Have record breaking temperatures so far this summer of 104 degrees in New York to 123 degrees in Minnesota brought the sweat of global warming home to Americans?  It's heartbreaking to see a picture of a polar bear floating on a chunk of ice out in the ocean, as much as it is to see whole towns and cities, devastated-submerged under the overflow of river water from melted snow banks from this past winter.  Was it just freaky weather or is it here to stay?  
    Remember when Al Gore presented graphs of earth's rising temperature and photos of ice melting in the arctic and in Greenland, in the movie An Inconvenient Truth back in 2006? He urged us to do our part to fight carbon emissions, by recycling and buying a hybrid automobile.  President Obama is talking about raising the mileage standard of the automobile to 50+ miles per gallon by 2025.  But no one in the United States government has ever mentioned or pushed for initiatives that point to the fact that the food we eat can have an even more powerful impact on the environment and sustainability than what car we drive.  
    Swedish researchers show in an article published in the scientific journal, Climatic Change, 2010, that reduced meat, milk, and egg consumption would significantly lower emissions of methane and nitrous oxide (as they pushed for a climate tax on meat and milk).  Methane is 20 times more effective in trapping heat in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide.  (Google: Cows vs. Cars: Greenhouse Gases).    

    In the Special Diet Issue of the LIFELINE HEALTH LETTER published by the International Nutrition Research Foundation, San Bernardino, CA., (I recommend this issue HIGHLY for $7.50? per issue email: info@CHIPhealth.com) the "Ecological Issues" chapter warns:  Please take note: The single most environmentally destructive industry in the world is animal agriculture.  When we reduce our intake of meat, dairy and other animal foods, we help the ecology at least in nine ways.

1.  We conserve water.  It takes 4,000 gallons of water a day to produce the meat and other animal products consumed by a single meat eater in one day... But a vegan diet, requires only 300 gallons...per day.

2.  A veg. diet conserves energy we could reduce our import oil by 60%.  

3.  Eating less beef protects the rain forests.  Producing a single pound of hamburger in Costa Rica involves the destruction of 55 square feet of rain forest.

4.  A veg. diet preserves top soil.  5 billion tons of top soil is lost (each year in the U.S. due to) overgrazing by livestock and unsustainable methods of growing feed... The exposed soil is stripped from the land by wind and water... no longer efficient to absorb cloudburst, floods develop...carrying away soil, accelerating...ecological decline.

5.  Vegetarianism frees land for more food production.  56% of the U.S. ag land is used to produce beef.  One acre...of land produces 183 lbs of beef (or) 20,000 lbs of potatoes.  The amount of land to feed one meat eater (could feed) 20 vegetarians!  ...Eating the American way...around the world would be an ecological impossibility (requiring) more grain, water, energy and land than the world can supply. 

6.  A veg. diet saves the trees. ...each meat eater who switches to a vegetarian diet will save an acre of trees per year (that would've been cleared for feed crops). 

7.  A veg. diet will keep the water clean.  Pesticides, chemical fertilizers, animal excrement and agricultural salts...end up in streams, rivers and ground water... percolates through the soil...converted (into) health-threatening nitrites. ...manure is recycled and fed to ...factory farm animals.  USDA studies show that more than one-third of broiler chicken carcasses...are contaminated with illness-causing bacteria." 

8.  A veg. diet will reduce the greenhouse effect.  Each cattle belches out about a third pound of methane gas per pound of beef (add that to the carbon released from fuels burned in animal farming) every pound of steak produced (equals a) greenhouse warming effect as a 25 mile drive.  A recent survey found that 75% Americans called themselves environmentalists...only 13% were following a vegetarian diet. 

9.  A veg. diet alleviates world hunger; supports local food self-sufficiency.  As more land in developing countries is used for livestock, ...more people become landless...(in poverty and hunger)...Once resilient...lands become stressed and degrade into deserts while millions of people starve.

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August 19th-Friday
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*Sake-w/Not-Tuna Salad Sandwich
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*Italian Wine-w/Living Lasagna (signature dish)
*Raw Mead (Honey) Wine-w/Wicked Chocolate Tart
 

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@ the Licious Dishes Kitchen
·    "Burrito" Butter Lettuce Cups (pictured above)
Beanless "Refried Beans"
Grape Tomato Salsa
Cashew "Sour Kreme"
·    Butternut Squash Spanish Rice
·    Pineapple/Mango Salsa
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8 people max-hands-on class   

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