Try out my recipes and save the planet!

On October 15th, bloggers around the web will unite to put a single important issue on everyone’s mind – the environment. Every blogger will post about the environment in their own way and relating to their own topic.

Here’s what beyondlettuce has to say:  

According to the recent UN report Livestock’s Long Shadow, the meat industry generates more greenhouse-gas emissions than all the cars, trucks, SUVs, ships, and planes in the world combined.

The report also concluded that the meat industry is “one of the top two or three most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems, at every scale from local to global.”

And here’s beyondlettuce’s plan of action:

1. adopt a vegetarian diet

2. try out my recipes

3. save the planet!

To learn more about the issue, check out this recent article in the NY Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/29/business/media/29adco.html

 

Would you eat him?

 An excellent podcast episode from CompassionateCooks.com

The practice of eating animals is a culturally ingrained habit. If you’re in the U.S., you might dine on pigs, cattle, and chickens; if you’re in Mexico, you might feast on goats; if you’re in parts of Asia, you might devour dogs and cats.

We humans have a funny way of judging other cultures for what we think is cruel, despite our own commitment to cruelty.

To the animals, it’s all the same.    

Play now: http://cdn.libsyn.com/compassionatecooks/eating_animals.mp3

 

Happy World Animal Day!

Today is October 4th, World Animal Day.

World Animal Day? Do you we really need that?

We do. 

Whatever your opinion on vegetarianism is, take a moment to watch this video on the website of  Eurogroup for Animals: http://www.eurogroupforanimals.org/pressconference.htm

If you think you can’t stand it (I barely couldn’t), here is what it shows:  

Outrageous animal suffering during transport that happens every day in the EU. Injured animals lifted by cranes and pushed by caterpillars.

Beating of exhausted animals and a total indifference to pain and suffering by those who “handle” the animals…

The images speak for themselves.  

The next time you take a bite of your ham sandwich or cheeseburger, just think for a moment about those images and decide for yourself.  

We must be the change we wish to see in the world.

I wish I’d come up with this quote. I didn’t.

It was Gandhi, another famous vegetarian.

Happy World Animal Day…