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OMNI'S VEGETARIAN/VEGAN ACTION NEWSLETTER OCTOBER 9, 2019


OMNI
VEGETARIAN/VEGAN ACTION NEWSLETTER,
WEDNESDAY (2ND WEDNESDAYS), OCTOBER 9, 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: human health, cruelty to animals, and climate catastrophe.  Tell people about OMNI, our Veg Potluck, its comprehensive message, and Newsletter.                                


     OMNI’s NEXT VEGETARIAN/VEGAN POTLUCK (NEWSLETTER #62), is Wednesday, OCTOBER 9, 2019 (2ND Wednesdays), at OMNI, Center for Peace, Justice, and Ecology.  We start eating at 6:00.   

Kathleen Paulson, M.D., and George Paulson, UAF Instructor, will present their study of the health and nutrition of plants compared to meat.  Discussion will follow. 

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 and soils.   Each of you is invited to tell about your favorite Vegan recipe.  And if you have time bring along the recipe for your potluck creation.


OMNI is located at 3274 Lee Avenue parallel to N. College southeast of the Village Inn and 2ND building 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!
Or bike to OMNI.  For example the Trail goes from MLKJr. Blvd. north passing OMNI to the west, and it is a short and easy route along Appleby to Fiesta Square then across 71B to OMNI a few blocks farther. 


CONTENTS
HUMAN HEALTH AND NUTRITION
Kathleeen Paulson, M.D., and George Paulson will present resources for a plant diet.
Ko, Cookie Recipe
Heneline, LTE
More Good Medicine articles:  MS, Diabetes
ANIMAL RIGHTS
Undercover Reporting Legal
S. Korean Abuse of Dogs
Books on Animal Sentience
Pets But Not Farm Animals?
CLIMATE
Amanda Little, The Fate of Food

TEXTS

HEALTH, NUTRITION
RESOURCES on whole foods, plant-based diet for optimal health will be on display.
Compiled by Kathleen Paulson, M.D. and George Paulson.  Discussion.
WEBSITES:


DOCUMENTARIES:
Forks Over Knives     
Eating You Alive
Cowspiracy
What the Health
PlantPure Nation
Diet Fiction
PlanEAT

BOOKS:
The China Study:  The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss, and Long-Term Health by T. Colin Campbell, PhD

Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease:  The Revolutionary, Scientifically Proven, Nutrition-Based Cure by Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr. MD

How Not to Die:  Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease by Michael Greger, MD

Whole: Rethinking the Science of Nutrition by T. Colin Campbell, PhD

Eat for the Planet:  Saving the World One Bite at a Time by Nil Zacharias

[The Paulsons are giving all their books to OMNI’s Library! And they will be available to inspect at our October Potluck.]

LECTURES (i.e TED Talks) available on YouTube by the following authors:
Michael Greger MD
T. Colin Campbell MD
Caldwell B. Esseslstyn, Jr. MD
Dean Ornish MD
Neal Barnard MD
John McDougall MD
Joel Furhman MD

MISC NEWS ITEMS

“McDonald’s to Test Plant-based Burgers.”  NADG (9-27-19). 
The sandwich , called “the PLT, for plant, lettuce, and tomato,” will be sold in Ontario, to compete with Burger King’s test of its “plant-based Impossible Foods” sandwich, itself a rival to “Beyond Meat.”  All are a response to “strong demand from customers.”  Similarly, KFC is testing imitation chicken products in Atlanta in partnership with Beyond Meat.

Genevieve Ko.  “Vegan, Gluten-free Cookies Actually Taste Like Real Thing.”  AD-G (7-24-19). 
I haven’t tried it, but I’ll bring the recipe with me for anyone who wants to check it out.

Calvin Haneline.  “Sorry, Vegetarian….” (LTE).  AD-G (7-28-19).   More evidence of growing interest in plant-based food, and in the context of political parties.

Items from Good Medicine. The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (Spring 2018).
Saray Stancic, M.D.  “Tackling MS with a Plant-Based Diet.”  After Dr. Stancic was diagnosed with MS, she changed her medical specialization and has made a film, Code Blue: Foods, Inflammation, and Multiple Sclerosis.
“Dr. Neal Barnard’s Cookbook for Reversing Diabetes”: Reversing Diabetes.  The brief article includes a salad recipe that sounds very healthy and delicious, “Power Lunch Bowl.”
“Vegan Diet Boosts Function of Insulin-Producing Cells.”


ANIMAL RIGHTS

“Iowa law on undercover farm work tossed.”  AD-G (1-10-19)
DES MOINES, Iowa -- A federal judge on Wednesday struck down an Iowa law that made it illegal to get a job at a livestock farm to conduct an animal-cruelty undercover investigation, finding the law violated the constitutional right to free speech.
U.S. District Judge James Gritzner sided with opponents of the 2012 law that was intended to stop organizations like People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals from doing animal-abuse investigations at farms and puppy mills. Iowa lawmakers approved the measure, which threatened up to a year in jail to those who conducted an undercover operation, after several high-profile cases in which animal-welfare advocates recorded questionable animal treatment and then publicized the images through the media. . . .

Nina Jackel | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service Weekly Digest 9-2/8-19
Summer in South Korea brings the brutal, barbaric Boknal “dog eating days,” when more than a million dogs are tortured and slaughtered for meat.

Animal books
OCTOBER 1 VEGETARIAN WEEK
When Elephants Weep
Animal Minds
How Animals Grieve
Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat: Why It's So Hard to Think Straight about Animals
Animal Wise: The Thoughts and Emotions of Our Fellow Creatures
Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?
The emotional lives of animals

Searches related to Beyond Words: What Animals Think




9-15-19 LETTER TO CARMEN Nelson, Director of Animal League of Washington County (“League Provides Rescue, Rehab, More for Animals in Need” (NADG 9-15-19).  I asked Ms. Nelson why she limited animals in need to pets, and did not include slaughtered farm animals, but received no reply.  


CLIMATE
OMNI’S CLIMATE BOOK FORUM Sunday, November  3, FPL, 1:30.
READ AN EXCERPT

The Fate of Food: What We’ll Eat in a Bigger, Hotter, Smarter World.  Penguin, 2019.WHAT WE’LL EAT IN A BIGGER, HOTTER, SMARTER WORLDBy AMANDA LITTLE
Read by Amanda Little

In the fascinating story of the sustainable food revolution, an environmental journalist and professor asks the question: Is the future of food looking...
 Rating: 4.6 - ‎37 reviews
Editorial Reviews. Review. “What we grow and how we eat are going to change radically over the next few decades. In The Fate of Food, Amanda Little takes us ...
VideosREVIEW4:15
Penguin Random House   YouTube - Jul 1, 201924:12
Strand Book Store    YouTube - Jun 12, 2019
PBS - Jul 18, 2019
ABOUT THE FATE OF FOOD
In the fascinating story of the sustainable food revolution, an environmental journalist and professor asks the question: Is the future of food looking bleak—or better than ever?
 
“In The Fate of Food, Amanda Little takes us on a tour of the future. The journey is scary, exciting, and, ultimately, encouraging.”—Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sixth Extinction

Climate models show that global crop production will decline every decade for the rest of this century due to drought, heat, and flooding. Water supplies are in jeopardy. Meanwhile, the world’s population is expected to grow another 30 percent by midcentury. So how, really, will we feed nine billion people sustainably in the coming decades?

Amanda Little, a professor at Vanderbilt University and an award-winning journalist, spent three years traveling through a dozen countries and as many U.S. states in search of answers to this question. Her journey took her from an apple orchard in Wisconsin to a remote control organic farm in Shanghai, from Norwegian fish farms to famine-stricken regions of Ethiopia.

The race to reinvent the global food system is on, and the challenge is twofold: We must solve the existing problems of industrial agriculture while also preparing for the pressures ahead. Through her interviews and adventures with farmers, scientists, activists, and engineers, Little tells the fascinating story of human innovation and explores new and old approaches to food production while charting the growth of a movement that could redefine sustainable food on a grand scale. She meets small permaculture farmers and “Big Food” executives, botanists studying ancient superfoods and Kenyan farmers growing the country’s first GMO corn. She travels to places that might seem irrelevant to the future of food yet surprisingly play a critical role—a California sewage plant, a U.S. Army research lab, even the inside of a monsoon cloud above Mumbai. Little asks tough questions: Can GMOs actually be good for the environment—and for us? Are we facing the end of animal meat? What will it take to eliminate harmful chemicals from farming? How can a clean, climate-resilient food supply become accessible to all?

Throughout her journey, Little finds and shares a deeper understanding of the threats of climate change and encounters a sense of awe and optimism about the lessons of our past and the scope of human ingenuity.
SEE LESS
ABOUT THE FATE OF FOOD
In the fascinating story of the sustainable food revolution, an environmental journalist and professor asks the question: Is the future of food looking bleak—or better than ever?
 
“In The Fate of Food, Amanda Little takes us on a tour of the future. The journey is scary, exciting, and, ultimately, encouraging.”—Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sixth Extinction

Climate models show that global crop production will decline every decade for the rest of this century due to drought, heat, and flooding. Water supplies are in jeopardy. Meanwhile, the world’s population is expected to grow another 30 percent by midcentury. So how, really, will we feed nine billion people sustainably in the coming decades?

Amanda Little, a professor at Vanderbilt University and an award-winning journalist, spent three years traveling through a dozen countries and as many U.S. states in search of answers to this question. Her journey took her from an apple orchard in Wisconsin to a remote control organic farm in Shanghai, from Norwegian fish farms to famine-stricken regions of Ethiopia.

The race to reinvent the global food system is on, and the challenge is twofold: We must solve the existing problems of industrial agriculture while also preparing for the pressures ahead. Through her interviews and adventures with farmers, scientists, activists, and engineers, Little tells the fascinating story of human innovation and explores new and old approaches to food production while charting the growth of a movement that could redefine sustainable food on a grand scale. She meets small permaculture farmers and “Big Food” executives, botanists studying ancient superfoods and Kenyan farmers growing the country’s first GMO corn. She travels to places that might seem irrelevant to the future of food yet surprisingly play a critical role—a California sewage plant, a U.S. Army research lab, even the inside of a monsoon cloud above Mumbai. Little asks tough questions: Can GMOs actually be good for the environment—and for us? Are we facing the end of animal meat? What will it take to eliminate harmful chemicals from farming? How can a clean, climate-resilient food supply become accessible to all?

Throughout her journey, Little finds and shares a deeper understanding of the threats of climate change and encounters a sense of awe and optimism about the lessons of our past and the scope of human ingenuity.
SEE LESS

CONTENTS #61, September 11, 2019
Learn a new word?  Degust
Business of Expanding Plant Foods Industry
Health, Nutrition
   Articles from Good Medicine
   Chickens Are Unhealthy
Protecting Animals Against Carnivorism
     Carl Jafina, Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel
Defending the Climate
    Stop the Food Crisis, Support the Climate Stewardship Act
Pro-Vegan Readings and Films from Kathleen and George Paulson
Chris Hedges


END VEGETARIAN/VEGAN ACTION NEWSLETTER #62

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