORE
https://www.ecowatch.com/keto-friendly-fruit-2645535099.html?utm_source=EcoWatch+List&utm_campaign=1b26f66bb0-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_49c7d43dc9-1b26f66bb0-85387053
Tom Philpott. “Plan Bee: It’s Time for the Lawn to Start
Kicking Grass.” Mother Jones (May-June 2020) 68. The disastrous decline
of bees. Since people continue to neatly mow their
lawns, despite the destructiveness of the practice (besides harming bees, the
mower’s CO2), the article offers a compromise: mowed lawns with flowers. Philpott has been writing for bees for a
decade or more. [But the natural yard
should be the goal—kicking the mower and enabling maximum diversity of plants
and creatures--, and Fayetteville rewards the practice with its Naturalistic
Yard recognition. Contact Peter
Nierengarten.] Dick
Wendy Bechtold. “Much Ado About Mushrooms.” Sierra
(May June 2020).
Review of documentary film Fantastic
Fungi: The Magic Beneath Us by Louie Schwartzberg about the renowned
mycologist Paul Stamets and the “grand molecular decomposers of nature.”
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UN honors health workers as WHO warns of nurse
shortage
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres expressed
his gratitude to front-line health workers for their courageous efforts to
fight the coronavirus pandemic in an address marking World Health Day on
Tuesday. World Health Organization Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom
Ghebreyesus also marked the day by recognizing the sacrifices made by
nurses and midwives during this crisis, while noting that the world faces a
shortage of trained nurses.
Full
Story: Devex (free registration) (4/7), Manila Bulletin (Philippines) (4/7), Hindustan Times (India) (4/7)
And
we at OMNI honor all front-line workers; and we recognize how many kinds of workers have continued to
serve us at the front—at grocery stores, food banks, the Post Office and
all other federal and state agencies, police, courts, gas stations,
restaurants…..
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Rob Wallace. Big
Farms Make Big Flu. 2020. Advertised in Monthly Review.
FACTORY FARMS
The numbers aren’t
pretty.
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Ronnie Cummins, Organic Consumers
Association campaigns@organicconsumers.org via us.e-activist.com
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Jun 30, 2020, 2:30 PM (19 hours ago)
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Dear Dick,
The folks at the Food &
Environment Network (FERN) have taken on the grim task of monitoring the
COIVD-19 situation in industrial slaughterhouses.
The numbers aren’t
pretty.
As of June
29, FERN reports that at least 36,561 meatpacking, food processing and
farmworkers have tested positive for Covid-19—and at least 116 workers of
those have died.
Meanwhile four of the “Big
Meat” companies responsible for these numbers—Tyson, JBS, Cargill and
Smithfield—are being investigated for using the pandemic to needlessly
endanger workers, and to deceive consumers about meat shortages so they
could jack up prices, all while exporting massive amounts of meat to
China.
Never have
we needed to shut down factory farms more than now.
And never has the opportunity
been more within our reach—if we can marshal the resources to get the job
done.
Our deadline
to meet our 2nd-quarter budget is midnight tonight. And we are still far
short of our goal. Can you help by making a donation today?
DONATE
We need to transition
exploited factory farm workers to safer, better paying jobs, either in
organic regenerative meat production or some other green industry.
But that’s
just one of many reasons to end factory farming.
Industrial factory farms
produce pesticide- and drug-contaminated meat.
Industrial factory farms are
leading polluters of water and air.
Industrial factory farms are
notorious for their cruel treatment of animals.
And let’s
not forget this: Without factory farms, Monsanto would have a hard time
pushing farmers to grow millions of acres of pesticide-saturated GMO
grains for animal feed.
Now, more than ever, it’s time
to demand an organic regenerative food and farming system.
Now, more than ever, we need a
food system that improves public health, ensures worker rights, protects
family farmers, ends animal abuse and protects the environment, including
climate stability.
Safely
ensconced in their high-rise executive offices, “Big Meat” corporation
executives care nothing about the communities they exploit, and from
which they extract wealth.
We can do better. And there’s
no time like the present.
Please
make a donation today if you are able. You can donate online, by mail or
by phone, details here.
DONATE
Thank you. Be safe. Be
healthy.
P.S. Please help us raise $100,000 by midnight June 30 to
avoid a 2nd-quarter shortfall. You can donate online, or by phone or
mail—click here for details.
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ANIMALS
Animalkind: Remarkable Discoveries about Animals and the
Remarkable Ways We Can Be Kind to Them by
Ingrid Newkirk and Gene Stone. 2020. See Winter 2020 PETA
GLOBAL.LOOK
The founder and
president of PETA, Ingrid Newkirk, and bestselling author Gene Stone explore
the wonders of animal life and offer tools for living more kindly toward them.
In the last few decades, a wealth of new information has emerged about who
animals are—intelligent, aware, and empathetic. Studies show that animals are astounding beings with
intelligence, emotions, intricate communications networks, and myriad abilities.
In Animalkind, Ingrid Newkirk and Gene Stone present these findings
in a concise and awe-inspiring way, detailing a range of surprising
discoveries: that geese fall in love and stay with a partner for life, that
fish “sing” underwater, and that elephants use their trunks to send subsonic
signals, alerting other herds to danger miles away.
Newkirk and Stone pair their tour of the astounding lives of animals with a
guide to the exciting new tools that allow humans to avoid using or abusing
animals as we once did. They show readers what they can do in their everyday
lives to ensure that the animal world is protected from needless harm. Whether
it’s medicine, product testing, entertainment, clothing, or food, there are now
better options to all the uses animals once served in human life. We can
substitute warmer, lighter faux fleece for wool, choose vegan versions of
everything from shrimp to sausage and milk to marshmallows, reap the benefits
of medical research that no longer requires monkeys to be caged in
laboratories, and scrap captive orca exhibits and elephant rides for virtual
reality and animatronics.
Animalkind is a fascinating study of why our fellow living beings
deserve our respect, and moreover, the steps every reader can take to put this
new understanding into action.
Review of Safina’s new book Becoming
Wild
Paul Rauber.
“Critter Culture: How Animals Pass Knowledge Through Generations.” Sierra
(May-June 2020). Rev. of Carl Safina’s Becoming Wild: How Animal Cultures Raise
Families, Create Beauty, and Achieve Peace. Rauber focuses on sperm whales, scarlet
macaws, and chimpanzees.
Elizabeth Preston (NYT). “Animal Democracy: Humans Aren’t the Only
Species That Votes.” NADG (3-9-20). Special sections on
Honeybees (see Thomas Seeley, Honeybee
Democracy, 2010), African Wild Dogs, Baboons, Rock Ants.
Survival of Species
“Survival of humans. “ Pg 3H in NADG
(4-12-20) (from Charles Sisco)
Recent letters by Steve Foster, Greg Stanford and Judy Kittler address a topic
that will engage us all in the future. How do we make sense of a world we’ve
never inhabited before? Societies generate a number of conceptual universes to
choose from, whose primary purpose is to sustain group survival by offering
rewards or punishments for behavior leading to that end. But do any of those that
exist today assure group survival on a planet experiencing unchecked global
warming, ecological implosion and species extinction? We’ve been warned! Nearly
60 years ago, Rachel Carson’s Silent
Spring raised the alarm that human activity is throwing the delicate
natural order out of balance. Twenty-six years ago Laurie Garrett documented
one such result in The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of
Balance. Considering today’s often-employed conceptual universes, what help in
addressing contemporary issues do we get from those conceived around the world
millennia ago that express being in a spiritual idiom? What help from political
philosophies conceived when the world’s population was 1 billion, rather than
today’s approaching 8 billion? Or [capitalism] economic philosophies urging all to commodify the planet and its
resources even further for personal aggrandizement? A common feature of
previous conceptual universes is that they address a specific group and seek to
assure its existence irrespective of—if not in spite of—“others.” If humankind
is to survive into the future, I’d guess the notion of “other” (human, animal
or plant) will have to go.
“One Small Step for
Cow. . .” (Los Angeles Times). NADG (1-10-20). The ”tremendous environmental costs to eating
cows” [methane etc.] led to plant-based Impossible Foods receiving one of the
UN Global Climate Action Awards in 2019.
PETA IS VEGAN
New Film: Test
Subjects. PETA Global (Winter 2020).
How Three PETA Scientists Are changing the Face
of Scientific Research, by their opposition to cruelty to animals in
testing. Visit PETA.org/TestSubjects to
watch the film.
“Stop These Men!
Notorious Experimenters Hold Animals at Knifepoint.” PETA
Global (Winter 2020). Shreesh Mysore and Joshua Gordon by making helpless animals
undergo terrifying experiments. Take
action: go to PETA.org/JHUOwls
“Forgotten Animals.” Good
Medicine (Spring 2019). Four
articles against cruel animal testing. GM is published by the Physicians
Committee for Responsible Medicine. See
“Physicians Committee Is Top 10 Health Influencer in China.”
(Spring 2019).
Meat eating at center of covid-19 pandemic
(from David)
Now Is the Time to End the
Oppression of Nonhuman Animals by David Nibert
At this tragic moment in history, circumstances are crying out for policies and
legislation that will rapidly promote the development of a global, plant-based
food system.
Nathan Owens.
“Tyson invests in Faux Shrimp.”
NADG (9-6-19). “Tyson is making waves with its latest
investment in plant-based foods.”
Claire
Williams. “Groups Doubt Tyson’s No-Abuse
Data.” NADG (3-19-16).
Eamon Whalen. “Meatheads.”
The Nation (June 29/July 6,
2020), 8pp.
Beef for the right wing. For
virility and “’a more pure-blooded race’” we need to eat more meat.
CLIMATE
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Imprint: Hamish Hamilton
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Published: 10/10/2019
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ISBN: 9780241363331
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Length: 288 Pages
We are the Weather:
Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast, 2019.
Jonathan Safran
Foer Hardback Paperback Ebook Audio
Download
Y 'A warning: this is a
life-changing book and will alter your relationship to food forever' - Alex
Preston, Observer
'Since I finished the book I have been following
his advice. I hope others will too. The future of the planet is in our hands -
or rather, it's on our plates' - James Marriott, The Times
From the bestselling author of Eating
Animals and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - a
brilliant, fresh take on climate change and what we can do about it
Climate crisis is the single biggest threat to
human survival. And it is happening
right now. We all understand that time is running out - but do we truly believe
it? And, caught between the seemingly unimaginable and the apparently
unthinkable, how can we take the first step towards action, to arrest our race
to extinction?
We can begin with our knife and fork. The link between farming animals and the
climate crisis is barely discussed, because giving up our meat-based diets
feels like an impossible ask. But we don't have to go cold turkey. Cutting out
animal products for just part of the day is enough to change the world.
The task of saving the planet will involve a
great reckoning with ourselves - with our all-too-human reluctance to sacrifice
immediate comfort for the sake of the future. But we have done it
before and we can do it again. Collective action is the way to save our home
and way of life. And it all starts with what we eat, and don't eat, for
breakfast.
With his distinctive wit, insight and humanity,
Jonathan Safran Foer presents the essential debate of our time as no one else
could, bringing it to vivid and urgent life and offering us all a much-needed
way out.
Meat Is Murder.
But You Know That Already. - The New York ...
www.nytimes.com ›
2019/09/17 › books › review › we-a...
Sep 17, 2019 - In his new essay collection, “We Are the Weather,” Jonathan Safran Foer turns his attention to the climate crisis. Mark Bittman
weighs in.
“Slashing U.S. Meat Consumption by Half Could Cut Diet-Related
Greenhouse Gas Emissions by 35%, Study Finds.” EcoWatch
(May 2, 2020).
TABLE OF CONTENTS MARCH 2020
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2020/03/omni-vegetarianveganaction-newsletter.html
(POTLUCK
cancelled after March because of Covid-19.)
NUTRITION, HEALTH
NAVS
Summerfest
From
Organic Consumers Association
AR
PBS Veg Programs
Ban
Factory Farms
“Right
to Harm” documentary (fecal dust)
“Taking
Beef Out of Burgers”
Plant-based
Foods Increasing
PETA’s
Veg. Recipes
PROTECTION OF ANIMALS
President
of PETA’s New Book: Animalkind
“End
Speciesism. Go Vegan”
Pigs
Are Individuals Too
Animal
Leather Down, Vegan Up
“Chicken
Slaughter Speed-Up”
CLIMATE
Cut
Back on Meat
Organic
Consumers
Novels
about Climate Catastrophe: Jonathan Foer
Big
Tech Can Save Us?
February
2020 Vegetarian Potluck and Newsletter
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