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The Life-Changing Blog Entry
Hello. Welcome to my life-changing experience blog entry. Be prepared. You may decide to kick a bad habit in the next five minutes. Are you ready? Are you up to the challenge? Then go for it. Read the first two parts and watch the YouTube video. Let me know how it works out. Read the rest of this entry »
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People often ask me why I’m a vegan. Kind of in the same way someone might ask you why you raise pet tarantulas. In the past, they were expecting to hear either than I was a health nut or an animal nut. For me, actually, it’s a personal decision. Like Bartleby the Scrivener, my reply is: “I prefer not to.”
But now, it turns out that eating vegan is the new equivalent of driving a Prius. Animal agriculture is responsible for eighteen percent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions. And the decision to unhook from one of our strongest cultural moorings and sail off into uncharted territory by turning to a plant-based diet becomes an act of wild optimism. We vegans are showing than man can evolve. By treading lightly, we can lead the way back to the Garden of Eden.
For an inspiring blog post on this subjects, see: Common Ground Magazine
Don’t Ask for Help Unless You’re on the Endangered Species List
According to Beth Daley’s article in the Boston Globe on Friday, Deciding They All Can’t Be Saved, New England-based marine mammal rescue organizations are becoming increasingly selective when determining whether to assist stranded seals. As justification for this policy shift, Ms. Daley’s article points to evidence from marine scientists that with local Harbor seal populations at over 100,000, there is no longer a compelling biological reason to assist individual seals, as the species is well out of the endangered range. Read the rest of this entry »