Comments on: How to make a difference in 2010

By: Nancy

Nancy — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 01:10:22 +0000

Michelle, here are a couple of posts to help you out!

http://www.countdowntomexico.com/2008/02/19/vegetariana-en-mexico/

http://www.countdowntomexico.com/2008/09/29/can-you-tell-im-hungry/

Buen provecho!

Nancy

By: Michele

Michele — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 01:01:19 +0000

I will be coming to Maztlan shortly and would love some advice on eating veggie there!

By: Nancy

Nancy — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:54:44 +0000

John, The statistics always amaze me, thanks for the link. And Happy New Year to you and Anita!

Mexican Trailrunner, I wish there was a way I could get meat eaters to actually read a book like Eating Animals. I know they’d be affected and change their habits. But unfortunately I think it’s only read by those who already “get it!” The overuse of antibiotics in raising animals is really scary, there is a whole chapter on H1N1 and how we are teetering on the brink of more pandemics due to the way the animals are stressed and the resistance to antibiotics. Thanks for commenting and take care!

By: Mexican Trailrunner

Mexican Trailrunner — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:52:51 +0000

Hey Nancy, couldn’t agree more! Even if people would just use meat as more of a condiment instead of the center of their meal — 3 times a day! — their health would improve and so would the health of the planet. Don’t guess the Meat Advisory Board would approve tho. . .
I think one of the biggest threats of heavy meat consumption is the overuse of antibiotics, both by people primarily, and by people consuming animals that have been inoculated prophylacticaly. The rate of antibiotic resistant infections is growing alarmingly.
Keep up the good posts!

By: John Calypso

John Calypso — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:17:00 +0000

Nancy as you know the Calypso’s are vegetarians (for more than 25 years). Here are some interesting facts from a 20+ year old document by John Robbins that might enlighten some folks.

http://www.all-creatures.org/articles/mdi-foodrealities.html

Happy New Year to you and Paul!

By: Nancy

Nancy — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 15:42:03 +0000

Thanks for your comment, Mike. It is so easy to disassociate the styrofoam and plastic wrapped “protein” at the “meat” counter with the life of deprivation and suffering and a painful death. And after all that, eating it makes people less healthy! Sometimes the world is just too crazy for me to understand.

One thing I didn’t mention that I learned in Foer’s book is that pigs excrete about double what an equivalent size human does. And there are more animals on the planet. And no sewage systems to handle the waste like we handle our own. Bleah.

By: Mike Landfair

Mike Landfair — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 19:25:53 +0000

Nancy, we have divorced our desire for animal protein from our thanks to the animal for giving up its life for us. How would we feel if some alien culture raised us for food. IMO, the answer is going back to raising our own food.

By: Nancy

Nancy — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 02:47:05 +0000

Zoe, Yes, it is a pretty scary thing to think about. Thanks for your input.

Zannie, Thanks for writing. It sounds like you are making every effort to make sure your food is cruelty free as much as is possible. We don’t have the same kinds of resources here in Mazatlán, unfortunately. I appreciate your comment, hope to hear from you again!

By: Zannie

Zannie — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 20:46:57 +0000

My partner and I live in San Francisco, so fortunately we have a fair amount of options when it comes to food. We subscribe to a meat CSA that provides most of our chicken, pork and beef from local, sustainable farms that raise their animals outdoors with plenty of forage. It’s not certified organic, but they do adhere to organic principles.

In restaurants I eat vegetarian or fish, after consulting my Monterey Bay Aquarium pocket guide to tell which fish are sustainably harvested.

If I’m a guest in someone else’s home, I eat what I’m served.

By: Zoe

Zoe — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 16:47:35 +0000

John Robbins and his wife, Deo, were friends of ours in Santa Cruz, where he had a “green” headquarters. Haven’t read his latest. Another scary thiing is that due to all the hormones and additives in meat today, many, many young men are almost sterile. (I guess that could have its benefits.) Re: rules and oversights, despite the so called rules in the states, look at how much meat is “poison” and is recalled, how downed animals are used, oh man…..guess this is called preaching to the choir, eh? I am going to be even more vigilant about eating less meat or using it lightly. This topic could almost use its own folder.