OMNI
VEGETARIAN/VEGAN
ACTION NEWSLETTER,
WEDNESDAY (2ND
WEDNESDAYS), JULY 10, 2019.
Edited by Dick Bennett
for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology
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This Newsletter is about food and its
consequences in 3 categories: health, animals, and climate. Tell people about OMNI, our Veg Potluck and
its comprehensive message, and Newsletter.
OMNI’s JULY VEGETARIAN/VEGAN POTLUCK (NEWSLETTER #60), is
Wednesday, JULY 10, 2019 (2ND Wednesdays), at OMNI, Center for
Peace, Justice, and Ecology. We start
eating at 6:00. All are welcome
to the experience of eating together and becoming better informed for a
healthier and safer life for all sentient beings and for the atmosphere.
CONTENTS
HEALTH, NUTRITION
Vegan Instant Pot Cookbook
Good Medicine. Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
UAMS
Ad: Eat More Color
AGAINST CARNIVORISM, PROTECTING FARM ANIMALS TOO
The
Fate of Food
New Plant-based Foods”
PETA Campaign to Replace Idioms That
Evoke Harming Animals
“’Dog’ BBQ Sparks Debate.” PETA Global. Spring 2019.
“Hooray! Greggs, Carl’s Jr. Add Vegan Options.” PETA Global. Spring 2019.
Nathan Owens.
ADG. “Tyson Debuts Its First Meat Substitute.” NADG
6-14-19.
ADG Staff.
“Beyond Meat Opens Big with IPO.”
NADG (5-3-19).
Dick’s
Letter to Best Friends Animal Society
AGAINST EXTREME WEATHER, DEFENDING THE CLIMATE
Google
Search, Vegetarianism and Climate Change
TEXTS
HEALTH, NUTRITION
Nisha Vora. The
Vegan Instant Pot Cookbook
Wholesome, Indulgent Plant-Based Recipes Made in the Instant Pot.
A vibrant authorized vegan Instant Pot
cookbook from the creator of the popular blog RainbowPlantLife.
“With food and photos as colorful, joyous, and wholesome as the title of her blog, RainbowPlantLife, suggests, Nisha Vora shares recipes with 240k+ Instagram followers daily. Now, in her debut cookbook, she offers up more than 90 nourishing recipes to achieve the nutritious (and colorful!) food she's known for with the magic of the widely-popular Instant Pot electric cooker. In a book that includes a comprehensive guide to the Instant Pot and all its functions, you too can taste the rainbow with a full repertoire of vegan dishes, including Nisha's Pulled BBQ.”
“With food and photos as colorful, joyous, and wholesome as the title of her blog, RainbowPlantLife, suggests, Nisha Vora shares recipes with 240k+ Instagram followers daily. Now, in her debut cookbook, she offers up more than 90 nourishing recipes to achieve the nutritious (and colorful!) food she's known for with the magic of the widely-popular Instant Pot electric cooker. In a book that includes a comprehensive guide to the Instant Pot and all its functions, you too can taste the rainbow with a full repertoire of vegan dishes, including Nisha's Pulled BBQ.”
Good Medicine, the vev/vegan magazine published by the
Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (Summer 2019), just arrived, as
usual packed with news about nutrition.
This number features “Chicken: the Most Contaminated Food Ever? The editorial by the President of the Physicians
Committee discusses how infections from chickens happen, and he pinpoints
Arkansas, where “18 percent of Arkansas chicken famers fed chicken excrement to
cattle, spreading pathogens and antibiotic resistance.” Despite these liabilities, “Americans consume
more than 1 million chickens per hour”!
UAMS
Ad: Eat More Color
Tomatoes,
carrots, bananas, cucumbers, blueberries.
The best way to get all the vitamins, minerals, and nutrients you need.
AGAINST CARNIVORISM, PROTECTING FARM ANIMALS TOO
The Fate of Food by Amanda Little (2019) reports new
types of food--veggie burgers or meats made by cloning muscle tissue in petri
dishes, even Tyson's and Walmart are getting in on the act. And all,
designedly or not, might decrease agriculture’s carnivorism and CO2. OMNI’s Climate Book forum will discuss the
book soon, presented by Lolly Tindol.
“PETA: Bringing
Home the Bagels Since 1980.” PETA Global. Spring 2019.
Campaign for
animal-friendly language. Hope that the
increase in vegans will led to decrease of anti-animal expressions like “bring
home the bacon” or “skin a cat.”
“’Dog’ BBQ
Sparks Debate.” PETA Global. Spring
2019.
PETA Australia”grilled”
a “dog” in a Sydney mall to remind shoppers that dogs feel pain and fear no
different from the chickens or cows on their barbeque.
“Hooray!Greggs,
Carl’s Jr. Add Vegan Options.” PETA Global. Spring 2019.
UK bakery giant
Greggs now makes a vegan version of its iconic sausage roll; fast-food chain Carl’s Jr. has a vegan Beyond
Burger, Chobani offers dairy free yogurt.
Nathan
Owens. ADG. “Tyson Debuts Its First
Meat Substitute.” NADG 6-14-19.
Includes nuggets
made from plants. “Today’s consumers are
seeking more protein options….”
ADG Staff. “Beyond Meat Opens Big with IPO.” NADG (5-3-19).
The 10-year old
company competes with other meat substitute companies to eventually under-price
animal protein.
TO:
Julie Castle, CEO
Best Friends Animal Society
Slogan: “Save Them All”
Best Friends Animal Society
Slogan: “Save Them All”
Dear
Ms. Castle,
I have received your 2020 calendar gift
with surprise, for I had not known my gift had helped these cute and adorable
animals pictured each month. In fact, I
did not know I had sent you a contribution.
The animals you show are so cute and
adorable looking, as you say, I was drawn to scan all twelve months and
texts. There I found more surprises.
In January - March I was pleased to learn
about your sanctuary for dogs and cats in Utah, and about your special care for
kittens, even to bottle-feeding.
But when I reached April and the
“fluffiness and cuteness” of baby bunnies in the Sanctuary’s Bunny House, I
felt an uneasiness by inconveniently remembering the rabbit food industry. (1.7m rabbits are killed annually, USDA). And when I read the sidebar
describing your pet transport program in several cities where pets are at risk
of being killed to homes elsewhere, I began to feel alarm, for I had recently
seen a large trailer of caged chickens on their way to the slaughter-house.
May was not reassuring. Although it was nice that some puppies had
“learned manners at puppy preschoool and found homes,” it was true that “to
Save Them All, we must work together,” and it was admirable that the Best
Friends Network comprised “more than 2,600 shelter and rescue group partners in
all 50 states, all working to save lives in their own communities,” I had to
struggle to suppress my horror at the number of other cute animals like
chickens slaughtered by the millions. (“In the United States,
approximately 9 billion chickens are killed for
their flesh each year.”) “Save Them All”?
So in June I was not as enthusiastic as I
might have been in January over Woody the dog at the Sanctuary who is “so happy
and energetic” after surviving Hurricane Harvey, or over the news of the
BFFundraiser to Save Them All.
(Learn more at strutyourmutt.org.)
And so July was a downer. At the Sanctuary, Petunia the pig “is as
dainty as the flower she’s named after”; “even though she can’t move her back
legs well. . .she can still roll around in the mud bath.” But I had recently
read about the pork industry. (“PETA estimates that 121
million pigs are killed for food in the U.S. every year.”)
I decided to read no more, Ms. Castle, but
to consign the calendar to my shredder, though I expect it will take a long
time before I can forget your motto, or Stalin’s reputed statement that a single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic. (“Including wild caught and
farmed fishes, we get a daily
total closer to 3 billion animals killed [for food] in the United States alone.”)
Dick Bennett
AGAINST EXTREME WEATHER, DEFENDING THE CLIMATE
Google Search, Vegetarianism and Climate Change, 7-9-19
|
… of food consumption patterns to climate
change - Carlsson-Kanyama -
Cited by 520
… -eaters, fish-eaters, vegetarians and vegans in
the UK - Scarborough -
Cited by 292
Food, livestock production, energy, climate
change, … - McMichael -
Cited by 1077
|
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Mar 21, 2016 - New research shows how the widespread adoption of vegetarian and ...
Likewise, climate change activists often cite the strain that animal ...
Jan 2, 2019 - Change your diet to combat climate change in 2019. By Lisa
Drayer, CNN .... Is vegetarianfast food actually good for you? "It could lead to ...
https://www.theguardian.com/.../huge-reduction-in-meat-eating-essential-to-avoid-climat...Oct 10, 2018 - Huge reductions in
meat-eating are essential to avoid dangerous climate change, according to the
most comprehensive analysis yet of the food ...
Jun 4, 2019 - Your source for great-tasting vegan and vegetarian recipes,
information ... According to the United Nations (U.N.) report Climate Change 2014: ...
Aug 6, 2018 - For one thing, it perpetuates a ubiquitous myth in climate change messaging that
individual decisions are more important than the actions of ...
Jan 16, 2019 - To feed a growing global population and curtail climate change, scientists say we
need to radically change our food systems.
Oct 23, 2018 - For a lower climate footprint, vegetarian diet beats local ... land use change and
international transportation are taken into account, according to ...
Environmental vegetarianism is the practice
of vegetarianism when motivated by the desire to ... Other than climate change, environmental
concerns about the production of animal products may also relate to pollution,
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CONTENTS: OMNI’s JUNE 12, 2019 VEGETARIAN/VEGAN POTLUCK (NEWSLETTER #59),
HEALTH
Arkansas
Janet Carson, Purslane from garden
or yard to salad
Wiley Barnes, Plant Desserts
11
Vegan Meat Brands, and what’s in your grocery store?
ANIMALS
PETA
Global (Spring 2019)
Lobsters; Dairy Milk and White
Supremacy
2 Books: E. O. Wilson, Half-Earth; Jensen, Myth of Human Supremacy
CLIMATE
UUA
Animal Ministry
Plant-based diet for the planet and
the people
Google
Search on Climate Change and Meat
Animal Agriculture, Global Warming,
and CC
END VEGETARIANVEGAN ACTION NEWSLETTER, JULY 10, 2019, #60
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