OMNI
VEGETARIAN/VEGAN ACTION
NEWSLETTER,
WEDNESDAY (2ND
WEDNESDAYS), NOVEMBER 13, 2019.
Edited by Dick Bennett
for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology
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OMNI’s NEXT VEGETARIAN/VEGAN POTLUCK (NEWSLETTER #62), is Wednesday,
NOVEMBER 13, 2019, 2019 (2ND Wednesdays), at OMNI, Center for
Peace, Justice, and Ecology. We start eating at 6:00.
We
will see the film Forks
Over Knives beginning at
6:30.
Comment following by George and Kathleen Paulsen, and discussion.
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 your potluck recipe for the evening.
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS for November 13,
2019
HEALTH AND NUTRITION
Forks Over Knives Film Review and Website
Salt, Sugar, Fat by Michael Moss, Book Review
Meatonomics Book Reiew
Articles in Good Medicine (Autumn
2019)
Dietary Guidelines: Stop Meat and
Dairy
Doctors Need Nutrition Education
Plants v. Crohn’s Disease
PROTECTION OF ANIMALS
Lab-produced
Meat
3
Articles from PETA Global (Fall 2019)
on Speciesism
CLIMATE
Zacharias,
Eat for the Planet
Chris Hedges Interviewed
TEXTS
HEALTH AND NUTRITION
Film Review: FORKS OVER KNIVES (2011)
"Forks Over Knives" is a documentary
in which Lee Fulkerson enacts a mirror image of the journey
taken by Morgan Spurlock in "Supersize Me." Instead of eating only at McDonald's for a month and nearly
killing himself, he eats a plant-based whole food diet for six months, gets off
all of his cholesterol and blood pressure medications, drops a lot of weight,
sleeps better and has more energy.
His film follows three other sick people: one
with breast cancer, one given less than a year to live because of heart
problems, one with murderously high cholesterol. All are well again after the
vegetarian diet. The movie opens with a warning that no one should take such
steps without consulting a physician, and I quite agree; I would not have
depended on nutrition to cure my cancer, but I'm convinced that I would always
have been healthier if I'd eaten correctly…(continued)
Forks Over Knives empowers people to live healthier lives by changing the
way the world understands nutrition. Find out more here.
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BOOK REVIEW: Salt, Sugar, Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us by Michael
Moss .
A
damning investigation into the junk food industry is both chilling and
contentious.
‘Only sugar processors have the brass
neck to present it as anything other than an ingredient we would do well to eat
as little of as possible.’ Photograph: Richard Wadey/Alamy
New York Times journalist Michael Moss spent
three-and-a-half years working out how big food companies get away with
churning out products that undermine the health of those who eat them. He
interviewed hundreds of current and former food industry insiders – chemists,
nutrition scientists, behavioural biologists, food technologists, marketing
executives, package designers, chief executives and lobbyists. What he
uncovered is chilling: a hard-working industry composed of well-paid, smart,
personable professionals, all keenly focused on keeping us hooked on ever more
ingenious junk foods; an industry that thinks of us not as customers, or even
consumers, but as potential "heavy users"…(continued)
Book: DAVID SIMON, MEATONOMIC$: The Bizarre Economics of
Meat and Dairy. 2013. https://meatonomics.com/the-book/
"RIVETING." - VegNews
“SPECTACULARLY IMPORTANT.” - John
Robbins
“Impressive research,
incisive prose, and the passion of a muckraker.”
– James McWilliams, Ph.D., author of Just Food
Few consumers are aware of
the economic forces behind the production of meat, fish, eggs, and dairy.
Yet omnivore and herbivore alike, the forces of meatonomics affect
us in many ways.
This is the first book to
add up the huge “externalized” costs that the animal food system imposes on
taxpayers, animals and the environment, and it finds these costs total about
$414 billion yearly. With yearly retail sales of around $250 billion,
that means that for every $1 of product they sell, meat and dairy producers
impose almost $2 in hidden costs on the rest of us. A $4 Big Mac really
costs society about $11, and regardless whether you even eat meat, you incur a
share of $7 in external costs each time someone buys a burger.
Perhaps more troubling,
consumers have lost the ability to decide for ourselves what – and how much –
to eat. Those decisions are made instead by animal food producers who
control our buying choices with artificially-low prices, misleading messaging,
and heavy control over legislation and regulation. Learn how and why they
do it and how you can respond.
Articles in Good
Medicine (Autumn 2019)
“Doctors Tell Dietary Guidelines Advisory
Committee to Ditch Meat and Dairy.”
“First,
dairy products are not well digested, if digested at all, by most people who
are not white, and further, as the leading source of saturated fat in the diet,
dairy products contribute to chronic diseases, including heart disease and
prostate cancer, that disproportionately harm or kill people of color.”
“Dr. Barnard: Doctors Need Nutrition Education.”
“Case Study: Plant-Based Diet Leads to Crohn’s
Disease Remission.”
Next time you’re in Texarkana
don’t miss Three Chicks Feed, See, and Café, to enjoy their popular Veggie
Burger--from Arkansas Living (Nov.
2019), pp. 40-41.
PROTECTION OF ANIMALS
Karen Dawn.
“Beyond the Slaughterhouse: Producing Real Meat without Killing
Animals.” The Progressive Magazine (October-November 2019).
Karen Dawn.
“Beyond the Slaughterhouse: Producing Real Meat without Killing
Animals.” The Progressive Magazine (October-November 2019). https://progressive.org/magazine/real-meat-without-killing-animals-dawn/
Beyond the Slaughterhouse
A look at a new industry working to produce real meat
without killing animals.
by Karen Dawn
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“If the new meat being grown is called ‘cell-based’ or
‘cultured,’ shouldn’t traditional meat be labeled ‘slaughtered?’ ”
The
question from the audience got a good laugh and prompted a fun jab back from
panel moderator Ezra Klein, who called us a “roomful of hippies.”
That
was last year, in Berkeley. This year’s Good Food Conference, held
in early September, was across the bay at San Francisco’s five-star Palace
hotel. When I tried to book a room, prices were more than $600 per night. Winky
Smalls and I opted for the nearby Kimpton, known to give five-star service to
fur-kids.
The
Good Food Conference is put on by the Good Food Institute, a nonprofit group
that supports companies trying to replace animal agriculture with truly
sustainable meat, dairy, eggs, and seafood production that doesn’t involve
killing billions of animals per year.
Though
the meat industry’s dire effect on our planet finally got some attention after
the release of the 2014 documentary film Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret, the
mainstream media have largely failed to catch on. Only as the Amazon
burns have more outlets picked up on the issue, noting that the fires were started by cattle ranchers clearing land, and by soybean
farmers growing crops to feed cattle.
Following from PETA Global (Fall 2019).
(Front cover, first page.) “Why Do We Call Some Animals ‘Friends’ and
Others ‘Filets’?” “Discriminating against animals based
solely on our desire to eat them, as opposed
to considering their feelings and
desires, is speciesism.”
(pp.
6-7, Photo of a dog hooked with a “fish hook.”)
“If You Wouldn’t Do This to a Dog, Why Do It to a Fish?” “My Life Is in Your Hands. Please Try Vegan.” (Accompanied by photo of a live fish’s mouth
and face.) You don’t hook dogs. So why fish?
They’re both sentient beings.
Every dog and fish is someone.
Find fish-free recipes at PETA.org/Recipes
and visit PETA.org/Fish to all the
ways PETA is fighting for fish and learn how you can help.
(Back cover).
“Sisters Under the Skin: End Speciesism.” Photo of a dog, a chicken, a pig, and a human
showing muscular system.
CLIMATE
Nil Zacharias: Founder, Eat For
The Planet
Website: https://www.onegreenplanet.org/author/nil_zacharias/
Nil
Zacharias is the host of the popular weekly podcast, "#EatForThePlanet with Nil
Zacharias” and co-author of the book, Eat
For The Planet. Nil started his career as a media and
technology lawyer and worked for over a decade in the digital media and online
advertising space in various business and operational roles prior to founding
One Green Planet. He can be found on Twitter @nilzach.
ON
CONTACT with Chris Hedges: The state of the planet and the looming food crisis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13c9wjzADh8
Nil Zacharias, co-author with Gene Stone, Eat
for the Planet, explains to journalist Chris Hedges how industrialized animal
farming is at the heart of the environmental crisis, using excessive clean
water and contributing more to pollution of air and water than the
transportation sector combined. The solution he argues is for the individual to
embrace veganism.
CONTENTS VEGETARIAN/VEGAN ACTION NEWSLETTER OCTOBER 9, 2019
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
END VEGETARIAN/VEGAN ACTION
NEWSLETTER NOVEMBER 13, 2019
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