11/9/11 Meria with Nathan Runkle, Executive Director of Mercy For Animals, two times winner of “Non-Profit of The Year” award. Concealed animal abuse; making it illegal to photograph abuse (not the abuse); making compassionate food choices; 9 billion land animals killed yearly in USA; Standard agricultural practices; live in line with your values; gestation crates; are pigs stupid? disconnected from our food choices; is ignorance bliss? (think heart disease, cancer, diabetes, etc); animals as individuals; teach your children well; eating someONE not someTHING; What about free range? cruelty free? the movie “Forks Over Knives”; standard American diet is quite sad; vegs increasing on college campuses; 40 million turkeys to be killed for Thanksgiving; fat, sick turkeys =fat sick people; GM turkeys; whats to eat? Thanks-living; progress on the issue of veal; eggs; feces already in meat, why not a human feces burger? Vote with your forks folks.

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Organics for Good Health

3/31/10 Latest “Organic Transitions” with Meria & Alexis Baden Mayer of Organic Consumers Organization. Whole Foods – sells about 1/3 organics – Walmart sells more! “natural” products – greenwashing; look for the USDA organic seal; Sham-poo – which are on the boycott list? Silk “organic” soy milk? Farmers markets-best choice; Organic GM food? (oxymoron); Roundup Ready-what is it? farmed fish,shrimp and devastation of nature; Monterey Bay Aquarium Standards on fish; sewerage sludge and the oceans and farmlands; Coke and baby teeth; Health “care” bill; we should DEMAND universal health care; Clarence Thomas past atty for Monsanto-conflict of interest? San Francisco’s sewer sludge giveaways – hypocrisy and fake greeners in San Fran.,; permaculture solutions to dirty water; 1.5 million children under 5 die from water born diseases every year; Teamsters and Organic Consumers; sustainability, and more “stuff”.

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