Friday, March 13, 2009

Honest to Goodness: Ethics and Eating

Living an ethical life is a priority for most people, but our eating choices are frequently overlooked as ethical actions. What you choose to eat has far-reaching consequences that affect everything from the happiness of your friends and family to the price of grain in developing countries. Here are some things to consider the next time you decide what’s for dinner.

1. Human Welfare

We have a moral duty to protect the health and happiness of the people around us. Each time you choose a meal for yourself or for others, you are acting as the “gatekeeper” to that person’s nutrition – you hold the key to whether those people will benefit or will be harmed with each bite.


Recent developments in genomics have shown that DNA is not set in stone from birth, but is in fact significantly altered throughout our lives by our lifestyle choices, including nutrition. This means that when you cook dinner or purchase food for yourself or for someone else, you are affecting the health and happiness of countless generations!


2. The Environment

Buying organic really does help the environment! Fertilizers and pesticides used by US farmers eventually flow into the Mississippi River. This has created an oxygen-depleted “dead zone” in the Gulf of Mexico where no life can survive that is the size of New Jersey. Similar dead zones have been identified along the US East Coast and around other countries around the world.

Transporting food thousands of miles also creates unnecessary pollution when local foods are available.


3. Communities

Buying locally grown foods or growing your own foods helps create healthier communities. Imagine a neighborhood where neighbors exchange goodies from their garden, children are interested in growing healthy food and a bustling farmers’ market where shoppers buy directly from growers whom they know and trust.


In addition to being part of our local communities, remember that we are also part of a larger global community. Most animals raised for consumption are grain-fed. This raises the price of grains beyond the scope of affordability for so many people in the world who depend on grains for their survival. Going vegetarian or buying grass-fed, local meat can help make sure that some of our global neighbors don’t go hungry because they can’t afford to eat what we feed our livestock.


4. Animal Life

Finally, we all feel some sense of responsibility toward the welfare of animals, especially our own pets or local wildlife. Visit www.peta.org to find out the cruel treatment to which many farm animals are subjected. Then wipe your conscience clean by buying only locally raised meat where you can visit the farms and actually see how the animals live. You can also help protect global ocean life by finding out which species are being overfished.

Here is a recipe for preparing some locally raised, grass-fed Lamb with Dublin Coddle and Honeyed Mint Sauce. For more information on how to prepare your own nutritious and ethical meals, visit http://goodlifeculinary.com.

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  1. Thanks for visiting and following my blog. I am forwarding your site to my daughter, who is organizing the Bear Pantry at UC Berkeley. This will be an emergency food resource for low-income residents of student family housing. She's in the process of locating food sources and stocking right now, so I think this will be excellent information for her to have.

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  2. 「帶著對任何有關輪迴轉世的科學論文的強烈渴望,我翻遍了醫學圖書
    館。讀得越多,就越意識到,儘管曾認為自己頭腦的每方面都受過
    良好的
    教育,但我的知識還是很有限的。有許多這方面的研究和出版物,
    都是由
    知名的臨床醫生和科學家們實施、驗證並重複的,但是很少人知
    道。他們
    有可能都錯了或者都被欺騙了嗎?證據是如此的確鑿,而我還是懷
    疑。不
    管確鑿與否,我覺得難以相信。」

    「這經驗再加上隨後其他病人的經驗,我的價值觀開始轉變,從物
    質轉入
    精神,而且更關心人我關係,不再汲汲於名利,我也開始理解甚麼
    是可以
    帶走而甚麼帶不走。確實,在這之前我一定也不相信肉體死亡後我
    們的某
    一部份還有生命。」
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    「那幾週,我重溫了在哥倫比亞大學念一年級時所學的比較宗教課的課
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    羅馬康
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    了。」

    在《前世今生》一書中也提到,大師們通過凱瑟琳共示現了10餘次,
    談話涉
    及到人類的不朽及生命的真正意義:「我們的任務是學習,豐富知
    識成為
    神那樣的生命。直到我們可以解脫了,然後我們會回來教誨和幫助其他
    人。」



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    * 板主回覆:所以你到底是信奉什麼教???
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    * 留言人: TANKTESSIE
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    * 留言時間:2009-03-01 20:19:53 檢舉
    * 留言內容:(1/x)'=1/(-x^2)
    (√ x)'=1/(2√ x)
    ∫f'(x)/f(x)dx=lnf(x)
    (|u|)'=(√ u^2)'=2消去貳u/2消去二(√u^2=|u|)˙u'(x)

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    * 板主回覆:1.函數
    T : V -> V' 為 linear transformation
    =>dim(v) = dim(Im(T)) + dim(ker(T))
    = rank(T) + nullity(T)
    2.矩陣
    A : m x n
    =>n = dim(CS(A)) + dim(ker(A))
    = rank(A) + nullity(A)
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    經典賽第一輪逆轉摳倒墨西哥 這才叫邱!!
    * 悉怛多缽怛囉 於 March 11, 2009 12:24 PM 回應

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    我要開始嗆你ㄌ


    我要 考台灣大學
    National Taiwan University
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    +_________________________*
    例如以五臟為例,腎屬水,會發黑光,腎臟不好,因土剋水,脾強腎弱,
    是脾害腎成病,當止腎病於脾,故以黑氣攝取黃氣,腎病者即能癒好。同
    樣道理,脾屬土,會發黃光,脾臟不好係木剋土,肝強脾弱,當止脾病於
    肝,以黃氣攝取青氣,脾病則癒好。心屬火,會發紅光,心臟不好,因水
    剋火,腎害心成病,因腎強心弱,當止心病於腎,以赤氣攝取黑氣,心病
    則癒好。肝屬木,會發青光,肝臟不好,因金剋木,肺害肝成病,因肺強
    肝弱,當止肝病於肺,以青氣攝取白氣,肝病則癒好。肺屬金,會發白
    光,肺臟不好,因火剋金,心害肺成病,因心強肺弱,當止肺病於心,以
    白氣攝取紅氣,肺病則癒好。在基礎篇裏有這些論述,你的哪種臟器有
    病,你就可觀想哪種光,是用物性轉你身體的狀況,萬法唯心造,有心人
    在本身內臟有毛病時,打坐到最好時機,要觀想:我哪個毛病沒有了,我
    那個有毛病的臟器發光了,一天想,二天想,想了一百次、一千次,想不
    發光也不行,所以那個病就沒有了。

    黑黃青白紅 赤氣攝取黑氣
    黑氣攝取黃氣
    黃氣攝取青氣
    以青氣攝取白氣
    白氣攝取紅氣








    佛陀慈悲,於《楞嚴經》中一一示辨並教導行者及後世眾生,來分辨魔境及
    如何度過。這部經被胡適先生判為偽經,外行人做學問就是這樣,自講求
    證據。他說這部經沒有引進,也沒有人翻譯,是突然間冒出來的,而且文
    詞那麼美妙,文章非常漂亮,你若懂它的意思,更不可思議。這部經根據
    報導是走私進來的,印度有一個和尚(般喇密諦譯師)想將此經弘揚到中國
    來,那時印度禁止《楞嚴經》流通到外國去,這個和尚為了能將這部經弘揚
    到中國來,就把自己的手臂皮肉割開,把經文寫成很小的字,縫在皮肉裏
    面,等到皮膚癒合了,看不出了,才闖關到中國來。這部《楞嚴經》帶到中
    國後,從手臂中取出再翻譯出來,翻譯的人(房融),他文才也十分的好,
    文字簡潔。如果你雖懂文字也不懂它在講什麼,其實這部經是開悟的人在
    過程中必須要去讀的經典。http://www.dharma.com.tw/X1Chinese
    /D24Bible/E101.htm
    * 於 March 18, 2009 12:16 AM 回應

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