Endangered Wildlife: Where Did All Our Birdie & Beasts Go?
As the world population steadily increases, and the demand for land, water, and natural resources becomes more and more intense, our wildlife is becoming threatened due to loss of habitat, over exploitation, and other human induced factors. Biodiversity is important – not only is it essential to maintaining healthy ecosystems, but humans can actually benefit from many of the species that are being lost, and without them the world is worse off. Plant and animal species are interlinked in an intricate web of life that is finely balanced. This system – or ecosystem, as it is commonly referred to – is made up of various components, some living (biotic components), some non-living (abiotic components), which all function together like clockwork. All species have a role to play in their ecosystem, and when they disappear, the system starts functioning less effectively, often with negative spin offs to other organisms within that ecosystem. Continue reading »
The China Study & Forks Over Knives
The book, The China Study, came out years ago and proved through extensive years and many studies that a vegan diet was the most healthy. Because it is a rather lengthy scientific book, it was not the kind of reading most people engage in. However, now , a film has been made using this book and other studies to show that the healthiest diet is one free of animals and their by-products. PLEASE see this film. do yourself that favor! And GO VEGAN- for your health, the animals and the planet!
THE CHINA STUDY
The science is clear. The results are unmistakable.
Change your diet and dramatically reduce the risk of cancer, diabetes, heart disease and obesity.
Respected nutrition and health researcher, Dr. T. Colin Campbell reveals the truth behind special interest groups, government entities and scientists that have taken Americans down a deadly path Even today, as the low-carb craze sweeps the nation, two-thirds of adults are still obese and children are being diagnosed with Type II diabetes, typically an “adult” disease, at an alarming rate. If we’re eating healthier, why are Americans stricken with heart disease as much as we were 30 years ago? Drawing on the project findings in rural China, but going far beyond those findings, The China Study details the connection between nutrition and heart disease, diabetes and cancer. Continue reading »
Watch out for HumaneWatch!
HumaneWatch has recently had full page ads in the LA Times, accusing the Humane Society of the United States of spending less than 1% of their budget on our country’s shelters. But the truth is that HSUS is not responsible for the overpopulation in our shelters nor is their mission to tackle that particular aspect of the problem. However, they do very effective work to reduce the pet overpopulation in other ways. HumaneWatch is anti-animal, anti-human and very pro-business. Too many people are fooled by their name & their confusing ads and I think it is crucial for the animal community to know that THEY ARE OUR ENEMY! Please pass this knowledge on so none of us are fooled by their ridiculous claims. Continue reading »
MEAT AGGRAVATES WORLD HUNGER
Cornell University Science News
Aug. 07, 1997
U.S. could feed 800 million people with grain that livestock eat, Cornell ecologist advises animal scientists Future water and energy shortages predicted to change face of American agriculture.
From one ecologist’s perspective, the American system of farming grain-fed livestock consumes resources far out of proportion to the yield, accelerates soil erosion, affects world food supply and will be changing in the future.
“If all the grain currently fed to livestock in the United States were consumed directly by people, the number of people who could be fed would be nearly 800 million,” David Pimentel, professor of ecology in Cornell University’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, reported at the July 24-26 meeting of the Canadian Society of Animal Science in Montreal. Or, if those grains were exported, it would boost the U.S. trade balance by $80 billion a year, Pimentel estimated. Continue reading »
WHO IS REALLY PRO-LIFE? In honor of Congress’ incoming Tea Partiers
I think it’s time to really look at who in this world are the real pro-lifers. You see, I don’t think it’s the Sarah Palins or Mike Huckabees or any of the people who claim to be. Their concerns and protections are really only for the fetus when it’s in the womb. They stop the moment a human being is actually born. I think they should call themselves “pro-fetus-ers.” These people who cry “foul” that their freedoms are being taken away are the very same people who want to take away a woman’s right/freedom to choose whether to term or terminate a pregnancy, which has been a constitutional right since 1973.
Animals Suffer a Perpetual ‘Holocaust’
LA TimesBy Stephen R. Dujack
April 03, 2003
Pig photo courtesy of l0s71
Isaac Bashevis Singer fled Nazi Europe in 1935 and came to this country. He married my grandmother, who had escaped from Hitler’s Germany in 1940. He went on to become a lauded author and won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1978. His family — those who stayed behind — were killed in the concentration camps. Continue reading »
Thanksgiving: A Celebration of Genocide
Elephantjournal.comBy Gary Smith
November 22 2010
Thanksgiving is the celebration of a dual genocide: one against native people, and one against turkeys.
The first Thanksgiving Day celebration in 1637 was proclaimed by the Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, not as a festival of the Pilgrims and Indians sharing a meal to celebrate the cooperation between the two communities, but as a celebration of the massacre of 700 Pequot men, women and children. Continue reading »
The Subject of Bullying
Today is Purple Pride against Bullying Day and it’s a good thing because bullying has become a grave concern in our country and we must seriously address this problem. Bullying has tragically brought on the suicides of several young people and criminal prosecution to other young ones for their bullying behavior. But while we’re on the subject of bullying, isn’t it time to expand our definition of bullying to include animals? Because we do bully almost every species with whom we share this magnificent planet. Continue reading »
Fighting Prop. 23 one phone call at a time
This article from the LA Times by Steve Lopez is the most personal and powerful of all that I have read on this dreadful proposition 23 here in California. I feel very strongly about defeating this proposition as it is an attempt to roll back environmental protections that we, the California voters, have passed. I so appreciate when others use their voices for the unfortunate & forgotten among us and Alicia Rivera is a voice to be reckoned with and I am so grateful. I truly believe that defeating Prop 23 will be the most decisive act, for all living beings in California, as we all depend on clean air, water and land. It will also send a message that we Californians cannot be bought out by big businesses. So please VOTE DEMOCRATIC & VOTE NO on PROP 23! Continue reading »
Celebrating 40 Years as a Vegetarian!
This year 2010, I am celebrating a 40th! It’s not my birthday or my anniversary to my loving husband. This anniversary is forty years of being a vegetarian, though I did become vegan in 2001. I am very proud of this milestone. These years have gone by very quickly and, with each decade, being a vegetarian has become easier and more acceptable and there are many more of us, I am happy to say. Continue reading »
