Vegetarian trend helps environment

Vegetarian trend helps environment
Rebecca Young - Staff Writer
November 19, 2009 Link to full article below

Many students on campus have a new way of going green these days and it's all about eliminating the red.

Being vegetarian, or not eating meat, is one way students can contribute to saving the globe. Not to be confused with vegans (people who eat no animal products such as eggs or cheese) vegetarians do not eat meat. Some will eat seafood while others will not, but abstaining from meat has positive effects for the global environment and resources.

"We spend a lot of farmland growing food for animals," Brother Dan Klco, a professor in the biology department, said.

In fact, about 40 percent of food grown worldwide is for animals. In more developed countries the percentage is as high as 70 percent. In addition to using land and food for animals, Americans spend a lot of other resources to maintain a very large and corn-fed cattle population, Klco said.

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Excellent article - Become Happier By Choosing your Thoughts Consciously

Become Happier By Choosing your Thoughts Consciously by Heather Havey


The mind is designed to take care of us. It collects data and then reminds us of this data through random, rapid thoughts and mental images. This ability is such a miraculous gift, and it allows us to operate intelligently and successfully in our lives.

However, please keep in mind that our brain is a 3-pound lump of cells. It easily mis-perceives and misinterprets data. When this happens, especially when it perceives life from a lens of insecure beliefs, then we can be tormented and we can suffer the effects of what many spiritual practitioners call the "monkey mind." Every being in existence experiences this most of their lives. We tend to trust and believe our thoughts blindly, and as a result we react to them all the time.

Meditation and taking silent, peaceful times each day are invaluable tools because they bring us enhanced space with which to observe our thoughts. One additional tool that we can practice is a variation of meditation. This practice is simple: Observe how our thoughts make us feel.

If a thought makes you suffer - if it gives you negative emotions such as doubt, anger, sadness, jealousy, and so on - then the thought is one that is based upon limited perceptions and often false beliefs that we have accepted as true. Bryon Katie once brilliantly said, "When a thought hurts, that's the signal that it isn't true."

To read the full article: http://www.examiner.com/x-18399-Honolulu-Health-and-Happiness-Examiner~y2009m8d15-Become-Happier-By-Choosing-your-Thoughts-Consciously******************************************************
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