OMNI
VEGETARIAN/VEGAN
ACTION NEWSLETTER #44,
WEDNESDAY (2ND
WEDNESDAYS), January 10, 2018.
Edited by Dick Bennett for a Culture of
Peace, Justice, and Ecology
Forward to help advance vegetarianism and
veganism.
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OMNI’s DECEMBER VEGETARIAN POTLUCK is
Wednesday, JANUARY 10, 2018, at OMNI, Center for Peace, Justice, and
Ecology (2ND Wednesdays). We start eating at 6:00. All are welcome.
You may want to
enjoy and discuss some old or new vegetarian or vegan recipes, to talk about
healthier food, or you are concerned about cruelty to animals or global warming
and climate catastrophe. Whatever your interest it’s connected to food;
whatever your motive, come share vegetarian and vegan food and your views with
us in a friendly setting. If you are
new, get acquainted with OMNI’s director, Gladys Tiffany. OMNI is located at 3274 Lee Avenue parallel
to N. College southeast of the Village Inn and south of Liquor World.
More information: 935-4422; 442-4600.
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, solar panels on roof!
VV IS SPREADING, and OMNI’s Vegetarian Action and OMNI members
are reporting and advocating the good
news. We are advancing the better
future. This newsletter expresses the
belief by the editor that Vegetarianism/Veganism VV is a powerful force for
change when all of its principles are advocated: VV sustains and improves health, the
protection of animals, and the climate.
Who would diminish nutrition and compassion, or increase CO2?
CONTENTS OMNI Vegetarian
Action Newsletter #44, Wed., January 10, 2018
Health, Nutrition
Storey:
Dr. Greger--Up Plants!
Snyder:
Cutting Cancer Risk
Masterson:
Living Longer
News
from VegNews: DiCaprio, Dairy, Russia
Holt-Gimenez:
Food and Capitalism
New
Vegan Food
McVegan
Burgers
New
Book: The Vegan Way
Trader
Joe’s
7th-Day
Adventists
Protection of Animals, Empathy, Compassion
October
2
Can
Animals Suffer?
Alabaster:
Cruelty of Industrial Farming
Be a
Chicken in London—and Here?
PETA
Ads Censored
PBS,
NOVA, “Bird Brain” Skills and Empathy
New
Book on Animal and Disability Liberation
Climate Catastrophe, Opposition to Carnism
Clayton: OMNI Climate Book Forum 1-7-18
FAO:
Agricultural Emissions
Chasan:
Meat Taxes?
Holt-Gimenez,
Food, Capitalism, and Warming
Contents #43, Dec. 13, 2017
TEXTS
Health, Nutrition
Celia
Storey. “Dr. Greger Survives Deadly
Smoothie.” NADG (12-11-17). The author of How Not to Die and the new How
Not to Die Cookbook was speaking in Arkansas last month. His thesis: “the common mortal diseases are
caused or encouraged by failing to eat enough nutrient-rich plants.”
Vic
Snyder. “Increase the Odds: Behavior
Shifts Cut Cancer Risk.” NADG (Dec. 30, 2017. The remediable risks: smoking,
excess body weight, alcohol consumption, processed and red meat consumption,
low intake of fruits and vegetables, lack of exercise.
Mike
Masterson. “Living Longer.” NADG (oops). Reports the research of Dr. Josh Axe
(draxe.com) on extending your life: spend
more time in nature; diet primarily of plants and fruit, moderate quantities; daily
exercise especially racket sports, strength-training, moderate jogging;
intermittent fasting; reading; attending church more than once a week.
Short
world news items from the Jan. Feb. 2018 VegNews:
VV Leonardo DiCaprio invests in vegan food brand Beyond Meat because livestock
contributes to carbon emissions.
US consumption of dairy products is declining, while
plant-based milk industry enjoys “meteoric growth.”
Russia’s first sustainable, meat-free
apartment complex is coming to St. Petersburg.
(VegNews
is 99 percent a nutrition/health magazine.
–D)
Eric Holt-Gimenez. A Foodie’s Guide to Capitalism:
Understanding the Political Economy of What We Eat. Monthly Review P, 2017.
Capitalism drives our global food system.
Everyone who wants to end hunger,
who wants to eat good, clean, healthy
food, needs to understand capitalism. This book will help do that. In his latest book, Eric Holt-Giménez takes
on the social, environmental, and economic crises of the capitalist mode of
food production. . . .A Foodie’s Guide to Capitalism introduces
the reader to the history of our food system and to the basics of capitalism.
In straightforward prose, Holt-Giménez explains the political economics of
why—even as local, organic, and gourmet food have spread around the
world—billions go hungry in the midst of abundance; why obesity is a global epidemic; and why land-grabbing, global warming,
and environmental pollution are
increasing.
Holt-Giménez offers emblematic accounts—and
critiques—of past and present-day struggles to change the food system, from
“voting with your fork,” to land occupations. We learn about the potential and
the pitfalls of organic and community-supported agriculture, certified fair
trade, microfinance, land trusts, agrarian reform, cooperatives, and food aid.
We also learn about the convergence of growing social movements using the food
system to challenge capitalism. How did racism, classism, and patriarchy become
structural components of our food system? Why is a rational agriculture
incompatible with the global food regime? Can transforming our food system
transform capitalism? These are questions that can only be addressed by first
understanding how capitalism works.
Commentary: go to https://monthlyreview.org/product/a_foodies_guide_to_capitalism/
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Jackie Day, Speaker at Natural Products Expo
East in Baltimore
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Natural
Products Expo East Was Packed With New VEGAN Food!
I was asked to fly to
Baltimore to speak at Natural Products Expo East as a vegan
"influencer." The topic? Promoting Your Plants*: How To Successfully
Market Plant-Based Products to Consumers*
Industry insiders want to know the BEST way to market vegan food,
because, ya know - that's what all the big companies are buying these days:
successful VEGAN companies! They know times are changin'! Everyone's going vegan! ou can read about the new vegan products
(including a new vegan PIZZA burrito!) on the My Vegan Journal blog. And stay tuned for new vegan
food at Expo West in March - it will have even MORE!
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The New McVEGAN!
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McDonald's
sells McVEGAN
Burgers!
I have NO interest in
eating at McDonald's, but I'm SUPER happy for those who do! The 100% vegan burger did SO well in the "test" city
in Finland that they've decided to roll it out throughout the country, and in
Sweden, too! “The test in Finland blew
all the expectations out of the water” ~ Staffan Ekstam, Head of Food Strategy
at McDonald’s in Sweden. I think it's
only a matter of time before we see McVegan Burgers in the U.S., too!
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"EMPOWERING!"
~ Academy Award-Winning Director James Cameron
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THE VEGAN WAY keeps getting GREAT
reviews! Even Academy Award-Winning Director James Cameron is singing its praises!
"The Vegan Way gives readers easy steps - and
incentive - to protect the environment and improve their own wellness, through
the food they eat, and the products they buy. It's empowering! We love this
book!” – Academy Award-winning
director James Cameron and Suzy Amis-Cameron
SO grateful for this!
And thank you to everyone who has sent thank you notes to me - and left thoughtful reviews - after reading the book! I really
appreciate it!
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There's lots of
VEGAN food at Trader Joe's for the Holidays!
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New
Vegan Food for the Holidays at Trader Joe's! So much yummy stuff! There's
even a new jackfruit curry and vegan whipped cream, too! Here's the scoop! As I
mention in my book, The Vegan Way, Trader Joe's really is a treasure trove for
great vegan food! They even sell
nutritional yeast & vegan butter!
And if you ask nicely, they'll print out a list of their vegan
products for you right in the store!
(Vegetarianism) Seventh-day Adventists and Health
March 23, 2012 http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/2012/03/23/march-23-2012-seventh-day-adventists-and-health/10575/ “Diet seems to be especially important to
Adventists’ good health and long life expectancy. Nearly 30 percent of
Seventh-day Adventists practice some form of vegetarianism compared to only
about three percent for the US population as a whole. In fact, at many
Adventist institutions, such as the Loma Linda Health Center, only vegetarian
meals are served.”
Protection of Animals, Empathy, Compassion
WORLD DAY FOR FARMED ANIMALS, OCTOBER 2 (GANDHI’S BIRTHDAY). Will you be the first here to teach the
link between farmed animals and Gandhi’s teachings (or Schweitzer’s, et al.)? The question is not whether animals can
reason (they can) or talk (they can), but can they SUFFER (they can).
Nick Alabaster. “Is There Life Before Death?” Fayetteville Free Weekly (Sept. 29, 2016). Denounces the cruelty of industrial
meat system and praises vegetarian-vegan diet.
“Why
Did the Chicken Ride the Tube?” PETA Global (Autumn 2017). London Peta members rode the trains dressed
as chickens to teach compassion and launching PETA’s pro-vegan ad series in 25
stations across London. Do this here:
contact PETA.org/VSK
“Does
This Calf Look Sad to You?” PETA Global (Autumn 2017).
Censorship of PETA ads in NYC and
DC. While DC restaurants promoted “eat
more meat,” PETA was denied “eat no meat” ads on the metro. But PETA is running ads elsewhere—and with
ACLU is suing the DC Transit Authority.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/nature/bird-brain.html
Call somebody a “bird brain,” and you're not delivering them a compliment. But as NOVA
shows, birds turn out to have advanced
problem-solving skills that we usually assume are unique to humans. Watch
astonishing tests of avian aptitude: parrots that can plan for the future,
jackdaws that can “read” human faces, and ... (And they demonstrate empathy. –D)
www.pbs.org/video/bird-brain-xgnj3x/
Dec 20, 2017 - Watch as birds solve puzzles
and challenge our basic notions of intelligence.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/nature/bird-brains.html
Jul 16, 2008 - Clues to the origins
of human language are turning up in the brains of birds.
www.pbs.org/video/bird-brain-preview-vnpu1p/
Watch as birds solve puzzles and challenge our basic notions of
intelligence.
How a Vegan’s Experience with
Disability Is Helping Her Heal the Divide Between Two Movements. Sunaura Taylor’s
new book finds solidarity with blind dogs and abused chickens. BY TROY VETTESE From In
These Times.
Beasts of Burden. The New Press, 2017[DB1] . A beautifully
written, deeply provocative inquiry into the intersection of animal and
disability liberation—and the debut of an important new social critic
... “Sunaura Taylor has written an amazing book that acts both
as an intervention into widely held beliefs about disability and animals and an
invitation to reimagine ourselvesps://thenewpress.com/books/beasts-of-burden.
Climate Catastrophe, Opposition to Carnism
On Sunday, January 7, 1:30, FPL, OMNI’s Climate Book
Forum will discuss The ELEPHANT IN THE
CORNFIELD by Chris Clayton. https://www.amazon.com/Elephant-Cornfield-Politics-Agriculture-Climate-ebook/dp/B017GFVFZA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1512479131&sr=8-1&keywords=elephant+in+the+cornfield
Apparently it is only
available on Kindle, $5.99, but also samples of the book can be downloaded for
free on your Kindle or iPad.
This book is
especially apt to follow Jeanne Neath’s excellent presentation on The Subsistence Perspective, about
changing our expectations of what a normal life is, from one of thoughtless
consumerism to a recognition of and transition to a life of subsistence, with
our demands on nature in harmony with what can be sustained without poisoning
the environment…or our spirits. Chris Clayton is a reporter who
has studied the attempts to legislate action to reduce negative impacts
from agriculture and incentivize conservation practices.
FAO:
Agriculture emissions reduction critical in climate battle Thomson Reuters Foundation (12/28).
UN WIRE, UN Foundation, 12-29-17
Emily
Chasan. “Meat Next on Tax List to Curb
Gas Emissions, Investors Say.” NADG (Dec. 12, 2017. “Greenhouse gas emissions from livestock are
about 14.5 percent of the world’s total,” and global meat consumption is increasing
significantly. (A small back-page but
important report. –D)
A Foodie’s Guide to
Capitalism: Understanding the Political Economy of What We Eat by Eric Holt-Giménez
Capitalism drives our global food system.
Everyone who wants to end hunger,
who wants to eat good, clean, healthy food, needs to understand capitalism.
This book will help do that.
In his latest book, Eric Holt-Giménez takes on the social,
environmental, and economic crises of the capitalist mode of food production.
Drawing from classical and modern analyses, A Foodie’s Guide to Capitalism introduces
the reader to the history of our food system and to the basics of capitalism.
In straightforward prose, Holt-Giménez explains the political economics of
why—even as local, organic, and gourmet food have spread around the
world—billions go hungry in the midst of abundance; why obesity is a global
epidemic; and why land-grabbing, global warming, and environmental pollution are increasing. Further commentary: go to https://monthlyreview.org/product/a_foodies_guide_to_capitalism/
CONTENTS OMNI Vegetarian
Action Newsletter #43, Wed , December 13, 2017 http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2017/12/omni-vegetarianvegan-newsletter-43.html
Health, Nutrition
Ruth Frances, Cookbooks
PBS, Dr. Greger’s Books
Taxing Meat for Health
PETA Magazine (Fall 2017)
New Apps
Vegan at ONF Last Month
Protecting Animals, Empathy, Compassion
PETA Magazine
NWA Christian Vegan Group
PETA at UAF
Farm Sanctuary
Climate Catastrophe from Carnism
OMNI Climate Book Forum on
Agriculture
Taxing Meat for Climate
Tyson Foods and Exxon
Contents of Vegetarian/Vegan
Action #42, November 2017
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