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| The Difference You Make! Free the Bears Many of the bears you help rescue were taken as cubs and spent years in cages. Some went to bile farms where they spent decades standing on iron bars, starved and mutilated. They never learned survival skills, some have disabilities and they’ve come to rely on humans. Thanks to kind people like you, these bears are given the best possible life after rescue. They can finally be healthy and happy, free from stress & suffering, able to exercise natural behaviours. The bears have gorgeous bear houses to escape the heat of the day and sleep at night, as well as large, natural enclosures, often filled with the type of forest they would be enjoying in the wild, allowing them to forage, climb anddig just like wild bears. We “enrich” their environment to encourage them to explore and interact with their surroundings, stimulate their highly intelligent minds and give them choices to help them feel more in control of their environment, which leads to healthier and more content bears. Enrichment can take the form of enclosure furniture such as climbing platforms, swimming pools, hammocks, caves and swings. Or challenges and activities such as scent trails, puzzle feeders, treat balls, toys, or even a mirror. Even daily scatter feeds, where carers hide the food throughout the enclosure, will help to enrich the lives of the bears. Free the Bears |
“When life gets you down – do you wanna know what you’ve gotta do? Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming.” -Dory, Finding Nemo
Having watched Seaspiracy again last night, my thoughts today are swimming, exploding with crashing waves and plastic-laden, fishing boat-infested oceans, my heart and soul weeping for whales, dolphins, octopuses, sea turtles and all the other marine animals who only want to live there.
In my post today, I focus on the spectacular sea turtle. You probably know that nearly all species of sea turtle are now classified as endangered with three of the seven existing species including Kemp’s ridley being critically endangered. WWF and other organizations are committed to stopping the decline of sea turtles and works for the recovery of the species. Sea turtles like other marine animals face significant threats around the world including bycatch in commercial and recreational fisheries, and loss and degradation of nesting and foraging habitats due to coastal development, pollution, and climate change. In some areas, killing of turtles and collection of eggs for consumption. How incredibly sad is that!
On a brighter note, we can learn lessons from the sea turtle, as Mary Davis from Everyday Spirit tells us in her joyful and hopeful blog post entitled Lessons Learned from a Sea Turtle:
Oh, just think of the determination that fills her fierce mama heart, paddling hundreds – sometimes thousands of miles – following the mysterious calls of energy, magnetism, stars and ancestry, to nest on the shore of her birth.
“Just keep swimming,” she might sing to herself on the way, borrowing a tune from her fish friend Dory.
The determined mama alternately paddles and rides the currents, flowing with grace, until she arrives home on the beach where she was born.
With an air of acceptance and perseverance, she drags her heavy body (200 to 400 lbs) from the lightness of the water to the weight of the sand on slow rhythmic flippers, crossing the beach several inches at a time until she reaches the dune line.
These are the only hours in her life that she spends out of the water.
Like us, she is having that ‘fish out of water’ feeling.
We are with you, Mama.
Such mindfulness she exhibits as she watches, listens, feels … for the right spot to dig her nest, stopping mid-beach and making a U-turn, dragging her body full of eggs back to the sea if anything is not in alignment.
If there is too much seaweed, a noise or a light out of place, the smell of a sea bird or a bobcat, despite the effort of slogging up the sand after the big swim, she is out of there.
This is not the time for compromise.
It might be the turtle version of something my daughter Maya has said to me many times over the years: “Mom, if it’s not a hell yes, it’s a hell no.”
(I’m pretty sure sea turtles think this way too.)
When Mama finds her spot, with incredible patience, she digs a deep hole at the sand, flippers diligently shoveling one scoop at a time until she is confident that it is deep enough to protect her precious young.
She goes into a quiet trance, (just like us meditating!), as she lays her eggs.
Isn’t is amazing how many beautiful things are birthed during meditation?
After laying her eggs and camouflaging the nest with flying flippers and sand, she releases the outcome of her efforts – most likely to her higher power.
She does not wait around for her young ones to hatch. She does not wonder how many of her 110 kids will be boys or girls. She does not worry about how many will actually make it to the sea.
She does not helicopter parent in any way.
No. She has faith.
She plays her vital role in preserving the species and gives it everything she’s got, then surrenders the results to the forces of nature, to the wonders of the earth, to the power of divine order.
Oh, sweet mama, thank you for showing us that birthing new things can be very hard work.
But that it is possible. Even under the most difficult circumstances.
There is hope.
It will take strength, determination, perseverance, acceptance, mindfulness, attention to our inner voice, patience, focus and surrender to something greater than we are.
And along the way we will be singing to ourselves and to each other.
Singing an alleluia of encouragement.
Singing a song of strength.
Singing a gospel of gratitude.
Singing an affirmation of self-compassion and self-love.
Singing a prayer of oneness.
Just keep swimming, we will sing to each other.
No matter how slow, difficult and isolating this whole thousand-mile journey feels, we are not alone, and the love we birth and offer to our new world matters.
The love we birth now matters.
In whatever form it takes.
The love we birth now truly matters.
In the mess and in the mystery;
In the broken-heart and in the beautiful;
In the tears and in the tenderness;
In the hardest days and in the hope;
In the grief and in the grace – we are birthing this love together.
Let’s keep swimming.
For more information about sea turtle conservation check out Sea Turtle Conservation Bonaire
Excerpted from my Everyday Spirit Newsletter from Mary Davis
Released in 2014, Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret, is still changing lives today. The film, which was directed by Kip Anderson and produced by Keegan Kuhn, examines the real impact that animal agriculture is having on the environment, from deforestation to greenhouse gas pollution to ocean dead zones. It also pulls back the curtain on industry denial, as researchers, authors, speakers, activists, and animal advocates take viewers on a deep dive into the ugly truth: the meat we consume as a society is devastating the natural world.
We watched Cowspiracy again last night and over the next month will watch and re-watch more from the “Best Vegan Documentaries” list from VegNews.
The following are available for streaming on Netflix now:
Star-studded The Game Changers—which counts James Cameron, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jackie Chan, and Lewis Hamilton among its executive producers—focuses on exposing the myth that meat is a necessary part of optimal athletic performance. While many think that packing in animal protein is a key part of sporting success, the film—which was directed by Louie Psihoyos—aims to demonstrate that the opposite is true. It spotlights world-renowned plant-based athletes like Patrik Baboumian (a record-holding strongman), Kendrick Farris (a record-holding weightlifter), and Dotsie Bausch (a US cycling champion). Keep an eye out for the documentary’s sequel, which was announced in June 2023.
Directed by Otto and Ludo Brockway and narrated by actor Kate Winslet, 2021’s Eating Our Way to Extinction is exactly what the title says it’s going to be. Accompanied by awe-inspiring cinematography, the film intends to be an eye-opening warning of what will happen to us and the planet if nothing changes with the food system soon. It features leading environmental experts, scientists, and global figures alongside powerful appearances and first-hand accounts from indigenous people.
Last year, Stanford Medicine published a ground-breaking study that examined the effects of dietary habits on 22 sets of twins. In the study, one twin followed a vegetable-rich omnivorous diet, and the other followed a vegetable-rich plant-based diet. The researchers found that in the first four weeks, those on a plant-based diet had lower levels of LDL cholesterol and insulin, and they lost weight. A new must-see documentary series guides us through the experiment process and results—which surprised even the study authors themselves—as well as the eye-opening history of the Standard American Diet.
It may have been released in the mid-aughts, but 2005’s Earthlings, narrated by Joaquin Phoenix and directed by Shaun Monson, is still relevant today. Relying on hidden camera footage, the documentary takes aim at issues like factory farming, the pet trade, and animal testing, and strives to expose how and why some of the world’s biggest industries rely fundamentally on animal cruelty.
Backed by Joaquin Phoenix, and executive produced by Kata Mara, 2022’s The Smell of Money is an exposé of environmental racism, and takes a harrowing look at the impact of factory farms on communities that surround them. Follow the legal battle between one North Carolina community and Smithfield Foods, one of the largest pork producers in the US.
In 2023, Poisoned: The Dirty Truth About Your Food, hit Netflix. The documentary takes a closer look at grocery store shelves and examines how the food industry’s systemic failures don’t just hurt animals and the planet, but they’re also putting people at risk of dangerous foodborne diseases.
Produced by Anderson and directed by Ali Tabrizi, 2021’s Seaspiracy takes a deep and sobering look at the state of the fishing industry. It not only examines environmental issues like plastic pollution (a significant percentage of which comes from things like nets and lines) but also the human cost of industrial fishing. But, of course, it also explores the solutions to these issues, one of which is, perhaps unsurprisingly, taking seafood off our plates.
Milked, released in 2021 and directed by Amy Taylor, is a feature-length documentary that follows activist Chris Huriwai as he travels throughout New Zealand. On his journey, he exposes the country’s multi-billion-dollar dairy industry and the scale of the impact it’s having on people and the planet. It’s another wake-up call from executive producer Kuhn, who stars in the film alongside environmentalists like Jane Goodall and Suzy Amis Cameron.
Directed by Chris Delforce, 2018’s feature-length film Dominion takes its lead from Earthlings in many ways. For one, it stars Phoenix, alongside other big names like Sadie Sink, Rooney Mara, and Sia. But it also mimics techniques, like the use of hidden camera footage. It expands on this by adding harrowing drone footage to the mix, which aims to expose “the underbelly” of animal agriculture.
BAFTA-winning 73 Cows differs from many of the documentaries on this list, because it is not a factory farming exposé, and it doesn’t follow an activist or environmentalist. Instead, this moving film tugs on the heartstrings by focusing on Jay Wilde, a former beef farmer, and the personal journey that led him to give up his herd of cattle and pursue a career in vegan farming.
Another hit from Kuhn and Anderson, 2017’s What the Health examines another dangerous side of meat and dairy consumption: the impact it is having on our health. With input from medical experts, like Milton Mills, MD; Garth P. Davis, MD, FACS, FASMBS; and Neal Barnard, MD, FACC, the film explores the link between diet and disease and investigates the real reason why some of the biggest health organizations in America aren’t doing more to educate the public.
Released in 2013, Blackfish remains a thorn in SeaWorld’s reputation and ticket sales. Directed by Gabriela Cowperthwaite, the film examines the ethics and dangers of keeping cetaceans in captivity by following the life of Tilikum, an orca who was captured off the coast of Iceland before spending the majority of his life in SeaWorld marine parks. Orcas have never killed human beings in the wild, but the stress of captivity likely led Tilikum to kill three people, two of whom were his trainers.
If you’re looking for a little bit of hope, check out German filmmaker Marc Pierschel’s The End of Meat. Released in 2017, the documentary features interviews with innovators and leaders in both the vegan food and animal rights spheres and takes a look at what a cruelty-free future might look like. “Instead of focusing on the negative consequences of consuming meat, I wanted to show the hugely beneficial possibilities of a post-meat world and what that might look like for humans, animals, and the planet,” Pierschel said in a statement at the time of release.
Narrated by actor Natalie Portman, a passionate vegan and animal advocate, Eating Animals is based on the best-selling book of the same name, which was written by Jonathan Safran Foer. Like the novel, the documentary—which was produced by Christopher Dillon Quinn, alongside Portman and Foer—aims to expose the horrors of factory farming. It encourages people to look beyond cognitive dissonance and see what’s really going on at the end of their fork.
Similar to documentaries like What the Health, 2011’s Forks Over Knives—directed by Lee Fulkerson—aims to educate people about the healing power of plant-based nutrition. The feature-length documentary explains why embracing a whole foods, plant-based diet may just extend your life and reduce the threat of debilitating chronic disease.
This 2011 documentary directed by Marisa Miller Wolfson is a fascinating look at three meat-eaters’ journeys as they try out a vegan diet for six weeks with the help of Wolfson herself. The film addresses issues like cognitive dissonance, animal rights, and even sees participants take a look behind the cloak of the meat industry as they uncover the harsh reality of factory farms and slaughterhouses in the US.
Directed by Louie Psihoyos, 2009’s The Cove is centered around the brutal capture and slaughter of dolphins in Taiji, Japan. The feature-length documentary, which won an Oscar for Best Documentary in 2010, stars Ric O’ Barry, a dolphin trainer turned activist who worked on 1996’s Flipper.
Excerpted from Performing Animal Welfare Society April Newsletter
| We are sad to announce the passing of African elephant Lulu at the ARK 2000 sanctuary on April 9. The most caring decision was made to perform euthanasia to prevent suffering, as Lulu had endured degenerative joint disease, a leading reason for euthanizing elephants in captivity. She passed from this life surrounded by many who loved and admired her. At age 58, Lulu was the oldest African elephant in North America. She also established the record for the longest-lived African elephant in North America. She lived most of her life at the San Francisco Zoo, and her final 19 years at PAWS. Lulu’s age was exceptional for an African elephant in captivity, where the stresses and unnatural conditions of their confinement mean that elephants tend to live much shorter lives than do elephants in the wild. Wild African elephants can live well into their 60s. However, in captive situations their lives are frequently cut short by captivity-induced ailments such as premature arthritis and foot disease. When Lulu arrived at PAWS, she was already older than the median life expectancy for female African elephants in zoos. Lulu was born in Eswatini (formerly Swaziland). She likely was captured when her mother was killed in a government cull, a traumatic event that Lulu would have witnessed. At two years old, an age at which elephant calves are rarely apart from their mothers, she was sold to be a display animal. When the San Francisco Zoo decided to no longer exhibit elephants, Lulu came to live at PAWS in 2005. Once there, she had access to wide-open spaces in her large enclosure where she socialized with other elephants and engaged in behaviors natural to an elephant. For the last several years, African elephant Toka had been her close companion. “We are humbled that the people of San Francisco entrusted Lulu to PAWS for 19 years. We did our very best for her,” stated PAWS Co-founder and President Ed Stewart. “Until her health recently took a turn for the worse, Lulu enjoyed climbing to the tops of hills to graze on fresh green grass.”Draper added: “No captive facility can truly meet the needs of elephants, and no one can repair the damage caused by a lifetime of confinement. Lulu’s life, and death, serve to remind us how elephants simply do not belong in captivity.” “Lulu had incredible determination and spirit. We will all miss this truly special and dear elephant” said Stewart. “We thank our loyal supporters for their help which has allowed us to care for Lulu and the other animals at the sanctuary”. |
Anne Innis Dagg, known to many as the woman who loves giraffes, passed away Monday, April 1 after a short illness. She was 91.
The Waterloo, Ontario woman’s passion for giraffes was highlighted in the 2018 award winning documentary The Woman Who Loves Giraffes.
Dagg received worldwide recognition as the first Western scientist to study giraffes in the wild in 1956, when she made a solo trip to South Africa when she was 23 years old.
Her book Giraffe: Biology, Behaviour and Conservation is known as the bible of giraffes and is still used by scientists to this day.
Dagg was a zoologist, biologist, animal rights activist, feminist and professor. She earned her BA with honours in biology in 1955 and her master’s degree in Genetics in 1956 at the University of Toronto.
She also earned her PhD in animal behaviour in 1967 from the University of Waterloo.
Dagg was appointed to the Order of Canada by the Governor General in 2019 and received an Honorary Doctorate in Science from the University of Waterloo, University of Toronto, McMaster University and Mount Saint Vincent University.
Read more about the curious, extraordinary life of giraffologist Anne Innis Dagg here
I was born in the wild and captured to be sent to the United States for use in a medical laboratory. I’m estimated to have been born in 1972 but my files are a bit confusing and hard to follow. Paperwork documenting my purchase in 1979 by Holloman Air Force Base from a supplier of chimpanzees in Pennsylvania describes me as an “adult.” A seven-year-old girl certainly cannot be considered an adult. It appears I was returned to Buckshire after ten months only to be returned to White Sands Research Center two years later. To further confuse matters, I was also known as Evelyn and at some point, my name changed to Cartier.
Upon arrival at Holloman Air Force Base, I immediately began weekly blood draws and monthly liver biopsies. After that my file contains very little information, only documentation of routine physicals with few details added. Although there is no mention of it in her file, I did give birth to one son, Apollo. He was taken from me after twelve hours and sent to the nursery to be raised by humans.
I was among the 266 chimpanzees rescued from the Coulston Foundation in 2002. My best friend, Yvette, and I joined Seve’s family and moved to our home at Save the Chimps in Fort Pierce, FL. As two older ladies in a group of rambunctious boys, we play together and enjoy each other’s company. I was also reunited with my son, Apollo and although we may not know we are mother and son, we do share a bond. I adore him and pay special attention to him. I greet my caregivers by shaking my head back and forth. The more strongly I feel about something or someone, the quicker I move my head. I am a strong-willed woman, and once I’ve made up my mind about someone or something, it’s difficult to get me to change. When I accept someone, I’m very devoted and will greet them with a very enthusiastic hello. I love my island and can often be found napping in my favorite spot in the warm sun. After all of the moving back and forth in my early years, I’ve finally found my home in sunny Florida with a family who loves me and a son to look after.
“Life is so endlessly delicious!” – Ruth Reichl
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I —
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
It’s snowing outside this first day of spring here in Ontario, Canada, but still I feel such joy that this beautiful season of revival has finally arrived. Spring is all about new beginnings and endless possibilities. It’s hard not to get excited about Spring.
One of My Favorite Spring Quotes by Naturalist John Muir
“How deep our sleep last night in the mountain’s heart, beneath the trees and stars, hushed by solemn-sounding waterfalls and many soothing voices in sweet accord whispering peace!
“And our first pure mountain day, warm, calm, cloudless — how immeasurable it seems, how serenely wild! I can scarcely remember its beginning. Along the river, over the hills, in the ground, in the sky, spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm, new life, new beauty, unfolding, unrolling in glorious exuberant extravagance — new birds in their nests, new winged creatures in the air, and new leaves, new flowers, spreading, shining, rejoicing everywhere.”
John Muir (1838-1914) is often called the “Father of the National Parks.” In 1890, due in large part to his efforts, an act of the US Congress created Yosemite National Park. Muir was also personally involved in the creation of Sequoia, Mount Rainier, Petrified Forest, and Grand Canyon national parks. The idea of national parks eventually spread worldwide.
“Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.” ~ Denis Waitley
In addition to myriad reasons we celebrate wildlife, on this World Wildlife Day we also reflect on the remarkable intelligence and emotional depth of animals, especially through insights from Dr. Jane Goodall’s pioneering research.
Here’s an exciting roundup of evidence of animal intelligence: Chimpanzees’ Mastery of Tools and Tactics: From Dr. Goodall’s observations in Gombe, we learned that chimpanzees craft tools from twigs to fish for termites, demonstrating not only tool use but foresight. Her studies also uncovered their coordinated hunts for colobus monkeys, showcasing complex teamwork and strategic thinking.
Emotional Richness: Dr. Goodall’s work revealed the deep grief chimps experience for lost companions, mourning the deceased with gentle touches. She also documented profound mother-infant bonds, where survival skills and social norms are passed down through generations.
Social Savvy: Through Dr. Goodall’s research, we understand the intricate social dynamics of chimpanzee communities, including complex hierarchies, alliances, and politics, reflecting a sophisticated grasp of social relationships.
Self-Medication: Chimpanzees use medicinal plants to self-medicate, evidence of their understanding of natural remedies.
Beyond Chimpanzees:
Excerpted from A Humane World Blog
In 2015, McDonald’s, one of the world’s largest and most iconic fast-food chains, agreed to switch 100% of the eggs that it purchases to only cage-free eggs in U.S. locations by 2025. This announcement followed a decades-long global movement against the extreme confinement of farm animals that the Humane Society of the United States helped spearhead, a movement that continues today. We rejoiced when the company made this commitment, as it had the potential to decrease the suffering of literally millions of hens every year. Having worked closely with McDonald’s on its animal welfare commitments, we were heartened this week by the company’s announcement that it had reached this goal early, at the end of 2023.
The impact is nothing less than astronomical, as McDonald’s purchases nearly 2 billion eggs each year from agricultural supply chains for its U.S. locations.
Read more: https://www.humanesociety.org/blog/Mcdonalds-cage-free-eggs-us
Excerpted from Humane Society of the United States
A company called “Safer Human Medicine” is proposing to build a monkey breeding warehouse in the small town of Bainbridge, Georgia. At full capacity, the proposed facility, at a significant cost to taxpayers, would be the largest in the U.S., holding up to 30,000 long-tailed macaques bred for experiments. Such a move would not make medicine safer and would only take science and progress for animals backward.
Local residents and national advocates are speaking out in opposition to the compound, and we join them in sounding alarms about this proposal. Building a facility designed to funnel animal test subjects into an industry that should be embracing non-animal methods and strategies would be a step backward for animals. Unlike non-animal methods, which are based on human biology, experiments on monkeys have been shown to be very unreliable when attempting to predict what will happen in humans, given the important biological differences between humans and monkeys.
Read more: https://www.humanesociety.org/blog/monkey-breeding-facility-bainbridge-georgia-animal-testing
“We have to prepare ourselves to live good lives of defiant joy even in the midst of chaos and suffering. This can be done. It has been done by billions of our ancestors and neighbors. Their legacy teaches us to see each intensifying episode of turbulence as a labor pain from which a new creative opportunity can be born. Life will be tough; the only question is whether we will become tougher, wiser, and more resilient.” ~ Director of Center for Action and Contemplation: Brian D. McLaren
Excerpt from A Humane World Blog
Reducing the production and consumption of animal products on a large scale not only benefits animal welfare, but it can also have profound effects on the health of our planet. As 2023 came to a close, our Humane Society International colleagues returned from the United Nations’ conference on climate change, COP28, which took place in Dubai. Importantly, 2023’s conference was the first ever to include a day dedicated to the theme of “Food, Agriculture, and Water.” Over the two-week conference, more than 600 events addressed a range of food and agriculture topics related to climate change. It was also the first COP to serve a majority plant-based catering menu. These were encouraging signs of increased recognition of the critical role food systems play in relation to climate change.
Please read more:https://www.humanesociety.org/blog/commit-meat-reduction-2024-sake-animals-people-and-planet
“You are never too old to set a new goal or to dream a new dream.” ― C.S. Lewis (Clive Staples Lewis (1898–1963), a British writer who wrote more than 30 books, was one of the intellectual giants of the twentieth century and arguably one of the most influential writers of his day.)
| “Ten times a day, something happens to me like this – some strengthening throb of amazement – some good sweet empathic ping and swell. This is the first, the wildest and the wisest thing I know: that the soul exists and is built entirely out of attentiveness.” ~ Mary Oliver |
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“Remember, you don’t have to do it all or be it all. It’s okay if you don’t accomplish everything on your list today. Slow down, breathe, and take it one day at a time. Take care of YOU and just enjoy the beauty of the season while it’s here.” ~ Heather Stillufsen
“What greater gift than the love of a cat.” ~ Charles Dickens (While Dickens was in high demand around the world for his dramatic public readings, he loved to be at home in England with his cats, one of whom was rumored to snuff out his master’s candle for a little attention.)
“Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.” – George Sand – Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin de Francueil, best known by her pen name George Sand, was a French novelist, memoirist and journalist, and early feminist.
There’s beauty in the unknown and beauty in what may be, beauty in the promises of tomorrow, and beauty in all we cannot yet see. ~ Erin Forbes
| “We cannot discover new oceans unless we have the courage to lose sight of the shore.” ~ Andre Gide |
“Instead of focusing on the ‘what ifs’ of your tomorrows… focus on the ‘right nows’ of your todays. Be present, be mindful, and enjoy where you are now in this moment today.” ~ Heather Stillufsen, Artist and Motivational Speaker
“Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.” ~ William Arthur Ward
Here are a few of my favorite recipes from a few of my favorite vegan bloggers:
Vegan Fried Chicken: https://www.noracooks.com/vegan-fried-chicken/
Southern Style Vegan Buttermilk Biscuits: https://www.noracooks.com/vegan-buttermilk-biscuits/
Vegan Caesar Salad with Sweet Potato Croutons: https://minimalistbaker.com/vegan-caesar-salad-with-bbq-sweet-potato-croutons/
Vegan Banana Cake with Cream Cheesse Frosting: https://biancazapatka.com/en/vegan-banana-cake/ .
“Serenity is not freedom from the storm but peace amid the storm.” – Anonymous
Excerpted from A Humane World HSUS Blog
A team from Humane Society International will attend the United Nations Framework on Climate Change conference in Bonn, Germany, this month, to engage with negotiators, high-level officials and key stakeholders to advocate for a transformation of the global food system that we all so desperately need.
There is hope. Shifting to plant-based eating habits can reduce the greenhouse gas emissions of our food system by 49%, reduce food’s land use by 76% and reduce freshwater use by 19%. And it’s heartening to know that everyone can do their part by committing to eat just a few more plant-based meals per week.
Today’s unsustainable global food production methods and consumption habits are responsible for about one-third of all human-caused greenhouse gas emissions, and the production of animal-based foods is responsible for 57% of these emissions, nearly double that of plant-based foods. Emissions from the livestock sector account for as great a share of global greenhouse gases as the exhaust emissions from all cars, planes, trains and boats around the world combined.
The existing food system also puts enormous pressure on agricultural land and water. Meat, dairy and aquaculture production systems use the vast majority (83%) of the world’s farmland despite providing just 18% of global calories and 37% of protein. Farmed animal production has also dominated land-use change, pushing crop production and pastures into wild habitats and contributing to an alarming rate of species extinction.
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