OMNI
VEGETARIAN
ACTION NEWSLETTER #13, NOVEMBER 12, 2014.
Compiled
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Contents
Vegetarian Action Newsletter #13,
November 12, 2014
November
Vegetarian Potluck: Special Guest Donna
Stjerna
Nutrition,
Health
Kathy Freston, Veganist
T. Colin Campbell, The
China Study
Animal
Rights and Protection
Rapper Chokeules
Dick, Melanie Joy, …An Introduction to Carnism
The Story of Emily
the Cow
Dick, Melanie Joy and J.
William Fulbright, Empathy vs. Violence
United Nations Protection
Climate
Change
Cowspiracy, Documentary
Two
Greatest Dangers and Vegetarianism
Dick, To Zero and
Vegetarianism
Recent OMNI Newsletters
Greetings
Veggie Potluckers! NOVEMBER POTLUCK
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 6PM (NOTE THE TIME CHANGE).
Donna here, from Still on the Hill. I am looking forward to Nov. Veggie Potluck as we have missed several due to our travels. Dick Bennett loaned me a VERY interesting new book called WHY WE LOVE DOGS, EAT PIGS & WEAR COWS. I would like to read a couple of inspiring paragraphs about a Cow named Emily that is my new SHE-RO (female hero)!
We look forward to seeing ya'll and sharing an amazing meal with you. Please bring ONE person who has never been, we'd love to meet some new friends as well.
Veggiely Yours,
Donna & Kelly
Donna here, from Still on the Hill. I am looking forward to Nov. Veggie Potluck as we have missed several due to our travels. Dick Bennett loaned me a VERY interesting new book called WHY WE LOVE DOGS, EAT PIGS & WEAR COWS. I would like to read a couple of inspiring paragraphs about a Cow named Emily that is my new SHE-RO (female hero)!
We look forward to seeing ya'll and sharing an amazing meal with you. Please bring ONE person who has never been, we'd love to meet some new friends as well.
Veggiely Yours,
Donna & Kelly
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NUTRITION,
HEALTH
 Ve•gan•ist (vee guhn ist) n. 1. Someone who looks closely at all of the implications of their food choices and chooses to lean into a plant-based diet; 2. Progress, not perfection.
In each of her widely acclaimed, bestselling books, Kathy
Freston has been an empowering and friendly guide to a healthier, happier,
and richer life. Now she gives us a book about our food, our health, and our
environment that is unlike any other in its message. It is a book about
making a choice—a choice that has no downside.
At
the heart of Veganist is Freston’s belief that by moving
gradually toward a whole foods, plant-based diet, we will lose weight, heal
our bodies from disease, and start making the world a more peaceful and
livable place. It’s about leaning into a healthy lifestyle simply by
tweaking our very favorite meals so that they are delicious and nutritious
versions of the things we already love.
Freston herself actually grew up on chicken-fried steak and
cheesy grits, and loved nothing more than BBQ ribs and vanilla milkshakes.
Not until her thirties did she embrace the lifestyle of a veganist— a word
she landed on to describe someone who looks closely at all the implications
of his or her food choices. Freston’s shift toward this new life was gradual,
but the impact was profoundly positive. And she’s not alone; this is a trend
that is gaining enormous momentum.
In Veganist, Freston gives readers ten
game-changing promises that will result from this gentle switch in food
choices, including effortless weight loss and maintenance; greatly lowered
risk of, and potentially even reversal of, major diseases such as cancer,
diabetes, and heart disease; increased life expectan cy and quality of life;
avoidance of food poisoning and viruses; both short-term and long-term money
savings; help to feed the global poor; reduction of global warming;
diminished animal suffering; and increased spiritual awareness and personal
growth.
Filled with compelling facts, stories of people who have
improved their weight and health condition as a result of making the switch,
and Q&As with the leading medical researchers, Veganist concludes with a
step-by-step practical guide to getting healthy and balanced… easily and
gradually. It is an accessible, optimistic, and illuminating book that will
change the way you eat forever. No less delicious, still hearty and
satisfying—just better for you and for all.
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About Kathy
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T.
COLIN CAMPBELL, THE CHINA STUDY
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reviewed with a critical eye, and refuted with data from the original
publication of the study.
ANIMAL
RIGHTS AND PROTECTION
Toronto-based rap artist Chokeules adds some beat 4
those you eat - - - - a plant based diet
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Why We Love Dogs, Eat
Pigs, and Wear Cows: An Introduction to Carnism by Melanie Joy is an instructive
yet easy read. The simple sentences and
the summaries of the preceding chapters at the beginning of chapters make it
accessible to all. And its subject possesses
great importance: How we learn “to not
feel” and why so few people are aware of the causes and practices of carnism
are explained through the “mechanisms of psychic numbing” (19) producing invisibility of the facts of killing
animals for our food (21). Go to: melaniejoy.org and carnism.com. See her
bibliography 177-200. –Dick
Emily the Cow
From
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The statue of Emily
the Cow on her grave
Emily was a cow that escaped
from a slaughterhouse in Hopkinton,,Massachusetts,
by jumping a gate and wandered for 40 days eluding capture, who then found
lasting refuge at "Peace Abbey" at Sherborn, Massachusetts, till its death in
2003. During its 8 years' stay in the abbey, the cow became a charismatic
spokesperson on animal rights and a meat-free
diet.
A memorial named
"Sacred Cow Animal Rights Memorial" was built on its grave with a
life-sized statue of it.
Contents
[hide]
- 1 Escape
from the slaughterhouse
- 2 Life
at the Peace Abbey
- 3 Death
and memorial
- 4 Legacy
- 5 References
- 6 Bibliography
- 7 External
links
Escape from the
slaugtherhouse[edit]
On November 14,
1995, Emily, a three-year-old heifer weighing 1,600 pounds,[1] escaped
from a slaughterhouse in Hopkinton by jumping a 5-foot gate, minutes before its
turn at the abattoir. The cow was said to have been helped by townspeople for
40 days to elude capture. In record amounts of snow, Emily was spotted through
backyards foraging for food. Oftentimes, it was seen running with a herd of
deer, which made headlines in local newspapers. The cow was then purchased from
the slaughterhouse by the Randa family. Meg and Lewis Randa, Life Experience
School co-directors, then brought Emily to live in sanctuary at the Peace Abbey
on Christmas Eve.[2]
Life at the Peace
Abbey[edit]
During its stay at
the Peace Abbey, Emily was visited by national and international visitors and
soon became a representative of animal rights and vegetarianism, forcing many of
its visitors to adopt a meat-free diet.[2]
Death and memorial[edit]
Emily suffered
from uterine cancer (a side-effect of rBGH)[1] and
died on March 30, 2003. A week before its death, Emily was visited and blessed
by a local Hindu priest
named Krishna Bhatta of the Lakshmi Temple, who placed a golden thread around its
wrist and one through the hole in its ear that once held the number tag when it
arrived at the slaughterhouse.[2]
Emily was buried on
April 2, 2003, between the statues of Mother
Teresa and Mahatma Gandhi. Meg and Lewis Randa commissioned
artist Lado Goudjabidze to sculpt a life-sized bronze statue
of Emily, adorned with a blanket and flowers, the Hindu signs of respect, to
stand above its grave. The statue was unveiled on Earth Day.[3]
Legacy[edit]
After Emily's
death, hair clippings from its markings on the forehead and from the tail tip,
traces of her blood, and a piece of golden thread placed through its ear by the
Hindu priest were released into river Ganges at Benares,India, in April 2003.[4]
The Story of Emily the Cow: Bovine
Bodhisattva
Author
House, Aug 3, 2010 - Nature - 292
pages
Bovine
Boddhisatva is the story of Emily the cow that escaped from the slaughterhouse
in 1995. A heartwarming story of a family of vegetarians who during the
Christmas Holiday dropped everything and went in search for an extraordinarily
intelligent, cunning and brave bovine.
More »
VEGETARIANISM,
EMPATHY, VIOLENCE, AND WARS
MELANIE
JOY, …An Introduction to Carnism
Chapter 3, “The Way
Things Really Are,” connects the
mechanisms of numbing and invisibility in all “violent ideologies.” Everything
Joy says in Chap. 3 regarding the cruelty to and slaughter of animals applies
to the cruelty and killing of wars (humans and other animals!). For example, pp. 71-72, perpetrators of
violence, ideologues of violence, surely include leaders of violent nations,
invading and occupying, shooting and bombing, who, like the owners of
slaughterhouses, know that most people “don’t want to know the way things
really are.” The same is true about ending slaughterhouses
and wars. “Naming carnism and demystifying
the practices of meat production can help us begin to see through the façade”
not only of the meat but of the war system. To reduce and end slaughterhouses of meat and wars,
we must witness—we must see and feel
their consequences.
A chief force for
reducing the mechanisms of numbing and invisibility is empathy—seeing the world through the eyes and feelings of the
victims. Without empathy we have a gap
in our consciousness whereby we fail to connect the meat we eat with its
source. “The gap blocks our disgust and
empathy’ (138). Witnessing closes the
gap and makes real “the suffering the [carnist/war] system works so hard to
hide….” “Think about it: virtually every atrocity in
the history of humankind was enable by a populace that turned away from a
reality…while virtually every revolution for peace and justice has been made
possible “ by those “who chose to bear witness.” “Because mass witnessing is the single
greatest threat to carnism, the entire system is organized around preventing
this process. . . .” (139).
The rest of the
book hammers this nail against whitewashing, covering-up, softening,
deflecting, distracting from the truth, lying.
See Chap. 5, “The Mythology of Meat: Justifying Carnism,” Chap. 6,
“Internalized Carnism,” and Chap. 7, “From Carnism to Compassion.” Everything said applies to all systems of
mass killing.
I taught at the University of Arkansas,
where former Senator J. William
Fulbright was once Chancellor. The
College of Arts and Sciences is now named the Fulbright College of A&S, and
his statue stands outside the university’s original building, Old Main, along
with the Fulbright Peace Fountain. Reading Melanie Joy’s book resonates
immediately with those of Fulbright. He
is most famous for his international Exchange programs, but it is only a main
expression of his advocacy of empathy. The last chapter of his final book, The Price of Empire, is entitled “Seeing
the World As Others See It.” Therein he
argues that “the one thing that gives me some hope” is the education of leaders
who have “acquired some feeling and understanding of other peoples’ cultures”
(193-4). In understanding the mechanisms of numbing and
invisibility, Fulbright adds the apparatuses—the system-- of propaganda. His The
Pentagon Propaganda Machine undertakes to expose how systemic is the
military sell, how thoroughly directed it is at the US public. Believing the public generally unaware of
the machine, he attempted to describe its parts and procedures.
Joy and Fulbright, by
their exposure of violent US ideologies—carnism and militarism--, and their
provision of the great counter-power of empathy,
offer hope for the future. –Dick
Migratory Birds, Fish and
Mammals Get New UN Protection
Agence France-Presse. Reader Supported News, Nov. 10, 2014
Excerpt: "Polar bears, whales, sharks and gazelles were among 31 new species granted new protection status by the UN conservation body, following six days of 'intense' talks by leading conservationists."
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Agence France-Presse. Reader Supported News, Nov. 10, 2014
Excerpt: "Polar bears, whales, sharks and gazelles were among 31 new species granted new protection status by the UN conservation body, following six days of 'intense' talks by leading conservationists."
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GETTING
TO ZERO: NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND WARMING
The two greatest dangers to civilization as we have known it are
holocausts of nuclear war and global warming.
In 1970 the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) entered into
force. It prohibits the proliferation of
nuclear weapons and obligates nations to negotiate in good faith for complete
nuclear disarmament—a world without nuclear weapons. Around 2007 some activists began to refer to
the decade ahead as “Decade Zero” of the climate crisis. Either we change our economic system now and
return CO2 to 2 percent or we lose our chance.
Vegetarianism by its abhorrence of killing sentient creatures and its
rejection of CO2-producing meat eating
makes it a significant agent for the changes needed. --Dick
Recent
OMNI Newsletters (notably OMNI’s National/International DAYS Project)
Armistice Day 11-11
PTSD and US Empire 11-10
US Capitalism and Climate Change 11-4
UN Day 10-24
US Capitalism 10-18
UN Food and Poverty Days, 10-17
Indigenous People of the Americas Day 10-13
Vegetarian Day 10-1
Contents
Vegetarian Action Newsletter #12,
October 8
World
Vegetarian Day
Nutrition,
Health
Healthiness of Vegan Diet vs. Factory Food
Animal
Rights and Protection
Melanie Joy, Introduction to Carnism
Against Cruelty to Animals, Google Search
Peaceable Kingdom, Documentary of the Awakening
Consciences of Farmers
Animals,
Food, Climate Change
Organic Consumers Association, “Carbon Underground”
2 Books,
Advocates of Vegetarianism
Oppenlander, What We Choose to Eat Is Killing Us and Our
Planet
Ruby Roth, Vegan Is Love,
Children's Book
Recent Newsletters
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VEGETARIAN ACTION NEWSLETTER NOVEMBER
2014
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