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VEGETARIAN/VEGAN ACTION NEWSLETTER,
WEDNESDAY (2NDWEDNESDAYS), APRIL 10, 2019.
Edited by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology
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OMNI’s APRIL VEGETARIAN/VEGAN POTLUCK (NEWSLETTER #57), is Wednesday, APRIL 10, 2019 (2ND Wednesdays), at OMNI, Center for Peace, Justice, and Ecology. We start eating at 6:00. All are welcome.
OMNI’s director is Gladys Tiffany. OMNI is located at 3274 Lee Avenue parallel to N. College southeast of the Village Inn and 2NDbuilding 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!
This Newsletter is about food and its consequences. Tell people you know who would like to know about us, our Potluck and Newsletter. Read Jacy Reese’s book, The End of Animal Farming. How Scientists, Entrepreneurs, and Activists Are Building an Animal-Free Food System. The movement away from animal agriculture of factory farming is producing healthier food and is part of humanity’s expanding moral circle.
Contents #57, April 10, 2019
Health
Articles in Good Medicine (Spring 2015) by Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
Articles for Nutrition
Articles against Animal Testing
2 Progrressive Bills Pass in CA Lege
Center for Science in the Public Interest, Nutrition Action Health Letter
Healthline, EcoWatch, Vegan Sources of Calcium
Burger King Expanding Plant-based “Meat”
2 Chemicals in US Food Banned in EU
Farm Animals
PCRM’s Campaign against Experimenting with Animals
PETA v. Industrial Food Production
Climate
Google Search: Climate Change, Global Warming, Cattle, Meat
Contents #56 March 2019
TEXTS #57 April 2019
Thinking about become a vegetarian or vegan? Start the week off with Meatless Mondays. Visit humanesociety.org/trymeatlessmonday
HEALTH
Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine’s journal Good Medicine
Articles on Nutrition include:
“Kickstarting Your Health with a Vegan Diet”
“Carbs and Plant Protein Lead to Weight Loss”
“Protect Patients from Hazardous Hot Dogs”
“Doctors Launch ‘Break Up with Bacon’ Campaign
6 Articles against animal tests
“Victory Party in the Hollywood Hills” celebrated the passage of two historic bills in CA legislature: SB1249 ending sale of cosmetic products tested on animals, and SB1138 requiring availability of vegan meals in CA hospitals and prisons.
CENTER FOR SCIENCE IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST, NUTRITION ACTION HEALTH LETTER
CSPI describes itself as “America’s Food Watchdog,” and its promotion materials seem to justify the claim. If you are familiar with the magazine, write something about for Vegetarian/Vegan Action.
Calcium plays crucial roles in your body.
https://www.ecowatch.com/tag/vegan
https://www.ecowatch.com/tag/vegan
“Burger King Tests Impossible Whopper.” NADG (4-2-19).
The vegan Whoppers mimic meat using heme with a genetically modified yeast.
Roni Rabin. “U.S. Eats Ingredients Banned in EU Foods.” NADG (Jan. 7, 2019).
The European Union bans some drugs harmful to humans that are used on farm animals in the United States, including bovine growth hormone (to increase milk production) and ractopamine (to increase weight gain in pigs, cattle, and turkeys.
ENDING CRUELTY TO FARM ANIMALS
Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicinestrenuously opposes using animals to test drugs. “Forgotten Animals: Getting Fish, Birds, and Amphibians Out of Experiments and Education,” GM (Spring 2019). Vegetarian/Vegan Action Newsletterfocuses on the millions of farm animals tortured and slaughtered by carnivores to satisfy their irrational demand for unhealthy meat that also contributes to CO2- causing climate change.
PETA
At the potluck pick up pamphlets from PETA: Advancing the Animal Rights Revolution. “Think Before You Eat,” “This Is Factory Farming,” and more. PETA is dedicated to protecting animals from cruelty and destruction.
PETA GLOBAL (Winter 2019) vs. Industrial Food Production.
“PETA Shakes Up World Dairy Expo.” PETA’s commandos stormed the Expos crying “Dairy Is Revolting—Revolt!” Visit PETA.org/Revolt
“’Rotting Alive’: PETA Investigation Reveals the Agony in Every Egg.” “Chickens’ Suffering won’t stop until we stop eating them and their eggs.” Go to: PETA.org/EggCruelty
CLIMATE
Google search scholarly articles for climate change, global warming, cattle, meat 4-5-19 | |
Effects of climate changes on animal production and … - Nardone - Cited by 522 Measuring impacts and adaptations to climate change: … - Seo - Cited by 299 … warming: impacting and mitigating climate change - Koneswaran - Cited by 180 | |
But the negative effect on the climate of Methane is 23 times higher than the effect of ... of beef leads to the emission of greenhouse gases with a global warming ...
Beef: 34.6 1 kg of meat from: produces kg CO2e
So, animal agriculture and meat consumption are significant contributors to global warming, but ... How does animal agriculture cause global warming? .... To full address climate change impacts, we need to consider different types of livestock ...
Jan 25, 2018 - Your burning climate question: Meat and global warming. Kendra Pierre-Louis. By Kendra Pierre-Louis. Do you have questions about climate change? ... 42 percent of agricultural emissions come from animal agriculture.
Nov 15, 2018 - A new report by a British government advisory body has called for a 20%-50% cut in the number of sheep and cattle to help combat climate ...
Tropical deforestation is responsible for about 10 percent of global warming ... and Climate Change: Scoring Global Companies on their Deforestation-Free Beef ...
Aug 4, 2018 - This report evaluates the prospects for changing management practices to reduce the climate impact of the time beef cattle spend on pasture or ...
UC DAVIS (US)—Consuming less meat and dairy products will not help stop climate ... confusion over meat and milk's role in climate change to two sentences in a ... we should focus on cutting our use of oil and coal for electricity, heating, and ... no generally accepted global breakdown of gas production by industrial sector.
Jul 19, 2018 - Fighting global warming, one cow belch at a time ... The U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says transport is responsible for 14 ... The environmental group called for global meat and dairy production and ...
Meat, egg, and milk production are not narrowly focused on the rearing and ... Global warming is one facet of climate change and refers to an average increase ...
CONTENTS Vegetarian Action #56 March 13, 2019
Health and Enjoyment
Why People Become Vegans
Best Vegan Restaurants
Vegan Drinks
No Meat Athlete
Cookbook, Podcast
“Protein for Vegetarians”
AETN Vegetarian Programs
Center for Science in the Public Interest, Nutrition Action Newsletter
Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, Good Medicine
Reducing Cruelty, Protecting Animals
Jacy Reese, Sentience Institute, The End of Animal Farming
Jackie Day, The Vegan Way
Kravitz, “Should Plant-Based Protein Be called ‘Meat.’?”
PETA GLOBAL: ADVANCING THE ANIMAL RIGHTS REVOLUTION (WINTER 2019).
Climate
“Climate Change: Is Veganism the Answer?”
Google Search 3-11-19
Contents Vegetarian Action #55, Dec. 12, 2018
END VEGETARIAN ACTION #57, April 10, 2019