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The Real Culprit Behind High Cholesterol, Dismantling Dr. Atkins and Fruit Appreciation 101

| Health & Wellness

High cholesterol is a rising concern in the United States.

Why do we serve fast food to students and hospital patients?

| Healthy Eating

Growing up, my parents instilled in me a healthy skepticism of conventional medicine. They treated our illnesses with natural remedies, rest and nutritious food. Hospitals were good for fixing broken bones, but not much else. I rebelled from much of what my parents taught me, and might have rebelled from their antiestablishment view of medicine, if it hadn’t been for a defining moment in my education.


Animal Assisted Happiness

| Innocent Animals
Photo: Girl with a goat

I stumbled on a lovely volunteer organization called Animal Assisted Happiness, courtesy of a friend at the Care2 network.

Chopping up birds

| Innocent Animals

In the Island Life section of the Honolulu Advertiser today (Wednesday, April 14, 2010) the main story was entitled "Buying the whole bird", which was about how to "enjoy value, freshness, versatility by learning to cut apart a chicken."  It was accompanied by pictures with captions like, "1.

When a sacrifice is necessary, what can we ask of others? What should we ask of ourselves?

| Innocent Animals

Foer makes the case, in this final chapter of Eating Animals, that food is at the heart of the human dilemma. Eating is the most universal act, and its implications are far reaching. What we eat affects our relationship with our environment, our relationship with family and with our extended family – the other living beings that inhabit this planet. Food is a source of comfort for most people. We eat, many times, to resolve our anxieties. We eat to forge social bonds and to escape, temporarily, from the constant barrage of demands we face in life. Eating, then, is the activity which most calls on us to consult our conscience, and the activity we are least willing to examine. 


"Fun for You": Corporate doublespeak for "Bad for You"

| Health & Wellness

Unless you have an addiction or a profit incentive, you probably know by now that soda is not good for your health. Soda delivers empty calories that you’re body doesn’t recognize as food, and which carry no nutritional value. Drinking soda on a regular basis is linked to tooth decay, obesity, diabetes, kidney problems, and a host of other health problems.


Another Alternative

| Environment, | Innocent Animals

An article in the Honolulu Advertiser today talks about aquaculture in Hawaii, and how various environmental groups are opposed to it on the basis that it is harmful to the environment. Aquaculture is another way of saying a fish factory farm, a large number of fish concentrated together in a sma

Q: What can you do with 87,000 pounds of shit? A: I don't know, but think fast, factory farms produce that much every second

| Environment

In this chapter of Eating Animals, Foer pulls back the curtain to reveal the end product (literally) of the factory farming system: shit.

"I don't eat what I meet."

| Innocent Animals

Review of Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer Chapter Four: “Hiding/Seeking”


They eat what?!? Mad Cows and Rotten Snickers

| Innocent Animals

A few years before I became a vegetarian, I had a glimpse into the reality of factory farmed meat that made me pause and rethink my habits. It was an assignment for a class I’ve since forgotten; I was tired and skimming through the photocopied handout when a phrase jumped out at me. At the end of a list of additives to livestock feed, the article mentioned waste from candy factories, including “rotten Snickers".