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VEGETARIAN ACTION NEWSLETTER #26, February 10, 2016.
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; #8, June 11, 2014; #9 July 9, 2014; #10, August
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#14, December 10, 2014; #15, January 14, 2015; #16, Feb. 11, 2015; #17, March
11, 2015; #18, April 8, 2015; #19, June 10, 2015; #20, August 12, 2015; #21,
September 9, 2015; #22, Oct. 14, 2015; #23, Nov. ; # 24, Dec. 9, 2015; #25, Jan. 13,
2016). Thank you Marc.
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Wed - 6:00 pm @ OMNI
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Wednesday.. We want to meet you, at a place and time where you can talk
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Wednesday, February 10, everyone is invited to our potluck to enjoy vegetarian cuisine and discuss
vegetarian issues. This newsletter
especially focuses on the significant connections of
vegetarianism/veganism to education, industrial meat production, , nutrition,
animal rights, overpopulation, wars, the 6th extinction, and most of
all, to which all other factors either contribute or resist, the catastrophe of climate
change. As in all of OMNI’s activities, we seek a culture
of peace, justice, and ecology, to make the changes necessary to end wars and
slow warming.
Vegetarian
Potluck starts at 6, and CCL at 7. If you wish, provide your recipe, or
at least its name and main ingredients. Make a special sign or
announcement if your dish is vegan or gluten free.
As always, folks who don't identify as vegetarians are welcome at
our potlucks.
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Contents Vegetarian
Action #26, February 10, 2016
Vegetarian Fare at Local
Restaurants.
The Thai restaurants I am familiar with are very flexible: their meat entrees can be substituted for
veggies or veggies and tofu, and they
have brown rice. And tasty soup. Around $8 to $9. My favorite is Thai Diner then Thep Thai
and Taste of Thai.
I haven’t found the Chinese restaurants I have visited as
convenient, but recently at Formosa I enjoyed its excellent Veggies with rice
(only white and fried). Similar prices
as the Thai. Outstanding variety of teas with special
preparation and endless hot water. Also,
Formosa has a 2nd “real Chinese” menu for special recipes, give it a
look.
What’s your favorite restaurant for vegetarian?
Fun Vegetarian History: Famous Vegetarians and their
Favorite Recipes.
See a review here: http://www.ivu.org/books/reviews/famous-vegetarians.html OMNI’s Library owns this, see me. –Dick
See a review here: http://www.ivu.org/books/reviews/famous-vegetarians.html OMNI’s Library owns this, see me. –Dick
Books Celebrating Vegan
Food and Lifestyle
Ten Books Reviewed in VegNews (Jan. Feb.
2016)
Meat Industry, Brutal to Victims and
Employees
Christopher Leonard, The Meat Racket
Nutrition, Health; Pollan: Eat Food, Mostly
Plants, Not Too Much
Animal Protection and Rights, Compassion:
Can a System Designed to Kill Be Made Humane?
George Bernard Shaw: I Don’t Eat My Friends
Carol Adams, The Sexual Politics of Meat--Vegetarianism,
Feminism, Pacifism
Animals
Agenda, Compassion
for Sentient Beings
Documentary Film, Blood of the Beasts (France, 1949)
Human Protection and Rights (especially Tyson’s Harms to Workers)
(Note: Claire Williams. “Record
Profit Predicted for 2016, Tyson Chief Says.”
AD-G (2-6-16))
Leonard, The
Meat Industry (above)
New
Report from Oxfam: Lives on the
Line: The High Human Cost of Chicken.
Tom Philpot on Ted Genoways’ The Chain: Farm, Factory, and the Fate
of Our Food
NWA Workers’ Justice Center, Springdale, AR: “Wages
and Working Conditions in Arkansas Poultry Plants.”
Climate Change: Reducing CO2 and Weather
Extremes, and Adaptation—Family Planning
A Note and Column by Art Hobson:
The rapidly rising temperature can be catastrophic.
A closely
related book is Overheated: The Human
Cost of Climate Change by Andrew Guzman
(2013).
Population
Guzman identifies population growth as one of the chief causes of climate change.
Books Celebrating Vegan
Food and Lifestyle
Ten Books Reviewed in VegNews
(Jan. Feb. 2016)
CORPORATE MEAT INDUSTRY
The Meat Racket: The Secret Takeover of America’s Food Business
By Christopher
Leonard. Simon and Schuster,
2015. (see below: Human Protection)
An investigative journalist takes you inside the corporate meat
industry—a shocking, in-depth report every American should read.
How much do you know about the meat on your dinner plate? Journalist Christopher Leonard spent more than a decade covering the country’s biggest meat companies, including four years as the national agribusiness reporter for the Associated Press. Now he delivers the first comprehensive look inside the industrial meat system, exposing how a handful of companies executed an audacious corporate takeover of the nation’s meat supply.
Leonard’s revealing account shines a light on the inner workings of Tyson Foods, a pioneer of the industrial system that dominates the market. You’ll learn how the food industry got to where it is today, and how companies like Tyson have escaped the scrutiny they deserve. You’ll discover how these companies are able to raise meat prices for consumers while pushing down the price they pay to farmers. And you’ll even see how big business and politics have derailed efforts to change the system, from a years-long legal fight in Iowa to the Obama administration’s recent failed attempt to pass reforms.
Important, timely, and explosive, The Meat Racket is an unvarnished portrait of the food industry that now dominates America’s heartland.
How much do you know about the meat on your dinner plate? Journalist Christopher Leonard spent more than a decade covering the country’s biggest meat companies, including four years as the national agribusiness reporter for the Associated Press. Now he delivers the first comprehensive look inside the industrial meat system, exposing how a handful of companies executed an audacious corporate takeover of the nation’s meat supply.
Leonard’s revealing account shines a light on the inner workings of Tyson Foods, a pioneer of the industrial system that dominates the market. You’ll learn how the food industry got to where it is today, and how companies like Tyson have escaped the scrutiny they deserve. You’ll discover how these companies are able to raise meat prices for consumers while pushing down the price they pay to farmers. And you’ll even see how big business and politics have derailed efforts to change the system, from a years-long legal fight in Iowa to the Obama administration’s recent failed attempt to pass reforms.
Important, timely, and explosive, The Meat Racket is an unvarnished portrait of the food industry that now dominates America’s heartland.
- See more at: http://books.simonandschuster.com/The-Meat-Racket/Christopher-Leonard/9781451645835#sthash.AUQy02aa.dpuf
Nutrition,
Health;
Motto
of 7 words from Pollan: Eat Food, Mostly Plants, Not Too Much
(actually he adds a 4th injunction: Exercise)
See books on Vegan Diet above.
Animal
Protection and Rights: Can a System Designed to Kill Be Made Humane?
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Google Search, Jan. 23, 2016
www.ivu.org/history/shaw/vegetarianism.html
On being asked why he was a vegetarian: Oh, come! That boot
is on the other leg. Why should you call me to account for eating decently? If
I battened on the ...
www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/vegetarianism
Goodreads
“Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends.”. ...
“A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if
he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his
appetite. ... “If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone .
..
www.think-differently-about-sheep.com/Animal_Rights_A_History_Gea...
Also of great concern to Bernard
Shaw was the plight of animals; he was strict
vegetarian,
anti-vivisectionist and opponent of cruel sports. Shaw became a ...
www.shawsociety.org/Sri.htm
Shaw (1856-1950), Gandhi (1869-1948) and Vegetarianism ... George Bernard Shaw and Mahatma Gandhi
were, without doubt, two of the most outstanding ...
Carol Adams quotes G. B. Shaw often (see Adams next).
The Sexual Politics of Meat : a Feminist-Vegetarian
[Pacifist] Critical Theory by
Carol J. Adams
From Jeanne Neath: Are you familiar with the work of Carol J.
Adams? She is the feminist writer that I most associate with the intersection
of feminism and vegetarianism. Here is an Amazon link to her book, The Sexual Politics of Meat, a classic
feminist work:http://www.amazon.com/The-Sexual-Politics-Meat-Feminist-Vegetarian/dp/1501312839/ref=dp_ob_title_bk
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The Sexual Politics of
Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory by Carol J. Adams. Bloomsbury Revelations New Ed.
October 22, 2015. 4.2
out of 5 stars 33 customer
reviews. See all 9 formats
and editions
The
Sexual Politics of Meat is Carol Adams' inspiring and
controversial exploration of the interplay between contemporary male society's
ingrained cultural misogyny and its obsession with meat and masculinity. First
published in 1990, the book has continued to change the lives of tens of
thousands of readers into the second decade of the 21st century.
Published
in the year of the book's 25th anniversary, the Bloomsbury Revelations edition
includes a substantial new afterword, including more than 20 new images and
discussions of recent events that prove beyond doubt the continuing relevance
of Adams' revolutionary book.
Dick: I am reading the book now and find it opening
into several additional rooms of the Animal Rights Wing of the Vegetarian/Vegan
Mansion. I read Chp. 7, “Feminism, the
Great War, and Modern Vegetarianism,” first, which was so richly informative I
am eager to begin at the beginning. For
scholars and historians of the subject: This edition contains the author’s 3
prefaces, a Foreword by Nellie McKay, and both the original biblio. and books
and articles published since then.
Chapter
7 studies 20th-century novels by women “challenging patriarchal
society” by a “feminist, pacifist, and vegetarian vision.” The special context is WWI when the “endless
slaughter” of human and non-human animals inspired many women and some men to
trace “the causes of both war and meat eating to male dominance.” “The Great War quickened vegetarianism,
propelling it as a movement into the twentieth century and as a subject into the novels of women
writers.” UA’s Mullins Library has a
copy of the book (above).
Animals Agenda Google Search, Jan. 23, 2016
www.animalsagenda.org/
Animals Agenda. At the heart of the
animal advocacy movement is an uncompromising commitment to compassion for all
sentient beings, human and ...
www.animalpeoplenews.org/anp/2012/04/.../the-animals-agenda-archive...
Apr 23, 2012 - Animals' Agenda content during that time was copyrighted “for the
authors,” meaning that the authors retained all future rights to use of
the ...
www.kimstallwood.com › Animal Rights
Sep 8, 2010 - My Animals and Society
Institute colleague Bee Friedlander remembers The Animals' Agenda magazine and
gives an update on its future.
https://www.facebook.com/The-Animals-Agenda-Magazine-173935452...
The Animals' Agenda Magazine. 35 likes. animal rights, animal defense, humane
groups, humane orgs.
George Franju’s 1949
film Le Sang Des Bêtes (blood of the beasts) is one of the most
beautiful and horrifying movies ever made. Filmed in the backstreets of Paris,
Franju contrasts bucolic scenes of fog-shrouded streets, canals, deserted
junkyards and children playing, with the nightmarish events taking place within
two slaughterhouses. Marcel Fradetal’s stunning black and white cinematography
turns the horrific into a brutal kind of poetry that if it had been shot in
color would be unbearable.
Observing the workers going about their gruesome
work with emotionless efficiency is the most disturbing aspect of the film for
me. How much of our humanity is sacrificed for a plate of meat? Franju’s intent
may have been no more than to compose a work of visual art, but as I
watch Le Sang Des Bêtes I can’t help but be reminded of the
fact that France was still reeling from the effects of years of war and in
these images of animals being murdered I am aware of the thin line between man
and beast, killing one is not so different from killing the other. Is not the
abattoir a concentration camp for animals? Is the flesh of the beasts any less
sacred than our own? Or have we arrived at the place where nothing is sacred?
And if so, isn’t that hell?
Outside the walls of the abattoir we watch life
go on, while inside we watch it come to a cruel and bloody end.
For
more go to: http://dangerousminds.net/comments/franjus_blood_of_the_beasts_in_death_there_is_cruel_beauty
For
many more sources simply google Blood of the Beasts.
HUMAN PROTECTION
Everything You Didn't Want to Know About
Hormel, Bacon, and Amputated Limbs by Tom Philpott, Mother Jones, Wed Oct. 15, 2014.
Much of the outrage generated by the meat industry involves the
rough treatment of animals. But as Ted Genoways shows in his searing
new book, The Chain: Farm, Factory, and the Fate of Our Food—which grew out of his long-form 2011 Mother Jones piece "The Spam Factory's Dirty Secret"—the
people employed in its factory-scale slaughterhouses have it pretty rough too.
The book hinges on a rare neurological disorder that, in the mid-2000s, began
to affect workers in a Spam factory in Austin, Minnesota—particularly ones who
worked in the vicinity of the "brain machine," which, as Genoways
writes, used compressed air to blast slaughtered pigs' brains "into a pink
slurry." As Genoways memorably puts it: "A high-pressure burst, a
fine rosy mist, and the slosh of brains slipping through a drain hole into a
catch bucket." I recently caught up with him to talk about the world of
our dark, satanic meat mills, and the bright spots he sees after immersing
himself in it. MORE
HUMAN
PROTECTION AND RIGHTS, HARMS TO WORKERS IN THE CHICKEN INDUSTRY
Leonard’s The Meat
Racket (see above)
Oxfam, Lives on the Line: The High Human Cost of Chicken. Oct. 2015.
TYSON’S
NW Arkansas Workers’ Justice
Center. “Wages and Working Conditions in
Arkansas Poultry Plants.” Feb. 5, 2016.
Low Wages and Dangerous Work Places, Record
Cash Flows
Claire Williams. “Record Profit
Predicted for 2016, Tyson Chief Says.” AD-G
(2-6-16)). “’Solid execution across the entire team
resulted in record earnings, record operating income, record margins and record
cash flows.”
CEO Donnie Smith, where are your workers in your profit and loss? Are
employees not a part of your team, are harms to workers part of your solid
execution and record margins? Are your workers cash flows? --Dick
CLIMATE
Climate Change: Reducing CO2 and Weather
Extremes, and Adaptation
We have known the
facts emphatically for a long time that increasing the C02 is imperiling our
planet. For example, Tim Weatherly in 2005 in The Weather Makers explained how human
changes in the atmosphere will be cataclysmic by 2050 if we continue with
business as usual. A decade later, Naomi
Oreskes and Erik Conway in The Collapse
of Western Civilization: A View from the Future say the same things in a science
fiction narrative intended to shock leaders and populace out of their “denial
and self-deception, rooted in an ideological fixation on ‘free’ markets.” Knowing
what we know about the consequences of meat-eating, OMNI’s Vegetarian Potluck can
be an active part of the global resistance to global catastrophe. Being lukewarm is no longer a choice for
OMNI. --Dick
INCREASING CO2, TEMPERATURE, AND RISING SEAS by Art Hobson, Physics Prof. Emer
Attached is a pdf
report, written by a friend of mine, summarizing a talk by James Hansen to a
meeting of science teachers at Columbia University last year. I was
especially struck by his statement that, during the “Eemian” era 120,000 years
ago (this was during the previous inter-glacial period that preceded the last
ice age), global temperatures were 1 degree C (1.8 degrees F) higher than
today, but sea levels were 5 to 9 meters (15 to 27 feet) higher than today.
Thus, if we manage to limit the temperature increase to “only” 1 more
degree C (added to the 1 degree we’ve already raised it, for a total of 2
degrees C), sea levels could easily rise another 15 to 27 feet due
to the ice that would melt as the planet came to “thermal equilibrium” at the
higher temperature! Thus the decision of the recent Paris Conference,
that we must limit the temp increase to a total of “only” 1.5 degrees C, was
quite correct. I was also encouraged by his strong endorsement of carbon
fee and dividend, and his praise of Citizen’s Climate Lobby. Many lines of thought
now indicate that sea levels will be much higher by the end of
this century: a few meters at least. [Curbing population growth and
not eating meat are other main ways to limit temperature rise. We should be
working on several main fronts at once.
Volunteers contact Gladys. --Dick]
Don’t miss Art’s latest column on warming in the AD-G (2-9-16) giving even more
disturbing information: “Global Warming: A Few Realities.” He
quotes a new study by James Hansen and others on the Paris Conference that the
warming limit the Conference “hoped to achieve is not a safe boundary but is in
fact ‘highly dangerous.’”
A closely related book is Overheated: The Human Cost of Climate Change
by Andrew Guzman (2013). His purpose is to explain how serious is
climate change in order to persuade people to take meaningful action. His argument is that a “seemingly modest
increase in temperature. . . is enough to make the seas rise, food production
collapse, nations go to war, and disease spread virtually unchecked. . . .the
consequences of these changes will be measured in the hundreds of millions of
lives, if we are lucky. If we are unlucky, perhaps billions” (x). “…we are playing with the highest possible
stakes” (3). And the temperature has
risen dangerously and continues to rise.
GUZMAN RECOGNIZES ROLE OF POPULATION GROWTH
IN RAISING TEMPERATURE, CO2, WARMING, CLIMATE CHANGE, and DECREASING WATER
Water is already inadequate
in many parts of the planet, and it may be insufficient in many places we
thought would have plenty in the future.
Speaking of California, “…there may not be enough [water] even if the
population does not grow. Future
population growth will make the challenge much greater” (12). In the Middle East and North Africa “the
problem [of water] has been getting worse rather than better. Population in the region continues to grow,
increasing the demand for water” (142).
Contents Vegetarian Action #25, January 13, 2016
Nutrition and Health
Zoe’s
Kitchen, New Fayetteville Restaurant
Michael
Pollan’s Book and Film, In Defense of Food
In
Defense of Food, Google
Search
The
Herb Quarterly
Animal Rights and Protection
VegNews and Dick’s Letter
Dick:
PBS, “Animal Odd Couples”
Morgan
MacDonald, Vegan Ethics and I Am a Vegan
Deborah
Bird, Stop the Killing
Meat, CO2, Climate
Monbiot,
Eating Certain Meats Is About the Worst Thing You Can Do to the
Planet
Planet
Anderson,
Meat’s Devastating Environmental Effects
Halverson,
Paris Climate Summit and US Exceptionalism and Double Standard
Mogelgaard,
Population Action International
Population
Growth
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