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The day after a Lethbridge couple was found guilty on charges connected to their young son's death from meningitis, a local family who runs a health food store - and who are friends with the couple - say their hearts are heavy following the jury's verdict.
Sad News :(
Even after Exxon's climate-change cover-up, the company continues an endless search for more fossil fuels.
This edible cutlery is made from jowar, rice and wheat flour!
Edible Cutlery to replace Plastic Cutlery in India
Posted by Michael Rosen
Starbucks sells a lot of food. Breakfast sandwiches and scones and bagels and those mini muffins that are really good but strangely pricey. A couple of days ago, Starbucks announced that they will begin donating their unused food to those in need.
Italy will make supermarkets donate all of their unsold food.
Italy will likely soon pass a law that offers incentives for supermarkets, bars and restaurants to donate their unsold food rather than throwing it out. Italy’s proposed law is in the same vein as a historic law passed in France in February that made it a crime for supermarkets to throw away food. Abiding by the law comes with some big benefits for Italian markets and restaurants.
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In New York City, disposable plastic grocery bags have become a common eyesore well beyond supermarkets, bodegas, and kitchen countertops. The law passed in part on the need to cut the amount of plastic trash flowing into Casco Bay, he said, where it has become a hazard for marine animals.
“According to the New York City Department of Sanitation, residents throw out around 10 billion single-use shopping bags a year, incurring $12.5 million in disposal costs.”
Be part of the solution! Don’t wait for the law to make you change.
Buy This Book! People’s Pops of Brooklyn offers an amazing recipe book that is all you need to guide your fresh-fruit popsicle-making adventures.
Advancements in plant-protein are the kind of technological innovations the world desperately needs. In fact, it may be one of the only real shots we have to make our future on this planet possible.
How can technology create a healthy, sustainable food system that benefits human and nonhuman animals? @onegreenplanet might have the answer.
Make Popsicles, Eliminate Waste! It’s a great way to minimize shrinkage of fruits and vegetables and close the production loop.
Fan of coffee? Maybe Starbucks specifically? Many are, but did you know you have the option of having something other than a plastic or paper cup next time you enjoy your coffee at their location? Like other smaller coffee shops in your area, if you visit a Starbucks and enjoy it there, you can ask for an actual GLASS and they will provide it.
This reduces unnecessary waste which is often not recycled, and is kinda cool because chances are you will be one of the only, if not THE only person there with a glass. As I sat and read a book there recently I saw person after person order their drink without requesting a glass, sit down and enjoy it over some nice conversation, then throw it away shortly thereafter not knowing the more sustainable option available. So next time you visit a Starbucks near you, ask for the glass, and tell a friend. This could have a huge impact!
Are Dairy Farms Destroying the Great Lakes?
According to West Michigan’s WZZM 13 news, dairy farmers are dumping manure into the Great Lakes and its waterways, killing fish:
On an August weekend in 2009, campers in the Port Huron State Game Area began to realize there was something terribly wrong with the Black River. They were finding dead fish floating on the river’s surface. Eventually, the cause of the fish kill was traced to an excessive application of liquid cow manure at Noll Dairy Farm in Croswell.
To make matters worse, manure contamination has made large algae blooms a seasonal occurrence in Lake Erie.
Many pig and cow farmers store manure in giant lagoons. Jim Reid, who maintains 200 cows on a dairy farm in Illinois, reports that even his small herd produces a whopping 17,600 pounds of manure daily!
“The problem is you have too many animals in one location,” says Lynn Henning, a field representative for Socially Responsible Agricultural Project. Henning describes these lagoons as “toxic soup.”
Besides polluting precious waterways, manure lagoons make people living in neighboring areas sick. Local residents often complain of headaches from ammonia. In some places, farm workers have been overcome by these fumes and died.
The best thing we can do to protect the environment, people, and animals is to boycott the industry that abuses them.
For delicious recipes and information on adopting a compassionate plant-based diet, click here.
Pollution is turning your sushi into a biological weapon
There is a protein in your body called P-gp that ejects unwanted chemicals from your insides. But new research suggests there’s something in seafood that could make that protein worthless. Researchers tested yellowfin tuna to detect traces of Persistent Organic Pollutants. The team focused on the 10 most common chemicals they found and it turns out that all of them interfered with P-gp’s ability to protect your cells. But it gets even worse.
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Denmark Considers Taxing Meat to Combat Climate Change
According to a recent article in the Independent, Denmark’s ethics council is calling for a tax on red meat to help fight climate change.
As cattle contribute one-tenth of global methane emissions, the government think tank says people are “ethically obliged” to change their eating habits.
The council proposes that the tax start with beef because of its large environmental impact, but suggests it eventually be expanded to all foods at varying levels depending on climate impact. The measure garnered the overwhelming majority of council votes and will now be put forward for consideration by the government.
A press release states that this measure is key to meeting the United Nations’ recent COP21 Paris climate change goals that aim to keep the global temperature rise well below 2°C.
Meat taxes aren’t new. Late last year, Chatham House, a British think tank, released a study recommending governments implement a meat tax to fight climate change.
The Chatham report asserts that any resistance to a meat tax would be short-lived. People would initially resist it, as they have cigarette taxes, but provided government officials offered a clear rationale, they would grow to accept the need for such a measure. The connection between meat consumption and climate change has been making headlines. Just take a look at this VICE News piece detailing the dramatic impacts a typical Western diet has on our planet.
You can be part of the solution by ditching animal products. Click here to order your FREE Vegetarian Starter Guide today.
What you consume becomes the life you live. Be conscious of the cycles you’re creating through thoughts, words, and actions. #consciousconsumer #pinealpower #millenials #media #entertainment #cycle #frequencies #consciouscreator #staymystical #justcreate #artknows #feelgood #selfvalidation #purpose #defineyoursuccess
A massive proportion of our everyday food is contaminated with pesticide!
#StandUpToVerizon #VerizonStrike: Thousands of Verizon workers on strike marched on Wall Street and demanded better pay and fair labor practices. Executives have continued to cut costs and ship jobs overseas, which has hurt working families and destroyed middle class jobs. More than 400 protests were held nationwide, at Verizon Wireless stores and other locations in dozens of cities. This is the third continuous week of the Verizon strike.
Eating Animals, by Jonathan Safran Foer
For the vast majority of my life, I have treasured meat as the tastiest part of my diet. My English grandmother did most of the cooking when I was growing up, and almost every night my family ate some kind of meal that centered on meat, gravy, and mashed potatoes. Like most children the only part I ever complained about was the vegetables. As I got older I gained some health consciousness, started eating more fruits and vegetables, switched from white bread to whole wheat, and lost my rampant childhood enthusiasm for fast food. Starting to care about nutrition, I think, is a normal transition that most people go through as they mature. In my teenage years I felt pretty good about where I was diet-wise, and I remained enthusiastic about meat. I ate hamburgers at barbecues, ordered pepperoni pizza for delivery, and went to Charlie Brown’s on Wednesdays for cheap buffalo wings with friends. I did not think too hard about the cows, pigs, and chickens of the equation. When I did I always ended up with the same justification: in nature animals kill each other. We are animals too. End of story. I did not really know anything about where the food came from, and how the animals were raised. I never took the time to look until this year.
For the 2011 spring semester I registered for a Food & Politics class, and there are about two weeks left now until it is over. Learning about the food industry, like learning about a lot of things for me, was something that I needed a teacher for to really motivate me. We started out on the effects of corn monocultures, how a lot of diversity in the supermarket is really just composed of cleverly manipulated corn products, and how the pesticides and the oil consumption necessary for our agricultural system are harmful to the environment. It was all fascinating, but I have been hearing about carbon emissions and pesticides for a long time. I do not eat too many processed foods, so the ‘corn is in everything’ readings did not scare me too much either. I was not about to change my life to support the cause.
Then we read Eating Animals, by Jonathan Safran Foer (2009). It was, by far, the most shocking book I had ever read for school. The meat industry, since it was industrialized over the course of the 20th century, has changed into something out of a nightmare. 99.9% of chickens raised for meat, 99% of turkeys, 95% of pigs, and 78% of cattle are raised on factory farms, called Concentrated Animal Feeding Oprations (CAFO’s). I had an inkling of this before I read the book, but the specifics really shocked me. The animals are so tightly confined that they often can not even turn around. Because of the filth that they live in, all of the animals all need steady regiments of antibiotics, and to add muscle mass they also get hormones. Cows are fed grain because it is cheap and makes the meat taste better, even though they have evolved to eat grass and grain causes them health problems. Pigs are often so miserable that they try to eat each other, so the workers cut off the pigs’ tails to prevent cannibalism. The same strategy is employed with chickens’ beaks. No anesthetic is used for either procedure. Chickens are often raised in pitch blackness, never even seeing the sun. And, what is even worse, there is documentation of widespread, brutal animal torture in the factories including beating, strangling, skinning, mutilating, and even drowning the animals in their own feces (Foer 2009).
The toll does not stop at animal cruelty. Foer (2009) illustrates how CAFO’s are terrible for the environment. This is largely a result of the massive manure output of the facilities. The method of storage for this manure is simply to pump it into massive lagoon, which can be as large as 120,000 square feet and as deep as 30 feet. These lagoons are prone to leakage. In 1995, Smithfield, the nation’s largest pork producer, spilled 20 million gallons of manure into a North Carolina river. This ecological disaster, twice the size of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, was one of 7,000 other violations of the Clean Water Act that Smithfield was convicted of in 1997. They were fined a pitiful $12.6 million, which they currently make every ten hours (Foer 2009).
So I have decided to make a second major food transition in my life, and I hope it sticks. I have not eaten meat in two months, and I do not miss it. It does not disgust me, and in fact it still looks and smells great. But when I look at a chicken breast now it is hard for me not to think of where it came from. I do not really have a problem with eating meat in principle, and I might go back to it one day if I find a source that seems ethical. The way that meat is produced in America today, however, is sad, irresponsible, and cruel. I know that my vegetarianism does not do much in the way of stopping it, but I rest a little easier anyway knowing that I am doing something. I will see how it goes.
References
Foer, Jonathan Safran. Eating Animals. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2009.
