Month: November 2014 (Page 1 of 4)

This is an amazing article to read during the holidays. Ben Simon, 24 years old created a non-profit organization, Food Recovery Network, that takes leftover food from college campuses and distributes it to impoverished and hungry community members. He voices his opinion that America’s biggest environmental issue is the fact that we produce too much food when it’s not necessary. What started his appreciation for food recovery was when he was a student at University of Maryland, and he spotted staff throwing away so much perfectly good food that he decided to start an initiative to fix that. Awesome read, I highly recommend.

This entrepreneur turns leftover cafeteria food into hot meals for hungry people

6 months ago, before I became a vegetarian, I ate Chick-Fil-A 3-4 times a week. The chicken nuggets and spicy chicken sandwiches were my absolute favorite food, complete with a side of their famous waffle fries and a vanilla milkshake. The workers at Chick-Fil-A treat their customers with the utmost respect, as they greet you with the most lovely and welcoming, “hi! How are you today? What can I get for you?” and after completing your order, they reply “Absolutely, it will be out shortly. Thank you so much for coming today and we hope you have an amazing day!” So so so nice. I thought the Chick-Fil-A business could not be beat, besides the extremely conservative views and the manager’s punch on gay marriage a couple of years ago, and them closing on Sundays. What I didn’t know was how their workers in the factory farms they got their chickens from treated the birds. Truly disgusting and worth the watch of the video and read of the article. I even signed the petition below. Now, I will not go to Chick-Fil-A for just my waffle fries. I will boycott that chain until they clean up their acts.

Read below:

https://www.change.org/p/help-the-simpsons-co-creator-sam-simon-take-a-bite-out-of-chick-fil-a-s-animal-cruelty?utm_source=action_alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=190326&alert_id=ubKisHQomu_nNlO5aFRjAC373r2Fs8lxxBZzBrIilnBtNnz95GIl6M%3D

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/meat/safe/overview.html

The section of class in which we discussed animals was my favorite, I found it very interesting and enlightening. This is an article that discusses the safety of our meat based on the antibiotics that are being used on the livestock not only for emotional reasons but also for extreme weight gain and resistance to diseases.

http://www.planetnatural.com/composting-101/

Ever since our discussion about composting, and watching my grandparents compost for years, I would like to start my own. My mom is all for it but I wanted to look up some logistics on how to make a compost. So this is a great article for all of you who want to learn to compost!

http://www.ewg.org/foodnews/press.php

EWG charged today that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has failed to tell Americans , a requirement under federal law ,they have a right to know about the risks of pesticide exposure and ways they can reduce pesticides in their diets. The Environmental Working Group also has an app for your phone where you can scan barcodes of food and see the nutritional value of it as well as other facts about it; the app is called EWG Food Scores. The EPA has not complied in full with the Congressional mandate, for more than a decade EWG has stepped in to fill the void by publishing its Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides in Produce. The app is awesome and is aiming to help consumers make healthier, greener food choices. It encompasses more than 80,000 foods, 5,000 ingredients and 1,500 brands. Products are related based on three elements: nutrition, ingredient concerns, and processing and are scored on a scale from 1-10; 1 being the best score.

http://www.fitness.gov/eat-healthy/how-to-eat-healthy/

I am a very firm believer in eating healthy, for the most part I eat healthy everyday with a few instances here and there when I let myself indulge in something that is not so great nutritionally. This article is good for people who are willing to make that change from unhealthy to healthy eating lifestyles.

http://www.mercola.com/nutritionplan/foodalert.htm

This is a neat site it gives a list of nutritional facts about a well known 25 types of food.

Obama’s awareness that the environment is one of the few areas where a president can act unilaterally and to broad effect has changed his mind about the environment. Some people are ecstatic with Obama’s sudden change in heart about the environment but the critics aren’t fully convinced of his embrace of climate change as an urgent priority, and insist that some of Obama’s recent efforts are less significant than they appear.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/11/barack-obama-environment-112974.html#ixzz3K2AhUjIh

http://www.congress.gov.ph/press/details.php?pressid=8260

I am doing my presentation on rice and I eat rice often so I found this article super interesting about the presence of arsenic in the rice crops.

http://www.naturalnews.com/045683_protein_vegan_lifestyle_vegetarian_diet.html

I liked this article because I have wanted to become a vegan since my senior year in high school and tried it last year but it didn’t work. I was weak and tired and not getting enough protein in my diet so this article was very interesting to me. It is hard for me to get protein through some of the sources usually thought of because of my many food allergies but this article offers a variety of different solutions.