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  Hats off to you, Sarah

  Grist List topped itself this week, and what a finale!!On From Spooky to Spendy posted 2 years ago 1 Response

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  sustainable food = vegan food

  Sustainable Table defines "sustainable food" as "food that that is healthy for consumers and animals, does not harm the environment, is humane for workers, respects animals, provides a fair wage for the farmer, and supports and enhances rural communities."

  Such food would by definition be vegan, since it is not healthy for animals nor respectful of them to kill them merely for use as food. Virtually all animals raised for food, including those first used for egg or milk production, are ultimately killed, usually after having lived only a small fraction of their natural lifespan.  

  There's nothing respectful about harming an animal for food when there is a bounty of healthful -and delicious- non-animal food readily available and often more affordable. There is also no ethical justification for it.  

  Respect life, including your own: Go Vegan. See: http://www.TryVeg.com  On An interview with sustainable-food advocate Diane Hatz posted 2 years ago 5 Responses

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  High time for a new tradition

  Re biodiversivist's comment: "Different cultures, different traditions," the same could be said about genital mutilation, slavery, etc. Culture/tradition doesn't justify harming/killing an innocent individual, whatever species they may happen to be. Nothing makes that right.

  Rather than Barbara Kingsolver's book, for a more empathic consideration of turkeys (i.e., written by someone not bent on killing and eating them), see:
  http://www.upc-online.org/more_than_a_meal.html

  For a quicker read, see:
  http://www.upc-online.org/winter06/whoarethey.html

  And regarding the mindless custom of eating turkey at Thanksgiving, see:
  http://www.upc-online.org/turkeys/60105bowlinggreen.htm

  These are all written by Dr. Karen Davis, who has lived with turkeys as companion animals and knows them as the interesting, inquisitive, sentient individuals they are.

  It's high time for new tradition that celebrates life rather than causes misery, pain and death.

  Respect Life - including your own: Go Vegan.
  http://www.TryVeg.com

  Mary

  On Thanksgiving isn't just about the food; it is about relationships posted 2 years, 1 month ago 17 Responses

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  Whatever the cause...

  ...what a horrific plan. On California officials will poison lake to target nonnative fish posted 2 years, 1 month ago 10 Responses

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  Yes, don't shoot the messenger

  E Magazine covered this back in early 2002 with Jim Motavalli's cover article:

  THE CASE AGAINST MEAT
  Evidence Shows that Our Meat-Based Diet is Bad for the Environment, Aggravates Global Hunger, Brutalizes Animals and Compromises Our Health.
  http://www.emagazine.com/view/?142

  In addition to cutting out meat, we should also reject eggs and dairy products. With all the marvelous alternative products that are more environmentally responsible, genuinely humane,  healthier, readily available and reasonably priced, there plainly is no good reason or excuse to continue eating animal products.

  If that makes you mad so be it, but don't shoot the messenger, or resort to infantile condescension. It's likely just misdirected anger at one's self for lack of self-discipline.

  In addition to being environmentally harmful, consuming animal products causes animal suffering and death. That's the case with conventionally obtained products and "happy meat" (and eggs and dairy products). It also takes a lot more land to produce the latter. (Fans of Michael Pollan's "The Omnivore's Dilemma," read this:
  HARD TO SWALLOW
  The Atlantic Monthly, B. R. Myers, September 2007
  http://www.powells.com/review/2007_08_28.html )

  Respect Life - including your own. Go Vegan.
  http://www.TryVeg.com

  Mary

  On Animal-rights group makes the stupid claim that enviros must be vegetarians posted 2 years, 1 month ago 208 Responses