OMNI
VEGETARIAN/VEGAN
ACTION NEWSLETTER,
WEDNESDAY (2ND
WEDNESDAYS), SEPTEMBER 12, 2018.
Edited by Dick Bennett
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OMNI’s SEPTEMBER VEGETARIAN/VEGAN
POTLUCK is Wednesday, SEPTEMBER 12, 2018 (2ND Wednesdays), at
OMNI, Center for Peace, Justice, and Ecology. We start eating at 6:00. All are welcome.
OMNI’s director is
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. Or 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. We’re the gray brick on
the corner, 2nd house south of Liquor World, solar panels on roof!
CONTENTS: OMNI’s
Vegetarian/Vegan Action Newsletter #52, September 12, 2018
Health, Nutrition
Good Medicine (Summer 2018), Physicians Committee for Responsible
Medicine
VegNews (Sept. Oct. 2018)
NADG, Government Consumer Protection
Protection of Animals, Empathy,
Compassion
Morton, Humankind
Good Medicine
Peta Global (Summer 2018)
VegNews
LTE
Climate Catastrophe Mitigation and
Adaptation
PETA Global, outstanding articles on
vegetarian/vegan opposition to meat
Health, Nutrition
Good Medicine (Summer 2018). Physicians Committee for Responsible
Medicine.
“Scientific
Review Shows Benefits of a Plant-Based Diet for Heart Health”
“Unanimous
Passage of Bill Calling for Plant-Based Meals for Patients and Prisoners.” California State Senate.
“Moby
Says Get the Junk Food Out of SNAP.”
Interview
of Dan Buettner, author of Blue Zones of
Happiness. “Eating and Living Like
the World’s Longest-Lived People.”
President
of the Physicians Committee Dr. Neal D. Barnard’s books:: The
Cheese Trap, Power Foods for the Brain, 21-Day Weight Loss Kickstart, Breaking
the Food Seduction, Foods That Fight Pain.
The Sept.-Oct number of VEGNEWS (I’ll bring a copy Sept. 12)
p. 45ff.Remembers
fish lovers with 6pp. of vegan fish recipes: “Crispy Air-Fried Fishless
Sandwiches,” “Mushroom Scallops in Dynamite Sauce” “Shiitake Shumai with
Soy-Ginger Dipping Sauce,” “Thai Coconut Jackfruit Crab Soup,” and more.
Book
Reviews 73
The Vegan 8 by
Brandi Doming. 8 ingredients or less recipes.
Vegan Recipes from Spain
by Gonzalo Baro.
“Get Digital.” Veg
happenings in social media, blogs, podcasts, apps, and more.
“Food
Politics” by Jasmin Singer about Cory Booker, VegVegen, “fighting against
corporate interests
that are undermining the public welfare.” This could also be listed under Protection of Animals.
that are undermining the public welfare.” This could also be listed under Protection of Animals.
Packed
with ads. Like beer? see p. 82, “Beer
and Brats,” all kinds of plant sausages.
Did you know? Guinness went
completely vegan in 2017.
Nature Valley.
NADG (8-26-18)
Deena
Shanker. “Nature Valley Drops Claim of ‘100%
Natural’ After Suit.” Glyphosate
(Roundup) was found in their products.
Thanks to consumer protection regulations by affirmative gov.
Protection of Animals, Empathy,
Compassion
Timothy Morton.
Humankind. Verso, 2017. A manifesto to
encourage people to discover solidarity with nonhuman creatures.
Good Medicine (Summer 2018). Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine.
“USDA
Sued for Suppressing Animal Welfare Data.” Suit by Physicians Committee.
“Celebrities
Help Pass Cruelty-Free Cosmetics Act in California Senate.”
PETA Global: Advancing
the Animal Rights Revolution. Summer 2018.
“Gruesome,
Real-Life Tales of Rape and Murder: Are Animal Experiments Psychopaths?” Visit PETA.org/StopExperiments and tell
Congress to stop this violence.
“PETA’s
Corporate Commandos: How They’re Taking Down the Mohair Industry.” Companies banning mohair.
“PetSmart,
‘A Horrible Place for Animals.’ PETA
Busts Managers Who Prize Bonuses Over Sick Animals.”
The Sept.-Oct. number of VEGNEWS offers pp. 39-43 to non-animal clothing and accessories. “Star
Style” by Aurelia d’Andrea.
LTE,
John McPherson (Searcy), “Tendency for Cruelty,” NADG (8-13-18). Protests
cruel treatment of animals throughout history and links it to the tendency also
“to be cruel to humans.”
LTE,
Lauralee Darr (Mena), “Kindness and Respect.”
NADG (8-14-18). Thanks Karen Martin’s “How Factory Farms
Affect Humans,” protests cruelty of factory farming and how it spoils taste of
meat, and appeals: humans and animals “all should be treated with kindness and
respect.”
LTE,
Judy Dees (Bentonville). “Sicknesses
Aggravated by Some of Our Choices.” NADG (3-15-18). Draws on the World
Health Organization to contrast US sickness to European health because of US processed
foot, toxic air and water, and chemicals everywhere. Impressive letter.
Farm
Sanctuary headquartered in NY State, rescues cruelly treated animals and
educates against cruelty to animals.
Nathan
Owens. “Apply Animal-abuse Policy, USDA
Urged.” NADG (8-14-18). The Animal
Welfare Institute urges the US Department of Agriculture “to follow its animal
mistreatment policy more closely.”
Climate Catastrophe Mitigation and
Adaptation
Fight Climate Change
by Going Vegan https://www.peta.org/issues/animals-used-for-food/global-warming/
Climate change has
been called humankind’s greatest challenge and the world’s gravest
environmental threat. According to the United Nations (U.N.) report Climate
Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability, climate change is
having an impact on every continent, affecting agriculture, human health,
ecosystems, water supplies, and even people’s livelihoods. Many conscientious
people are trying to help combat climate change by driving more fuel-efficient
cars and using energy-saving light bulbs, but these measures simply aren’t
enough.
If you’re serious about protecting the
environment, the most important thing that you can do is stop eating meat, eggs, and dairy “products”.
How Animal Agriculture Contributes to Climate Change
Feeding massive amounts of grain and water to farmed animals and
then killing them and processing, transporting, and storing their flesh is
extremely energy-intensive. And forests—which absorb greenhouse gases—are cut
down in order to supply pastureland and grow crops for farmed animals. Finally,
the animals themselves and all the manure that they produce release even more
greenhouse gases into our atmosphere.
Greenhouse-Gas Emissions
Carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide are all powerful
greenhouse gases, and together, they cause the vast majority of climate change.
Carbon Dioxide
Burning fossil fuels (such as oil and gasoline) releases carbon
dioxide. Since it takes, on average, about 11 times as much fossil fuel to
produce a calorie of animal protein as it does to produce a calorie of grain
protein, considerably more carbon dioxide is released. Researchers acknowledge
that “it is more ‘climate efficient’ to produce protein from vegetable sources
than from animal sources.”
Chatham House, an international affairs think tank, has called
for a carbon tax on meat to help combat climate change. Of course, eating vegan
foods rather than animal-based ones is the best way to reduce your carbon
footprint. A University of Chicago study even showed that you can reduce your
carbon footprint more effectively by going vegan than by switching from a
conventional car to a hybrid.
Methane
The billions of animals who are crammed onto U.S. factory farms
each year produce enormous amounts of methane. Ruminants—such as cows,
sheep, and goats—produce the gas while they digest their food, and it’s also
emitted from the acres of cesspools filled with the feces that pigs,
cows, and other animals on these farms excrete. The U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency has shown that animal agriculture is globally the single
largest source of methane emissions and that, pound for pound, methane is more
than 25 times as effective as carbon dioxide at trapping heat in our
atmosphere.
According to Vasile Stanescu, a scholar at Mercer University,
animals raised by “organic” methods emit even more methane than animals on
factory farms do. He believes that so-called “free-range” or “pasture-raised”
animals are “significantly worse” in terms of greenhouse-gas emissions.
Nitrous Oxide
Nitrous oxide is about 300 times more potent as a greenhouse gas
than carbon dioxide. According to the U.N., the meat, egg, and dairy industries
account for an astonishing 65 percent of worldwide nitrous-oxide emissions.
(Use the N-Calculator to
calculate your nitrogen footprint and to see how you can lower
your nitrogen usage.)
What Other Experts Say
The U.N. believes that a global shift toward plant-based food is
vital if we are to combat the worst effects of climate change. Globally, animal
agriculture is responsible for more greenhouse gases than all the world’s
transportation systems combined.
An Oxford University study, published in the journal Climatic Change, shows that
meat-eaters are responsible for almost twice as many dietary greenhouse-gas
emissions per day as vegetarians and about two and a half times as many as
vegans. The researchers found that the diets of people
who eat more than 3.5 ounces of meat per day—about the size of a deck of
playing cards—generate 15.8 pounds of carbon-dioxide equivalent (CO2e)
each day, whereas vegetarians and vegans are responsible for 8.4 pounds and 6.4
pounds of CO2e, respectively. The study indicated that the dietary
greenhouse-gas emissions among meat-eaters were between 50 and 54 percent
higher than those of vegetarians and between 99 and 102 percent higher than
those of vegans.
Overall, the study’s authors concluded that the production of
animal-based foods causes significantly greater greenhouse-gas emissions than
the production of vegan foods. Many other scientists around the world have
reached the same conclusion. Researchers with Loma Linda University in
California found that vegans have the smallest carbon footprint, generating a
41.7 percent smaller volume of greenhouse gases than meat-eaters do.
When scientists at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden
calculated ways to combat climate change, they found that cutting
greenhouse-gas emissions from transportation and energy use alone isn’t enough
to curb climate change. Dr. Fredrik Hedenus, the lead scientist of the study, said
that “reducing meat and dairy consumption is key to bringing agricultural
climate pollution down to safe levels.”
Similarly, Ilmi Granoff from the Overseas Development Institute
in the U.K. has urged officials to forget about coal and cars, because the
“fastest way to address climate change would be to dramatically reduce the
amount of meat people eat.”
You Can Help Stop Climate Change
The U.N. says that raising animals for food is “one of the top
two or three most significant contributors to the most serious environmental
problems, at every scale from local to global.” The most powerful step that we can take as individuals to halt
climate change is to stop eating meat, eggs, and dairy “products”. Order PETA’s free
vegan starter kit and do your part to save the planet and
animals today!
https://www.vox.com/.../mediterranean-diet-pescatarian-climate-chan...
Dec 12, 2017
Eating our way out
of climate change ... Even so, the U.S. still has one of the highest per
capita meat ...
https://newint.org/blog/2017/09/15/meat-climate
Sep 15, 2017 - To stop climate change, we need to eat less meat ... But if the
aim of all this was to reduce meat consumption, those efforts have failed.
CONTENTS: OMNI’s
Vegetarian/Vegan Action Newsletter #51, August 8, 2018
CiCi’s Pizza Buffet
A regular adult buffet is $6, a child’s
$3.50. You can pick up a spinach pizza
and then pile on all the veggies you want from the buffet. You can also order a freshly-made pizza for
vegetarians at no extra cost.
Health, Nutrition
Wiley Barnes
will reveal more about our edible yards.
Selected Items from “Vegetarian Starter Kit,” Physicians
Committee for Responsible
Medicine
Medicine
Tyson’s Feels Protein-Threatened?
VegNews Reviews
Cookbooks
Summer Issue of PETA Global Arrived Today
Books Defend
Animals
3 Arguments on
Why Eating Meat is Bad for Humans and the Planet
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