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Nutrition Information Vegan Blogs Nutritionfacts.org: http://nutritionfacts.org/ AngiePalmer: http://angiepalmer.wordpress.com/ Get Connected The Position Paper of the American Dietetic Association: Colin Donoghue: http://colindonoghue.wordpress.com/ http://www.vrg.org/nutrition/2009_ADA_position_paper.pdf James McWilliams: http://james-mcwilliams.com/ The Vegan RD: www.theveganrd.com General Vegans: Five Major Poisons Inherent in Animal Proteins: Human Non-human Relations: http://human-nonhuman.blogspot.com When they ask; http://drmcdougall.com/misc/2010nl/jan/poison.htm Paleo Veganology: http://paleovegan.blogspot.com/ The Starch Solution by John McDougal MD: Say What Michael Pollan: http://saywhatmichaelpollan.wordpress.com/ “How did you hear about us” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XVf36nwraw&feature=related Skeptical Vegan: http://skepticalvegan.wordpress.com/ tell them; Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease by Caldwell Esselstyn MD The Busy Vegan: http://thevegancommunicator.wordpress.com/ www.heartattackproof.com/ The China Study and Whole by T. Collin Campbell The Rational Vegan: http://therationalvegan.blogspot.com/ “300 Vegans!” www.plantbasednutrition.org The Vegan Truth: http://thevegantruth.blogspot.com/ The Food Revolution John Robbins www.foodrevolution.org/ Vegansaurus: Dr. Barnard’s Program for Reversing Diabetes Neal Barnard MD http://vegansaurus.com/ www.pcrm.org/health/diabetes/ Vegan Skeptic: http://veganskeptic.blogspot.com/ 300 Vegans & The Multiple Sclerosis Diet Book by Roy Laver Swank MD, PhD Vegan Scientist: http://www.veganscientist.com/ -
American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals October 21
American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Animal Welfare Institute • Farm Sanctuary • Food Animal Concerns Trust Humane Farming Association • Humane Society of the United States Humane Society Veterinary Medical Association October 21, 2009 The Honorable Louise McIntosh Slaughter U.S. House of Representatives 2469 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Dear Representative Slaughter: We, the undersigned animal protection organizations representing more than 11 million supporters nationwide, are writing to voice our strong support for H.R. 1549/S. 619, the Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act (PAMTA), introduced by Representative Louise Slaughter and Senators Edward Kennedy and Olympia Snowe. Profligate use by industrial agriculture of antibiotics for non-therapeutic purposes – to keep animals from getting sick in overcrowded, stressful, often unsanitary conditions on factory farms and feedlots, and to artificially speed their growth – threatens to ruin the effectiveness of these wonder drugs for treating sick people and sick animals. An estimated 70% of all antimicrobials used in this country are squandered for non-therapeutic purposes. Most pigs, chickens, and turkeys raised for food in the U.S. are fed low doses of antibiotics virtually every day of their lives, and most beef cattle receive these drugs from the day they arrive in the feedlot until just before slaughter. This routine feeding of antibiotics to billions of animals who are not sick is tailor-made to hasten the development of resistant bacteria affecting both animals and people. Just as in human medicine, we must do all we can to minimize or eliminate unnecessary use of antibiotics in animal agriculture in order to preserve the effectiveness of these precious drugs. -
Vegetarianism and World Peace and Justice
Visit the Triangle-Wide calendar of peace events, www.trianglevegsociety.org/peacecalendar VVeeggeettaarriiaanniissmm,, WWoorrlldd PPeeaaccee,, aanndd JJuussttiiccee By moving toward vegetarianism, can we help avoid some of the reasons for fighting? We find ourselves in a world of conflict and war. Why do people fight? Some conflict is driven by a desire to impose a value system, some by intolerance, and some by pure greed and quest for power. The struggle to obtain resources to support life is another important source of conflict; all creatures have a drive to live and sustain themselves. In 1980, Richard J. Barnet, director of the Institute for Policy Studies, warned that by the end of the 20th century, anger and despair of hungry people could lead to terrorist acts and economic class war [Staten Island Advance, Susan Fogy, July 14, 1980, p.1]. Developed nations are the largest polluters in the world; according to Mother Jones (March/April 1997, http://www. motherjones.com/mother_jones/MA97/hawken2.html), for example, Americans, “have the largest material requirements in the world ... each directly or indirectly [using] an average of 125 pounds of material every day ... Americans waste more than 1 million pounds per person per year ... less than 5 percent of the total waste ... gets recycled”. In the US, we make up 6% of the world's population, but consume 30% of its resources [http://www.enough.org.uk/enough02.htm]. Relatively affluent countries are 15% of the world’s population, but consume 73% of the world’s output, while 78% of the world, in developing nations, consume 16% of the output [The New Field Guide to the U. -
Animal Voices Interview with Gene Baur, Co-Founder of Farm Sanctuary
Animal Voices Interview with Gene Baur, co-founder of Farm Sanctuary On July 31st, 2004, Rob and five friends went down to Farm Sanctuary to witness farm an- imals in nature, outside of tiny crates and cages and free from the abuse of today’s factory farms and slaughterhouses. The following is a tran- script of their conversation with Gene Baur, co-founder of Farm Sanctuary. Robert Moore - Well, first of all, thanks for letting us be here, it’s an amazing place. Gene Baur - Well, thank you for being here. Rob and Gene Baur at Farm Sanctuary Thanks for being part of it. Farm Sanctuary is made up of people who care about animals and want to make the world a nicer place. So everybody who comes here can then go home and tell others about the animals they met and about the fact that they are individuals who have feelings and who want to live and don’t want to be abused as they are being abused on factory farms all over the world. So thanks for being here, absolutely. RM - And when did you make that connection, that first connection that animals did have feelings? GB - For me, when I was maybe about 10 years old I had a cat who I was very close to, his name was Tiger, so he was my first animal friend who I really bonded with. But from that time on, and back then too, I grew up in LA in the hills and there were coyotes and deer and skunks and squirrels and raccoons and there were all these animals around. -
Poster Program(PREPRINT)
Room P Event Hall Booth No. 001 002 003 004 005 …… 125 126 Day Time 9:00- 9:30 May 9:30-10:25 a 26 10:25-11:20 b Wed. 1P 11:20-11:30 12:00-12:30 Presentation Time 27 12:30-13:25 c Thu. 2P 13:25-14:20 d Mounting & Removing Time 14:20-14:30 14:00-14:30 Display Time 28 Fri. 3P 14:30-15:25 e 15:25-16:20 f 16:20-16:30 Wed. May 26 Poster1Pab(Remo) Presentation Time <a = 9:30~10:25> <b = 10:25~11:20> A. POLYMER CHEMISTRY: SYNTHESIS AND REACTIONS 1Pa001 Synthesis of threonine-based zwitterionic copolymers and polyplex formation Yurika TANI,Yonenuma Ryo,Hideharu MORI 1Pb002 Synthesis and luminescence behavior of sulfide/sulfonium-containing aggregation- induced emission block copolymers Shotaro NOBE,Masaki FURUKAWA,Hideharu MORI 1Pa003 Synthesis of diphenylalanine-based zwitterionic block copolymers by RAFT polymerization and formation of tubular and fractal structures by self-assembly Ryo YONENUMA,Hideharu MORI 1Pb004 Synthesis and higher-order structure control of platinum-containing optically active polymers utilizing phosphine ligands Takashi Horiuchi,Soya Makino,Natsuhiro Sano,Hiromitsu Sogawa,Fumio Sanda 1Pa005 Synthesis of metal-containing conjugated polymers with various conjugation lengths: Structure control utilizing optically active diphosphine ligands Ryo Aoki,Souya Makino,Natsuhiro Sano,Hiromitsu Sogawa,Fumio Sanda 1Pb006 Synthesis of bipyridine-containing conjugated polymers bearing optically active amide groups, and control of the higher order structures utilizing metal-coordination Taichi Sotani,Mai Otoba,Hiromitsu Sogawa,Fumio -
Benbella Fall2014 Edelweissc
BenBella Fall 2014 Body Respect What Conventional Health Books Get Wrong, Leave Out, and Just Plain Fail to Understand about Weight Linda Bacon and Lucy Aphramor Summary Mainstream health science has let you down. Weight loss is not the key to health, diet and exercise are not effective weight-loss strategies and fatness is not a death sentence. You’ve heard it before: there’s a global health crisis, and, unless we make some changes, we’re in trouble. That much is true—but the epidemic is NOT obesity. The real crisis lies in the toxic stigma placed on certain bodies and the impact of living with inequality—not the numbers on a scale. In a mad dash to shrink our bodies, many of us get so caught up in searching for the perfect diet, exercise program, or surgical technique that we lose sight of our original goal: improved health and well-being. Popular methods for weight loss don’t get us there and lead many people to feel like failures when they can’t match BenBella Books unattainable body standards. It’s time for a cease-fire in the war against 9781940363196 Pub Date: 9/2/2014 obesity. $14.95 US/$17.50 CAN Trade Paperback Dr. Linda Bacon and Dr. Lucy Aphramor’s Body Respect debunks common myths about weight, including the misconceptions that BMI can accurately measure 232 Pages Print Run: 15K health, that fatness necessarily leads to disease, and that dieting will improve Health & Fitness / Diet & Nutrition health. They also help make sense of how poverty and oppression—such as Trim: 5.5x8.25 racism, homophobia, and classism—affect life opportunity, self-worth, and Selling territory: World even influence metabolism. -
Final Program for WI/IAT Workshops
Welcome Messages from ICDM/WI/IAT'06 Conference Co-Chairs On behalf of the organizing committee for the WI'06, IAT'06, and ICDM'06 joint conferences, we would like to extend our warmest welcome to all of you to the conferences and to the most vibrant city in the world. Hong Kong is an ideal place to host the three conferences of closely related themes: Data-Mining, Web Intelligence, and Intelligent Agent Technologies. Hong Kong has been one of the important international financial services and trading hubs, attributing to three key factors. First of all, the fundamental economic principle of Hong Kong is to harness growth opportunities. Hundreds of thousands of small and medium enterprises serve as individual autonomous agents that cooperate, compete, and collectively they flourish as one economic system. Second, the abundance of data as well as many government and financial institutions’ efforts to data-mine and, in turn, generate useful knowledge, is translated into actionable business opportunities and marketing initiatives. Third, the electronic connectivity has served Hong Kong as the infrastructure backbone, and the Web intelligence technologies provide innovative ways of solving problems and developing and deploying new applications on top of such an infrastructure. As the prominent Milton Friedman once put “Hong Kong is a genuine example of ‘free-market’ economy.” We believe the models of such an efficient, market economy may some day shed new lights on the development of novel computing paradigms and technologies. We hope these joint conferences will provide a forum for researchers and students in the areas of data-mining, Web intelligence, and agent technologies to exchange their latest research ideas and results and to inspire future breakthroughs. -
A Highly Controllable Electrochemical Anodization Process to Fabricate
Lin et al. Nanoscale Research Letters (2015) 10:495 DOI 10.1186/s11671-015-1202-y NANO EXPRESS Open Access A Highly Controllable Electrochemical Anodization Process to Fabricate Porous Anodic Aluminum Oxide Membranes Yuanjing Lin1, Qingfeng Lin1, Xue Liu1, Yuan Gao1, Jin He2, Wenli Wang3,4* and Zhiyong Fan1* Abstract Due to the broad applications of porous alumina nanostructures, research on fabrication of anodized aluminum oxide (AAO) with nanoporous structure has triggered enormous attention. While fabrication of highly ordered nanoporous AAO with tunable geometric features has been widely reported, it is known that its growth rate can be easily affected by the fluctuation of process conditions such as acid concentration and temperature during electrochemical anodization process. To fabricate AAO with various geometric parameters, particularly, to realize precise control over pore depth for scientific research and commercial applications, a controllable fabrication process is essential. In this work, we revealed a linear correlation between the integrated electric charge flow throughout the circuit in the stable anodization process and the growth thickness of AAO membranes. With this understanding, we developed a facile approach to precisely control the growth process of the membranes. It was found that this approach is applicable in a large voltage range, and it may be extended to anodization of other metal materials such as Ti as well. Keywords: Anodic aluminum oxide, Nanoporous structure, Integrated charge density, Controllable electrochemical anodization Background aluminum oxide (AAO), have wide nanoengineering ap- Metal anodization has been broadly used in industry as plications that have attracted enormous attention. For a surface treatment technique to render materials with example, AAO membranes have been used as templates resistance against uncontrolled oxidation, abrasion, and to directly assemble semiconductor nanowires and corrosion. -
A Mad Cowboy
A MAD& HISCOWBOY MOVIE KINSHIP CIRCLE ACTION CAMPAIGNS LITERATURE VOICE FOR ANIMALS [email protected] www.KinshipCircle.org by Brenda Shoss, 8/12/05 Mad Cowboy: The Documentary is a global montage of images and interviews with activists, scientists, victims, ranchers, farmers, doctors, and consumers. It is a breathtaking portal into the chemically based and ecologically disastrous agriculture we call “food.” The film’s nationwide debut coincides with a third potential case of mad cow disease in the U.S. If confirmed, this case lends poignancy to filmmaker Howard F. Lyman’s early predictions about a once obscure disease—bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) and its fatal human variation, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. While critics deliberate on the spread of BSE in this country, Lyman, author of The Mad Cowboy: Plain Truth from the Cattle Rancher Who Won't Eat Meat, does- n’t mince words. During an April 1996 appearance on the Oprah Winfrey show, Lyman argued an outbreak of mad cow disease in America could make AIDS seem like the common cold. He explained how the routine process of grinding up diseased cows to feed live cows turns herbivorous animals into cannibals, some infected with mad-cow. While that practice is now banned, cows may still consume cow blood and waste. Calves regu- larly ingest milk mixed with bovine blood serum. Lyman’s candor prompted Oprah to swear off burgers and Engler & Cactus Feeders Cattle Company to sue Winfrey, Lyman and Harpo Productions for $12 million each. But a U.S. District Judge threw out the Texas cattlemen’s food disparagement angle (nick- named “veggie libel laws”) and the trial ended triumphantly for Lyman and Winfrey. -
Cubed Circle Newsletter 241 – Consistency Is Hard
Cubed Circle Newsletter 241 – Consistency is Hard As many of probably noticed, we have been posting late and sporadically for the last month. This was, obviously, not our intention, but with the second semester eating into my free time, staying up to date is a tall order. Even without the newsletter itself seeing weekly publication the site has still remained up to date on a weekly basis, thanks primarily to co-author Ben Carass, as well as guest writers Paul Cooke and Leslie Lee III. But, the newsletter has survived for well over 241 weeks, and will hopefully thrive in the years to come. I have attempted to make provisions for publishing related tasks which should minimize the risk of major delays (obviously there will be some regular delays, as this late issue can attest), but we have some fail safes in place in order to keep this to a minimum. With all of this said, we have a great issue for everyone this week with Paul Cooke discussing the Pro-Wrestling Only Greatest Wrestler Ever project and his personal experience with the poll, Ben covers the news including tons of results from Japan and the Lesnar USADA violation, the Mixed Bag returns with a look at comedy wrestling, Ricochet/Ospreay, and a potential WWE match of the year -- plus Ben also looks at last Sunday's Battleground show and the first RAW of the brand split (a very good show). Also, for those unaware, we now have an official Twitter account @CubedCircleWres allowing the banger to unprecedented highs at @BenCarass and @RyanClingman. -
Wayne Pacelle: a Humane Nation
Hijacking Humane - Wayne Pacelle: A Humane Nation GET THE BLOG Subscribe to the blog by RSS. Subscribe to the blog by email. Previous Blog Home Next November 29, 2010 Print Email Hijacking Humane Would you consider animals to be “humanely raised” if they were forced to spend much of their lives suffering from chronic leg problems and crippling lameness only to be later shipped to a slaughter plant and shackled upside down, ABOUT WAYNE dipped into an electrified vat of water, and finally conveyed to a neck-cutting machine? If the neck-cutting machine Few are in a position to speak for doesn’t get the killing right—and USDA claims that millions of birds annually miss the cutting blade—they might even be the animals like Wayne Pacelle. As plunged alive into scalding water, which is designed to loosen the feathers of an already dead bird. President and CEO of The Humane Society of the United States, he Perdue, the nation’s third-largest poultry producer, apparently thinks so. Perdue’s leads 11 million members and standards allow chickens to be regularly subjected to this kind of treatment, yet the constituents in the mission of company markets its products to unsuspecting consumers as coming from celebrating animals and confronting chickens who were “Humanely Raised” in order to capitalize on the rapidly cruelty. Read more » growing demand for improved animal welfare. Today, a member of The Humane Society of the United States filed a class action JOIN US lawsuit, on behalf of consumers, alleging that the company is illegally marketing its “Harvestland” and “Perdue” chicken products as “Humanely Raised” in violation of the New Jersey Consumer Fraud Act and other laws. -
Design and Fabrication of High Power Microbatteries and High Specific Strength Cellular Solids from Bicontinuous Microporous Hierarchical Materials
DESIGN AND FABRICATION OF HIGH POWER MICROBATTERIES AND HIGH SPECIFIC STRENGTH CELLULAR SOLIDS FROM BICONTINUOUS MICROPOROUS HIERARCHICAL MATERIALS BY JAMES HENRY PIKUL DISSERTATION Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Mechanical Engineering in the Graduate College of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2015 Urbana, Illinois Doctoral Committee: Professor William King, Chair and Director of Research Professor Paul Braun Professor Placid Ferreira Professor John Rogers ABSTRACT An emerging paradigm in engineering design is the development of materials by constructing hierarchical assemblies of simple building blocks into complex architectures that address physics at multiple length scales. These hierarchical materials are increasingly important for the next generation of mechanical, electrical, chemical, and biological technologies. However, fabricating hierarchical materials with nm control over multiple chemistries in a scalable fashion is a challenge yet to be overcome. This dissertation reports the design and fabrication of hierarchical microbattery electrodes that demonstrate unprecedented power density as well as hierarchical cellular solids with controllable modulus and high specific strength. Self-assembly, electrodeposition and microfabrication enable the fabrication of microbatteries with hierarchical electrodes. The three-dimensional bicontinuous interdigitated microelectrode architecture improves power performance by simultaneously reducing ion and electron transport distances through the anode, cathode, and electrolyte. The microbattery power densities are up to 7.4 mW cm-2 m-1, which equals or exceeds that of the best supercapacitors and which is 2000 times higher than that of other microbatteries. A one dimensional electrochemical model of the microbatteries enables the study of physical processes that limit power performance.