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"Joyful Curmudgeon" An oxymoron?
No! I see all the beauty of God's creation and I'm joyful.  At the same time, I see all the suffering and corruption going on in the world, and feel called to help expose and end it so that we may have true peace and compassion.

 


Disease Origins – 3 October 2008
By Mary T. Hoffman

According to a study by researchers in England, livestock is the primary transmission route for the leading cause of gastroenteritis in the developed world, which is thought to infect 2 to 3 million people per year in the U.S. alone. For more information, visit: http://www.all-creatures.org/health/foodborne.html 

“Handling livestock these days is risky business, not the least because humans are increasingly contracting diseases from the animals: Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease [CJD], Nipah virus, bird flu, and SARS are a few examples. “Exotic,” and often endangered, animal cuisine provides the conduit for a global pandemic. In China, wet markets display caged and invariably sickly creatures, such as cobras, civet cats, and anteaters, for consumers who want that “taste of the wild.” In Africa, the bush-meat trade is blamed for the spread of Ebola and AIDS.”
– From “101 Reasons Why I’m a Vegetarian” by Pamela Rice
www.vivavegie.org/itoc 

One of the best health-related lectures Frank and I have ever heard was given by the brilliant, internationally recognized expert Michael Greger, M.D. who spoke on the history of pandemic viral infections. In a nutshell, the origin of these diseases is animal agriculture and the eating of animals. This was the subject of my Blog: Michael Greger, M.D. – 12 March 2007
http://www.all-creatures.org/heart/blog-20070312.html 

To learn more about livestock production, visit:
ttp://www.all-creatures.org/anex/index.html 

For great-tasting recipes, photos, and information, visit:
http://www.all-creatures.org/recipes.html 

Go on to: SHE DWELT AMONG THE UNTRODDEN WAYS – 4 October 2008
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