Archive for November, 2009
Monday, November 30th, 2009
“The Cows on Killing Day” by Les Murray
All me are standing on feed. The sky is shining.
All me have just been milked. Teats all tingling still
from that dry toothless sucking by the chilly mouths
that gasp loudly in in in, and never breathe out.
All me standing on feed, move the feed inside me.
One me smells of needing the bull, that heavy urgent me,
the […]
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Sunday, November 29th, 2009
Flesh Of Your Flesh
From The New YorkerHow is it that Americans, so solicitous of the animals they keep as pets, are so indifferent toward the ones they cook for dinner? The answer cannot lie in the beasts themselves. Pigs, after all, are quite companionable, and dogs are…
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Sunday, November 29th, 2009
Vertical Gardens
Check out this link, it is really far out, the guy has a system where he grows gardens up the vertical side of buildings. Think carbon sequestration at minimum and wouldn’t temples look great with this on their sides!
Vertical Gardens.
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Saturday, November 28th, 2009
First Snow And Financial Investing
Thanksgiving Day it snowed for the first time this year. We went to the temple for their Thanksgiving dinner — a fancy rice, beans, two different gluten preps in tomato sauce, one with cow milk curd, Dharmakula pumpkin pie with whipped cream, chocolate frosted donuts, mashed potatoes with a superb vegetarian gravy, some nectar drink […]
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Saturday, November 28th, 2009
Eating Animals Is Making Us Sick
Eating animals is making us sickBy Jonathan Safran Foer, Special to CNNcnnAuthor = “By Jonathan Safran Foer, Special to CNN”;if(location.hostname.indexOf( ‘edition’ ) > -1) {document.write(’October 28, 2009 — Updated 1108 GMT (1908 HKT)’);} else {docu…
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Thursday, November 26th, 2009
Peep Through the Door
Peep through the door
It seems as though the grass was much greener before
The dead life has been washed upon the sea shore
Money and greed deluded what is truly pure
And yet our flesh keeps screeching out for more
Now you’re trapped
A hole in the ozone about to make the world collapse
Pollution fills the air and minds with […]
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Wednesday, November 25th, 2009
Thanks Giving? Not For The Turkeys
Personally, I have no problem with hunters who go into the woods and take a turkey for their table. It is much better than eating beef. The reality however is that most Americans will get their turkeys from concentration camplike factory farms.
40 million turkeys will be served on Thanksgiving
by Daelyn Fortney
Turkey is one of the […]
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Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
Purity
http://xkcd.com/435/
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Monday, November 23rd, 2009
The Moral Instinct
From an article in the New York Times which at 8500+ words may not be for everyone but I found fascinating to read from start to finish.
“Which of the following people would you say is the most admirable: Mother Teresa, Bill Gates or Norman Borlaug? And which do you think is the least admirable? […]
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Sunday, November 22nd, 2009
On The Edge Of Common Sense: Hindu Practices Differ Little From Traditional Dairy
By Baxter Black
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The Hindu dairymen, represented by the Hare Krishna in the United States, have much in common with dairymen from California, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.The HK dairy is in West Virginia and is called New Vrindaban. They refer to themselves as a cow sanctuary. The big distinction is they never cull a […]
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Sunday, November 22nd, 2009
Eight Meaty Facts About Animal Food
From our friend Ananda’s excellent blog “Servant of The Servants”Eight Meaty Facts About Animal Food WHERE’S THE GRAIN? The 7 billion livestock animals in the United States consume five times as much grain as is consumed directly by the entire Ameri…
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Saturday, November 21st, 2009
Everybody In The Pool of Green Innovation
Everybody in the Pool of Green InnovationBy MARY TRIPSAS Published: October 31, 2009in the New York Times A POPULAR children’s song has a refrain — “the more we get together the happier we’ll be” — that may sound like a s…
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Friday, November 20th, 2009
First Fire In November
It rained and was cloudy yesterday,with seasonal temperatures. It got below 60 degrees (15 C) in the house so we lit the first fire we have had all November. It had been mostly sunny and mild so far so with a combination of passive solar gain and a wee bit of austerity we hadn’t had […]
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Thursday, November 19th, 2009
To Cut Global Warming, Swedes Study Their Plates
From The “By Degrees” series in the New York Times This is the ninth in a series of articles about stopgap measures that could limit global warming. Future articles will address industry and cars. Previous Articles in the Series » STOCKHOLM — Shopp…
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Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
Group Offers Free Thanksgiving Dinner
From the Charleston Gazette
MOUNDSVILLE — Members of the New Vrindaban Community will host a free vegetarian Thanksgiving dinner on Nov. 26.
New Vrindaban is Ohio Valley’s largest all-vegetarian community. The entire Thanksgiving dinner will be homemade; no canned cranberry sauce or store-bought desserts. Besides dinner, other events that day are also free and open to the […]