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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.

 


Selling Out Health for Votes – 24 August 2007
By Mary T. Hoffman

Yesterday I wrote about the way the government undermines children’s health by buying surplus animal products from the powerful animal agriculture industry for use in school lunch programs:
http://www.all-creatures.org/heart/blog.html 

The following article underscores the fact that government subsidies of animal products are detrimental to the public’s health:

A 25 percent decline in heart disease in Poland in the early 1990s coincided with the country’s switch to a market economy that ended government subsidies to meat. A switch primarily to vegetable fats and the increased importation of fruit were also seen as factors in the decline, according to a report made by a team of multinational researchers. The authors of the report noted that the decline was “apparently without precedent in peacetime.” (From 101 Reasons Why I’m a Vegetarian, Sixth Edition, by Pamela Rice)

As long as the government gives priority to lobbyists of animal exploiting industries over the health of their citizens, what do you expect!

Also visit:
http://www.vivavegie.org/
http://www.all-creatures.org/health.html

Go on to: Dr. Will and Madeleine Tuttle – 25 August 2007
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