Sudan starving while Americans are dying from being too fat

Sudan’s deadly FAMINE, while 80% of crops in the USA go to feed farmed animals for Americans eating chickens and burgers. Supporting the Animal Agriculture industry while others starve is a crime.

If you STOP eating animals, those crops can bake 2 loafs of bread DAILY for ALL the WORLD population, but we are SELFISH and criminals towards humans and animals alike. Eating Meat is destroying the planet and creating the worst inequality in our planet.

 

Christians do you care for God's creation?

I came across a great article today:
http://thefederalist.com/2016/08/19/the-plight-of-egg-laying-chickens-illustrates-whats-wrong-with-factory-farms/

So many Christians worry about being "kind"
being "holy" and "respectful"
and they forgot about God's creation and animals
Please read the entire article and these quotes:

“Christians and conservatives should contemplate their participation in a food system that undermines their understanding of the reality and nature of our world.”

We Have a Responsibility to Care for Creation

“Christian tradition establishes man’s preeminence of the created order. Formed from the dust of the ground, man’s oldest ancestor was made imago dei. God blessed the universe and its contents, and gave them to man as gifts. As the beneficiaries of these gifts, God instructed man to be fruitful, multiply, replenish the earth, and subdue it. He was called to exercise dominion over creation and faithfully steward its fruits.

In light of this dominion mandate found in the book of Genesis, consuming animal products is certainly within man’s prerogative. However, subjugating farm animals to the whims and will of industrial man is an abdication of man’s responsibility to the Creator. The grotesque images found on the factory farm do not reflect faithful stewardship of the created order. These images, instead, reflect selfish domination.”

Remember, there is a Christian Vegetarian Association!

Visit their website and read their mission.

Why?

Dr. Melanie Joy On Carnism
Please watch with an open mind and heart



Carnism is the belief system, or ideology, in which it's considered ethical to consume (certain) animals.
Carnism is essentially the opposite of vegetarianism or veganism.
Carnism was coined by social psychologist Dr. Melanie Joy in 2001.

Food Revolution Film

Every second in the U.S. 300 animals are killed
300, 600, 900, 1200... we can stop this.
Food Relovution Film by Thomas Torelli
Support this project here we need this film out.
Please watch the trailer here.

Choosing food with awareness is a revolutionary act that can change the world.

Hurricane Patricia, Global Warming, Animal Agriculture and Man-made Climate Change

A letter (e-mail) to my co-workers:

All this talk about hurricane Patricia being the strongest recorded in history adds to the concern of  animal welfare, human welfare, and the future of our planet…

“Scientists have linked the global ocean temperature departures from average to manmade global warming, in addition to El Niño.”

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2015/10/23/hurricane-patricia-strongest-ever-measured/74446334/

On manmade global warming and climate change: The meat industry (chickens, pigs, cows, dairy, eggs) is number 1 cause of global warming, 51% of greenhouse emissions are coming from animal agriculture. http://www.cowspiracy.com/facts/

“Livestock and their byproducts account for at least 32,000 million tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) per year, or 51% of all worldwide greenhouse gas emissions.”

This is more than all transportation: planes, trains, cars, COMBINED.

Goodland, R Anhang, J. “Livestock and Climate Change: What if the key actors in climate change were pigs, chickens and cows?”

WorldWatch, November/December 2009. Worldwatch Institute, Washington, DC, USA. Pp. 10–19.

Animal Feed Science and Technology “comment to editor” Goodland, Anhang.

The Independent, article Nov. 2009.

Every minute, 7 million pounds of excrement are produced by animals raised for food in the US.

This doesn’t include the animals raised outside of USDA jurisdiction or in backyards, or the billions of fish raised in aquaculture settings in the US.

All that excrement is polluting our rivers and creating ocean dead zones. There is a huge problem in North Carolina with hogs and manure.

United States Environmental Protection Agency

It is not just about the ‘meat’ or animals we eat, but the water needed to grow the grains they eat, the antibiotics we feed them (70% of all the antibiotics sold in the US are administer to farmed animals) and all the waste the produce that has ‘nowhere’ to go, the energy needed to run slaughterhouses, transportation, freezing of the corpses, etc. etc. etc. Beans and broccoli come from farm to fridge to table, and don’t poop, plant-based protein is more readily and easily digested by our bodies too.

I have read some of Chris Hedges work, I didn’t know he is a vegan:

"I'm a vegan, and I'm a vegan because the animal agriculture industry maybe surpasses the fossil fuel industry in terms of destroying the planet, and you can wake up tomorrow and be a vegan." (don’t have to join Greenpeace and leave your job to fight the fracking industry or Exxon) On California: "And you're enduring this drought. It takes 1,000 gallons of water to make one gallon of milk [source: Water Footprint Network]. And milk's not even good for you. It's made for cows, it's not made for humans. It's made for baby cows. Who we kill."
– Harvard-educated journalist, best-selling author, professor, Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism recipient, and member of the team of reporters at The New York Times awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for the paper’s coverage of global terrorism Chris Hedges of Truthdig
“What We Choose to Eat Is Killing Us and Our Planet” http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/saving_the_planet_one_meal_at_a_time_20141109

You can watch the video here, on FB but open to the public

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10153585761485090

                                                                                                                                       

Thanks for reading, there is something we can do every day to help our planet and our health and we can do it 3 times a day, with our forks.

Flesh of your Flesh (article)

Flesh of Your Flesh
(article) @ElizKolbert

Humans say they love animals...
but they eat them.
The abuse them in so many ways.

Please act accordingly, make sense
and Stop Eating Them
Wearing Them
Experimenting on Them
Laughing at Them
Betting on Them
just
Live Vegan.

This year, Americans will consume some thirty-five million cows, a hundred and fifteen million pigs, and nine billion birds.

I, Chicken and Vegan Outreach at Balboa Park

Today was a great day! #VeganOutreach #IChicken #PETA #BalboaPark
I got to work with my dear friend Ellen for the animals
we leafleted hundreds of materials
Vegan Outreach Compassionate Choices,
Vegan Starter Kits from PETA
Truth or Drought leaflets (which I proudly designed)
SeaWorld information (anti-captivity anti-SeaWorld)
and FARM's You Have Been Lied To (please read these leaflets the have the most complete information on all the natural resources used for every animal we eat, it is very eye-opening to see this!)
People were kind and receptive today!

Me and Ellen at Balboa Park, our favorite place for vegan outreach

At the park were also our friends from PETA
with the exhibit "I, Chicken"
a fantastic virtual reality experience and lets you
see how chickens are taken from an open field
into a cage, and eventually a conveyor where
they will be killed.
The video is cartoon-like and is not gory at all,
there is no blood or violent images, so it's apt for children.
PETA did a great job, read more about it.

The I, Chicken team traveled from Los Angeles to educate about chickens and animal suffering

My dear friend Izabela, vegan, activists and music fan, we saw Morrissey together! #MozArmy

Christopher Locke, author of Persimmon Takes on Humanity

Brian, Mexican American super cool vegan activist and girl watching I, Chicken

People were really interested on the experience and understood how chickens felt in cages and conveyor belts

Almonds Are Not The Problem, Eating Animals Is

This is the latest graphic I designed with Lorelei's research
for our grassroots campaign Truth or Drought
where we make the connection between animal agriculture
and the California (and world-wide) droughts
The meat and dairy industry have created a campaign
to vilify almonds, calling them the #1 water consumers...
but of course almonds are NOT the problem
Animal Agriculture is... there are several articles online
where you can check these numbers.
And our sources are clear...

And from an ethical point of view, remember
almonds don't suffer when separated from their mothers
so humans can drink their milk (my homemade almond milk)
nor they suffer for years while living in horrible factory farms
nor scream in agony & pain when being slaughtered

So eat almonds, they are good for you,
drink almond milk, almond ice-cream,
have an Amaretto, but please
Do Not Eat Animals or their secretions
that is what is destroying the planet,
and killing billions of innocent beings.

There are some things money can't buy (like water when it's gone).

For everything else, there's veganism.

#SaveWaterEatPlants! #TruthOrDrought

Meme for Truth or Drought

Get Vegucated, Go Vegan

#ForksOverKnives #Vegucated
This weekend I was trapped at home not feeling so great
It was almost a 100° F outside and very dry.
Dry heat gives me migraines, so I stayed in, closed blinds.
My companions weren't that thrilled either.
Frau Kitty slept a lot on a position that clearly stated
Please, Do Not Disturb.

Frau Kitty says: Do not disturb...

Being inside I had time to re-watch these influential
documentaries, I recommend everybody to watch.
I watch them at the beginning of my vegan lifestyle journey
Forks Over Knives, is packed with rational information
on why we are much better off health-wise on eating
an whole plant based diet (a good link for starters).
How all the sickness that is brought to our bodies
when eat animals makes this way of eating a bad choice



My favorite documentary is still Vegucated

because this film is what actually offered to me a door
into becoming a vegan... the film follows 3 people
from New York City into the challenge of becoming vegan
for 6 weeks... I really appreciate that this documentary
offers a view into the horrible conditions on how
animals for food 'live' and the terrifying deaths they suffer,
it also takes a look at the environmental disaster
that is the meat industry, and talks about health too.

Vegucated is a 'lighter' version of many other vegan documentaries
and the fact that follows every-day people from different
backgrounds and different daily lives makes it
very easy to relate to, as the time-frame of the challenge

So it was about 3 years ago, after watching Vegucated
that I decided to take the 'challenge'
I never ate too much meat or animal products
but of course I had some parmegian cheese at home
and some eggs... I ate the little cheese left
and after a couple of days threw away the eggs,
and then I didn't buy any more animal products,
when going to restaurants I started choosing
vegan options, and luckily we have so many
vegan restaurants in San Diego...
I still clearly remember the 1st time I willingfully
deny the offer to eat a hamburger at a friend's bbq
and the first time I said no to a b-day cake at the office
that had eggs and cream...

My transition wasn't painful at all!
Right away I found so many food substitutes
from vegan hotdogs, to veggie burgers, to 'chick'n'
in many flavors and styles, it does taste like chicken!
My migraines became less frequent and less strong
I lost some weight, and my mind and soul felt lighter, clearer
happier!! Is like I got rid of this weight over my shoulders!
My asthma improved and my hormonal status too.
It was been about 3 years of me ditching animals
and I cannot think of ever eating or wearing an animal ever again.

Vegan Super Italian Meatball Sub with Sausage Seitan from Native Foods Cafe

My only regret regarding veganism is not having done it sooner
in life! Live a wonderful healthier guilt-free compassionate life
Go Vegan, try it for a couple of weeks, or months.
I am sure you will never go back to eat animals
(as a piece of advice, if you ever eat a piece of animal
don't blame yourself and go back to eating vegan,
also indulge in vegan treats when needed... I remember
at the beginning of my vegan journey craving hamburgers
so I just bought veggie burgers instead with a good dose
of french fries and ketchup, maybe not so healthy
but at least I wasn't hurting an animal or our planet,
confession: I still indulge in a lot of processed food
now & then, vegan junk food, but I do love food
vegan food that is, and all you eat, you can find a vegan version of)

Great article:
5 Netflix documentaries that will turn you Vegan