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Here’s another cute one in time for Thanksgiving.

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“Vegan Cooking Made Easy!”

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Added 10/11/05:

This reminds me of non-smokers’ attitudes about the effects of second-hand smoke, on a global scale:

“Now that we see the threats of mad cow disease and avian flu emerging, we are beginning to understand one thing. Our worldwide desire to eat inexpensive meat has given rise to a form of animal agriculture that has become a public health hazard for more than those who consume the meat.”
– Dr. Greger

AVIAN FLU — read up on the topic.

As the decision-makers of the world wonder how to make enough of the right kind of flu vaccine to protect no more than a “remnant”, and consider military-enforced quarantines; and, as affected areas kill millions of affected birds in an attempt to contain the avian flu, will the time come quickly enough when people would be willing to take it upon themselves to find something healthier to eat than chickens?!

Chickens are raised in the conditions they are, to meet the public’s demand for their cheap eggs and flesh. Can we eliminate the demand for poultry before the flu mutates into a spreadable human to human epidemic, resistant to available drugs, and save the world from an event more catastrophic than any disaster since 1918? Who will be left to pay for such a disaster that is expected to kill millions of people worldwide — an estimated 1.9 million deaths in the US alone?

Economic interests, dietary preferences, or life? Which will be more important to meat-eaters, when the expected pandemic strikes?

I have not blamed God for causing the Tsunami, or Hurricanes Katrina & Rita. And I would not blame God for causing an Avian Flu pandemic. That, at least, would clearly be our species’ fault.

This is a wake-up call “to the world” to strike at the root — if not to go vegetarian, at least to stop eating eggs and poultry — as the easiest and least painful (but least thought-about) solution to eliminate demand for breeding, and help prevent the likelihood of a world-wide pandemic that our governments and health organizations have no viable way to contain or to treat.

“There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil

to one who is striking at the roots.”
– Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854

(Drawing by John Tenniel)

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“How Scared Should We Be? Scared enough to take action….” Read this article from the October 17th issue of Time Magazine

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