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Baby Boomer Vegetarians
Baby Boomer Vegetarians By Stephen F. Barnes, Ph.D. According to some sources, vegetarianism is on a modest uptick or at least holding its own, with about 6.7 percent of the U.S. adult population (20 million) reporting they no longer eat meat, and 2.3 percent (7 million) claiming they never eat meat, fish or fowl—and, by definition, are true vegetarians. Still smaller, about 1.4 percent don’t eat, wear, or use much of anything caught, hatched, milked, or slaughtered (no meat, fish/seafood, poultry, dairy products/eggs) and are known as vegans (pronounced veeguns). Women are twice as likely to avoid eating meat than men, and roughly 10 percent of Baby Boomers are probably non-meat eaters by our non-scientific best estimate. Most of these numbers (see summary box below) are from a national survey conducted in 2009 for the Vegetarian Resource Group. And while the survey sample only consisted of 2,397 adults and used an on-line query technique, the Harris Poll research methodology was considered highly reliable (Stahler, 2009). U.S. Dietary Habits of Adults 18 Years and Older 100% Total adults 6.7% Never eat meat 6.3% Never eat poultry 14.6% Never eat fish/seafood 7.6% Never eat dairy products 8.8% Never eat eggs 23.4% Never eat honey 2.3% Never eat meat, poultry, fish/seafood (vegetarian) 1.4% Never eat meat, poultry, fish/seafood, dairy products/eggs (vegan, except for possibly honey) Of course, there are lots of reasons why people do not eat certain foods. -
Reasonable Humans and Animals: an Argument for Vegetarianism
BETWEEN THE SPECIES Issue VIII August 2008 www.cla.calpoly.edu/bts/ Reasonable Humans and Animals: An Argument for Vegetarianism Nathan Nobis Philosophy Department Morehouse College, Atlanta, GA USA www.NathanNobis.com [email protected] “It is easy for us to criticize the prejudices of our grandfathers, from which our fathers freed themselves. It is more difficult to distance ourselves from our own views, so that we can dispassionately search for prejudices among the beliefs and values we hold.” - Peter Singer “It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.” - Harriet Beecher Stowe In my experience of teaching philosophy, ethics and logic courses, I have found that no topic brings out the rational and emotional best and worst in people than ethical questions about the treatment of animals. This is not surprising since, unlike questions about social policy, generally about what other people should do, moral questions about animals are personal. As philosopher Peter Singer has observed, “For most human beings, especially in modern urban and suburban communities, the most direct form of contact with non-human animals is at mealtimes: we eat Between the Species, VIII, August 2008, cla.calpoly.edu/bts/ 1 them.”1 For most of us, then, our own daily behaviors and choices are challenged when we reflect on the reasons given to think that change is needed in our treatment of, and attitudes toward, animals. That the issue is personal presents unique challenges, and great opportunities, for intellectual and moral progress. Here I present some of the reasons given for and against taking animals seriously and reflect on the role of reason in our lives. -
Vegan Mentor Program Resource Guide
Vegan Mentor Program Resource Guide Thank you for participating in Catskill Animal Sanctuary’s Vegan Mentor program! Catskill Animal Sanctuary has thoroughly researched a variety of topics and media to help you help your mentee on their vegan journey. They are organized by topic, and then by resource type within each topic. The topic key will also help you find resources about the four major topics relating to a vegan lifestyle: animals, the environment, health, and vegan living. Resources with graphic content are also indicated. If you are viewing this list electronically, you can click on a title for an active link to a trailer, video, place to buy a book, etc. We encourage you to talk with your mentee to determine where their interests lie, and what types of resources - books, internet videos, documentaries, podcasts, etc. - they prefer. You are welcome to use other resources outside of the ones listed below. However, these resources must not: ● Encourage illegal activities ● Promote violence or aggression against any species ● Contain unsubstantiated claims or ‘facts’ ● Promote any type of trolling or bullying ● Support welfarist approaches to animal rights (i.e. advocating for the improving the treatment of animals as opposed to the cessation of their exploitation for food, clothing, entertainment, research, or for any reason) Please reach out to program staff if you have questions about these or other resources to be used, or to suggest additional resources. Happy mentoring! 1 Table of Contents For the Animals (Animals and Animal -
Review of the Moral Complexities of Eating Meat
133 BETWEEN THE SPECIES Review of The Moral Complexities of Eating Meat Ben Bramble and Bob Fischer, eds. Oxford University Press 2016 217 pp., Hardcover Andy Lamey University of California at San Diego [email protected] Volume 20, Issue 1 Summer, 2017 http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/bts/ 134 Andy Lamey Vegans who do not eat roadkill are immoral. Consider that the most common rationale for veganism is avoiding unnecessary harm to animals.1 It is a well-known fact that animals are killed in the cultivation of plant foods such as wheat, corn and soybeans. Mice, rabbits and other field creatures are routinely run over by tractors or cut in two by harvesters. To buy commercial plant food therefore is to sustain the system responsible for these deaths. Road-killed animals, by contrast, are already dead, so the decision to consume them does not perpetuate a lethal process. A diet that consists entirely of plant food therefore will be responsible for a greater number of animal fatalities than a mostly-plant diet that also includes roadkill but no other meat. So goes the argument of Donald Bruckner’s cheeky paper, “Strict Vegetarianism is Immoral,” a standout chapter of The Moral Complexities of Eating Meat. Anyone who follows the animal ethics literature will be familiar with defences of meat eating premised on a rejection of animal rights. Bruckner’s ingenious argument by contrast is premised on animals having rights. This captures something of the collection in general, which offers original moves and thought-provoking conclusions with impressive frequency. Moral Complexities has three sections. -
Entrepreneurship in the Natural Food and Beauty Categories Before 2000: Global Visions and Local Expressions
Entrepreneurship in the Natural Food and Beauty Categories before 2000: Global Visions and Local Expressions Geoffrey Jones Working Paper 13-024 August 28, 2012 Copyright © 2012 by Geoffrey Jones Working papers are in draft form. This working paper is distributed for purposes of comment and discussion only. It may not be reproduced without permission of the copyright holder. Copies of working papers are available from the author. Entrepreneurship in the Natural Food and Beauty Categories before 2000: Global Visions and Local Expressions Geoffrey Jones Harvard Business School August 2012 Abstract This working paper examines the creation of the global natural food and beauty categories before 2000. This is shown to have been a lengthy process of new category creation involving the exercise of entrepreneurial imagination. Pioneering entrepreneurs faced little consumer demand for natural products, and little consumer knowledge of what they entailed. The creation of new categories involved three overlapping waves of entrepreneurship. The first involved making the ideological case for natural products. This often entailed investment in education and publishing activities. Second, entrepreneurs engaged in the creation of industry associations which could advocate, as well as give the nascent industry credibility and create standards. Finally, entrepreneurs established retail stores, supply and distribution networks, and created brands. Entrepreneurial cognition and motivation frequently lay in individual, and very local, experiences, but many of the key pioneers were also highly globalized in their world views, with strong perception of how small, local efforts related to much bigger and global pictures. A significant sub-set of the influential historical figures were articulate in expressing strong religious convictions. -
Teacher Toolbox: Eating Animals
Teacher Toolbox: Eating Animals This year's Keynote Address by Jonathan Safran Foer: http://kbvideo.kingsborough.edu/embed/165/ This year's Plenary on Eating Meat Ethically & Sustainably w/ Andrew Tarlow, Mike Fadem & Farin Kautz: http://kbvideo.kingsborough.edu/embed/166/ ~~~~ ~Teaching Materials & Readings: Whole Curricula~ Prof. Mara Gittleman: An entire set of teaching materials for use with Eating Animals and/or the KCC Urban Farm is available at this link: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/z8lgcx3ygjvjgjc/6IEm9wWo5x Mara recommends some important, recent articles, too: http://www.sfgate.com/health/article/Report-links-antibiotics-at-farms-to-human-deaths- 4819492.php http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/07/24/205124705/nyc-doctors-are-now-prescribing- fruits-and-veggies?utm_medium=Email&utm_source=share&utm_campaign= Profs Gene McQuillan, John Yi & Amy Washburn: Materials designed for classes focused on reading skills (Eng 92, Eng R) but useful in any class in which students are reading Eating Animals: http://kccwikireads.pbworks.com/w/page/70153134/Eating%20Animals%20%28click%29 ~Teaching Materials & Readings: Individual Teachers & Classes~ Prof. Eleanor Bader recently published the following article on the role of women in sustainable and organic agriculture: http://truth-out.org/news/item/20047-women-lead-the-way-in-sustainable-and-organic- agriculture Prof. Nicole Beveridge: Supplementary readings to use with Eating Animals: "America's Food Crisis and How to Fix It": http://www.nimanranch.com/Files/Times%20Article%20August%2020%2009.pdf The Humane Society's Video Library on Factory Farming: http://video.humanesociety.org/index.php?id=PLFF7DE1D5DD17F6CE And the following additional articles, which Nicole is using in her Eng 24 class: http://www.apa.org/monitor/jan04/blame.aspx http://hive.slate.com/hive/time-to-trim/stop-being-afraid-of-the-food-industry http://hive.slate.com/hive/time-to-trim/push-play-instead-of-push-ups http://articles.latimes.com/print/2004/aug/10/science/sci-guidelines10 Prof. -
Cruelty-Free Eating
Recipes and Cooking Tips, How to Stay Healthy, Resources, Q&A, and more! Guide to Cruelty-Free Eating Thank you for taking the time to consider the following ideas! This guide is for all thoughtful, compassionate people—from lifelong meat eaters who are just learning about factory farms, to vegetarians seeking new recipes and nutritional information, to vegans interested in more ways to help end cruelty to animals. 4 Eating Cruelty-Free This guide is produced and published by Vegan Outreach—a 501(c)(3) nonprofit 5 Glossary organization dedicated to reducing the suffering of farmed animals by promoting informed, ethical eating. 6 Meat and Dairy Substitutes Some of the photos are provided courtesy of Amy’s Kitchen, 7 Simple Meal Ideas Daiya Foods, East Bay Animal Advocates, Eden Foods, Enjoy Life Cooking Cruelty-Free Foods, Joe Espinosa, eSutras Organics, David Falconer, Farm 8 Sanctuary, Hoss Firooznia, Follow Your Heart, Garden Protein 11 Recipes International, GFA Brands, Hain Celestial Group, Sangeeta Kumar, Whitney Lauritsen, Lightlife Foods, Millennium Restaurant, Pangea 15 Resources Vegan Products, PETA, Turtle Island Foods, Turtle Mountain, USDA, Viva! USA, WhiteWave Foods, and WholeSoy & Co. 16 Staying Healthy on Plant-Based Diets Printed on recycled paper 22 Advocating for Animals with vegetable-based inks 26 Questions & Answers © Vegan Outreach, 2011 Guide to Cruelty-Free Eating Rev. 3/11 Choosing Compassion What we choose to eat makes a powerful statement about our ethics and our view of the world—about our very humanity. By not buying meat, eggs, and dairy products, we withdraw our support of cruelty to animals, undertake an economic boycott of factory farms, and support the production of cruelty-free foods. -
I Went Plant-Based to Avoid Needing Statins. the Results Have Been Incredible
I Went Plant-Based to Avoid Needing Statins. The Results Have Been Incredible By Mary Snyder May 18 2020 My family was self-sufficient on our small Iowa farm in the 1960s and ’70s. We raised, butchered, and packaged cattle, pigs, and chickens for our freezer and canned all our garden produce. It was hard work but very rewarding. Growing up I was never accused of being skinny, but my weight wasn’t much of a problem until I went to college and eventually started living on my own. I developed poor eating habits that followed me for years. Staying active helped keep my weight reasonably under control. I tried all the usual weight-loss programs. They would work for a while, but then the pounds would eventually return, along with a few of their friends. So I talked myself into thinking that “someday” I would get serious about being healthy. Accelerating Weight Gain Things really started to get out of control when I was in my mid-50s. My weight had been gradually creeping up until that point (from an average of 165 pounds, on my 5’8” frame). Then at age 55, an unusually stressful time led to out-of-control eating. Lunch often consisted of convenience-store pizza topped with Canadian bacon, a side of baked chips, and a 20-ounce Diet Dr. Pepper to wash it down. Sometimes I repeated that same menu for dinner, and I always snacked nonstop until bedtime. I developed plantar fasciitis and became less physically active. The number on the scale rapidly rose, topping out around 240. -
Consumer Moral Dilemma in the Choice of Animal-Friendly Meat Products
sustainability Review Consumer Moral Dilemma in the Choice of Animal-Friendly Meat Products Li Lin-Schilstra * and Arnout R. H. Fischer Marketing and Consumer Behaviour Group, Wageningen University, Hollandseweg 1, 6706 KN Wageningen, The Netherlands; arnout.fi[email protected] * Correspondence: [email protected] Received: 8 May 2020; Accepted: 11 June 2020; Published: 13 June 2020 Abstract: More and more consumers, at least in Western developed countries, are attentive to the sustainability aspects of their food, one of which concerns animal welfare. The conflict of harming an animal for the joy of eating meat causes a moral dilemma, affecting consumers’ reactions to, and choices of, animal-friendly products. This systematic review identified 86 studies from Scopus and Web of Science. The review outlines: (1) What are the personal antecedents among consumers regarding moral conflicts?; (2) In what situation do moral conflicts occur in consumer food choice?; (3) How do consumers emotionally experience the moral dilemma?; (4) How do consumers resolve moral conflicts over animal products? Researchers have studied personal factors and situational factors that arouse consumers’ moral dilemma and how the dilemma is solved, during which emotions and dissonance come into play. When synthesizing these findings into a comprehensive model, we notice that the current research is lacking on how personal factors change and interact with situations, which limits the understanding of the real-life context of consumers’ moral dilemma as well as their choices of animal-friendly products. More in-depth studies are needed to find situational factors that contribute to this complex psychological process. Keywords: consumer behavior; moral dilemma; meat; animal-friendly products; systematic review 1. -
ASSOCIATED BUYERS Distributor of Natural, Organic, Specialty & Ethnic Foods
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Dairy Alternative Beverages in the US Through 2022
Dairy Alternative Beverages in the U.S. through 2022 2018 Edition (Published December 2018. Data through 2017. Market projections through 2022.) More than 150 pages, with tables of data and text analysis. This report offers comprehensive coverage of the various For A Full components of the non-dairy, plant-based beverage market. It covers dairy alternatives made with almond, cashew, soy, Catalog of coconut, rice, hemp, flax and other ingredients, discussing trends Reports and driving segment growth and innovation. Databases, Data is provided on total market volume as well as volume by Go To segment, flavor, distribution channel and package type. It also includes wholesale dollar sales and advertising expenditure data. bmcreports.com The report offers Beverage Marketing's exclusive five-year projections for various aspects of the dairy alternative beverage market including packaging, flavors and more. INSIDE: REPORT OVERVIEW AVAILABLE FORMAT & A brief discussion of key PRICING features of this report. 2 Direct Download TABLE OF CONTENTS Word & PDF format report, Excel sheets, and Quarterly Category A detailed outline of this and sub-category updates ((for 3 quarters) delivered via select report’s contents and data access to BMC’s DrinkTell database) tables. 5 $4,995 SAMPLE TEXT AND To learn more, to place an advance order or to inquire about INFOGRAPHICS additional user licenses call: Charlene Harvey +1 212.688.7640 A few examples of this ext. 1962 [email protected] report’s text, data content layout and style. 11 HAVE Contact Charlene Harvey: 212-688-7640 x 1962 ? QUESTIONS? [email protected] Beverage Marketing Corporation 850 Third Avenue, 13th Floor, New York, NY 10022 Tel: 212-688-7640 Fax: 212-826-1255 The answers you need The Dairy Alternative Beverages in the U.S. -
California State University, Northridge Nutrition
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, NORTHRIDGE NUTRITION KNOWLEDGE OF SELECTED VEGETARIANS A. thesis s.ubmi tted, in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Home Economics by Cheryl Smith Olson January, 1982 The Thesis of Cheryl Smith Olson is approved: Lillie M. Grossman, Dr.P.H. Ann R. Stasch, Ph.D., Chairperson California State University, Northridge ii DEDICATION This project is dedicated to my parents, who encouraged me to attain my educational goals, and also to my husband, Rans, whose emotional support and under standing have helped me to complete this work. iii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I wish to express my appreciation to Dr. Ann R. Stasch for her guidance and suggestions for this study. I also want to thank Dr. Marjory L. Joseph and Dr. Lillie M. Grossman for their contributions and assistance. iv TABLE OF CONTENTS Page DEDICATION • • • iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS iv LIST OF TABLES . vii ABSTRACT . • • . viii CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION 1 Justification . 1 Objectives 2 Assumptions . 3 Limitations • 3 Definitions of Special Terms 3 II. REVIEW OF LITERATURE 5 Vegetarianism . 5 Food Faddism 8 Knowledge of Nutrition 11 III. METHODOLOGY • 15 Data Collection Device 15 Data Collection: Procedure . 15 Analysis of Data 16 IV. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION 18 v CHAPTER Page V. SUMMARY, CONCLUSIONS, AND RECOMMENDATIONS . 28 Recommendations for Further Research 30 BIBLIOGRAPHY . 31 APPENDIX . 34 vi LIST OF TABLES Table Page 1. Demographic Data on Subjects . 19 2. Selected Characteristics of Vegetarians 21 3. Vegetarian Practices . 22 4. Weight of Vegetarians 24 vii ABSTRACT NUTRITION KNOWLEDGE OF SELECTED VEGETARIANS by Cheryl Smith Olson Master of Science in Horne Economics A sample of one hundred vegetarians was selected from persons leaving three health food stores in the San Fernando Valley.