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No laws stop institutional cruelty on farms
1 The federal-level Animal Welfare Act
does not apply to farmed animals,
despite the name. And many state anti-
is projected to rise by 30 percent, pro-
duction of agricultural crops will need
to increase by up to 100 percent, thanks
strain. However, there are six other
E. coli strains that infect 30,000 people
every year as well, but few public health
cruelty statutes for livestock were conve- to another doubling of world meat con- labs in the country test for them.
niently stripped of any teeth in the 1980s
and 1990s, just as large-scale intensive
farming was getting a foothold. The
sumption. Such a prospect is truly sober-
ing, since meat production plays a
dominant role in just about every envi-
7 A U.S. meat-inspector-turned-whis-
tleblower testified in 2010 that pigs
in the slaughterhouse where he worked
Humane Slaughter Act does not apply to ronmental problem on the planet. were being shackled and bled out while
chickens, which represent over 95 per-
cent of all farmed animals, and, in any
case, is rarely enforced. The Twenty-
4 World fishing has brought 29 per-
cent of fish species to utter collapse,
that is, to generally 10 percent of histori-
still conscious, and the animals were
regularly being unloaded from trucks so
aggressively they were forced to tram-
Eight Hour Law says that livestock may cal levels. A 2006 report predicted that ple one another. Considered a trouble-
not be confined in a vehicle or vessel for essentially all wild edible fish will be maker, the inspector was harassed and
more than 28 consecutive hours without gone from the ocean by 2048. Still, local then shunted off to another plant where
being unloaded, fed, watered, and given supermarkets display plentiful supplies. conditions were even worse. Meanwhile,
rest. This law is not effectively enforced And global catches continue to stay sta- a U.S. Government Accountability Pro
and does not apply to birds. Farm cruelty ble, though made up from fish at lower ject survey of USDA inspectors across
is not regulated at the federal level; at trophic levels. How can this be? Accord- the country confirmed that enforcement
the state level it is dealt with as a crimi- ing to a 2010 study, fish stocks would of the Humane Methods of Slaughter
nal offense. But local police rarely moni- have long ago crashed outright if not Act is woefully lax. Inspectors often err
tor it, let alone obtain a warrant to step for the industry’s steady plunder of new on the side of inaction when confronted
onto a private farm. Since the majority fishing grounds, primarily in the south- with a violation. And only about one per-
of states specifically exempt “common,” ern hemisphere. A 2011 report from the cent of the Food Safety and Inspection
“customary,” “normal,” or “accepted” International Programme on the State of Service budget had been designated for
farming practices, there is essentially the Ocean warned that ocean life is at enforcement of the HMSA.
nothing to stop the institutional cruelty
that is all-pervasive on today’s farms.
high risk of entering an unprecedented
phase of extinction. We must ask, what 8 A tiny percentage of all the water on
Earth is potable, that is, fresh. About
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Livestock contribute 51% of climate gases
houses to turn to cheap, often illegal, cific sheep from two years prior when was part of a closed, multi-use opera-
labor. Poultry-line work is difficult, dirty, presented front- and side-view images; tion where everything was utilized.
and dangerous. Generally, no one stays they prefer a happy human face to a sad That’s all changed. According to a 1997
on worker payrolls for more than a year. one. And a cow will experience “eureka USDA report, America’s farms generate
Companies simply refuse to offer higher moments”—kicking up her heals and 1.37 billion tons of livestock waste every
wages and better working conditions. tossing her head when she discovers that year, which equates to 5 tons for every
Laborers work in a milieu of flying fatty a lever will allow her into a pasture. American. Such gargantuan quantities
fleshy pieces, roaring racing conveyors,
and the constant fear of fellow employ-
ees wielding sharp knives in close quar-
13 The chemical process that con-
verts atmospheric nitrogen into
fertilizer is considered by some to be
of manure came about for one reason:
the trend toward farm specialization.
By-product has no purpose on farm sites
ters. Thirty thousand knife motions per the most important discovery since the anymore; it becomes pollution.
day by one employee is not uncommon.
Nearly 15 percent of workers face debil-
itating injuries on the job each year,
advent of agriculture. In 1905 it ush-
ered in a world of food and feed in great
abundance, allowing man to not only
17 Industrial agriculture is environ-
mentally unsustainable in terms
of water, topsoil, and fossil-fuel. It turns
mostly because of repetitive trauma of feed himself to excess but his livestock arable land into desert and forest into
the wrists and fingers. as well. Indeed, the discovery allowed eroded wasteland. Yet, the level of meat
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No end to industrial ag’s POP foodchain
S p o n s o r s tury expedition was rife with frostbite, veal stockyard auction: hundreds of one-
dehydration, sunburn, boils, colds, and flu. day-old calves penned together—prodded,
But the worst of it was the never-ending confused, terrified, often subject to brutal
constipation, due to a diet of mostly wild weather conditions, each desperately cry-
game. Today’s meat-loving Americans, ing for his or her mother, destined for bob
ingest only about 12 grams of fiber per day. veal (slaughtered immediately) or fancy
A Well-Fed World
Feeding Families
20 Feedlot meat is a product of the oil
age and a driver for the oil wars.
veal (reason #94). Some will be lame or
sick (reason #79). Such a fate!
Saving Animals
We provide immediate
When cheap oil is gone, cheap meat will be
history. A pound of beef takes three-quar-
ters of a gallon of oil to produce. A 1,250-
25 Diabetes rates in the U.S. are among
the highest and fastest growing in
the world. A new clue to why could very
vegan hunger relief pound steer essentially embodies a whop- possibly indict a common practice on
ping nine barrels of oil. About 40 calories America’s industrial farms: recycling. Cow
and help save animals
of fossil fuel are needed to produce a sin- and chicken fat is fed to pigs and chickens,
from factory-farm and gle calorie of beef protein. By comparison, dead chickens and chicken litter (includ-
slaughterhouse atrocities. only 2.2 calories of fossil fuel are required ing manure) is fed to cattle, and meat and
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21 Fishers today employ trawlers,
dredgers, longlines, and driftnets
with the help of sonar, GPS, and satel-
on and on. Meanwhile, with each feeding
cycle, highly toxic substances called POPs
(persistent organic pollutants, such as PCBs
lites. The fish don’t stand a chance. The and Organochlorine pesticides) are getting
www.AWFW.org world’s longliners, for example, set 1.4 bil- more and more concentrated in the mix.
lion hooks every year. Their lines could It’s long been known that POPs are every-
encircle the world 550 times. The mouth of where in the environment and lodge spe-
the largest trawler net can accommodate cifically in animal fat. Now, industrial agri-
thirteen 747 jets. Global fishing capacity culture is creating a toxic food chain that
could actually haul in the current world never ends. Alas, studies show a strong link
American Vegan Society catch times four. Add to this, a quarter of between the onset of diabetes and POPs.
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the harvested fish is estimated to be “by-
catch,” that is, from nontargeted species. It
will be shoveled off ship decks, back into
26 A 2009 Oxford University study dis-
covered that vegetarians and veg-
ans had body weights 3–20 percent below
the water—stressed, mutilated, or dead. those of meat eaters. These researchers
Animal Ashram
www.animalashram.com 22 To satisfy humanity’s ravenous
appetite for frogs’ legs, a billion
frogs are taken from the wild each year.
had previously discovered that the lowest
weight gains over time could be found in
people with high intakes of carbohydrate
“May all beings have peace.”
The collective pillage is helping to classify and low intakes of protein. Some years ear-
Janet Bloor
amphibians as a whole the most threat- lier, a Swedish study of 55,000 women and
ened animal group on Earth. a British study of 65,000 men and women
Costume designer
Penelo Pea Pod 23 Two facts contradict the conven-
tional wisdom. Osteoporosis is rare
in Japan where people eat almost no cal-
both found vegans to have lower BMIs
(body mass index) and to suffer less often
from obesity. Vegan food tends to be lower
cium-rich dairy products; and osteoporotic in calories by volume, and it usually con-
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fractures are highest where people eat the tains abundant dietary fiber and so satiates
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most dairy products, namely in the U.S.
and Europe. New research tells us that the
quicker. Early in 2011, President Bill Clin-
ton announced he had lost 24 pounds by
212-537-7179 best way to reduce the risk for osteoporo- switching to a low-fat, near-vegan diet.
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sis is, in fact, to eat more alkalinizing fruits
and vegetables and less acidifying animal
protein, cereal grains, and coffee.
27 A 2006 U.N. report declared live-
stock production worldwide accounts
for 70 percent of all agricultural land and
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212-472-0970 The dairy industry has an unrelent- 30 percent of the land surface of the planet.
ing need: a steady supply of lactat- Grazing occupies 26 percent of the ice-free
Christian Vegetarian ing cows. This requires constant impregna-
tion—typically via artificial insemination.
terrestrial surface of the planet. About 20
percent of the world’s pastures and range-
Association Surplus female calves and all male calves land (73 percent of dry pastures and range-
P.O. Box 201791, Cleveland, OH 44120 must go somewhere. Witness your typical land) have been degraded to some extent,
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World’s meat addiction linked to peak water
mostly through overgrazing, compac-
tion, and livestock-specific erosion. 31 Clean-out is a humongous process
that takes place between herd or
heard of grain-fed beef, but this rapid
growth-promoting diet sickens the ani-
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700 CAFO manure spills in Iowa alone
S p o n s o r s
City Swiggers
a poor nutrition source (see #43). Nutrition
expert Marion Nestle said it best: “Why
do we have a milk group? Because we
41 An undercover employee video
of a massive sow gestation facil-
ity revealed breeding pigs crammed
have a National Dairy Council.” inside crates so small they could hardly
38
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Defined in terms of manure out- move. (Typically, such conditions con-
put, 1,000 head of cattle, 700 dairy tinue over the course of repeated preg-
The root word of Humane is Human. cows, 125,000 broiler chickens, and 2,500 nancies.) In frustration, many sows had
Please be a Humane Human. grow-out pigs are all “equivalent” mini- bitten their bars till blood dripped from
Craig & Cherie Cline mums for CAFO designation (confined
animal feeding operation). The U.S. has
their mouths. Half-dead pigs were seen
thrown into dumpsters. Premature pig-
Salem, Oregon about 19,000 CAFOs, and each has its own lets were strewn in manure pits below
manure pit. A typical one may be several stall slats. The company, Smithfield, the
Duane Cornella acres and 22 feet deep. These “lagoons”
can and will rupture. Iowa, alone, has had
largest pork producer in the world, had
pledged three years prior that such con-
azuritepress.com 700 manure spills over the last 15 years. ditions would be phased out.
Eternal Treblinka
One massive breach in North Carolina in
1995 spewed 22 million gallons into the
New River, killing 10 million fish.
42 Twelve hundred head of cattle—a
relatively small feedlot—produce
54 tons of manure every 24 hours. Faced
by Charles Patterson
www.powerfulbook.com 39 Aquaculture manifests all the envi-
ronmental drawbacks of indus-
trial agriculture on land, and then some.
with so large an accumulation, produc-
ers everywhere are apt to just let the stuff
pile up and be tamped down by the cows.
Franchia
Fish farmers crowd the animals in cages, The piles, however, can actually sponta-
forcing a heavy reliance on genetics and neously ignite due to the natural compost-
Vegan Cafe pharmaceuticals. Catastrophic mortalities ing process. Once a manure fire starts, it’s
12 Park Avenue, NYC • 212-213-1001 from disease, natural disaster, and even hard to extinguish. It’s nothing but a huge
power failure are ever-present concerns. densely packed mound of solid fuel. And
The animal wastes present costs that pro- it will spew a mighty stench of polluting
Leigh & Helayne ducers tend to externalize onto the envi- particulate for miles and for months.
Gaither
ronment and the public. Feed-to-flesh
ratios range between 3 and 15 pounds
to one. Over 50 percent of the world’s
43 It’s a given that cow’s milk is a sta-
ple in the American kitchen. But
most of the world gets along fine with-
Emanuel Goldman fishmeal is used in aquaculture, an obvi- out it. Indeed, it’s a foreign substance to
the Vegetarian Cinophile ous stressor on wild fish stocks. Numer- the human body linked to childhood dia-
and Naomi Weinshenker, m.d. ous instances exist of farmed fish escap- betes, anemia in infants and children,
Adult, Child, and Adolescent Psychiatry ing into the wild, corrupting the genetic iron-deficiency, constipation, allergies,
Clifton, NJ; 973-471-4448 purity of native species and spreading cramps, diarrhea, osteoporosis, obesity,
disease. heart disease, cancer, and zits. It’s laden
Lewis Goldstein
40
—Member, exec.
In the mid-1990s, when people with saturated fat and cholesterol and
committee, NY State Democratic Committee. Proud of
animal-rights resolution passed by State Committee and
were going crazy about Mad Cow may contain artificial hormones, pesti-
the Humane Education Resolution voted on June 1, 2009. Disease, they wanted to get everything cides, and antibiotics. The claim that it is
having to do with the cow out of their a good source of calcium is a dubious one.
lives. But when they asked, “where’s the Cow’s milk is for calves.
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beef?” they learned, it’s everywhere! Cow
fat makes cookies and salty snacks taste
rich and lipstick glide smoothly. Cow pro-
44 Worldwide, fishers receive about
$34 billion per year in govern-
ment subsidies, which naturally encour-
teins are in shampoo. Collagen, extracted ages overcapacity and unsustainable
from hides, balms wounds and puffs lips. fishing practices. The U.S. spent $246.7
www.greencompassion.us Gelatin, made from hides and bones, is billion on farm subsidies between 1995
59 Chrystie, #B101 found in ice cream, gummy candies, and and 2009, much of it on corn and soybean
New York, NY 10002 marshmallows. Add to these, cows are in price supports that lower the cost of feed
paints, floor wax, asphalt, chewing gum, and increase the supply of low-cost meat.
upholstery, juices, wines and beers, phar- Less than one percent of U.S. subsidies
Suzy Richardson maceuticals, cosmetics, and brake fluid.
A huge meat industry translates into a
goes to fruits and vegetables. “Conser-
vation” subsidies often go to U.S. farmers
GREEN VISION hugely annoying by-products industry. to help them with manure management.
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Less than 1% of subsidies to fruits & veggies
In general, subsidies to the meat indus-
try can be outright or carefully buried in
the budget. Lists of them can go on and
47 Man has long threatened spe-
cies and ecosystems with elimina-
tion—in recent decades to an alarming
which have already been bruised and
broken by the gathering process. The
electrified trough stuns just enough to
on. But the greatest perq to the meat degree. Hunting alone is responsible for conveniently immobilize the birds, but
industry of all is that which is entirely 23 percent of all known cases of animal not nearly enough to dull pain. Some
hidden from view: the exemption from extinction since 1600. A sting operation birds miss the trough and the knife alto-
animal welfare laws (see #1). at Paris’ Charles de Gaulle airport found gether and are burned to death in the
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Human/animal sex (AI), routine on the farm
S p o n s o r s a latex glove over its head, and squeez- forward and upward. ...Contractions will
A cat’s eyes are windows, enabling ing birds like water balloons to spray suck the semen out of the flat pack.”
us to see into another world.
—Irish legend
Margaret Halley & Jim Blackman
feces over other birds.” Workers made
a game of throwing chickens against a
wall. In mid-2008, workers at a Gemperle
56 Every year in the U.S., 30 million
head of cattle are fattened in feed-
lots with nearly all receiving growth-pro-
Enterprises farm in California were vid- moting synthetic hormones. Downstream,
eotaped stepping on chickens or twist- researchers have recorded disturbing
Hangawi ing their necks and inflicting protracted
acutely painful deaths. According to one
anomalies. In one study, wild female fish
were observed to display male traits and
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12 East 32nd St., NYC • 212-213-0077 veterinarian, “There are multiple shots of wild male fish were observed to display
moribund chickens with ailments ranging female traits. Needless to say, the repro-
Meat kills. It kills the animals, it from broken limbs to abscessed cloacae ductive capacities in these fish became
kills you, it kills everyone else on to illnesses so severe the birds are unable grievously compromised. A university
the planet, and it kills the planet. to open their eyes or stand.” The video investigation found multi-drug-resis-
—Nick Kyriazi showed hens being stuffed as young pul- tant bacteria was more than three times
lets into file-drawer-sized cages only to be greater in streams near factory farms than
retrieved months later for the throat slit- in streams not impacted by the farms.
Lantern Books ter when “spent”—barely recognizable as
birds or being alive. 57 Heavy demand for animal-based
foods has brought giant meat pro-
vegetarianism, animal advocacy
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insemination of pigs, turkeys, and cows.
AI for pigs follows. Collection (male):
“Allow the boar to mount the dummy
58 Cold, hard cost analysis will show
you that it is more profitable to
maintain one cow than four, if one cow
348 7th Avenue, NY, NY 10001 (hobby-horse-type furniture). ...Grab and gives as much milk as four. Indeed, after
212.760.1900 extend the penis to display the erection. just a few decades of selective breeding,
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www.LovingHut.com sheath back and forth until he starts to Today’s cow yields a staggering 9 tons of
thrust. ...Never allow your grip to relax, milk per year. A cow’s udder can weigh as
Tom Lyons & Joan Zacharias particularly during ejaculation, which on much as a full-grown man, causing pain-
average requires 5 to 6 minutes. ...Sperm ful leg problems. The cows must endure
“Animals are not edibles.” is collected in a ‘vagina’ or lined plastic tremendous stress. Five hundred gallons
—Henry Spira cup.” Insemination (female): “The stock- of blood have to circulate through a cow’s
person must mimic some of the stimu- udder to provide the nutrients for a single
Mid-Hudson lation normally provided by the boar, gallon of milk. It takes 350 udder squirts
Vegetarian Society i.e. back pressure and flank and udder to accumulate a gallon, as well.
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rubbing. ...The head of the catheter is
inserted into the vulva and gently pushed 59 More than 95 percent of animal
cloning attempts fail. Horrible out-
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Vegans get safe levels of protein, iron & zinc
comes, such as oversized heads, twisted by privately owned ranches. The pro- tis, a painful udder infection, prompt-
limbs, bloated fetuses, malformed inter- gram, Wildlife Services, employs highly ing farmers to administer antibiotics.
nal organs, and faulty immune and toxic poisons (Compound 1080 and The FDA approved rBGH in 1993 after
respiratory systems are the norm. Some sodium cyanide M-44), aerial gunning, just one small, initially hidden, study by
6,000 animals alive today are the prod- steel-jawed leghold traps, and other the manufacturer. Health Canada even-
uct of cloning, not including the fail- inhumane kill methods, often indis- tually learned and revealed the study’s
ures. The technology is a radical depar- criminately. Non-target wildlife—some questionable results, itself putting forth
ture from conventional trait selection, threatened and even endangered—get other significant issues. The EU, Japan,
which has already made farmed animals caught in the cross hairs. In some cases Australia, and Canada all outlaw the use
into freaks. In 2008, the FDA declared the government spends more money on of rBGH. Labels stating “rBGH-free”
that cloned meat was safe to eat. Soon it the program than any losses that might are prohibited in the U.S.
will be in markets everywhere, without
identifying labels.
otherwise have been incurred. And, by
the USDA’s own statistics, most livestock 66 Around 60 percent of human
pathogens are transmissible from
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List of livestock diseases is never ending
S p o n s o r s disaster), fish populations rebound in that he’d continue to help reverse or miti-
spectacular displays. In a sobering indi- gate trade bans because of Mad Cow Dis-
cation of the scope of the damage, biolo- ease and hormones in beef.
gists are proposing banning fishing from,
no less, a third of the ocean in a system
of marine reserves, monitored by naval
72 In 2001, an entrepreneurial com-
pany said it had developed a way
to neutralize deadly E. coli in meat:
A Well-Fed World patrols and GPS. ammonia injections! The company
Feeding Families
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69 A seemingly endless list of dis-
eases and infestations afflict ani-
mals raised for human consumption. Just
declared the process safe, especially for
trimmings often susceptible to contami-
nation and otherwise relegated for use in
We provide immediate to name a few: Marek’s disease, Nipah pet food. The meat might stink of ammo-
vegan hunger relief virus, Swine flu, Newcastle Disease, Poult nia, but those trimmings offer savings as
and help save animals Enteritis and Mortality Syndrome, H5N1, filler for hamburger patties. The USDA
Johne’s Disease, Pseudorabies, Mad approved the process and for a while
from factory-farm and
Cow Disease (MCD), Bluetongue, Foot & even stopped bothering to test meat from
slaughterhouse atrocities. Mouth Disease (FMD), Swine Fever, Fli- the company that utilizes the technique.
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Ethiopian Feeding Program ticals will be administered production- to legally be sold in fast-food chains, gro-
line style, sometimes haphazardly, often cery stores, and to the National School
www.AWFW.org preemptively. Vets hope for the best. It’s Lunch Program.
often more cost-effective to just destroy an
entire flock or herd. Catastrophic regional
outbreaks (e.g.: MCD, FMD, H5N1, &
73 Except for the llama/alpaca, all 13
of the world’s large domesticatable
animals originated in Eurasia. The pig,
Nipah virus), which do happen periodi- cow, sheep, goat, and others must, there-
cally, will require state intervention often fore, all be considered invasive species
Millennium on a massive scale involving thousands of to the New World. And, of all that were
Gourmet Vegan Cuisine government workers called into a grisly transplanted into the Americas, none
580 Geary St., San Francisco task of mass extermination. becomes more feral more easily or repro-
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Methyl mercury is formed when duces more rapidly or better survives the
inorganic mercury—primarily from wild than the hog. Today, wild-hog popu-
Joe Passaretti
coal-fired power plants—is transformed lations exist in at least 35 U.S. states. They
by microorganisms in the environment. are considered by some to be a problem
Exposure causes irreversible damage to and even a menace to farms and pub-
the central nervous system and is tied lic parks. But their numbers continue to
to mutations and cancer. Official health grow and expand, thanks to escapees
Norma Ramos, Esq. warnings tell women intending to some from overturned trucks transporting hogs
day become pregnant to avoid eating cer- to the slaughterhouse (about 60 per year,
Ecofeminist tain top-predator fish, species that lodge nationwide, involving some 10,000 hogs).
Rawstar
the poison in their bodies in great con-
centrations. About 60,000 U.S. children
are born each year at risk for neurologi-
74 Okanawa is home to the longest-
lived people in the world, having
the highest percentage of its population
Live Raw Vegan Cuisine cal development problems due to methyl living to 100 years old. For one thing, the
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71
www.facebook.com/rawstar.live Every U.S. presidential adminis- exercise and sensibly sized meals also
Richard H. Schwartz tration in recent decades has been
dedicated to coercing trading partners to
play a part. But how Okanawans eat also
factors in significantly: low fat and pri-
Author of Judaism and
Vegetarianism and Judaism open markets to American meat. In a typ- marily vegetarian. Most of the diet con-
and Global Survival ical, if not robotic, statement, U.S. trade sists of vegetables, tofu, and miso with
President @ JewishVeg.com • jewishveg.com/schwartz
representative Ron Kirk told the Meat very little meat and fish. It’s a sad fact that
From Crisis to Peace Export Federation in 2009 that he was
using every legal tool at his disposal to
in the 1980s Okanawa’s sons and daugh-
ters adopted the fast-food diet, which has
The Organic Vegan Way is the Answer
keep pork markets open despite a swine- ushered in the current era where parents
—Supreme Master Ching Hai
flu outbreak at the time. He also noted oftentimes outlive their children.
www.GodsDirectContact.org
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Alt omega-3 sources: hemp, flax, walnuts
75 Russia and Japan remain treaty-
less because of fishing disputes
in the southern Kurile islands. The Rus-
(skinning of sheep hind ends), pinioning
(wing-joint removal), tail docking, teeth
cutting, and tongue removal, among
doubles the risk, and failure to consume
vegetables regularly nearly quadruples
the risk. According to the Cancer Proj-
sians even killed a man in 2006 when other painful mutilations. The opera- ect of PCRM, vegetarian and vegan
they fired upon a Japanese fishing tions are commonplace and performed diets tend to be low in circulating levels
boat in the area. In 2010, the Libyans routinely on a mass scale. They’re done of Insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF‑1).
sprayed bullets on an Italian fishing to increase productivity and/or to com- Clinical case studies have shown that
boat after chasing it across the Mediter- pensate for severe overcrowding and those subjects with the highest levels of
ranean. And the Canadians once fired stressful conditions. In order to perform IGF‑1 had a 3.5-fold increase in breast-
on a recalcitrant Spanish fishing boat in these procedures, laborers typically cancer risk, compared to those with the
the Outer Banks of Newfoundland, later employ restraint not anesthesia. lowest. Also, according to PCRM, the
bringing the illegal driftnets they confis-
cated to the U.N. North Korea regularly
aims gunboats at fishers from South
79 When a cow is unable to walk to
her own slaughter, red flags need
to go up. It’s a warning that an advanced
process of breaking down lactose (milk
sugar) into galactose makes cow’s milk a
risk factor for cancer of the ovaries.
Korea interloping in its fertile waters.
These two countries are technically still
at war, so such incidents can at any time
stage of Mad Cow Disease could have
set in. U.S. law prohibits these animals,
known as downers, from entering the
82 According to overwhelming sci-
entific evidence, fish feel pain.
They also feel psychological distress and
result in renewed hostilities. food chain. Such signs, however, were memory of that distress. Fish grieve and
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80% of cattle slaughtered by just four firms
S p o n s o r s with a knife. Asthma is a major problem blood-vessel diseases kill more people
Loving Hut for the area’s children. worldwide than all others combined. To
Thank you, “101 Reasons...”
—Ted Teisler
premature deaths of one million men and
half a million women could be prevented. 89 Factory-farm lagoons emit pletho-
ric amounts of toxic gases, most
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Mitsubishi rakes it in as bluefin go extinct
ing typically containing a colossal mass privation but with flesh as tender, white, police their own coastlines. Some say so-
of up to 85,000 birds. Approximately 80 and pasty as a newborn’s. called Illegal, Unreported and Unregu-
percent of the organic eggs on the mar-
ket are produced in this way, according
to a 2011 report. The term “free-range”
95 The meat industry is always
quick to cover itself about the
risks for pathogens that are inherent
lated (IUU) fishing has been curtailed
with recent regulation. Catch certifi-
cates must be presented at most docks.
for chicken eggs actually has no legal in what it sells. It‘s very careful not to But without airtight oversight and com-
definition in the U.S. guarantee a germ-free product. Raw pliance worldwide, conservation efforts
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101 Reasons Why
About the author
Pamela Rice has been a vegan advocate
for over 20 years. She gives talks on gov-
I’m a Vegetarian ernment subsidies to the meat industry
and the environmental impact of the meat-
by pamela rice centered diet. In addition to writing and
photo by Alan Rice
speaking, Ms. Rice has organized numer-