OMNI VEGETARIAN NEWSLETTER #2, December 11, 2013. Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of
Peace, Justice, and Ecology.
“The fundamental idea of good, therefore, is that it consists in
preserving life, in favouring it and wishing to raise it to its highest point;
and evil consists in the destruction of life, in the injury of life, or in the
frustration of its development.” Albert
Schweitzer, “The Problem of Ethics in the Evolution of Human Thought.”
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Contents #1 Nov. 12, 2013
Vegetarian Organizations, Magazines, Books,
Films:
Vegetarian Voice
Vegetarian Times
Vegetarian Living
VegNews (Vegan)
Organizations, Magazines, Books,
Films for Preservation of Animals
PETA’s Animal Times
Foundations
of Vegetarianism
Why
People Become Vegetarians
Nutrition,
Health
Moss, Addictive
Junk Food
Nutrition
and Ethics
Google Search, Food, Inc.
Food and
Climate Change
Google Search
Meat vs. Climate
Peace
Tuttle, World
Peace Diet, Food, Compassion, Interconnectedness, Harmony
History:
Recipes from Famous People
OMNI’s
Library
Contents #2
Declaration for Consideration
Nutrition
Eliz.
Renter, Poisons in Meat
Get the
Antibiotics Out of Turkeys
Ethics
Schweitzer,
Reverence for Life
Susie
Hoeller, Ethical Food
Climate
Google Search
DECLARATION FOR
DISCUSSION
Since OMNI has always affirmed the interconnectedness of life,
the linkage of peace, justice, ecology, good health for all people, empathy
with all animals, and the protection of the environment, and since
Vegetarianism empowers us to deal with the world’s
environmental, health, and humane problems, the Vegetarian
Potluck declares its support for an active role in promoting the values of
vegetarianism:
A vegetarian diet is more nutritious and safer than that of
meat.
Vegetarianism is more ethical than a meat diet, by avoiding the
cruelty and killing of animals. As
Albert Schweizer wrote: “Until he extends the
circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.”
Meat eating contributes to the destruction of the air, water,
and land, and to the production of C02, warming, and climate change much more
than does a vegetable diet.
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PLEASURE
In my first newsletter on vegetarianism (Nov. 13, 2013) I
stated the three main reasons for being a vegetarian: 1) nutrition (keeping ourselves and others healthy),
2) ethics (kindness to animals, ahimsa),
3) mitigating and adapting to climate change.
But there is a fourth possibility.
Maybe the most basic of all is pleasure. One of the oldest formulas for the
purpose and success of rhetoric is:
please and teach. To attract
people to vegetarianism the food must be enjoyable, yes? This argument augments my description in #1
of the Vegetarian Times magazine. The latest no. of the magazine contains only
one article on ethics/climate (five environmental organizations) and one ad
(against fur clothing), while all the other contents discuss food—healthy
and…..tasty recipes: ingredients and recipes that not only
promote health but are delicious. Although the magazine neglects ethics and
climate change, it does show us how to make vegetarian food exciting. Vegetarian food does not have to be bland
to be healthy or help the environment; rather it can be as stimulating as
found in the better restaurants around the world. AND AS WE DEMONSTRATED NOV. 13.
Fennel and pear soup,
anyone? --Dick
NUTRITION
HARMFUL MEAT
Fatter
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Category: Politics
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THE ETHICAL FOOD
MANIFESTO: Changing America One Shopping Cart at a Time calls on American families, agri-business, food
sellers, and government leaders to consistently apply ethical principles to
food consumption, production and regulation. Doing so will help prevent the
extremes of obesity and hunger, drive greater transparency in food
marketing and labeling, revitalize food safety, secure human dignity and
just wages for agricultural workers, and assure the humane treatment of
animals raised for food. [Ms.
Hoeller lives and works and writes in
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Climate AND MEAT
Google Search
Dec. 11, 2013
1.
Bruce Friedrich: Eating As Though the Environment Mattered
May 15, 2013 - Every time we eat meat, it's as though we're
throwing away 6-20 ...cares about climate change to cut back (or out)
animal product consumption.
2.
Eating Less Meat Is World's Best Chance For Timely Climate - Forbes
Apr 28, 2012 - But the world's best
chance for achieving timely, disaster-averting climate change may actually be a
vegetarian diet eating less meat, according ...
3.
Fight
Global Warming by Going Vegetarian | Animals Used for Food ...
In addition, the official handbook for
Live Earth, the anti–climate change concerts that Al Gore
helped organize, says that not eating meat is the “single
most ...
4.
Eat less meat to prevent climate disaster, study warns - The Guardian
Apr 13, 2012 - Fertilisers used in
growing feed crops for cattle produce the most potent of the greenhouse gases
causing climate change.
5.
Meat consumption contributes to climate change - Baltimore Sun
May 20, 2013 - A review of 12000 papers
on climate change in the May 15 issue of "
END VEGETARIAN
NEWSLETTER #2
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