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Presentation by: Dick Morris: ESIE Chair EarthSave Inland Empire (ESIE), a Chapter of EarthSave International, a 501-C3 non-profit corporation, headqtrs. in Santa Cruz, CA

30 min. – PBS documentary: “Diet for a New America” 15 min. – Computer Presentation by Dick Morris 15 min. – Q & A

Presentation Time: 60 min. (includes PBS documentary)

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OrientationOrientation Diet For A New America Diet For A New America video video Changing Diet is Very HardChanging Diet is Very Hard What is EarthSave?What is EarthSave? What Are Vegan Foods?What Are Vegan Foods? Why Eat More Vegan Foods?Why Eat More Vegan Foods?

Health of Humans & other AnimalsHealth of Humans & other Animals Ethical & Environmental Reasons Ethical & Environmental Reasons

Problems from Eating AnimalsProblems from Eating Animals More on EarthSave’s historyMore on EarthSave’s history Joining EarthSaveJoining EarthSave


What IsWhat Is EarthSave?EarthSave?

An organization that advocates eating more wholesome vegan foods and less of those foods derived from animals. This change induces (in all life on Earth) healthier, happier, more stress free and longer lives! It reduces air, water and soil pollution! It greatly reduces our use of water and land for growing food and helps to save the Earth's rain forests! We also advocate taking compassionate action towards all life on Earth!


What Are Vegan What Are Vegan Foods? Foods? FruitsFruits Vegetables Vegetables NutsNuts SeedsSeeds GrainsGrains LegumesLegumes 100’s of delightful, delicious combinations100’s of delightful, delicious combinations

(Breads, Soups, Desserts, Smoothies, etc.)(Breads, Soups, Desserts, Smoothies, etc.)

From stores, restaurants and recipe booksFrom stores, restaurants and recipe books


Vegan Food ReasonsVegan Food Reasons

All Lives (Human & non) Healthier Happier Less Pain Longer

Reduce Factory Farm suffering

*(shown only in 60 min. DFNA) *Pigs: Stacked single cages Male Calves: Chained in small veal stalls *Chickens: Debeaked, crammed together, small stacked cages All: Fed grains, antibiotics & ground up animals - TSE Still conscious while being slaughtered


Environmental Reasons Environmental Reasons for Eating Vegan Foodfor Eating Vegan Food

Reduce pollution: Factory Farms & FeedlotsReduce pollution: Factory Farms & FeedlotsBecause no sewage systems Animal Urine, Feces & Nitrates into

Soil Water – Fish Kills, Blue Baby Syndrome (death) Sea – 7,000 sq. mile dead zone (FR, p – 243)

Air Pollution Methane & ammonia gas rising from manure piles Livestock passing gas: 100 gals./cow/day (Mad Cowboy)

Save the Rain ForestsSave the Rain Forests


Healthier HumansHealthier HumansADA – Thrive on a Healthy Vegan dietADA – Thrive on a Healthy Vegan diet (1998?) All nutrition except B-12 (Nutritional Yeast or supplements) Fiber: Easy colon evacuations - only in vegan foods

These don’t eat meat, dairy or eggsThese don’t eat meat, dairy or eggs Horses Giraffes Elephants Rhinoceros Gorillas

Vegetarian: 7 – 10 yrs. longer lifeVegetarian: 7 – 10 yrs. longer life (Press-Enterprise)

Healthy Vegan Diet: ? More LifeHealthy Vegan Diet: ? More Life

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Eating Animal ProblemsEating Animal Problems CJD from Cows Eating Cows (FR, p. 144 – 150) Cancer Causing Hormones (FR, p - 142) Factory Farm conditions = diseased livestock (FR, p - 120) Feeding Antibiotics = Resistant bacteria (FR, p - 138) Sped up slaughtering, 1996: HACCP (FR, p. 136 - 138) Food Irradiation (FR, p. 121 - 123)

2.5 million chest X-rays Destroys vitamins (A, B1, C, K and E) Forms potentially cancer causing compounds

Food borne diseases (FR, p. 124 - 138) E coli 0157 (FR, p - 124), (NY Times: 7/19/02)

1993: Jack in the Box - 4 children died, hundreds ill. 1997: 25 mil. lbs. of beef recalled July 2002: 19 ill, 19 mil. lbs. of beef recalled

Campylobacter (FR, p - 127) Salmonella (FR, p - 130) Listeria (FR, p - 132)


Ethics – Pythagoras Ethics – Pythagoras

“As long as humans continue to be ruthless destroyers of lower living beings, we will never know health or peace. For as long as we massacre animals, we will kill each other. Indeed, those who sow the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love.”


Ethics – Albert EinsteinEthics – Albert Einstein

“Nothing will benefit human health or increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.”


Ethics – Leonardo da Ethics – Leonardo da VinciVinci

“Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places. The time will come when we will look upon the murder of animals as we now look on the murdering of humans.”


Ethics – Alice WalkerEthics – Alice Walker Alice Walker – writer

“The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites, or women created for men.”


Ethics – George Bernard Ethics – George Bernard ShawShaw writer, Living Graves

“We are the living graves of murdered beasts, slaughtered to satisfy our appetites. How can we hope in this world to attain the peace we say we are so anxious to have?.”


EarthSave InternationalEarthSave International John Robbins wrote DNA (1987), Nobel Nomination

75,000 letters – Founded EarthSave in 1988

Today: 40 Chapters throughout the world

EarthSave Inland EmpireEarthSave Inland EmpireFounded in 1996: Sharron Cordaro & Billie Schwarz Monthly Potluck/Presentations Outreaches Special Presentations


Why Join EarthSaveWhy Join EarthSave Connect & Gain support Connect & Gain support Send a Powerful message that youSend a Powerful message that you

Do not need animal products!Do not need animal products!Are a True World HERO!Are a True World HERO!

Reducing suffering & pollution!Reducing suffering & pollution!Helping all to live healthier, happier lives!Helping all to live healthier, happier lives!Reducing world hunger!Reducing world hunger!Helping save Rain Forests!Helping save Rain Forests!Reducing water & land use for food!Reducing water & land use for food!Spreading EarthSave’s message!Spreading EarthSave’s message!


Why Join EarthSave - 2Why Join EarthSave - 2 ESI Quarterly ESI Quarterly Monthly chapter newsletterMonthly chapter newsletter Reduced admission feeReduced admission fee 10% discount on purchases10% discount on purchases 10% - 20% Health Partners discount10% - 20% Health Partners discount

Vet, Chiropractic, Cosmetics, Masseuse, Vet, Chiropractic, Cosmetics, Masseuse, Hydrocolonic, Organic Salad Greens, Reiki, Hydrocolonic, Organic Salad Greens, Reiki, Hypnotherapy, Sharron’s CD Hypnotherapy, Sharron’s CD

Free copy of “The Food Revolution” Free copy of “The Food Revolution” (with each membership or renewal)(with each membership or renewal)


EarthSave EarthSave MembershipMembership Year’s membershipYear’s membership

$20 – Student or Beyond 55$20 – Student or Beyond 55$35 – Individual$35 – Individual$50 – Family $50 – Family $100 – Patron$100 – Patron$500 – Sustainer $500 – Sustainer $1,000 – Lifetime $1,000 – Lifetime

Free copy of “The Food Revolution”Free copy of “The Food Revolution” New / renew mbrshp. of $20 or more.New / renew mbrshp. of $20 or more.


Final ThoughtFinal Thought

John Robbins, p-282 of his fantastic new book,

“The Food Revolution,”

“What is at stake today is enormous; it is the destiny of life on Earth. At such a time, walking a path of honoring ourselves and the living planet, is our responsibility as citizens of the planet, but it is something more, as well.”

“It is also a joy, and a privilege.”


Open Discussion Open Discussion

Vegetarian & Vegan Diet Animal Rights Mad Cow Disease in Humans Food Borne Diseases from eating animals Joining EarthSave Etc., etc., etc.


Check Out Check Out Free Diet & Animal Rights Literature Merchandise For Sale

BooksBumper stickersDiet for a New America – book & video

The Food Revolution – ea. new or renewal Join EarthSave


The EndThe End


What Else Can We Do?What Else Can We Do? Use full spectrum fluorescents Drive Cleaner

ElectricConversions

• Ca. Electric Automotive Co. (Temecula)Hybrid (over 1,000 - UCS)

Honda InsightToyota Prius


Mad Cow Disease?Mad Cow Disease? Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy Transmitted by taking in prions from animals

(especially from brain, spinal cord and blood) TSE - sheep, cows, mink, deer, cats & humans Symptoms

Long incubation period before symptoms – years or decades Attacks central nervous system (Lose control of faculties) Brain Disintegration (little holes - Swiss cheese) Dementia and early death!

Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) Feeding cows & other animals to cows Dementia & Death!


CJD SymptomsCJD SymptomsFrom eating animal parts, blood donations, soaps,

sweets, sporting goods, sperm, supplements, vaccines, mother to fetus and human breast milk!

Memory loss Difficulty in walking Visual disturbances Tremors Symptoms similar to altzheimer’s disease Destroys human brain cells Dementia & Death!


Feed Cows to Cows?Feed Cows to Cows?Dead Cow OptionsDead Cow Options

$100: Pay Ca. State Diagnostic Lab – Hauled away, checked for disease and destroyed

Renderer – Free: Cows eat ground up animals, including cow parts and blood

Turns grass eater into: Animal eater Cows eating cow parts are cannibals!

BSE – TSE symptoms Dementia & Early Death!


Where is Mad Where is Mad Cow?Cow?Governments say BSE is there (ES, winter 2001)

Azores, Czechoslovakia (?) Belgium (23) (Nat’l. Rendering Assoc. website [NRA]) Canada (1) Denmark (3) (NRA) France (249) (NRA) Germany (50) (NRA) Ireland (587) (NRA) Italy (2) (NRA) Japan (BMJ.com website) Luxembourg (1) (NRA) Netherlands (9) (NRA) Portugal (587) (NRA) Scotland [“Mad Cow Disease” (website)] Spain (32) (NRA) Switzerland (367) (NRA) United Kingdom (180,501) (NRA) USA (formerly of USDA, Dr. Robinson (1/27,500 cows, 39/yr.)


Mad Cow in the Mad Cow in the USA?USA?

US Government says, “NO”.

Yale University study concluded in 2000 (FR, P-150) 13% Alzheimer autopsies was CJD 4,000,000 alzheimer cases in USA 13% is 520,000 with CJD

Harvard study – 5% or 200,000 CJD

Germany found Mad Cow only after prion testing.

Testing frequency Most other countries – 1 of 60 cows (died or slaughtered) USA – 1 out of 18,000 cows (slaughtered for human food)


BSE Testing MethodsBSE Testing MethodsMad Cow testing in other countriesMad Cow testing in other countries

Prionics of Switzerland (sells testing eq.) $16 - Rapid response prion detecting tests Two Types

Check WESTERN 1 person 100 tests per day

LIA – partially automated 1 person 200 tests in 2.5 hours

Detect prions even before symptoms arise Testing frequency – 1 in every 60 (died or slaughtered)


BSE Testing MethodsBSE Testing Methods - - 22Mad Cow testing in USAMad Cow testing in USA Long, expensive and tedious Western Blot analyses Remove portion of dead cow’s brain Section & dye stain portion removed Examine how dye has interacted with brain tissue Does not detect prions (believed to cause BSE) Testing frequency – 1 of every 18,000 cows

(slaughtered for human food) Very fast food production lines


CJD DeathsCJD DeathsGovernments acknowledging CJD deaths Since 1995 – United Kingdom: 100 (CNN, 5/21/01) France (Time, 2001) Hungary (maybe 1) Ireland (Time, 2001) Scotland

Warning Alarms!!! FDA reports cow in feed violations! (Jan. 2001) Meat paste: hot dogs, hamburgers, pizza toppings,

and taco filling (CSPI, August 10, 2001)


Vegetarian Ethical Reasons

A Cow’s Life Iowa Hunting A Higher Taste India Babe Quotes from Famous Thinkers


Ethics – Leonardo da Ethics – Leonardo da VinciVinci

“Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places. The time will come when we will look upon the murder of animals as we now look on the murdering of humans.”


Ethics – Albert EinsteinEthics – Albert Einstein

“It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living, by its purely physical effect on the human temperament, would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.”


Ethics – Mahatma GandhiEthics – Mahatma Gandhi

“I do feel that spiritual progress does demand that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for he satisfaction of bodily wants. It ill becomes us to invoke the blessings of God, the Compassionate, if we in turn do not practice elementary compassion towards our fellow creatures.”


Ethics – Mahatma GandhiEthics – Mahatma Gandhi

“The greatness of a nationand its moral progress canbe judged by the way its animals are treated.”


Ethics – Abraham LincolnEthics – Abraham Lincoln

“I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.”


Ethics – PlutarchEthics – Plutarch“Does it not shame you to mingle murder and blood

with the earth’s beneficent fruits? Other carnivores you call savage and ferocious…yet for them, murder is the only means of sustenance! Whereas to you it is a superfluous luxury and crime.”


Ethics – PythagorusEthics – Pythagorus

As long as man continues to be a ruthless destroyer of lower living beings, he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love.


Ethics – RousseauEthics – Rousseau

“Meat eating animals are generally more cruel and violent then herbivores, therefore a vegetarian diet would produce a more compassionate person.”


Ethics – Carl SaganEthics – Carl Sagan

“If chimpanzees have consciousness, if they are capable of abstractions, do they not have what until now has been described as ‘human rights’? How smart does a chimp have to be before killing him constitutes murder?”


Ethics – Dr. Albert SchweitzerEthics – Dr. Albert Schweitzer

Nobel Peace Prize - Acceptance Speech

“The human spirit is not dead....It has come to believe that compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.”


Ethics – Leo TolstoyEthics – Leo Tolstoy

“The First Step”

“If (we aspire)…toward a righteous life,…(we should not injure)… animals.”


Ethics – Henry ThoreauEthics – Henry Thoreau“I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left “off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized.”


Ethics – Alice WalkerEthics – Alice Walker

“The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites, or women created for men.”


Reduce Water NeedReduce Water NeedMassive Ogallala aquiferMassive Ogallala aquifer 1/3 of US irrigation ground water 1950 – No drain on aquifer 2001 - Level dropping

1990’s - ¼ of Texas share gone 1/3 of 1970’s irrigated land: today parched – no food grows!S - irrigantion circles

World aquifers getting lowWorld aquifers getting low (Time, 1999)

Millions of wells going dry in China India North Africa USA


Reduce Water Need - 2Reduce Water Need - 2

Save waterSave water [Soil & Water specialists, UCAg. Ext. (1978)]

Animal meats # of beef: 5,214 gals. of water # of pork: 1,630 gals. of water

Vegan foods # of apples: 49 gals. (most water needed vegan food) # of lettuce, tomatoes, potatoes: 23 gals. of water


Livestock LivesLivestock LivesCows or “Hooved Locust”Cows or “Hooved Locust” Grazing 1,000# animals

Almost free on public land Trample & destroy plants Crush soil – heavily compacted Very hard for plants to re-grow

Factory Farm: urine, feces, nitrates, stench Pollute rivers & oceans – 7,000 sq. mi. Dead Zone

PigsPigs Small, stacked cages Nursing – Small, metal, cement floor crates Factory Farm: urine, feces, nitrates, stench


Livestock Lives - 2Livestock Lives - 2ChickensChickens Crammed together in cages Cannot raise a wing Feet deformed around cage floor mesh Stress - Pecking to death! Debeaked Old Layers sucked into vacuum

Rendered Fed back to other livestock, including chickens

Baby Chicks & Free Range


Biotech Food PromisesBiotech Food Promises

Atomic Energy: Atomic Energy:

““Electricity Too Cheap to Meter”Electricity Too Cheap to Meter”

Biotech Promises U.S. Public BelievesBiotech Promises U.S. Public Believes Healthier foods Increased yields Better tasting foods Reduce pesticide use Help the environment


Biotech Food ResultsBiotech Food Results Less Nutritious - More PesticidesLess Nutritious - More Pesticides

Lower YieldsLower Yields

Poison Free Organic Foods taste betterPoison Free Organic Foods taste better

More Chemical FertilizerMore Chemical Fertilizer

More Pesticides & Herbicides (Poisons)More Pesticides & Herbicides (Poisons)

Chemicalized, Sterile SoilChemicalized, Sterile Soil No decaying plant matter No worms to make healthy soil

Breakdown leaves, grass, etc. into plant food Provide channels to increase air & water flow in soil Worm castings – organic fertilizer

No bacteria converting decaying plants into plant food


Biotech Food StatisticsBiotech Food Statistics 1999 – (1999 – (World Watch InstituteWorld Watch Institute))

80%: soy, cotton & canola80%: soy, cotton & canola Genetically Altered to withstand more Roundup (weed killer)

20%: Genetically Altered to have pesticide in each cell20%: Genetically Altered to have pesticide in each cell

Acreage (Acreage (World Watch InstituteWorld Watch Institute)) 1995: Negligible acreage1995: Negligible acreage 1996: 4 million acres1996: 4 million acres 1997: 27 million acres1997: 27 million acres 1998: 69 million acres1998: 69 million acres 1999: 99 million acres1999: 99 million acres


ES & Baskin-RobbinsES & Baskin-Robbins

John RobbinsJohn Robbins Heir to ice cream fortune Sickly as a child

Irv RobbinsIrv Robbins, father High blood pressure Serious diabetes

Burt BaskinBurt Baskin, uncle Weighed 220 Died at 53 of first heart attack


Conserving Conserving ResourcesResources British group Vegfam British group Vegfam 10-acre farm10-acre farm can supportcan support 60 people growing soybeans 24 people growing wheat 10 people growing corn 2 people producing cattle

Add FATMAN/STARVING KID GRAPHIC


John Robbins’ John Robbins’ HealthHealth John observed while in his teensJohn observed while in his teens Father: diabetic, high blood pressure Uncle Burt: Dead at 53 Himself: Sick a lot

Pondered and researchedPondered and researched Was eating a lot of ice cream a health risk? How does what we eat affect

Our health? (Heart Disease, Cancer, etc.) The other animals? World resources? Air, Water and Soil Pollution?


Heart Attack & StrokeHeart Attack & Stroke

Clogged blood vesselsClogged blood vessels Millions of autopsies Looks like rubber cement Saturated fat & cholesterol Vegan foods remove arterial plaque

Sidney Silverson - testimonySidney Silverson - testimony


John & EarthSaveJohn & EarthSave Decided: no Baskin-Robbins moneyDecided: no Baskin-Robbins money

Wrote Wrote Diet for a New AmericaDiet for a New America Nobel Prize nomination 75,000 letters – read or heard

We need an organization to promote ahimsa 1988 – founded EarthSave Today

Chapters in many states & several countries Total of 40 Chapters – 5,000 members


John & EarthSave - 2John & EarthSave - 2

John’s other publicationsJohn’s other publications Videos

Diet for a New America – PBS (1991) Take A Stand – P / V Chapter (April 2001)

Books Diet for a New America May All Be Fed Reclaiming Our Health The Food Revolution (2001 – 3 best seller lists)

(Read: P-136)


Vegan ConferencesVegan Conferences

AR2001 – by FARMAR2001 – by FARM

North American Vegan SocietyNorth American Vegan Society


““I’m a Vegetarian”I’m a Vegetarian”

CHORUS: I’m a vegetarian. My life, the killing transcends.

The animals are my friends, and I don’t eat my friends.

VERSES:

1. Long ago when my daddy was young, he’d hunt and fish with his brothers.

They brought home food for the family, and often shared it with others.

2. When Daddy brought home the bodies of all those creatures who used to run, swim

or fly,

Cut out their guts and fried ‘em in a skillet, I just wanted to cry. That’s

why….CHORUS


““I’m a Vegetarian” - 2I’m a Vegetarian” - 23. Now I’ve learned many other reasons why I should not eat my animal friends.

It harms my body and it hurts Mother Earth, and on her all life depends.

4. For every sixteen pounds of grain you feed a cow, one pound of beef is all you

take away.

It’s inefficient, and it’s inhumane, when 40,000 starve to death each day. That’s

why…CHORUS

5. Salmonella and e coli, the animals contaminate. They say we must irradiate.

Mountains of manure pollute the water and the land. The solution is on my

plate.


““I’m a Vegetarian” - 3I’m a Vegetarian” - 36. Diabetes and osteoporosis, heart disease and cancer –

You can get them all from eating animals. A plant-based diet is the answer.

That’s why…CHORUS

7. Most of the corn and soy that’s grown is used to feed the animals humans eat.

Pesticided land could be returned to native forest if people would stop eating

meat.

8. Factory farming features crowding and cruelty, sickness, filth and misery.

I cannot be a part of all that suffering. They are sentient beings just like you

and me.

That’s why..CHORUS


““I’m a Vegetarian” - 4I’m a Vegetarian” - 4 9. What if aliens came from space and regarded humans as inferior?

Would you like it if they farmed us for food because they thought they were

superior?

10. And did you ever have a special pet? Don’t you think every animal wants to live

A life of freedom and choice, and to them, that is the gift I can give, because …

CHORUS

11. You know the power of one committed person. You know the reasons for a

veggie diet.

Have the courage to make the change. Follow your heart and really try it.


““I’m a Vegetarian” - 5I’m a Vegetarian” - 5

Let’s sing together:

CHORUS: We are vegetarians. Our lives, the killing transcends.

The animals are our friends, and we don’t eat our friends.

Yes, the animals are our friends, and we don’t eat our friends.

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