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The New Cheese Addiction Guide Book to Recovery
On Free from Harm we’ve published a few wildly popular posts about cheese and its scientifically-documented addictive properties. Now there’s a new book out called Cut the Cheese: Quit Your Cheese Addiction to Transform Your Life by author Cathleen Woods. Woods make a solid case for what makes cheese addictive, what chronic diseases are associated with cheese consumption and why dairy production is so inherently cruel to the cows and their offspring.
Venus and Serena Williams Go Raw Vegan to Combat Immune Disorder
The Daily Mail published a story the other day about tennis star Serena William’s admission of her diagnosis of the immune system disease known as Sjogren’s syndrome. She explains that symptoms of fatigue drove her to doctors for years who could not diagnose her condition, so she is relieved and yet frightened about her diagnosis.
Proactively Supporting Wavering Vegetarians and Vegans
Researcher and scholar Jamie Hecht has been involved in an ongoing research study of former vegans and vegetarians with the goal of better understanding their motivations for “defecting,” that is, going back to eating meat. We reported on her latest discoveries from a study group that identified the top 6 reasons why people give up being vegetarian and vegan. Interestingly enough, non of the top 6 reasons had anything to do with health concerns or health conditions. ALL of them were connected to social pressures—from family, friends, popular culture and even ethnic cultural traditions.
Does Higher Animal Welfare Lead to Higher Consumption? Considering the Case of Whole Foods Market
In several of his essays and talks, animal rights leaders like Gary Francione argue that welfarism does not lead to abolitionism but instead greater consumption since consumers that perceive animal products as higher welfare or more humane will feel better about eating them and therefore consume more than they would had these products not been available. Touring any Whole Foods Market store would certainly suggest that the dominant presence of the meat and dairy departments would indicate that animal product sales are booming.
With 2 Million Pounds of Unwanted Whale Meat in Freezers, Japanese Government Provides 30 Million for New Hunt
End of Year Highlights from Freefromharm.org founder Robert Grillo
Meet Irene: The Unlikely Vegan, a film by Madeline Yakimchuk
AN UNLIKELY VEGAN is a documentary about Irene, the state of her health, the power of her wit, and her resolve as she embarks on the 21-day VEGAN Kickstart, promoted by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM). We follow Irene from the moment she discusses her plan with her medical doctor. We go grocery shopping with her, We watch her learn new recipes. We see how she manages at restaurants, and at the office. We hear what her doctor tells her as she progresses through the Kickstart, and we see how her friends and family react. Through Irene?s experience, we see that she is not such AN UNLIKELY VEGAN, and perhaps neither are we.
The 7.5 Million American Vegans and Their Estimated 100 Million Flexitarian Sympathizers
Many often ask how many vegans there are in the US now, but the question is rarely asked about the so called flexitarian movement in this country, that is, the estimated 30% of Americans who eat vegetarian as a significant portion of their meals, according to the results of an independent study commissioned by The Vegetarian Resource Group.
How Is Kosher Meat Even Possible in the Age of Factory Farming?
On the way to the airport in Guayaquil, Ecuador, I met an observant Jewish man who looked out of place with his yarmulke and long coat in this Latin American, equatorial country. I asked why he had come to Guayaquil and he told me that he is hired to certify kosher food in countries around the world. Waiting in line to check in, I asked him whether in addition to certifying slaughter as kosher he also observed the conditions under which animals were raised, he said he did not. He had, in fact, never visited a modern confinement agriculture system. I talked about how inhumane they were, and he was skeptical.