Whole Food Plant Based Nutrition: How Meat Production Harms the Environment and the People in it.

Acknowledgements and Notes

Acknowledgements:

This blog is based mainly on the work of Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn, Dr. Colin Campbell, and others promoting nutrition from plant based, whole, unprocessed food, oil free, without added sugar, and with minimal salt.

For more, please see the books at the foot of this blog and the "Essy's Favorites and Videos" page as well as in other posts below. (Note: this is a PAGE and NOT a POST!)

Special thanks to Carol D'Anca who shares her deep nutritional knowledge and extraordinary culinary expertise to inspire me and so many others to see our daily meals as continuing sources of good health and joy.

And many thanks as well to Ariane Glazer whose knowledge of raw vegan foods is encyclopedic and exceeded only by her generosity of sharing information and good food! While some of her recipes use oil, they are valuable and easy to modify when needed.

This Blog is NOT intended to replace medical advice!

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Thursday, September 30, 2010

How Meat Production Harms the Environment and the People in it.

To see Chicago Tribune article on U.S. EPA and waste from Illinois factory farms click here.

In 2015 the film Cowspiracy documented the severe environmental effects from animal agriculture.
To learn more about this excellent film and purchase a copy, please click here.

More recently, in August, 2016, the Chicago Tribune produced an important expose on pig farming in Illinois, showing how it harms the environment, the pigs, and even the farmers involved who are trapped in a downward economic spiral.

To see a pdf of these chilling articles please click here.
Note: This is a large file of news article facsimiles (about 28 mB), so please be patient!