World Vegetarian Day NEXT WEEK & Vegetarian info fact sheet

09-30-2005, 04:55 AM

World Vegetarian Day - 1st October 2005 -
Touching base
Many vegetarians are working very hard to co-ordinate making
information about the event all over the world available to vegetarians
and non-vegetarians far and wide. If you can assist in any way it would
be very much appreciated. What I especially need is a brief overview of
what you, either as an individual or as a group intend to do.
So I'm contacting groups of vegetarians and vegetarian societies such as
you(rs), and media, or at least a member or devotee who would be willing
to try to inspire that local veg' society to do something to propagate
WVD in your region.
It might be something as simple as putting an add in the local newspaper
announcing the event to be observed by vegetarians world wide. Or maybe
like some are doing in having a special dinner and inviting people to
come for a small fee. Or some are feeding the poor, some doing radio or
TV shows, some presenting the benefits of a vegetarian diet to schools
and colleges. Even inviting a few friends round for dinner also
helps....... Others are handing out flyers advertising the fact that WVD
is on 1st October each year.
There are untold possibilities, as many as there are people/vegetarians
to spread the news.
Looking forward to your positive response and a little information as to
what you plan to do.
Please visit "Vegetarianism and Beyond"
http://turn.to/Vegetarianism for information, articles, downloads,
books, vegetarian musik samples, and much much more.
World Vegetarian Day
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Please do something to celebrate - 1st October 2005
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Fact Sheet:
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Vegetarian - It’s Healthier
Vegetarians are healthier than people who eat meat. It’s a
fact. Scientific studies show that vegetarians suffer much less from
illnesses like cancer, heart disease, high blood pressure and other
common health problems. A major study reported in the British Medical
Journal in 1994 found that, of 5000 meat-eaters and 6000 non-meat eaters,
vegetarians had 40% less risk of cancer and 30% less risk of heart
disease than the meat-eaters and were 20% less likely to die of any cause
(Oxford Vegetarian Study).
A US study of 50,000 vegetarians showed a very low rate of cancer
(Seventh Day Adventist Study, Massachussets). It has been estimated that
by following a low-fat vegetarian diet, the risk of food poisoning is
decreased by 80%. More evidence of the benefits of a vegetarian diet is
being found each year.
>From TIME magazine (July 2002) - A balanced vegetarian diet is better
for humans than one that includes meat:
http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101020715/index.html
Vegetarian - It’s Humane
Billions of animals are killed in slaughterhouses around the
world. In the US, some half a million are killed each hour, while in the
UK over 600 million are killed each year. A proportional number are
killed in Australia. It is nothing more than an undercover massacre.
Animals suffer enormously in the process. Quite apart from the terror of
being killed, they undergo pain and fear through routine stock
mutilations and during transportation to saleyards and
abattoirs.
Most animals eaten in New Zealand, Australia, UK, USA and similar
countries today are intensively raised in dark, sunless sheds where they
are fed a diet of processed foods. In most cases antibiotics,
growth-promotants and hormones are routinely administered. As biological
entities, these animals are treated as little more than meat machines. We
would be horrified if our pet cat or dog was treated in this way, so why
should we subject other animals to such cruelty? The fact that the
killing is done by someone else makes it easy to eat meat but, by eating
it, we are really condemning the next animal in line. Have you ever
really stopped to think about the cruelty we systematically inflict on
other species simply by eating them?
www.hknet.org.nz/Veg-cruelty-page.htm
www.hknet.org.nz/Veg-equal-respect-page.htm
Vegetarian - It’s Economical
Meat is expensive, both economically and agriculturally. With
so many starving people in the world today it is a criminal waste of food
to produce it. Meat-animals are fed perfectly good plant food which could
have been fed directly to starving people. For instance, it takes 17
kilos of corn, beans, grain, etc, to produce one kilo of beef in feedlot
cattle. This is like investing $17.00 in a bank term deposit and
withdrawing $1.00 at maturity! It requires massive reserves of land to
grow the crops which are used as animal feed. About 70% of crops grown in
the US are fed to animals and not to humans. Meanwhile, a child dies of
starvation somewhere in the world every two seconds. As the world human
population grows, so too does the need for the dwindling reserves of
arable land on which to grow crops to feed it.
see more fact about the cost of meat in different ways HERE:
www.hknet.org.nz/Cost-of-meat-page.htm
Vegetarian - It’s Environmentally
Friendly
In Central America, entire forests are felled or burnt to
provide land for grazing cattle. Most of these cattle end up as
second-quality hamburger meat for the North American junk food market.
Being hard-hooved, cattle erode the vulnerable topsoil, while each animal
produces over 300 litres of methane (a “greenhouse” gas) per day. Also,
the trees which are felled to clear land for cattle ranching are left to
rot. The termites which then feed on them produce even more methane than
the cattle.
Weight for weight, cattle alone outweigh the entire human population of
our planet. A recent Greenpeace report told how the dairy industry of
California uses enough water to supply a city of 22 million people. The
effluent produced from intensive piggeries, cattle feedlots and broiler
units is polluting our river systems. A NSW government newsletter pointed
out that the late Homebush abattoirs was the single greatest industrial
polluter of Sydney’s coastal waters.
www.hknet.org.nz/Veg-environment-page.htm
Vegetarian - Exploding Some Myths
Understandably, people are a bit apprehensive about changing
their diet. Everyone seems to know “someone” who looks as pale as a
bleached potato since giving up meat! The truth is that a well-balanced
vegetarian diet provides all the protein and nutrients needed for a
vigorous and healthy life (American Dietary Association Study). What is
seldom pointed out are the millions of conventional eaters who suffer
from constipation, malnutrition, gout and a host of other problems and
diseases brought on by a lack of fresh fruit and vegetables in their
diet, combined with the adverse effects of meat.
A study carried out the by University of Surrey in Britain found that
vegetarians were better nourished than meat eaters, and much closer to
the “ideal” diet recommended by the government’s own health
advisers.
More information on our Vegetarianism and Beyond site
www.hknet.org.nz/Vege-AdirajIntroVeg.html
Hard Facts
www.hknet.org.nz/Cost-of-meat-page.htm
Links to hundreds of Vegetarianism related sites
www.hknet.org.nz/vege-links1.html
Vegetarian - Aren't We Designed To Eat
Meat?
Not at all. Many people say that we are meat-eaters because we
have sharp teeth. This is like judging a book by its cover. Look inside
and you will find out what is really going on.
Our digestive system resembles that of the herbivores and the frugivores
(fruit-eaters). It consists of a very long intestine allowing slow
digestion of nutrients. By contrast, carnivores have a short digestive
tract designed so that meat can quickly pass through the body before it
putrefies and becomes toxic. To compensate for this rapid transition,
carnivores have a stomach acid concentration 10 times greater than that
of vegetarian mammals (including humans) to enable them to quickly digest
the meat. When humans eat meat it begins to putrefy before leaving the
body, often resulting in disorders as diverse as constipation and bowel
cancer if eaten persistently over a period of time. Sure, the more fibre
eaten with meat, the quicker it passes through the intestines, but why
eat meat at all? Only vegetable matter contains fibre and a good
vegetarian diet provides all the fibre the body needs without having to
add extra”artificially”. If you are serious about lowering your
cholesterol intake, a vegetarian diet is the best way to go since only
animal products contain cholesterol.
Health Fact Sheet
www.hknet.org.nz/VegeGo.html
Speaking out -
www.hknet.org.nz/veg-stubborn-page.htm
Vegetarianism and the Bible - You mean it says that in the Bible
www.hknet.org.nz/Veg-UmeanItsinBible.html
Religion and Vegetarianism -
www.hknet.org.nz/WesternIndologists-page.htm
Random Christian Quotes supporting Vegetarianism -
www.hknet.org.nz/Veg-christians-page.htm
Vegetarian - What do I eat then?
Most people imagine vegetarian eating to be meat and two “veg”
minus the meat. To a conventional meat-eater this sounds like someone
being sold a car with the engine missing! Nothing could be further from
the truth. Vegetarian eating is about eating a wide variety offoods
prepared in an abundance of different ways.
Being a good vegetarian means being adventurous and open-minded about
food. It is not simply about eating a predictable menu day-in, day-out.
Many vegetarian staples had their origin in different countries hundreds
of years ago … pasta from China (and later Italy), tofu from China, and
tempeh from Indonesia. Tofu is bean curd made from soya beans. Tempeh is
a sort of nut-flavoured cheese made from fermented soy beans. It is rich
in enzymes and easily digested. Both can be bought at health food stores
and larger supermarkets. These are not merely substitutes for meat, but
nutritious food in themselves which have proved to be an excellent source
of protein for centuries.
Stupid things that vegetarians hear all the time from meat-eaters:
www.hknet.org.nz/veg-friends.html#Stupid
Vegetarian - Where Do I Get My
Protein?
Protein is naturally very plentiful. It occurs in every living
thing, plant and animal. Apart from fruit and vegetables, good sources of
protein include pasta, lentils, rice, potatoes, soy beans, chick peas,
nuts, seeds and grains, with or without moderate use of eggs and dairy
products.
The amount you need depends on different personal attributes (weight,
height, etc) and the daily requirement varies considerably from 20 to 90
grams per day. By eating a variety of foods each day you should easily
meet your individual requirements. In fact, the nutritional attitude to
protein has changed dramatically in recent years. The old-fashioned
notion that “you can never get too much protein” has now been proved
wrong. Excess protein not used by the body has to be broken down and
excreted as waste. In fact, a major culprit in many human degenerative
diseases is a protein overdose. For example, calcium loss in osteoporosis
has been linked largely to an excess of high-protein foods.
This site lists everything that anyone would need to have a balanced
healthy life-style as a vegetarian; vitamins and minerals sources, the
food triangle, check it out:
www.hknet.org.nz/Vege-VitaminSources.html
Vegetarian - What about Minerals like Iron
and Calcium?
A sound vegetarian diet should provide all needed nutrients.
The presence of vitamin C with iron in the diet will help iron absorption
by up to 30%. It is a myth that you have to eat meat to get sufficient
iron. It is readily available in breakfast cereals, whole grain products,
soy products, legumes and leafy green vegetables. Tiredness is not
necessarily caused by iron deficiency. It may also be caused by lack of
sleep, depression, stress and poor eating habits (usually junk
food).
Calcium is found in all unprocessed vegetable foods in amounts that are
sufficient to meet the needs of both adults and growing children.
Whatever the calcium intake, the intestine absorbs sufficient calcium to
meet the body’s needs. Good sources of calcium are sesame seeds, tofu,
almonds, soy beans, parsley, green vegetables and fortified soy milk. A
recent dietary study on 6,500 Chinese found that even those who ate no
animal products actually consumed twice the amount of iron as the average
North American. In spite of the fact that dairy products were not eaten,
osteoporosis was almost unknown.
It's all here
www.hknet.org.nz/Vege-VitaminSources.html
Vegetarian - The change - How Do I Start?
The best place to start going vegetarian is in the kitchen!
Buy a cookbook and start preparing. You will soon get used to the types
of food that are used and how they are prepared. Also, your taste for
vegetarian food will adapt. If you are doubtful about your abilities as a
cook you can enrol in cooking classes. Information about these is often
available in health food shops and some courses are run at TAFE
colleges(in Australia). See HERE
www.hknet.org.nz/vege-links1.htm for some we know of..... otherwise
the Vegetarian Society(ies)
www.hknet.org.nz/vege-links2.htm often has a list of recommended
classes.
Giving up meat might seem strange at first, but so does giving up tobacco
to the cigarette addict! If you feel that you can’t drop meat straight
away, try cutting it down bit by bit. Just increase your use of foods
like beans, grains, nuts, seeds, tofu, tempeh, gluten and some of the
many low cholesterol convenience foods (like burgers and sausages) now
available at health food stores and supermarkets.
Some Recommended On-line and Hard-copy Cook
books
Higher Taste Cookbook - available from Hare Krishna
temples and centres
view it on-line
http://www.webcom.com/ara/col/books/VEG/ht/ or at
http://www.webcom.com/ara/col/books/VEG/
Great Vegetarian Dishes by Kurma dasa - BBT
http://www.webcom.com/ara/col/catalog/vd.html
Cooking With Kurma -
http://www.webcom.com/ara/col/catalog/cwk.html
The Hare Krishna Book of vegetarian cooking

http://www.webcom.com/ara/col/catalog/hkvc.html

http://www.webcom.com/ara/col/books/VEG/hkvc1.html
Vegetarian and lowfat food recipes (WinHelp) (FREE
Download)
http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?500000010774
Others available at the bookstore:
Eat More, Weigh Less by Dean Ornish
Food for Life by Neal Barnard
Squirrel’s Cookbook No.1 & No.2
PassionATE . Pure Vegetarian Cuisine
Christine Lehmann
The Cookbook for People Who Love Animals
Gentle World
The Vegan Health Plan Amanda Sweet
The Moosewood Cookbook Mollie Katzen
The Vegan Kitchen Mate David Horton
Vegetarian Cookery Rose Elliot
Sarah Brown’s Vegetarian Cookbook Sarah Brown
The Very Best of Vegetarian Cooking Janet Hunt
Gourmet Vegetarian Cooking Rose Elliot
First Steps in Vegetarian Cooking Kathy SilkFor children and
babies
The Vegetarian Baby Sharon Yntema
Vegetarian Children Sharon Yntema
Rose Elliot’s Vegetarian Mother and Baby Book
Vegetarian -
Do You Want to Know More?
The following books are highly recommended for their revealing
analysis of all aspects of vegetarianism and how it relates to health,
the environment and animal rights.
Living Without Cruelty Mark Gold (Green Print)
Food for a Future Jon Wynne-Tyson (Centaur Press)
The Silent Ark Juliet Gellatley
Diet For a New America
John Robbins (Stillpoint Publishing)
Why You Don’t Need Meat Peter Cox (Bloomsbury)
Animal Factories
Jim Mason and Peter Singer (Crown Publishers)
Your Heart, Your Planet
Harvey Diamond (Pythagorean Press)
Vegetarian - Why Do So Many People Eat
Meat?
Meat-eating in the quantity our society eats today really
began with the industrial revolution. Better machines led to more
efficient agriculture. When a surplus of crops was produced, this was fed
to animals and the animals eaten by those who could afford meat. Thus
meat became something of a status symbol. Unfortunately the status symbol
developed into a habit so that most of us in the wealthier countries
think that it is a normal part of our diet. As we approach a new century,
it is high time we turned back to the healthier, less wasteful diet of
our forebears.
Today the meat and dairy industries promote the myth of their products
being necessary through heavy advertising (you only have to count the
times they appear on television to see that!). Close behind them are the
pharmaceutical companies which provide the hormones, antibiotics and
growth promotants to the animal producers. Altogether there are many
vested interests in keeping us eating animal products! Unfortunately the
only interests that are lost in this expensive advertising jungle are
yours. Individual health … and a healthy environment … begins with good
eating habits, and a vegetarian lifestyle is the simplest and most
effective way to achieve them.
Living in Harmony with Vegetarians
www.hknet.org.nz/veg-friends.html
Taking a graphic look at Animal slaughter and meat eating:
www.hknet.org.nz/DeadAnimalFleshnFood.html
Download books, musik and video VCd that reveal the truth about the big
business behind keeping you addicted to eating meat with no consideration
for man nor beast:
www.hknet.org.nz/V-meetURmeat.html
Vegetarian
- 101 Reasons Why I'm a Vegetarian:
http://www.vivavegie.org/vv101/index.html
Vegetarian
- Making the Change
To make any change is not easy, particularly when it involves
explanations to friends and family. However, making a change that you
know will take an enormous burden off the environmental stresses of the
planet, that will improve your health and ultimately save millions of
animals from cruelty makes it easy.
Already in the US and Britain there is a massive change towards a
meat-free diet. Some half a million people are adopting a vegetarian
lifestyle each year in the US while the number of British vegetarians is
now 4 million. The trend is catching in Australia and New Zealand where
many, mainly young people, are realising that they want a healthy and
humane future.
Whether you go vegetarian overnight or over a period of time does
not matter. The important thing is to get on the track. Even cutting down
on meat consumption will make an enormous difference.
TIME magazine ran an 8 page article asking "Should we all be
Vegetarians?" their conclusion was that a healthy balanced
vegetarian diet is better than one that includes meat
www.hknet.org.nz/veg-articles.html
Health and a Meatless Diet
http://www.hknet.org.nz/veg-health-m...-diet-page.htm
A Beginners Guide to Vegetarianism:
http://people.qualcomm.com/sriharid/...anism/veg.html
How Mary and Frank and Friends Eat -
very nice Vegetarian pages:
http://www.all-creatures.org/recipes.html
The new millenium is the time to make the change. Let’s
make it a goal for the whole planet. Remember … You’re in good
company!
Vegetarian - Famous Vegetarians
Pythagoras, Plutarch, Leonardo Da Vinci, Tolstoy,
Shelley, George Bernard Shaw, Gandhi, Thoreau, Bob Dylan, Joanna Lumley,
George Harrison, Paul and Linda McCartney, Michael Jackson, Madona,
Martina Navratilova, Hayley Mills, William Shatner, Sir Mark Oliphant,
Cliff Young, Peter Singer, Bob Barker, Spike Milligan, Nigel Hawthorne,
Annie Besant, Anthony Robbins, Peter Sumner, Chrissie Hynde, Tim
McCartney-Snape, Peter Brock, Lynda Stoner, Johnny Weissmuller (the first
Tarzan), Julie Christie, Morissey (The Smiths), Marty Feldman, Murray
Rose, Paavo Nurmi (9 Olympic medals), Andreas Cahling (body building
champion), Dave Scott (6-time Ironman Triathlon winner), k.d.lang,
Belinda Carlisle, Edwin Moses, Sean Hughes, Bryan Adams, Dennis Weaver,
Woody Harrelson, Killer Kowalski (champion wrestler), Alicia Silverstone,
Annalise Braakensiek, Vanessa Amorosi, Greg Chappell, Jerry Seinfeld, Uri
Geller, Kim Basinger, Alec Baldwin, James Cromwell, Radha Mitchell,
Daniel Johns (silverchair), Susie Porter, Joaquin Phoenix, Josef Brown,
Daniel Jones (Savage Garden).
To see hundreds more visit our page
http://www.hknet.org.nz/Veg-famouspeople-page.htm
For all this and more see our page at
Vegetarianism and Beyond
http://www.hknet.org.nz/Veges-Beyond5page.htm or at
http://turn.to/Vegetarianism
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