Spectrum: Lent Series + Bonus

These 2 articles in Spectrum’s Lent series may be of interest: Vegetarianism Environmentalism Full Series Bonus: Celtic Christian Theology – The Goodness of Creation

The Cove

It looks like The Cove could be nearly as disturbing as Earthlings. Am I the last person to hear about this documentary?

Warming Up in the EAD

I had the great privilege to meet Corrado Cozzi at the 180 Symposium this week. While talking about his ministry in the Euro-Africa Division, I learned he was working on an article for Accent magazine on the environmental conference he had just sponsored in Romania. The 4th International Student Congress was held in Romania with [...]

Locavore

Locavore (n): “Someone who eats food grown or produced locally” (wikipedia). [More: Eat Local Challenge, Suite 101] I am a hypocritical advocate for eating locally grown food. Here are 10 benefits I posted on another blog. And we’re still waiting for a volunteer to read Animal, Vegetable, Miracle (Kingsolver) and review it here. Today I [...]

Cloth with a Message

My wife showed me this piece of organic cloth today, a fine message to wear when covering one’s nakedness. Portland-based Herbivore Clothing also prints this same message on a handy tote. I decided not to post the provocative “Praise Seitan” t-shirt. FYI: seitan is wheat gluten, the mystery goo behind many meat substitutes.

Adventist Review Links Vegetarianism and Environment

We certainly do! That’s how Adventist doctors Peter Landless and Allan Handysides responded to the question, “Do you agree that our dietary practices affect the environment?” Landless and Handysides went on to give a good (if brief) overview of a few ways that a vegetarian diet profoundly benefits the environment in the May 22 edition [...]

NEWSFLASH: Canada KFC goes vegan, SDA products in demand!

Ontario, Canada – GlobeLife ran an article today announcing that Kentucky Fried Chicken in Ontario will now offer vegan chicken substitutes in franchises throughout the province. Vegan foods contain no animal products, including dairy products and eggs. Reports link the decision to offer meatless chicken at the world’s favorite fried chicken hangout with a protracted [...]

The Time is Now — By Raintree

A long-time friend recently wrote a passionate, poetic and prophetic essay. Here is a portion of it republished with permission. Below the article is a link to her complete essay at myspace.com. Links have been added to key words without input from the author. We’re at a time in our history that we need to [...]

Meet Your Meat – watch this

Hot chicks get debeaked, turkeys hanging upside down from hooks get punched by poultry workers, and the rest of the story behind your Thanksgiving dinner. Fast fact: Americans today eat as much poultry in a day – A SINGLE DAY – as they did in an entire year in 1930.

SDA "Health Message" could save the world in ’08

The Seventh-day Adventist Church emerged from a period of religious reform. Adventist pioneers played a significant role in the reformations of the mid-to-late 1800′s. The 19th Century Adventist reform movements particularly stressed the connection between healthful diet and lifestyle and longevity and improved quality of life and even pointed out the connection between physical and [...]