Vegan - Vegetarian Solutions For A Sustainable Environment - Environmental And Ecological

Many thanks to the Your Call Radio program for there great variety of interviews. This podcast is an interview that took place in 2008. The topic is, sadly to say, still very relevant today "Why is going Meat-Free or eating less meat off the table when environmentalists get together to talk about averting climate change?"

In this podcast, Rae Sikora interviews Dr. Melanie Joy about her new book "Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows: An Introduction to Carnism." Carnism is the word Dr. Joy uses to describe the widespread, invisible belief system, or ideology, that conditions us to eat some animals but not others. Dr. Joy argues that when eating meat isn't a necessity for survival, it's a choice, and choices always stem from beliefs. But carnism, unlike vegetarianism, has remained unnamed and therefore invisible. "Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows" explains, in plain language, the way carnism impacts our society and our minds, and helps both vegetarians and meat eaters become more informed and empowered, as consumers and citizens. More information on Dr. Joy and her work can be found at www.melaniejoy.org and at www.carnism.com.

In this podcast, Rae Sikora interviews Dr. Melanie Joy about her new book "Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows: An Introduction to Carnism." Carnism is the word Dr. Joy uses to describe the widespread, invisible belief system, or ideology, that conditions us to eat some animals but not others. Dr. Joy argues that when eating meat isn't a necessity for survival, it's a choice, and choices always stem from beliefs. But carnism, unlike vegetarianism, has remained unnamed and therefore invisible. "Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows" explains, in plain language, the way carnism impacts our society and our minds, and helps both vegetarians and meat eaters become more informed and empowered, as consumers and citizens. More information on Dr. Joy and her work can be found at www.melaniejoy.org and at www.carnism.com.

The Quirks and Quarks podcast is full of very interesting scientific material Please go to their webpage to find a complete listing of many high quality audio programs: http://www.cbc.ca/quirks/podcast.html. Also subscribe to the podcast via their RSS feed: http://www.cbc.ca/podcasting/includes/quirksaio.xml As salubrious as the sea might seem, it's in pretty bad shape. In fact, it's fair to say that the global oceans are in a state of crisis and nobody is more aware of this than the scientists studying these troubled waters.

The Quirks and Quarks podcast is full of very interesting scientific material Please go to their webpage to find a complete listing of many high quality audio programs: http://www.cbc.ca/quirks/podcast.html. Also subscribe to the podcast via their RSS feed: http://www.cbc.ca/podcasting/includes/quirksaio.xml As salubrious as the sea might seem, it's in pretty bad shape. In fact, it's fair to say that the global oceans are in a state of crisis and nobody is more aware of this than the scientists studying these troubled waters.

Many thanks to Angel Flinn for permission to read from her blog http://vegansolution.wordpress.com/2009/05/06/free-range-is-not-the-answer/ Please visit her blog for many other high quality and very informative messages on the need to move to a plant based diet. In her message "Free-Range Is Not The Answer" Angel goes into detail as to why Free-Range, Pasture Raised, or Grass Fed is not a solution to the Environmental Destruction and Animal Exploitation associated with Animal Factory Farming.

Nitrous Oxide has taken over the top spot as an Ozone depleting gas. The podcast is a reading of a series of online reports that looks at some of the details regarding sources and solutions to reducing the amount of Nitrous Oxide being released into the Environment.

I wish to thank Pamela Rice for so graciously giving the "Vegan - Vegetarian Solutions for a Sustainable Environment" (VSSE) podcast permission to read from her book, "101 Reasons Why I'm A Vegetarian." Please visit her webpage to find information about her work and how you can support it by buying her very important and well written book: http://VivaVegie.org. I'd also like to thank Dawn D'Arcangelo one of the founding members of the Albany Vegetarian Network Inc. (http://nyvegetarianexpo.org) for her great reading of "Troubled Waters: Oceans In Peril"

I wish to thank Pamela Rice for so graciously giving the "Vegan - Vegetarian Solutions for a Sustainable Environment" (VSSE) podcast permission to read from her book, "101 Reasons Why I'm A Vegetarian." Please visit her webpage to find information about her work and how you can support it by buying her very important and well written book: http://VivaVegie.org. I'd also like to thank Dawn D'Arcangelo one of the founding members of the Albany Vegetarian Network Inc. (http://nyvegetarianexpo.org) for her great reading of "Cyanide and dynamite: Reefs on the edge"

In his October 16, 2009 article "The Coolness Factor is Wearing Thin. Rainforest Beef, Factory Farms and Anthony Bourdain's War on Vegetarians" Nikolas Kozloff examines Celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain's inconsistencies in his disdain for vegetarians and vegans. Nikolas Kozloff is the author of the forthcoming No Rain in the Amazon: How South America's Climate Change Affects the Entire Planet (Palgrave-Macmillan, April 2010). Visit his blog at http://senorchichero.blogspot.com/

This podcast is the conclusion of the reading of four online articles about the destruction taking place in the Amazon Rain Forest by illegal Cattle Ranching. To read the articles in their entirety click on the links below: Copyright: greenpeace.org - How cattle ranches are chewing up the Amazon rainforest: http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/blog/forests/how-cattle-ranching-chewing-amazon-rainforest-20090129 Copyright: reuters.com - Greenpeace says global beef trade destroying Amazon http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN14290980 Copyright: reuters.com - Brazil beef industry yields to Amazon criticism http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN29452445 Copyright: csmonitor.com - Can Nike and Wal-Mart save the Amazon? http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0922/p06s07-woam.html

For this podcast I'll be reading two online articles about the destruction taking place in the Amazon Rain Forest by illegal Cattle Ranching. On November 15th I'll be reading two other articles that show a glimmer of hope for the future. If you would like to read all four articles now they can be found here: Copyright: greenpeace.org - How cattle ranches are chewing up the Amazon rainforest: http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/blog/forests/how-cattle-ranching-chewing-amazon-rainforest-20090129 Copyright: reuters.com - Greenpeace says global beef trade destroying Amazon http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN14290980 Copyright: reuters.com - Brazil beef industry yields to Amazon criticism http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN29452445 Copyright: csmonitor.com - Can Nike and Wal-Mart save the Amazon? http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0922/p06s07-woam.html

The environmental impact of eating fish is often under appreciated. Commercial fishing is one of the most environmentally destructive activities and carries grave consequences for the future of our marine eco-systems which produce most of Earth’s oxygen supply. The human race cannot survive without healthy oceans. The survival of our planet, and ourselves, is at stake. If you think that eating fish is okay, you need to hear the facts about fishing.

"Rethinking the Meat-Guzzler" by Mark Bittman was published on January 27, 2008 in "The World" section of the NY Times. The written article can be accessed here: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/27/weekinreview/27bittman.html The podcast shownotes can be found at http://h2opodcast.com/vsse.html or by emailing NoMeat@h2opodcast.com

"We are fast approaching an irreversible TIPPING POINT that could trigger the release of billions of tonnes of methane gas, catapulting us into a period of unstoppable and ABRUPT CLIMATE CHANGE. Let's not reach that point. Learn how you can protect the planet as well as your own life..." Websites for more information: 1: http://www.suprememastertv.com/sos-global-warming/methane-and-climate-change.html 2: http://bravenewclimate.com/?s=cattle 3: Walter, K. M., Zimov, S. A., Chanton, J. P., Verbyla, D., & F. S. Chapin III. 2006 Methane Bubbling from Siberian Thaw Lakes as a Positive Feedback to Climate Warming, Nature 443, 71-75. http://www.alaska.edu/uaf/cem/ine/walter/publications_docs/Walter_nature05040.pdf 4: www.ucsusa.org/about/1992-world-scientists.html 5: Methane-driven oceanic eruptions and mass extinctions. Gregory Riskin Dept of Chemical Engineering,Northwestern University, USA. Geology;Sep 2003;v.31;no.9;p. 741-744 Contact e-mail: info@vegetarian.org.nz

Many thanks to Noam Mohr for permission to read "A New Global Warming Strategy: How Environmentalists are Overlooking Vegetarianism as the Most Effective Tool Against Climate Change in Our Lifetimes" - noammohr@hotmail.com

Many thanks to the Observer online newsletter, http://www.guardian.co.uk for their excellent reporting. The about report in its entirety can be found at http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/dec/07/meat-soya-environment-paraguay

Sincere thanks to The Humane Society of the United States for their information packed article "Eating For The Environment" that can be found at http://www.hsus.org/farm/resources/pubs/gve/for_the_environment.html

Richard Schwartz, Ph.D.; Professor Emeritus, Mathematics, College of Staten Island; President of the Jewish Vegetarians of North America and Society of Ethical and Religious Vegetarianism; Author of Judaism and Vegetarianism, Judaism and Global Survival, and Mathematics and Global Survival discusses what should be An Alternative US Foreign Policy; schwartz@jewishveg.com; http://www.jewishveg.com/schwartz/

Mike Hudak, director of Public Lands Without Livestock (mikehudak.com/PLWL), draws upon passages from his book Western Turf Wars: The Politics of Public Lands Ranching (westernturfwars.com) that demonstrate how ranchers who seek more favorable management of their public lands grazing allotments use violence and social pressure to intimidate conservationists and government land managers. Contact Info: mike_hudak@yahoo.com