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VEGETARIAN ACTION NEWSLETTER #27, April 13, 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
11, 2014; #11 September 10, 2014; #12 October 8, 2014; #13, November 12, 2014;
#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;
#26, Feb. 10, 2016). Thank you Marc.
Veggie and Vegan Potluck
Wed - 6:00 pm @ OMNI
A food-friendly event with delicious dishes every second
Wednesday.. We want to meet you, at a place and time where you can talk
with others not only about recipes, nutrition, and health, but about the meat
industry monopoly, care for other species, for the environment, and the
climate. Hope to see you!
If you need to
be removed from this list or want it to go to another address, just reply to
this email and I'll get you fixed up.
Wednesday, April, 6pm, 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.
Car directions to OMNI: Take College to Harold St (at Flying Burrito), turn east (right if you're heading north). Go one block to Lee and turn left. Go one block to Bertha and we’re the gray brick on the corner, 2nd house south of Liquor World.
Car directions to OMNI: Take College to Harold St (at Flying Burrito), turn east (right if you're heading north). Go one block to Lee and turn left. Go one block to Bertha and we’re the gray brick on the corner, 2nd house south of Liquor World.
What’s at stake: “What
began as a desire to improve my health opened the door to realize the
tremendous positive impact that veganism has on the environment and animal
lives. There’s no single life choice
that creates such massive benefits for human health, environmental
sustainability, and relieves the suffering of animals.” Jason Wrobel, author of Eaternity: More
Than 150 Deliciously Easy Vegan Recipes for a Long, Healthy, Satisfied, Joyful
Life, in VEGNEWS (April 2016).
MAY: International Respect for Chickens Month
Vegetarian Action
Newsletter #27, April 13, 2016
NUTRITION, HEALTH
Local Restaurant News
Local Food
VegNews Magazine
Junk Food and Calories
ANIMAL PROTECTION, COMPASSION, RIGHTS, LIBERATION
A Trend Away from Cruelty?
SeaWorld Changes
VegNews
An Undercover Investigator of a Factory
“Farm”
Several
Advertisements of Cruelty-free Products
Why One Cook Changed
to Vegan
New book by David Pellow, Total
Liberation: Oppression, Animal
Liberation, and the Radical Earth
Movement
Movement
CLIMATE CHANGE
Carnivores
Cowspiracy Against
Eating Meat Endorsed by Unitarian Universalist Association
POPULATION
Human-driven
factors forcing regional and global environmental change:
Negative Population
Growth/NPG
CONNECTING THE DOTS, THE COMPREHENSIVE APPROACH
Dick, Vegetarianism/Veganism,
Perceiving Patterns and Systems, and the Earth’s Habitability
Nourish, A Comprehensive
Perspective
Vegetarian
Action #26
NUTRITION, HEALTH
New Italian restaurant in town:
BOCCA, Italian Eatery and Pizzeria
The place was packed and people standing in line on a Tuesday
night. (It’s open only nights.) The menu mainly lists pasta and meat dishes,
and pizzas, but the waiter told us we could replace the meat with another
vegetable, so I think we can consider it a vegetarian restaurant. Everything homemade. Local veggies. I split a pizza with a friend, a “Build Your
Own” for $11 and $1 for each added veg.
So adding five we enjoyed pizza with bell peppers, mushrooms, onion,
spinach, and tomatoes for $16 dollars or $8 each. The pizzas are 12-inch and the sauce
delicious. We brought home half of
it. Two bummers: small amount of wine and
expensive, and noisy, as bad as Hugo’s.
The Thai restaurants I am familiar with are very flexible for
veggies or tofu instead of meat, and they have brown rice. And soup.
Around $8 to $9. My favorite
has been Thai Diner then Thep Thai and Taste of Thai. But recently I keenly enjoyed my meal at the
Thai restaurant on College just south of Township next to La Huerta: soup, veg roll, and entrée sweet and sour, #2
heat, splendid oooomph, all for about $7!
Chinese restaurants I have visited are less convenient, but
recently at Formosa I enjoyed its excellent Veggies with rice (only white and
fried though). 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? For Vegan?
VEGNEWS (April 2016)
This magazine, much like Vegetarian Times, is devoted to the
enjoyment, nutrition, and health of vegetarianism. It’s packed with attractive sounding recipes
and photos.
But it also includes a strong, compassionate article about the cruelty
to animals on a factory farm. The
author, Chrystal Ferber, worked as an undercover investigator on a factory farm
(see following). And on a close reading
I found several expressions of concern for animals in the industrial meat
system.
Julia Lurie.
“Metabolize This.” Mother Jones (Jan. Feb., 2016).
Don’t eat junk
food. You can’t exercise away junk
food. By focusing on calories, processed
food companies are saying “It’s your fault.” But they are packing in sugar, salt, and fat!
Local Food
By
Wayne Roberts on Mar 10, 2016 12:03 am
We usually think of
geologists as going deep, but when it comes to working through the layers of
meaning behind local food, geographer Terry Marsden knows how to dig very deep.
ANIMAL PROTECTION, COMPASSION, RIGHTS,
LIBERATION
SeaWorld Ends Orca-breeding
in captivity and will stop making them perform
Kay and Schneider (AP). “SeaWorld Ends Orca-Breeding Program.” AD-G (March 18, 2016). “Surrendering to a profound shift in how people feel about using
animals for entertainment, the SeaWorld theme parks have joined a growing list
of industries dropping live animal tricks.”
Surrendering to a profound, already existing abhorrence to killing, the
people of the world will drop carnivorism for pleasure?
The
magazine VEGNEWS (April 2016) includes “My Life as an Undercover
Investigator” by
Chrystal Ferber, who “was forever changed” by working undercover on a factory “farm.” In addition to her story she adds sections on
“The Life of a Slaughterhouse Chicken” and “A Day in the Life 24 Hours as an
Investigator.”
The magazine also includes ads expressing concern for animals. On
p. 53: Moo Shoes offers “cruelty-free,
animal-approved” shoes (from the photo of one pair of shoes I couldn’t
determine what it was made from). On p.
55 The Herbivore Clothing Company advertises its shirt with this message: “I
Love Animals Too Much to Eat Them.” On
pp.66 and 68 are ads for refuges—the Woodstock Farm Sanctuary and the Heartland
Farm Sanctuary. On page 69 the United
Poultry Concerns advertises “International Respect for Chickens Day,” May 4 (www.upc-online.org
), and it declares that “the entire month of May is International Respect for Chickens Month!” and appeals to us
to “do an ACTION for chickens on or around May 4.”
And on p. 75 an author of a
vegan cookbook was asked why he made the change to vegan two decades ago, and
he replied: “What began as a desire to
improve my health opened the door to realize the tremendous positive impact
that veganism has on the environment
and animal lives. There’s no single life choice that creates such massive benefits for
human health, environmental sustainability, and relieves the suffering of
animals.”
ANIMAL LIBERATION AND
LIBERATION OF WORLD
Total Liberation: The Power and Promise of Animal Rights
and the Radical Earth Movement
We just came across
this excellent book on Animal Liberation at the recent Animal Rights 2015
Conference in Washington, DC. It features the Press Office and personnel
in several chapters; it will be available soon on the NAALPO website, but until
then, you can read reviews and buy it here:
All
oppression is linked: radical environmental and animal
liberation movements in the struggle for social justice
Total Liberation elucidates the often tense and violent relationships among humans,
ecosystems, and nonhuman animal species, expanding our understanding of
inequality and activists’ uncompromising efforts to oppose it. Through activist
interviews, fieldwork, and analyses of documents, websites, journals, and
zines, David Naguib Pellow reveals how radical environmental and animal rights movements
challenge inequity through a vision they call “total liberation.”
David Naguib
Pellow is a first-rate scholar, and this rich, carefully-researched book
demonstrates that fact. His refusal to march lock-step with any given
theoretical perspective but, rather, to employ a variety of them to illuminate
his data (data from diverse sources) makes this effort all the more impressive.
In numerous places I found myself admiring his insights into a movement I have
studied for decades. Rik Scarce,
Skidmore College
CLIMATE CHANGE AND CARNIVORES
(Carnivore: an animal that eats flesh, comprising dogs, cats, bears,
weasels, and humans. Carnivoral,
carnivorous, carnivorism,)
Cowspiracy:
The Sustainability Secret is gaining adherents. Recently the UUA Unitarian Universalist
Assoc. endorsed the movement against eating animals in a full-page statement in
its magazine, UUWORLD (Spring 2016), praising the film. “ANIMAL AGRICULTURE IS THE MOST DESTRUCTVE
INDUSTRY FACING THE PLANET TODAY” (www.uuam.org ).
See UUA’s www.firstprincipleproject.org
. Not only is eating meat grossly
cruel and inhumane, it is a major cause of climate change. So vegetarianism and, even more, veganism are
major resistants. We can make a
difference simply by eating less animal products and replacing them with plants
(www.cowspiracy.com/facts ). Watch Cowspiracy
now on Netflix and start another conversation in your community.
A local businessman Bob Walker (Flying Possum Leather) is eager to show the film for
discussion at his business and at OMNI.
Contact Dick to help.
POPULATION
Hay, W. W. (2013). Experimenting
on a Small Planet. Preface p. x. Heidelberg:
Springer.
Four human-driven factors are forcing regional and global environmental change:
Four human-driven factors are forcing regional and global environmental change:
1. Increasing
levels of atmospheric greenhouse gases;
2. Clearing
forests for agriculture and construction of buildings and roads on a scale that
affects the amount of the sun’s energy reflected or absorbed by our planet;
3. Replacement
of plants that freely transpire and return water to the atmosphere by
water-conserving plants that grow faster and now form the basis for our food
supply in many parts of the world; and
4. Mining
of minerals and extraction of petroleum with concomitant release of nutrients
and poisonous materials into the environment.
[ 5. and 6. Industrial agriculture in general, and
industrial animal agriculture especially, as well as military impacts could be
added to this list as #5 and #6. Both
of these institutions are top consumers of fossil fuels, in addition to various
forms of water, air, and soil pollution they entail.]
All of the above SIX factors are closely related to the growth of the human population
of the planet, the development of civilization, and the need for
increasing food supplies.
Another
schema: “Whether the tide of human and ecological nutrition
affairs can be turned in the diminishing time-frame available before habitable
ecosystem collapse occurs, depends above all on four factors. One is
slowing, stopping and reversing population growth. Two is arresting ecosystem
destruction, particularly that caused by energy production at the cost of food
and water security. Three is better strategies to resolve conflict, including
agreement to meet basic needs in less materialistic ways. Four is providing
satisfying and productive livelihoods in all populations and communities.” Nourish Network news.nourishnet@gmail.com
2-16-16
Negative Population Growth, Inc. (NPG) is a national nonprofit
membership organization with over 30,000 members. It was founded in 1972 to
educate the American public and political leaders regarding the devastating
effects of overpopulation on our environment, resources, and standard of
living. We believe that our nation is already vastly overpopulated in terms of
the long-range carrying capacity of its resources and environment.
Negative Population Growth, Inc. (NPG) is a national nonprofit membership organization. It was founded
in 1972 to educate the American public and political leaders about the
devastating effects of overpopulation on our environment, resources and
standard of living. We believe that our nation is already vastly overpopulated
in terms of the long-range carrying capacity of its resources and environment.
We urgently need, therefore, a National Population Policy with the goal of eventually stabilizing our population at a sustainable level, far below today's. after an interim period of negative growth.
Most politicians, big business and its supporting economists call for growth as a solution to all our problems. Apparently, they believe in perpetual growth, which is a mathematical absurdity on a finite planet. There must be limits. Science is demonstrating that human population and consumption in the United States and the world are already too large and are destroying the natural systems that support us. We must not simply stop population growth; we must turn it around.
Since 1972, NPG has been making that case. We do not simply identify the problems, we propose solutions.
We urgently need, therefore, a National Population Policy with the goal of eventually stabilizing our population at a sustainable level, far below today's. after an interim period of negative growth.
Most politicians, big business and its supporting economists call for growth as a solution to all our problems. Apparently, they believe in perpetual growth, which is a mathematical absurdity on a finite planet. There must be limits. Science is demonstrating that human population and consumption in the United States and the world are already too large and are destroying the natural systems that support us. We must not simply stop population growth; we must turn it around.
Since 1972, NPG has been making that case. We do not simply identify the problems, we propose solutions.
A New
Series: We are introducing a new series of articles under the title The
President's Column. As they appear the articles will be listed chronologically
in this section "News and Commentary".
An Introduction to the President’s Column
by Don Mann, President, NPG, Inc.
Since NPG was founded over 40 years ago I have been convinced that NPG at bottom is an economic theory: namely, that our goal should be to maximize per capita income and wealth for all, in a way that would be sustainable for the very long term, and that the only way to achieve that goal is by a negative rate of population growth until our economy has been reduced to a sustainable size.
Read More.
An Introduction to the President’s Column
by Don Mann, President, NPG, Inc.
Since NPG was founded over 40 years ago I have been convinced that NPG at bottom is an economic theory: namely, that our goal should be to maximize per capita income and wealth for all, in a way that would be sustainable for the very long term, and that the only way to achieve that goal is by a negative rate of population growth until our economy has been reduced to a sustainable size.
Read More.
In the Peace, Justice, and
Ecology Movement Connecting the Dots.
The Food System is Not Random.
And it’s no new
discovery. Paul Kennedy in his 1993 Preparing
for the Twenty-First Century urged a thorough overhaul of education, not for
competition in the global economy but to stop the decline in the habitability
of the earth. In his Introduction to his
1994 Earth in Mind David Orr listed losses in a typical day on planet
Earth—for example, there has been a marked decline in fungi and amphibians
worldwide. They are part of a larger
pattern, Orr argues, that includes the economic system, education for jobs and
profession, shopping malls, deforestation, suburbs, ozone holes, crowded
freeways, soil erosion, superfund sites, insensate violence, and extreme
weather. That we see them as
disconnected events or fail to see them at all is evidence of the critical
failure of education to enable people to perceive
patterns and systems, and thereby to live as whole persons. We must learn to think about ecological
patterns, systems of causation, and the long-term effects of human actions,
they taught us over 20 years ago. Our
inability to understand broad patterns, multifarious causes, and enduring
effects are already manifested as species extinction, enormous gap between rich
and poor, pollution, social decay, poverty, and climate change. Vegetarianism/Veganism is one of the counter-movements
to sustain the earth’s habitability.
The slogan Think Global, Act Local has become Think Global, Act Local,
Act Global. –Dick
A COMPREHENSIVE PERSPECTIVE: NOURISH
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These are interesting times. There is now wide understanding
that the crucial determinants of states of well-being, health, and disease
are structural – social, economic, political, environmental. Also, that the
welfare of the human species depends on protection of the whole living and
physical worlds of which humans are custodians. Such insights explain the
commitment of so many people to Nourish.
These times right now are for us with Nourish also
a little bit frustrating, with so much news needing to be understood from the
point of view of nourishment. But we will be on line soon. We recommend Carbonating the World from the Center for Science
in the Public Interest, co-written by Nourish advisor CSPI
director Michael Jacobson, on the deep penetration by the transnational soda
manufacturers of Asia, Africa and Latin America.
We at Nourish welcome the broad-minded view
of The Lancet and its dynamic editor Richard Horton, as for
example in a recent editorial: ‘Current approaches don’t work. Obesity is the
result of an obesogenic environment maintained by large global food and drink
companies with a vested interest to provide ultra-processed, energy-dense,
nutrient-poor food as cheaply as possible. Obesity prevention and treatment
needs urgent, serious, and multifaceted action, beyond just a sugar tax’.
Also, we are thrilled by publication now, on 17 February,
of the Pan American Health Organization nutrient profile system, part of the PAHO campaign to check
and reverse childhood obesity, which has the personal support of PAHO
director Carissa Etienne. Leaders of this work include Nourish editorial team
members Ricardo Uauy, Carlos Monteiro and Enrique Jacoby.
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Who we are: Mark
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Mark (left) at Monash University,
Australia. He is next to his mentor Basil Hetzel, whose leadership has
protected lives and prevented deaths of countless children from iodine
deficiency disorders and diseases. On the right is Tony McMichael,
environmentalist and champion of knowledge, decision and action to stop
human-caused climate disruption
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Mark Wahlqvist is a former president of the International
Union of Nutritional Sciences. An Australian, he holds professorial chairs at
Monash University, Australia, and the University of Zhejiang at Hangzhou,
China. He is founder-editor of the Asia-Pacific Journal of Clinical
Nutrition. A signatory of the Giessen Declaration, for many
years he has advocated eco-nutrition. He is a member of the steering group
responsible for Nourish.
Positive vision for this century
I envision a more peaceful and sustainable planet where most are healthy most of the time For this to be at all likely, we need to understand that we are ’ecological creatures’ and conduct our lives, livelihoods and recreation, accordingly.
Above all there is a pressing need to define and achieve
positive good health and well-being, whose determinants include personal and
community security; basic needs met; avoidance of want; secure livelihoods;
secure values; scope to hope and dream; and access to information. Also
needed are stable and respectful social structures; essential infrastructure
for hygiene, health care, education, transport, communication; localities
with ecological integrity; and health literacy and resourcefulness.
Whether the tide of human and ecological nutrition affairs can
be turned in the diminishing time-frame available before habitable ecosystem
collapse occurs, depends above all on four factors. One is slowing,
stopping and reversing population growth. Two is arresting ecosystem destruction, particularly
that caused by energy production at the cost of food and water security.
Three is better strategies to resolve conflict, including
agreement to meet basic needs in less materialistic ways. Four is providing
satisfying and productive livelihoods in all populations and communities.
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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 has been Thai Diner then Thep Thai and Taste of
Thai. But recently I keenly enjoyed my meal
at the Thai restaurant on College just south of Township next to La
Huerta: soup, veg roll, and entrée sweet
and sour, #2 heat, splendid seasonings oooomph, all for about $7.
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 though). 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.
END OMNI VEGETARIAN ACTION NEWSLETTER #27,
April 13, 2016
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