From edandrea at magma.ca Tue May 2 02:35:33 2006 From: edandrea at magma.ca (Edelweiss D'Andrea) Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 22:35:33 -0400 Subject: [VegChat] Federal budget (May 2), Cindy Sheehan (May 4) and Fair Trade Fair (May 6) Message-ID: Hello,I'm waiting with trepidation for news of the federal budget,which will be released tomorrow, hoping for lots of funding to combat climate change. It's an exciting week. Two other events, Cindy Sheehan's speaking engagement on Thursday and a fun event, a Fair Trade Fair on Saturday. Here's to starting May off with a bang!EdelweissCINDY SHEEHAN, THE MILITARY MOM WHO TOOK ON THE PRESIDENT IS SPEAKING IN OTTAWAMilitary Moms Speak Out Thursday, May 4, 7pm301, Azrieli Theatre, Carleton University Featuring Cindy Sheehan, Gold Star Families for Peace (US)Michelle De Ford, Gold Star Families for Peace (US)Cindy Sheehan is a founding member of Gold Star Families for Peace and a leading figure of the anti-war movement in the United States. A military mother whose son, Specialist Casey Sheehan, was killed in Iraq in April 2004, Cindy struck a chord with millions of Americans when she camped outside George Bush's Texas ranch in 2005 demanding to know the truth about why Bush took the US to war. Cindy has since spoken to audiences around the world about her quest for peace and justice and to bring US troops home from Iraq. Cindy will be joined by military mom and Gold Star Family member Michelle De Ford whose son, Sgt. David Johnson, was killed in Iraq in September 2004. Cindy will speak in Canada on a four-city speaking tour starting in Toronto on May 3. This event will be Cindy's only public appearance in Ottawa. Tickets are $5 to $10, sliding scale. Seating is limited!Buy in advance or at the door.Advanced sales: Octopus Books 116 3rd Ave.OR BUY ONLINE at www.nowar-paix.ca/cindy and PICKUP AT THE DOORMore information at www.nowar-paix.ca/cindy or contact info at nowar-paix.ca Sponsored by Canadian Peace Alliance www.acp-cpa.ca Nowar-paix www.nowar-paix.ca http://www.nowar-paix.ca/Students Coalition Against War http://scaw.ca CUPE 4600 http://4600.cupe.ca/Ottawa Raging Grannies www.ottawagrans.net War Resister Support Campaign www.resisters.ca http://www.resisters.ca/Voices of Women http://home.ca.inter.net/~vow/ --------------------------------------------- ------- May 6 2006 - 3rd Annual Fair Trade Fair Day: Saturday May 6 2006 Time: 10am ? 5pm Location: Metro YMCA-YWCA 180 Argyle Ave Cost: Free? 3rd Annual Fair Trade Fair Celebrating International Fair Trade Day Fair Trade Market with goods from around the world Presentations on Fair Trade issues Displays, entertainment, barbeque Children?s activities and day care Fair trade food on Fair Trade in Room 220 For further info contact : Dave McMurran 220-8529. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.ottawaveg.com/pipermail/vegchat/attachments/20060501/2551d26d/attachment.html From v at vaalea.com Thu May 18 04:04:11 2006 From: v at vaalea.com (vaalea) Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 00:04:11 -0400 Subject: [VegChat] reply to my sister re: veg vs. meat etc, Message-ID: <02be01c67a30$1f0d44e0$6500a8c0@v> My sister lives on a dairy farm and I wrote this in response to her email which was in response to my email of John Robbins book's fact and some famous veg quotes.... which I had tacked on to the end of my reply to another sister who was mad at PETA's anti-fishing comic book... (well I said WHY I thought she was over-reacting and tacked the other stuff on the end because it was just before the Ecofair and I was working on it) anyway I didn't start it! my third sister on a veg farm (basically) with "a bull calf on the side" also said something but I just haven't had the time yet to get to it.... Anything you think I may want to add???? Otherwise you may just find it interesting... I'll be sending it out to all them soon.... I'll double-check spelling later =0( >I've got to defend my vocation here. This information you sent is so one sided that it all has to be taken with a heaping pile of salt. For example, the "waste" produced by livestock in California is used for fertilizer no doubt, as it is elsewhere, and the threat it creates for the drinking water is likely no greater that the threat of the water not being treated properly. It's not just about drinking water, but healthy rivers, lakes, and the resources needed to clean the water, etc. "However, agriculture is the leading source of remaining impairments in the Nation's rivers and lakes and a major source of impairments to estuaries. http://www.ers.usda.gov/Features/cleanwater/ "In rural Canada, most people rely on private water supplies such as wells and dugouts." (How is private water "treated properly"??) http://www.agr.gc.ca/pfra/water/wtesting_e.htm "Nitrate levels in many English waters, both ground and surface waters, are increasing. Nitrate pollution is of concern because it has to be removed before water can be supplied to consumers, and it can harm the water environment. Over 70% of nitrate enters water from agricultural land.The following pages provide details of action to reduce agricultural nitrate pollution, which is one aspect of the broader problem of diffuse pollution from agriculture." http://www.defra.gov.uk/Environment/water/quality/nitrate/default.htm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3559542.stm: World water supplies will not be enough for our descendants to enjoy the sort of diet the West eats now, experts say. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/in_depth/world/2000/world_water_crisis/default.stm Ninety-five percent of the United States' fresh water is underground. As farmers in the Texan High Plains pump groundwater faster than rain replenishes it, the water tables are dropping. North America's largest aquifer, the Ogallala, is being depleted at a rate of 12 billion cubic metres (bcm) a year. Total depletion to date amounts to some 325 bcm, a volume equal to the annual flow of 18 Colorado Rivers. The Ogallala stretches from Texas to South Dakota, and waters one fifth of US irrigated land. Many farmers in the High Plains are now turning away from irrigated agriculture, as they become aware of the hazards of overpumping, and realise water is not in endless supply. >Cattle are very efficient really, providing not only fertilizer for next years meal, but supplying us with milk and ultimately beef as well!! How much beef eaten comes from dairy cows? How much from non-mature dairy cows? Is too much manure produced? How does manure compare to earthworm castings as a fertilizer/pollution potential?? There are studies being done on prions (Mad cow, etc) existing in landfills, wastewater.... there is still debate about it, but as this website says: http://pubs.acs.org/cen/news/84/i09/8409prions.html "A method to extract and quantitatively detect prions from soil samples has been devised by a team of scientists at two National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA) labs in France (Environ. Sci. Technol. 2006, 40, 1497). The technique could be "a good starting point" to help identify and map prion-contaminated farmland as well as to monitor the fate of prions over time, notes lead author Peggy Rigou. Prions are malformed proteins that are thought to be the infectious agents responsible for transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs), such as mad cow disease, scrapie in sheep, and chronic wasting disease in deer. Prions can persist in soil for years, and some animals are suspected of contracting TSEs by drinking water or grazing on ground that was exposed to the carcasses of dead animals; by-products from animal processing; or animal manure, urine, or blood. A potential method to detect prions in the blood of live animals was reported last year (C&EN, Sept. 5, 2005, page 15), but until now, a method to analyze prions in soil had not been reported, Rigou says. The researchers studied the adsorption and desorption of a recombinant prion protein and other proteins on clay and natural soil samples to understand prion retention mechanisms. They determined that adsorption occurs mainly via the N-terminal domain of the protein........" They are also studying the same thing with antibotics contained in manure fertilizer which could find itself in the food on the dinner table. http://www.nutraingredients-usa.com/news/ng.asp?n=64069-antibiotics-organic-manure%20 "Antibiotics given to livestock can end up in vegetables and pose a health threat to consumers, according to a study looking at the use of animal manure as a fertilizer." >The very first set of statistics you put up provides the perfect solution to the whole world hunger dilemma: Number of underfed and malnourished people in the world: 1.2 billion Number of overfed and malnourished people in the world: 1.2 billion I assume you meant over-nourished or something in the second line. mal?nour?ished (mal-n?r'isht, -nur'-) adj. Affected by improper nutrition or an insufficient diet. >So all we have to do is distribute the excess food instead of having people pig out, and we can have our beef and eat it too! And if we get rid of those rats and other pests who eat so much of the worlds grain, that would help a lot too. I assume you mean reduce overpopulation and not drive to extinction. That stat on world hunger is only one tiny aspect. We should probably backtrack anyway if we were able to preserve more of the grain. You mentioned the rainforests... what can we do to reconvert such land to it's original state if we didn't need to use it, etc. we can't go around eliminating all the species that happen to consume the same food that we do.... >Here's a quote from an article recently printed in the Citizen: "...And look at the Chinese! Eating soy for centuries! They don't have heart attacks and get cancer till they come to the decadent West! On the other hand, they don't seem to respect soy much. In Chinese "to eat tofu" means a grope. The word "meat" in America also has a similar type of double meaning, yet majority of Americans still eat it??? meat (met) n. 6. Vulgar Slang. The human body regarded as an object of sexual desire. The genitals. Tofu has long been the most widely used soyfood in the world. In East Asia it has much the same importance that meat, milk, and cheese have for people in Western countries. Worldwide the tofu industry is very large. In 1982 it consisted of an estimated 245,000 manufacturers, including 30,000 in Japan, 200,000 in the People's Republic of China, 11,000 in Indonesia, 2,500 in Korea, 1,500 in Taiwan, and 225 in the Western world. The world's largest factories, located in Japan, make over 50 tonnes (metric tons) of tofu a day (15,000 tonnes a year). and they don't respect it?http://www.fengshuitours.com/sfc/NFsoyfoods361.asp Grace Young, a Chinese-American food writer, says that tofu is one of the most highly honored foods in Chinese culture because of its very plainness...... http://theseoultimes.com/ST/?url=/ST/db/read.php?idx=1367 >From a book called 'Food in China - A Cultural and Historical Inquiry' by Frederick J. Simoons. This is an excerpt on soybeans, p .71 "There are compelling reasons why the soybean (known today as ta-tou, "greater bean") should have gained importance in China. For one, it yields more usable protein per acre than other common cultivated plants, wheether legumes, cereals, or others. It also contributes roughly four to eighteen times as much usable protein per acre as could be gained by producing milk, eggs, or meat. This means that soybean is a very cheap source of protein. In addition, soy protein is of good biological value. The soybean also has a good store of certain B vitamins, calcium, phosphorus, and iron. Unluke most legumes, it is rich in oil. All this makes it an excellent crop for a country like China, with a shortage of pasture and arable land. The soybean's suitability is further enhanced by its nitrogen-fixing abilities which have led it to be included in various crop rotations, to the great long-term benefit of soil fertility in China. A final factor in the soybean's success was the Buddhist commitment to vegetarianism, which led monks to create tasty soybean analogues to flesh foods, thereby further encouraging use of the plant (A. K. Smith and S. J. Circle, 1972: 11-12)." p. 87 "Bean curd or tofu (tou-fu) is a product said to have been known in the Han [roughly 220 BC - 220 AD] times, though literary evidence suggests that it originated late in T'ang times or early in the Sung. It is made from soy milk with precipitating agents such as vinegar or gypsum, and is an essential Chinese food, especially critical in vegetarian diets. Bean curd is low in cost but high in protein of good biological value. It contains substantial amounts of lysine and certain other essential amino acids; it is easy to digest; and it is rich in minerals, especially calcium, and in certain vitamins. The dietary role of tofu in East Asia has been compared to that of bread in Western diet..." >The Chinese emphasize fermented soy - soy sauce, miso. They eat far more protein, i.e., pork, than tofu. Only Buddhist monks substitute tofu for meat because tofu, apparently, lowers libido. And they also avoid garlic and onion and leek for the same reason, but most veg*n people eat those happily. "Others, particularly from China and Vietnam, refrain from eating the Five Pungent Spices such as garlic, onion and leek, because they are considered to increase one's sexual desire and anger. " http://www.faithandfood.com/Buddhism.php and anyway, I have not heard veg*ns complain of this problem. I think the only time it could be a problem, is when too many soy suppliments (isoflavone concentrate) are consumed providing a person with MUCH more then they would normally consume in food form. Also, don't forget that soy is not the only food high in phytoestrogen. and also there are plenty of omnis that experience low libido. AskMen.com's list of 11 foods to increase libido list oyster, eggs, and liver (yuck blah yuck)..... the rest are all yummy food that veg*ns enjoy. >Here, however, we are trying to substitute tofu for meat. The studies that showed soy lowering bad cholesterol sent soy soaring. By the '90s soy was being processed into much of our food - oil, cakes, cookies, ice cream. Most supermarket bread contains soy, U.S. school meals have soy added to hamburgers and lasagne to lower the fat content. But soy is fattening, soy is fattening?? compared to animal products or like, lettuce?? haha.. ok... like NUTS are fattening? (you want to compare soy to meat with regards to fattening??) >and there are studies that show the plant estrogens in soy that lower cholesterol also change hormonal balance (a Swiss study estimated that 100 grams of soy provide the estrogenic equivalent of the birth control pill The quote is actually 100 grams of soy PROTEIN which is an estimate equivalent of 7-8 soyburgers(?). and again it's phytoestrogen and not estrogen which do not work in exactly the same ways. Robbins addresses it here in regards to infant formula http://www.foodrevolution.org/what_about_soy.htm (and also in every other regard)... Researchers believe phytoestrogens found in soy may help protect against breast cancer because phytoestrogens compete with estrogen in the body to bind to estrogen receptors on cells. Since estrogen triggers breast cell reproduction, some researchers believe that a higher amount of estrogen in the body may increase a woman's risk for breast cancer. Because phytoestrogens found in soy foods may block estrogen from reaching estrogen receptors, pre-menopausal women who include soy in their diet may decrease their risk of breast cancer. http://imaginis.com/breasthealth/soy.asp "Soy is a phytoestrogen and researchers believe there is some connection between that blocking the man's testosterone from feeding a prostate tumour," says Casselman. http://bodyandhealth.canada.com/channel_health_news_details.asp?news_id=8408&news_channel_id=158&channel_id=158&relation_id=12095 phytoestrogen is much weaker than human estrogen, and so when the body produces too much strong estrogen, the phytoestrogen competes for receptors, and will lower the overall level of estrogen. On the other hand, if there is not enough estrogen, though it is is weak the phytoestrogen will increase levels in the body. Men who eat soy aren't lacking in testosterone, "However, recent research comparing people following various diets has found vegans (no animal products) have 8% more testosterone than lacto-ovo-vegetarians, and 13% more than people on the standard Western diet (with meat and dairy). (22) (Fortunately, this extra male hormone is kept safely bound with a protein to prevent over-stimulation of the tissues, including the prostate.) http://www.cabrillo.edu/~pkaplan/misc/dietandathleticperformance.html now, what about animal products? Premarin, an estrogen replacement therapy extracted from pregnant horse urine, acts like human estogen does? not like phytoestrogen. "Extra estrogens end up in milk because farmers have dairy cattle impregnated to boost milk production. Barnard reminds us that "excess estrogen is well-known for making breast cancer cells multiply." Because milk has no fiber at all, and fiber is part of nature's way of eliminating excess estrogens, the fat in milk-like fat in any food-rapidly produces excess estrogen in a woman's body." http://www.bcaction.org/Pages/SearchablePages/1997Newsletters/Newsletter042D.html >block the absorption of other nutrients and affect child development. If dairy products are consumed in a diet high in animal protein, any potential benefit for increased bone density would be undermined. That's because animal protein, including that from dairy products, may leach more calcium from the bones than is ingested, http://www.news.cornell.edu/Chronicle/96/11.14.96/osteoporosis.html >Breast cancer survivors are advised to avoid soy. Again, most places say it's fine, but don't increase your soy intake or take concentrated supplements. >And the bad news keeps coming. In January, an American Heart Association study raised doubts about soy protein's vaunted efficacy in lowering cholesterol. http://www.medpagetoday.com/PrimaryCare/DietNutrition/tb1/2534 In its new statement, the AHA said it found no benefit for soy protein or isoflavones in lowering LDL cholesterol, improving HDL or triglycerides, or lowering of blood pressure. Nevertheless, the AHA said the jury is still out on the heart-healthy potential of soy food products like tofu, soy butter, soy nuts and soy burgers. Soy food products are low in saturated fats, and high in polyunsaturated fats, fiber, vitamins, and minerals -- all of which suggest that tofu and soy burgers could be important elements in a heart healthy diet. Soy products, the AHA said, could be used to replace foods that are high in saturated fats and cholesterol. ........ The AHA, therefore, concluded that "the use of isoflavone supplements in food or pills is not recommended." >All these effects are dependent on how much soy you eat - remember, lab tests mean an animal is stuffed with much more food that a human is expected to eat. Trouble is, how much soy are we eating? Perhaps we're o.d.-ing without knowing it, considering the fact that soy is in thousands of products. so are animal products, when you actually start reading ingredients. animal studies can't be completely trusted either. http://www.politics.co.uk/press-releases/buav-animal-tests-fail-predict-drug-trial-disaster-$17094898.htm The recent drug trial disaster that occurred in March 2006 involving 8 healthy volunteers has raised not only concerns over human clinical trial protocols but more fundamentally the reliability of animal tests. Now that it has been confirmed by the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) that the dreadful effects were not due to contamination of the drug or a mistake with dosing levels (1), it is clear that the fault lies with the animal tests. ".this product showed a pharmacological effect in man which was not seen in preclinical tests in animals at much higher doses". ... differences between animal and human cells mean that the treatment can potentially have enormously different effects... The basic lesson of these studies, as reported, is that they produced data pointing in different directions - with different species and animals in different states of health responding in different ways. This made predicting the human response far more difficult and shows how the use of animals confused, rather than clarified the situation - leading, it appears, to this disastrous event. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/03/21/international/i062039S08.DTL&type=health They were chosen because they were fit and healthy, but minutes after being injected with a test drug designed to combat leukemia and other diseases, the men went into convulsions as their internal organs began to fail. Two men were still in a coma Tuesday and four others were seriously ill but improving after participating in the trial last week. The drug sent the men into vomiting fits; they removed their shirts in panic as their bodies seized up with pain. ...Raste Khan, 23, one of two patients who had been given a placebo. He described the gruesome scene in the hospital ward. "It felt like we stepped into some sort of horror film," Khan told The Associated Press. "The three other men in my ward started vomiting, then they began to fall in and out of consciousness. The person on my left was begging doctors to help him. I was really scared and was just waiting for it to start happening to me." After taking the drug the men lapsed into comas as their organs failed, forcing doctors to put them on organ support machines, said Dr. Ganesh Suntharalingam, who was treating the men at Northwick Park hospital in London. The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency - which authorized the trial - said there was nothing unusual about the results of laboratory and animal tests on the drug or the methodology for the human trials provided by Waltham, Massachusetts-based Parexel and the other maker, TeGenero AG of Wuerzburg, Germany. ....and heck... chocolate is lethal for dogs. >Even the environmentalists are turning anti-soy. Once soy was welcomed as a soil enricher. Now soy growing in Brazil is threatening the rain forests. Remember when beef cattle were doing that?" It is STILL beef cattle doing that!! "In the wake of the Mad Cow epidemic in Europe, which was caused mainly by the use of ground up animal bones in livestock feed, European farmers searched for a non-animal based protein-rich feed for livestock. Soy meal was the perfect alternative. However, at least 50 percent of the US soy crop is grown using agricultural giant's Monsanto's genetically modified Roundup Ready soy, which is resistant to the herbicide Roundup (also, not coincidentally, a Monsanto product). The European Union and Japan ban the sale of GM foods, so the farmers needed an alternative soy source. Brazil's exports have been growing to meet this new European demand for non-genetically altered soy. The soy sector now comprises 6% of Brazilian GDP. Most soybeans are grown on the cerrados, or savannas, in the southern part of Brazil, but now the growing of soybeans is spreading to the forested North. About 13 percent of the total worldwide soy harvest is either used directly as seed or processed by specific food industries which use the whole soybean (examples are tofu, soy sauce, and other meat and dairy substitutes). An estimated 87 percent is exported to the European Union in the form of soy cakes, used for cattle, poultry, or pig feed. " http://www.fguide.org/Bulletin/soy.htm And this is from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency "Livestock Producers and the Feed Ban: Canadian producers may only feed their ruminants approved animal protein products such as pure porcine, equine, poultry, and fish. Banned as ingredients in ruminant feeds are "prohibited materials" - protein including meat and bone meal from mammals other than pigs and horses." http://www.inspection.gc.ca/english/anima/feebet/feebete.shtml and again... WWF report on Brazil soy 2003 http://www.bothends.org/strategic/soy25.pdf: The consumption of soy and its derivative products in Brazil has been growing steadily throughout the 1990s, but the vast majority of production is exported in the form of soy grain or, to a lesser extent, as "first level" processed by-products (meal and oil). Production is likely to increase to meet this demand, fuelled in part by an increase in demand for animal protein such as chicken, pork and beef, much of which is fed a staple diet that includes high concentrations of soy meal. In addition, demand from European markets has risen as a result of protein substitution from meat and bone towards soy and other proteins. This is due in part to bans on the use of meat and bone meal in animal food in the European Union (EU) as a result of recent outbreaks of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE/"mad cow" disease).... More here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/globalisation/story/0,,1747904,00.html "The 7,000km journey that links Amazon destruction to fast food " >We know that obesity is a growing problem. Does it perhaps co-relate with the increased intake of Soy? I'd love to see studies on that. I invite you to research information on that. http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=obesity+soy&meta= A single nutrient found in soy products elicits changes in gene behavior that permanently reduce an embryo's risk of becoming obese later Soy, flaxseed can help fight diabetes and obesity The phytoestrogens in both soy and flaxseed could help fight obesity and diabetes, etc (btw, flax is also one of those things high in phytoestrogen) I hope you appreciate the care I took to get links/info from neutral organizations though the following are very good as well: http://www.madcowboy.com/ - This website is about Howard Lyman (4th generation cattle rancher and vegan), his inspiring life, the Oprah [Winfrey vs Texas Cattlemen] Trial, the "Mad Cowboy" Feature Documentary, the book "Mad Cowboy," Voice for a Viable Future, his speaking schedule, and over 350 REFERENCED FACTOIDS for anyone to use about Mad Cow Disease, Vegetarianism, the Environment, Human Health, and Animal Rights. http://www.askfarmerbrown.org/ Another one raised on the family farm... and this one is nasty http://www.mindfully.org/Food/Power-Steer-Pollan31mar02.htm i didn't even read the whole thing. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.ottawaveg.com/pipermail/vegchat/attachments/20060518/9dba5748/attachment.html From mark at simplyraw.ca Thu May 18 04:11:25 2006 From: mark at simplyraw.ca (Mark (SimplyRaw)) Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 00:11:25 -0400 Subject: [VegChat] Ottawa Veg Guide Message-ID: <446BF3ED.7030801@simplyraw.ca> Hi everyone, Some of you may have seen a new Ottawa Veg Guide around the city - I produced it as a way of promoting vegetarianism and healthier lifestyles in Ottawa, and to help connect those interested with veg-friendly businesses. If anyone is interested, I'd greatly appreciate any help with either distributing (even ideas of where to share it - I started out with following Tone Magazine's distribution list, more or less) or help getting the word out (word of mouth, newspapers, radio, tv, etc - and I'm more than happy to be interviewed! :) . Cheers! Mark From mark at simplyraw.ca Tue May 23 01:18:19 2006 From: mark at simplyraw.ca (Mark (SimplyRaw)) Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 21:18:19 -0400 Subject: [VegChat] Talk Ottawa this Thurs May 25 Message-ID: <447262DB.50108@simplyraw.ca> hi everyone, Just thought you'd like to know that this Thursday May 25, from 9-10PM Rogers Cable 22 will air the healthy veg*n lifestyles panel discussion. I was on (thanks to Vaalea for forwarding the request!) with Carolyn Best from the Pantry, and for the last quarter my stepson Mischa. If you get a chance to check it out, hope you enjoy it! Regards, Mark www.simplyraw.ca From edandrea at magma.ca Wed May 24 00:09:04 2006 From: edandrea at magma.ca (Edelweiss D'Andrea) Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 20:09:04 -0400 Subject: [VegChat] An Inconvenient Truth: Stop Global Warming Message-ID: Hello, There's a new "must see" documentary on climate change opening at the Bytowne on June 9, http://www.bytowne.ca/cgi-bin/calendar.cgi. "An Inconvenient Truth" is entertaining, hopeful and profoundly moving. It is both a very personal story and a hard-core science briefing. It is often very funny. It is likely the best public education tool we have ever had on the threat posed by climate change. Don't miss it, and tell your friends. Please send this message on to other lists. We need this film to generate buzz and be in every theatre. We need Paramount Classic to start throwing money at promotion when they see the public will line up, buy popcorn and sit down to really understand the threat posed by our addiction to fossil fuels. Edelweiss ---------------------------------------------------------- The truth is coming soon to a theater near you: Al Gore?s New Global Warming Movie ?An Inconvenient Truth? Al Gore?s critically-acclaimed new film ?An Inconvenient Truth? offers the best opportunity we?ve ever had to capture the immediate attention of all Americans and move this country forward quickly to stop global warming. While the problem is urgent, the solutions are clear, and with American ingenuity and leadership, we can avert disaster and restore the world?s confidence in our values. Let?s work together to make this movie a success, and turn the audience interest into action. One easy way to get involved as virtual marchers is to buy a ticket and bring a friend to see this movie. Then help spread the word. The more people go see this movie on opening weekend, the more theaters will pick it up. Bring the power of the Virtual March to movie theaters across the country. Marching forward, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. * Watch the movie trailer here! * Find the theater nearest you showing An Inconvenient Truth OTHER WAYS YOU CAN HELP * Email your friends and family to pre-purchase tickets for opening weekend. * Forward this e-mail to everyone in your address book. * Tell your coworkers, book clubs, teachers, classmates, dinner party guests, neighbors, church groups, relatives shout it from the rooftops! * Organize a group to go (Call the Paramount Group Sales office at 323-956-8896). * Sponsor your office or company to see the film. Sponsor a school, sponsor a science class, sponsor a youth club. * Take someone who you don't think would be interested in going. * Host post-viewing "Take Action" parties. * Blog about the movie in advance, and after you?ve seen it with your reactions. * Have your own website? Are you on MySpace? Post Online banners, icons, and other info about the movie. * Ask your local theater to show ?An Inconvenient Truth? if they aren?t planning to already. If you do not want futher messages from Stop Global Warming, simply go here and we will remove you from our list. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.ottawaveg.com/pipermail/vegchat/attachments/20060523/06f502ae/attachment.html From v at vaalea.com Fri May 26 02:33:41 2006 From: v at vaalea.com (vaalea) Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 22:33:41 -0400 Subject: [VegChat] Talk Ottawa this Thurs May 25 References: <447262DB.50108@simplyraw.ca> Message-ID: <018d01c6806c$cde1fa00$6500a8c0@v> Did anyone see this???? I don't get that channel..... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark (SimplyRaw)" To: Sent: Monday, May 22, 2006 9:18 PM Subject: [VegChat] Talk Ottawa this Thurs May 25 > hi everyone, > > Just thought you'd like to know that this Thursday May 25, from 9-10PM > Rogers Cable 22 will air the healthy veg*n lifestyles panel discussion. > > I was on (thanks to Vaalea for forwarding the request!) with Carolyn > Best from the Pantry, and for the last quarter my stepson Mischa. > > If you get a chance to check it out, hope you enjoy it! > > Regards, Mark > www.simplyraw.ca > From uhuman at gmail.com Fri May 26 16:20:24 2006 From: uhuman at gmail.com (uhuman) Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 12:20:24 -0400 Subject: [VegChat] Talk Ottawa this Thurs May 25 In-Reply-To: <018d01c6806c$cde1fa00$6500a8c0@v> References: <447262DB.50108@simplyraw.ca> <018d01c6806c$cde1fa00$6500a8c0@v> Message-ID: ack i wanted to and then got distracted and forgot. we should ask Mark if it is replaying sometimes they might. or it might be possible to get a copy since it is community channel. On 5/25/06, vaalea wrote: > > Did anyone see this???? > > I don't get that channel..... > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mark (SimplyRaw)" > To: > Sent: Monday, May 22, 2006 9:18 PM > Subject: [VegChat] Talk Ottawa this Thurs May 25 > > > > hi everyone, > > > > Just thought you'd like to know that this Thursday May 25, from 9-10PM > > Rogers Cable 22 will air the healthy veg*n lifestyles panel discussion. > > > > I was on (thanks to Vaalea for forwarding the request!) with Carolyn > > Best from the Pantry, and for the last quarter my stepson Mischa. > > > > If you get a chance to check it out, hope you enjoy it! > > > > Regards, Mark > > www.simplyraw.ca > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.ottawaveg.com/pipermail/vegchat/attachments/20060526/3e0fd939/attachment.html