Herbiv.org
Herbiv.org (pronounced like herbivore) is a blog collecting links and information on veganism/vegetarianism, the impact our diets are making on the environment and other similar topics.
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Processed food has long been identified as the villain in our diets. The quick and easy alternative to slogging over a hot stove messing about with ‘fresh’ ingredients. When you’re home late from the office, or the kids are screaming and need their face-holes filled ASAP, it is all to easy to reach for the tin of hot dogs at the back of the cupboard, or even cram the whole family in the car and drive to the nearest Wendy’s or Maccy’s. →
The Ecological Disaster That is Dolphin Safe Tuna →
By trying to help dolphins, groups like Greenpeace caused one of the worst marine ecological disasters of all time. Few other fisheries are as bad for groups like sharks and sea turtles as the purse seine fishery, and none are as large in scale.
Hat tip to mr. Kottke.
Food In Real Life →
Preaching truth to packaging. Pictures of packaged food, cooked to specifications, compared to the photo on the box.
Acrylamide, sigh →
Acrylamide is the powerful carcinogen that gets formed when carbohydrates and proteins are cooked together at high temperature, as in dark toast, French fries, and potato chips.
American Heart Association Weighs in on Sugar Intake →
Americans eat way too much, it says, a whopping 22 teaspoons a day on average.
Whoah.
We Can't Ask People Not To Own Cars →
Car ownership cannot be sacrificed in the fight against climate change, Tony Blair said today in Beijing, despite a projected tripling of traffic in China over the next decade.
Dumbass… (via @samastur)
Is Your Independent Local Coffee Shop Really a Starbucks? →
In one of the more brazen attempts by a corporation to disguise itself as a locally owned business, Starbucks is un-branding at least three of its Seattle outlets.
Truly, the lowest of the low. (via @bittman)
If My Soy Beans Are Green, Why is My Soy Milk White? →
There is some excellent info here, it is definitely worth a bookmark. And yes, it even touches on the “is soy good or bad for you” subject.
Smart Choices Program Helps Shoppers Identify Food and Beverage Choices →
This first-ever uniform front-of-pack nutrition labeling program, developed by a diverse coalition of scientists, nutritionists, consumer organizations and food industry leaders is designed to promote public health by helping shoppers make smarter food and beverage choices within product categories.
Why Exercise Won't Make You Thin →
The basic problem is that while it’s true that exercise burns calories and that you must burn calories to lose weight, exercise has another effect: it can stimulate hunger. That causes us to eat more, which in turn can negate the weight-loss benefits we just accrued. Exercise, in other words, isn’t necessarily helping us lose weight. It may even be making it harder.
This is a theory that sounds strange yet logical. I’m not agreeing, but I do see the logic, and I do think that exercise is vitally important to our well–being, especially in modern times like these we live in, when we use more and more various ways of transportation instead of our two feet like we used to in the past.
What to Eat and What to Avoid at Chain Restaurants →
Eat This, Not That! put 66 major chain restaurants under the nutritional microscope—so that you and your family can continue to eat out, but do so knowing the types of insider tips and savvy strategies that can help melt fat all year long.
Burger King puts ~160 calories of mayo on just about anything. Wow. (via.)
How to Get Cancer: Move to the United States →
The risk of cancer for Hispanics living in Florida is 40 percent higher than for those who live in their native countries, a puzzling new study finds.
Hispanics taken only as an example of course, this apparently applies to any social group living in the US which can be compared to a social group outside the US.
Just a small update regarding the Twitter account. I have removed (hopefully) all of the bots and spammers/marketers/etc. and now the feed seems readable enough with appropriate content. If I have unfollowed you and you think I’ve made a mistake, please email me and I will consider following you back. Also I have removed the auto–following thingie, it proved to be a huge mistake, since bots and spammers are basically looking for accounts that auto–follow back in order to beef up their follower counts. Lame.
On another note, I have decided I will be pushing some links only through Twitter, just so you know not everything will go to the blog → Twitter, some things will be only tweeted.
That’s it for now, later people.
