The Nature Conservancy has some great ways to go green this Valentine’s Day. Some gift ideas include organic flowers, the adopt an acre program and just sending a FREE nature inspired e-card! Learn more by visiting Green Gifts at the Nature Conservancy.
There is a great online book for your kids to check out or for the whole family to read together about cleaning up our environment. It is fun and interactive!
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With all the discussion on food, I have noticed that my taste for meat has changed. It is not that I eat it all the time but I do eat it. I currently eat meat on occasion and I also love animals - I suppose this is one of the great debates within ourselves. I tried being a vegetarian many years ago unsuccessfully.
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again!
I have decided that the cloning news has sparked a new reason to go veg. I found a couple of great resources to help. If you are looking to try vegetarian for health reasons or for the love of animals, visit these links to find out more!
TryVeg.com - get a FREE vegetarian starter guide and lots of help with what to do next. Also some great resources on why and how to change your lifestyle!
About.com Vegetarian - vegetarian information and recipes
There was an article published in the paper discussing the fact that some farmers have already been putting clone related products in our stores without us knowing.
Executives at the major cattle cloning companies confessed that clone offspring have entered the food supply already—and they have no idea how many—despite the previous FDA ban on food from cloned animals. And U.S. meat producers have been buying semen from prize-winning cloned cattle.
- About.com EnvironmentAt least one Kansas cattle producer also disclosed yesterday that he has openly sold semen from prize-winning clones to many U.S. meat producers in the past few years, and that he is certain he is not alone.
“This is a fairy tale that this technology is not being used and is not already in the food chain,” said Donald Coover, a Kansas cattle breeder and veterinarian, in an interview with the Washington Post. “Anyone who tells you otherwise either doesn’t know what they’re talking about, or they’re not being honest.”
- Washington Post