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More on Milk - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • the links between milk (or dairy) and such a broad range of ailments has not been well studied, at least by the medical establishment.
  • Yet if you speak with people who’ve had these kinds of reactive problems, it would appear that the medical establishment is among the last places you’d want to turn for advice.
  • the job of an agriculture department should not be to sell whatever crops our farmers can grow most efficiently, it should be to encourage the growth of crops that will benefit the greatest number of Americans. Those crops are not corn and soy, grown largely to create hyper-processed food or animal feed (and in turn animal products), but an increasing variety of plants that can be directly eaten by humans.
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  • for many doctors drugs are the answer to almost every condition, a situation that suits Big Pharma just fine.
  • pepa garcía on 28 Jul 12
     
    More on Milk By MARK BITTMAN Mark Bittman on food and all things related. TAGS: DAIRY, DIETS, MILK Not surprisingly, experiences like mine with dairy, outlined in my column of two weeks ago, are more common than unusual, at least according to the roughly 1,300 comments and e-mails we received since then. In them, people outlined their experiences with dairy and health problems as varied as heartburn, migraines, irritable bowel syndrome, colitis, eczema, acne, hives, asthma ("When I gave up dairy, my asthma went away completely"), gall bladder issues, body aches, ear infections, colic, "seasonal allergies," rhinitis, chronic sinus infections and more. (One writer mentioned an absence of canker sores after cutting dairy; I realized I hadn't had a canker sore - which I've gotten an average of once a month my whole life - in four months. Something else to think about.) Although lactose intolerance and its generalized digestive tract problems are well documented, and milk allergies are thought to affect perhaps 1 percent of the American population, the links between milk (or dairy) and such a broad range of ailments has not been well studied, at least by the medical establishment. RELATED Mark Bittman: Got Milk? You Don't Need It Yet if you speak with people who've had these kinds of reactive problems, it would appear that the medical establishment is among the last places you'd want to turn for advice. Nearly everyone who complained of heartburn, for example, later resolved by eliminating dairy, had a story of a doctor (usually a gastroenterologist) prescribing a proton pump inhibitor, or P.P.I., a drug (among the most prescribed in the United States) that blocks the production of acid in the stomach. But - like statins - P.P.I.s don't address underlying problems, nor are they "cures." They address only the symptom, not its cause, and they are only effective while the user takes them. Thus in the last few days I'
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YouTube - ANIMALPARAISO BINGO 20 DE JUNIO 2009 - PROMOCION - 0 views

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    Bingo-Once el 20 de junio a las 4:30. 4.500 pesos.
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Encuentro Animalista San Pedro de la Paz: Programa Alcaldicio Lista Ciudadana Municipal... - 0 views

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    Encuentro Animalista San Pedro de la Paz: Programa Alcaldicio Lista Ciudadana Municipales 2012 de Felix Gonzalez, el Martes, 12 de junio de 2012 a la(s) 10:41 · En el marco de nuestra campaña ecologista por la comuna de San Pedro de la Paz, convocamos a todos los amantes de los animales que quieran hacer algo concreto por su bienestar, a participar del enriquecimiento de nuestro programa alcaldicio en materia de protección animal, educación, adopción, esterilización, salud animal y responsabilidad.   Somos animalistas y así es como hemos conocido a la mayoría de ustedes. Hoy día podemos decirles que tenemos la mejor opción de ganar esta elección y poder concretar un modelo de gestión municipal en el que el respeto y bienestar animal puedan ser un ejemplo en el país.   Tenemos una propuesta que daremos a conocer ese día y queremos compartirla para enriquecerla con la experiencia y aspiraciones que cada uno y una de ustedes tiene.   Como todos los animalistas, hemos trabajado muchas veces sin recursos y sólo con la fuerza de nuestra voluntad, sin ayuda estatal ni municipal. Ahora es la oportunidad de revertir eso y de poder ofrecer a la gran familia animalista de la provincia una plataforma de recursos técnicos y económicos, hogares temporales y asistencia financiada desde el municipio, como siempre debió ser.     Pueden participar animalistas de otras comunas y que quieran apoyar a las candidaduras ecologistas de San Pedro de la Paz.   Los esperamos con una rica once. Antes del evento del 23, que es alas 4 de la tarde, habrá una reunión preparativa, el lunes 18 a las 7 de la tarde en el mismo lugar. Los y las animalistas que quieran sumarse a la organización, son bienvenid@s.  
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Enviropig - Commercialization & Regulatory | University of Guelph - 0 views

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    The Enviropig™ is a genetically enhanced line of Yorkshire pigs with the capability of digesting plant phosphorus more efficiently than conventional Yorkshire pigs. These pigs produce the enzyme phytase in the salivary glands that is secreted in the saliva. When cereal grains are consumed, the phytase mixes with the feed as the pig chews. Once the food is swallowed, the phytase enzyme is active in the acidic environment of the stomach, degrading indigestible phytate in the feed that accounts for 50 to 75% of the grain phosphorus.
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No Kill en el mundo - An Interview with AR Zone : Nathan J Winograd - 0 views

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  • I don’t begin to pretend that I know the culture of South Korea. But I also cannot deny that the world is a lot smaller than it once was because of technology and human mobility. I also cannot deny shared human experience. We are people, and despite the ugly things that people are capable of, we are also capable of great compassion. I agree with abolitionist Theodore Parker that the arc of history may be long but it bends toward greater compassion. So, my initial caveat aside, I do not see why a model that works in the U.S. and works in Canada and works in Australia and works in New Zealand cannot work elsewhere.
  • It is also hard for me to see how the absence of “large, well-funded animal charities” in South Korea would be a bar to No Kill success. In the U.S. No Kill began and continues as a completely grassroots effort. In fact, in the U.S., the “large, well-funded animal charities” have been a roadblock to success. Without exception, the large national organizations like the Humane Society of the United States, the American Humane Association, the ASPCA, and PETA have been hostile to No Kill, championing killing and fighting reform efforts. Today, the biggest barrier to more widespread No Kill success in the U.S. is not “pet overpopulation.” It is not an absence of spay/neuter. It is not the “irresponsible public.” It is not a lack of funding. The single biggest barrier to No Kill is the fact that 3,500 shelter directors are mired in killing and they are legitimized, protected, and promoted by the large national organizations.
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Inside the mind of the octopus | Orion Magazine - 0 views

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  • have developed intelligence, emotions, and individual personalities. Their findings are challenging our understanding of consciousness itself.
  • more than 95 percent of all animals are invertebrates,
  • Athena’s suckers felt like an alien’s kiss
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  • an octopus can taste with all of its skin
  • but first they go senile, acting like a person with dementia
  • Octopuses die after mating and laying eggs
  • “You’d chase them under the tank, back and forth, like you were chasing a cat,”
  • Octopuses in captivity actually escape their watery enclosures with alarming frequency.
  • Some, she said, “would lift their arms out of the water like dogs jump up to greet you.”
  • How do you prove the intelligence of someone so different?”
  • Small brain size was the evidence once used to argue that birds were stupid—before some birds were proven intelligent enough to compose music, invent dance steps, ask questions, and do math.
  • BIOLOGISTS HAVE LONG NOTED the similarities between the eyes of an octopus and the eyes of a human.
  • Three-fifths of an octopus’s neurons are not in the brain; they’re in its arms.
  • “It is as if each arm has a mind of its own,”
  • researchers who cut off an octopus’s arm (which the octopus can regrow) discovered that not only does the arm crawl away on its own, but if the arm meets a food item, it seizes it—and tries to pass it to where the mouth would be if the arm were still connected to its body. 
  • the skin of the cuttlefish Sepia officinalis, a color-changing cousin of octopuses, contains gene sequences usually expressed only in the light-sensing retina of the eye
  • In other words, cephalopods—octopuses, cuttlefish, and squid—may be able to see with their skin.
  • “Home,” Mather found, is where octopuses spend most of their time. A home, or den, which an octopus may occupy only a few days before switching to a new one, is a place where the shell-less octopus can safely hide: a hole in a rock, a discarded shell, or a cubbyhole in a sunken ship. One species, the Pacific red octopus, particularly likes to den in stubby, brown, glass beer bottles.
  • octopuses who dismantle Lego sets and open screw-top jars.
  • This octopus wasn’t the only one to use the bottle as a toy.
  • not only can these animals play with toys, but they may need to play with toys.
  • Octopuses have the largest brains of any invertebrate
  • “Octopuses,” writes philosopher Godfrey-Smith, “are a separate experiment in the evolution of the mind.”
  • the natural lifespan of a giant Pacific octopus is only three years
  • Except to mate, most octopuses have little to do with others of their kind.
  • we have to change the way we think of the nature of the mind itself to take into account minds with less of a centralized self.”
  • “I think consciousness comes in different flavors,” agrees Mather. “Some may have consciousness in a way we may not be able to imagine.”
  • This time I offered her only one arm. I had injured a knee and, feeling wobbly, used my right hand to steady me while I stood on the stool to lean over the tank. Athena in turn gripped me with only one of her arms, and very few of her suckers. Her hold on me was remarkably gentle.
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Harold Brown ~ ARZone Chat Transcript of 16/17 October 2010 - Animal Rights Zone - 0 views

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  • In my opinion there isn't a heck of a lot of difference between these "animal protection" organizations and the industry and its proxies. Another way to think of this situation is what we have seen in the environmental movement since the 1980's. What I have observed is that once any organization grows to a certain critical mass things change. There is always a disconnect from the grassroots and survival of the corporate entity is job one. It was a back room trade off. An "I'll scratch your back, you scratch mine." The industry is changing of its own volition due to recent developments in animal husbandry and the re-engineering of the animals them selves. As far as I know these "animal protection" organizations have never put into print, spoke of or promoted animal rights. It is the media that has conflated these animal husbandry reform organizations with animal rights and many well meaning activists become confused and support them thinking that they are convertly animal rights organizations.
  • You talk about cattle and dairy culture being validated by TV advertisements; about a dominating culture of indoctrination; and how frightening social change can seem.
  • Where the animal movement has gone wrong for over 30 years is the story they shared. It is a message of suffering, cruelty and harm.
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  • what Will Tuttle calls radical inclusion. 
  • rom the other side of the fence and I knew that
  • Guilt and shame never changed anyone’s heart or mind.
  • They now have a new sow that gives birth to about 20 piglets and that her body size is such that the old crates are too small, that they literally won't fit into the old crates.
  • There is NO humane solution to dairy other than just making it stop
  • that most calves are sent to auction 24-72 hours after birth.
  • the coming convergence of global warming, peak oil, population growth, ecological disaster and other factors will force a remedy upon us. 
  • I am the eternal optimist and believe that people are capable of great things if given the opportunity. I have seen it time and again. It is about creating a safe place and a community where people can come and deconstruct their indoctrination.
  • I think it is important that although you may want to give up cheese it isn't all your fault that you can't, despite your will power.  there is a component in the protein of milk called casomorphine.  Yup, morphine.  You are addicted as are so many vegetarians that want to eat a plant based diet.  It is a tough addiction to break but to be informed  goes a long way.  One we understand that there isn't anything in any animal product that we need then it is recognized that it is only a want. Wants are easy to leave behind.
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Crittervision: What a dog's nose knows - 22 August 2011 - New Scientist - 0 views

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  • "The smells have different layers, which probably give dogs a much bigger range of types of information."
  • But the dog's eyes are just a back-up.
  • The dog could imagine the future by picking up the scent of the dogs, humans or other objects coming towards them on the breeze.
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  • they inhale air from two distinct regions of space, allowing the dog to decipher the direction of a scent.
  • The sniff also funnels stale air out through the sides of the nostrils, an action which pulls new air into the nose.
  • Once inside the nose the air swirls around up to 300 million olfactory receptors, compared with our measly 6 million
  • the dog olfactory cortex, which processes scent information, takes up 12.5 per cent of their total brain mass, while ours accounts for less than 1 per cent.
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