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Love Earth Gathering

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This is a national event in Australia, the first of its kind I do believe. From the Love Earth Gathering website:

Why Love Earth?

Love Earth - because love is a verb. Love is something we must do. Love requires selflessness. And only a selfless society can adopt the changes needed to abate climate change. It requires selflessness to change your diet, to give up your car and to shop frugally. And if we all act in this way we will end climate change.

… and…

What is the Love Earth gathering?

Concerned citizens are calling on your help to save our planet from the impending catastrophes of climate change. We believe that the policy makers of our time are going to great lengths to avoid the one solution that is easy and affordable and will have a dramatic and powerful effect in reducing global warming.

B12 and the Vegan diet: a challenge to (other) vegans

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I’m a vegan of one year and a vegetarian of seven. I believe that a human being can sustain himself on a vegan diet without supplements. I am fully convinced that it is the natural and intended diet for human kind, biologically, spiritually, ecologically.

When even the pro vegan nutritionists emphasise the need to supplment B12 in the diet, it seems that the above is not the case. Veganism appears to be forced: an extreme diet only possible with supplemental ingredients. How does that fit in with my surety that veganism is biologically intended?

What do you think?

Meat’s effect on the climate makes it into TIME.

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Need another reason to feel guilty about feeding your children that Happy Meal — aside from the fat, the calories and that voice in your head asking why you can’t be bothered to actually cook a well-balanced meal now and then?

Meat: Making Global Warming Worse - TIME.

Obama the Vegetarian Choice

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Obama’s progressive stance apparently translates into moves towards human health and animal wefare, in the form of less subsidy for the meat industry and greater availablity of healther food for schools.

UPDATE: In contrast, Republican Vice president candidate Sarah Palin is a hunter, displaying a shocking disrespect for life which might translate into a continuation of aggressive foregn policy, possible only on the foundation of disrespect for human life.

This from Nikki Benoit, from the Vegan.com blog: Obama’s Vegan Moment.

As I was being handed the mic, Obama read my shirt out loud - “Vegan Outreach” . . . . .YES!!! HE DID!!! AND…he pronounced it RIGHT!!!

So, though it’s mostly a blur, I first thanked him for his strong position for helping our environment, which segwayed nicely into my factory farming question.

I stated how the UN’s reporting that animal agriculture contributes more to greenhouse gas emissions than all of transportation. I mentioned that over 10 billion land animals are funneled through egregious conditions in factory farms and that it requires an obscene amount of water and resources to maintain them [70% of all our grain goes through them]. I reiterated that our health epidemic is only compounded by our environmental crises and resource depletion, and what, as the leader of the most amazing nation, would he do about this [again, this is all a blur...I believe the media picked this up, too - I hope it made more sense at the time.]

His response included an admission that our infrastructure needs fixing, and that subsidies need to be taken away from large scale animal ag, helping small family farms. He acknowledged that our health care crises needs to incorporate preventative measures, including more fresh vegetables and fruit. He also said schools need more of these items versus pre-packaged food and meat products. And of course, he pointed the finger at China and India and that their new diet [which is mimicking ours] needs to be changed.

There were a lot of claps and hoots during my question from the crowd, even a Secret Service agent gave me a wink and a thumbs up!

Received a lot of praise afterwards, and was interviewed by Rollins College and TampaBay.com, so here’s hoping they run it!


Additives to Avoid

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IMG_8571As we know vegetarian (means vegan) is the greenest, healthiest, and all the rest of it bestest choice.

But the bad news is that the suffering of animals, harming of the environment and coasening of your physical being is inherent in many food products that one would usuaully think of as veggie.

Luckily ingredients are printed on labels. Be prepared to appear a bit odd in the supermarket as you stare at label after label for minutes on end.

This little card comes courtesy of Supreme Master Ching Hai International Association. Contact a center near you and they’ll be more than happy to send one out to you.

Or, here’s an online list of non-vegetarian additives you can print out yourself (scroll down half way).

Lentils and the Family Jewels

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I’ve been wanting to write more about lentils… becuase I know that they’re just about the most convenient and powerful protien source out there. Read about Lentils on About.com for more info.

A well cooked lentil soup every couple of days will compliment whatever protein I’ve been eating and guarantee that comfortable full strength feeling I like every day.

Shoplifting Seagull

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Thanks to What Really Happened for this one:

Obviously animals have souls, thus enjoy breaking the rules too ;) I love it when he checks inside the store to see if anyone’s looking his way.

Perfect Vegan Milk for Espresso Coffee

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IMG_8550 Sure, coffee is vegan (I’m 90% sure… 10% accounting for the occasional surprise unexplainable use of an animal part). But mostly it’s drunk with cow’s milk, soy milk accounting for just a small percent of coffee being drunk.

Loving Hut (Brisbane) is going to change all that with a new milk mix: 95% "Australia’s Own malt free, whole bean, organic soy milk" and 5% organic coconut cream.

Climate Change Links from Jenny

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Cheers Jenny!

Welcome Back… a Rant… and a Movie

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Howdy. Whirled Peas is back at… Whirled Peas.

And all this time without an outlet… oh my. Much has happened - not only the relocation of WP server. Angela and I moved house as well, to live with friends who are setting up a new ‘Loving Hut‘ franchise in Brisbane, Queensland!

It’s really exciting and looks so great - we’ve already got some of the menu worked out and I can tell you the hilights are going to be the (vegan) “egg” sandwiches and vegan-organic coffee!

Now for the rant -

My Inspiration