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

C O O L  S T U F F:

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 international financial crisis because of the lack of transparency of the regulators."  > study published in the Journal of Biological Science

David Sandoval authored ‘The Green Food Bible’.  Our bodies are not equipped with enzymes to digest the red blood cells in meat because such enzymes would likewise break down our own cells.  Hence, that component of meat toxifies the digestive tract, enhancing its environment for colo-rectal cancer.  Green herbs and veggies, including the superfoods, do the opposite.  As a fundraiser www.miamiEcoCenter.com offers Purium Health Products in ‘Online Store’ 

Spoon Revolution You can achieve much more by taking meat off your dish than by participa-ting in marches, politics or charity  www.spoonrevolution.com

VegSource reports: “Come this fall, many governments will have a great deal of swine flu vaccine stocked and ready to go. There's big money to be made selling. The government and media fear-mongering is already starting.  On Thursday, July 9, 2009, US health officials said the government would like to institute mass vaccinations of school-aged children starting in October.  Should this happen, we will be removing our children from school rather than let them receive this vaccine.  Why? Well just watch the two videos below, from the last time the government got into the swine flu vaccine business.” VIDEOS at: http://www.vegsource.com/articles2/media_swine2.htm

Her viewers trust Oprah Winfrey. Oprah’s 21 day Vegan Challenge Day #1: Introduction to Going Vegan.  Day #2: Essential Cookbooks   Day #3: Avoiding Nutrient Deficiency   Day #4: Eat Your Veggies!   Day #5: Taking Nutrition Seriously   Day #6: Learning from the Counterculture… etc http://www.vegan.com/articles/oprahs-21-day-vegan-challenge-support-page/

Organic Coffee House in Miami http://sweatrecordsmiami.blogspot.com/

Mario Yanez, deep local ecology references: Earth Learning www.earth-learning.org;  Genesis Farm http://www.genesisfarm.org/ Blessed Unrest video http://www.blessedunrest.com/video.html; Transition Initiatives www.transitioncultures.org;  Transition Florida www.transitionflorida.ning.com;  Edible Forest Gardening www.edibleforestgardens.com;  Perennial Vegetables www.perennialvegetables.org; ECHO Global Farm in Fort Myers www.echonet.org

What’s On My Food? www.whatsonmyfood.org is a searchable database designed to make the public problem of pesticide exposure visible and more understandable

10 of the most outrageous comments in Congress, as the House debate on Climate heated up, so did the hyperbole http://www.edf.org/page.cfm?tagID=44458

Sierra Club’s ‘The Green Life’ http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/200907/enjoy.aspx#power

Fish oil doesn't help heart attack patients in biggest study: "Omega-3 fatty acids, abundant in the organs of oily fish including salmon and sardines, didn't help heart attack patients prevent another cardiac event, a study found. The report, presented today at the American College of Cardiology in Orlando, Florida, contradicts previous smaller studies that suggested a daily supplement may help ward off repeat heart attacks, strokes and death. After taking a gram of purified fatty-acid supplements each day for a year, patients in the latest research, the biggest of its kind, fared no better than those who were given olive oil..." Mad Cowboy N-Ltr

Happy B-Earth-Day: For many parents, planning a child's birthday party opens a box of eco-guilt filled with balloons, wrapping paper, and landfill-clogging trinkets. Echoage can help http://www.echoage.com/

‘The Daylight Diet’ a new book by Paul Nison.  Did you know when you eat is just as important as what you eat? It can determine your total health and wellness. Raw Food Chef and Author Paul Nison has studied the topic of health and digestion for years and will share information no one else is talking about!

Virginia License Plate for Vegetarians & Vegans  VeggiePlates@live.com

The National Academies says ‘adverse effects of extreme space weather on modern technology- power grid outages, high-frequency communication blackouts, spacecraft anomalies- are well known and well documented, and the physical processes underlying space weather are also generally well understood’  http://www.nap.edu

Sustainability Is More Important Than Ever (by David Almy)  One of the real concerns of sustainability advocates is that the stagnant global economy will put pressure on businesses to freeze, moderate, or even eliminate sustainability-oriented programs and messages. At a time when corporate profits have cratered and nearly everyone's job seems at risk, the belief is that spending on sustainability will be lumped in with other examples of unnecessary corporate excess, like corporate jets and stadium luxury suites. A review of recent studies and surveys suggest that, in fact, the opposite is true… http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.printFriendly&art_aid=106817

30% of the world's species face extinction  > Warming and Wildlife campaign

Sally Bingham's “Love God, Heal the Earth”  By Rabbi Julian Sinclair, as published on www.GreenProphet.com  Twenty years, ago, Sally Bingham went to her local bishop and announced that she wanted to be ordained so that she could become the world's first priest for the environment.  She was received with some skepticism. Undeterred, she embarked on almost a decade of study and became an Episcopalian minister in 1998. She went on to found Interfaith Power and Light (what a great name for an organization). Today IPL has some 2000 affiliated congregations in 26 states

Rabbi A. Waskow “Lie down for an hour of simply breathing, not on a ‘meditation mat’ but on the naked earth, buzzing with grasshoppers and grass seeds. Let the earth "swallow up" your mind, attune your politics not only to human justice but to the seasons and the interbreathing of the trees and mammals - for what we breathe in is what the trees breathe out, what the trees breathe in is what we breathe out. We are earthy earthlings.

Bottled Water: Not a good idea  (Originally shared by Linda Drake of SNE Div. for Sustain- able Agriculture)  http://www.cityofbatavia.net/content/articlefiles/5314-Bottled%20Water.pdf

Vegetable Gardeners of Havana:  Climate change, drought, population growth - they could all threaten future food supplies. But global agriculture, with its dependence on fuel and fertilizers is also highly vulnerable to an oil shortage, as Cuba found out 20 years ago http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8213617.stm

Almost every country can become energy independent. Anywhere that has sunlight and land can produce alcohol from plants. Brazil, the fifth largest country in the world imports no oil, since half its cars run on alcohol fuel made from sugarcane, grown on 1% of its land

http://www.permaculture.com/

Natural Agriculture emphasizes the integrity of nature and the purity of soil, water, and air…  a profound reverence for Nature and its practice. Shumei's founder, Mokichi Okada envisioned it as not only a means of cultivating pure and wholesome food but as an art and spiritual practice…http://www.shumei.org/environment/environment_00.html 

Call for expert assistance http://www.expertsofconscience.org  

Green Week is a unique opportunity for exchanges of experience and good practice.  Some 3,500 participants are expected from EU institutions, business and industry, non-governmental organisations, public authorities, the scientific community and academia
http://ec.europa.eu/environment/greenweek/home.html

A sampling of the 100 vegetarian athletes: ¹Paavo Nurmi- Distance runner and one-time holder of 20 world records, and holder of 9 Olympic medals;  Gilman Low- Body builder and holder of 9 world records;  Peter Hussing- European heavyweight boxing champion;  Edwin Moses- Olympic Gold Medalist who went undefeated for 8 years;   Carl Lewis- 9-time Olympic gold medalist in track and field;   Dave Scott- 6 time ironman triathlon winner;   Nicky Cole- First woman to walk to the North Pole   http://www.eatforsports.org

Vegan Bodybuilding http://www.veganbodybuilding.org/

All who subscribe to our fun and life-affirming sporting ideals may consider themselves members of the Extreme Vegan Sporting Association http://www.extremevegansports.org/

Corporate abuse of our food begins with the seeds and in the soil that nurtures all life. The fast food industry demands enormous quantities of cheap, low-nutrition and uniform crops, encouraging the widespread use of toxic pesticides, industrial fertilizers and genetically modified seeds. These practices deplete our environment and threaten both our health and the livelihoods of family farmers http://www.stopcorporateabuse.org/content/seed-soil

Another State Bans Gestation Crates and Veal Crates … Maine’s new law will protect farm animals by banning veal crates and gestation crates, making Maine the sixth state to prohibit certain types of extreme confinement of farm animals

Vegan Relationship Survey Results  Find out what vegans from all over the world have to say about questions like:  Does being vegan influence how you relate to others?  How do you meet vegans?  http://www.veganpoet.com/SurveyResults/Results.html

The city of Ghent in Belgium will declare every Thursday a vegetarian day in an attempt to fight climate change

Religions are embracing the EarthSave mission http://www.hsus.org/religion/ or is it the other way around?

Ten Reasons to eat more like a vegetarian: http://godsdirectcontact.us/com/vegetarian/alternativeliving/10/english.htm

THIS GREEN LIFE  Sheryl Eisenberg, author of NRDC’s monthly online journal of green living, questions her daughter's decision to save the life of a common pigeon, but is surprised by what she learns from the experience. In This Green Life discover why all species are worth saving -- and how every one of us can make a difference in protecting wildlife   www.nrdc.org

Purple corn is being classified as a functional food. It is loaded with phenolics and nthocyanin, and has just about the highest antioxidant rating of any food including blueberries. The health benefits of purple corn are pervasive, and it has a normalizing effect on many systems of the body. Purple corn has even been shown able to shrink cancerous tumors. As the healing value of purple corn becomes apparent, researchers have jumped in to document its many benefits, and supplement companies have rolled out purple corn extracts. The only thing missing from all this is someone to put purple corn in the produce sections of the local grocery stores   http://www.naturalnews.com

New Harvest was founded in 2004 to support the development of meat substitutes, with the long-term goal of delivering economically competitive alternatives to conventional meat production. The organization funds applied research in food science and provides a forum for sharing technical innovations. http://www.new-harvest.org 

In a victory for local dairy farmers and consumers, Gov. Sebelius vetoed controversial bill that would have limited rbGH labeling on dairy products in Kansas

Genetics + Environmental Chemical Soup = Autism? In the not-too-distant past, the rate of autism in the US was listed as 1 in 10,000 children. It is now acknowledged to be 1 in 150 children and as high as 1 in 93 children in New Jersey. Some point to better diagnosis as the reason for the increase, but little consensus exists for the reasons why as many as 1 in 6 American children are labeled as learning and/or behaviorally disabled Autism Link

China Study says  “Diseases of Affluence:  Colon cancer, lung cancer, breast cancer, leukemia, diabetes, coronary disease, brain cancer (0-14 years), stomach cancer, liver cancer     Diseases of Poverty:  pneumonia, intestinal obstruction, peptic ulcer, digestive diseases, nephritis, pulmonary tuberculosis, non-TB infections, parasitic diseases, eclampsia, rheumatic heart disease, metabolic and endocrine diseases other than diabetes, diseases of pregnancy other than eclampsia”

First Lady Michelle Obama broke ground on the White House's first organic kitchen garden since the Roosevelt Administration. Would you like resources and tips for growing or expanding your own victory garden?  http://organicconsumers.org/transitions/index.cfm

A study of more than 500,000 middle-age and elderly Americans found that those who consumed about a quarter-pound of red meat a day were more than 30 percent more likely to die during the 10 years they were followed, mostly from heart disease and cancer. Sausage, cold cuts and other processed meats also increased the risk, says Rob Stein in The Washington Post Red meat diet ups odds of early death

Faiths United for Sustainable Energy (FUSE).  Our mission is to educate and mobilize faith communities to act on the increasingly harmful effects of our country's dependence on fossil fuels.  FUSE works with all faiths  www.fusenow.org

Big Coal's "Worst Nightmare" Bruce Nilles, director of the Sierra Club's Move Beyond Coal campaign, was named by Rolling Stone magazine as one of the "100 People Who Are Changing America" (he's number 74) with nearly 100 coal plants like this one stopped so far

EarthSave News archives- superbly informative articles http://www.earthsave.org/magazine.htm

When we break the cycle of oil dependence, new things become possible. Electric cars transform the relationship with people and the planet.  www.betterplace.com

#3 on Amazon's bestselling nonprofit books- http://www.idealist.org/handbook
Idealist Handbook to Building a Better World was written for anyone who wants to make a difference in the world but doesn't know where to start

Will Allen, urban garden guru and winner of a 2008 MacArthur Foundation “genius award’’ received his award for "transforming the cultivation, production, and delivery of healthy foods to underserved, urban populations."  He began developing in 1995 the farming methods and educational programs that have grown into Growing Power (www.growingpower.org)

http://www.beautytruth.net/ Click on Beauty Scams for healthy choices

Dirty Dozen of the produce department have the highest concentrations of ‘cides’:

Peaches/Apples/Sweet bell peppers/Celery/Nectarines/Strawberries/Cherries/Pears/Grapes (imported)/Spinach/Lettuce/Potatoes  http://www.foodnews.org/

The Environmental Protection Agency has a huge green/health/safety website for kids, teachers and parents   http://www.epa.gov/kids/

Quoted, Jeff Novick:  “When you understand the concept of "Burden of Proof: and the way science really works, you eventually begin to realize that most of the news stories you hear and the reports of "breaking news" are all making the same mistakes and/or assumptions in the way these studies (and/or products)  are either done, and/or reported, and you learn what to look for.  If you do listen to the news, one day fat is good, one day fat is bad.”

http://www.greenpeople.org/subscribersignup.cfm lets users sign up for coupons, announcements, learn about employment opportunities and find green businessess for sale

Corn syrup is an industrial product that just happens to use corn as it primary ingredient. Recently revealed studies which the FDA apparently has been sitting on until now reveal that in two different studies 1/3 of tested foods with corn syrup found traces of mercury. It did not exist until the 1970s http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/546.html

http://vegandad.blogspot.com/   Feeding a family from a dad’s viewpoint

Society of Ethical and Religious Vegetarians  SERV is an interfaith effort to gain a more humane, just, peaceful, and environmentally sustainable world. We believe that applying spiritual values to scientific knowledge encourages plant-based diets, with major benefits for humans, animals, and the environment. (718) 761-5876  http://www.serv-online.org

Response to Anti-Vegetarian Articles by Jack Norris, Registered Dietitianhttp://www.veganhealth.org/articles/cdcsurvey0109

Reclaiming Food Production International Decade of Nutrition and the Valley of the Moon^(TM) Eco Demonstration Project www.NaturalSolutionsFoundation.org

Get Healthier in 24 days   http://www.greensmoothiequeen.com/xmas.php

Eco-Eating website http://www.brook.com/veg/

www.goveganic.net may be the best form of agriculture/gardening

Podcasts, archived  http://www.vegcast.com

http://www.eatlowcarbon.org  Calculate the carbon footprint of your meals

Alliance for Natural Health  As dietary supplements become more popular and threaten the bottom line of traditional medicine and Big Pharma, studies and articles try to convince the public that dietary supplements are useless, unregulated, or even deadly.  Often these studies are bad science and inaccurate reporting  http://www.anhcampaign.org/

Chemicals and artificial production methods are causing beehives to collapse- not so with organically-kept bees  

http://www.foginfo.org/ Florida’s umbrella org for organics

List of foods’ Nutrient Density Scores http://www.drfuhrman.com/library/article17.aspx

How many customers order meatless meals when they dine out? Vegetarian Resource Group poll results, April http://www.vrg.org/journal/vj2008issue3/restaurantpoll.pdf

Center For Food Safety (CFS) addresses the impacts of the food production system on human health, animal welfare, and the environment  http://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/

http://www.chooseveg.com/  Reasons and ways to adopt a compassionate eco-diet

You can buy a big, bold metal  V E G A N  belt buckle with non-leather belt at: www.snootyjewelry.com

http://www.ivu.org/religion/articles/argument3.html How to win an argument with a Meat- Eater

http://www.vegansworldnetwork.org/ says “Strive for a gentle world”

Metamorphosis: Poems to Inspire Transformation, by M. Katz  http://veganpoet.com

One of the best vegan message t-shirts http://www.veganshirt.com/

Go vegetarian to save money  Staples such as rice, corn and beans can make trips to a grocery store less expensive. But the biggest savings may come in health-care costs years later http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/SavingandDebt/SaveMoney/GoVegetarianToSaveMoney.aspx?page=all

Organic Consumers Assn calls for education and action about essential organic food standards http://organicconsumers.org/sos.cfm

How to feed vegan dogs and cats  and advice from Vegan Vet

http://veganpoet.com/articles/dogs-can-be-vegan-too.htm 

http://www.sustainabletable.org/getinvolved/   Sustainable Table brings you the Meatrix videos and a program of community action

Pesticide Cocktails Cause 99% Mortality Rate in Frogs”  The journal Oecologia indicates that when pesticides mix in the environment, they form "chemical cocktails" that are more toxic than previously estimated. Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh discovered that when 10 of the world's most commonly used pesticides combine, as they regularly do in the environment, the chemicals caused an astounding 99 percent mortality in leopard frogs

VEG*N ATHLETES RULE  http://www.adaptt.org/athletes.html  At Yale, Professor Irving Fisher designed a series of tests to compare the stamina and strength of meat-eaters against that of vegetarians. He selected men from three groups: meat-eating athletes, vegetarian athletes, and vegetarian sedentary subjects. Fisher reported the results of his study in the Yale Medical Journal. His findings do not seem to lend a great deal of credibility to the popular prejudices that hold meat to be a builder of strength. "Of the three groups compared, the ... flesh-eaters showed far less endurance than the abstainers (vegetarians), even when the latter were leading a sedentary life." 

Vegetarian Marine: Marine Captain Alan Jones of Quantico, Virginia: Although crippled by polio when he was five years old, Jones is another candidate for world's fittest man and has amassed a record of physical accomplishments unmatched by any human being that ever lived. Not only does he hold the world record for continuous situps (17,003), but in one particular 15-month period he accomplished possibly the most remarkably array of physical achievements ever attained by a human being:                                                                                Lifted a 75-pound barbell over his head 1,600 times in 19 hours / Made 3,802 basketball free throws in 12 hours, including 96 out of 100 / Swam 500 miles in 11 days through the Snake and Columbia Rivers / Skipped rope 43,000 times in five hours / Skipped rope 100,00 times in 23 hours / Swam over 68 miles in the University of Oregon swimming pool, without a sleeping break / Swam one-half mile in 32°F (0°C) water, without a wet suit, in the Missouri River /
Performed 51,000 situps in 76 hours

Being a vegan bodybuilder  Vegan Muscle Power  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

M E D I a:  (OnLine, Videos are Subject to Change)

24/7 ethical vegan webcast http://www.suprememastertv.com

Coal Country, a feature-length documentary, companion book and soundtrack avail. Sierra Club Productions and Sierra Club's Beyond Coal Campaign

Sierra Club urges everyone to view the new outstanding documentary "Nicotine Bees" and to take action to save the honeybee, a major pollinator! http://NicotineBees.com  http://www.sierraclub.org/biotech/whatsnew/whatsnew_2009-11-10.asp

Jonathan Foer recently appeared on ‘Ellen’ to talk about his new book, EATING ANIMALS, which foods are most unhealthy and most cruel

http://vegsource.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/r/news/512434719721/

TV’s Dr. Oz convinced a very sick, very overweight meat-loving cowboy – named Rocco -- to go vegan for 28 days.  Rocco lost 30 pounds and saw some other amazing health changes http://www.vegsource.com/news/2009/11/rocco-the-vegan-cowboy-went-vegan.html

Interesting film 'Veni, Vidi, Vegani'

Video: The Engine Two Diet  Austin Texas firefighter, Rip Esselstyn, made a bet with a fellow firefighter, JR: if JR would just eat the way Rip ate for 28 days, then JR's cholesterol would come down from 344 to 196.  JR's father and grandfather had both died in their 50s from heart attacks- Rip won the bet. http://www.vegsource.com/articles2/media_rip1.htm

Jens Holm, the former MEP from Sweden, Lectures in Croatia Food and Climate Lecture

Paul McCartney and other celebs launch Meat free Monday Campaign http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34ZlshYwby8&NR=1

Video thumbnails the livestock-global warming connection

http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&hl=en-GB&v=gTS2Yp-UgI0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etfBXbJZXp8&feature=channel_page  Vegan Solution to the 350ppm movement

A Chemical Reaction tells the story of one of the most powerful and effective community initiatives in the history of North America.  It started with one lone voice in 1984.  Dr. June Irwin, a dermatologist, noticed a connection between her patients’ health conditions and their exposure to chemical pesticides and herbicides Trailer www.chemicalreactionmovie.com

http://www.rawveganradio.com/wordpress/

Rawspirit rawk radio with Kennedy RawK-ON Tuesdays @ 7PM PST - 10PM EST
www.blogtalkradio.com/raw-spirit-radio   I am very excited to announce that I will be the new Program Director for Raw Spirit Radio, along with the RawSpirit RawK Star Staff "STREAMING LIVE" from the Raw Spirit Production Office in Prescott Arizona.  Co-Host for this week’s episode will be Kashi Stone

EARTHSAVE ON THE PROGRESSIVE RADIO NETWORK (PRN) LIVE - Every Wednesday, 3-4pm Eastern Time  http://www.earthsave.org/radio.html  Join EarthSave International's Executive Director, Caryn Hartglass during the live Internet Radio Broadcast.  Call in with questions or make comments at 1-888-873-4643; or email your questions and comments during the week to info@earthsave.org.  Can't tune in to the LIVE show- listen to archived shows

Hip, earthy, interesting radio team appeals to ‘under 40’  http://www.veganfreakradio.com/

Go Vegan Radio with Bob Linden.  Live Web-radio or 218 archived broadcasts.  Fascinating, hard-hitting and motivational.  Bob’s opinions, superb guests, cutting-edge vegan advocacy.  Some listeners may overlook a sharp political edge to find quotable substance, compassion and humor  http://www.goveganradio.com/veg/1003/Listen_to_Past_Shows.htm

Vegan World Radio Shirley Wilkes-Johnson, 1-800-864-3501   http://veganworldradio.org/vegan_world_radio-main.php

6-min clip of Gary Yourofsky’s vegan lecture to college students... stirs questions and key concepts: No religion mandates meat eating; golden rule includes animals; is slavery peculiar to the human race? can you humanely slaughter animals? www.youtube.com/watch?v=bagt5L9wXGo

‘Glass Walls’ is in production, here’s a 3 minute clip: the true story of three people who agree to do one thing: change what they eat. For six weeks, these meat- and cheese-loving New Yorkers from different backgrounds adopt a vegan diet and a whole new way of thinking about food http://www.kindgreenplanet.org/programs/glasswalls 

A Cowboy Goes Vegan- a powerful segment on the Dr. Oz's new TV show, in which a nearly pure-carnivore cowboy agrees to go vegan to deal with his heart disease, diabetes, and weight problems. http://www.doctoroz.com/

'The Age of Stupid' documentary from the Director of 'McLibel'. This enormously ambitious drama-documentary-animation hybrid stars Oscar-nominated Pete Postlethwaite as an old man living in the devastated world of 2055, watching 'archive' footage from 2008 and asking: why didn't we stop climate change while we had the chance?  http://vimeo.com/6143388

Healthy Home Tips for Parents  overview of the health risks from common toxics in the home and how to minimize them > watch this informative video

Jeff Novick reveals food label mysteries http://www.therealfoodchannel.com/page/34.html

Chemtrails vs Contrails ‘HAZE’ is a leading Eco-Doc films on www.youtube.com/Hodinfilms

Flu Factories: Tracing the Origins of the Swine Flu Pandemic  60 min. video.  Dr. Greger explores the role factory farming played in the emergence of the current flu pandemic, which has likely infected more than a million Americans

HTTP://WWW.HSUS.ORG/FARM/RESOURCES/PUBS/SWINE_FLU.HTML

Mercy For Animals just released a brand new Iowa hatchery investigation video — the facility filmed is the largest layer-hen hatchery in the world.  If this video doesn’t get someone off eggs, nothing will  http://www.vegan.com/  

http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/698.html Ron Paul on Swine Flu

The school lunch scam http://www.therealfoodchannel.com/page/30.html

Intro to The World Peace Diet, 12 min. video http://www.facebook.com/l/;worldpeacediet.org/videos.htm

…When schools care- healthy school food http://www.therealfoodchannel.com/page/31.html

Urgent Message from Supreme Master Ching Hai  passionate speech outlines our problem and specifying Veganism as The Short-term Solution (worldwide savings of $32 Trillion)

http://suprememastertv.com/bbs/board.php?bo_table=sos_video&wr_id=117&url=link3_0#v

CNN Video explains impact of meat production on global warming to mainstream America.  (Wait until commercial is done)  http://edition.cnn.com/video/#

Got milk? Got Disease?  Dr. McDougall’s 43 min. video  http://www.therealfoodchannel.com/page/29.html

Http://www.vegsource.com/articles2/media_vitd.htm  Video: Widespread Vitamin D deficiency Today it takes special effort to get Vitamin D and Vitamin D is absolutely essential for health, especially for boosting your immune system. Studies show it helps prevents cancer,
effectively fights cancer if you already have it, and helps prevent the common cold -- and the flu. Getting Vitamin D from sunlight and/or supplementation is infinitely safer (and probably more effective) than getting the "flu shot..."

Leila Masson is a Harvard-trained pediatrician working in one of the most exciting and promising areas of medicine -- the treatment of autism.  At her clinic in New Zealand, Leila and her colleagues have been successful in halting and reversing the symptoms of autism.  She has a very high success rate  http://vegsource.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/r/news/874230757297/

http://www.organic-center.org/news.video.html 6 min. video explains the organic movement and how switching to organic food can benefit not only your health, but our planet

PETA’s short video is strongly-worded and chillingly-explicit at Meat.Org

Dr. McDougall on Health (in ‘Processed People’) John McDougall MD discusses how you can avoid the fate that awaits most people in the Western World. He comments on what could happen that would cure most of the population from ill health in a flash -- a global depression where potatoes, fruits and vegetables were the most affordable foods  http://vegsource.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/r/news/245271044507/

Should kids eat a vegan diet?  Dr. Leila Masson’s response:

http://vegsource.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/r/news/078082536184/

Woman goes raw, loses more than half herself   CNN reported: Angela Stokes, 30, was miserable, unhealthy, weighed 300 pounds.  She began a raw vegan diet after reading a book about its health benefits.  Stokes lost 160 pounds in two years, improving her emotional, physical health.  She now weighs 138 pounds and has written several books on "raw foodism"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rk4sw_rYucg

‘The Shift”  a movie being made by a Movement http://www.theshiftmovie.com/  THE SHIFT is not only a movie-in-progress and a web sensation... it’s a transcending movement that stems from an uncompromising longing for cultural reform all across the globe.  U Can participate

‘Nutrition & Behavior’ by Russell Blaylock, MD http://www.therealfoodchannel.com/page/22.html

Severn Suzuki, a young teenager, addresses the U.N. Conference On Environment And Development  http://mx.youtube.com/watch?v=dlv6jazflro&feature=related

http://www.ci.miramar.fl.us/media/tv/video/green.html City of Miramar video about its Green Champion Kickoff

‘Food, Inc.’  The veil on our nation's food industry is lifted, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that's been hidden from the American consumer…at a theatre near you

Most of the social change documentaries can be accessed free of charge from any computer. The streaming is pretty good depending on the connection, and most are available full screen that can be connected to an LCD projector in case you want to use them for a movie time  http://freedocumentaries.org/index.php

‘Home’ by the very famous photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand ("Earth From Above").  Released on the same day in over 50 countries and in every format: TV, movie theaters, DVD and the internet   http://www.home-2009.com or  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqxENMKaeCU&feature=player_embedded.

‘Indigestible’ A new doc will do for the perils of mass-produced food what An Inconvenient Truth did for global. From conversations with gentle activist-journalist Michael Pollan (The Omnivore’s Dilemma) to scenes of meat processing plants grinding bone and gristle through ammonia before packing it in plastic-lined boxes and sending it off to the National School Lunch Program, director Robert Kenner paints a picture of a highly industrialized food system.  Review: http://www.elle.com/Entertainment/Movies-TV/Indigestible

NYC Veggie Pride Parade 2009 On May 17, EarthSave TV was in Greenwich Village at the 2nd Annual Veggie Pride Parade, organized by Pamela Rice of the VivaVegie Society. Watch this half hour program containing great interviews

"Super Size Me" http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/634.html

Are hospitals killing people via mistakes in treatment, unnecessary surgeries, drug

reactions, infections...and food http://www.therealfoodchannel.com/videos/getting_dad_off_the_death_diet.html

Dan Piraro, creator of ‘Bizarro’ comic strip has numerous cartoons on veganism. Dan’s intelligent pig character discusses “are human beings natural meat eaters?” http://www.examiner.com/x-6041-Denver-Vegan-Examiner~y2009m4d12-Animalfree-isnt-so-Bizarro

http://www.rawfor30days.com  Reversing diabetes, a living experiment

‘Vegan: the fastest way to cool our planet’ http://tinyurl.com/veganpart1of4  http://tinyurl.com/veganpart2

Author of “The Face on Your Plate: The Truth About Food,” former Freudian analyst Jeff Masson, gave a beautiful talk, captured on video by Jeff and  Sabina Nelson

http://www.vegsource.com/articles2/masson_booksoup.htm

‘Why Be Vegan’  http://veganvideo.org/

What really makes you sick?  John McDougall, MD, can tell you.  It's the food.  A one minute video explains… http://www.vegsource.com/articles2/media_mcdougall1.htm

A Meal To Die For at The Heart Attack Grill http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4632991n

Hemp cultivation was criminalized; Ron Paul and Barney Frank have introduced a bill   http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/591.html

http://www.earthsavetv.com Going Green with Caryn Hartglass

‘A Delicate Balance – The Truth’ is a film documents discoveries by prominent experts on nutrition. Watching this film will help you make informed choices about your health and the environment around you and how to reduce your personal impact .. read more  People in the media talking about the connection between factory farming and human health… one vegan newscaster who has her own show on CNN is doing just that http://www.vegsource.com/articles2/media_swine_flu1.htm

Vegan Parenting video http://www.shalomveg.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=200&Itemid=90

Short Film on All Aspects of Vegetarianism/Veganism
http://members.dodo.com.au/kritters/

Leonardo DiCaprio's The 11th Hour - Purchase a copy online for $5  www.11thhourfilm.com

Trailer for documentary, SHADES OF GREEN: Sustainable Initiatives

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnWijnv5yAM  Susan Spinnato, Ex. Producer. WKLG Inc.

"The Unity School of Christianity and Spiritual Vegetarianism," Part 1 and Part 2.

 www.earthsavetv.com  http://www.carynhartglass.com/activism.html   www.asacredduty.com http://www.mikehudak.com/Presentations/RP_M.mov  http://www.goodfoodthemovie.com/ http://www.nonviolenceunited.org/veganvideo.html   www.ravediet.com   http://adelicatebalance.com.au/userpages/trailers.html    www.storyofstuff.com