E-Blast August 10, 2010

Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age how new technology is changing us from consumers to collaborators, unleashing a torrent of creative production that will transform our world > read Shirky

E V E N T S  4  U: (Mark your calendar)

July 4^th Miami Springs’ Parade Review: Thanks to Constance Brandenburg for her key role, making EarthSave’s float a success!

ESM PotluckSOUTH- inspiring, entertaining Miami for 16 years!  Attendance: May- 55, April- 88

July 11 – Noon FREE ‘Famous (Vegan) Talk on Yoga and Food’ by Fred Busch at Miami Yogashala

210a 23rd St. Mia Beach. This lecture also serves as the kickoff lecture for those who are doing the South Beach Detox program. Yoga students are genuinely suggested to attend this program as it will hold the keys to development of your Yoga practice in all its dimensions 305 606 2169 > http://www.miamiyoga.com/detox.html

July 12 – 13  Greater Everglades Community Food Summit MDC Wolfson Campus rm. 3201 300 NE 2nd Ave 33132 Eenvision and design a local food system in southern Florida that is vibrant, healthy, just, sustainable and resilient!  Special Pricing with Ecological Integrity, next > http://FoodSummit

July 13 2:30- 5:45 pm  ‘Ecological Integrity: Reconnecting Humans, Health and Habitat’ CONFERENCE  at Hotel Sofitel, Miami.  Drs. M and V Shiva with a panel of experts: Prof. Mahadev Bhat, Léonie Hermantin- Lambi Fund, Susan Luck- pres. EarthRose Institute  Cost- $45; $15 students.  Dinner-$50; students $25 at 6- 8:00 pm  Special rate for conference and dinner.  EarthSave Table volunteers needed  > http://earthjuris.org/events/

July 14 9:30am-3pm Food Policy Council Training MDC Wolfson Campus, 3208-9 (Building 3.)  Community food organizations and agriculture interests will determine if a Dade food policy council can promote a just and sustainable food system.  $25.  Trainer- Mark Winne, Community Food Security Coalition.  Sponsor- Earth Learning Collaborative  305 3238858 events@earth-learning.org > http://earth-learning.org/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=51&-7-14-Food-Policy-Council-Training=&Itemid=77

July 19-30 9am-4pm Once Upon A Carrot  cooking instructor Cindy Hill’s 2-week summer camp for youngsters at Miami Beach Botanical Garden. Classes include whole food cooking instruction, nutritional fun and facts, multi-cultural recipes, gardening and field games. Students prepare nutritious lunches daily with organic, wholesome foods >call 305-496-4591

July 22 7-9pm Dr. Michael Greger LECTURE at Tamarac Community Center Ballroom- a night of fun, food, and learning!  A leading physician in the field of nutritional medicine. Dr. Greger’s researche is presented in a delightful quiz show format with prizes.  8601 W. Commercial Blvd.  FREE food samples  > 954-971-4432

July 22-26  ‘Power of Self Care CONFERENCE’ Regency Spa 2000 S. Ocean Dr., Hallandale Beach 33009 • 1-800-454-0003 • 954-454-2220 experts will share the healthiest effective strategies with you.  Interactive Q&A Sessions  • Raw and cooked Vegan food demos  • Daily Fitness Walks

• Ocean Aqua / Pool Classes  • Yoga, Pilates, Tai Chi  • Meditation / Relaxation Session  • Salsa / Belly Dancing classes  • Pampering Spa Treatments  • Evening Music / Entertainment  • 3 Delicious Vegetarian Meals daily  • Knowledge, Inner Peace > http://HealthyConference

July 24 11:30- 2:30pm  1 of 3 part healthy vegan culinary class with Juliana Garcia in Coral Gables  $75.00 > myvegancuisineClass 

July 25 10am- 5pm  Workshop: The Healing Power of the Garden  Happahatchee Eco Center  Sugg. Donation $20 Includes an Organic Lunch    RSVP > www.generationawareness.org or 239 398 9123

Aug 19-23 2010 NHA Healthy Living Conference Natural Hygiene (aka Health Science) is to the body what deep ecology is to the planet.  Fantastic speakers can inspire the changes you want in your life!  Vegan meals, fitness classes at the Health Club, fun and like-minded people from around the world.  Flamingo Conference Resort & Spa  Santa Rosa, CA 800-848-8300 > http://2010 Conference

Sept. 24-26 Raw Spirit Festival > Info & Tickets

October 1-6 IVU World Vegetarian Congress 2010  > Http://Www.Wvc2010.Org

Saturdays in June, 1-3pm FREE Cooking Classes "What to eat for each meal" by vegan chef, Brook Katz.  Bazaar and Farmer's Market, Tamarac University Dr./Southgate Blvd- next to bowling alley 954-971-4432

Tuesdays 8pm Health Video Night Join Bennett Josephson for Movie & Discussion relating to Natural health, Veganism, Yoga lifestyle at his N. Miami Bch. home  305-949-8950

Second Saturdays 9am– 2pm EarthSave Table Environmental Center Open House at Miami Dade College, Kendall, 11011 SW 104 St (across baseball field) 9 acre nature preserve > secondsaturdays

C’ M O N, T A K E  A C T I O N:

Spanish translators wanted - make EarthSave Miami website bilingual.  Contact Webmaster, Noel > earthsave@earthlink.net

July 19 LOBBY DAY  The Equal Justice Alliance is a coalition of animal protection and other social justice organizations formed in November of 2006 to defend freedom of speech and assembly by defeating the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act.  AETA denies equal protection to social justice activists and restricts our freedom of speech and assembly. It unfairly brands as terrorism any activities that cross a state line and interfere with the operation of an animal enterprise or of any entity that deals with one. Such activities may include website posts, peaceful vigils, nonviolent civil disobedience, undercover investigations, and whistle-blowing > http://www.equaljusticealliance.org/index.htm

Vegan Mastery Program If you'd like to thrive on a plant-sourced only diet, whip up delicious meals in 10-30 minutes, and stop being vulnerable to vitamin and mineral deficiencies, here's great news... Created by The Vegetarian Health Institute, it’s a series of 50 lessons. The first 200 new students will get the early bird bonus package – FREE 15-day trial > http:VeganMastery

President's Cancer Panel ‘…public health officials have "grossly underestimated" the extent of environmentally-induced cancer among the in 1.5 million Americans diagnosed with the disease annually

>9 Env. Cancer Prevention Tips

Home Farming Community - dialogue and gather information to reap food that is deliciously fresh, penny-wise, healthier for themselves and the planet > http://www.kraftbrands.com/homefarming/pages/default.aspx

Wild edible foraging can be so much fun and a most nourishing way to get unsprayed, nutrient-packed food into your family's diet > www.rawmom.com

M E D I a:  (Online Links May Change)

Video: Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. shockingly reveals a Vaccine Safety Coverup, a clear-cut link between AUTISM and vaccines’ thimerisol, the dismal failure of responsible governance, corrupted science and money over health > http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/888.html

Video: The 2010 Skoll World Forum The complexity and scale of today’s ‘wicked problems’ demand we raise our game. Social entrepreneurs with innovative solutions to critical issues of climate change, water scarcity, poverty, education and public health, cannot achieve impact at scale without forging cross-sector partnerships and alliances > http://www.skollworldforum.com/forum-2010/2010-video 

More Videos: Social Entrepreneurs Pioneer Change > http://www.youtube.com/skollfoundation

V e g a n. c o m: Blog by Erik Marcus: 

1. Book Review: The CAFO Reader—The Tragedy of Industrial Animal Factories  no other book provides such a thorough introduction to factory farming—and how you can play a role in toppling this system

2. Marion Nestle Can’t be Bought  One effective but slimy tactic industry uses to win positive media coverage is to offer reporters all-expense-paid junkets to exotic locations. The grateful reporter often returns the favor by writing a puff-piece, neglecting proper mention or consideration of the clear conflict of interest.

The trouble with this approach is that some reporters have integrity. Her article mentions the fact that the seafood industry imports immigrants to work, “…12- to 16-hour days, six or seven days a week, for months at a time.” She then covers problems associated with overfishing. If that’s not enough to send Alaska’s fish industry into apoplexy, Nestle ends the article by writing: I haven’t said anything about methylmercury and PCBs, fish safety, international disputes over fishing rights, or issues about organic or farmed fish. For these topics, see the five chapters on fish in > What to Eat

3. CSPI Threatens to Sue McDonald’s Over Happy Meal Toys  Never forget that the biggest threat to factory farming and the fast food industry comes, not from vegans or animal rights people, but from the far more mainstream groups funded primarily by conscientious omnivores.  The Center for Science in the Public Interest  is now threatening McDonald’s with a lawsuit regarding its use of Happy Meal toys. Excerpts:

McDonald’s practice of dangling toys in front of children is illegal, regardless of what meal the child eventually gets.  Although the Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommends diets centered on vegetables, fruits, whole grains, low-fat dairy, and lean protein, McDonald’s Happy Meals consist largely of white flour, fried meat, fried potatoes, salt, and refined sugars. Although McDonald’s promotes its health bona fides by talking about the healthier versions of the Happy Meal, the reality is that most of what McDonald’s actually dishes out to kids is simply inconsistent with the Dietary Guidelines for Americans and other authoritative nutrition advice > linK

4. Article: >Four Fish author Paul Greenberg on the collapse of bluefin tuna populations

5.  Historic news: > Ohio Humane ballot initiative has been called off in exchange for a string of important animal cruelty concessions (from HSUS’ press release):

§ A ban on veal crates by 2017, which is the same timing as the ballot measure.

§ A ban on new gestation crates in the state after Dec. 31, 2010. Existing facilities are grandfathered, but must cease use of these crates within 15 years.

§ A moratorium on permits for new battery cage confinement facilities for laying hens.

§ A ban on strangulation of farm animals and mandatory humane euthanasia methods for sick or injured animals.

§ A ban on the transport of downer cows for slaughter, etc.

6. City Council of the District of Columbia > ceremonial resolution encouraging city residents to “abstain from animal products on Mondays.”

7. US Food and Drug Administration appears to have concluded that it's too risky for American farmers to carry on > giving their animals antibiotics simply to make them grow fatter, faster.  The reason is to break the link between development of farmyard bacteria resistant to antibiotics and the spread of these "superbugs" through the food chain to hospitals and human communities > Link

8. Utah Health Department “…arsenic from feed is winding up in eggs and the people who eat them.”  Egg eaters who don’t care about cruelty to battery hens may well care about this > Link

9. the psychiatric industry is now pushing the most ridiculous disease they've invented yet- Healthy eating disorder. Orthorexics commonly have rigid rules around eating. Refusing to touch sugar, salt, caffeine, alcohol, wheat, gluten, yeast, soya, corn and dairy foods is just the start of their diet restrictions. Any foods that have come into contact with pesticides, herbicides or contain artificial additives are also out > http:/orthorexia-mental-health

C O O L   S T U F F:

Taylor’s Tropicals  Summertime is the best time to maximize nutrition and hydration by consuming as much fresh organic tropical fruit as possible. Fortunately, one young man has been working very hard for years now to bring us a variety of luscious local tropical fruit > www.TaylorsTropicals.org

“When all the trees have been cut down, when all the animals have been hunted, when all the waters are polluted, when all the air is unsafe to breathe, only then will you discover you cannot eat money."

- Cree teaching 

A C T I V I S T  C O R N E R:

Vegan Hero Fred Tyler has reached nearly 86,000 individuals with Vegan Outreach detailed booklets. “I got a Why Vegan? pamphlet in the summer of 1996. At that point, I had never heard about factory farming, or thought about where my food was coming from. After reading the Why Vegan?, I knew I had to change…

Vegan Outreach’s all-time leading leafleter, Jon “The Animal” Camp.  Jon has handed a VO booklet directly to more than 600,000 people! > www.veganoutreach.org

The American Dietetic Association (ADA) wants to create a monopoly on state nutritional licensure. This organization—which lists among its corporate sponsors soft drink giants Coca-Cola and PepsiCo, cereal manufacturers General Mills and Kellogg's, candy maker Mars, and Unilever, the multinational corporation that owns many of the world's consumer products brands in foods and beverages—already has a stranglehold on who can dispense nutritional counseling at the state level.

KidsHelpAnimals.com Kids News page: 12 children and youth overcame any fears of public speaking knowing that persecuted wildlife needed their voice. Fla Wildlife Commissioners stated that Fox Penning will be prohibited in Florida. Training Not Torture was formed when a Florida family living next door to a fox penning operation heard the cries of a coyote victim.

Kucinich on GMOs: Why do we continue to throw precaution to the wind?  Today the Supreme Court ruled that when it comes to genetically modified organisms, we as consumers have to wait until the damage is done and obvious before we can act to protect health and the environment, even if that damage could be irreversible > www.organicconsumers.org

"If you put a label on genetically engineered food you might as well put a skull and crossbones on it."

- Norman Braksick, president of Asgrow Seed Co., a subsidiary of Monsanto, quoted in the Kansas City Star, March 7, 1994

Daily Mail report: Prof Frank Fenner claimed that the human race will be unable to survive a population explosion and "unbridled consumption"… since humans have entered an unofficial scientific period known as the Anthropocene - the time since industrialization - we have had an effect on the planet that rivals any ice age or comet impact

W I S E R  A D V I S O R:

Vegesave promotes mentoring - vegans are sharing their food/lifestyle to help others counteract the effects of SAD diets. Save an Omnivore You Love

Cholesterol- and blood pressure-lowering drugs carry serious risks. All medications have side effects. Typically a drug has to be on the market for many years to discern all the long-term risks. The pharmaceutical industry performing their own “research” has a long and consistent record of playing down the discovered dangers of their products and embellishing the advantages. Of course, physicians also give the impression that drugs are necessary, when in fact they are not always… the safest and most effective treatment is a high-nutrient diet-style combined with exercise- Dr. Joel Fuhrman  > www.DrFuhrman.com   

Treating Depression > http://selfhealthresourcecenter Diet is Important  It’s important to realize that there are other approaches to the treatment of depression. One of these is food. If you suffer from depression you will benefit if you eat whole foods with a low GI and GL diet.  Avoid Caffeine

Caffeine can increase anxiety and anxiety can lead to depression. Instead, enjoy herbal teas, such as chamomile and peppermint. Avoid or Reduce Alcohol Intake  alcohol can severely exacerbate depression and anxiety and can delete important nutrients, including B vitamins, that are vital in maintaining a sense of wellbeing.  Reduce Saturated Fats Avoid deep fried food and fast food. Turn instead to home cooked lean meats and vegetables

Dr. McDougall Reports: Dr. Andrew Weil’s article in the Huffington Post has led his readers to believe that saturated fats… are better for them to eat than carbohydrates, which are from plant foods. He bases this on a March 2010 analysis that was “published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition”… failed to mention that the National Dairy Council funded this study > http://www.drmcdougall.com/misc/2010other/news/weil.htm

G A R D E N  N I C H E:

Something magical happens when compost kisses your garden soil.  It energizes your soil with fertility-boosting nutrients. It fluffs up your soil, making it easier to work in. It vaccinates your soil against disease. It preserves life-giving moisture. And it actually invigorates the soil with thousands of beneficial life forms to enrich and protect your garden > www.organicgardening.com

C H E F  J E F F:

‘Chew your food as much as possible to extract maximum nutritional and physiological values;’

If you ever microwave, and I believe it is inherently dangerous- Never Microwave in Plastic Dish

Chef Damon Brasch is Owner and Chef at Green New American Vegetarian Restaurant
Tempe, Arizona.  He hosted a “Carnivore Caravan” where customers could receive a free meal by bringing in a certain number of non-vegetarian friends

EarthSave  S I N G E R S:  Suggest your favorite lyrics / join us with instrument or voice. Contact Bonnie boddicke@fiu.edu  Repertoire- Jay Mankita(Junk Food Man, Sun and Wind, Soil and Rain) Linda Singer(Keep The Animals Off Your Plate) Joyce DiBenedetto-Colton(Soy To The World, Free The Cows, Veggie Wonderland)  Tim Tye(As You Want To Be)  Dana Lyons(Cows With Guns, The Tree)

H Q: Jeff Nelson reports a successful John Robbins “Father’s Day Event.” 

R E S O U R C E S:

Free materials to GO VEG:    www.vegpledge.com   http://www.veganoutreach.org/guide/                                                                               http://www.bornfreeusa.org/chooseveggie/   http://www.goveg.com/order.asp   http://www.vegkit.org   mercyforanimals starter-kit     http://www.afa-online.org/starterpack.html

Noel Cleland scanned the Healthy School Lunch Program guide.  It will be available electronically subject to copyright research.

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EarthSave: Donations and nominal membership fees are 501C3 tax-deductible – Members get free home subscriptions to: Vegetarian Times magazine + EarthSave International Newspaper + ESMiami Newsletter plus admission to events (Online transactions or at Potluck- Gift Memberships available!)  Volunteer:  EarthSave Singers is recruiting voices, instruments (Bonnie-boddicke@fiu.edu).  Attend our Outreach Table at local events (Linda Bower, Coordinator 305 228-1116)  Donate: photos of past ESM events

Vegetarily Yours,

Jeff ‘VeganMan’ Tucker

Chairperson, Miami Chapter of EarthSave Int’l
PO Box 661026   Miami Springs, FL 33266   Tel: 305 228-1116 miami@earthsave.org 

E V E N T S  4  U: (Mark your calendar)

ESM PotluckSOUTH inspiring and entertaining Miamians for 16 years!  Attendance: May- 55, April- 88. 

June 26 6:15pm Vegan Potluck  Movie & Panel Discussion: Processed People: antidote to America’s toxic lifestyle
How did we get here and what can we do?  We’re processed because we let them process us. Is health our natural state? Our weight, our debt and our consumption are out of control. Eat food don’t eat food-like things! A processed person is someone who’s bought into the media hype about the way we’ve always eaten or lived. Fast food, fast medicine, fast news and fast lives have turned many Americans into a sick, uninformed, indebted, "processed" people... but accurate, proven information is the antidote, the way to get off the "health care" treadmill   Discussion: EarthSave Core Group & Friends  Representing our Mission Statement we’ll offer guests a lively forum to share opinions, answer questions, review the issues which confront ethical vegans and green activists, attempting to break the ‘processed people’ cycle  > Coral Gables Cong. Church Fellowship Hall (NW corner of church) 3010 DeSoto Blvd. (across from Biltmore Hotel) Members & First-timers: Free   Guests $5 Bring a Healthy*vegan dish  8-10 portions with your place setting  $1 No Plate Fee   $8 No Food Fee  Everyone welcome   Taste   Share   Learn  *no meat, fish, eggs, dairy, GMO’s, honey, transfats, hydrogenated oils, chemical additives  Unsure what to bring?  Try organic green salad or fresh fruit  Best Parking: School lot across street.  To avoid towing Do Not Park on private property across street.

June 28 7pm EarthSave Table at P.A.T.H. meeting Museum of Science www.pathusa.org

July 7-11  Vegetarian Summerfest at University of Pittsburgh, Johnstown, PA.  Over Fifty Speakers.  Register Now.  Educational sessions, Health and nutrition, lifestyle issues, cooking, recipes, exercise and fitness, animal rights, compassionate living, Earth stewardship, Social gatherings for all ages, vegan meals.  On 650 acres with 40 acres of hiking trails > http://www.vegetariansummerfest.org

July 12 – 13  Greater Everglades Community Food Summit MDC Wolfson Campus rm. 3201 300 NE 2nd Ave 33132 Eenvision and design a local food system in southern Florida that is vibrant, healthy, just, sustainable and resilient!  Special Pricing with Ecological Integrity, next > http://FoodSummit

July 13 2:30- 5:45 pm  ‘Ecological Integrity: Reconnecting Humans, Health and Habitat’ CONFERENCE  at Hotel Sofitel, Miami.  Drs. M and V Shiva with a panel of experts: Prof. Mahadev Bhat, Léonie Hermantin- Lambi Fund, Susan Luck- pres. EarthRose Institute  Cost- $45; $15 students.  Dinner-$50; students $25 at 6- 8:00 pm  Special rate for conference and dinner.  EarthSave Table volunteers needed  > http://earthjuris.org/events/

July 14 9:30am-3pm Food Policy Council Training MDC Wolfson Campus, 3208-9 (Building 3.)  Community food organizations and agriculture interests will determine if a Dade food policy council can promote a just and sustainable food system.  $25.  Trainer- Mark Winne, Community Food Security Coalition.  Sponsor- Earth Learning Collaborative  305 3238858 events@earth-learning.org > http://earth-learning.org/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=51&-7-14-Food-Policy-Council-Training=&Itemid=77

July 22 7-9pm Dr. Michael Greger LECTURE at Tamarac Community Center Ballroom- a night of fun, food, and learning!  A leading physician in the field of nutritional medicine. Dr. Greger’s researche is presented in a delightful quiz show format with prizes.  8601 W. Commercial Blvd.  FREE food samples  > 954-971-4432

July 22-26  ‘Power of Self Care CONFERENCE’ Regency Spa 2000 S. Ocean Dr., Hallandale Beach 33009 • 1-800-454-0003 • 954-454-2220 experts will share the healthiest effective strategies with you.  Interactive Q&A Sessions  • Raw and cooked Vegan food demos  • Daily Fitness Walks

• Ocean Aqua / Pool Classes  • Yoga, Pilates, Tai Chi  • Meditation / Relaxation Session  • Salsa / Belly Dancing classes  • Pampering Spa Treatments  • Evening Music / Entertainment  • 3 Delicious Vegetarian Meals daily  • Knowledge, Inner Peace > http://HealthyConference

July 24 11:30- 2:30pm  1 of 3 part healthy vegan culinary class with Juliana Garcia in Coral Gables  $75.00 > myvegancuisineClass  

July 25 10am- 5pm  Workshop: The Healing Power of the Garden  Happahatchee Eco Center  Sugg. Donation $20 Includes an Organic Lunch    RSVP > www.generationawareness.org or 239 398 9123

Aug 19-23 2010 NHA Healthy Living Conference Natural Hygiene (aka Health Science) is to the body what deep ecology is to the planet.  Fantastic speakers can inspire the changes you want in your life!  Vegan meals, fitness classes at the Health Club, fun and like-minded people from around the world.  Flamingo Conference Resort & Spa  Santa Rosa, CA 800-848-8300 > http://2010 Conference

Sept. 24-26 Raw Spirit Festival > Info & Tickets

October 1-6 IVU World Vegetarian Congress 2010  > Http://Www.Wvc2010.Org

10-10-10 One Day On Earth worldwide documentary project >http://www.onedayonearth.org/

Saturdays in June, 1-3pm FREE Cooking Classes "What to eat for each meal" by vegan chef, Brook Katz.  Bazaar and Farmer's Market, Tamarac University Dr./Southgate Blvd- next to bowling alley 954-971-4432

Tuesdays 8pm Health Video Night Join Bennett Josephson for Movie & Discussion relating to Natural health, Veganism, Yoga lifestyle at his N. Miami Bch. home  305-949-8950

Second Saturdays 9am– 2pm EarthSave Table Environmental Center Open House at Miami Dade College, Kendall, 11011 SW 104 St (across baseball field) 9 acre nature preserve > secondsaturdays

C’ M O N, T A K E  A C T I O N:

Spanish translators wanted to make EarthSave Miami website bilingual.  Webmaster, Noel > earthsave@earthlink.net

Participant Study, UM: do whole-food supplements (a. with Gingko biloba, grape seed extract, and choline, b. grape seed extract, green tea extract, vitamins D, A, C, B6, thiamine, and riboflavin) affect cognitive functioning? Center for Complementary and Integrative Medicine, Dr. John Lewis 305-243-6227 jelewis@miami.edu\

M E D I a:  (Online Links May Change)

Video about corporate control of seeds http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/861.html

Dr. Rima discusses the US’s role in Codex Alimentarius > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfCni-LuR_c ;  survey asking if you think that the US should participate in Codex Alimentarius > http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/t/1128/questionnaire.jsp?questionnaire_KEY=1042 take a

Best Videos on Genetically Modified Food and Crops.  We've trawled the web in search of the best videos on GM and related issues. You've sent us your favourites, and together we've created a fascinating and informative collection. GMWatch video collection > http://www.gmwatch.eu  > http://bit.ly/ao3jWd

Website: Organic Farming Research Assn.  Fosters the improvement and widespread adoption of organic farming systems.  Sponsors research and education & outreach projects through our competitive grantmaking program > http://ofrf.org

Video: Pig Business  Did you know that forests in the Amazon are being clearcut to grow soy as feed for gigantic pig operations thousands of miles away in Eastern Europe? Did you know that small pig producers in Poland are losing their traditional livelihoods because of the influx of huge U.S. hog corporations? Learn about these critical global links—Order a copy of Pig Business, a compelling documentary, and get the Pig Picture!

> http://www.pigbusiness.co.uk/the_film

ABC News Clip: many people might consider a hard-core vegan diet, no meat or animal products, as too extreme a solution. A diet using just about that formula is getting national attention all because of a popular food critic from the New York Times, Mark Bittman -- now, perhaps better known as   Vegan Before 6 > http://abcl vegan news

Video: Money, Politics & the Truth of Health.  Campbell Coalition for Health Change  >  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjNi8MFqQoY  

Book: Frances Moore Lappe’s daughter, Anna wrote Diet for a Hot Planet, in which she continues where her mother left off and explores the intersection between global climate change and the way we eat.  “...if we are serious about addressing climate change, we have to talk about food.”  www.smallplanet.org

C O O L   S T U F F:

Osbourne goes Veg  Bat-munching rocker Ozzy Osbourne has become a vegetarian. The former Black Sabbath front man shocked fans and angered animal lovers when he famously bit the head off a bat onstage in 1982.  But the rock wild man's flesh-eating days are over. "I've pretty much become a vegetarian... I don't even drink milk, apart from a splash in my tea.” > http://www.vegsource.com/news/2010/06/ozzy-osbourne-goes-veg.html

VRG'S Guide To Food Ingredients lists the uses, sources, and definitions of 200 common food ingredients available online > http://www.vrg.org/ingredients/

Quoted: Brent Knoll-  Gardens are one of the most powerful ways to connect with nature and the energy that sustains us.  Planting, cultivating and nurturing a garden requires knowledge and compassion or love  for another living thing that in return will provide you with a sense of accomplishment, empowerment and a deeper connection with your food that you eat.  When we truly understand the healing power of a garden we quickly realize that this is the ultimate trade off of our mother earth, we take care of her and her and she humbly returns the favor.

>VeggieFair in Zagreb (Croatia) On the occasion of the World Environment Day in Zagreb the fair presented ten exhibitors with plenty of fruits, vegetables, legumes, while the visitors could taste seitan, tofu, salamis, sausages, burgers, and vegan cookies. The petition for an introduction of vegetarian meals into public institutions also has been offered for signing on the fair.

A C T I V I S T  C O R N E R:

At Gary Yourofsky’s June 10 talk to Prof. Fink’s MDC philosophy class, a local activist was inconsolably weeping over the Conklin Dairy video.  This horrific footage of malevolent animal abuse helped Gary convince a room full of college students that Meat is Violence On Your Plate.  Gary’s 250 lectures this year make veganism real and personal to his audiences, cutting through the myths and falsehoods of a meat-addicted culture > www.adaptt.org

Provide a supportive environment for vegans and those on the path to becoming vegan; to learn and practice their speaking and leadership skills; speeches relating to veganism, animal rights and welfare, the environment and health are encouraged > http://www.vegantoastmasters.org

“Carnivorism is only one step from cannibalism.  The definition of meat in Genesis refers to herbs and fruits so non-vegans are technically corpse-eaters or animal flesh-eaters.” – Morton Genser

“Although I have been prevented by outward circumstances from observing a strictly vegetarian diet, I have long been an adherent to the cause in principle. Besides agreeing with the aims of vegetarianism for aesthetic and moral reasons, it is my view that a vegetarian manner of living by its purely physical effect on the human temperament would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind."  Albert Einstein

The United States Supreme Court announced its decision today in Monsanto v. Geerston Farms, the first genetically modified crop case ever brought before the Supreme Court.  Although the High Court decision reverses parts of the lower courts’ rulings, the judgment holds that the ban on planting Roundup Ready Alfalfa still stands

W I S E R  A D V I S O R:

I defer to Swami Beyondananda’s (Steve Bhaerman) BeyondaNews: It Takes a Pillage and a Spillage to Wake the Village... now that Obama has presented BP with a $20 billion invoice, maybe it takes a billage to stop the drillage... Suggestion as the new planetary operating system: "We are here to re-grow the Garden, and have a heaven of a time doing it."

C H E F  J E F F: Take off the tall, white chef hat, pick up a crate of melons for summer health; Locally-grown Nopales are a vegetable, made from the young stem segments of prickly pear, carefully peeled to remove the spines...  Nopal contains a high percentage of carbohydrate fibers known as mucilage and pectin. Mucilage is a substance that does not dissolve, but it does absorb water, so it swells up to form a bulky paste when exposed to fluids. On the other hand, pectin does dissolve in water to become a thick, syrupy liquid. The resulting gooey material is thought to coat and protect the gastrointestinal tract, thereby helping to relieve conditions such as sore throat and irritable bowel syndrome. This coating effect also appears to decrease the absorption of fats and sugars from food. Consequently, both blood cholesterol and blood sugar levels may be lowered.

EarthSave  S I N G E R S:  Suggest your favorite lyrics / join us with instrument or voice. Contact Bonnie boddicke@fiu.edu  Repertoire- Jay Mankita(Junk Food Man, Sun and Wind, Soil and Rain) Linda Singer(Keep The Animals Off Your Plate) Joyce DiBenedetto-Colton(Soy To The World, Free The Cows, Veggie Wonderland)  Tim Tye(As You Want To Be)  Dana Lyons(Cows With Guns, The Tree)

H Q: Jeff Nelson reports a successful John Robbins “Father’s Day Event.”  

R E S O U R C E S:

Free materials to GO VEG    www.vegpledge.com   http://www.bornfreeusa.org/chooseveggie/   http://www.goveg.com/order.asp   http://www.vegkit.org   mercyforanimals starter-kit   http://www.veganoutreach.org/guide/   http://www.afa-online.org/starterpack.html   

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EarthSave: Donations and nominal membership fees are 501C3 tax-deductible – Members get free home subscriptions to: Vegetarian Times magazine + EarthSave International Newspaper + ESMiami Newsletter plus admission to events (Online transactions or at Potluck- Gift Memberships available!)  Volunteer:  EarthSave Singers is recruiting voices, instruments (Bonnie-boddicke@fiu.edu).  Attend our Outreach Table at local events (Linda Bower, Coordinator 305 228-1116)  Donate: photos of past ESM events

Vegetarily Yours,

Jeff ‘VeganMan’ Tucker

Chairperson, Miami Chapter of EarthSave Int’l
PO Box 661026   Miami Springs, FL 33266   Tel: 305 228-1116 miami@earthsave.org 

E V E N T S  4  U: (Mark your calendar)

May 29 6:15pm Vegan Potluck  Topic: ‘Sprouting For Health’  While gardeners wait weeks for herbs and veggies, sprouted seeds, grains, legumes and nuts go from first soaking to vital food source within 7 days!  Learn why living, enzyme-rich food is so important and how to cultivate the most nutritionally concentrated produce on the planet. Tiny sprouting plants are an instant salad, contrasted with processed and cooked foods which often form an expensive, unnatural diet. Sprouts provide self-sufficiency and an easy, economical, sustainable food  source to anyone with a glass jar, a  rubber band  and a small piece of screen.  Speaker: KEITH SEIDLER, Master Gardener.  His website simplysprout.com states ‘Life has been and will always remain a never ending journey with new things to learn all along the way.’  Coral Gables Cong. Church Fellowship Hall (NW corner of church) 3010 DeSoto Blvd. (across from Biltmore Hotel) Members & First-timers: Free   Guests $5 Bring a Healthy*vegan dish  8-10 portions with your place setting  $1 No Plate Fee   $8 No Food Fee  Everyone welcome   Taste   Share   Learn  *no meat, fish, eggs, dairy, GMO’s, honey, transfats, hydrogenated oils or chemical additives  Unsure what to bring?  Try organic green salad or fresh fruit

Best Parking: across street in School Lot

July 13 2:30- 5:45 pm  “Ecological Integrity: Reconnecting Humans, Health and Habitat” CONFERENCE  at Hotel Sofitel, Miami.  Drs. M and V Shiva with a panel of experts: Prof. Mahadev Bhat, Léonie Hermantin- Lambi Fund, Susan Luck- pres. EarthRose Institute  Cost- $45; $15 students.  Dinner-$50; students $25 at 6- 8:00 pm  Special rate for conference and dinner  > http://earthjuris.org/events/

C’ M O N, T A K E   A C T I O N:

Date TBA Organizing Meeting for New EarthSave PotluckNORTH – let’s create a monthly Broward/Palm Beach event.  Organizer: Maida Genser maidawg@comcast.net  954 974-8898

Just Delete Meat !

Do your own web research on ‘chemtrails’ to decide if aerial spraying is degrading organic produce

Field trips to garden sites, hands-on eco experiences and nutrition workshops delivered by professionals in their field for public school teachers > http://www.heroesunite.org/prog/prog_2.html

M E D I a:  (Online Links May Change)

Video: EarthSave Int’l ‘Meals for Health Program’ Meals for Health is a 60-day intervention program where underprivileged people are taught to eat a healthy plant-based diet. John McDougall MD, Rip Esselstyn, Jeff Novick RD and many other plant-based health professionals are joining in this ground-breaking project -- scheduled to begin in August 2010 > http:/MealsForHealth

Tobey Maguire, recent vegan convert, helped launch an initiative called the Teaching Garden at Kelso Elementary school. The program aims to educate children on the importance of ecologically safe food and lifestyle > healthy lifestyle

Vimeo ‘Grass Is Green And We Like It That Way’ > http://vimeo.com/11595682  Story: On Tuesday April 27, 2010 the United States Supreme Court heard argument in the Center for Food Safety’s case against Monsanto (Monsanto v Geertson Seed Farms), the first-ever Supreme Court case about genetically engineered crops. Our legal team did a great job, in a hostile and challenging environment, against great odds. A decision is expected in June and there are many possible outcomes.  We will let you know as soon as we hear word > https://secure.ga3.org/03/SupportCFS/ns1ebuO4ajwBJ?

Video explores issues and questions about vegetarianism.  Who were the first vegetarians? Did you know that during the middle ages, the Pope ordered monks to be vegetarian? When was the first advertisement for non-leather shoes- did you guess 1851?  Do you know what German vegetarian societies did during the Nazi period, when they were forced to either join the Nazi party or disband? >http://bit.ly/ccsspp

2 Videos: A. ‘Dogs Thrive on a Vegan Diet!   B. Vegan Poet reads her poetry about animal and environmental rights on a vegan-organic orchard in New Zealand > http://www.thevegantruth.blogspot.com

Website: Vegetarians in Paradise  a diversity of vegetarian information. Vegetarian Web Magazine/Nonprofit Vegetarian Public Service Publication.  Over 1,000,000 hits monthly- by Zel and Reuben Allen > http://www.vegparadise.com

2 Videos: Are You Paying 1,900 Times More for Unhealthy, Earth-Damaging Water?  Bottled water typically costs more than $1.50 per bottle, which is 1,900 times the price of tap water.  On top of that, most municipal tap water must actually adhere to more strict purity standards than the bottled water industry. Further, while the EPA requires large public water supplies to test for contaminants as often as several times a day, the FDA requires private bottlers to test for contaminants only once a week, once a year, or once every four years, depending on the contaminant. An independent test performed by the Environmental Working Group revealed 38 low-level contaminants in bottled water, with each of the 10 tested brands containing an average of eight chemicals including disinfection byproducts (dbps), caffeine, Tylenol, nitrate, industrial chemicals, arsenic, and bacteria were all detected > Http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/05/06/a-movie-about-water-you-need-to-see.aspx

Rachel Ray spoke to Congress in favor of healthy school food- "How could you go to any state in the union and say you are not for an extra couple of cents to eradicate hunger, to make our kids healthier, stronger, better focused? It doesn't make any sense that you would even have to have a long conversation about that, to me... Find the money now and get it done or you are going to be part of sinking our ship down the line... and does it make any sense that anyone could object to the idea of America's farmers growing more fruits and vegetables?” > http://livingliberally.org/eating/blog/Rachael-Rays-Radical-EVOOlution

InterNICHE is an open and diverse network comprising students, teachers and animal campaigners for a fully humane education system where the rights of animals and students are fully respected.  Materials available in 20 languages > http://www.prijatelji-zivotinja.hr/index.en.php?id=1162

Film: Pig Business, featuring Robert Kennedy, Jr., and UK eco-campaigner and director Tracy Worcester, reveals how U.S. concentrated agriculture feeding operations (CAFOs) are now moving to Eastern Europe—particularly to Poland—and demonstrates the link between clearing forests in the Amazon to grow soy for feed to pig farms www.pigbusiness.co.uk  film > Pig Business

C O O L   S T U F F:

Www.Vegan.com Blog   A. Author David Kirby ‘Animal Factory -- The Looming Threat of Industrial Pig, Dairy and Poultry Farms to Humans and the Environment’  says it’s time for President Obama to go after factory farming interests.  Kirby proposes four actions that would likely draw strong public support: reducing subsidies, crack down on trusts, prohibit slaughterhouses from raising cattle, and reducing antibiotics > Link

B. Article by Kelly Brownell on the U.S. government’s changing role in setting public nutrition policies. Things are changing rapidly and for the better, and nearly all this change is being driven by the conscientious omnivore crowd. There’s no doubt in my mind that vegan advocacy is becoming a whole lot easier as meat companies and processed food interests lose influence with the government > Link

C. Boxer ‘Iron’ Mike Tyson Goes Vegan: The 43-year-old said he'd become a vegan and finally had 'no drama' in his life > Tyson turns Vegan

Winemaker Thomas Houseman ‘Anything that you can pair with meat, if you think about it stylistically, it's easy enough to pair with either vegetables or meat alternatives" > Http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?F=/c/a/2010/04/23/FDN11COMVJ.DTL&type=food

Vegan Earth Day Hits 300+ Communities  Across the U.S., Canada, and even Australia, FARM’s network of grassroots volunteers distributed flyers, staffed information tables, offered free vegan food, and screened films! > Www.farmusa.org

Responses to watching ravediet.com film ‘Eating’-

I was aware that plant based foods are a healthier choice, but I was not conscious of how terrible animal based foods are to our health.
I will limit my meat intake to once a week and then wean myself off of it entirely.
Starting from today I have decided to change my diet.

This should be played by every school so we can all live a longer and healthier life.
My child will not follow our OLD eating habits.
This movie lets me know that the plant-based diet is one of the keys to lead a healthy life.

Largest direct marketing, fair trade organic network in India > www.navdanya.org

Vegan Ultramarathoner, Scott Jurek, 36, broke the American record in the IAU 24-Hour World Championship run Friday in Brive, France, by covering 165.7 miles in the one-day run.  Jurek, 36, broke the previous U.S. mark of 162.46 miles > http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlesports/archives/205912.asp?from=blog_last3

A C T I V I S T  C O R N E R:

A non profit (vegan) charity provides free legal services to victims and non-offending survivors of abuse, including abused and victimized animals > http//:lightupthedark.biz 

Mercy For Animals has become one of the leading voices against cruelty to animals... from incisive investigations to humane education, documentary films to a vegetarian dining guide, MFA leaves no stone unturned in its mission to help build a more compassionate, healthy world > http://advocacy-mercy-for-animals

W I S E R  A D V I S O R:

Rest & Relaxation Economy, the Meditation Economy, the Foragers Economy, and the Get-Loose-In-The-Garden Economy. It's an Appreciation Economy where everything is appreciating in value the more we express our heartfelt gratitude for everything and everyone. In this Ecstatic Economy of the Heart, now is the time to dream deeply, then proceed from the highest dream outward > www.RawSpirit.com

As all our religions teach in many ways, we humans are deeply connected with the earth's abundance, and are welcome to work with the Earth for the well-being of all life. But if we try to gobble up that abundance, if we leave no room for self-restraint, then the abundance will vanish and we will face famine, drought, impoverishment, death.   Our self-restraint must be rooted in a sense of community that balances the impulse to control. I-Thou must balance I-It  Rabbi Arthur Waskow, The Shalom Center > www.theshalomcenter.org

EarthSave  S I N G E R S:  Suggest your favorite lyrics / join us with instrument or voice. Contact Bonnie boddicke@fiu.edu  Repertoire- Jay Mankita(Junk Food Man, Sun and Wind, Soil and Rain) Linda Singer(Keep The Animals Off Your Plate) Joyce DiBenedetto-Colton(Soy To The World, Free The Cows, Veggie Wonderland)  Tim Tye(As You Want To Be)  Dana Lyons(Cows With Guns, The Tree)

Free materials to GO VEG    www.vegpledge.com   http://www.bornfreeusa.org/chooseveggie/   http://www.goveg.com/order.asp   http://www.vegkit.org   mercyforanimals starter-kit   http://www.veganoutreach.org/guide/   http://www.afa-online.org/starterpack.html   

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Vegetarily Yours, Jeff Tucker

Chairperson, Miami Chapter of EarthSave Int’l

Chairperson, Friends of EcoCenter
PO Box 661026   Miami Springs, FL 33266   Tel: 305 228-1116 miami@earthsave.org  

May 16  Veggie Pride Pride Parade NYC >http://www.veggieprideparade.org

Free Raw Food Classes  First Sunday 1pm at Flamingo Road Nursery & Farmer's Market, 1655 Flamingo Road, Davie 33325
Other Sundays 4pm at Mishkan David, 4361 Rock Island Rd, Second Floor, Lauderdale, FL 33319  Register: 954-718-2207 (Debi or Karl)

Fertile Earth Foundation classes and events at   www.fertileearth.org  * Traditional Composting  * Vermiculture Classes  * Greening Your Home class. FEF will also help you set up your very own composting system using free or inexpensive materials!  (Small donation requested)

C’ M O N, T A K E   A C T I O N:

Join EarthSaveMiami’s Facebook and Meetup groups. 

M E D I a:  (Online Links May Change)

Healthy Lifestyle Expo will be the weekend of Oct 15-17 Woodland Hills, CA!  Great 23-min Video from 2009 > http://bit.ly/9UchSX

ABC TV prime-time show Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution is a veggie activist’s dream come true >http://abc.go.com/shows/jamie-olivers-food-revolution/index

Video: Vegan Outreach: Changing Lives  >VO’s YouTube Channel

FREE download of the entire World Peace Diet AudioBook - a 13.5 hour MP3 file, normally costing $15 > http:/FREE Download

Symphony of Science video#4 The Unbroken Thread "...there is an unbroken thread that stretches from those first threads to us..."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOLAGYmUQV0

Grow Veggies in skyscrapers? > http://localfoodmiami.ning.com/video/vertical-farming-concept

10 Ways to Save by Going Green Recession-era frugality has spurred choices that benefit our wallets, and the planet, too.
• Slide Show: 10 Ways to Save Money by Going Green  > http://www.usnews.com/money/personal-finance/slideshows/10-ways-to-save-money-by-going-green

Real Food, Real Simple is a superb 20 min. recitation of the facts about humanity’s largest correctable mistake by Mark Bittman (The TED series) >http://www.therealfoodchannel.com/page/44.html

Dr. Joel Fuhrman- ‘...what you ate as a child has massive implications about your risk for getting cancer as an adult, but if you didn't eat enough of the right things as a kid, is there something you can do about that now, to protect yourself? >http://bit.ly/aKXFTm

Video- The End of Food  Journalist and author, Paul Roberts, talks about the commercial food industry and the need for a broader systemic approach for confronting the global food challenges facing the world today > http://video.Food

C O O L  S T U F F:

www.Vegan.com Blog  A. David Kirby author of an exposé on factory farming titled ‘Animal Factory’ was interviewed:  In the book, you focus less on the treatment of animals at factory farms, and more on the air, water, and ground pollution produced by such farms. Why?  First of all, people really do like to read about people. And as much as I care about the treatment and well-being of all animals, including livestock and poultry, I felt like the story of what is happening to real people in real communities was not getting the attention it deserved

B.  Moby and Miyun Park’s new book, Gristle is a collection of essays about veganism and the meat industry

C. Top 10 Books  
1. The Conscious Cook 
2. Eating Animals   
3. The Kind Diet  
4. 1000 Vegan Recipes  
5. Ultimate Vegan Guide   
6. The 30-Minute Vegan  
7. Vegan Yum Yum  
8. Vegan Soul Kitchen  
9. Meat Market   
10. BabyCakes

D. The USDA just released a report assessing the agency’s oversight of organic farmers... the door is basically wide open for any unscrupulous grower who wants to rake in higher profits by mislabeling their food as organic  > Link

E. Boston Globe article on ‘hegans’ (male vegans) ...at least three things that make veganism less appealing for men than women: lack of cooking skills, body image issues, and misconceptions about protein

F. Senate to Contemplate Major School Lunch Reform - A bill that will boost veggie content in school lunches while removing some food safety loopholes is headed toward a senate vote. The meat industry won’t like this one bit

>‘Organic Manifesto’ byMaria Rodale, CEO of Rodale and granddaughter of the man who started the modern-day organic food movement
...Going organic is the single most critical (and most DOABLE) action we can take right now to stop our climate crisis. Every acre of ground that's farmed organically has the potential to pull thousands of pounds of warming greenhouse gases out of our air

‘The Comparative Anatomy of Eating’ by Milton R. Mills, M.D. “...human beings have the gastrointestinal tract structure of a "committed" herbivore. Humankind does not show the mixed structural features one expects and finds in anatomical omnivores such as bears and raccoons. Thus, from comparing the gastrointestinal tract of humans to that of carnivores, herbivores and omnivores we must conclude that humankind's GI tract is designed for a purely plant-food diet.”  Chart > http://www.vegsource.com/articles2/anatomy_mills.htm

Vegan Outreach: Ethical Food Report- New survey finds that 69% of people are willing to pay more for “ethical” food, and that 91% of those include animal welfare in their criteria for considering food “ethical.” Also, 21% said “vegetarian” is important/very important, and 14% said “vegan” is.

Three new books cater to vegans says Miami Herald’s The Edgy Veggie.  Vegan celebs from Natalie Portman to new convert Ellen DeGeneres have made the plant-based life glam. But do they ever see the inside of a kitchen? A bumper crop of new vegan cookbooks gets you cooking whether you're famous or your average vegan Joe > http://3 new-books

Second Nature's mission is to accelerate movement toward a sustainable future by serving and supporting senior college and university leaders in making healthy, just, and sustainable living the foundation of all learning and practice in higher education http://www.secondnature.org 

USDA veterinarian Dr. Wyatt testified that he was directed by his superiors to "drastically cut back" the time spent on ensuring that animals destined for food were treated humanely. In fact, according to Dr. Wyatt, he and other inspectors were chastised, reprimanded, and demoted for reporting violations > http://testimony-meat-production-barbaric

NY Governor, David A. Paterson> proposed a tax on sugar-sweetened beverages as a means to reduce consumption of high-calorie drinks

U.S. Supreme Court Denies Polluters' Plea A gaping loophole in industrial air pollution rules will stay closed now that the U.S. Supreme Court has decided not to review an appeal by polluting industries. Industry representatives wanted the high court to overturn a lower court ruling—won by Earthjustice and its allies—that clamped down on pollutants emitted during start-up and shut-down of plants. > Read More

March 20 Animal Friends of Croatia marked Meatout by holding info stalls and tastings in eight Croatian towns: Zagreb, Cakovec, Karlovac, Koprivnica, Osijek, Rijeka, Slavonski Brod, and Sisak... presenting the citizens the variety of vegan specialties such as vegan kulen sausage, seitan, tofu, veggie salami, tasty vegetable sauces and plant-based milks

A report on potential offshore oil drilling, requested by the Florida Senate from Collins Center for Public Policy states that drilling "would have no discernible impact on petroleum prices at the retail level" and"no discernible impact on the state's or the country's dependence on foreign oil”   >http://Drilling Report.pdf

EarthSave-sponsored Speaker, Gary Yourofsky, >ADAPTT keeps his Ethical Vegan Teaching Tour going on $64K per year (aprx. 250 lectures), reached more than 50,000 students in 147 schools in 28 states.  Student comments >http://www.adaptt.org/comments-students.html  ‘Thankfully, there is great momentum in the movement and Gary's ceaseless commitment to a powerful and passionate speech on veganism in college classrooms is timely. Group hug-’ Linda Bower

A C T I V I S T  C O R N E R:

QUOTE: "We don't need to save the planet, just spend it more wisely" - Swami Beyondananda

Analyzes the spirit of Leadership- video> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW8amMCVAJQ

Scene from the movie ‘Precious’ depicts Lenny Kravitz promoting healthy organic food at the expense of McDonald’s fare

W I S E R  A D V I S O R: 

Whatever reason you attribute to committal is nearly irrelevant when it comes to Going Green / Going Vegan

EarthSave  S I N G E R S:  Suggest your favorite lyrics / join us with instrument or voice. Contact Bonnie boddicke@fiu.edu  Repertoire- Jay Mankita(Junk Food Man, Sun and Wind, Soil and Rain) Linda Singer(Keep The Animals Off Your Plate) Joyce DiBenedetto-Colton(Soy To The World, Free The Cows, Veggie Wonderland)  Tim Tye(As You Want To Be)  Dana Lyons(Cows With Guns, The Tree)

Free materials to GO VEG    
www.vegpledge.com   
http://www.bornfreeusa.org/chooseveggie/   
http://www.goveg.com/order.asp   
http://www.vegkit.org   
mercyforanimals starter-kit   
http://www.veganoutreach.org/guide/   
http://www.afa-online.org/starterpack.html   

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Vegetarily Yours, Jeff Tucker

Chairperson, Miami Chapter of EarthSave Int’l

Chairperson, Friends of EcoCenter
PO Box 661026   Miami Springs, FL 33266   Tel: 305 228-1116 miami@earthsave.org 

EarthSave Miami is a local Chapter of EarthSave Int’l, a non-profit 501c3 educating about the powerful effects of food choices on health, environment and animals

Mar 21 3pm  Meatout ‘Eat for Life- Live Vegan’  Zen Village Holistic Wellness Inst. Coconut Grove  http://MeatOut Event

Mar 21 10am- 5pm >Great American Meatout  Free Admission (all profits donated to Haiti)  Displays and vendors about food production and healthy eating, blood pressure testing, videos and interactive activities. Power Bazaar and Marketplace, 8399 N University Dr, Tamarac, FL 33321  >http://www.soflavegevents.net/GAM/GAM2010.html

Mar 23 6pm  FREE 1-hour presentation at Sublime Restaurant ‘Dietary Choices and Environmental Impact/Lowering Your Cancer Risk with Dietary Changes’  Registered Dietitian George Eisman, an inductee of the North American Vegetarian Society's Hall of Fame.  It could save your life.  RSVP by 3/21 to coalitioncp@yahoo.com

March 27 6:15pm  Vegan Potluck  Topic: P E R M A C U L T U R E  Art and science of consciously designing human systems to increase quality of life, enhance and regenerate ecosystems. What does it mean to "really" be green?  The activity of permaculturists is perhaps the most important on the planet...  Speaker: Marcus Thomson  Manager, Earth-n-us Farm, certified Permaculture Designer, conscious green living activist, yoga instructor, facilitator of Radical Foregiveness, lecturer.  Marcus hold a degree in philosophy.
Coral Gables Cong. Church Fellowship Hall (NW corner of church)  3010 DeSoto Blvd. (across from Biltmore Hotel)

Members & First-timers: Free   Guests $5 Bring a Healthy*vegan dish  8-10 portions with your place setting  $1 No Plate Fee   $8 No Food Fee Everyone welcome   Taste   Share   Learn  *no meat, fish, eggs, dairy, GMO’s, honey, transfats, hydrogenated oils or chemical additives

Mar 27 3-4pm Nutritous Cooking with a Blender  Erin Healy’s FREE workshop on using fresh produce to create amazing, quick and easy meals for your improved health and wellness. Kids are encouraged to attend.  The Enchanted Park, 1751 NE 135^th St., No Miami info@heroesunite.org

Mar 27 3:15pm FREE film ‘SHADES OF GREEN’ documents So Florida steps to sustainability: land-use, transit, wise-planning and other initiatives play an integral role in energy conservation, efficiency.  5pm ‘Green Workshop" with local experts.  Delray Beach Public Library

100 West Atlantic Aver Delray Beach 33444  Trailer >http://wklginc.com/shadesofgreen.htm

April 11 1-3pm  1^st Annual Make A Difference Day  Whole Foods Market, Pinecrest.  Vendors and tabling for eco-healthy living

April 19-23 ‘Let’s Re-take Our Plates’ Film Series for Earth Month. 
Whole Foods Market sponsors feature length films about our food supply and the visionaries who are making it better.  
4/19 No Impact Man - Coral Gables Congregational Church   
4/21 Fast Food Nation - Miami Beach Cinematheque  
4/23 Food, Inc. - Temple Bet Shira.  

May 16  Veggie Pride Pride Parade NYC >http://www.veggieprideparade.org

Wednesdays noon - 3:30pm  FIU Student-Farmer’s Market Vegan sandwich wraps, Fresh fruit slices on Ground Almond/Date Wheels, Black Sapote Cake, Fruit smoothies; vendors: Three Sisters Farms, Be My Honey.  Tamiami Campus

Free Raw Food Classes  First Sunday 1pm at Flamingo Road Nursery & Farmer's Market, 1655 Flamingo Road, Davie 33325
Other Sundays 4pm at Mishkan David, 4361 Rock Island Rd, Second Floor, Lauderdale, FL 33319  Register: 954-718-2207 (Debi or Karl)

Fertile Earth Foundation classes and events at   www.fertileearth.org  * Traditional Composting  * Vermiculture Classes  * Greening Your Home class. FEF will also help you set up your very own composting system using free or inexpensive materials!  (Small donation requested)

C’ M O N, T A K E   A C T I O N:

March 20th marks the 25th anniversary of Meatout, the world's largest and oldest annual grassroots diet education campaign. Join us by conducting outreach in your community.  This year's theme is Eat for Life - Live Vegan!  > Meatout Action Center

Mar 27 8:30pm Turn off your lights for 1 hour.  In 2009 hundreds of millions of people worldwide, including EarthsaveMiami’s potluck group, showed their support. Earth Hour 2010 will continue to be a global call to action > EARTHHOUR web

2-question survey asks vegetarians and vegans what motivated them to change their diet.  Instructions 
>http://SURVEYInstructions  

Survey form 
>http://www.vrg.org/research/VegSurveyForm.pdf

- Four companies process more than 85% of U.S. beef cattle.
- Two companies sell 50% of U.S. corn seed.
- One company controls 40% of the U.S. milk supply.
- Five firms dominate the grocery sector, ensuring that low prices paid to farmers aren't passed along to consumers at the store

Deal with monopolies in the food system 
>http://action.foodandwaterwatch.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=2535

Petition to stop factory fish farms in U.S. oceans >http://action.foodandwaterwatch.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=2359

Thanks for taking action- Sarah Alexander, Outreach Director, Food & Water Watch > goodfood@fwwatch.org  

Urban Paradise Guild- Restoring Native habitats in South Florida  >Urban-paradise.org 

Join EarthSaveMiami’s Facebook and Meetup groups

M E D I a: 

Healthy Lifestyle Expo will be the weekend of Oct 15-17 Woodland Hills, CA!  Great 23-min Video from 2009 > http://bit.ly/9UchSX

Video: Vegan Outreach: Changing Lives  >VO’s YouTube Channel

The Corner House aims to support democratic and community movements for environmental and social justice through analysis, research and advocacy.  Find some amazing pdf slide shows and articles >http://www.thecornerhouse.org.uk

Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution, TV show debuts March 26, ready to promote veggies >http: food-revolution

Video: Roman gladiators ate a vegan diet: Dr. John McDougall describes the new archeological discovery; he also pokes fun at the biases of researchers -- who stretch to explain why the most powerful fighters of the ancient world ate a vegan diet.  Of course, gladiators weren't alone. 

The entire Roman army went on a vegan diet whenever they went into battle >http://bit.ly/cijL0O

Mercy For Animals’ January video >documenting abuses at the Willet dairy continues to make waves. Linda Rosenthal of the New York State Assembly has introduced a bill to ban tail docking in her state. Rosenthal was just interviewed on CNN by Jane Velez-Mitchell. With continuing coverage like this, it’s getting harder for factory farms to carry out business as usual

Search Results for 'organic goods' ABC Channel 7 News’ I-Team: Pesticides in Organic Foods, Organic Food Contamination, Non-Food Organic Products, Organic Food Safety > http://cfc.wjla.com/mainsearch.cfm?ref=home&k=organic+goods&x=0&y=0

Upcoming documentary ‘Forks Over Knives’ examines the profound claim that most, if not all, of the degenerative diseases that afflict us can be can be controlled, or even reversed, by our food choices...  traces the personal journeys of Dr. T. Colin Campbell, a nutritional scientist from Cornell University, and Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn, a former top surgeon at the world renowned Cleveland Clinic.  To be released, summer 2010. Trailer >www.ForksOverKnives.com

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The World Peace Diet is now the #1 best-selling book on Amazon.  All proceeds from the sale of The World Peace Diet in the Tree Of Life Rejueventation Center’s campaign are being donated to grass-roots vegan education groups and efforts.  Order >http://worldpeacediet.org

J. Foer appeared on the Ellen Degeneres Show, May 10^th, featuring people who’ve made Veg*n dietary changes

Vegan.com Blog  a.The Oregonian’s Grant Butler has finished his monthlong experiment as a vegan, and he’s decided to stick with it, saying “I’ve experienced plenty of physical benefits. I’ve dropped an astonishing 12 pounds in 28 days, without having to count calories or feel hungry all the time. At night, I’m sleeping better... I have tons of energy, and have been able to decrease my dependence on coffee and Diet Coke

b.  According to a USDA veterinarian, slaughterhouses have been butchering live, conscious pigs—and senior USDA staffers have attempted to cover up these reports.  The charges by Dean Wyatt, a supervisory veterinarian at the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service, detail instances in which he and other inspectors were overruled when citing slaughterhouses for violations such as shocking and butchering days-old calves that were too weak or sick to stand

c. David Kessler, author of the new bestseller, ‘The End of Overeating’ , just wrote an article investigating why obesity rates have gone out of control over the past thirty years. It turns out that when food companies load up foods with enough sugar, salt, and fat, they end up stimulating dopamine production in ways that’s akin to what happens during drug addiction

Quote: “...keep oil in the soil, coal in the hole, and tar sand in the land.”

VRG will award $10,000 in college scholarships (anonymous donor) to graduating high school students who have promoted vegetarianism in their schools and/or communities. The students must be graduating high school in spring 2011 >http://www.vrg.org/student/scholar.htm

“The beef industry has contributed to more deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined. If beef is your idea of ‘real food for real people,’ you’d better live real close to a real good hospital.”  -Neal Bernard, M.D., Pres, PCRM

Whitney Lauritsen blogs on ‘Eco-Vegan Gal’ as an environmentally conscious vegan filmmaker > http://www.ecovegangal.com

‘Vegans and atheists should have the same protection against discrimination as religious groups’ state proposed new equality laws in the UK  >http://www.telegraph.co.uk

‘Optimum health can be achieved through self care – eating healthfully; developing self-esteem; exercising regularly; getting plenty of rest, sleep, fresh air and sunshine; learning to handle stress; and by seeking competent professional advice and care when necessary’>www.Healthscience.org

Ten Flaws of Meat: No carbs, High in fat, High in Protein, High in acid, High in sulphur, No fiber, Has cholesterol, Concentrates environmental contaminates, Harbors infectious agents, Has antibiotics

It’s Policies not Population: ...population numbers, in sum, offer no useful pointers toward policies that should be adopted to tackle climate change. Massive fossil fuel use in industrialized societies cannot be countered by handing out condoms. Nor will reducing the number of births dent the massive annual subsidies, estimated at over $100 billion, that oil companies receive in tax breaks, giving them an unfair advantage over low-carbon alternatives-  The Corner House

A C T I V I S T  C O R N E R:

...the science of climate change came under harsh attack by critics who contend that climate scientists have deliberately suppressed evidence — and that the science itself is severely flawed... the critics — who are few in number but aggressive in their attacks — are deploying tactics that they have honed for more than 25 years. During their long campaign, they have greatly exaggerated scientific disagreements in order to stop action on climate change... Many books have recently documented the games played by the climate-change deniers, including ‘Merchants of Doubt.’ ...the same group of mischief-makers... >http://stopglobalwarming.org/sgw_read.asp?id=1230552192010

W I S E R  A D V I S O R:  Just eat fruits and drink fresh, raw fruit juice for 3 days and be surprised when friends tell you how radiant you look!  Don’t drink Cold water after a meal- cold water will solidify any oily stuff you’ve just consumed, slowing down the digestion.  As this 'sludge' reacts with stomach acid, it breaks down to be absorbed by the intestine faster than the solid food. It will line the intestine, turn into fats and may promote cancer.  Ever since I heard about a tiny child chomping down a thick kale stalk I’ve stopped discarding stems of green leafies- into the blender or salad with them!

EarthSave  S I N G E R S:  Repertoire- Jay Mankita(Junk Food Man, Sun and Wind, Soil and Rain) Linda Singer(Keep The Animals Off Your Plate) Joyce DiBenedetto-Colton(Soy To The World, Free The Cows, Veggie Wonderland)  Tim Tye(As You Want To Be)  Dana Lyons(Cows With Guns, The Tree)  Suggest your favorite lyrics / join us with instrument or voice and contact Bonnie boddicke@fiu.edu

Free materials to GO VEG    
www.vegpledge.com   
http://www.bornfreeusa.org/chooseveggie/   
http://www.goveg.com/order.asp   
http://www.vegkit.org   
mercyforanimals starter-kit   
http://www.veganoutreach.org/guide/   
http://www.afa-online.org/starterpack.html    

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Join EarthSaveMiami’s Facebook and Meetup groups

Sign Petition Asking President Obama to Give Up Eating Meat  JVNA advisor Arthur Poletti set up this petition http://Obama No Meat

March 20 Great American Meatout Caring people in all 50 U.S. states and two dozen countries will publicize the benefits of plant-based eating. Observed annually since 1985, this year marks Meatout's 25th anniversary. Activities include leafleting, information tables, exhibits, feed-ins, video screenings, walks, festivals, and more.  This year's theme is "Eat for Life - Live Vegan!"

The National School Lunch program meals are an important part of 31 million children's overall nutrition, yet are often high-fat, high-cholesterol and high-calorie foods.  Request non-dairy food and beverage options http://www.care2.com/go/z/e/AFtcr/zkCf/Bf48

‘Do Something... and Soon’ about Climate Change.  Economist and Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman has called government indolence on the issue “treason.” NRDC attorney Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has called it “a crime against nature.” Environmental journalist and author Elizabeth Kolbert has described “a technologically advanced society choosing to destroy itself,” while James Hansen and Rajendra Pachauri, perhaps the world’s leading climate scientists, have said inaction in the next several years will doom the planet

Vote for EarthSave Canada (currently in second place) to receive charitable funds from Matt and Nat’s sam-sara.ca campaign.  Thank you, Nancy Callan.

Do a bit of web research on composting then easily convert your old plastic Garbage pail to a back yard  Composter- recycles kitchen plant food scraps and yard clippings into healthy soii

M E D I a:  (Online Links May Change)

‘Global Dimming’, an extreme process related to Global Warming, is a new factor in the climate equation > http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/757.html

Al Gore: “I'm not a vegetarian but I have cut back sharply on the meat that I eat”  http://www.youtube...AL GORE

You ‘herd’ Noel Cleland’s rendition of ‘Cows With Guns’ at the Nov 28^th Turkey Free MegaPotluck.  The charming video Animation (Animation by Bjorn-Magne Stuestol, music by Dana Lyons) has been seen by millions on myspace.com, youtube.com and other servers http://www.cowswithguns...animation 

We Are All One  Environmental Message video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCnWZncHH2Y&feature=related

Meet Your Meat video  Paul McCartney, narrator “If Slaughterhouses had glass walls everyone would be vegetarian”  www.meat.org

Dr. John McDougall's 1 hour+ video from the 2005 Healthy Lifestyle Expo shows why dairy products are probably the most unhealthy aspect of the standardWestern diet > http://vegsource.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/r/news/508058358648/

Do pharmaceuticals make you healthy? The Health Ranger, Mike Adams, offers Big Pharma $10,000 health challenge, explaining that pharmaceuticals don't make you healthy; they make you sick!  http://www.naturalnews.com/023475_health_Big_Pharma_fitness.html

EarthSave Radio: Its All About Food  Wednesdays 3-4pm http://earthsave.org/radio.html

Co O O L  S T U F F:

EarthSave's message echos far and wide.  London's prestigious medical journal, The Lancet, recently came out with a series on health and climate change showing that actions to mitigate global warming can actually benefit human health, recommending a 30% decrease in livestock production! 

Top 5 advantages of Eating Raw, fresh, whole fruits, vegetables, and nuts:
1. Raw foods are better quality; therefore you eat less to satisfy your nutritional needs. The heat of cooking depletes vitamins, damages proteins and fats, and destroys enzymes which benefit digestion.  As your percentage of raw foods increases you feel satisfied and have more energy on smaller meals because raw food has the best balance of water, nutrients, and fiber to meet your body's needs.
2. Raw foods have more flavor than cooked foods so there is no need to add salt, sugar, spices, or other condiments that can irritate your digestion system or over-stimulate other organs.
3. Raw foods take very little preparation, so you spend less time in the kitchen.
4. When you are eating raw there's little chance of burns. No burns to tongues, the roof of your mouth, or fingers, and many fewer house fires!
5. Cleaning up after a raw meal is a snap www.chiDiet.com

NY Coalition for Healthy School Food’s pilot program entering 15-30 additional schools in NYC >Project Cool School Food  Cool School Food is healthy, delicious, and it helps to keep our planet "Cool". Plant-based main dishes contain no cholesterol, are low in saturated fat, and are high in fiber and phyto-nutrients

An extensive list of cruelty-free food items which contain EVERY vitamin, nutrient and mineral that the human body requires.  A majority of plant foods are a meal in and of themselves; açaí, alfalfa sprouts, apricots, asparagus, avocados, broccoli, cacao/chocolate (a bean), chlorella, garlic, green leafy vegetables, nutritional yeast, pears, spirulina, strawberries and wheatgrass appear in several categories.  www.adaptt.org (click ALL ABOUT VEGANISM then click VITAMINS, MINERALS & OTHER NUTRIENTS)

Organic Empowerment 2010: Ten Strategic Local Campaigns  #1: Locally Grown Organic Food  Making affordable, locally and regionally-grown organic food available to all, rich, middle-income and poor, must become a top priority for city and county governments across the nation. Making the transition to organic food and farming stimulates the local economy, improves public health, sequesters enormous amount of climate destabilizing greenhouse gases, and protects the environment. As global warming intensifies, scientists warn that a continuation of current "business as usual" practices will lead to a catastrophic seven degree Fahrenheit temperature rise by 2100. Our only hope is to make energy-efficient and climate-stabilizing organic food and farming the norm rather than just the green alternative > www.organicconsumers.org/

Religious leaders of Christian, Jewish, Islamic, Buddhist, and other faiths have formed a growing movement to transform society from their pulpits by emphasizing the connection between ecology and religion.  Their sermons inspire, educate and mobilize people with topics including climate change, renewable energy technologies and public policy to cut greenhouse gases.  This doesn't mean environmentalism is turning into a religion, Browning explains, but that religion harnesses the power of love and faith, both of which bind us to nature, other humans and the health of our planet and inspire us to take action when these are in danger > takeaction@edf.org  

If your body temperature or blood sugar changed by 10 percent you'd be in big trouble. This condition of equilibrium and resistance to change is called homeostasis. It characterizes all self-regulating systems and applies to psychological states and behavior as well as to physical functioning.  Homeostasis doesn't distinguish between change for the better or change for the worse. It resists all change. So... how do you deal with homeostasis? www.chiDiet.com
1) Be aware of the way homeostasis works.
2) Be willing to negotiate with your resistance to change.
3) Develop a support system.
4) Follow a regular practice.
5) Dedicate yourself to lifelong learning

Canines Rocky and Sugar really want this string bean because they love veggies.  Rocky raided Giulio DiBenedetto’s (Miami organic gardening guru) garden, eating a whole cabbage and a broccoli- who knew?  

http://tinyurl.com/yb666b9  Scientist Wendy Brown has found that dogs can thrive on a meat-free diet.  As part of the team of scientists who monitored the health and performance of Siberian huskies over a 10-week sled-racing season they concluded that hard-working dogs can perform just as well on a meat-free diet as they do on a meat-rich diet.  However, preparing an adequate vegetarian diet for a dog is more difficult and time-consuming...  As dogs belong to the order Carnivora, it's often assumed that they are exclusively carnivorous, but in fact they are omnivores, belonging to the same superfamily within the Carnivora as the bamboo-eating giant panda and the omnivorous bear

W I S E R  A D V I S O R:

Each day you’ll consume approx. enough calories so... prioritize carb calorie contribution to minimize protein and fat for long term health benefits

EarthSaveMiami  S I N G E R S:

Current Repertoire- Jay Mankita (Junk Food Man)  Joyce DiBenedetto-Colton (Soy To The World, Free The Cows, Veggie Wonderland)  Tim Tye (As You Want To Be)  Dana Lyons (Cows With Guns, The Tree)  Suggest your favorite lyrics/join us with instrument or voice (Contact Bonnie boddicke@fiu.edu)

A C T I V I S T  C O R N E R:

Brainwashing doesn't have to be complicated.  http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/770.html       

A powerful exposition by Mary O’Brien on so-called "Risk Assessment" ...what is "acceptable" is a political judgment.  What is deemed "acceptable" is a matter of raw political power. Thus risk assessment is not a "scientific" exercise -- it is a highly political mixture of prejudices, biases, guesses, estimates, some scientific facts, and many ethical judgments -- all masquerading as "objective" science. Risk assessment always asks the wrong question: it asks how much damage is safe instead of asking how little damage is possible.  Furthermore, risk assessment conveniently never asks, "Is the proposed activity needed?" It never asks, "Is the proposed activity ethical?"  "All potentially environmentally degrading activities, public or private, should be subject to public scrutiny of alternatives. The public deserves to know that those who pollute, extract, consume, emit, incinerate, or abandon are aware of their technological options for minimizing disturbance of the environment." > riskassessment critique

Free materials to GO VEG    www.vegpledge.com   

http://www.bornfreeusa.org/chooseveggie/ 

http://www.goveg.com/order.asp   

Fund their defense: Joe and Lamoy Andressohn’s conviction for feeding their kids a raw, vegan diet is on appeal to the US Supreme Court.  Help them set the record straight and a new standard for the health of our children. Lower courts are in conflict: criminal court ruled for 15 years probation; family court ordered a raw food diet with soy.  Mail check to:  Marcia J. Silvers P.A., 2937 S.W. 27^th Ave Suite 101, Miami, Florida, 33133; call Lamoy 786-447-1875 for a personal ‘thank you’

Join EarthSave: Membership is tax-deductible (501C3) – includes subscriptions to: Vegetarian Times, EarthSave News, ESMiami Newsletter plus free events admission - via check, cash or credit card in person- or online www.earthsave.org (also give Gift Memberships)  Volunteer:  EarthSave Singers is recruiting voices, instruments (Bonnie-  boddicke@fiu.edu)  Attend our literature table at So Fla events (Linda Bower, Coordinator 305 228-1116)  Donate: used laptop, photos of past ESM events

Urban Paradise Guild re-creates native habitats in Miami-Dade and promotes sustainable models for healthy living that safeguard, enhance and integrate the human and natural worlds for the benefit of both. ‘If Mother Nature is given a little help the urban areas we live in can become Paradise again-’ Sam Van Leer, Executive Director  http://www.urban-paradise.org 

Pulse of Health Freedom click > "Food Safety" Bill: Bad News for Supplements (Ties U.S. to Codex), and Gives FDA Control Over Farming!< The Senate’s version of the “Food Safety” Bill   ( S-510) …includes a Codex provision that absolutely must be amended out in order to protect free choice about supplements, says American Association for Health Freedom http://aahf.convio.net/site/PageServer

"Organic Is the Answer to Climate Change!" Watch new video from the Rodale Institute's Demand Organic Project and learn how, if the world's 3.5 billion tillable acres were transitioned to organic agriculture, organic farms could sequester 40% of yearly carbon emissions. Then, tell Congress  Rodale Institute's Demand Organic TAKE ACTION

http://thevegantruth.blogspot.com/2009/10/future-is-vegan-truth-is-on-our-side.html  ‘Veganism: A truth whose time has come’ and other great articles on a new blogspot

 aahf.convio.net/Equinox Documentaries' 2nd Annual Young Filmmaker's Prize is accepting entries for Florida Nature Documentaries.  Contest open to amateur filmmakers 18- 30 years of age, as well as those currently enrolled in film school.  First place cash award of $1,000 and his/her film will screen at the 2010 Orlando Film Festival. http://equinoxdocumentaries.org/yfp/index.php

>New York City made history City Council Resolution about critical role that food choices play in the climate change crisis. The Foodprint Resolution calls on New Yorkers to eat lower on the food chain and consume local, organic fresh fruits and vegetables. Click> Get started on a Foodprint resolution in your own community 

Health Survey of Vegan, Live Food Babies/ Children  designed to investiate the health of babies from birth to five years of age who have vegan parents and eat a vegan live food diet.  The results from this survey will be published with the intention to support parents who choose to bring up their children on a vegan live food diet.  Preliminary results will be published as a Masters Thesis in late July with the support of Gabriel Cousens M.D. Mother & Baby Survey http://susanmillercoaching.com/drupal/sites/default/files/VeganLiveBabySurvey.pdf  Expert/ Researcher Survey http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=cl9Nd2tKLUVuWWdZQ2s4ZWJOcmJNb0E6MA

A universal declaration of resistance to mandatory vaccinations http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/a-universal-declaration-of-resistance-to-mandatory-vaccinations

Easily convert an old Garbage pail to Composter: Dade County residents can compost in their own backyard.  Study the elementary science of composting with a few minutes of web research, turn food waste and grass clippings into healthy soil in a few months

>Learn more about Kid-Safe and the need for national toxics policy reform here.

Host a Video Event  Have a mini-potluck in your home with invited friends.  EarthSave will supply a great video such as EATING 3^rd Edtn, DIET FOR A NEW AMERICA and free literature. Write miami@earthsave.org

A participatory project by Butterflies Katz http://www.veganpoet.com/veganvoices/

Join Sustainable food and urban gardening hub  http://localfoodmiami.ning.com/ an online social network for anyone passionate about growing a sustainable local food economy and culture in South Florida. Events, workshops

Miami Sierra Club says “Choose 75% recycling, that MSW is not a renewable fuel, and that you want plastic bags drastically reduced.  Post comments on the DEP website” http://www.dep.state.fl.us/waste/recyclinggoal75/default.htm; and http://www.dep.state.fl.us/waste/retailbags/default.htm

The Florida Department of Environmental Protection recently released a draft report recom-mending that the state Legislature prohibit retail companies from providing single-use paper and plastic bags.  Due to pressure from the Retail Federation they have withdrawn their preliminary draft.  Write: retail.bags@dep.state.fl.us web forum: (http://depflorida.com)

Earth Learning invites local Organic Gardening Projects, barn-raising-style volunteer efforts  help set-up organic garden beds for others and then garden recipients are encouraged to help do the same for someone else. If interested > e-mail

Get involved with healthy school food http://www.earthvoicefoodchoice.com/manual.html 

http://www.healthy-planet.org/HSLP/index.asp  http://www.healthylunches.org/index.htm

http://www.choiceusa.net/ Petition “We call on our federal government to help schools provide vegetables, fruits, legumes, grains, vegetarian foods, and healthful nondairy beverages in school meal programs” P.C.R.M. Petition 

No Impact Experiment is a one-week carbon cleanse.  It is a chance for you to see what a difference no-impact living can have on your quality of life. It’s not about giving up creature comforts but an opportunity for you to test whether the modern “conveniences” you take for granted are actually making you happier or just eating away at your time and money Video explains http://noimpactproject.org/experiment 

Urban Oasis Project  ‘Let’s get growing’ in South Florida (vegetables, composting, etc)  http://www.urbanoasisproject.org

Schedule a humane education program with Susan Hargreaves kind2all@bellsouth.net   561-575-5517  http://www.humaneeducatorsreachingout.com/ Caring Fields Animal Sanctuary Education Center offers for all ages and interests  http://caringfields.org/Educ.html

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If you are experiencing flu-like conditions, upper respiratory, fatigue & depression, unusual asthmatic effects or emotional disturbance, www.vibehealth.com recommended health solutions: organic raw fruits and vegetables, alkaline water above PH 7-9, oil of oregano (Mediterranean source), grapefruit seed extract, clove, thyme & oregano drops in a bath 

Our National School Lunch Program spends more than half a billion tax dollars with the dairy, beef, egg and poultry industries. Only $161 million is offered to buy fruits and vegetables.

Stop Global Warming One Bite at a Time http://www.biteglobalwarming.org/

7 Foods That Should Never Cross Your Lips http://health.msn.com/nutrition/articlepage.aspx?cp-documentid=100246775&page=1

A Preliminary Injunction to stop mandatory vaccinations has been issued in the United States District Court of New Jersey. This comes after a federal lawsuit opposing forced vaccines was filed in that court by Tim Vawter, pro se attorney, on July 31st with the federal government as defendant http://www.ireport.com/search/ireports?q=vawter  Printable version:  http://www.scribd.com/doc/18474936/VAWTER-v-FEDERAL-GOVERNMENT-Complaint-Related-Documents-1  general info: www.theflucase.com

SouthFloridaEco is all about Green, Blue Skies, Clean Water and Air.  Do chemtrails and chemical clouds have any impact on public health and environmental quality?   Concerned Citizens bringing all Eco groups together.  DRUM/DANCE/ECOTHEATRE-ECOMUSICALs to Entertain/Educate. BLUES SKY BAND with CLEAR the AIR DANCES.  Share a song or a dance for the Environment: 954-401-4535 Hodin  Videos of our west coast tour at:  www.FloridaEcoNetwork.com www.youtube.com/Hodinfilms

www.vegweb.com is all about veg*n food

Code Green Comicstrip Stephanie McMillan creates the comic strip ’’Minimum Security’  for United Media’s comics.com http://stephaniemcmillan.org/codegreen

Vegetarian Survey Vegetarian Resource Group figures show an additional 3.5 million U.S. vegetarians; there are now over 9 million vegetarians, and over 3 million of those are vegan.  Collectively, this change has saved 332 million more animals from a live of abuse and pain in America's factory farms

Mayor Carlos Alvarez “For South Floridians who want to buy local…the shopping experience is about to get even better. Thanks to a partnership with Publix Super Markets, more than 1,000 Publix stores will soon feature locally-grown Redland Raised fresh produce

World Vegetarian Day Croatians ended the Veggie Challenge

The Global Oneness Project is exploring how the radically simple notion of interconnect-edness can be lived in our increasingly complex world. Our living library of films is available for free —in the fields of sustainability, conflict resolution, spirituality, art, economics, indigenous culture, and social justice  http://www.globalonenessproject.org

A new report by the respected Worldwatch Institute shows that livestock operations contribute more than half of all greenhouse gas, global warming emissions. So meat production by far surpasses the eco-damaging effects of all forms of transportation combined  http://www.facebook.com/l/8b441;www.worldwatch.org

GreenFaith inspires, educates and mobilizes people of diverse religious backgrounds for environmental leadership http://www.greenfaith.org

New York Times front page article "The Burger That Shattered Her Life," by reporter Michael Moss, opens with a description of a young woman permanently paralyzed after having eaten an e-coli tainted burger. It then describes the process by which the burger got to her dinner plate http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/04/health/04meat.html

Harvard Medical School’s ‘Harvard Women’s Health Watch’ Oct. Newsletter features a major article ‘Becoming a vegetarian’- Avoiding meat is only one part of the picture.  A healthy vegetarian diet should be chock-full of foods with known benefits

New labels listing the carbon dioxide emissions associated with the production of foods, from whole wheat pasta to fast food burgers, are appearing on some grocery items and restaurant menus around Sweden.  People who live to eat might dismiss this as silly. But changing one’s diet can be as effective in reducing emissions of climate-changing gases as changing the car one drives... SwedishLabelsfor co2

>Global Permaculture Solutions Mark Robinowitz has created "a political map to connect the dots" between ecology, energy and economy

>Judge Overturns the Government’s Approval of Monsanto’s Genetically Engineered Sugar Beets.   

Gary Yourofsky’s lectures on Veganism deeply affect college students. From a typical testimonial “i heard your lecture today. your lecture made me realize that ignorance is bliss. after hearing your lecture today i almost can’t look at food. in an effort to make my parents see the animal cruelty that goes on i showed then a video and i was surprised at my parents lack of emotion towards the video because my parents are both sweet and sensitive people   http://www.adaptt.org/index.html

Veg*n Business Referral Network http://www.snootyjewelry.com/referral.htm#top  Snooty Jewelry also emphasizes ‘Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Restore’

Poultry litter— manure, feathers, spilled feed, bedding material and dead rodents— allowed to be fed to cattle. It's disgusting, inhumane and unsafe > www.NotinMyFood.org

Vegetarian Spider Found All 40,000 species of spiders in the world were thought to be strict predators but scientists have found that a small Central American jumping spider has a uniquely different diet: the species Bagheera kiplingi feeds predominantly on plant food  http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/News-vegetarian-spider-found-101309.aspx

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has just released 10 Tips for Following a Vegetarian Diet, and you could knock me over with a feather. It’s not just that it takes a positive approach; it actually takes a vegan approach- Virginia Messina, MPH, RD ‘The Vegan Dietician’ > Vegan Dietician article

“What we put on our forks is one of the most powerful actions that we make every day.  Every time we take a bite, we turn our forks into weapons of mass destruction or tools of mass compassion depending on the choices that we make...” –Julia Butterfly Hill

New Facebook group > South Florida Vegans and Vegan want-to-be's ‘Veganism is not a diet! It's an ethical stance that rejects the system that sees animals as a commodity rather than feeling, conscious beings... Vegans don't buy products tested on animals. They don't vote with their dollars to have animals perform for them, race for them, fight for them, entertain them, or die for them. Vegans don't support slavery. And vegans walk this earth with a clear conscience and they feel happy and healthy!! Make a stand and go vegan

Alliance of Religions and Conservation (ARC) works with 11 faiths world wide, embracing 85% of the world's population, to care for the environment www.arcworld.org

Rainforest alliance vs. Fairtrade labeling: Mcdonald's, chiquita, mars, wal-mart, and kraft apparently now all have products certified "sustainable," sharing, among other things, the little green frog label of the rainforest alliance. On the other side of the labeling world, we have fair trade, the original product certification initiative aimed at building equitable and sustainable trading partnerships and creating opportunities to alleviate poverty. What's the difference?

http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_18372.cfm

The Rise of Carbon Trading Carbon permit prices flashing on electronic screens in Wall Street trading rooms reflect a complex political movement to reorganize and redistribute power and knowledge. The carbon markets associated with the Kyoto Protocol, the EU Emissions Trading Scheme and the US's Waxman-Markey Act… the ill-fated attempt to privatize the climate itself  http://www.thecornerhouse.org.uk/pdf/document/Neolib&Calc.pdf

Book  ‘No Impact Man: The Adventures of a Guilty Liberal Who Attempts to Save the Planet, and the Discoveries He Makes About Himself and Our Way of Life in the Process’ - Colin Beavan

http://www.organicgardening.com/feature/0,7518,s1-26-27-1215,00.html

Organic gardening advice for Florida on monthly basis

In honor of National Community Gardening Week, Farm Sanctuary put together some > Tips on Veganic Gardening to tickle your green thumb

Pulse of Health Freedom… half of all health workers, including doctors, would reject the swine flu vaccine due to concerns about its effectiveness, side effects and safety.  The AP emphasizes the risk of doctors and nurses spreading swine flu if they don’t get vaccinated.  We’d like to suggest a different thrust for this particular story, that doctors and nurses don’t think the swine flu vaccine is either safe or effective! naturalhealthsciencenews.org

The Living Centre (www.thelivingcentre.com) is run by Shantree Kacera and Lorenna Bousquet-Kacera. Their educational programs are aimed at holistic human development, with teachings that promote peace, spiritual growth, physical and emotional health, and eco-sustainability. They teach and practice bioregionalism, deep ecology, and permaculture

Biodegradable* - Compostable: Disposable products such as plates, bowls, cups and cutlery are commonly made out of PLA (Polylactic acid), bagasse (sugarcane fiber) or vegetable starch. It is environmentally-preferable to use disposable products that are labeled 'compostable' rather than just 'biodegradable' http://www.greenhome.com/products/food_service/index.html

http://www.worldcentric.org/store/fiberplates.htm http://www.treecycle.com/bagasse.html#bowl

http://drclarkstore.com/rlesearch-articles.html

'Anything that gets people to stop eating meat, I'm for that.' - Joan Jett

Say NO to GM …the process of ‘engineering’ genes from unrelated species into food crops is far from precise www.healthfreedom.net

Time magazine “What the World Eats” http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1626519_1373690,00.html

Over 50 raw food demonstration and health related videos, Q&A blog posts, “Transitioning to Living Cuisine” book info and information about area classes http://www.reneoswald.com

Let us:  resolve to live up to our task as tenders of the Garden;  commit ourselves to planting the seeds of renewal to insure that the gift of earth’s bounty is not bartered away in pursuit of our own short-term goals;  pledge ourselves to living lightly; obligate ourselves to simplicity; promise ourselves, our children and each other’s children to do all we can to see that the Garden is restored and that the world is a little greener, a little cleaner, a little brighter for our having been its guardians ‘For The Well-being of Our Planet’ (modified, from ‘Unhewn Stones’ - Rami M. Shapiro)

Long-awaited: "It is the position of the American Dietetic Association that appropriately planned vegetarian diets, including total vegetarian or vegan diets, are healthful, nutritionally adequate and may provide health benefits in the prevention and treatment of certain diseases. Well-planned vegetarian diets are appropriate for individuals during all stages of the life-cycle including pregnancy, lactation, infancy, childhood and adolescence and for athletes."

Address to Int’l Vegan Festival by Dr. Michael Klaper from the National Health Assn. Conference- a compelling view of veganism and its future as meat prices are predicted to skyrocket.  Recorded CD available at www.healthscience.org

Sprout Carefully: countertop minifarms convert beans, nuts and seeds into wholesome sprouts but not all are created equal.  Premature harvesting of lentil and green pea sprouts (before tiny green leaf appears) may lead to serious joint inflammation, or worse

Dietary factors have been associated with both prostate and ovarian cancer. Food for Life Nutrition and Cooking Classes are full of lifesaving information on the value of a healthy diet to fight cancer, helpful cooking tips, and delicious food samples, but none available now in So. Florida, so pick up The Cancer Project’s new book, The Cancer Survivor's Guide: Foods That Help You Fight Back   http://www.cancerproject.org 

The Eco-Philosophy Center hereby promotes a true vegan diet, and indeed a vegan lifestyle, as an ideal for us all to strive for. It need not be 'all or nothing,' but clearly, the more vegan the better. To this end we will be sponsoring lectures on the benefits of veganism, and distributing informational literature. To achieve a truly Vegan Planet will take years, but we must start now. Every small step toward this end will make a difference — for the animals, for your health, and for the Earth www.ecophilosophy.org

The farm animal sector is the single largest anthropogenic user of land, contributing to many environmental problems, including global warming and climate change

http://www.hsus.org/farm/resources/research/enviro/global_farm_animal_production.html

Veg*n restaurants in South Florida  http://www.soflavegevents.net

 http://www.VegSouthFlorida.com/    http://www.meatlessmiami.com/

Mountaintop removal: see the location and track of the status of the permits pending before the EPA… and see videos of nearby communities threatened by mountaintop removal http://ilovemountains.org/epa-permit-list/

'If we can make vegetarianism, veganism work on the road, you can make it work at home… none of us eat meat' - Tim McIlrath, Singer, Rise Against band  >summer vegetarian tour

Access to Water - Key for World's Poor  http://www.truthout.org/082209G?n
Agence France-Presse: "An international cast of politicians, industry leaders and United Nations officials joined forces Monday to improve access to water and halt a tide of deaths in poor nations. Some 2,000 experts met at a global water summit in Sweden to tackle problems related to the vital natural resource."

The Appalachian Advocate reports: The Declining Power of Coal  …coal industry front-group American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity is spending tens of millions of advertising dollars attaching the inappropriate word "clean" to our dirtiest source of energy… > coal accounted for less than 43% of US electricity production and falling > Front Porch Blog

Honeybees Hurt the Environment ...the reduction of honeybee populations would be positive because they crowd out… not only other bee pollinators, but also birds, honey possums and other insects http://www.vegetus.org/honey/ecology.htm

There's only one Everglades in this world, and I feel the mandate has been given already to repair the damages, so let's make it more resilient to global climate change by elevating those 10 miles of the road which unfortunately blocks water to the Park- Editor

How Green Is Your School? Savvy college applicants are paying more attention than ever before to the green credentials of colleges and, to attract these stellar students, universities are stepping up their sustainability game. Sierra magazine just released its latest ranking of America's coolest schools, based on steps that more than 100 campuses are (or aren't) taking.

Fish are not swimming vegetables http://www.prijatelji-zivotinja.hr/index.en.php?id=1068                       

Online magazine celebrates raw vegan cuisine and lifestyle  www.rawfoodsnewsmagazine.com

FREE raw recipe of the day  www.southfloridarawcommunity.com

Healthy foods for school lunches- http://www.slowfoodusa.org/index.php/campaign/time_for_lunch/ 

Child Nutrition Act http://www.mnn.com/food/markets-groceries/blogs/why-dont-all-students-eat-like-the-presidents-daughters

>Americans are voting with their pocketbooks Although complementary and alternative medicine accounted for just 1.5 percent of all U.S. healthcare costs in 2007, Americans spent $33.9 billion out of pocket on CAM, 11.2 percent of all payments for healthcare. This sum is dwarfed by the $286.6 billion paid out of pocket for conventional medicine

>Organic vs. conventionally grown food: Are we missing the forest for the trees?
According to a British agricultural scientist, the key question is: “How can we make all of agriculture more sustainable?”

The Organic Center’s Vision Conversion of agriculture to organic methods, improved health for the earth and its inhabitants, and greater awareness of and demand for organic products.  http://www.organic-center.org/

Veganism's Essential Role In Preventing an Unprecedented Global Catastrophe
Richard H. Schwartz, Ph.D  Synopsis: The world is rapidly approaching an unprecedented catastrophe from global climate change and other environmental threats, and a major societal shift to plant-based (vegan) diets is an essential part of the necessary responses to avoid that catastrophe. Since methane emitted by farmed animals is in the atmosphere for less than 20 years and is 72 times as potent as a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide during that time, reducing the number of farmed animals would have a major, rapid effect in reducing climate change.

http://worldpeacediet.org/  free, daily ‘Veg Inspiration For The Day’

Reconstructionist Judaism teaching: “Now all that I am going to create for you I have already created. Think about this and do not corrupt and desolate My world; for if you do corrupt or desolate it, there will be no one to set it right after you"

>Tobacco Wiki article about tobacco industry PR tactics < describes time-tested corporate PR strategies, like commissioning favorable research, reframing the debate onto more advantageous terms, fostering public confusion, changing the focus of the issue, broadening the issue, staging fake "grassroots" uprisings, generating controversy where there really is none, manipulating the media and legislators, undermining science, creating phony economic statistics, inducing fear among the public and harassing and intimidating opponents…

Core Truths is a groundbreaking compilation of the most current research on organic agriculture. This highly readable and graphically stunning 108-page coffee table book documents the verifiable health and environmental benefits of organic products https://www.organic-center.org/liveCore_v1.php

The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine has filed a lawsuit in New Jersey to require labeling on hotdogs to remind people ‘consuming hot dogs increases their risk of developing several types of cancers’ http://www.care2.com/causes/health-policy/blog/should-hot-dogs-have-warning-labels/

Dennis Kucinich Proclaims June 21 Vegan Earth Day http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMt9_qgDfLE

Being a vegan bodybuilder  For general questions about the vegan athlete lifestyle, please visit our forum ... We have a thousand vegan athletes there who can answer nearly any question ... http://www.veganbodybuilding.com/?page=contact

JERUSALEM (JTA) -- Israel's chief rabbi wants to revoke kosher certificates from fruit and vegetable growers who use too much pesticide

To the Editor, NY Times Online: Inhumane Food Policy   Thank you for Nicholas D. Kristof’s plea for food-policy reform (“Lettuce From the Garden, With Worms,” column, June 21). Though factory-style production worsens it, the root problem is animal use. Since using animals is cultural, not part of our biological nature or in any way necessary, animal use is by definition inhumane — unkind where we could as a society choose kind. It is inhumane to humans as well, E. coli or not, since animal protein and animal fat in the diet significantly increase chronic-disease risk, and using animals is a huge environmental problem regardless of method. So the solution is simple. But our colleges of agriculture and our state and federal governments prefer the problem to the solution, responding to years of reasoned requests for change with public relations exercises. David Cantor, Founder and Director, Responsible Policies for Animals
Glenside, Pa., June 24, 2009

Friends or Dinner?: A Toronto Subway System Campaign Stops the Public in Its Tracks "Why love one but eat the other?" is the provocative slogan of the recent campaign launched by concerned citizens of Toronto and U.S.-based animal advocacy organization, Mercy for Animals.

Free…Free…Free materials to GO VEG     www.vegpledge.com

http://www.bornfreeusa.org/chooseveggie/  http://www.goveg.com/order.asp 

http://www.veganoutreach.org/guide/  http://www.afa-online.org/starterpack.html  http://www.mercyforanimals.org/vegan-starter-kit.aspx http://www.vegkit.org

Storing precious fresh salad greens:  Place greens in a plastic bag, close the top of the bag lightly with your fist, blow into the bag and fill it with air (carbon dioxide). Then seal the bag by twisting the top a few times before closing it firmly with a twisty-tie. Place it in the fridge and your greens are good to go  http://www.fitsugar.com/336887

LA PAZ, Bolivia, July 14, 2009 (ENS) - Bolivian President Evo Morales has signed the world's first law prohibiting the use of both wild and domestic animals in traveling circuses

‘New Study Reveals Major Health Problems Linked to Genetically Engineered Foods’  “…Organic Consumers Assn. demands the systematic publication of the results of these tests, which we could only obtain on a case by case basis by taking legal action... It [the study] brings to light a significant underestimation of the initial signs of diseases like cancer and diseases of the hormonal, immune, nervous and reproductive systems, among others... The health crises may be more important than the int