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April 27, 2009 |
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Lets get real about the swine flu
Not only are pigs so darn cute and smart, but they are transmitters of the now infamous swine flu virus. That is just one more thing – like their skin and flesh – best left to the pigs. But you see folks, it’s a packaged deal. If you want to eat their meat, then you get the bad stuff...
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Josie Morris in
Animal Rights, Farm Animal Advocacy, Farm Animal Rights on
April 23, 2009 |
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Rethinking fish consumption
Many times when I tell someone that I’m vegan, they say things like “good for you” or “I’m pretty much vegetarian but I eat fish.” I politely correct them and let them know that people who eat fish but not land animals are “pescetarian”. Several people...
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March 28, 2009 |
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Advantages of a vegan diet
This week I had the great fortune of attending a talk by Dr. Michael Greger. Dr. Greger, he’s a real M.D. and he currently serves at the Director of Public Health and Animal Agriculture at the Humane Society of the United States. Most importantly, the guy reads over 800 articles in medical journals...
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Josie Morris in
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February 22, 2009 |
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Earthlings: A Must Watch
Earthlings movie
If you haven’t already watched Earthlings, a documentary narrated by Joaquin Phoenix, run … don’t walk to rent it. I’ve just watched it and will write a commentary once I can digest it all. In the meantime, you can take this man’s word for it.
“This...
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Josie Morris in
Animal Rights, Companion Animal Advocacy, Companion Animal Rights, Companion Animals, Media Reviews on
February 19, 2009 |
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To Love or Hate Ingrid Newkirk
Ingrid Newkirk: animal rights activist, author, and the president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA).
I was very excited a few days ago when I noticed a documentary on HBO about Ingrid Newkirk. She is someone that grabbed my attention a few years back. Yet the more I came to know of...
On being vegan in Vancouver
Today I must first apologize for not writing in quite some time. I was fully consumed with tidying things up with our business so I could spend a week with my husband in the lovely Whistler, Vancouver, British Columbia. Alas the life of a small business owner … but I would not trade it for anything.
Now...
Flu vaccine cultivated in eggs
Did you know the flu vaccine is cultivated in eggs? Being that I’m just recovering from 2 weeks of a flu/virus kind of thing, my friend suggested getting a flu vaccine. I have had them in the past. When I worked at a hospital we were required to get them. Little did I know that the vaccine was...
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Josie Morris in
Animal Rights, Farm Animal Advocacy, Farm Animal Rights, Vegan Meanderings on
December 3, 2008 |
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Feedlot County
Late last night I returned to Arizona after spending 11 days in Nebraska aka cattle country. We left Norfolk, Nebraska yesterday in the early afternoon. We settled in for a two and a half hour drive to Omaha. I didn’t expect the drive to make me so deeply sad. I don’t even quite know how...
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Josie Morris in
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November 26, 2008 |
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Economic Downturn Is Good for Cows!
It seems that the current economic downturn may be good for cows! Today the Journal Star in Lincoln, Nebraska reported that the “economic downturn may continue to diminish the demand for beef.” Here in Nebraska, that may seem like bad news for farmers but for vegans it seems to give us a...
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November 23, 2008 |
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An afternnon with Nebraska cattle and corn
Tonight I sit in a warm Nebraska house thinking back on my interesting day. I spent the morning in a bridal shop with my sister-in-law and the afternoon in a combine picking corn. That is not typical for a city diva like me! Normally I spend my days making Web sites for physicians and hospitals so this...