Guest guest Posted February 27, 2009 Report Share Posted February 27, 2009 Marin Vegetarian Education Group March, 2009 Next Meeting: Video Screening: Processed People and Vegan Dessert Pot Luck Saturday, March 21 7 PM at the home of Ann and Larry Wheat in Belvedere (Address provided when you RSVP to: Ann) Financial disaster, obesity epidemic, health care crisis . . . Everyone is talking about them, but does anyone see how they are connected and how to end them? In the exciting new documentary Processed People, the dots are connected and the solutions are at hand. Leading health experts detail why we are sick and how we can solve our health care crisis and regain financial health and total well being. With so much conflicting and confusing information and misinformation being published, how are we to know who really has our best interests at heart? Processed People provides the answers! Join us to watch this terrific new video at the home of Larry and Ann Wheat in Belvedere. We will also share potluck vegan desserts, so bring some fresh fruit or your favorite sweet surprise. To get the address, RSVP to Ann Wheat: Ann. Because we are watching a film, please make a special effort to arrive on time, allowing time to find street parking. It is very disruptive to the audience when people come after the film has begun. And if you cannot make it, do consider buying a copy of this excellent documentary. It is available from VegSource.com for only $24.95. The running time is only 40 minutes, but the disc includes 140 additional minutes of in-depth interviews with the health experts who appear in the film. Meat Out Luncheon Saturday, March 14 John Robbins Speaking Patti Breitman Cooking Kim Sturla Sharing 11:00 - 3:30 San Francisco First Unitarian Universalist Center Corner of Geary Blvd. and Franklin Street $5 suggested donation, $3 students, seniors and disabled *RSVP required for the lunch; send an email to doloresmp MeatOut is a day that asks people to forego meat for 24 hours. The San Francisco Vegetarian Society is holding its fourth annual MeatOut luncheon in celebration, and they are offering terrific speakers along with a vegan lunch. For a modest contribution you can attend a cooking demonstration with me, Patti Breitman, co-author of How to Eat Like a Vegetarian, Even If You Never Want To Be One (11:00); hear John Robbins, author of The Food Revolution, Diet for a New America, and Healthy at 100 speak about how Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and The World (1:30), and hear Kim Sturla of Animal Place tell us about the lucky farmed animals who live at Animal Place (during lunch ). A vegan lunch will be served at 12:15. You need to RSVP for the lunch: Doloresmp or 415-273-5481. Marin Vegan Dinner Club There is a new group called the Marin Vegan Dinner Club through meetup Marin. They organize a vegan dinner in restaurants once a month. For more information, go to www.meetup.com/marin-vegan and sign up for free. I am thrilled to see this, as it is one more piece of evidence that it is easier than ever to find other vegans to share a meal without having to prepare it ourselves. And don't forget to also check out www.BayAreaVeg.org every month for more outings and events. Last Thursday Drinks After Work VegNews magazine is launching a networking event for vegans in San Francisco on the last Thursday of every month. Join others in San Francisco at Martuni's (4 Valencia Street at Market) for drinks and good conversation from 6 to 8 PM. At the event there will be a list of good places in the neighborhood to find good vegan food. For more information, write to Elizabeth at ECastoria PCRM Needs Our Help Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine is working to get vegan options and soy milk into the national school lunch program. Now that the Child Nutrition Act is being discussed in anticipation of its reauthorization in July, PCRM is gathering signatures and creating a letter writing campaign to educate and influence Lynn Woolsey and the Committee of Education and Labor on which she sits. If you can spare some time to collect signatures or write letters, please be part of the Marin effort to make this healthy change in school lunches. If you want to be part of this historic effort, contact Laura Beck at LBeck. Tell her you are in Marin County and that you want to help bring vegan options and soy milk into our schools. Vegan Marshmallows Exposed As Not Vegan Thanks to VegSource.com for their excellent coverage of the vegan marshmallow scandal. It turns out that both companies that make vegan marshmallows were getting a key ingredient from another company who claimed that their product was vegan when it was not. In truth, according to this investigative report, there are no truly vegan marshmallows. To see the CNBC piece and to read more about this vegan marshmallow news visit http://www.vegsource.com/articles2/msnbc_marshmallow.htm Let People Sample Vegan Food at Your Next Event A new organization called VegFund.org provides money for table fees, vegan food and service supplies at any public event that allows tabling by vegan groups. What a simple, creative, effective way to introduce the public to the tasty food available from the plant kingdom! Kudos to the three wise people who thought of this. To support this group, learn more about it, or to get support for your next event, visit www.VegFund.org. Thanks to George Eisman for telling me about this. Jack Norris, R.D. has a new blog Jack Norris, R.D. is one of the founders of VeganOutreach and one of the most trusted dietitians there is. His new web site and blog are among the best sources anywhere for all nutrition questions involving a plant based diet. Visit http://JackNorrisRD.com to see his latest articles, sign up for his blog, and read more about the best way to stay healthy as a vegetarian or vegan. America The Beautiful On Thursday, March 5 at 6:30 at the Rafael theater in downtown San Rafael, there will be a one time showing of the documentary America The Beautiful. This is a fund raiser for Beyond Hunger, a not for profit that helps people overcome eating disorders, including yo-yo dieting, binge eating, bulimia, anorexia, and body image issues. The cost is $20, but it may sell out, so buy tickets at the theater early if you can attend. America the Beautiful shows how everyone in this country is made to feel not good enough, starting at a very young age. This dissatisfaction with our appearance too often leads to eating disorders, along with dangerous surgeries, shopping addictions, and life long attempts to reach some ever changing image of what beautiful is. Food Empowerment Project Now is a great time to to and support free email updates from The Food Empowerment Project. A recent email included stories about the practice of shark finning (taking the fins of live sharks, and returning the mutilated, dying sharks to the water), a reminder about buying only fair trade or organic chocolate (because other chocolates are frequently made with beans harvested by slave labor), and a story about The Great American MeatOut (see listing above for March 14 in San Francisco). To , visit FoodIsPower.org. THAT is one terrific name for a a web site! And here is an excerpt about the shark finning that includes information on how you can help put an end to this cruel practice. Here at the Food Empowerment Project, we see some of our task is doing what we can to speak out for the most vulnerable. Even though sharks have a reputation of being the top of the food chain in the seas, because of humans their survival is in jeopardy. Millions of sharks are captured, their fins removed, and their live bodies dumped back into the ocean to slowly die - just to make shark fin soup. In 2000, Congress passed a law with the intention to ban the practice of shark fining, but despite this the cruelty still continues. Because of that, the Shark Conservation Act of 2009 has been introduced. We urge that you contact your US Representative today and ask that they cosponsor the bill and close the loopholes that allow this practice to continue. Find facts regarding this practice at http://www.awionline.org/legislation You can send your email by visiting: http://capwiz.com/compassionindex/issues/alert/?alertid=12408576 Osteoporosis Protection for Life Dr. Joel Fuhrman has a new video about how we can protect ourselves from osteoporosis without dangerous drugs.. The cost is $24.95. To order the video and to learn more about it, visit http://www.drfuhrman.com/shop/av.aspx#osteoP Front Man for Corporations Exposed An organization called The Center for Consumer Freedom has a great name, but a despicable mission. It exists to create confusion and to counter the efforts of true consumer protection organizations. Rick Berman is the mind behind this nefarious group, often the first and only group to attack PCRM, Peta, and other organizations that work for genuine health education and and end to animal cruelty. He has finally been exposed as a charlatan by his own son, and the media have finally told the truth about him. His work for the tobacco, fast food, tanning and other harmful industries was always cloaked in clever names, but always took the side of profit over truth. To read more about this man and his son's rebellion, visit the web site of the Center for Media and Democracy at this link: http://www.prwatch.org/node/8168 ********************************** To contact us, write to VegetariansInMarin or call 415-459-1666. We appreciate contributions of any size. We will thank you for a contribution of $20 or more with a 1-year subscription (or a 1-year continuation of a current subscription) to VegNews magazine. Send contributions to Marin Vegetarian Education Group, 12 Rally Ct., Fairfax, CA, 94930. To be removed from this mailing list, please send an e-mail with "" in the subject line. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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