Good news: Air China will no longer transport monkeys in cargo crates to be used for laboratory experiments, according to PETA. While this is a positive change, headlines like this should shock us and prompt us to question how such a cruel practice is allowed to be undertaken by airlines in the first place. Kathy [...]
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Many of us have heard the famous quote by Hippocrates, “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food,” or a similar version, and as this previous article illustrates, Hippocrates probably wouldn’t approve of our modern Standard American Diet or our habitual pill-popping and “need” for surgical procedures. Although food is sometimes used to [...]
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What if your favorite grocery spot started charging you for every shopping bag they used for your purchases? Would you be furious or would you thank them for reminding you of the true cost to the environment of using excess amounts of plastic bags? Ever since I started shopping at the Weavers Way Co-op in [...]
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After seeing a production of Angels in America, Pt. 1: Millennium Approaches by Tony Kushner at the Wilma Theatre in Philadelphia back in June, I couldn’t believe I hadn’t seen the show before. I found the material, the grand combination of mysticism with wit, grit, and politics, so stimulating that there was no way I [...]
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A little over a month ago, former president Bill Clinton appeared on the Piers Morgan show and shared some insight into his vegan diet and his support for Michael Bloomberg’s proposed soda ban on super-sized sodas in New York. The ban is meant to fight obesity and Type II diabetes, both real and dangerously growing [...]
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If you missed the recent study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition on soy consumption, here is a re-cap: based on evidence using both U.S. and Chinese women with previously diagnosed breast cancer, researchers found that increasing soy food consumption was associated with a statistically reduced recurrence risk of breast cancer. This is great [...]
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If you’re not jaded enough by the extensive animal abuse in America, then perhaps it’s time to learn about our worldwide epidemic of animal exploitation. A recent article in the Taipei Times details how the animal welfare advocacy group EAST (Environment and Animal Society of Taiwan) discovered and videotaped evidence of animal cruelty in two [...]
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As someone who chooses to follow a vegan diet, one of the most common questions meat-eaters ask me is “Are you sure you’re getting enough protein?” But a study recently published in the British Medical Journal has made me wonder if I shouldn’t reply, “Are you sure you’re not getting too much protein?” The study [...]
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