Why driving a Prius is really not enough

[tripp]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Rae Vynn @ Oct 11 2007, 04:51 PM) [snapback]524272[/snapback]</div>

Check this link out: http://notmilk.com/arthritiscure.html

you might try something a little different
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Cor luv a duck! That's interesting. I do take fish oil (oh how I hate it) and I think it helps somewhat. It's hard to know as I've got no quantifiable means of measuring the (perceived?) improvement. None the less, it's good for me whether it helps the RA or not.

I'll have to give it a go. Better eat a stick of butter to steele myself against the tough times ahead.

It would be nice if your body would fall in line and give you some type of positive reinforcement.[/b]

It's a right b*stard it is. Though, I suppose it has done a few nice things for me.

Tripp, judging by what people have told me, taste buds will change over time and acclimate to these new healthy foods.[/b]

They also change over time and acclimate to delicious beer! :P

[daniel]

I'll begin by saying that since i didn't see this thread when it began (I seldom look in this forum -- strictly a question of time: I cannot read all of PC) I read the first page and skipped to the end.

What I wish to comment on is how so many people who boast of the positive environmental impact of driving a Prius, reacted to a long and thoughtful article on the impact of modern industrial meat production with a knee-jerk defense of their "right" to eat meat (just like the Hummer drivers who insist on their "right" to drive a 6-mpg Hummer) and how "natural" meat-eating is.

Are these folks aware of how meat production has changed in the past few decades? Are they aware of the impact on their health of eating ten or twenty times as much meat as their parents or grandparents ate?

The article pointed out that if you eat the U.S. average meat consumption, your negative environmental impact is greater than if you drive a gas-guzzler. Yet the same people who berate the drivers of gas-guzzlers go ballistic when told of the environmental impact of their meat-eating, and the modern meat industry, which is light-years away from the "natural" diet of our ancestors even a century ago.

Dredging the oceans of fish, in order to feed an unnatural and unhealthy diet to cows, chickens, and pigs, to satisfy the demand of people determined to eliminate all vegetables from their diet. A thousand gallons of water to produce a pound of chemical-laden factory beef, in a world where fresh water is being depleted to the point where in the lifetime of some people here, we'll be fighting wars over water instead of oil.

Open your eyes folks. Yes, you have the political right in these United States to eat meat. But be aware that your environmental footprint, driving your Prius and eating meat, is many times more damaging, than the environmental footprint of your parents or grandparents, who drove the gas-guzzlers of the 1950's and ate 1/10 as much meat as you do (and even at that level were eating more meat than they needed to get those few nutrients that are hard to come by in a vegan diet).

[bhaynnes]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Rae Vynn @ Oct 11 2007, 03:51 PM) [snapback]524272[/snapback]</div>

Check this link out: http://notmilk.com/arthritiscure.html

you might try something a little different
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But Rae, I'm almost certain that I cannot live without the occasional ice cream cone.

[Rae Vynn]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(bhaynnes @ Oct 17 2007, 09:49 AM) [snapback]526924[/snapback]</div>

But Rae, I'm almost certain that I cannot live without the occasional ice cream cone.
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Soy Delicious.
Tofutti.

Seriously, there are incredibly DECADENT options out there that taste better than "ice cream" ever could!

check out the freezer section of any larger supermarket, there should be non-dairy treats, right next to the premium treats...

And, hey, Hersey's chocolate syrup? it's vegan