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VEGETARIAN ACTION NEWSLETTER #31, Sunday, October 9, 2016.
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be THIS SUNDAY 12 NOON Oct. 9 AT OMNI, followed by the Peace Pole Painting
Party! Come only for the potluck if you wish.
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Contents: OMNI Vegetarian Action Newsletter, Wednesday,
October 12, 2016
Health, Nutrition
Recalling
an older book: Christopher Cook. Big Business
and the Coming Food Crisis
Animal Rights and Protection,
Compassion for Sentient Creatures
The Dead Pit: Animal Deaths by Research
Farm/Food Animal Intelligence
Jainism/Ahimsa and Animal Rights
8 Million Other Animals
Alabaster, World Day for Farm
Animals
Climate Change and Industrial
Agriculture
Google Search
Google Search
Population, Climate Change, and Meat
Google Search
Chicken Industry Price Fixing
Health, Nutrition
Diet for a Dead Planet: Big Business and the Coming Food Crisis
By Christopher D. Cook. The New Press, 2006.
A timely indictment of industrial agriculture’s
threat to the future of food, health, and the environment
“Stands in the classic American tradition of muckraking
journalism. Cook offers an extensive and frightening catalog of the perils in
our food supply.” —San Diego Union-Tribune
If we are what we eat, then, as Christopher D. Cook contends in
this powerful look at the food industry, we are not in good shape. The facts
speak for themselves: more than 75 million Americans suffered from food
poisoning last year, and 5,000 of them died; 67 percent of American males are
overweight, obesity is the second leading cause of preventable death in the
United States and supersizing is just the tip of the iceberg: the way we make
and eat food today is putting our environment and the very future of food at
risk.
Diet for a Dead Planet takes us
beyond Fast Food Nation to show how our entire food system is
in crisis. Corporate control of farms and supermarkets, unsustainable drives to
increase agribusiness productivity and profits, misplaced subsidies for
exports, and anemic regulation have all combined to produce a grim harvest. Food,
our most basic necessity, has become a force behind a staggering array of
social, economic, and environmental epidemics.
Yet there is another way. Cook argues cogently for a whole new
way of looking at what we eat—one that places healthy, sustainably produced
food at the top of the menu for change. In the words of Jim Hightower, “If you
eat, read this important book!”
Praise
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Animal Rights and Protection, Compassion for Sentient Creatures
Contents
Animal Deaths by Research
Farm/Food Animal Intelligence
Jainism and Animal Rights
8 Million Other Animals
Alabaster, World Day for Farm
Animals
COMPASSION
FOR FARM ANIMALS
“The Dead Pit: The True, Shocking Story of the U.S. Meat
Animal Research Center.”
September 24, 2016 https://www.americastestkitchen.com/radio/238-the-dead-pit-the-true-shocking-story-of-the-us-meat-animal-research-center
This week, we speak to
New York Times reporter Michael Moss
about the Dead Pit, a USDA livestock research facility in Nebraska that has
caused the deaths of thousands of animals in the name of higher profits.
Originally aired March 19-26, 2015. Available for rerun September 22-28, 2016.
Interview of Moss on KUAF, Sept. 24,
2016 (instant response and assistance from KUAF’s Zeke Martin, thank you.
–Dick).
For
the original NYT article (Jan. 19,
2015) go to: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/20/dining/animal-welfare-at-risk-in-experiments-for-meat-industry.html?_r=0
INTELLIGENCE
OF ANIMALS
(Stanley
Coren. The Intelligence of Dogs.)
Intelligence
of Farm Animals, Google Search, 9-28-16
www.onegreenplanet.org/animalsandnature/farm-animals-that-are-proba...
Jan 30, 2015 - These farm animals pass up our dogs
and cats in their intellectual ... One example of their amazing intelligence is that sheep
are capable of ...
www.animalequality.net/node/748
Animal Equality
6 Surprising Facts About Farm
Animals' Intelligence. Thu, 08/10/2015 - 01:52. International. We all know how smart
our pets at home are, whether your dog is ...
www.grit.com/animals/farm-animal-intelligence.aspx
These tidbits about farm
animal intelligence — goats that do
math, cows with social skills and chickens that play tic-tac-toe — may surprise
you. ... Pig intelligence: Some folks claim pigs are among the smartest of all farm animals. ... Smart
horses: Horse lovers will tell you that ...
www.huffingtonpost.com/.../cows-are-way-smarter-t...
The Huffington Post
Jul 28, 2015 - When we think about
our most intelligent friends in the animal kingdom, ... an undergraduate
student in Australia, suggests these farm
animals may be ... maze, suggesting intelligence levels can vary
widely between animals.
People also ask
Are cattle smart?
Are cows as intelligent as dogs?
What is the smartest animal in the world?
Are horses more intelligent than dogs?
www.mnn.com › Earth Matters › Animals
Jul 15, 2016 - Pigs may be the
smartest domestic animals in the world. The New ... As National Geographic
reports, swarm intelligence works when no single creature sees "the big
picture." Rather .... I feel so bad for all the farm animals.
www.animalliberationfront.com › ... › Factory
Farming Index › Farming
Studies showing the intelligence
of farm animals fuel new
campaign of reform and awareness. Written by The Associated Press Aug 9, 2013.
There's extensive ...
freefromharm.org › Farm Animal Intelligence
Aug 12, 2013 - Animal behaviorist, Dr. Bekoff explains why intelligence is not a measure
of whether pigs ... Farm Sanctuary's Bruce Friedrich notes this as well.
https://www.quora.com/What-is-a-good-list-of-animals-ordered-by...
Quora
This is going to be somewhat subjective, but I've done a massive
amount of research in this (it's ..... Also, evaluating intelligence by
evaluating animals at their
abcnews.go.com/WNT/Science/story?id=771414
May 22, 2005 - If you could talk to
the animals, would they have anything to say? New research suggests ...
If farm animals are
intelligent creatures, should we all be vegetarians? "We should eat less
... +A New Take on Human Intelligence.
www.themost10.com/intelligent-animals/
May 20, 2012 - These animals aren't that
clever enough to be scientist but they aren't that ... incredible kind of
instinctive ability and intelligence beyond your imaginations. ... I've lived on a farm for many years
of my life, and they're one of the ...
Searches related to intelligence of farm animals
JAIN Religion: Protection of Animals
“To kill any living being amounts to killing
one’s self.
Compassion to others is compassion to one’s own self.
Therefore one should avoid violence like poison and thorn.”
–Mahavira
Compassion to others is compassion to one’s own self.
Therefore one should avoid violence like poison and thorn.”
–Mahavira
It’s no secret that Jain
philosophy is big on ahimsa (non-injury), however does that hold true outside
of their relationship with their fellow man?
According to the Jain
world view, Jiva, or the eternal essence of a living thing, is everywhere. From
single-cell microbes to blue whales, all forms of life are sacred and precious
because every jiva has the potential for moksha (liberation). For this reason,
most Jains are strict vegetarians and even the treatment of the plants they
consume is important. One of the Gunavrats (subsidiary vows), which is part of
the 12 vows lay Jains take, is called Bhoga-Upbhoga vrata which
is a commitment to only use resources according to one’s needs. This sort of
thinking flies in the face of world infected by unchecked consumerism and
greed.
With ahimsa in mind, all
forms of life are viewed as equals and Jains afford every creature and even
plants the same rights of life and liberty most of us limit to humanity. In
this way, Jains have a long tradition of maintaining animal shelters
called panjrapoles in India.
A
diverse range of species are taken in at these shelters. In most cases, the
animals are sick or injured and therefore cannot care for themselves. These
animals are cared for by the entire Jain community, including monastics and the
laity. A veterinarian typically stops by once a week for check-ups. Once the
animals regain their health, they are returned to their environment.
Because Jains do not
believe in harming animals, their position on ahimsa presents a difficult
challenge for these institutions. Many animals who visit the panjrapoles are
terminally ill or injured. Jain philosophy on ahimsa forbids followers from any
act of euthanasia, therefore animals are treated and cared for, but left to die
naturally.
For some, this creates a
tough position. Which is better, alleviating suffering with euthanasia, or
avoiding all violence against the animal?
This is the current
debate going on within the Jain community regarding these shelters and the
greater principles of ahimsa. At what point does ahimsa go too far? If
compassion for life is the most important aspect of one’s faith, is not the
alleviation of suffering also part of the package?
The Jain tradition of
care for those who cannot care for themselves is a noble one. Indeed, the
practice of non-injury might be easy when applied to our fellow man, but it
takes humility and courage to extend that notion to our non-human brethren.
Read more at http://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/projectconversion/2011/11/animal-rights-a-jain-legacy.html#5jfbWf8g2JPX98wy.99
Read more at http://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/projectconversion/2011/11/animal-rights-a-jain-legacy.html#5jfbWf8g2JPX98wy.99
We Are Not
Alone: Listening to the 8.7 Million Other Animals Who
Live on
Earth (forwarded by
Margaret Holcolmb) http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/37826-we-are-not-alone-listening-to-the-8-7-million-other-animals-who-live-on-earth
(Image: Jared
Rodriguez / Truthout; Adapted: orangeacid, Reto Stöckli / NASA )
Space. They say it's the
final frontier. MORE http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/37826-we-are-not-alone-listening-to-the-8-7-million-other-animals-who-live-on-earth
The real news is that we're
up to our necks in a "deep field" of 8.7 million sentient life
forms right here on planet Earth.
And we don't need an orbiting telescope to see:
Social spiders with personalities who sometimes selflessly share food with their
neighbors ... much to their own
detriment.
Humpback whale vigilantes who go out of their way to
stop orcas from attacking
other sea mammals ...
despite the alluring presence of their own main food source
nearby.
New Caledonian crows who make tools like finely
feathered craftsmen and their
brilliant cousins in the Corvid class of birds who have greater neural density than
comparable mammals.
African elephants who shed tears, bury and mourn their dead and their
Namibian
desert kin who pass down crucial
knowledge of
how to survive their harsh
environment.
Capuchin monkeys who reject
"unequal
pay" and
chimpanzees who work
together
to achieve a communal goal.
Pigs who can reason where food
is by looking at its reflection in a mirror.
Baby chickens who acquire
math skills and successfully play games based on
"object permanence" well before a
proportionately-aged human baby.
There are even sharks who worry, goats who pleadingly stare at people
and snakes who,
of course, deceptively act like "snakes in the
grass."
That's right, folks. While
the Search
For Extraterrestrial Life (SETI) spent the last three
decades fruitlessly scanning
the heavens in search of alien signals ... we've actually been
surrounded by a miraculous
variety of intelligence on the only planet we know for a fact
sustains life.
It's not that space
exploration isn't a good thing. Or that searching isn't fundamental to
being human. It might even
be fundamental to being a primate. No, the problem is that
we've been living in
self-imposed exile on a world made artificially barren by science's
three-centuries-long ban
against anthropomorphism. Ironically, this ban has
helped
validate the anthropocentric
idea that humans are so unique that we are, in effect, an alien
intelligence stranded here
on Earth.
Anthropocentrically Speaking
Merriam-Webster defines anthropomorphism as "an
interpretation of what is not human
or personal in terms of
human or personal characteristics." For scientists, it's long been a
"four-letter word," meaning bad science
based on a faulty application of human
paradigms onto non-human
subjects of research.
There are real scientific
reasons to avoid unfounded inferences and personal biases
stemming from an uncritical
anthropomorphism.
And making humans the measure of all
things rarely, if ever,
produces good results -- particularly for nonhumans. But this
methodological aversion to
anthropomorphism meant science not only rejected the
implication that animals think,
feel and suffer "like humans," but it also cut off inquiry into
whether or not animals
think, feel and suffer at all.
The issue seems bigger than
just the supposed scientific impossibility of measuring the
"inner life" of
animals. Instead, it may be that acknowledging the existence of complex
animal intelligence
undermines our unique place atop the natural order. A more "critical
anthropomorphism" that modulates human
inference with testable data is producing
strong arguments for knowing
animal
consciousness,
understanding their emotional lives
and for accepting the
reality of animal
suffering.
As comparative psychologist
Jennifer Vonk told
Discover magazine,
"People want to be
special" and each time
"a researcher finds that tool use or theory of mind or language-like
communication is not unique
to humans, somebody comes up with new categories that
raise the bar."
It's a phenomenon leading
primatologist Frans
de Waal calls
"anthropodenial." It's the
reflexive "rejection of
humanlike traits in animals and of animal-like traits in humans" and it
still persists despite
mounting evidence to the contrary. De Waal collected much of that
evidence himself during
years studying primates like bonobos. They are 98 percent
genetically similar to
humans, they exhibit many of the hallmarks of humanness and they
are famous for the ribald complexity of their culture.
And yes, it is a culture.
But many of de Waal's
colleagues simply won't go there. Instead, they claim de Waal
erroneously
anthropomorphizes our cousins. And they explain away a chimpanzee's
laughter as nothing more
than "vocalized panting." Years of firsthand experience tickling
apes has convinced de Waal
otherwise.
Frankly, for anyone who's
seen the viral video of an orangutan laughing at a "missing ball"
magic trick, this
stubbornness in the face of an observable truth is perplexing. It's
particularly odd given
orangutans' amazing
range of skills,
including an ability
to make
sounds that seem strikingly similar
to those we make ourselves.
Yet, some remain unconvinced by Koko the gorilla's proficiency with sign
language and
her unbridled love of kittens. Many initially criticized
Jane Goodall for imputing
"individuality and emotion
to nonhuman animals," in spite of the fact that chimps share an
amazing genetic similarity
and a warlike disposition with humans. Even Charles
Darwin
was ridiculed for claiming the lowly
earthworm showed intelligence. Darwin pointed out
that humans are animals over
a century ago, but today he'd still face the same
anthropodenialism.
This outdated notion is
based on a fundamental fallacy that assumes our unique form of
intelligence makes us this
planet's only true beings. It's right there in the name we've
given ourselves and
ourselves alone -- human beings.
Being Versus Doing
So, why don't we say "dolphin beings" or "raven beings" and "octopus beings"? Perhaps
because "being"
implies consciousness. If animals are not conscious "beings," then
they
are merely "doing"
by mechanical instinct. But if animals are beings, that creates other
complications: As beings,
they might have an existential right to "to be" beyond their
usefulness to us as a
natural resource, a source of amusement or a subject of dissection.
We've conveniently squared
that circle by believing only humans can truly make
conscious decisions. That's
thanks in no small part to a 17th century philosopher named
Rene Descartes. He's often
credited with building
the foundation of
the modern
scientific
method. Even if you don't think
you know Descartes ... you do. He famously said "I think,
therefore I am." He
also claimed that animals don't think and therefore they really aren't.
How did he know it for
certain? Because animals cannot talk, you silly goose.
In fact, Descartes refused
to believe that even the smartest Myna bird could ever exhibit
anything close to the
"real" intelligence of a human being. Sure, a Myna bird may be able
to make word-like sounds.
But unlike even the "dumbest" human being, the brightest
Myna bird has no real grasp of the
eternal concept that informs the word. Instead, the
Myna bird is just a
soulless, instinct-driven automaton merely "parroting" something
uttered by a human. It's
just a conditioned response to stimuli.
But imagine Descartes'
surprise if he could've met Alex the Parrot, an amazing African
Grey who didn't seem to be
parroting at all. Alex could add Arabic numerals, identify
shapes and colors and say "I love
you" with the kind of heart-warming sincerity we all
crave. And, in an epic
moment of self-consciousness, Alex even looked in the mirror and
asked, "What color am
I?"
Science Is Anthropomorphing
Alex was obviously thinking.
And he talked about what was on his mind. Therefore he was,
right? Not if you're an
anachronistic anthropodenialist. Then you'd believe Alex
was just
giving a conditioned
response and that Dr. Irene Pepperberg made the cardinal error of
foolishly anthropomorphizing
Alex's bird-brained behaviors.
But you'd also be
increasingly behind the curve, because there is a new wave of scientists
at the leading edge of a
polyphonic revolution that's finally listening to the life all around
us. So far, they've found:
Sperm whales who talk in regional dialects with distinct cultures and use specialized
sounds to delineate their
own clans ... much
like a human surname.
Black Sea bottlenose
dolphins engaged in a "human-like conversation" recorded on
a specially calibrated
microphone that captured their back and forth click-laden
chit-chat.
Gorillas who "hum and sing" and Macaques who are learning to communicate with
computer touch screens.
Zebra finches who sing
instructions to their young before they hatch like a nesting
hipster couple playing Bach
to their gestating baby through a "babybump" sound
system.
Highly social meerkats who recognize each other as individuals by their
distinctive
calls that basically
function like names.
Dogs that know when you really
mean "That's a good boy!" versus when you're just
peddling the kind of half-hearted praise that comes after a hurried
late night trip
around the block at the end
of a long, long day.
At long last, science is
finally proving something millions of humans who live with "pets"
have known for years -- that
animals are "people," too.
A recent Fortune Magazine survey found that 76 percent of
Americans viewed their dogs,
cats, parakeets, hamsters
and other pets as "beloved members of the family." Just 19
percent of respondents said
their pets were "well cared for, but still considered animals"
and less than 5 percent said
"pets are work animals that have a specific job to do."
And a Gallup poll conducted in 2015 found that
32 percent of Americans "believe animals
should be given the same
rights as people." That's up from 25 percent in 2008. Still, a
robust 62 percent say
animals "deserve some protection but can still be used for the
benefit of humans." But
only 3 percent believe they deserve no legal rights at all. The legal
revolution is moving slowly,
but it is moving.
Four decades after Christopher Stone wrote his groundbreaking
legal argument "Should
Trees Have Standing?" the push to expand rights
has secured human
protections for
orangutans in Argentina,
classified dolphins as non-human persons in India,
acknowledged dogs and cats
as non-human
neighbors in a
small Spanish town, won
personhood to an entire river in New
Zealand and, most notably, the Nonhuman Rights
Project went into a New York
courtroom and almost
secured two
chimpanzees the same
personhood rights enjoyed by
corporations.
Yes, this is progress. Yes,
the scale of nonhuman animal suffering (at the hands of
humans) is still beyond
comprehension. Yes, people still buy and discard pets like so
much patio furniture while
so many millions languish
and die in pet
shelters. And yes, the
progress feels too slow or,
even worse, too late. But consider the fact that we are
overturning centuries of
anthropodenialism.
This is a revolution in how
we see animals.
More importantly, this is a
much-needed evolution of the human condition. And it's not
just being driven by
progressive scientists. It's also being driven by clickbait. Every day,
amazing animals fill our
feeds on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube. And it's far
more than the millions of cat videos that may be the only thing actually holding the
interwebs together.
People eagerly share videos
of humans and cows snuggling, crows seeking emergency
first aid and whales thanking humans for freeing them from
callously abandoned fishing
nets. We've obsessively
watched and re-watched that compelling conversation between
two chatty cats over 61
million times. And the laughing orangutan that anthropodenialists
would prefer to dismiss as
"vocalized panting?" It was a big hit on dozens of mainstream
news sites and, as of today,
it's heading toward 19 million views in just under a year. And
therein lies the rub.
The more we actively observe
altruism and justice and pain and love and fear and play and
politics and romance and commitment all around us, the harder it
is to maintain a
destructive distinction
between us and them. And the more we click, the more clearly we
see the fundamental problems
of the Anthropocene
Era and its
rising seas, poisoned
waters and mounting
extinction.
The Other Final Frontier
Our growing recognition of
the "inner
life" of
animals is a direct challenge to the idea that
they -- and the ecosystems
they depend upon -- are merely a natural resource quite
literally at the disposal of
human beings. Of course, if Descartes was right, then the
troubling aspects of
suffering, habitat destruction and human-caused extinction are
completely absolved. It also
means the problem of squandering or exhausting so-called
"resources" is
solely a problem of human injustice to other humans.
But the animal-related
cavalcade of consciousness we see every day -- like the viral video
of incredibly cute sea
turtle babies scurrying to the sea -- forces us to consider the
possibility that sea turtles
are not simply "resources" to be preserved so our grandkids
can have a sea turtle
"experience" on some Costa Rican beach 20 years from now.
Instead we might accept that
sea turtles shouldn't go extinct because sea turtles have an
inherent right to exist
apart from whether or not future generations of human beings will
be able to "enjoy"
the existence of sea turtles.
And if we finally start to
listen to the other "twitter feed" here on Earth, we might actually
learn something about
cohabitation from the amazing interspecies conversations
happening around us.
Scientists are finding that various species learn to heed the calls,
track the cries and listen
to the songs of the other species who share their habitat. They
actually learn from
each other because they listen. They are not alone.
This is the final frontier
we should all be exploring with ever greater urgency.
We'd better start soon
because the messages filling our collective inbox tell us loudly and
clearly that we're all
heading for a mass
catastrophe.
And migrating animals are telling us
with increasingly apparent
non-verbal communication that we're warming the planet
faster than they can adapt
to it and faster than our collective home can reasonably
absorb.
And like the Zebra finches
singing preparatory lessons about climate change to their still
incubating chicks, our
cohabitants are telling us loudly and clearly that we're imperiling
the only truly habitable
planet the universe has yet to offer to us. So, while SETI falsely
excites us with our own messages
reverberating off our own satellites, we should be
paying ever closer attention
to the good news that we are not alone after all ... at least, not
yet.
Nick Alabaster. “Is There Life Before Death?” Free
Weekly (September 29, 2016). Alabaster
judges widespread cruelty in the animal industry from the perspective of World
Day for Farmed Animals, October 2, Gandhi’s birthday.
Global Warming, US Deregulated Capitalism, Industrial Agriculture,
Population, Consumption, Growth
Population, Consumption, Growth
Google
Search, October 6, 2016
https://www.ecoliteracy.org/.../industrial-agricultur...
Center for Ecoliteracy
Feb 11, 2015 - Today it is becoming
more and more evident that the major problems of our time — energy, the
environment, climate change, food security, ...
www.columbia.edu/.../Lin%20et%20al.%202011.pd...Columbia University
by BB Lin - Cited by 32 -
Related articles
Mar 11, 2011 - Effects of industrial agriculture on climate change and the
mitigation potential of small-scale agro-ecological farms. Brenda B. Lin1, M.
Jahi ...
www.ucsusa.org/...agriculture/.../industrial...
Union of Concerned Scientists
Industrial agriculture was sold to the
public as a technological miracle that ... 2016; Soil Carbon Can't Fix Climate Change By Itself—But It
Needs to Be Part of the ...
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Industrial agriculture pollutes air,
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details. Public Health.
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Via Campesina
Nov 20, 2015 - Climate change and agrofuels. An International Farmers Alliance LinksClimate Change to Industrial Agriculture. Details: Published
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Miscellaneous
Deena
Shanker (Bloomberg News), “Lawsuits Accuse Chicken Industry of Price
Fixing.” NADG (Oct. 2, 2016).
The following goes at end
Contents: OMNI Vegetarian
Action Newsletter, September 14, 2016.
Vegetarian
and Vegan Organizations
Health,
Nutrition
Animal
Rights and Protection, Compassion for Sentient Creatures
Global
Warming, Industrial Agriculture, Population, Consumption, Growth
VEGETARIAN
AND VEGAN ORGANIZATIONS
Looking Ahead to October 1,
Vegetarian Day, October Vegetarian Month
World Vegetarian Day - NAVS:
North American Vegetarian Sociiety
Vegetarian Resource
Group, Vegetarian
Journal
Vegnews
Magazine
Top Vegan Blogs
Health,
Nutrition
3 Vegan Cookbooks
Mark Hawthorne’s Book vs. Industrial
Food System
Oatman, Too Much Protein
Animal
Rights and Protection, Compassion for Sentient Creatures
Dick: Truck Hauling Chickens Turns
Over
Tyson Fires 10 Lowest Level Workers
for Chicken Abuse
Green Party Has Animal Rights
Committee
Two Books by Mark Hawthorne: A Vegan Ethic and Animal Suffering
Book from Humane Society
Center for Biological
Diversity: Meat Industry and USDA v.
Wild Animals
Global
Warming, Industrial Agriculture, Population, Consumption, Growth
Lolly Tindol and Jeanne Neath on
Industrial Agriculture
Jeanne Neath on Small Scale Farming
Cooling the Earth
Gary Gardner in There Is Still Time!
Scott McNall, Rapid Climate Change
Dauvergne, The Shadows of Consumption
Center for Biological Diversity:
Wildlife, Population, Climate
Growth
OMNI Growth Newsletters #3 was published July 10, 2016.
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