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October 16th, 2006 at 9:19 am
I posted an article a long time back on Laboratory Grown Meat. The original idea being that scientists would take cells from animals and then grow the cells in petri dishes. Well I just came across an article today about how scientists have actually cloned the entire animal. So I guess what they really meant was that they would clone the cells in a petri dish until they began to grow into a whole other animal that they would then torture and slaughter for food. Now the FDA is being petitioned for approval of animal products from cloned animals. The cells are actually implanted into an animal, who will give birth to a baby. I am not actually sure of what the point of all this is, other than now they don’t have to go through the trouble of finding a male for the female animal to mate with. Of course, I’m sure that is so much more difficult than taking the nuclei from cells removed from an animal, and then implanting them into another animal (do you detect the sarcasm?). To read more about this check out Groups say FDA should ban sale of food from clones.
I am so bumbed. I just found out about Howard Lynam speaking in my area yesterday, today. I wish I would have known, I would definitely have known. Good news, the next speaker in the series on the link between nutrition and cancer is Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation. It isn’t until February 4, 2006, but I will be there. I didn’t even now that there was an organization called New Choices Integrative Health in San Luis Obispo. It is a nonprofit organization helping people heal through nutrition and understand the links between disease and what we eat. I am going to contact them and see if they could use some extra help. For anybody even close to this area, check them out at Shutting Down Cancer.
I leave you today with one final link to a blog written by a couple determined to make 365 different vegan recipes in 365 days, called Vegan Dinner. He is a long time vegan, she states she would go vegan, but can’t because of health concerns (not sure what health problems could prevent one from going vegan), but am excited to read about their recipes. So definitely check them out.
That totally freaks me out about the cloned animals. Blah!
Re: Howard Lymann…wonderful man. I met him once…years ago. He signed his book for me. Very nice guy. He truly is an inspiration!
A little o/t but I was watching my DVD Season One Collection of SeaQuest DSV a while back and the setting is at least 2032-ish and they banned meat! Wouldn’t that be great? But we all know that would never happen…
Steven Speilberg is one of the creators of that series and he’s a veg…cool way to incorporate it, eh!?
Comment by Harmonia • @ October 18, 2006 @ 6:20 am
Harmonia,
I totally agree with you about the cloned meat. So not cool.
It is cool that you met Howard Lymann. I am so bumbed that I missed this opportunity, but am looking forward to Eric Schlosser in February.
Steven Speilberg is definitely amazing. It is cool how many people in Hollywood are vegs. This takes away some of the stigma associated with being vegetarian/vegan. It would be awesome if the consumption of meat was banned. There is no reason for it in this day and age.
Comment by cindymm • @ October 18, 2006 @ 7:33 am
The link between Mind and Social / Environmental-Issues.
The fast-paced, consumerist lifestyle of Industrial Society is causing exponential rise in psychological problems besides destroying the environment. All issues are interlinked. Our Minds cannot be peaceful when attention-spans are down to nanoseconds, microseconds and milliseconds. Our Minds cannot be peaceful if we destroy Nature.
Industrial Society Destroys Mind and Environment.
Subject : In a fast society slow emotions become extinct.
Subject : A thinking mind cannot feel.
Subject : Scientific/ Industrial/ Financial thinking destroys the planet.
Subject : Environment can never be saved as long as cities exist.
Emotion is what we experience during gaps in our thinking.
If there are no gaps there is no emotion.
Today people are thinking all the time and are mistaking thought (words/ language) for emotion.
When society switches-over from physical work (agriculture) to mental work (scientific/ industrial/ financial/ fast visuals/ fast words ) the speed of thinking keeps on accelerating and the gaps between thinking go on decreasing.
There comes a time when there are almost no gaps.
People become incapable of experiencing/ tolerating gaps.
Emotion ends.
Man becomes machine.
A society that speeds up mentally experiences every mental slowing-down as Depression / Anxiety.
A ( travelling )society that speeds up physically experiences every physical slowing-down as Depression / Anxiety.
A society that entertains itself daily experiences every non-entertaining moment as Depression / Anxiety.
FAST VISUALS /WORDS MAKE SLOW EMOTIONS EXTINCT.
SCIENTIFIC /INDUSTRIAL /FINANCIAL THINKING DESTROYS EMOTIONAL CIRCUITS.
A FAST (LARGE) SOCIETY CANNOT FEEL PAIN / REMORSE / EMPATHY.
A FAST (LARGE) SOCIETY WILL ALWAYS BE CRUEL TO ANIMALS/ TREES/ AIR/ WATER/ LAND AND TO ITSELF.
To read the complete article please follow either of these links :
PlanetSave
EarthNewsWire
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Comment by sushil_yadav • @ November 1, 2006 @ 12:33 am