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Friday, January 01, 2010

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Islands Disappear In India

Environmental Cost Of Food

Grief In Animals

Tongas To Go Off Delhi’s Roads

Raven Intelligence Test

No Seafood By 2048

Carl Lewis On Being Vegan

Al Gore Finally Admits He's A Hypocrite

India Is An Elefriend!

World's First Artificial Meat Grown

Rising seas, caused by global warming, have for the first time washed an inhabited island off the face of the Earth. The obliteration of Lohachara island, in India's part of the Sundarbans where the Ganges and the Brahmaputra rivers empty into the Bay of Bengal, marks the moment when one of the most apocalyptic predictions of environmentalists and climate scientists has started coming true.

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The price of meat, milk and other British farm products will have to rise to reflect the environmental cost of producing them, a government study has concluded.

A Cabinet Office review of food policy suggests that farmers and consumers should pay extra for farm goods that generate large amounts of greenhouse gases such as methane and nitrous oxide.

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It's arrogant to think we're the only animals who mourn.

There is no doubt that many animals experience rich and deep emotions. It's not a matter of if emotions have evolved in animals but why they have evolved as they have. We must never forget that our emotions are the gifts of our ancestors, our animal kin. We have feelings and so do other animals.

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Tongas and other horse-driven vehicles that have for centuries clip-clopped on the streets of the national capital, especially in the walled city, will be completely taken off the streets, civic authority officials said Thursday.

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Ravens are some of the cleverest animals to exist in the wild. Watch this amazing and complicated test of their intelligence here. Clip taken from BBC animal show Clever Critters, narrated by comedienne Dawn French.

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Unless humans act now, seafood may disappear by 2048, concludes the lead author of a new study that paints a grim picture for ocean and human health.

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Can a world-class athlete get enough protein from a vegetarian diet to compete? I’ve found that a person does not need protein from meat to be a successful athlete. In fact, my best year of track competition was the first year I ate a vegan diet. Moreover, by continuing to eat a vegan diet, my weight is under control, I like the way I look. (I know that sounds vain, but all of us want to like the way we look.) I enjoy eating more, and I feel great. Here’s my story.

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Ever since Al Gore introduced his famous slideshow to the world and stood up as a leader in the fight against climate change, advocates of the vegetarian scene have urged the former Vice President to acknowledge the link between eating less meat and helping the environment. Yesterday, Gore finally jumped on board saying that reducing meat in one’s diet is “the responsible thing to do” when it comes to the fight on climate change.

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That's right. India, which is home to an estimated 23,900 to 32,900 wild elephants, will no longer allow its most prominent national symbol—the elephant—to be imprisoned in zoos or forced to perform in circuses.

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Researchers in the Netherlands created what was described as soggy pork and are now investigating ways to improve the muscle tissue in the hope that people will one day want to eat it.

No one has yet tasted their produce, but it is believed the artificial meat could be on sale within five years.

Vegetarian groups welcomed the news, saying there was “no ethical objection” if meat was not a piece of a dead animal.

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Quotes

Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter. - African proverb

...And in politics and economics, there is a simple term that describes the process of replacing one system with another: Revolution. - Thomas L. Friedman

Revolution is not a dinner party, not an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery; it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully, considerately, respectfully, politely, plainly and modestly. - Mao Tse-Tung

Have you ever seen a revolution where no one got hurt? - Thomas L. Friedman

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. - John F. Kennedy

Right now we are having a green hallucination, not a green revolution. - Thomas L. Friedman

In the green revolution we're having, everyone's a winner, nobody has to give up anything, and the adjective that most often modifies "green revolution" is "easy." That's not a revolution. That's a party. We're actually having a green party. - Thomas L. Friedman

Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind - Ralph Waldo Emerson

In this Revolution no plans have been written for retreat. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

The seed of revolution is repression. - Woodrow T. Wilson

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work. - Mark Twain

An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. - Victor Hugo

The earth is not dying. It is being killed, and the people killing it have names and addresses. - Utah Phillips

I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action. - Fidel Castro