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postheadericon The best argument for Vegetarian diets

Ok, I have to confess something. I am an Insectivore.

Yes, I am a bi-lobed, mono stomached, microbacillic Insectivore. That means I evolved from a long line of organisms that ate insects, and the food of insects; fruits, vegetables and rotted flesh (cooked is just artificially rotting the meat, breaking it down so our stomach bacteria can eat it). We cannot be classified as omnivores, as unlike some of them we don't eat "anything" in the way lichens eat rocks.

Like many people in the western world who have better dining options, I have experimented with "going vegetarian" yet found myself craving animal flesh. I knew it was wrong for karma, I knew it was harmful from an environmental point of view, and even for health. For that last reason alone I have reduced my animal product intake to 200gms of meatloaf a week, 5 to 7 eggs, and one litre of skimmed milk. I eat a bag of oranges, a banana a day, dates, pastas, stir fried rice and veggies (I guess the oyster sauce counts as animal) and some chocolates and sweets. But now I think I will explore a better option, which will require some creative explorations in the kitchen once again...

My good friend Chris has told me he is on the Paleolithic Diet, also known as the Neanderthal Diet, in where you're supposed to eat lots of meat, veggies and no glutens at all. He swears that his health completely turned around from it, but after watching this talk by Dr Klapper about Foods that Kill, I have to say this is the best ever and most compelling rational for a plant based diet. Watch it and see for yourself, and don't forget to Like It if you like it!

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Last Updated (Friday, 12 February 2010 18:06)

 

postheadericon Hemp, it's not just for smoking anymore!

While progressives make progress on the legal front in ending prohibition (Prohibition is a great injury to the cause of temperance. It is a species of intemperance within itself, for it goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation, and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which the American government was founded.) Here are some innovative eco-conscious entrepreneurs in the United Kingdom in full effect bringing back the industrial uses of this environmentally friendly plant, as this video explains;


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Last Updated (Wednesday, 10 February 2010 11:15)

 

postheadericon Global Dimming means Global Warming's effects worsen

Let me ask you something. How many times have you turned on right wing media only to hear some pundit disputing global warming because it was colder or snowing in Texas or whatever?

If you're like me, it could be a monthly experience. I often thought about how these cold extremes are part of wide swinging weather patterns which come about as the decline phase of a trend wave. But recently while doing some research, I cam across a rather interesting documentary about a phenomenon called "Global Dimming".

Global what?

The documentary begins with an Englishman immigrant to Israel who took measurements of the solar energy blanketing Israel as they built their national irrigation project. Fifty years later he decided to revisit the experiment, and was amazed to find that the amount of solar energy had declined drastically since the first study.

What he posited was so contrary to the awakening of global warming hype, that he was completely ignored by the scientific community. But just as the truth will always out, his research was discovered by other climatologists who had begun to collate data from around the world, indicating that since the 1950s, the earth has indeed been 'dimming'. The culprit? Particulate pollution in the atmosphere reflecting sunlight back into the atmosphere, cooling the earth, causing famines and shifts in the global weather patterns and killing millions.

So it turns out that Global Warming is being offset by this Global Dimming, and when we treat for clean visible air, without reducing the underlying greenhouse gas emissions, we could be subjecting our planet to a double-whammy of a lethal temperature rise and a depleted atmosphere.

Watch this interesting documentary and help spread the word the next time one of these right wing ditto heads tells you it snowed in Las Vegas so there is not global warming.

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Last Updated (Monday, 04 January 2010 20:41)

 

postheadericon The Wacky World of Climate Change

Climate change is nothing new.... as long as there's been a climate, there has been changes in it.

In fact, the gas life depends on, O2, is itself a pollutant, the discarded part of Carbon dioxide from the respiration of the earliest autotrophs. But that was then and this is now...

A lot of credit goes to Al Gore for his An Inconvenient Truth, but did you know that if you rewind to the Age of VCRs, there was a two cassette documentary called After the Warming which added a creative touch to the same exact message Al Gore repeated years later. This documentary reveals itself as a documentary from the future, long after mankind dealt with the destruction caused by poor stewardship of the planet Earth.

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If you go all the way back to 1958, Frank Capra made a well known educational documentary entitled Unchained Goddess for Bell Labs sponsored TV program "The Bell Telephone Hour".

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This excerpt above is from their television program "The Bell Telephone Hour." It was so well made, that it went on to educate generation after generations of bored students in middle school science classrooms across the nation for decades. For decades scientists AND the citizenry have known!

Fifty years before Al Gore's "Inconvenient Truth," this staple of science class warned
about global warming. This just shows that our scientists have known about this danger since WWII, and we have idiots arguing about stolen emails "proving" it's a ll a hoax. And if you watched the opening of today's Climate Summit in Copenhagen (Hopenhagen), you must be shaking your head in disgust at China's and America's (Chimerica) politicians chosing to ignore the dangerous implications until it really will be too late to avoid the preventable consequences.

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Last Updated (Monday, 07 December 2009 23:00)

 

postheadericon Fake meat flavors

I recently found a place to live...

think building blockI'm sharing a house with 4 other people, one of whom is a sister production worker whom I met on a job. The household is strictly VEGAN, and most of the folks here are involved in the Animal Rights movement. There's a really great dog and cat here.

My only problem with them is they cook a lot of food using "fake" dairy type ingredients. Like Cheesecake made with tofu cream cheese, or pasta sauce that's "creamy" from using, again Tofu or margarine as opposed to butter or cream.

I mean, how about some basic, normal, vegetarian food that doesn't purport to be non-vegetarian food?

How about green vegetables sauteed in olive oil over brown rice and NOTHING remotely dairy about them? Imagine if you knew a guy who was keeping Kosher, but who constantly ate fake, non-pork-based bacon. It would be alittle bit weird, wouldn't it?

Well, that's all I want to say about these folks. Anyway, it's only a minor tiff.

At least I've got my own room, with a door on it, as opposed to crashing on someone's couch in their living room. PEACE!


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Last Updated (Monday, 07 December 2009 22:59)

 
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