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Al Gore wants us to eat our greens Thursday, November 05, 2009 » 09:32am Climate change campaigner Al Gore wants us to turn vegetarian to help combat global warming. We've always been told to eat our greens, but now there's another incentive, saving the planet. Climate change campaigner Al Gore believes turning vegetarian could aid the battle against global warming. But he's stopped short of asking everyone to turn their back on meat, acknowledging getting a global agreement on fighting climate change is already hard enough. The former US vice-president turned environmental campaigner said on Wednesday he agreed with the...

Spiders deserve their reputation as bloodthirsty critters. Up until now, all 40,000 species known to science seemed to eat by sucking the juices out of insects and other prey. But researchers have come across a spider that is a vegetarian, and is apparently the first example of a plant-eating spider. Two scientists, working independently in Costa Rica and Mexico, noticed that the neotropical jumping spider feeds on acacia leaf tips. These yummy leaf tips are primarily eaten by ants, which in turn defend the plants from predators. But the spider, known as Bagheera kiplingi, has developed a taste for the...

The number of animals and plants protected by the federal Endangered Species Act is about to increase dramatically. For Cass Sunstein, radical animal-rights activist and nominee for the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) Administrator job, that means he will be better positioned than ever to make livestock farming a thing of the past.How are the two things connected? Our director of research appeared on the Fox News Channel yesterday to explain to Glenn Beck’s audience how much influence Sunstein may soon have over what we eat: Cattlemen in this country own and manage most of the lands...

The mother of a sixth-grade Malden girl, whose “mean sign” question to President Obama at his Portsmouth, N.H., health care forum was a softball that he slugged out of the park, insisted yesterday the child was not “a plant.” “I thought it was great,” Kathleen Manning Hall said of Obama’s answer to the question posed by her daughter Julia. The girl became a target of conservative critics such as Michelle Malkin yesterday, who alleged that the poised and eloquent 11-year-old was “a plant” after the revelation that her mother served as an organizer for Obama’s campaign.

The granddaughter of Ernesto "Che" Guevara, the Cuban revolutionary leader, is at the forefront of a campaign for a vegetarian revolution.

Tomorrow, public officials in the Flemish city of Ghent will observe a new weekly “holiday� that’s been making international headlines: “Veggiedag.� Civil servants and elected politicians will eat meatless meals, and the streets will be littered with city-sponsored anti-meat ads. Now that the people of Ghent have two Veggie Days under their belt, we’ve been curious to know how the weekly anti-meat parade is catching on. And according to this TIME magazine report, the answer is “very slowly.� Eben Harrell describes the scene in Ghent last Thursday: While most restaurants owners and residents I spoke to had heard of Veggie Day, few had any...

WASHINTON: Consuming red or white meat does not raise the risk of breast cancer in postmenopausal women, says a new study. The large study, conducted by researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, has been published in the International Journal of Cancer. A number of previous studies have found that eating red meat or meat cooked at high temperatures increases the risk of breast cancer. (High temperatures, caused by grilling, barbecuing or pan-frying, produce high amounts of heterocyclic amines (HCAs) and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in meat; HCAs and PAHs are mutagens (chemicals capable of causing mutations...

Predation Did Not Come from Evolution by Daniel Criswell, Ph.D.* Although the origin of predation is poorly understood, it is incorrect to attribute to young-earth creation the assertion that predatory animals quickly and recently evolved the physical features necessary for predation. It is a common fallacy that carnivores evolved from a change in form and function. No physical evolution was required to change herbivores to predators--it was merely a change in behavior. The view that an alteration of genomes and phenotypes, such as sharp teeth and claws, would have been required to supply the physical features for predation from herbivorous...

Eating veggies shrinks the brain 14 Sep 2008 MELBOURNE: Scientists have discovered that going veggie could be bad for your brain-with those on a meat-free diet six times more likely to suffer brain shrinkage. Vegans and vegetarians are the most likely to be deficient because the best sources of the vitamin are meat, particularly liver, milk and fish. Vitamin B12 deficiency can also cause anaemia and inflammation of the nervous system. Yeast extracts are one of the few vegetarian foods which provide good levels of the vitamin. The link was discovered by Oxford University scientists who used memory tests, physical...

MELBOURNE: Scientists have discovered that going veggie could be bad for your brain-with those on a meat-free diet six times more likely to suffer brain shrinkage. Vegans and vegetarians are the most likely to be deficient because the best sources of the vitamin are meat, particularly liver, milk and fish. Vitamin B12 deficiency can also cause anaemia and inflammation of the nervous system. Yeast extracts are one of the few vegetarian foods which provide good levels of the vitamin. The link was discovered by Oxford University scientists who used memory tests, physical checks and brain scans to examine 107 people...

MELBOURNE: Scientists have discovered that going veggie could be bad for your brain-with those on a meat-free diet six times more likely to suffer brain shrinkage. Vegans and vegetarians are the most likely to be deficient because the best sources of the vitamin are meat, particularly liver, milk and fish. Vitamin B12 deficiency can also cause anaemia and inflammation of the nervous system. Yeast extracts are one of the few vegetarian foods which provide good levels of the vitamin. The link was discovered by Oxford University scientists who used memory tests, physical checks and brain scans to examine 107 people...

Vegetarian Driver Suffers Pig Nightmare on Motorway The sight of a truckload of pigs headed for the sausage factory proved too much to bear for a German vegetarian woman who lost control of her vehicle as a result. Unfortunately, she crashed into another truck carrying pigs. A vegetarian woman driving down a motorway in Germany was so traumatized at the sight of a truck loaded with pigs that she lost control of her vehicle and careered into another truck, which was also filled with pigs, police said. "The woman found herself driving next to a large pig transport truck and...

"People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has posted its online ballot to determine 2008's Sexiest Vegetarian Celebrity," reports the Chicago Tribune's Mark Caro: Just give PETA your name and e-mail address (which wouldn't happen to be the point, now, would it?), and you can vote among more than 180 sexy vegetarians listed to succeed 2007's sexy-veg winners Carrie Underwood and "Tonight Show" bandleader Kevin Eubanks . . . Did we mention these vegetarians are sexy? We're talking Alicia Silverstone, Tobey Maguire, Naomi Watts, Casey Affleck, Christie Brinkley, Andre 3000, Natalie Portman, Joaquin Phoenix, Chelsea Clinton . . . the...

Kelly Anderson and Leonard Sun Voted Cutest Vegetarians Alive! For our third annual Cutest Vegetarian Alive contest, peta2 received more than 3,500 entries from adorable vegetarians and vegans around the world. And we asked all of you to help choose the winners. The response was overwhelming this year, with more than 50,000 votes cast. It was a mighty close race, but big congrats go out to Leonard Sun and Kelly Anderson for taking home the top honors.

You know how it is. It’s dinner time, but you’re tying to cut back on the red meat. So what do you do? That’s right. You reach for a big ol’ bag of vegetarian intestines...(pic follows)...

Eating Like Adam and Eve Diet-Conscious Christians Embrace 'Hallelujah Diet' as Way to Stay Healthy While Praising God By CHRIS BURY and ELY BROWN Sept. 28, 2007— The spry, slender 73-year-old man sprints up to the stage, pumps the air with his fist, and shouts out a robust, "Hallelujah!" The Rev. George Malkmus surveys the crowd of nearly 400 packed into a former college auditorium and finds that people have come from all over the country -- and even from Nigeria -- to hear him preach the Gospel. But it's not his approach to scripture that draws this crowd. It's...

Frequently dismissed as cranks, their fussy eating habits tend to make them unpopular with dinner party hosts and guests alike.But now it seems they may have the last laugh, with research showing vegetarians are more intelligent than their meat-eating friends. A study of thousands of men and women revealed that those who stick to a vegetarian diet have IQs that are around five points higher than those who regularly eat meat. Writing in the British Medical Journal, the researchers say it isn't clear why veggies are brainier - but admit the fruit and veg-rich vegetarian diet could somehow boost brain...

An institute in Germany has unearthed a Nazi bible ordered by Adolf Hitler to replace the old and new testaments expunged of all references to Jews. Hitler's race theorists even rewrote the 10 commandments and added two more for good measure in the book called ’German with God’ which was – alongside Hitler’ s autobiography – meant to be required reading in every home in his Third Reich. Thou shalt not kill, coveting one's neighbour's wife, thou shalt not steal and all other others were scrapped by a regime that stole, murdered and plundered its way across the world. Hitler...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - People who ate a low-fat vegan diet, cutting out all meat and dairy, lowered their blood sugar more and lost more weight than people on a standard American Diabetes Association diet, researchers said on Thursday. They lowered their cholesterol more and ended up with better kidney function, according to the report published in Diabetes Care, a journal published by the American Diabetes Association. Participants said the vegan diet was easier to follow than most because they did not measure portions or count calories. Three of the vegan dieters dropped out of the study, compared to eight on...

What you have done to these the least of My brethren you have done unto Me. CATHOLIC VEGETARIAN SAINTS St Francis of Assisi, St Clare, stigmatist St Therese Neumann, St. Martin de Porres, St John Chrysostom, St Anthony of Padua who preached to fishes when humans would not listen.. St Nicholas of Tolentino* believed they were following the example of Jesus in not eating His animals. Trappists, Cistercians, Benedictines, Franciscans all have had a tradition of vegetarian diet, to which many still adhere. The pretzel was says George Cornell former AP religion writer a Lenten bread, symbolizing arms folded in...

It may come as a surprise to many that McDonald's, the company known worldwide for its meat burgers and milkshakes, celebrated "Meatout", an annual fair organised by advocates of vegetarianism. The fair was held at select outlets here and Thane by offering a "Vegan Meal" for two days this week. "Vegan" advocates from Bangalore-based activist group DIYA (Do It Yourself Activists) took the initiative to organise the fair. "Vegan" is a lifestyle choice in which no animal products are consumed and no animals are harmed. Mcdonald's Vegan Meal promotion in the country consisted of a regular iced tea and medium...

GREATER THINGS SHALL YOU DO THAN I HAVE DONE SAID JESUS CHRIST TO HIS FOLLOWERS: What you have done to these the least of My brethren you have done unto Me. CATHOLIC VEGETARIANS St Francis of Assisi, St Clare, stigmatist St Therese Neumann, St. Martin de Porres, St John Chrysostom, St Anthony of Padua who preached to fishes when humans would not listen.. St Nicholas of Tolentino* believed they were following the example of Jesus in not eating His animals. Trappists, Cistercians, Benedictines, Franciscans all have had a tradition of vegetarian diet, to which many still adhere. The pretzel was...

Experiments for NASA space missions have shown that small amounts of edible meat can be created in a lab. But the technology that could grow chicken nuggets without the chicken, on a large scale, may not be just a science fiction fantasy. In a paper in the June 29 issue of Tissue Engineering, a team of scientists, including University of Maryland doctoral student Jason Matheny, propose two new techniques of tissue engineering that may one day lead to affordable production of in vitro - lab grown -- meat for human consumption. It is the first peer-reviewed discussion of the prospects...

McDonald’s pays $10m damages Silicon Valley (PTI): Fast food giant McDonald’s will pay $10 million to 24 groups, including the International American Gita Society, as part of a settlement of lawsuits. McDonald’s has been charged with misleading Hindus and vegetarian consumers by “wrongly describing” its French fries, containing beef additive for flavouring, as vegetarian. McDonald’s recently informed the Gita society that it is among the groups receiving the settlement money, the US-based non-profit organisation’s spokesperson, Ramananda Prasad, said. “We are such a small organisation, and nobody supports us, the temples are busy with their own activities,” Prasad, who founded the...

Vegetarianism is sometimes justified on utilitarian grounds. One common argument goes something like this: Since humans and animals have a morally significant similarity, namely, the capacity for pleasure and pain, and since they have no morally significant difference, there is no justification for automatically allowing the interests of humans to trump those of animals. Rather, humans must balance their interests against those of animals in deciding how they ought to treat them. But eating meat provides only a trivial pleasure to humans compared to the pain suffered by the animals eaten. Therefore, humans should not eat animals. Discussion often centers...

"There's absolutely no question that it's unethical for parents to bring up their children as strict vegans." Meat contains important micronutrients. Meat is a vital part of a child's diet, according to a two-year study of Kenyan schoolkids. Without it, children grow up smaller, less strong and less intelligent, the results suggest. So clear are the benefits, in fact, that denying children meat or dairy products in the first few years of life is unethical, argues Lindsay Allen of the University of California, Davis, who carried out the research. The 544 children in the study, who had an average age...

Meat is a vital part of a child's diet, according to a two-year study of Kenyan schoolkids. Without it, children grow up smaller, less strong and less intelligent, the results suggest. So clear are the benefits, in fact, that denying children meat or dairy products in the first few years of life is unethical, argues Lindsay Allen of the University of California, Davis, who carried out the research. The 544 children in the study, who had an average age of seven years, were given two spoonfuls (about 60 grams) of minced beef each day to supplement their ordinary diet. Other...

HOBBS, N.M. (AP) - Thick, black clouds of smoke blocked out the sun as firefighters worked to extinguish flames that ripped through a factory here that makes Boca Burgers and other foods. Investigators late Monday were trying to determine how the blaze started. It originated in an area of the building that contained oil used for cooking and spread, causing damage throughout the plant. "It reached its ignition point," Fire Chief Manny Gomez said. "We believe it was in the ceiling and moved through the crawl spaces." All of the employees were evacuated, as were homes on the west side...

WOODMERE, Ohio - The nation's food companies are stirring up new recipes for everything from Oreos to SpaghettiOs to get rid of trans fat, the artery-clogging ingredient that must be listed on food labels next year. The companies say they're promoting good health, but they're also looking ahead to the new federal rule and new dietary guidelines urging consumers away from trans fats. Trans fats have been in the nation's food supply for decades, giving products a long shelf life and making goodies like chips and cookies oh so yummy. They are formed when liquid oils turn into solid fats...

ABILENE -- One of the two American black bears at the Abilene Zoo died after apparently choking on a piece of meat. Boo Boo's body was found about 5 p.m. Monday, 30 minutes after the bears were fed. Once the second bear, Teddy, 13, was moved, the zoo staff made a quick examination and confirmed that Boo Boo, 9, had died. Dr. Clay Hilton, the zoo's consulting veterinarian, said Boo Boo must have eaten quickly and regurgitated a large, unchewed piece of meat that lodged in his windpipe. Boo Boo was known for his never-ending quest for snacks and his...

I have been what is called a pesco-vegetarian for a little over a year now. Before then, I was what is called a pollo-vegetarian for 10 years. Pollo-vegetarians only eat chicken, turkey and fish as meat staples in their diet. Pesco-Vegetarians only eat fish as a form of "live" meat. My goal here is not to preach a vegetarian diet upon all, it is only to inform you all of my experience. At first, my becoming a pesco-veg was merely because of health reasons. Now it has evolved to life and culture reasons, which has caused me to consider cutting...

[A] study conducted by the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston... found no reduced risk of cancer among those who consumed at least five servings of fruits and vegetables a day. However, on the positive side, they found eating fruits and vegetables did lower the risk of developing heart disease.

Now you may think this is weird..but I must know.Where do "vegies" fall on the side of politics and the cost of freedom?The reason I am asking this question is that I live in a small town in Michigan that has a 7th Day Adventist College in it and for the most part they are vegetarian. When it comes to politics and war it seems that they tend to stay away from either. Now I know that this has to do with the religion and all but still....is religion the only reason.Bring on the comments.

Don’t Buy the BookSinger's Plague Calling Peter Singer controversial is of course, an understatement. Be that as it may, the controversial Princeton University professor of ethics packed a downtown D.C. bookstore Friday hawking his new book, The President of Good and Evil: The Ethics of George W. Bush (Dutton, 288 pages, $24.95). If the ethicist's reaction was any indicator, the event was less than a rousing success. This heavily Democrat crowd, weaned on the argumentation of Molly Ivins and Michael Moore, must have become so accustomed to any sentence with Bush's name in it ending with a punch line that,...

THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY HAS A BIG PROBLEM named Susan Lindauer, but you would never know this from the reporting by America’s dominant Left-leaning news media. Last Thursday Ms. Lindauer, 41, was arrested in her suburban Washington, D.C. home and charged with “prohibited financial transactions” from, acting as “an unregistered agent of,” and “conspiring” to act as a spy, both before and after the incursion a year ago, for Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi Intelligence Service (IIS). Known in Arabic as the Mukhabbarat, the IIS has reportedly been involved in terrorist operations, intimidating and killing Iraqi defectors and dissidents, and according to Anwar...

Roman gladiators were overweight vegetarians who lived on barley and beans, according to a scientific study of the largest gladiator graveyard discovered. Analysis of the bones of more than 70 gladiators recently found near Ephesus, the Roman capital of Asia Minor, puts paid to traditional Hollywood images of macho carnivores with the physique of boxers. The dietary findings of the scientists from the University of Vienna are detailed in a forthcoming documentary on Channel Five. They may give vegetarians a new, harder image. But the vegetarian stereotype is shattered by the finding that gladiators did not wear sandals but fought...

Already benefiting from the “Atkins” effect, beef sales have increased 867% in the past three months, according to industry analysts who say that the amazing increase is directly attributable to the success of the “Hitler Was a Vegetarian” ad campaign funded by the American Beef Council. “Yeah, Hitler has been real good for beef,” says Mel Saatchi, Creative Director of ad giant Saatchi & Saatchi, the creators of the campaign. “Images of Hitler and hordes of SS and brownshirts eating carrots and tofu have successfully branded in the public’s mind the idea of beef as the food of freedom. From...

Fort Bragg soldier flees to Canada Jeremy Hinzman enlisted to make a difference, then learned what being a soldier is really all aboutBy Patrick O'Neill (First of Two Parts) February 11, 2004 NEWS FEATURE On New Year's Eve, Jeremy Hinzman sat in a McDonald's on N.C. 401 in Fuquay-Varina explaining his precarious situation. On Dec. 20, Hinzman, a U.S. Army specialist stationed at Fort Bragg, got the news he had dreaded. His unit--the 504th Brigade, 2nd Battalion--would be shipping out to Iraq shortly after the new year for an indefinite deployment in the war on terrorism. Last year, Hinzman, 25,...

(East Providence-AP) -- A billboard sign urging people to go vegetarian that shows the Virgin Mary cradling a chicken carcass is coming down.The animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PEE-Tah) paid three-thousand dollars to rent the billboard off Interstate 195 for a month. The sign was put up a week ago.Some religious leaders have complained it's offensive and the sign has been defaced with spray paint.The company that owns the billboard says the sign will be taken down over the next few days and P-E-T-A will get part if its payment back.Robert Murray, co-owner of Massachusetts-based...

Group Picks R.I. To Launch Vegetarianism CampaignPROVIDENCE -- A billboard in Providence, R.I., is urging people to go vegetarian with the image of Virgin Mary cradling a chick carcass, according to a Local 6 News report. The animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals launched the campaign in Rhode Island because it has the highest percentage of Catholics in the United States. The billboard can be seen by motorists near exit 4 on Interstate 195 in East Providence and includes the phrase, "Go Vegetarian. It's an Immaculate Conception." PETA said its message is designed to highlight that...

Carol Adams, feminist activist and author, spoke to a crowd of approximately 300 people Monday night about the connection between feminism and vegetarianism. Adams, who authored "The Sexual Politics of Meat" and most recently "The Pornography of Meat," presented a slide show that emphasized the connection between women portrayed as animals and animals personified as feminine, demonstrating how the two groups are oppressed in similar ways. Many student groups, including Madison Coalition for Animal Rights, Campus Vegetarian Society, and Campus Women's Center, invited Adams to Madison to discuss her views on how vegetarianism and veganism will lead to the liberation...

<p>The good people of Rodeo -- who like animals as much as anyone else, especially for breakfast -- declared Tuesday that their precious heritage is worth more than $20,000 in veggie burgers.</p> <p>"They can keep their veggie burgers,'' said Doug Boyum. "I'm not going to sell out for a veggie burger. I'm not going to sell out, period.''</p>

PETA (people for the ethical treatment of animals) has done some outrageous things in the name of getting more donations, so they can keep their jobs and organization viable. Things like writing and publicizing a letter to Yassir Arafat asking him to make sure that he sees to it that the next suicide bomber not set off his bomb near animals, and just aim to kill people. PETA is also famous for offering various cities across the globe 10 to 15 thousand dollars to change their name from Hamburg to a more vegetable sounding name. PETA people have even attacked...

      Vegetarian Advocate: A New York Ban on Meat Consumption in the Workplace By Jack Rosenberger What are the odds that New York will ban meat consumption in restaurants, bars and workplaces within the next 25 years? None, right? Maybe not. Twenty-five years ago the idea that New York would ban smoking in restaurants, bars and workplaces was laughable. (In fact, one legislator's response to the legislator who proposed the statewide ban back then, well, was to blow smoke in his face.) Yet, earlier this year New York passed a strict ban on smoking in nearly every...

"Lammentations of a Dieter" Posted by Doc Farmer < http://www.chronwatch.com/site_search.asp?auth=90 > Saturday, May 24, 2003 I've made no secret of the fact that I'm fat, bald, and ugly. For those who think I'm putting myself down, though, I'm not. There's a difference between that and simple honesty of self. If I can't be honest with myself, how can I be expected to be honest with anybody else? That said, though, I don't like being fat. Bald is okay, mind you (thank God for the Gillette Mach 3) and ugly keeps me from being mistaken for a Hollywood type. But fat...

Welcome to 'Veggieburg' Tue Apr 29, 9:34 AM ET Add Oddly Enough - Reuters to My Yahoo! By Dave GrahamHAMBURG (Reuters) - The German port of Hamburg has been offered $10,500 to change its name to "Veggieburg" by animal rights activists who are unhappy about the city's association with hamburgers.   "Hamburg could promote animal welfare and court sympathy for animals by changing its name to Veggieburg," the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) wrote in a letter sent to Hamburg Mayor Ole von Beust on Monday. The German chapter of PETA, which claims 750,000 members worldwide, said...

Apparently not satisfied by alienating all of Judaism with its recent high-profile, roving exhibit comparing Holocaust victims to farm animals, the lunatics at People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) have moved on to other challenges. Next stop: offend as many Christians as possible. Religious leaders in Pensacola, Florida immediately objected last week when PETA erected a billboard during Holy Week claiming that the way to "follow" Jesus Christ is to "go vegetarian." One local rabbi told the Associated Press that the historical Jesus was actually a meat-eater. "There's no evidence that Jesus was [a vegetarian]," he told The...

<p>A chicken protest led by the Pretenders' Chrissie Hynde turned into a near riot over the weekend when angry diners attacked her for ruining their meals.</p> <p>The rocker joined a dozen animal activists in a protest raid on a Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) fast food restaurant in Seattle, Wash.</p>

PETA's Peace Plan "Your Excellency," PETA President Ingrid Newkirk wrote in the note faxed on Monday to Arafat's headquarters in Ramallah. "We have received many calls and letters from people shocked at the bombing. . . If you have the opportunity, will you please add to your burdens my request that you appeal to all those who listen to you to leave the animals out of this conflict?"... Yesterday we asked Newkirk if she considered asking Arafat to persuade those who listen to him to stop blowing up people as well. "It's not my business to inject myself into human...

The breast-fed infants of two mothers who did not eat any animal products, including milk and eggs, developed brain abnormalities as a result of a vitamin-B12 deficiency, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (news - web sites) (CDC) reported Thursday. The primary sources of vitamin B12, which is essential for brain development, are animal products like meat, dairy products and eggs. Since the mothers ate little or no animal products, too little vitamin B12 was transmitted to their children through breast milk, according to the CDC's Dr. Maria Elena Jefferds. Jefferds added that these cases serve as a...