OMNI
VEGETARIAN ACTION
NEWSLETTER #8, June 11 , 2014.
Compiled by Dick
Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology. (#4 Feb. 12, 2014; #5 March 12, 2014; #6 April 9, 2014; #7 May
14, 2014).
What’s at Stake:
This newsletter is divided into three closely related parts: I. Nutrition and Health; II. Animal Rights
and Human Obligations; and III.
Increasing Global C02, Warming, and Extreme Weather. Global warming and population/consumption
increases require a keener, more serious and realistic campaign for feeding the
people and animals of the planet. The
demands and stresses upon people will mean increasing and worse stresses upon
animals. A global future of increasing
C02, warming, and more extreme and
intense weather is certain. Their impact
upon food production for a still rapidly increasing 7 billion—soon to be 9
billion—people and for all their animals can only be vaguely estimated, but it
is sure to be horrendous and at places catastrophic. Because preparation for that future has hardly
begun because of so many ill-educated, denying, wishful-thinking, escapist
leaders, particularly Republicans, the people must be responsible for building
capable affirmative government. Dick
OMNI Newsletters
Index:
See: Animal Cruelty, Animal Rights, Empathy/Compassion, Ecology,
Health, Global Warming/Causes, Violence, Wars for starters.
Nos.
4-7 at end
Contents
Vegetarian Action #8
Nutrition, Toxics
Abel
Tomlinson, Talk on Factory Meat at Anti-Monsanto Rally
Nanotechnology-based
Foods, Metal in Foods
McMillan,
Chlorine in Chicken
Datz, See
Below in Warming
Animal Rights and Human Obligations
Protecting
Bees
Pinches and
McDaniel, Christian Approaches to Animal Welfare
Google Search
Global Warming, Climate Change, World
Crisis
Dick, Review of Paskal’s Global
Warring, Global Contexts for Food for All
Datz, C02
Harms Food
Preventive Initiatives
Around the World
Sarich, Urban
Gardens Have Several Advantages
Zeese and
Flowers, New Environment Movement Seeking Bold Actions
NUTRITION,
HEALTH
THANKS
TO ABEL TOMLINSON FOR HIS TALK ON FACTORY FOOD
good morning AT
Your talk May 24th during the recent
March Against Monsanto rally here about the dangers of consuming meat from factory farm raised chickens (or
pigs or beef) that this region has become internationally famous for was right
on target. Local activists are raising some related environmental degradation
issues as they battle to shut down the pig Concentrated Animal Feeding
Operation (CAFO) in the watershed of the Buffalo River in Newton Co.
I would hope that this anti-CAFO effort can expand its educational focus to include the issue of how dangerously unhealthy the US model of animal meat production for human consumption is in addition to how completely inhumane this practice is to the animals.
A tall order I understand but by completing the picture it makes a more compelling argument for the disastrous consequences on so many fronts of following this Big Ag unsustainable profit driven model.
I would hope that this anti-CAFO effort can expand its educational focus to include the issue of how dangerously unhealthy the US model of animal meat production for human consumption is in addition to how completely inhumane this practice is to the animals.
A tall order I understand but by completing the picture it makes a more compelling argument for the disastrous consequences on so many fronts of following this Big Ag unsustainable profit driven model.
david d for Peoples' Action for a Safe Environment (PASE)
It turns out
that if you break common substances like silver and nickel into really, really
tiny particles—measured in nanometers, which are billionths of a meter—they
behave in radically different ways.
According to the
Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies, there are more than 1,600
nanotechnology-based consumer products on the market today, including 96 food
items currently on US grocery shelves. Examples include brands of Greek yogurt,
soy milk, and Kraft's iconic American Cheese Singles. [READ MORE]
Chlorine in Your Chicken: Why Poultry Is More Dangerous Than
Ever
Tracie McMillan, OnEarth.org
McMillan writes: "Usually she packed drumsticks, but whichever part of the bird she happened to be packing on a given shift, the smell was as constant as it was noxious: a combination of raw poultry and chlorine, the latter emanating from the pathogen-killing chemical bath that the carcasses—often contaminated with fecal matter—would receive during processing."
READ MORE
Tracie McMillan, OnEarth.org
McMillan writes: "Usually she packed drumsticks, but whichever part of the bird she happened to be packing on a given shift, the smell was as constant as it was noxious: a combination of raw poultry and chlorine, the latter emanating from the pathogen-killing chemical bath that the carcasses—often contaminated with fecal matter—would receive during processing."
READ MORE
RIGHTS
OF ANIMALS and HUMAN OBLIGATIONS
Bees
Sixty
percent of the nation's managed honeybees pollinate California
Research
sheds new light on the colony collapse whodunit.
Two
studies reveal how insects are having a harder time pollinating essential food
cro
Christian Debate Over Human
Obligations to Animals
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ANIMAL
RIGHTS, GOOGLE SEARCH, June 6, 2014
1.
Animal rights - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wikipedia
Animal rights is the idea that some,
or all, non-human animals are entitled to the possession of their own lives,
and that their most basic interests – such as an ...
Telegraph.co.uk - 1 day ago
An online petition has been launched by animal rights activists to ban
Metallica from performing at Glastonbury
Arab News - 20
hours ago
More news for animal
rights
2.
Why Animal
Rights? | Uncompromising Stands on ... - Peta
People for the Ethical Treatment of
Animals
This is an important distinction when
talking about animal rights. People often ask if
animals should have rights, and quite simply, the answer is “Yes!”
Animals ...
3.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA): The ...
People for the Ethical Treatment of
Animals
PETA's animal rights campaigns include ending
fur and leather use meat and dairy consumption fishing hunting trapping factory
farming circuses bull fighting ...
5.
Animal
Rights: The Abolitionist Approach | ...and Abolition ...
Gary L. Francione
May 13, 2014 - The mission of this website
is to provide a clear statement of a nonviolent approach to animal rights that (1) requires the
abolition of animal ...
6.
Primer on Animal
Rights -- The
Vegetarian Resource Group
Vegetarian Resource Group
Animal rights is the philosophy of
allowing non-human animals to have the most basic rights that all sentient
beings desire: the freedom to live a natural life free ...
7.
Animal Welfare Act | Animal Welfare Information Center
The Animal Welfare Act was signed into law
in 1966. It is the only Federal law in the United States
8.
BBC - Ethics -
Animal ethics: Animal rights
BBC
This article discusses whether
non-human animals have rights, and what is meant byanimal rights.
9.
Animal
Rights Coalition
The Animal Rights Coalition's Minnesotans
Exposing Petland campaign demonstrates outside Petland stores to educate the
public about Petland's selling of ...
10.
Animal Concerns Community
Information and FAQs on the animal rights movement.
11.
In-depth articles
Animal Rights by Roger Scruton, City Journal ...
City Journal
The U.S.
Constitution specifies our rights but is silent
about our obligations. The Founders took for granted that people knew what
their duties were. After all, they were brought up on the Bible and
the ...
12.
Animal Cruelty Is the
Price We Pay for Cheap Meat
Rolling Stone -
Dec 2013
A small band
of animal rights activists have
been infiltrating the factory farms where animals are turned into meet under
the most horrific circumstances. Now the agribusiness giants are ...
Explore: animal abuse
13. Animal Liberation at 30
The New York
May 2003
The Animal
Question: Why Non-human Animals Deserve Human Rights ... become known as the “animal rights movement”—although
the ethical position on which the movement rests ...
Explore: peter singer
Searches related to animal rights
GLOBAL WARMING,
CLIMATE CHANGE
REVIEW
OF BOOK ON CONTEXTS OF FOOD SECURITY IN A WARMING C02 WORLD, PASKAL’S GLOBAL WARRING by Dick Bennett
Paskal writes to readers who readers who
understand the facts of warming. Her
concern is with future effects of more extreme and intense weather globally;
for example, Paskal pays attention to India
Thus Paskal seeks to “use the best science
available to understand the implications of the inevitable [climate change] in
order to minimize the geopolitical, economic, and security fallout. That is what this book is about.” “Environmental change” is her encompassing
subject, of which climate change is a part.
Consequently she has read large-scale assessments, such as the
Pentagon’s 2007 National Security and the
Threat of Climate Change, and she studies such problems as “massive population and consumption increases”
which have resulted “in major environmental change” (groundwater depletion,
deforestation, etc.). In her search to
understand the carrying capacity of the
planet, she factors in all aspects of environmental change for global
stability. Katrina is a recurrent topic
“to show how poor regulations, planning, and emergency response [“the myriad
ways we interact with our environment”] can aggravate the crises that will
almost certainly increase as a result of climate change.” Each nation, state, city must know its
vulnerabilities: New Orleans was struck
by a hurricane made disastrous by large-scale subsidence, caused in part by
wetland drainage and extraction of groundwater, and caused also by poorly
designed waterways, faulty levee design and implementation, poor town planning,
incompetent emergency services, and a breakdown in chain of command. Only knowledge of all conditions will enable
us to minimize the fallout; only such knowledge can “create a solid base upon
which we can start to build a sound analysis of what the future may bring. I hope very much that others will then take
a more detailed look at the range of specific implication.”
She divides her book into four parts: I. How the West might be affected by rising sea levels and storm surges, and
how major nations are “shockingly vulnerable.”
II. The importance of
transportation routes and how climate change is changing those routes. III.
Changing precipitation patterns
and resulting national relations.
IV. Rising sea levels especially
as they affect China
Her hope?
If we have some idea of what is coming, we can plan for it.
But she stops short of assessing the
violence, the wars resulting from the dislocations she describes. Coincidentally, another new book engages
these very futures: Parenti’s Tropic of
Chaos.
Rising CO2 Levels Will
Make Staple Crops Less Nutritious
By
Todd Datz, EcoWatch. 11 May 14
At the elevated
levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) anticipated by around 2050, crops
that provide a large share of the global population with most of their dietary
zinc and iron will have significantly reduced concentrations of those
nutrients, according to a new study led by Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH). Given that an estimated 2
billion people suffer from zinc and iron deficiencies—resulting in a loss of 63
million life years annually from malnutrition—the reduction in these nutrients
represents the most significant health threat
ever shown to be associated with climate change.
“This study is the first to resolve the question of whether rising
CO2 concentrations—which have been increasing steadily since the Industrial
Revolution—threaten human nutrition,” said Samuel Myers, research scientist in the Department of
Environmental Health at HSPH and the study’s lead author. The study appears
online May 7 in Nature.
Some previous studies of crops grown in greenhouses and chambers
at elevated CO2 had found nutrient reductions, but those studies were
criticized for using artificial growing conditions. Experiments using free air
carbon dioxide enrichment (FACE) technology became the gold standard as FACE
allowed plants to be grown in open fields at elevated levels of CO2, but those
prior studies had small sample sizes and have been inconclusive.
The researchers analyzed data involving 41 cultivars (genotypes)
of grains and legumes from the C3 and C4 functional groups (plants that use C3
and C4 carbon fixation) from seven different FACE locations in Japan , Australia
and the U.S.
The results showed a significant decrease in the concentrations of
zinc, iron and protein in C3 grains.
For example, zinc, iron and protein concentrations in wheat grains grown at the
FACE sites were reduced by 9.3 percent, 5.1 percent, and 6.3 percent,
respectively, compared with wheat grown at ambient CO2. Zinc and iron were also
significantly reduced in legumes; protein was not.
The finding that C3 grains and legumes lost iron and zinc at
elevated CO2 is significant. Myers and his colleagues estimate that 2 billion
to 3 billion people around the world receive 70 percent or more of their
dietary zinc and/or iron from C3 crops, particularly in the developing world,
where deficiency of zinc and iron is already a major health concern.
C4 crops appeared to be less affected by higher CO2, which is
consistent with underlying plant physiology, as C4 plants concentrate CO2
inside the cell for photosynthesis, and thus they might be expected to be less
sensitive to extracellular changes in CO2 concentration.
The researchers were surprised to find that zinc and iron varied
substantially across cultivars of rice. That finding suggests that there could
be an opportunity to breed reduced sensitivity to the effect of elevated CO2
into crop cultivars in the future.
In addition to efforts to reduce CO2 emissions, breeding
cultivars with reduced sensitivity to CO2, biofortification of crops with iron
and zinc, and nutritional supplementation for populations most affected could
all play a role in reducing the human health impacts of these changes, said
Myers. “Humanity is conducting a global experiment by rapidly altering the
environmental conditions on the only habitable planet we know. As this
experiment unfolds, there will undoubtedly be many surprises. Finding out that
rising CO2 threatens human nutrition is one such surprise,” Myers said.
Other HSPH authors include Antonella Zanobetti, Itai Kloog and
Joel Schwartz.
NationofChange,
MONDAY, 26 MAY 2014
Norway’s Military Does ‘Meatless
Mondays’ for the Climate
|
|
 Liz Pleasant , News Report: The “Meatless Mondays” campaign was
originally thought up to support the war effort during World War I, but now a
modern army is using it to fight an even bigger battle—the one against
climate change. Last fall, the Norwegian army announced their plan to join
the campaign by preparing their soldiers (both at home and overseas) a
meatless breakfast, lunch and dinner once a week. According to the UN, the
livestock industry contributes almost 15 percent to the total greenhouse gas
emissions caused by humans.
|
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Super Creative Organic Urban
Gardens Around the World: Who Needs Biotech?
|
|
 Christina Sarich, News Report, NationofChange, May 26,
2014: Not only are people around the world
capable of growing nutrient-dense, nourishing food that will feed their communities,
even if they live in an urban setting, but they can also do it with élan.
Some of the most creative urban gardening projects around the globe can
inspire us to create our own green space in the city, or add luster to a
space that’s already underway which just needs a little oomph.
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New Environmentalists Taking Bold
Actions and Its Working
|
|
 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers,
Op-Ed, NationofChange, May 26, 2014: No longer dominated by the traditional “Big
Green” groups that were taking big donations from corporate polluters, the
new environmental movement is broader, more assertive and more creative. With
extreme energy extraction and climate change bearing down on the world,
environmental justice advocates are taking
bold actions to stop extreme energy extraction and create new solutions to
save the planet. |
Contact
Your Congressional Delegation
See end of newsletter #6 for
calling or writing the Arkansas
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6-1 Activism, Resistance
5-28 Education
5-28 World Hunger Day
5-26 Victims of Wars
5-25 Lawlessness
5-14 Vegetarian Action
5-6 Capitalism
5-4 Kent
State
4-18 Climate Change and Media
4-16 Torture
4-12 “War of Terror”
Contents #4
Animal Rights, Meat Production, Global Warming, Climate Change, Feb. 4, 2014
Animal Rights
Christina
Sarich, Humane Society and Others Oppose Tyson Factory Raised
Pigs
Prof. Steven
Best, Strong Advocate of Animal Rights, Google Search
Charles
Carnosy, a Christian Perspective Offers Us a Consistent Ethic
Dr. David
Katz, a Middle Position, a Vegetable Diet is Better for Health and Ethics
Warming, Climate Change
Nathan Fiala,
Meat Production and Consumption Contributes to Global Warming,
Climate Change
PETA,
Vegetarianism versus Climate Change
Vegetarianism
versus Climate Change, Google Search
Stress on
Environment: Vegetables vs. Meat
Misc.
International Studies of Emissions: Meat
vs. Other Causes
Contents #5 March 12,
2014 Animal Rights,
Meat Production, Consumption and C02, Warming, Climate Change
Monbiot,
Public Mobilization
Robert
Neubecker, Linus the Vegetarian T-Rex
PROTECTING
ANIMALS (for more compassionate action organizations or for
more
information about them see earlier newsletters)
UUA First Principle Project
Action for Animals PETA
Animal Legal Defense Fund
In Defense of Animals
Best Friends Animal Society
Mercy for Animals
Physicians Committee for Responsible
Medicine
Farm Sanctuary
Yeats and
Felder on Complicity
Vegetarianism
Against Increase of C02 and Global Warming
Vegetarian
Newsletters Nos. 1-4
Contents Vegetarian Newsletter #6 April 9, 2014
NUTRITION
Twisting
“Natural”
DIVERSE HARMS
FROM EATING MEAT AND RESISTANCE TO CRUELTY
Center for
Bio-Diversity: “Take Extinction Off Your Plate”
Welfare and
Rights of Farm Animals, Cruelty to Animals
Conversation
Between David and Kyle on Eating Pork
Rick, Visitor
at March VP: Vegan Outreach, Oppose Cruelty.org, Pamphlet
“Compassionate Choices”
Bernard
Rollin, Farm Animal Welfare
Benson and
Rollin, eds., The Well-Being of Farm
Animals
VEGETARIANISM
AN IMPORTANT CHOICE AGAINST CO2 WARMING
Contents of Vegetarian Action #7
Will Anderson
Will Anderson
Responsibility.” Vegetarian
Voice (Spring 2014).
Will Anderson
Melanie Joy,
Why We Eat Some Animals, and Not Others
“Twas the
Night Before Thanksgiving,” a Book for Children
North American
Vegetarian Society Magazine, Vegetarian
Voice
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VEGETARIAN ACTION NEWSLETTER #8
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