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 I am pasting below one of my favorite excerpts from Colleen Patrick-Goudreau’s blog.
To the animals, it’s all the same. They want to live. If they have wings, they want to fly. If they have legs, they want to walk. If they have voices, they want to communicate. If they have offspring, they want to mother them. To humans who perceive animals as inferior, their lives are here for us to end, their wings and legs are ours to eat, their voices are ours to silence or ignore, and their reproductive cycles are ours to manipulate and use. It’s not the animals but our perception of the animals that enables us to do all sorts of horrific things to them. As with any kind of prejudice, first you have to lower the societal status of the group or individual before you can actually oppress them, and we do this with animals across the board: in
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 Vegan Desserts
I’m often asked “How can you cook without eggs?” or Don’t you need eggs for that sauce?”. The answer is simple. Anyone can cook without using eggs the same way people have done for a very long time. If you asked somebody’s grandmother, she could tell you some stories. During the depression, a cake called the “crazy cake” or “wacky cake” became popular because a combination of vinegar and baking soda make the cake rise. They are very lite, easy and fun to make. I never did care for the banana bread or carrot cake recipes used often today for the very reason they are so very rich (fattening). Pancakes, cupcakes, muffins, bread, pasta, alfredo, quiche are no problem! The list is actually endless. Recently I made the most moist vanilla bean cupcakes in the world thanks to a recipe from “Vegan Cupcakes Take Over The World“. There are 268 5 star reviews
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 I am a new fan of Jonathan Safran Foer after watching him on a Larry King. Link to full WSJ article.
A modest proposal for tossing Fido in the oven
By Jonathan Safran Foer
Despite the fact that it’s perfectly legal in 44 states, eating “man’s best friend” is as taboo as a man eating his best friend. Even the most enthusiastic carnivores won’t eat dogs. TV guy and sometimes cooker Gordon Ramsay can get pretty macho with lambs and piglets when doing publicity for something he’s selling, but you’ll never see a puppy peeking out of one of his pots. And though he once said he’d electrocute his children if they became vegetarian, one can’t help but wonder what his response would be if they poached the family pooch.
Dogs are wonderful, and in many ways unique. But they are remarkably unremarkable in their intellectual and experiential capacities. Pigs are every bit as intelligent
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 “How do you get your protein?”
This is one of the most common questions I get. We need to stop obsessing about protein and start looking at our consumption of complex carbohydrates. What people should be worried about is cancer, heart disease, diabetes and obesity. These diseases of affluence and poverty are prevalent but starving from lack of protein doesn’t happen much in the united states. Humans need about 10 % of the calories we consume to be from protein. Beans, nuts, seeds, lentils, and whole grains are packed with protein. So are all vegetables as a caloric percentage, though they don’t have enough calories to sustain most people as a principal source of sustenance. These protein sources contain plenty of fiber and complex carbohydrates, where meat contains none.
According to Dr. Dean Ornish, “high-protein foods, particularly excessive animal protein, dramatically increase the risk of breast cancer, prostate cancer, heart disease, and many other illnesses. In the short run, they may
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”I eat free range eggs. Isn’t that better for the animals, my health and the environment?”
That couldn’t be further from the truth and Eggland’s Best isn’t going to run a TV commercial showing you the horrid conditions of 99% of all factory farmed animals. YUM – this is where YOUR food comes from. Most people are still confused by package labels. Here are what the terms mean.
Conventional - No label on the carton. Hens are crammed into cages not giving them even enough room to spread their wings. Imagine a chicken on a piece of 81/2 x 11 piece of paper.
Cage Free- As it says, the hens are able to move about inside a barn without being confined to cages. It usually has very little light and the stench is unbearable. A better life, but not optimal as parts of beaks are often burned to prevent pecking at themselves and
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Mark Twain
When I think of the great American author Mark Twain (1835-1910), I think of stories “ The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin” and “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”. I had no idea he was an animal rights activist who cared deeply for all sentient beings! Below are some links to some of his less known publications on anti-vivesection and the treatment of dogs and horses. The links will take you to the full stories. The truth about vivisection is that it is still being practiced today.
According to IDA*, tens of millions of animals are dissected every year, infected, injected, gassed, burned and blinded in hidden laboratories on college campuses and research facilities throughout the U.S. Still more animals are used to test the safety of cosmetics, household cleansers and other consumer products. These innocent primates, dogs, cats, rabbits, rodents and other animals are used against their will as research subjects in experiments and procedures that would
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No Queso or Cheese Quesadilla
Chipotle Sweet Potato and Black Bean Quesadilla
Feel free to double this recipe for extras.
2 small-medium size sweet potato
1/2 c black beans, drained and rinsed
1-2 chipotle pepper*, roughly chopped and add a tsp of sauce to taste
1/4 tsp cumin ( I personally think cumin can overpower dishes so taste as you go, add more or leave it out.)
Chopped cilantro (optional)
Salt to taste
2-3 tortillas
Peel, cut up and cook the sweet potato. I prefer steaming mine so they don’t get too soggy. Mash the potato, and add the cumin, chopped chipotle and adobe sauce, then mix well. Stir in the black beans. Less is more when you go to fill these.
Cook in a pan with a little Earth Balance. Fold one side over the filling and flip it after it starts to get golden colored. I use kitchen scissors to cut mine into 3 sections. Then top with salsa, sour cream (Tofutti brand) and serve.
Variations: I’ve added cooked chopped
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The Farm Sanctuary located in NY and California works to end cruelty to farm animals and promotes compassionate living through rescue, education and advocacy. They envision a world where the violence that animal agriculture inflicts upon people, animals and the environment has ended, and where instead we exercise values of compassion. Please click here to learn more about the sanctuary. If you can’t get to the Farm Sanctuary to visit all these wonderful animals, check out the Virtual Experience.
For more than two decades, Farm Sanctuary’s annual Walk for Farm Animals has helped spread the word about the treatment of animals on factory farms and raised vital funds for our rescue, education and advocacy work. The Walks are an important part of Farm Sanctuary’s history and our outreach and fundraising efforts. They are also a great way for
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 Bryan Walsh from Time Magazine brings out some interesting facts about the hidden price of feeding Americans cheap food. Have you heard about the obesity epidemic costing our health care system $147 billion a year? What about the antibiotic resistant bacteria among farm animals? Some people think eating organic is the solution but it is a long way off since less than 1% of American cropland is farmed organically.
Sow On Concrete for 4-5 yrs unable to nedge her offspring, stand up or turn around.
Somewhere in Iowa, a pig is being raised in a confined pen, packed in so tightly with other swine that their curly tails have been chopped off so they won’t bite one another. To prevent him from getting sick in such close quarters, he is dosed with antibiotics. The waste produced by the pig and his thousands of pen mates on the factory farm where they live goes into manure lagoons that
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1 – Human, 2 – Cow, 3 – Cat, 4 – Dog, 5 – Horse
I have a degree in Anthropology but you don’t need one to see the differences in the photo posted above. In my opinion it speaks for itself and the shape of our teeth and the way our jaw moves are just a few reasons why I think we are not physically designed to eat meat. Just because we can consume meat doesn’t mean we should be eating it.
Have you looked at the average waistline in our society? Most children eat the same foods their parents ate which are loaded with saturated fat, salt and sugar. My own town of Jacksonville, FL, just ranked #8 in Men’s Health as one of the fattest cities in the US and I’m not surprised! “Eighty percent of schools still serve too much greasy, fattening food to meet the government’s own nutrition guidelines,” says PCRM president Neal
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