CookingSlim.org » Ethical Eating http://cookingslim.org/cook Lose weight and feel better by eating for the human body. Tue, 23 Nov 2010 11:50:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Celebrities Slinging Soy to Sucker States Into Pseudofood http://cookingslim.org/cook/2010/07/celebrities-slinging-soy-to-sucker-americans-into-pseudofood/ http://cookingslim.org/cook/2010/07/celebrities-slinging-soy-to-sucker-americans-into-pseudofood/#comments Sat, 10 Jul 2010 10:56:18 +0000 Nicole @CookingSlim.org http://cookingslim.org/cook/?p=103 According to Parenting.com, celebrities are selling out to push soy to American children through the Healthy School Lunches bill.  They’re writing letters to Congressman George Miller, chairman of the Healthy School Meals Act of 2010, to pass a bill that would require schools to serve vegan lunches, removing meat and dairy products from the menu.

If you don’t want to see this happen, please write your own letter supporting an increase of fresh fruits and vegetables, and ethically farmed animal products.  Otherwise, prepare to send sack lunches, and discourage your kids from paying real money for fake food.

]]> http://cookingslim.org/cook/2010/07/celebrities-slinging-soy-to-sucker-americans-into-pseudofood/feed/ 0 How Much More Ethical Is Vegetarianism Really? http://cookingslim.org/cook/2010/01/how-much-more-ethical-is-vegetarianism-really/ http://cookingslim.org/cook/2010/01/how-much-more-ethical-is-vegetarianism-really/#comments Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:21:34 +0000 Nicole @CookingSlim.org http://cookingslim.org/cook/?p=66 Eating a varied diet of local meat, dairy, and produce is more ethical than conventional vegetarianism or veganism.  The rice industry’s workers are underpaid and overworked, and few can make enough during planting or harvest seasons to feed their families and keep a roof over their heads.

The series, Blood Sweat and Takeaways should be on everyone’s must-watch list.  Here’s a sample of what basically happens to rice workers.  According to the activist working to help women get out of the sex industry, 80% of Thai prostitutes in the hottest red light district are from Isan, a rice town.

Learn more about ethical eating, and unfair practices in food production at FairFood.org.

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