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Volume XXIII, Number 3 August 2012 - 2012 Rochester, NY USA

VEGAN EATING = Their blood pressure went from 138/83, on A VEGETARIAN DIET THE MOST PERFECT DIET average, to 129/77. Their use of medications What is it, and Why? dropped by 84%. They experienced an That’s the equation we were given by increase in energy and a reduction in If you are not a vegetarian or a member Julieanna Hever, R.D., a dietitian and the physical complaints. of the Rochester Area director of EarthSave International, the Hever appeared on the “Dr.Oz” show to (RAVS), this column is for you. Here are environmental organization which focuses conduct a shorter vegan experiment with 3 some of the basics. on the impact of our dietary choices on the women for 5 days, with similar results: they A vegetarian, traditionally, is someone health of the planet. Hever delivered this lost 4 pounds, their LDL dropped 43 points, who eats no animal flesh: no , poultry message at the North American Vegetarian and their blood pressure normalized. or fish. A vegan is a vegetarian who goes Society’s annual Vegetarian Summerfest. But a vegan diet is not just the key to further and eats no animal products: no Hever asked us to close our eyes and our own health, as important as that is. It is eggs, dairy products, or honey. imagine a “magic elixir” that could prevent “greater and grander than self.” It connects Why do people choose to eat this way? and reverse almost all disease; that could us to all of the other species, both wild and Every vegetarian has a story to tell, but ease the health care crisis more domesticated, to other human beings, and to basically the reasons to avoid animal foods comprehensively than any political solution; the planet itself. Food is symbiotic, are these: for your health, for the animals, that could save the planet, protecting water, harmonious. and cyclical; food goes in an and for the planet. Every day there are new land and air while preventing the loss of out of the earth. We experience multiple findings that a -based diet is best for numberless species; that could save billions layers and levels of unity with the world health. The standard American diet (SAD), of animals a year while eliminating world around us every time we eat. And by which revolves around meat and animal hunger; that could generate peace, choosing a vegan diet, we make our products, results in poor health for people, community, and benevolence. This magic relationship with the world a healing rather suffering for animals, waste of resources, elixir, Hever said, is moreover free of cost than a destructive one.  and available to everyone. SAVE AN ANIMAL A DAY and devastation for the environment. But Hever asked us to open our eyes. The A vegetarian saves at least 406 animals changing your diet can be hard and people elixir is a whole food, plant-based--that is, a year, including 28 chickens, 2 other land who want to change often need help. vegan--diet and could be found in the dining animals, 151 shellfish and 225 fish, If you want to move in this direction, hall where our delicious meals were being according to Counting Animals, an animal RAVS can help you. We are here to provide served. advocacy blog. The figure includes fish that information and support. You do not need to Actually, we are bending the truth a bit. are ground up to feed farmed fish, but not be a vegetarian to give us a call, to attend Hever did not ask us to close our eyes. by-catch from fishing operations, which our meetings, or to join our group. You do Instead she showed us mesmerizing would increase the estimate even further. not need to be a member to attend our images--of animals in factory farms, of Figures given for this statistic are usually meetings; guests are always welcome, and starving children, of landscapes, some much lower (50 to 100); but the authors say you don’t need to reserve beforehand. You pristine and some polluted. But we can’t that their methodology is conservative, and only need to follow our “vegan rule” for the share those images, and we wanted to give that up till now “vegetarians have been dinner meetings (see box on p. 2 for a full you an idea of how dramatic her undercounting the number of animals they explanation), and there is a $3 guest fee for presentation was, how powerful its impact. actually save and short-selling their impact non-members. If you want to participate, Hever reaffirmed that we physically are on animal lives.” www.countinganimals.com give us a call at (585) 234-8750, or come to what we eat, from the cellular to the a meeting. You will find us helpful and immunological to the holistic level. Even HAIKU welcoming.  bones, which seem static, are in a constant state of growth and flux. The brain, heart a hawk perched and kidneys don’t seem to regenerate but on a dead gray branch constantly renew themselves on a cellular . . . late summer grass IN THIS ISSUE level. And, Hever said, there is a “mountain of data” that a vegan diet is optimal and late summer chill-- helps us to thrive throughout our lifespan. the wasp’s shadow moves RAVS Update p. 3 Hever reported that in spring of 2012, on a leaf Summerfest News p. 4 EarthSave put 21 food bank clients through Summerfest Recipes p. 5 a 28-day program of vegan eating, which all sunflower stalks the participants completed. They lost an along the Indian garden In the News p. 6 average of 17 pounds; their cholesterol bright autumn sun Calendar p. 8 dropped, on average, by 18%, and their LDL (or “bad”) cholesterol dropped by 22%. by Bruce Ross Page 2

Rochester Area Vegetarian Society RAVS RULES FOR SHARE-A-DISH MEALS

Coordinators: All dishes must be completely vegan. They may not contain any meat, poultry, fish Ted D. Barnett, M.D. eggs, dairy products or honey. This rule guarantees that everyone can eat everything Carol H. Barnett, Ph.D., J.D. (allergies and preferences aside). Board of Directors: Please watch out for gelatin (a meat by-product) and hidden milk products, such as Shelley Adams Ken McBride whey in cookies, crackers, bread and and casein or caseinate in “non-dairy” Carol H. Barnett Walt McBurney soy cheese, coffee creamer and whipped topping. Also be alert for eggs in baked goods, Ted D. Barnett Daryl Odhner mayonnaise and salad dressings, and honey in breads, pastries and preserves. Bud Burdick Ted Potter Please prepare a card with your name, the name of the dish, and a list of all Ellie Cherin Barbara Savedoff ingredients. If possible, write the recipe on the back of the card and indicate where the Nancy Hallowell Bob Zimmermann recipe came from or if it was original. Prepare enough to serve a crowd. Please bring your Leena Isac own table setting as well as a serving utensil. If you don’t feel like cooking, you may RAVS Staff: bring , cider, tortilla chips and salsa, green salad, fruit salad, etc. Non-members must Treasurer: Ken McBride pay a $3 guest fee, which is applied to your membership if you join that day. Website: Ted Potter Bob Zimmermann IF YOU ARE NEW TO RAVS These are both excellent groups, and Library: Leena Isac both have mail-order bookshops which are You don’t need to be a vegetarian, included in the publication they will send Vegetarian Advocate Staff: or a member of RAVS, to attend one of you when you join. Editors: Carol and Ted Barnett our events. And you don’t need to reserve Another not-so-tangible benefit of Contributors: or notify us beforehand (with the your membership is that you help others, Poetry Bruce Ross, Ph.D. exception of restaurant events). We do ask namely, the people we reach through our Logo Design Bern Berg that you follow the “vegan rule” at our community education efforts, which are dinner meetings. The box above, and the funded by your dues. Pamphlets we calendar and directions on the back page distribute at an outreach table at a health The Rochester Area Vegetarian Society of the newsletter, tell you what you need (RAVS) was founded in 1989 by Rhoda and Stan or environmental fair cost money. That's to know in order to attend. Call 234-8750 why your membership and renewal are Sapon, two dedicated activists who worked hard to if you have further questions. embody their vision of a compassionate, non-violent important even if we never see you at a world in a local community promoting vegan values: MEMBERSHIP BENEFITS meeting — though of course, we hope that the idea that animals have a right to their own lives we do.  and do not exist to provide food or to be exploited by Membership in RAVS entitles you to us in any way. receive the Vegetarian Advocate (4 times a year) and any other mailings, usually BOOK ORDERS FROM RAVS RAVS is a non-profit, tax-exempt, non-sectarian, A number of vegetarian books and all-volunteer educational organization dedicated to notices of upcoming events. It also entitles cookbooks are available from RAVS at promoting the joy, compassion and life enhancing you to free admission to monthly events possibilities of a vegetarian lifestyle. We are an 10% off list price. Books can be (except restaurant meals); others pay a $3 purchased at every RAVS meeting. educational resource for those interested in any aspect guest fee. of . We provide support to our members Anyone interested in buying or through social events that include monthly gatherings An important benefit of membership ordering books between meetings may is half-priced membership in two national with a shared meal and programs on topics important call Leena Isac, RAVS librarian, at to our members. Membership in RAVS is open to vegetarian organizations. Membership 249-0171. vegetarians and non-vegetarians alike, as long as they costs given below are before the discount support the goals of the organization. is taken. Let them know that you are a IF YOU ARE NOT A MEMBER DUES: Individual Membership, $20 per year; member of RAVS, which is an affiliate. Joint Membership, $35 per year; Student/Fixed OF RAVS and would like to receive Income Membership, $10. Membership includes subsequent issues of the newsletter by North American Vegetarian Society receipt of the Vegetarian Advocate and free email (pdf file), send your email address attendance at our monthly dinner meetings. A P.O. Box 72, Dolgeville, NY 13329 to [email protected] and put membership application can be found at the back of Tel: (518) 568-7970 this issue. “RAVS Newsletter by Email” in the Fax: (518) 568-7979 subject line. Contacting RAVS: E-mail: [email protected] PLEASE DON’T TOSS THIS • P.O. Box 20185, Rochester, NY 14602 Website: www.navs-online.org NEWSLETTER; pass it on to someone Individual membership (annual): $22 • E-mail: [email protected] else who might be interested in the • Website: www.rochesterveg.org Family membership: $28 information and recipes. Or share our • 24 hour voicemail and events calendar: Publication: Vegetarian Voice contact information (in the column to the (585) 234-8750 Vegetarian Resource Group far left) and people can reach us to request their own copy of the newsletter. P.O. Box 1463 Baltimore, MD 21203 Tel: (410) 366-VEGE WE NEED VOLUNTEERS!! Fax: (410) 366-8804 Like any volunteer group, we can always use your help. If you can assist with the E-mail: [email protected] newsletter, outreach, publicity, dinners, Website: www.vrg.org programs, guest speakers or anything else Membership (annual): $25 imaginable, please call 234-8750. Publication: Vegetarian Journal Page 3 Vegetarian Society Update VEGETARIAN SUMMERFEST It’s a pleasure to reach so many by Carol Barnett was held from June 27 to July 1 in people at these events. RAVS had an all-star late spring and Johnstown, Pa. There was a healthy Enjoy the rest of summer as we move summer, with luminaries of both national contingent of attendees from Rochester towards the cooler months, and keep and local origin! In May we welcomed a including: Carol, Elizabeth, Rebecca and spreading the word about the joy of a visit from , R.D., who gave a Ted Barnett, Mary (Handy) Cowles, vegetarian way of eating and living. primer on with a special David Daunce, Esther Doan, Yetta PLANT-BASED NUTRITION focus on the few problem nutrients that Panitch, Annie, Meena and Ted Potter, course at the Jewish Community Center, vegans should supplement, notably Norman Sacks and Charles Worl. Read 1200 Edgewood Ave., taught by Ted vitamin B12 and vitamin D; for this more about this great event on pp. 4-5. Barnett, M.D. with food samples by information go to VeganOutreach.org and RAVS OUTREACH REPORT! Carol Barnett, will be offered again on click on “Starter Guide,” which you can In the May newsletter, we omitted to six Thursdays beginning Sept. 6. Call read, download, or order for free. Thanks report on a vegan food tasting for MVP 461-2000 to register. to those who provided refreshments at this Health Care employees, given onsite on GREENTOPIA For the 2nd time, event and at Dr. Greger’s lecture in March: March 12 by VegMondays volunteers RAVS will participate in this environ- Carol Barnett, Ellie Cherin, Darren Carol Barnett, Debra Couch, Kimber mental festival, to be held Sept. 10-16. Mrak, Yetta Panitch. Gorall, Rosemarie Stepanik and Martha RAVS’s information table will be staffed At our regular May meeting we Sullivan. on Sat. Sept. 15 and Sun. Sept. 16. welcomed of F a r m Also a correction: two outreach WALK FOR Sanctuary, whose heart-rending stories of events scheduled to occur just after the THE ANIMALS in the Rochester area rescued farm animals converged with his May newsletter went to press never took will be on Saturday Sept. 22 starting at hopeful prediction that, with the mounting place due to a freak snowstorm on April the Riverbend Shelter in Genesee Valley evidence that going vegan is optimal for 23: the spring Health Fair on Brockport Park. Registration at 10 AM; the 1.5 mile health, we can expect wider acceptance of main campus and Victor Earth Day Fair. walk begins at 11 AM. Register at a vegan diet. In June, our program was a But a cornucopia of outreach events walkforarmanimals.org. You can also visit panel of experienced vegan cooks giving did take place in May, June and July. the Rochester Walk for Farm Animals tips and recipes: thanks to RAVS members Thanks to those who staffed these events! Facebook page. David Cherelin, Katherine DaCosta, is on Beth Garver, Tina Kolberg, Ken -American Heart Assn. Heart Walk October 1, and the entire month of McBride, Gail Weiser, and Charles (Honey Bloch, Nancy Hallowell, October is Vegetarian Awareness Month. Worl. Contact us for a pdf file of the Tina Kolberg,Walt McBurney) VEGAN KICKSTART, a program recipes and tips they presented. -Health Fair at RG&E service of Physicians Committee for Responsible Our July meeting was a picnic at the headquarters (Carol Barnett) Medicine (PCRM), provides phone and canal side home of Kimber Gorall. We all -Health Fair for Rochester Central School email reminders, tips, and recipes for a 21- had a great time. Same time next year? District (Tina Kolberg) day introduction to vegan living. The next A HEARTFELT THANKS FROM -Represented NY Coalition for Healthy Kickstart program starts on September 3; US, AND FROM THE ANIMALS On School Food at workshop given by visit 21daykickstart.org to register. There’s July 26 we, along with USDA Deputy Secretary Kathleen an app for your iPhone that allows you to Advocates of Upstate NY, were given a Merrigan (Carol Barnett) start the program any time; or you can buy concert fund raiser on our behalf by -Talk on vegan meal planning at Bay Neal Barnard, M.D.’s book 21-Day Weight Heather Zinninger and Aaron Yarmel. Knoll Seventh Day Adventist Church Loss Kickstart and start when you want. Heather and Aaron, an engaged couple, Health Fair (Carol Barnett; table L O C A L N U T R I T I O N I S T are graduates of the Eastman School of staffed by Ken and Rhea McBride) INTERVIEWS RAVS COORDINATOR Music. Heather is principal flutist with the -Energy Fair sponsored by Color Brighton Tami M. Best, in her nutrition column in Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra; Aaron Green (Tina Kolberg) the Democrat and Chronicle on 5/16/12, is a graduate student in philosophy at the -Health Fair at Ginna Nuclear Power Plant interviewed Ted D. Barnett, M.D. on a School of Economics. Thanks to (Carol Barnett) recent nutrition survey conducted by them for their generosity and their -Focus group showing of “Peaceable PCRM, which revealed that many devotion to animal rights, and to Alice Kingdom: The Journey Home” Americans are unaware of the advantages Kanack of Kanack School for the venue. (Carol and Ted Barnett) of plant foods, such as that greens are rich We look forward to a visit from Will -Health Fair, Rochester Housing Authority sources of calcium. Dr. Barnett, citing the Tuttle, Ph.D. at our August meeting (Carol Barnett) rising rate of obesity, said that “Switching (Please note: It’s the 2nd Sunday, not the -Cooking class on Vegan Pot Luck at to a whole-foods plant-based diet with 3rd). Our fall programs will include talks Pittsford Community Library minimal added oils would go a long way by animal rescuer and sanctuary founder (Wendy Gilmore) toward reversing that trend.” The article Jenny Brown, and healthy school food -Cool Rochester class for inner-city youth mentioned RAVS, as well as the plant- advocate Amie Hamlin. See p. 8 for on eating a Low Carbon Diet (Margie based nutrition course at the JCC taught details. Campaigne) by Dr. Barnett. 

We welcome the following: New Members: June Avignone, Janet Clarke-Hazlett, Cope, Chris Giordano, Roberta Merrill, Lenore McPherson, Gerry & Tim Minerd, Norman Sacks, Carrie Scrufari, Betty Stahl. Membership Renewals: Hal Bauer and Gayle Mosher, M.D., Larry Berger, Felicity & Gerald Brach, Ellie Cherin (Contributing Level), Charles DiPrima, Jere Fletcher (2-year renewal), Gloria & Steven Foster, Nancy Hallowell, Joanne & Chris Hee, Robert Klein, M.D. and Connie Klein (Contributing Level), Lucille O’Brien, Yetta Panitch & David Daunce (Contributing Level), Georgia Radtke (2-year renewal), Russ Roberts, Selma Saks, Ron Schneider (2-year renewal), Sister Lucetta Sercu, James Sutton. Thank you for your support!  Page 4 REPORT FROM VEGETARIAN the brain (and other organs); other always want to not hurt someone. So yes, I SUMMERFEST 2012 protective nutrients are B vitamins and the am hard-core compassionate.” phytochemicals found in blueberries, , Ph.D. spoke about “Vegan Speakers at the North American Vegetarian Concord grape juice, or red wine. Exercise Empowerment.” Joy’s breakthrough concept Society’s annual Vegetarian Summerfest is also good for the brain: Barnard says start is “” which she identifies as the addressed every aspect of a vegetarian way with a 10-minute daily walk and increase it reigning ideology of a meat eating culture of life. every week by 5 minutes until you are up to which is so pervasive as to be invisible, and EMPHASIS ON HEALTH 40 minutes. There’s “no question that the so powerful that it victimizes those who , M.D., in his nutrition diet that is best for the animals and the earth subscribe to it (meat eaters) and update, emphasized “uprooting the leading is good for your brain and for the rest of marginalizes and denigrates those who causes of death.” Some facts: Follow-up on you, too.” challenge it (vegans). Like all ideologies, the Nurses Health Study included a Brenda Davis, R.D. gave us ten steps for carnism is protected by defense competing risks analysis showing that 1 egg “Maximizing the Protective Capacity of a mechanisms, such as compartmentalization a day was the equivalent of 5 cigarettes; and Plant-Based Diet.” They are: (1) Do not (some animals are meant to be eaten and 2 handfuls of nuts a week had the same overeat; (2) Maximize nutrient density and others are not) and projection (vegans are benefit as 4 hours of jogging a week, as did make every calorie contribute to health called “extreme” when it is society’s 1 cup of oatmeal a day. The EPIC study (remember that greens are the most nutrient treatment of animals that is extreme). showed that incidence of cancer is lowest dense class of foods); (3) Avoid making Another defense mechanism is stereotyping among vegans, and the blood of vegans is 8 refined carbs your dietary staples (don’t go vegans as paragons of health and casting times less hospitable to cancer than that of from meat and potatoes to pasta and bagels); them as experts, so that if they fall short, omnivores. Vegans who take mild (4) Reduce glycemic load (mainly, limit e.g. get sick, or can’t answer a question, it is exercise--“strolling vegans,” according to intake of foods that cause a rapid rise in “their fault” if the questioner keeps eating Greger--have 2 times the rate of cancer cell blood sugar, such as white flour products); meat; in effect this is a strategy to transfer death compared to omnivores who exercise (5) Replace unhealthy fats such as trans fats guilt for animal suffering onto vegans, who rigorously. Meat eaters are 2-3 times more and extracted oils with whole plant foods that are most susceptible to it. Joy says the key likely to come down with Alzheimer’s contain healthy fats, such as nuts, seeds and to turning this around is recognizing that the disease than vegans. Vegans have lower risk avocado; (6) Maximize phytochemicals and ideology of carnism has taken on a life of its of diabetes, high blood pressure, and antioxidants with a “daily rainbow” of own that victimizes not just those who depression. Of the top 15 reasons Americans and ; (7) Minimize harmful oppose it but also those who practice it, die, vegan diet can prevent nearly all of chemical residues by choosing organic when contrary to their own core values of love for them, treat half of them, and reverse some possible; (8) Reduce sodium; (9) Meet animals. Joy says to resist the of them, including cancer, heart disease, and recommended intakes for all nutrients and the marginalization of (just a “food diabetes. few needed supplements [see p. 3 of this preference”) and the isolation of vegans, by Dina Aronson, R.D. d i s c u s s e d newsletter under “Jack Norris”]; (10) Make establishing community and solidarity with inflammation as the “unified key” behind whole plant foods the centerpiece of your diet! each other. She said, as did others at the those same three diseases, as well as EMPHASIS ON PERSUASION AND conference, that veganism is a social justice arthritis, autoimmune diseases, Alzheimer’s, SOCIAL CHANGE issue and indeed “the social justice and depression. A vegan diet is anti- Colleen Patrick-Goudreau talked about movement of our time.” Joy’s closing words inflammatory, especially a whole-foods diet strategies for good communication with were: “We are part of something much which reduces or eliminates refined carbs, non-vegetarians. Patrick-Goudreau (P-G) greater than our individual selves. We are and emphasizes antioxidant-rich fruits and says that our goal should be to get others to not alone. You living your truth is the vegetables as well as sources of healthy live not according to our values, but greatest threat to carnism.” omega-3 fats, such as leafy greens, walnuts, according to their own values. She says to , M.D. delivered the closing soy products, and seeds such as chia, flax, speak your truth and tell your story, and not night address called “Reasons for Hope for and hemp. A few surprises: moderate use of be attached to the outcome. P-G believes 21st Century Vegetarians.” Much of his talk coffee and tea reduces inflammation, as that people are compassionate at their core, felt very far from hope, as when he said that does moderate use of alcohol (5 to 7 drinks and we should foster and encourage them as the meat we eat and the toxic way we a week) and moderate exercise. Stress, sleep we provide information (or the example of produce it make a “river of death sloshing loss, and smoking all increase inflammation our own behavior) that causes them to see through our society.” Recent trends of and disease risk. that their actions are not consistent with alienation, polarization, and corporate Neal Barnard, M.D. spoke about protecting their own values. In fact, P-G believes that control do not bode well for the use of our brain health through diet. It turns out that the compassion and non-violence that we try political system to redress the fundamental “bad fats” (saturated animal fat, trans fat) to embody in our relationship to animals unfairness of animal oppression, are bad for the brain, as are high levels of and the natural world should be offered to environmental degradation, and the blood cholesterol, and not just by blocking the people we encounter in our vegan misguided subsidy of unhealthful products. arteries: a study of 64 patients with advocacy. Some audience members offered But we have to start where we are. Resource Alzheimer’s disease showed that the higher hard-to-answer questions to which P-G constraints over the coming years, as well as their cholesterol levels, the more amyloid modeled a response. For example, in rising interest on the part of the general plaques (formations associated with answering “Why don’t you eat honey?” P-G population, will create openings and even dementia) they had in their brains. We pointed out that the underlying assumption business opportunities for vegans; as Klaper should try to reduce cholesterol the natural of the question is that animals are “here for said to us, “You are the people who know way, with diet: the FDA has just issued a us,” so that an effective response might be: how to live on plants,” and that is valuable warning that statin use can result in “They’re not making it for me.” To the knowledge. Klaper quoted Francis Moore cognitive impairment. On the positive side, question “Are you a hard-core vegan?” P-G’s Lappe’s definition of hope as, not the vitamin E-rich foods such as spinach, response might be, “If ‘hard-core’ means likelihood that things will improve or turn mangoes, nuts, broccoli, sweet potato, and ‘consistent’ then yes”; or “For me, being out well, but “simply the choice to take avocado neutralize free radicals that damage vegan is about being compassionate. I action.”  Page 5

A TASTE OF SUMMERFEST EGGPLANT RECIPES from LaDiva TUNA(LESS) SANDWICHES Dietitian (also known as Marty Davey, (Recipe by Allison Rivers Samson, creator These recipes were distributed at R.D.) of Allison’s Gourmet vegan baked goods, information sessions and cooking demos at author of the “Veganize It!” column in Vegetarian Summerfest 2012. YUMMY EGGPLANT CUTLETS VegNews magazine) (Serves 6) These show off the meatiness of [RAVS member Norman Sacks, who MEDITERRANEAN BEAN BURGERS eggplant. Top with your favorite vegan brought the recipe home from Summerfest, (from Let Them Eat Vegan by Dreena marinara. made a hit with this tunaless salad at the Burton; wheat-free, soy-free, optionally July picnic.] gluten-free) 1 medium eggplant Kalamata olives and fresh oregano give ¾ c flour 30 oz (2 cans) garbanzo beans (chick peas), a Mediterranean twist to these burgers. They ½ c water drained are very healthy, made with kidney beans, 1 c bread crumbs ¼ c red onion, finely chopped rolled oats, and no added oil. 1 t onion powder ½ c celery, finely chopped [Editor: This recipe may seem involved, 1 t garlic powder ¼ t garlic, minced but it gives you a great delicious whole- 1 t ground sage ¼ c dill pickle, finely chopped foods (unrefined, unprocessed) burger and is Oil for cookie sheet 2 T nori seaweed flakes worth the effort!] 1 c vegan mayonnaise Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Lightly oil 1 t salt, preferably sea salt 2 14 oz cans kidney beans, drained a cookie sheet. Peel eggplant if desired and ½ t black pepper 1-2 med cloves garlic, roughly chopped cut into 1 inch slices. Using three pie pans 12 slices bread, slightly toasted 2½ T tomato paste or other shallow pans, put ½ c flour in one, 6 large, crisp lettuce leaves 1½ T red wine or balsamic vinegar ¼ c flour whisked into ½ c water in the 2nd, 12 tomato slices 1 t Dijon mustard and the bread crumbs and flavorings ¾ c green onion, sliced whisked together in the 3rd. With an In a large bowl, mash the garbanzo ¼ c fresh parsley, roughly chopped eggplant round on a fork, put the round in beans with a potato masher or the back of a 2 - 2½ T fresh oregano, chopped the 1st pan and cover both sides with flour. fork. Fold in the remaining ingredients. ½ t salt (preferably sea salt) Tap off extra flour and dredge in 2nd pan. Combine thoroughly. Assemble the Freshly ground black pepper to taste Place in 3rd pan and cover both sides with sandwiches, cut in half and serve. 1¼ c rolled oats (use certified gluten-free bread crumbs. Tap off extra bread crumbs. for that option) Put on cookie sheet. Repeat with all SWEET RAINBOW QUINOA ⅓ - ½ c Kalamata olives, roughly chopped eggplant rounds. (Dr. Kerrie Saunders and John Pierre) (optional) Bake at 350 degrees for 10 min. and ¼ red bell pepper, diced (optional) turn over. Bake another 10 min. Check for 1½ c quinoa with 2 c water doneness; it should be easily pierced with a 1 c orange juice In a food processor, combine the kidney fork. Top with marinara sauce. ½ c strawberries or raspberries beans, garlic, tomato paste, vinegar, and ¼ c each currants, blueberries, sliced green mustard. Pulse until pureed. Add the green PISTACHIO GANOUSH grapes, Mandarin oranges, and dried onions, parsley, oregano, salt and pepper to cranberries taste, and process to break up and blend. 1 medium eggplant, baked 400 degrees for ½ c pecans or hazelnuts Add the oats and pulse to begin to 30-40 min. (prick skin with fork before incorporate. Transfer the mixture to a large baking) Boil quinoa and water until the quinoa bowl (or remove the blade from the 2 T pistachio * is beginning to open up into spirals (about processor bowl) and stir in the olives and 1 clove garlic 15 min.). Add in the orange juice and turn red pepper, if using. Refrigerate the mixture Juice of 2 limes down the heat. Add in the rest of the for 30 - 45 minutes, then shape into patties Pinch salt ingredients and stir to mix. Ready to serve. with your hands. Cook on a lightly oiled skillet for 6-8 minutes per side or until Let eggplant cool after baking. Cut in CHOCOLATE FUNDAE golden brown; or cook on a lightly oiled half lengthwise and scoop out the flesh with (Chef AJ, author of Unprocessed) cookie sheet at 350 degrees for 10-12 a spoon. Put in food processor along with minutes on each side, flipping once. Makes the other ingredients and puree. Serve with 1 c natural peanut butter 6-7 patties. sticks and pita bread or crackers. 1 c date paste or roughly chopped dates The olives and red pepper can be added *To make pistachio butter, put ½ c raw cacao powder or unsweetened to just part of the burger mixture, if you pistachios in the food processor and puree cocoa powder have family members who don’t like those. until fairly smooth. You can also substitute ½ c unsweetened non-dairy milk At first the burger mixture will appear tahini or cashew butter. 1 t or more alcohol-free vanilla extract somewhat loose, but as it sits and refrigerates, it will firm up. It will be the MEDIA TRIVIA: Marty Davey and her Place all ingredients except for the milk right texture once it’s time to shape the husband are actors, as is their 13-year-old in a food processor fitted with the “S” blade patties. son Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick, who was and process until ingredients are also at Summerfest. Seamus played Damien incorporated, scraping down the sides if RAVS MEMBERS: Your expiration date is (the devil child) in the remake of “The necessary. Slowly add non-dairy milk, a on your address label. Members who Omen,” and he appears in “Moonrise little at a time, until desired consistency is receive only a pdf file of the newsletter will Kingdom,” now playing in theaters. reached. Can be eaten immediately, or receive periodic email reminders about their chilled for a firmer texture.  expiration date. Page 6 IN THE NEWS animal agriculture. In 2006, the UN’s Food they love can be satisfied by plants.” and Agriculture Organization (FAO) issued Sources: The Stanford Daily, 7/21/12; FISH OIL DOES NOT PREVENT a report entitled “Livestock’s Long Island Vegetarian, Newsletter of Veg HEART DISEASE A study of the effect of Shadow” stating that 18% of GHG are Society of Hawaii, April-June 2012. Patrick fish oil on heart disease, published in the generated by livestock, more than by all Brown is not to be confused with Ethan Archives of Internal Medicine (online forms of transportation combined (13%). Brown, creator of a plant-based chicken 4/9/12), combined data from 14 previous Yet a later report issued by the World Bank taste-alike who was profiled by Mark studies of a total of 20,485 patients. The and International Finance Corporation Bittman and written up in our previous results showed that fish oil did not prevent estimated that at least 51% of GHG were newsletter--another bright hope for the the recurrence of heart problems. PCRM’s attributable to livestock. Goodland argues future. Good Medicine, Summer 2012. that the 2006 FAO report underestimated EGG-FREE EGG The Vegg is an all- RED MEAT INCREASES RISK OF the amount of land used in livestock vegan egg yolk replacer that can be used as PREMATURE DEATH Eating red meat operations, and he points out that it was a liquid “yolk” for dipping toast(!) or in increases the risk of heart disease, cancer, authored by livestock specialists, in such recipes as French toast, custard, and premature death, according to a new violation of “international good practice” frittata, and Hollandaise sauce. It’s also study from the Harvard School of Public which would have used environmental ideal as a liquid base when breading foods Health published in the Archives of Internal assessment specialists; the later World for frying. This product was “hatched” on Medicine (online 3/12/12). For a group of Bank report was written by environmental April 1, 2006, when Rocky Shepheard, a 121,342 persons followed for up to 28 experts, including himself. The clear long-time vegan and animal activist, read years, each daily serving of meat increased implication is that the amount of GHG an article about a new vegan fried egg the risk of dying by 12%. For processed generated by livestock is substantially more available in the U.K. He was disappointed such as hot dogs, ham and bacon, than 18%, already an alarming figure. to find out it was an April Fool’s gag, and each daily serving increased the risk of Goodland also reports that on July 5 a “new decided to make it himself. For nutritional death by 20%. Good Medicine, Summer partnership” was forged between the meat facts and Vegg recipes, visit TheVegg.com. 2012. industry and FAO “to assess the Sources: Island Vegetarian, www.cok.net. DAIRY PRODUCTS DO NOT environmental performance of the meat At this time, neither Abundance nor Lori’s PROMOTE BONE HEALTH Dairy industry”; the chair, Frank Mitloehner, is a carries the product, but it can be ordered products and calcium do not prevent stress meat industry advocate who previously online. fractures, according to a study published in challenged the FAO’s 18% figure as too TWO SANDWICH CHAINS DISH the Archives of Pediatric Adolescent high and has stated that his goal is to OUT VEGAN OPTIONS Starting in May Medicine (online 3/5/12), which tracked promote intensified livestock production. 2011, Pita Pit, a national quick-service the diet and physical activity of adolescent “THE MYTH OF SUSTAINABLE chain, added an all-vegan black bean patty girls over a period of 7 years. Vitamin D MEAT” is the title of an Op-Ed piece by to all its menus. The CFO of Pita Pit intake did help to cut risk: girls getting the James E. McWilliams in the NY Times on declared the item a “huge success” and said most vitamin D had half the risk of a 4/5/12. McWilliams argues that small-scale he recognized that a growing number of fracture compared with girls getting less. animal farming, because of economic customers were looking for heart-healthy Good Medicine, Summer 2012. pressure and the current huge demand for options “and are also increasingly GOT MILK? YOU DON’T NEED IT meat, inevitably trends towards industrial concerned about issues.” That’s the title of a blog post published practices, because “the unfortunate reality Also, some Subway restaurants offer an all- online by Mark Bittman on 7/12/12 in the of commodifying animals is that vegan patty; be sure to ask your favorite NY Times. Bittman quotes Neal Barnard, confinement pays.” The closing statement location to carry it. Compassion Over M.D. on dairy as the primary source of of this essay challenges the notion of Killing, coknet. saturated animal fat, implicated in heart “humane” farming: “After all,” LAUNCHES FIRST VEGAN disease, and on the link between dairy and McWilliams says, “it’s not how we produce PRODUCT One of the best-selling frozen both type 1 diabetes and the most animal products that ultimately matters. It’s vegetarian brands, Quorn until recently dangerous form of prostate cancer. Bittman whether we produce them at all.” used eggs in all of its products. After being points out that milk-drinking countries have PLANT-BASED MEAT Stanford contacted by Compassion Over Killing, the highest rates of osteoporosis, and the biochemistry professor Patrick Brown has Quorn launched its Vegan Burgers. cok.net. studies show that lifelong exercise and created a new plant-based product that BERRY GOOD FOR THE BRAIN vitamin D are the real means of preventing imitates meat and dairy. His two start-up Eating blueberries, blackberries, bone fractures; yet the U.S. government companies in California are making foods strawberries and other berries has spends more on dairy than any other item that can’t be told apart from the real thing-- beneficial effects on the brain and may help in the school lunch program and helps to everything from bacon to cheddar--and prevent age-related memory loss and other fund the dairy industry’s propaganda. they will be ready for market some time changes, according to a recent report in the Bittman reminds us that 90% of Asian- this year. They also promise to be more Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry Americans, and 75% of African- affordable than the first test-tube burger (online Jan. 2012). Americans, Mexican-Americans and Jews generated from animal tissue, which is CITRUS CUTS STROKE RISK A are lactose intolerant. He shares his projected to cost $300,000 and is also compound in citrus fruits may reduce the personal experience of ending a lifelong expected to come out this year. In a press risk of stroke, according to research battle with heartburn on the day that he conference, Brown said: “Animal farming reported in Stroke: Journal of the American gave up dairy. As he says, Pass the water! is by far the biggest ongoing global Heart Association (online 2/23/12). FAO YIELDS TO MEAT INDUSTRY environmental catastrophe . . . in every GO, NUTS Research conducted at the PRESSURE ON CLIMATE CHANGE On conceivable way it’s inefficient and Louisiana State Univ. Agricultural Center 7/11/12, Bittman’s blog carried an article destructive.” He hopes these new products found that people who eat tree nuts have a by Robert Goodland delving into the will help people to be open to a plant-based lower risk for type 2 diabetes and heart controversy over what proportion of diet: “What you first need is a gateway to disease; about ¼ oz daily is enough to greenhouse gases (GHG) are generated by help people to realize that all the things confer the benefit. Good Medicine.  Page 7 “THE CHALLENGE OF GOING The vegan cookbooks out there aren't well-known botanist has publicly intimated VEGAN” is the title of the 4/12/12 new; they've been a growing sector of the that mushrooms may contain from 20 to 50 installment of the NY Times “Well” blog, cookbook publishing niche for twenty years. per cent. of protein material in their dry by Tara Parker-Pope. While the article There are hundreds of them available, but matter and suggests that such material testifies to the increasing popularity of the you need only one or two good ones to get a might properly be called vegetable meat vegan diet, it manages to perpetuate myths variety of recipes to begin with. (Or you and used as a substitute for animal food about its difficulty. E.g., Parker-Pope says: can just use common sense and your own [i.e.meat].” The article says that a meal “Substitutes like almond milk and imagination, once you've learned a few made entirely of mushrooms would be as can shock the taste buds, and vegan simple basics about vegan nutrition.) This bad for you as a meal made entirely of specialty and convenience foods can cost is not difficult, folks. No matter how beefsteak. Well, not quite, we would argue. two to three times what their meat and dairy complicated Ms. Parker-Pope tries to make But why eat just mushrooms when “there’s equivalents do.” The article received 1246 it. Give it a try.” Amen! so many things so neat to eat”?* [*Words comments. so we know there is from Vance Lehmkuhl’s song “Leftovers,” considerable interest in the topic. Here’s A BLAST FROM THE PAST The heard every year at Vegetarian one comment, from kfjohn in Baltimore: Journal of the American Medical Summerfest.] “[Parker-Pope says] ‘...vegan Association (JAMA) has a regular column specialty and convenience foods can cost called “JAMA 100 Years Ago.” The 7/11/12 From the Preface to The World Peace two to three times what their meat and issue reprints a July 13, 1912 article entitled Diet: “Food is our most intimate and telling dairy equivalents do.’ This is precisely the “The Place of Mushrooms in the Diet.” connection both with the natural order and kind of foolish claim that deters people After an initial warning that readers should with our living cultural heritage.” Our food from trying a vegan diet. There is nothing not venture forth to pick and eat wild choices are the key to understanding and inherently expensive about eating vegan; mushrooms without knowing what they are healing “our frustrating inability to live in those "specialty and convenience foods" are doing, the article moves on to nutritional harmony on this earth.” Hear author Will no more necessary to a vegan diet than filet advice. First it says “As a rule, mushrooms Tuttle speak on August 12 (2nd Sunday!). and lobster are to a carnivore diet. are eaten much as are most of our ordinary Healthy vegan food is one of the “green vegetables,” without any assumption From the Woodstock Farm Animal cheapest cuisines there is. If you can afford of extraordinary nutritive value.” Of course, Sanctuary website: “WFAS is driven by the beans (dry or canned), rice, and pasta; a we now know that green vegetables do have simple philosophy that kindness and respect few onions, peppers, and yams; canned extraordinary nutritive value. But as for to animals is our moral duty and that all the tomatoes, basic frozen vegetables, dry mushrooms, the article goes on to postulate creatures that share this earth are here with , and , you can feed a family that mushrooms are a valuable food: “In us and not for us.” Hear Jenny Brown, the tasty, nutritious meals that cost a fraction of some quarters . . . the opinion has gained Co-Founder and Director of Woodstock the price of the standard American diet ground that mushrooms constitute an Farm Animal Sanctuary, speak on Sept. 23 (SAD). unusually nutritious and sustaining diet. A (4th Sunday)!

APPLICATION FOR MEMBERSHIP IN THE ROCHESTER AREA VEGETARIAN SOCIETY: P.O. BOX 20185, ROCHESTER, NY, 14602-0185 (585) 234-8750, rochesterveg.org, [email protected] Membership in the Rochester Area Vegetarian Society is open to all vegetarians, as well as to those who support the goals of vegetarianism and the society. RAVS’ by-laws define vegetarianism as the practice of living without the use of flesh, fish or fowl, with the ideal of complete independence from animal products. Members are entitled to admission to monthly events, and discounts on the purchase of books and other material available from RAVS. Members receive the Vegetarian Advocate, published three or four times a year, plus periodic notification of events. Members may borrow videos for a $10 deposit and they are eligible for half-priced membership in the North American Vegetarian Society which includes a subscription to the Vegetarian Voice and in the Vegetarian Resource Group which includes a subscription to the Vegetarian Journal.

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August 12, 2012* (2nd Sunday) The World Peace Diet with Will Tuttle, Ph.D. Dr. Tuttle is a former Zen Buddhist monk, a talented pianist, and a philosopher of modern culture who talks of the need to move towards a vegan world. Book of the same title as lecture will be available for purchase and signing. Dr. Tuttle will deliver the sermon at 10 AM earlier in the day on Sunday at First Unitarian Church, 220 Winton Rd. South; and he will give a piano concert on Monday August 13 at 7 PM at the First Unitarian Church in the Williams Gallery, 1st floor. Sept. 6 through Oct. 11 (six Thursdays, 7:00-9:00 PM) A Plant-Based Diet: Eating for Health and Happiness taught by Ted D. Barnett, M.D., food samples and recipes by Carol Barnett. Jewish Community Center, 1200 Edgewood Ave. Call 461-2000 to register. September 10, 2012 (2nd Monday) 7:00 PM Fall kickoff event for Heartbeats for Life. (Not a RAVS event) Five Physicians Explain “Why I Eat a Plant-Based Diet.” Panel includes RAVS Co-Coordinator Ted D. Barnett, M.D. Rochester Academy of Medicine, 1441 East Avenue. $1 charge per person. Parking at rear of building. September 15-16, 2012 (Sat. and Sun.) Greentopia Festival at High Falls. Free and open to the public; visit greentopiafestival.com for events earlier in the week. RAVS will have a literature table and food tasting, approximately 10 AM to 6 PM both days. September 23, 2012* (4th Sunday) Fighting for Farm Animals with Jenny Brown, Co-Founder and President of Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary, and author of The Lucky Ones: My Passionate Fight for Farm Animals. Copies of book available for purchase and signing. October 21, 2012* (3rd Sunday) School Food in New York State: What We’ve Accomplished, What Remains to Be Done with Amie Hamlin, Director, New York Coalition for Healthy School Food

*Indicates a regular meeting. Unless otherwise indicated, regular meetings are held on the third Sunday of the month at the Brighton Town Park Lodge, 5:30 PM Vegan Share-a-Dish Dinner, 7:00 PM Program. Directions to Brighton Town Park Lodge: 777 Westfall Rd. between E. Henrietta Rd. (15A) and S. Clinton Rd. Look for “Brighton Town Park” sign. Lodge is on south side, on “Haudenosaunee Trail.” Please note that Westfall Rd. may be under construction and traffic may be routed one-way.

PLEASE NOTE: We always welcome new people at our meetings. You may attend just the dinner, just the program, or both; there is no need to “reserve” for either. If you attend the dinner, we ask that you pay a $3 Non-Member Fee in addition to bringing a vegan dish to pass. See box on page

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