Advice for a vegetarian

Extracted from VSS e-newsletter:

a not yet 100% veg reader asked for advice. the following is given….

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1. Drink lots of water, exercise and eat whole grains.

2. Don’t expect people to support you in vegetarianism despite all the reasons you know they should. It is a threat to their belief.

 Do not try to make people become vegetarian, as it makes them wrong. Accept them for what they eat. Just gently and firmly stand to your ground in your choice.

 Lastly, don’t think you are more right than others. To them, they are right too. It works better to include not exclude.

 More at http://andrewsontan .blogspot. com/2009/ 01/greatest- obstacles- on-becoming. html

 

3. Start with taking only the vegetables in meat dishes that include vegetables.

 Tell as many people as you can that you do not take meat.  Know why you do not want to take meat and stay with your beliefs.

 Start to eat only vegetables dishes i.e. with no meat, as time passes. It took me more than 2 years for my mother to cook only vegetables dishes for me… Welcome to the world of vegetarianism!

 

4. If you have questions, consult a doctor, nutritionist or other health professional.
Be sure to eat a range of foods. There are many websites with good advice, such as, http://www.veganhealth.org

 

 

 

 

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Baby carrots in chlorine??

The following information has not been verified by owner of this blog. Sharing this purely for your consideration and discretion.

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The following is Information from a farmer who grows and packages carrots for IGA, METRO, LOBLAWS, etc

The small cocktail (baby) carrots you buy in small plastic bags are made using the larger crooked or deformed carrots which are put through a machine which cuts and shapes them into cocktail carrots – most people probably know this already.

What you may not know and should know is the following:
Once the carrots are cut and shaped into cocktail carrots they are dipped in a solution of water and chlorine in order to preserve them. (this is the same chlorine used in your pool).

Since they do not have their skin or natural protective covering, they give them a higher dose of chlorine.

You will notice that once you keep these carrots in your refrigerator for a few days, a white covering will form on the carrots. This is the chlorine which resurfaces. At what cost do we put our health at risk to have esthetically pleasing vegetables?
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C hlorine is a very well-known carcinogen, which causes Cancer.. I thought this was worth passing on. Pass it on to as many people as possible in hopes of informing them where these carrots come from and how they are processed.

I used to buy those baby carrots for vegetable dips.
I know that I will never buy them again!!!!

Confirmed by Snopes.com :

According to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, the use of chlorine as a antimicrobial treatment is a current accepted practice in the processing for all fresh-cut ready-to-eat vegetables ….

…The carrots now used to make “baby-cut carrots” have been specially bred to contain more sugar than their standard-sized cousins because this extra sweetness appeals more strongly to children. Likewise, their bright orange color has also been bred into them, as has the evenness of that color all the way through the root.

Extracted from:  http://snopes.com/food/tainted/carrots.asp

 

 

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CRUELTY-FREE LIFESTYLE

The following is extracted from ACRES
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A Guide to Cruelty-Free Living

“The question is not, ‘Can they reason?’ Nor, ‘Can they talk?’
But rather, ‘Can they suffer?”’
– Jeremy Bentham

 From young, we are taught how we are different from animals, rather than what we have in common with them. So most of us grow up accepting the idea that animals are to be exploited and used for our own ends.

We deny that animals have their own feelings, emotions, individual personalities and family relationships, despite it being very evident that they do. We have set up a society in which animal exploitation has become the norm.

So a lot of what we do in our individual lives causes enormous suffering for the creatures that share our planet. For the sake of a dish, a detergent, a handbag or a laugh, many animals are denied even their basic needs – to move, scratch, eat, drink, play, run, feel the sun or nurture their young. For human convenience, profit and pleasure, they are imprisoned, chained, beaten, branded, scarred, electrocuted, starved, tortured, mutilated, castrated, knifed and shot.

Because most of this cruelty happens behind the closed doors of slaughterhouses, factories, research institutions and organisations, we tend to think we are not directly responsible. But we are. As the final consumers, the people who create the demand and pay for the fruits of animal exploitation, we are very much responsible.

But we can choose not to be. All of us have within ourselves the ability to relate to other living things with compassion. We can choose to be kind instead of cruel. We can choose to be non-violent. And we can make cruelty-free choices about what we eat, wear, do and buy that will make a positive impact not only on animals but on people, the environment and our own health too.

Find out how you can make compassionate choices in your everyday life and lead a cruelty-free lifestyle…

 

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Above is extracted from   http://www.acres.org.sg/index.html 

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