Friday, March 18, 2011
Six Ways You Can Help Animals in Japan
6 Ways You Can Help Animals in Japan
Watching the tragedy unfold in Japan this
week has been absolutely devastating and many of us may feel helpless as we sit
in the comfort of our homes as tsunami victims are dealing with unimaginable
challenges. While the focus in Japan is on helping people affected by the
divesting earthquake and Tsunami, many people are also concerned about animals
affected by the disaster. Here are six ways you can help, courtesy of The Pet
Dish.
1) Donate to Japan Earthquake Animal Rescue and Support. A coalition of three
groups - HEART-Tokushima, Animal Garden Niigata and Japan Cat Network, their
intention is to keep animal rescue on the agenda, provide shelter space and
coordinate some earthquake/tsunami animal rescues.
2) Animal Refuge Kansai is also accepting donations. The organization says they
have facilities in place and a team of experienced staff able to deal with
traumatized animals.
3) The Search Dog Foundation has deployed teams to Japan to help search for
victims.
4) Donate to Humane Society International. They have deployed disaster response
staff to the region and reached out to Japanese partner organizations involved
with animal care and rescue to identify where and how best to provide emergency
support and veterinary attention.
5) World Vets are preparing the deployment of a first-responder team to carry
out an "on the ground" assessment and provide initial aid.
6) Join the Japan Earthquake Animal Rescue and Support Facebook page to support
animal rescue efforts.
I found this article at:
http://blogs.discovery.com/daily_treat/2011/03/6-ways-you-can-help-animals-in-japan.html
Watching the tragedy unfold in Japan this
week has been absolutely devastating and many of us may feel helpless as we sit
in the comfort of our homes as tsunami victims are dealing with unimaginable
challenges. While the focus in Japan is on helping people affected by the
divesting earthquake and Tsunami, many people are also concerned about animals
affected by the disaster. Here are six ways you can help, courtesy of The Pet
Dish.
1) Donate to Japan Earthquake Animal Rescue and Support. A coalition of three
groups - HEART-Tokushima, Animal Garden Niigata and Japan Cat Network, their
intention is to keep animal rescue on the agenda, provide shelter space and
coordinate some earthquake/tsunami animal rescues.
2) Animal Refuge Kansai is also accepting donations. The organization says they
have facilities in place and a team of experienced staff able to deal with
traumatized animals.
3) The Search Dog Foundation has deployed teams to Japan to help search for
victims.
4) Donate to Humane Society International. They have deployed disaster response
staff to the region and reached out to Japanese partner organizations involved
with animal care and rescue to identify where and how best to provide emergency
support and veterinary attention.
5) World Vets are preparing the deployment of a first-responder team to carry
out an "on the ground" assessment and provide initial aid.
6) Join the Japan Earthquake Animal Rescue and Support Facebook page to support
animal rescue efforts.
I found this article at:
http://blogs.discovery.com/
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Our Beloved Earth Ranked 33 in the top 100 Alternative Energy Websites!
Our Beloved Earth was rated in the top 100 Alternative Energy Websites!
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Let's support media that seeks to help Earth! The link is
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So please also continue to read this blog as well, and feel free to contribute.
If you would like to ever contribute an article, video, or idea, please email us
@ info@ourbelovedearth.com
Thank you for your support and readership. Much aloha,
Heather Havey, Friends for Compassionate Earth Awareness & Our Beloved Earth
Please check out the link and view the other ones as well!
Let's support media that seeks to help Earth! The link is
http://bachelorsdegree.com/top-100-alternative-energy-blogs/
So please also continue to read this blog as well, and feel free to contribute.
If you would like to ever contribute an article, video, or idea, please email us
@ info@ourbelovedearth.com
Thank you for your support and readership. Much aloha,
Heather Havey, Friends for Compassionate Earth Awareness & Our Beloved Earth
Sunday, December 12, 2010
10 Advantages of Eating Raw
Ten advantages of eating raw
by Susan Jorg, Estacada, OR
The human race learned long ago that cooking meat before eating it would protect them from certain diseases. Since then, this practice of cooking has grown to include all types of foods and is now considered an art. Very few meals are eaten which include raw elements, except for the leafy green salad.
One advantage of eating raw is that it brings Nature’s intentions into focus. When I speak of eating raw I am referring to fruit, nuts, and vegetables, which taste good to the majority of humankind in their basic simplicity - direct from tree, bush or vine.
I realize it isn’t easy to simply abandon thousands of years of tradition and revert back to 100% raw food. Margaret Mead once said, “It is easier to change a man’s religion than to change his diet.” So, to the point, there are 10 advantages to a diet of fresh, whole raw fruits, vegetables, and nuts, which may lead you to find a greater place for them in your diet.
1. Raw foods are better quality; therefore you eat less to satisfy your nutritional needs. The heat of cooking depletes vitamins, damages proteins and fats, and destroys enzymes which benefit digestion. As your percentage of raw foods increases you feel satisfied and have more energy on smaller meals because raw food has the best balance of water, nutrients, and fiber to meet your body’s needs.
2. Raw foods have more flavor than cooked foods so there is no need to add salt, sugar, spices, or other condiments that can irritate your digestion system or over-stimulate other organs.
3. Raw foods take very little preparation, so you spend less time in the kitchen. Even a child of 5 or 6 can prepare most of the items for breakfast, lunch or dinner. This gives children a sense of self-esteem and independence, not to mention the break it gives Mom and Dad.
4. When you are eating raw there’s little chance of burns, unless you’re in the middle of a forest fire or out in the sun too long. Just think - No burns to tongues, the roof of your mouth, or fingers, and many fewer house fires!
5. Cleaning up after a raw meal is a snap. No baked-on oils or crusty messes. And any inedible parts go directly to the compost pile.
6. Eating a diet of raw foods can reverse or stop the advance of many chronic diseases, including heart disease and cancer. Remember, cooking creates free radicals, which are the major cause of cancer. When you lower the number of free radicals your cells are bombarded with, you lower your risk of cancer.
7. A raw food diet can protect you from acute diseases such as colds, flu, measles, etc. Raw foods maintain a healthy body and a healthy body will not become diseased.
8. As long as you combine raw food properly, according to the rules of Natural Hygiene, you will soon reach a level where you no longer suffer from heartburn, gas, indigestion or constipation.
9. It is environmentally sound. With humanity on a diet of raw foods the food industry would close up shop and take up organic gardening. This would save us enormous amounts of natural resources used to produce power for these industries. Think of how many trees and oil reserves could be saved without the need for the paper and plastics used in packaging our processed foods. There would also be less carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere when all the cooking stopped, and more oxygen produced from all the new orchards and gardens, thus helping to reverse the Greenhouse Effect.
10. Eating raw saves you money on food, vitamins, pots and pans, appliances, doctor bills, drugs, and health insurance.
So don’t waste your food, yourself, and our planet by cooking what you eat. Fruits, nuts, and vegetables which are whole, fresh and raw are brimming with life and have the ability to transmit their life force directly to you.
Please read more articles about the raw food diet on their site:
http://rawlivingfoods.typepad.com/1/2009/04/ten_advantages_.html
by Susan Jorg, Estacada, OR
The human race learned long ago that cooking meat before eating it would protect them from certain diseases. Since then, this practice of cooking has grown to include all types of foods and is now considered an art. Very few meals are eaten which include raw elements, except for the leafy green salad.
One advantage of eating raw is that it brings Nature’s intentions into focus. When I speak of eating raw I am referring to fruit, nuts, and vegetables, which taste good to the majority of humankind in their basic simplicity - direct from tree, bush or vine.
I realize it isn’t easy to simply abandon thousands of years of tradition and revert back to 100% raw food. Margaret Mead once said, “It is easier to change a man’s religion than to change his diet.” So, to the point, there are 10 advantages to a diet of fresh, whole raw fruits, vegetables, and nuts, which may lead you to find a greater place for them in your diet.
1. Raw foods are better quality; therefore you eat less to satisfy your nutritional needs. The heat of cooking depletes vitamins, damages proteins and fats, and destroys enzymes which benefit digestion. As your percentage of raw foods increases you feel satisfied and have more energy on smaller meals because raw food has the best balance of water, nutrients, and fiber to meet your body’s needs.
2. Raw foods have more flavor than cooked foods so there is no need to add salt, sugar, spices, or other condiments that can irritate your digestion system or over-stimulate other organs.
3. Raw foods take very little preparation, so you spend less time in the kitchen. Even a child of 5 or 6 can prepare most of the items for breakfast, lunch or dinner. This gives children a sense of self-esteem and independence, not to mention the break it gives Mom and Dad.
4. When you are eating raw there’s little chance of burns, unless you’re in the middle of a forest fire or out in the sun too long. Just think - No burns to tongues, the roof of your mouth, or fingers, and many fewer house fires!
5. Cleaning up after a raw meal is a snap. No baked-on oils or crusty messes. And any inedible parts go directly to the compost pile.
6. Eating a diet of raw foods can reverse or stop the advance of many chronic diseases, including heart disease and cancer. Remember, cooking creates free radicals, which are the major cause of cancer. When you lower the number of free radicals your cells are bombarded with, you lower your risk of cancer.
7. A raw food diet can protect you from acute diseases such as colds, flu, measles, etc. Raw foods maintain a healthy body and a healthy body will not become diseased.
8. As long as you combine raw food properly, according to the rules of Natural Hygiene, you will soon reach a level where you no longer suffer from heartburn, gas, indigestion or constipation.
9. It is environmentally sound. With humanity on a diet of raw foods the food industry would close up shop and take up organic gardening. This would save us enormous amounts of natural resources used to produce power for these industries. Think of how many trees and oil reserves could be saved without the need for the paper and plastics used in packaging our processed foods. There would also be less carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere when all the cooking stopped, and more oxygen produced from all the new orchards and gardens, thus helping to reverse the Greenhouse Effect.
10. Eating raw saves you money on food, vitamins, pots and pans, appliances, doctor bills, drugs, and health insurance.
So don’t waste your food, yourself, and our planet by cooking what you eat. Fruits, nuts, and vegetables which are whole, fresh and raw are brimming with life and have the ability to transmit their life force directly to you.
Please read more articles about the raw food diet on their site:
http://rawlivingfoods.typepad.com/1/2009/04/ten_advantages_.html
A beautiful & important story to remind us about our relationships with animals
Not many people get a picture of this proud bird snuggled up next to them.
Freedom and Jeff
Freedom and I have been together 10 years this summer. She came in as a baby in 1998 with two broken wings. Her left wing doesn't open all the way even after surgery, it was broken in 4 places . She's my baby.
When Freedom came in she could not stand and both wings were broken. She was emaciated and covered in lice. We made the decision to give her a chance at life, so I took her to the vets office. From then on, I was always around her. We had her in a huge dog carrier with the top off, and it was loaded up with shredded newspaper for her to lay in. I used to sit and talk to her, urging her to live, to fight; and she would lay there looking at me with those big brown eyes. We also had to tube feed her for weeks.
This went on for 4-6 weeks, and by then she still couldn't stand. It got to the point where the decision was made to euthanize her if she couldn't stand in a week. You know you don't want to cross that line between torture and rehab, and it looked like death was winning. She was going to be put down that Friday, and I was supposed to come in on that Thursday afternoon I didn't want to go to the center that Thursday, because I couldn't bear the thought of her being etherized; but I went anyway, and when I walked in everyone was grinning from ear to ear. I went immediately back to her cage; and there she was, standing on her own, a big beautiful eagle. She was ready to live. I was just about in tears by then. That was a very good day.
We knew she could never fly, so the director asked me to glove train her. I got her used to the glove, and then to jesses, and we started doing education programs for schools in western Washington . We wound up in the newspapers, radio (believe it or not) and some TV . Miracle Pets even did a show about us.
In the spring of 2000, I was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. I had stage 3, which is not good (one major organ plus everywhere), so I wound up doing 8 months of chemo. Lost the hair - the whole bit. I missed a lot of work. When I felt good enough, I would go to Sarvey and take Freedom out for walks. Freedom would also come to me in my dreams and help me fight the cancer. This happened time and time again.
Fast forward to November 2000, the day after Thanksgiving, I went in for my last checkup I was told that if the cancer was not all gone after 8 rounds of chemo, then my last option was a stem cell transplant. Anyway, they did the tests; and I had to come back Monday for the results. I went in Monday, and I was told that all the cancer was gone
So the first thing I did was get up to Sarvey and take the big girl out for a walk. It was misty and cold. I went to her flight and jessed her up, and we went out front to the top of the hill.. I hadn't said a word to Freedom, but somehow she knew. She looked at me and wrapped both her wings around me to where I could feel them pressing in on my back (I was engulfed in eagle wings), and she touched my nose with her beak and stared into my yes, and we just stood there like that for I don't know how long. That was a magic moment. We have been soul mates ever since she came in. This is a very special bird.
On a side note: I have had people who were sick come up to us when we are out, and Freedom has some kind of hold on them. I once had a guy who was terminal come up to us and I let him hold her. His knees just about buckled and he swore he could feel her power course through his body.. I have so many stories like that.
I never forget the honor I have of being so close to such a magnificent spirit as Freedom's.
Hope you enjoyed this.
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