Let's Get Down to Earth... A Blog by Mark Fergusson
Blog URL http://blog.dtehawaii.com/
Tags Vegetarian, Nutrition, Health, Environmental Issues, Cruelty Free, GMO, Animal Rights
Welcome! By visiting this blog you join thousands of people who regularly seek information to improve their health, contribute to a cleaner and safer environment, and are concerned about the welfare of all living beings, including the innocent animals.
Latest Blog Posts
- French study finds organic foods are healthier on Sep 14, 2009 in Health
There has been a debate for many years about whether organic foods are healthier and more nutritious than non organic foods (i.e. foods sprayed with poison). Last month a UK study found that there was no evidence of nutritional superiority of organi...
- Animal Shelter operator files lawsuit on Sep 14, 2009 in Innocent Animals
In an update about the Leeward Coast animal shelter which was accused of animal hoarding and cruelty to animals, the owner has filed a lawsuit against the Hawaiian Humane Society and several other local and national animal welfare societies. The fol...
- Vegetables not as nutritious as they were 40 - 50 years ago on Sep 10, 2009 in Health
The following if from Natural Foods Merchandiser's blog: Store-bought vegetables are not as good for you as they were 40-50 years ago. According to the USDA, fruits and vegetables were packed with far more nutrients back then than they are now. Exper...
- "I say, if you eat animals, you eat animals." on Sep 9, 2009 in Innocent Animals
A LA Times article on September 4, 2009 was about a Korean vegetarian's efforts to garner signatures for a petition to stop the eating of dog meat in Korea. In the past westerner's have criticized the eating of dogs as inhumane, but Koreans have ten...
- Severed cow's head used in Malaysian protest on Sep 9, 2009 in Innocent Animals
In a rather gruesome incident twelve Muslims have been charged in Malaysia with illegal assembly and six of them have been charged with sedition, which is defined as an act that may engender "feelings of ill-will and hostility between different races...
- Real murder: what happens at a slaughterhouse on Sep 4, 2009 in Innocent Animals
Following on from my blog post about the "murder" at the Nanakuli animal shelter, here is an account from Wikipedia of the mass murder process at a slaughterhouse (this is not for the faint of heart): The slaughterhouse process differs by species and...
- Alleged murder of animals at Nanakuli animal shelter on Sep 4, 2009 in Innocent Animals
Front page news today is about an ex-caretaker of 400 animals claiming he is the victim of a vendetta by the Humane Society. He and his wife operated a non profit animal shelter at Nanakuli, after his wife died it apparently got too much for him so...
