OMNI
VEGETARIAN/VEGAN
ACTION NEWSLETTER,
MARCH 11,
2020.
Edited by Dick Bennett
for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and
Ecology
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TABLE OF CONTENTS MARCH 2020
NUTRITION, HEALTH
NAVS
Summerfest
From
Organic Consumers Association
AR
PBS Veg Programs
Ban
Factory Farms
“Right
to Harm” documentary (fecal dust)
“Taking
Beef Out of Burgers”
Plant-based
Foods Increasing
PETA’s
Veg. Recipes
PROTECTION OF ANIMALS
President
of PETA’s New Book: Animalkind
“End Speciesism. Go Vegan”
Pigs Are Individuals Too
Animal Leather Down, Vegan Up
“Chicken Slaughter Speed-Up”
CLIMATE
Cut
Back on Meat
Organic
Consumers
Novels
about Climate Catastrophe: Jonathan Foer
Big
Tech Can Save Us?
TEXTS
HEALTH, NUTRITION
navs north american vegetarian
society
46th annual vegan
sumerfest. July 1-5, Johnstown, PA .
VeganSummerfest.or, 518-568-7970
Essential Reading from Organic
Consumers Association
Arkansas PBS (ch. 13) presented a brilliant
speaker 3-2 urging the audience to
eat fresh veggies,
avoid sugar from all sources, etc.
“Food Fix with Mark Hyman, M.D.” Food Policy Action Network.
The next night
3-3: “Longevity Paradox with Steven
Gundry, MD” and "Change Your Brain,
Heal Your Mind with Daniel Amen”.
ND FACTORY FARMS
Really, We Don't
A growing number of
communities are fighting back against factory farms.
One way they’re doing
that, is by asking lawmakers to ban factory farms, or at least put a moratorium
on new industrial mega-farms.
As this recent article explains:
“In places as far
afield as Faulk County, South
Dakota, and Mount Judea, Arkansas,
rural residents are petitioning their local officials to issue temporary or
permanent bans on new concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs). They say
these moratoriums are a longer-term and more holistic solution to the
environmental concerns posed by CAFOs than a more incremental approach.”
Fortunately, federal
lawmakers are starting to pay attention. But if we want enough lawmakers on our
side to actually succeed, we’ll need tens of thousands of people to contact
their members of Congress.
Where to start? By
asking Congress to support a bill, introduced by Sen.
Cory Booker (D-N.J.) that could, among other things, lead to the end of
industrial factory farms.
According to
this recent study, factory
farming isn’t just bad for your health and the environment—it’s bad for the
economy, too.
We don’t need factory
farms to “feed the world.” Really, we don’t.
What we need is
a Green New Deal that
helps farmers transition to organic regenerative agriculture.
VIDEO OF THE WEEK
'Right to Harm'
Maybe you’ve heard of “Right to Farm” laws? They’re designed to protect large-scale industrial farming operations by stripping neighboring citizens’ right to sue factory farms that pollute their air and water.
Maybe you’ve heard of “Right to Farm” laws? They’re designed to protect large-scale industrial farming operations by stripping neighboring citizens’ right to sue factory farms that pollute their air and water.
“Right to Harm” is a film
from executive producer Mark Bittman that illustrates the sickening (literally—read this story about
“fecal dust” causing a multitude of health problems for people living near
Texas cattle feedlots) impact of factory farms on rural communities—and shares
inspiring stories of people who are fighting back against a system rigged
against them.
In the end, the film
suggests, it comes down to this: whether the economic rights of the
agribusiness corporation are more important and will take priority over the
basic human rights of people.
It also comes down to
how many citizens are willing to organize, and how many consumers are willing
to boycott meat, dairy and eggs that come from these horrendous factories,
masquerading as “farms.”
“Taking the Beef Out of Burgers.” The
Week (Jan. 17, 2020).
Examines meatless burgers’ popularity, their ingredients and process,
healthiness pro (mainly) and con, and meat industry response. A subsection summarizes the harmful
environmental impact of livestock.
Nathan Owens. “Plants-rooted Meatlike Food Still on
Uptick.” NADG (Feb. 16, 2020). “This month alone, Starbucks, KFC, and Denny’s said they would test or
debut new plant-based products….”
PETA’S RECIPES: Winter 2020 PETA GLOBAL
“Vegan
Nirvana”: Orange Ginger Chia Fresca, Beetroot
Carpaccio, Vegan Seitan Steak
PROTECTION OF ANIMALS
President
of PETA has a new book, Animalkind:
Remarkable Discoveries about Animals and the Remarkable Ways We Can Be Kind to
Them by Ingrid Newkirk. Winter 2020 PETA GLOBAL
Explores how humans and other animals
share emotions, such as compassion. ”It
is not solely a human characteristic to experience the ecstasy of love and the
anguish of loss.”
More
from Winter 2020 PETA GLOBAL
Back Cover “We Are All Animals. End
Speciesism. Live Vegan.” With Joaquin Phoenix (and photo of Phoenix’s
face, eye, and live chicken’s eye over his other, Phoenix seeing through a
chicken’s eye!).
“Seeing
the Person Inside Every Pig,” pp. 22-23.
“I’m
ME, Not MEAT. See the individual. Go Vegan”
From Texas to Australia, PETA opposes cruelty to pigs.
“From
Pineapples to Tea, The New Leather Is Animal-Free,” pp. 18-19. “In the first half of 2019, sales of vegan
clothing, accessories, and footwear increased 54% at US stores,” while the
“leather industry [was] in a death spiral.”
“Chicken-slaughter
speed-up draws suit.” NADG (2-27-20).
Many slaughterhouses shackle chickens by
their legs to a fast-moving line where they are stunned, killed, and submerged
in scalding water at a rate of 140 birds per minute. “’millions (if not billions) of birds suffer
extreme cruelty.’”
CLIMATE
Cut
Back on Eating Meat
The solution to the egregious production
of greenhouse gases by carnivorism is “to cut back drastically on the amount of
meat we eat,” and by that “you can make a difference immediately. Stop eating meat every day; it’s that simple.”
The
Nordic Diet (2010).
Essential Reading from Organic
Consumers Association
Jonathan Foer. We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins
at Breakfast. Farrar, Straus and
Giroux, 2020. Rev. in The Nation (Nov. 11/18, 2020) by Kate Aronoff, “Things Are Bleak! Jonathan Foer’s Quest for Planetary
Salvation.” Foer joins several “other
novelists turned climate catastrophists” influenced by the failure by
environmentalists to decrease fossil fuel emissions meaningfully. But to Aronoff “our best hope” is the New Deal mobilization of the Green New Deal or
like that of WWII, to take back power
from the sociopaths causing global warming.
Kara Swisher (NYT). “Big
Tech Can Still Save Us….” The Week (Jan. 17, 2020), 31.
Investments to combat
climate change are increasing, “to help us understand climate data.”
TABLE OF CONTENTS for FEBRUARY
In Coetzee’s Novel Most People Are
Vegetarians
NUTRITION, HEALTH
Alternatives
to Meats Booming
News
from The Vegan Way by Jackie Day
Dr.
Greger’s Book, How Not to Die
Organic
Consumers Association Health News and Actions
Wake-up
Call, What’s for Lunch, etc.
PROTECTION OF ANIMALS
PETA Global (Winter 2020)
“We’re
Not the Only Species on Earth”
DEFENSE OF CLIMATE
Capitalism’s Destructive Dynamos
Jonathan
Foer, We Are the Weather
Kate Aronoff, A Planet to Win: Why We
Need a Green New Deal
The Nordic Diet v. Meat
(January Newsletter:
https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2020/01/vegetarian-action-newsletter-january-8.html)
END VEGETARIAN ACTION NEWSLETTER MARCH 11, 2020
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