Plant Diet Education for Latter-day Saints
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Imperatives to Our Earth
On Global Warming:
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On Rainforest Destruction:
https://worldrainforests.com/amazon/amazon_destruction.html?...
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On Drought, Famine, & Desertification:
(1) Michael F. Jacobson. “Six Arguments For a Greener Diet: How a More Plant-based Diet Could Save Your Health and the Environment. Washington, DC: Center for Science in the Public Interest.
(2) John Robbin’s “Diet for a New America”, nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction.
(3) United Nations, Sixty-seventh General Assembly: https://www.un.org/press/en/2012/gaef3352.doc.htm
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On Forest Fires:
(1) https://www.wri.org/insights/global-trends-forest-fires
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On Fine-Particle Air Pollution:
(1) https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/.../2016GL068354...
(2) https://www.nature.com/articles/nature15371
(3) https://www.sciencedirect.com/.../abs/pii/S0048969717334836
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On Acid Rain:
https://news.un.org/.../201222-rearing-cattle-produces... ​
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On Ocean Wildlife Depopulation & Functional Extinction:
(1) https://phys.org/news/2006-11-ocean-collapse-seafood-fisheries.html
(2) https://www.fishforward.eu/en/project/by-catch/...
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On Domestic Habitat & Biodiversity Loss: https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-us-land-use/
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On Overpopulation: https://xkcd.com
On Farmed Animal Sewage:
(1) Berendes et al.; Environmental Protection Agency, “Detecting and Mitigating the Environmental Impact of Fecal Pathogens Originating from Confined Animal Feeding Operations: Review” (Environmental Protection Agency, September 14, 2010), http://nepis.epa.gov/Exe/ZyPURL.cgi?Dockey=P10089B1.txt.
(2) United States General Accounting Office, “Animal Agriculture: Waste Management Practices – Report to the Honorable Tom Harkin, Ranking Minority Member, Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, U.S. Senate,” July 1999, https://web.archive.org/web/20161021034749/https://www.gao.gov/archive/1999/rc99205.pdf.
(3) Pew Environment Group, “Animal Agriculture and the Clean Water Act,” Fact sheet, December 1, 2010, https://www.pewtrusts.org/~/media/assets/2010/12/01/animal-agriculture-and-the-clean-water-act.pdf; Government Accountability Office, “Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations: EPA Needs More Information and a Clearly Defined Strategy to Protect Air and Water Quality from Pollutants of Concern” (Washington, D.C., September 2008), https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-08-944.pdf; Megan Stubbs, “Environmental Regulation and Agriculture,” n.d., 45.
(4) Environmental Protection Agency, “Detecting and Mitigating the Environmental Impact of Fecal Pathogens Originating from Confined Animal Feeding Operations: Review.”
(5) The Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production and The John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, “Putting Meat on the Table: Industrial Farm Animal Production in America,” Washington: DC, 2008, 24–25, http://www.ncifap.org/_images/PCIFAPFin.pdf.
On Ocean Dead Zones, Ocean Acidification, & Coral Bleaching:
(1) https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2024/02/14/coral-bleaching-alerts-ocean-warmth/
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On Ocean Plastic Pollution:
The Comparative Anatomy of Our Species
Photo credits: www.eatingourfuture.com
Consensus of the World's Largest Dietary Organizations
Dietitians of Canada:
The Association of UK Dietitians:
British National Health Services:
Australian National Health and Medical Research Council:
The German Nutrition Society:
Teachings of Early Modern Naturalists
Charles Darwin:
John Ray:
George Louis Leclerc:
Carl Linnaeus:
Dr. Luis D'Aubenton:
Dr. William Lambe:
George Cuvier:
Alexander von Humbold:
Dr. William Andrus Alcott:
Richard Owen:
Thomas Henry Huxley:
Charles Darwin:
Imperatives to Human Welfare
​On the Spread of Zoonotic Disease – Foodborne illnesses
E. coli: 73 000 infected per year in the U.S. (1)
Salmonella: 1.2 million cases per year in the U.S. (2)
Campylobacter jejuni: 2 million U.S. cases per year (3)
Mad Cow Disease: About 220 human cases on record (4)
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On the Spread of Zoonotic Disease – Outbreaks
(1) https://www.cdc.gov/onehealth/basics/zoonotic-diseases.html
Bird flu: A total of 385 cases since 2008 (5), with an estimated 33-60% mortality rate (6)
SARS: 8 098 cases with 774 known deaths (7)
Swine flu: 60.8 million cases in the U.S. with 12 500 deaths (8)
(9) https://www.who.int/data/stories/the-true-death-toll-of-covid-19-estimating-global-excess-mortality
On the Spread of Zoonotic Disease. -- Bovine leukemia virus
(1)https://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-role-of-bovine-leukemia-virus-in-breast-cancer...
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On Global Starvation:
(1) http://comfortablyunaware.com/blog/the-world-hunger-food-choice-connection-a-summary...​
​​On Global Antibiotic Resistance & the Rise of Superbugs
(1) http://www.omafra.gov.on.ca/.../anim.../amr/facts/17-017.htm
(2) https://amr-review.org/...
(3) https://amr-review.org/...
On Meat Processing Worker Exploitation & PTSD.
(2) https://www.surgeactivism.org/articles/slaughterhouse-workers-and-ptsd
On Human Microplastics Ingestion:
(1) https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/02/240220144335.htm
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On Human Toxicity Levels:
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On Societal Health Care Load:​
Words of Notable Historic Anti-Carnists
Leonardo DaVinci:
Pythagorus:
Plato:
Jean-Jacques Rousseau:
Leo Tolstoy:
Henry David Thoreau:
Thomas Edison:
George Bernard Shaw:
Nikola Tesla:
Robert Louis Stevenson:
Albert Einstein:
Edgar Kupfer-Koberwitz:
Coretta Scott King:
Henry (Noah) Spira:
Dexter Scott King
Dr. Jane Goodall
Alex Hershaft:
Carl Sagan:
Brian Greene:
A Word of Wisdom Intro
No amount of alcohol consumption is any longer deemed safe for brain health:
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"New study indicates no level of alcohol consumption is safe for brain health". The Guardian. October 2024
"Moderate drinking not better for health than abstaining, analysis suggests". The Guardian. July 2024
"No Safe Amount of Alcohol". Time. January 2023
"No level of alcohol consumption is safe for our health". World Health Organization. December 2022
"Any amount of alcohol consumption harmful to the brain, finds study". The Guardian. May 2021
"There is no such thing as a safe level of alcohol consumption". The Guardian. May 2011
Tobacco has been linked to poor health as early as the 1940s:
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​https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2038856/​​
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What Destroying Angel?
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(2) D. Ornish, L. W. Scherwitz, J. H. Billings, et al., “Intensive Lifestyle Changes for Reversal of Coronary Heart Disease,” JAMA 280, no.23 (1998): 2001-2007.
(3) C. B. Esselstyn Jr, G. Gendy, J. Doyle, M. Golubic, and M. F. Roizen, “A Way to Reverse CAD?” J Fam Pract 63, no. 7 (2014): 356-64b
(4) T. J. Key, P. N. Appleby, E. A. Spencer, et al., “Cancer Incidence in British Vegetarians,” Br Jcancer 101, no. 1 (2009): 192-97.
(5) HNTDC, xvii
(6) https://www.thefuss.co.uk/world-blood-cancer-day/
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(7) https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/health-statistics/kidney-disease
(8) J. Coresh, E. Selvin, L. A. Stevens, et al., “Prevalence of Chronic Kidney Disease in the United States,” JAMA 298, no. 17 (2007): 2038-47.
(9) J. Lin, F. B. Hu, And G. C. Curhan, “Associations of Diet with Albuminuria and Kidney Function Decline,” Clin J Am Soc Nephrol 5, no. 5 (2010): 836-43.
(10) HNTDC, xvii
(17) https://www.globalresearch.ca/30-americans-have-fatty-liver-disease/5821872
(19) https://www.globalresearch.ca/30-americans-have-fatty-liver-disease/5821872
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(20) J. L. Jahn, E. L. Giovannucci, and M. J. Stampfer, "The high Prevalence of Undiagnosed Prostate Cancer at Autopsy: Implications for Epidemiology and Treatment of Prostate Cancer in the Prostate-Specific Antigen-Era," Int J Cancer 137, no. 12 (2015): 2795-2802
(21) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, "Prostate Cancer Statistics," httP://www.cdc.gov/cancer/prostate/statistics/index.htm, updated Septemver 2, 2014, accessed March 11, 2015.
(22) D. Ornish, G. Weidner, W. R. Fair, et al., "Intensive Lifestyle Changes May Affect the Progression of Prostate Cancer," J Urol 174, no. 3 (2005): 1065-69.
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(23) HNTDC, xiv-xv
(24) American Cancer Society, "Cancer Facts and Figures 2014," Atlanta: American Cancer Society, 2014.
(25) A. C. Thiebaut, L. Jiao, D. T. Silverman, et al., "Dietary Fatty Acids and Pancreatic Cancer in the NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study," J Natl Cancer Inst 101, no. 14 (2009): 1001-11.
(26) https://nutritionfacts.org/video/poultry-exposure-tied-to-liver-and-pancreatic-cancer/
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(27) https://nutritionfacts.org/video/strawberries-versus-esophageal-cancer/
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(29)https://nutritionfacts.org/video/can-alzheimers-disease-be-reversed-with-a-plant-based-diet/
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(30) https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/01/180112091212.htm
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(33) https://nutritionfacts.org/blog/dietary-treatment-for-crohns-disease/
Plant Diet Questions
(1) https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2021/05/study-explains-early-humans-ate-starch-and-why-it-matters/
(2) https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2021-11-11-sustainable-eating-cheaper-and-healthier-oxford-study
(3) https://www.sentienceinstitute.org/animal-farming-attitudes-survey-2017
https://greenberg.news/a-california-town-will-vote-on-banning-factory-farms-what-does-that-mean-for-the-rest-of-the-us-farming/
https://www.worldanimalprotection.us/latest/blogs/meat-industry-hurts-bipoc-communities-heres-how/
Plant Diet Nutrition
