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Saturday 25 June 2005
At the table Monday June 20: Steve Sunderland, Jesiah Brock--assistant to Gerald Checco-- (Welcome Jesiah!), Adrienne Cooper, Joan Friedland, Shirley Maul, Pete Altekreuse, Vlasta Molak, Gerry Kraus, Marvin Kraus, Caro Altekreuse, John Kelly, Mary Levee (Welcome Mary!) Dan Herhsey, Mira Rodwan, Gordie Bennett, Vivien Klein, Frank Bicknell (Welcome Frank!) Gerald Checco (Welcome Gerald!), Michele Grinoch (Welcome Michele!) Ellen Bierhorst, Neil Anderson. (21 wonderful people!)
His system does not actually utilize geothermal heat, but works off the stable year-round 55 degree (Fahrenheidt) temperature of our soil, once you go below about 5 feet depth. He pumps water with antifreeze in it through black plastic tubes, then either compresses it to get hot water for heating in the winter, or reduces the pressure below atmospheric levels to allow the temperature to drop to below freezing levels for cooling in the summer. Then he heats/or cools the air in the house using this hot or cold water. The machine that compresses or decompresses the fluid is called a heat pump.
No matter what the temperature of the ³exit water² is that you pump into the ground, by the time it has circulated through enough distance through the ground, it will be 55 degrees on re-entering the heat pump. Because Gerald has only a small yard, he needed to use vertical distance, instead of a long shallow trench, so he dug 5 ³wells², each 150 ft. deep. Fully half the $18000 cost of his system went into the digging of these wells. If you have enough space to use shallow trenches, you could just about halve the cost. He figures he will save fully half the amount he has been spending on conventional gas heat and electric cooling at his Victorian brick house (forced air system). He anticipates that the savings will equal the cost of the system in nine years. The HVAC system (that¹s ³heating Ventilaton and Air Conditioning²) was put in by M.C. Craftsman, because the owner is a former parks employee who always did a super job and won Gerald¹s confidence.
He has also replaced all his windows with double pane ³double hung² style windows (as they were before) of a type that has no sash ropes, but uses a spring system in vinyl tracks. You can depress the channel and pop out the window for cleaning. (He used Gilkey windows. Was pleased with their cost and service.) He also uses ceiling fans.
Gerald also has numerous zones in his house which are all computer controled so that, for instance, he does not heat/cool his first floor rooms during the night when they are not in use. This is accomplished by computer controled valves or flues in his air ducts, of which he has numerous ones.
John Robbins, our energy engineer salon presenter from last winter, had made the point that if you use an electric pump to circulate the fluid through your geothermal system, (as contrasted with just using gas for heating and a gravity feed), you are actually causing more pollution through Cinergy, because of our tremendously dirty coal burning electricity generating powerplants. I mentioned this kind of thinking to Gerald and he said that he and his wife, Jan Brown Checco, are investigating photovoltaic pannels (solar electric) for their garage roof which will then drive the pump and the heat pump during all but the most cloudy periods.
The heat pump also is used to heat hot tap water for the house.
Gerald says he is a data nut, and loves to collect and crunch numbers. He promises to be back next year when he can give us cold data on his hot savings.
We greatly enjoyed Gerald¹s presentation and good humor in joining in with our jibes and jokes. His power point presentation started out with an utterly charming annimated hedgehog telling us we have only one earth. Gerald, y ou said you¹d send me the link for that!
Hugs,
ellen
(for Articles: see below. First, the "Announcements" section.)...
Don't miss the way cool article you want to read in blue section. It might be one of these:
- What about that expressway link over the Little Miami? Read short Enquirer article on a Sierra Club meeting about it.
- Mike Fremont's review of the China Study about diet and health. Mike, an engineer in his eighties, survived cancer through macrobiotic diet etc.
- Mike also wrote this article, all about how much we could profit economically etc. through reducing animal food intake.
- John David Charter, salonista, responds re. Drug War Scam.
- on Racism: Noreen L-S remembers the bad old days.
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Announcements:
6/25
GOOD PART-TIME JOB • GOOD DEED •GOOD PEOPLE
28 hours/week (including all day Sunday and Monday, and mornings T-W-Th), as a caregiver for a talented, humorous and disabled woman* in her and her partner’s Northside home. Available soon.
*(this is Therese Edell, songwriter, composer, accordian prodegy, folksinger and feminist whom I have helped out for a dozen years. Way rewarding woman. Ellen)
WE ARE LOOKING FOR:
A kind, energetic man or woman to complement a loving support system. You must be physically healthy, hear well, and learn to carry out a task-oriented job. We will provide training & support, and you must be willing to overcome discomfort with disability from M.S. and not mind being busy or entertained. We work with great humor and cooperation, but have very specific needs and expectations. You do not need similar past experience to do this or to be good at it. You DO need to have a caring heart, a good work ethic, a phone, and reliable transportation. You must be unusually reliable about time and attendance, and you must be willing to commit for a year to take this position. Pay is competitive and good.
MORE THAN A JOB:
It’s about creating conditions of quality of life for one of the most wonderful and inspiring human beings you may ever meet. If you enjoy women’s sports, listening to music and NPR, and you play chess – you’ll get extra points.
YOU CAN CALL ME (Jane) at 542-5788 (noon to 6pm is best) If anything about this ad interests you, please call and find out about us and our situation. All inquiries are welcome. Not a requirement but we are a vegetarian, non-smoking household.
(June 2005)
6/25/05
Very cool exhibit on flowers at Carl Solway Gallery in OTR, on Findlay, one block West of Central Pkw. Room after room of art about flowers, all media.
Tri-State Treasures
Sincerely, Jim
~~~~~~~~~~Tri-State Treasures:
Polish Madonnas in Art and Poetry [May 17 - September 8]: A collection of 54 paintings by renowned Polish artist Wislawa Kwiatkowska from the Diocesan Museum in Plock, Poland. Inspiration for the paintings came from selected texts of Polish poetry. From the earliest beginnings of Polish literature to the present day, Polish poetry often is inspired by the Holy Mother. One of the earliest examples of the written Polish language & the earliest extant document of Polish poetry is Bogarodzica (Mother of God). Dating back to the 15th century, this hymn illuminates the devotion of the Polish people to the Holy Mother & exemplifies the Polish understanding of Mary¹s role as mediatrix. Monday-Friday @ 8:30 AM - 6 PM; Saturday-Sunday @ Noon - 6 PM. Free admission; parking available. At the Roesch & Marian Library Galleries, Roesch Library, University of Dayton Campus, 300 College Park Avenue, Dayton, OH 45469-1360. More info @ 937.229.4254 or 4214, PolishMadonnas@udayton.edu, & www.udayton.edu/mary/polishfront.html.
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Jesus & Nonviolence - a Film & Discussion Series [Sunday 26 June @ 7 PM & the following 2 Sundays]: This is the 2nd in a 6-film series to illustrate how the nonviolent teachings & life of a first century Jew influenced the nonviolent actions of the 20th century, & how we can follow the path of nonviolent action. Each Sunday will feature one of the 30-minute films followed by discussion, & readings for the next week. The series tells one of humanity's most important & least understood stories - how, during a century of extreme violence, millions chose to battle brutality & oppression with nonviolent weapons - and won. "These are powerful stories, about truth overcoming lies, love dissolving evil, & life eclipsing death," said former president Jimmy Carter of the documentary. The films draw on stunning archival footage & interviews with witnesses, survivors, & unsung heroes who contributed to these century-changing events. The 4th presentation shown on Sunday 26 June will be: The courage & endurance of Denmark's citizens resistance movement during the 5-year Nazi occupation of World War II to commit sabotage & stage general strikes & rescue nearly all the country's 7000 Jews from the Holocaust. 5) The 1980 Gdansk Shipyard strike that won Poles the right to have free trade unions, launched the Solidarity movement & catapulted Lech Walesa, on a path to leadership, a Nobel Peace Prize, & the fall of communism in Poland. 6) The national protest days led by Chilean copper miners in 1983, which overcame a decade of paralyzing fear, showed that public opposition to the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet was possible, & signaled the start of a nonviolent democratic opposition. Free & open to all thoughts & ideas; local leaders from all faiths have been invited. At All Saints Episcopal Church, 6301 Parkman Place, Pleasant Ridge, Cincinnati, OH, 45213. More info & directions @ 513.531.6333, therevken@yahoo.com, www.allsaintscincinnati.org, & www.pbs.org/weta/forcemorepowerful/.
Reclaiming The Media: Step 1 Local Television Station License Renewal [Wednesday 29 June @ 6-8 PM]: A master class. October 1st, 2005 is the renewal date for television station broadcast licenses in the state of Ohio & the process starts now. This is a great chance for you to start having influence in how your airwaves are used. Learn how to monitor your local media, comment on their performance, & work with them to make media that is more reflective of your community. At Media Bridges, 1100 Race Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202. More info @ 513.651.4171, sara@mediabridges.org, & www.mediabridges.org/edulist.pdf.
How to Energetically Clear & Protect Yourself, Home, & Workplace [Thursday 30 June @ 6:30 - 9 PM]: How to clear yourself, property, & space of inappropriate or negative energies & replace them with positive energies. Learn ways to protect yourself, home & office energetically. Participants will receive an outline of specific steps. $35 pre-registration. At WholeCare, 4434 Carver Woods Drive, Blue Ash, OH. More info and register @ 502.777.3865 & jutley5122@bellsouth.net.
Heritage Garden Fare [Saturday-Sunday 2-3 July @ noon - 5 PM]: Presented by Friends of Baker Hunt Art & Cultural Center. Marketing antique roses, hydrangeas, perennials, hollyhocks, heirloom vegetables & much more. Exhibition of the art of instructors at Baker Hunt: watercolors, pottery, oils, mosaics, & more. Purveyors of garden related items. Master gardeners. A home & garden tour of some of the areas most spectacular historic homes. Free. Proceeds to benefit the Friends of Baker Hunt Scholarship Program & the Heritage Gardens of Baker Hunt. At the grounds of Baker-Hunt, 620 Greenup Street, Covington, KY 41011. More info @ 859.431.0020, info@bakerhunt.com, & www.bakerhunt.com.
Grand Homes, Gardens, & Grapes [Saturday-Sunday 2-3 July @ noon - 5 PM]: A tour of 12+ homes & gardens in Covington¹s historic riverfront neighborhoods, between the suspension bridge & the Licking River. Wine tasting & other treats at Greenup Street restaurants. Tour stops include the Daniel Carter Beard House (c. 1820), Daniel Fallis house (Greek Revival c. 1852), the unique campus of the Baker-Hunt Arts & Cultural Center (c. 1840), & many other 19th century treasures. $25; kids under 12 are free, with paying adult. All proceeds will be used for neighborhood beautification projects. Info: (513) 289-0022 & www.lickingriverside.com.
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Tri-State Treasures is compiled by James Kesner.To submit Tri-State Treasures, or to request your email address to be added or removed
from the Tri-State Treasures list, send an email to jkesner@nuvox.net and specify Tri-State Treasures.
6/18/05
Take your hazardous waste to special dump site
Through September 20
Thanks to Caeli Good for this
You have to take your stuff out to the special dump near Reading. See link for map, and instructions. ellenhttp://www.hcdoes.org/sw/HHW/hhw_collection_program.html
The average home has 60 100 pounds of hazardous waste stored in the basement, garage, or under the sink. Improper storage or disposal can cause accidental poisonings and environmental damage.
This program is for Hamilton County residents only! Participants must show proof of
Hamilton County residency. If you have any questions please call 513-946-7734 or email Susan Schumacher at susan.schumacher@hamilton-co.org.
7/8
July 8
Paddlefest 2005
The largest canoe and kayak festival in the Midwest,
On the Ohio River
Friday July 8; 3:00pm (four Seasons Marina, Kellogg Ave.) Free Admission, Saturday 8:30 - 1:00 pm 6 mile paddle race
http://www.OhioRiverWay.org
Register to race, or just come and watch. You can rent a canoe, but reserve it at website above. Hundreds of canoe and kayak paddlers. See you there!
July 8 - 10, 2005
EarthSpirit Rising:Summer Conference
(Hey, I have now a coupon for $25 discount on registration fee
to anyone who contacts me.
Only have one of these, so act now. ellen)
(Also, Louise writes there is more financial aid...see below)
Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio
(This is a national, important Eco Conference put on each year by our own IMAGO, that fab. movement up on Enright in Price Hill founded decades ago by the Shenks, Jim and Eileen. Last year it was in the Carolinas. This year it is right here. I will be leading one of the discussion groups on Saturday evening on how to build community in your own locale. See, people will be coming from all over the country and abroad for this. I will talk about building the salon. So this is a great opportunity to attend a great conference. Check out the stars who will be giving keynotes! See below. ellen)
EarthSpirit Rising:
A Conference on Ecology, Spirituality, and Community
All the details are on the web at: http://Earthspiritrising.org
A Council of Earth Elders follows the conference
All the details are on the web at: http://Earthspiritrising.org
For a conference brochure, registration or more information:
E-mail - earthspiritrising@imagoearth.org
Phone - 513-921-5124
Mail - EarthSpirit Rising 700 Enright Ave Cincinnati Ohio 45205
$$ Aid for ESR Conference
Hi, Ellen,
I talked with David Rosenberg today about the EarthSpirit Rising conference
and the number of people connected with the Lloyd House whom he thought
would love to attend but would find the $200 fee out of reach. We
brainstormed ways to get people there, and one of the thoughts is to pass on
to you the application for work/study for the conference. (see links above for application). There are a
limited number of positions, but there is still room for a few more people.
The trade is for about 8 hours of help at the conference. The cost is
reduced to $85. It works best for local folks because it doesn't include
food or lodging.
We also talked about how to find a couple of donors who would underwite the
rest of the fee, or at least some of it. Any ideas who we might approach?
Thanks,
Louise Lawarre
6/18 I spoke with Sr. Alice Gerdeman yesterday about this march. They have not begun to work on busses and stuff for this one yet. I am counting on them to lead our delegation from Cincinnati. Them being the Intercommunity Peace and Justic Center. What a wonderful force they are in our city! I also told her I wanted to attend training for the demonstrators in non violent tactics, and what to do if the D.C. police act up against the demonstrators. Hope she will organize that. Police can be very dangerous and scary these days. ellen
SEPTEMBER 24-26, 2005
Huge March in Washington
against war in Iraq
Sept. 24
ACTION ALERT * UNITED FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE
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Hold Bush & Congress Accountable for the Deaths, the Destruction,
the Lies, and the Toll on Our Communities
SEPTEMBER 24-26, 2005END THE WAR ON IRAQ - BRING THE TROOPS HOME NOW!
Leave no bases behind - End the corporate occupation of Iraq
Stop bankrupting our communities - No military recruitment in our schools
Sat., 9/24 - Massive March, Rally & Festival
Sun., 9/25 - Interfaith Service, Grassroots Training
Mon., 9/26 - Lobby Day, Mass Nonviolent Direct Action and Civil Disobedience
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More than two years after the illegal and immoral U.S. invasion of Iraq, the nightmare continues. More than 1600 U.S. soldiers have died, at least another 15,000 have been wounded; even the most conservative estimates of Iraqi deaths number in the tens of thousands. Iraq, a once sovereign nation, now lies in ruins under the military and corporate occupation of the United States; U.S. promises to rebuild have not been kept and Iraqis still lack food, water, electricity, and other basic needs. ....
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6/25/05
Thursday, June 23, 2005
Sierra Club forum looks at light rail, road project
By Maggie Downs
The Cincinnati Enquirer
MARIEMONT - More than 100 community members attended a Sierra Club-sponsored forum Wednesday night to discuss the proposed Eastern Corridor project.
The project includes a light-rail line that would run on existing tracks from downtown Cincinnati to Milford, a complete overhaul of the Ohio 32-Interstate 275 interchange in Eastgate, and a 10-mile highway that would link Interstate 71 and Ohio 32.
Transportation planners have said the long-stalled project is necessary to address traffic and safety concerns.
Mike Fremont, founder of Rivers Unlimited, formed to protect Ohio's rivers, fears potential environmental destruction for the Little Miami National Wild and Scenic River if the project goes ahead.
Haynes Goddard, a professor of economics at the University of Cincinnati, was skeptical of the Eastern Corridor Benefit/Cost Analysis findings, a 2004 preliminary study that said transportation benefits from the project could outweigh costs by 2 to 1.
John Schneider, chairman of the Alliance for Regional Transit, took issue with the proposed 17-mile Oasis light rail transit route. He prefers the Wasson route past the University of Cincinnati and Xavier University and on through Hyde Park.
E-mail mdowns@enquirer.com
correction from Dr. Goddard "It was on the I-71 Corridor that we found benefits outweigh the costs two to one, but on this Eastern Corridor study, the costs outweigh the benefits by a factor of 24 to one --costs of $580 million and benefits of $24 million. It is a terrible transit recommendation."
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Animal Protein Linked to Most of our Health Problems
6/25: (This is the talk on The China Study given by Mike Freemont of Rivers Unlimited at the Earthsave annual meeting last Sunday. He graciously emailed me the notes for the talk along with the following note:
Here it is, as I said it. I would change it only to correct that Dr. Campbell alluded to animal protein as probably causative of autoimmune diseases and mentions Parkinson's as related. Please edit as you wish - It was my first book review.[Mike is eighty something years old...86?, is an activist for clean rivers etc., a serious athlete--he ran the Boston Marathon this year--also does canoe racing-- and a very cute guy. He is an engineer by background. Earthsave is a national organization; the local chapter is shepherded by Mary Ann Lederer <ledererm@nuvox.net> that Grandma Moses style painter (exhibits St. John's etc.) and parapleigic for many years. They h ave monthly meetings, and are all about vegan diet to save the world. ellen]
As expected, challenges to the Study are coming out. One said why only casein as a promoter? (These are pro-milk people). I don't know (I'm just an engineer) but the studies on rats and mice used aflatoxin as the causative agent and casein as promoter. Humans wouldn't hold still for such tests! The study of Chinese people may have broken down the animal protein promoters into chicken, eggs, hogs etc. Don't know!
Thanks for your interest!
Mike
EARTH SAVE
JUNE 19, 2005
THE CHINA STUDY
I don¹t know what Mary Anne has gotten you into.
I¹ve never done a book review before. I¹m not a doctor, not a scientist, not an English major. And there are some tough technical passages.
I think Mary Anne asked me to come because I¹ve had cancer, am healthy, follow a good diet, am very old and still race canoes long distances and run marathons.
When I was diagnosed with cancer in 1992 I dived for a book my son had sent me Michio Kushi¹s The Cancer Prevention Diet. I went to the Kushi Institute, learned the foods and how to cook them, and went on the Macrobiotic Diet.
I shrank the cancer in the first year after diagnosis, resumed competitive endurance sports and in the second year must have run down my immune system and had to be operated, over 2 years after diagnosis. In the diagnosis there was metastasis. When operated it was nowhere to be seen. All that is now 11 years ago.
I¹ve maintained a lively interest in diet and health. I¹m always looking for better fuel. I came across the early news of The China Study in 1995. Here is some of Dr. Campbell¹s work published in the late 90¹s.
You may know that John Robbins, Neal Barnard and John MacDougall endorse The China Study. I accept their work, and the China Study because of the large number of research citations they have built their cases upon. In Dr. Campbell¹s work he mentioned 750 citations I counted 777 but there were probably duplications.
This book implicates animal protein as the major cancer promoter and responsible for the high incidence of the following diseases:
Heart Disease
Diabetes, Type 1 and 2
Multiple Sclerosis
Breast Cancer
Colorectal Cancer
Liver Cancer
Prostate Cancer
Alzheimer¹s probably
Osteoporosis
Kidney Stones
Rheumatoid Arthritis and other autoimmune ailments including
Parkinson¹s, Crohn¹s and Lupus
- and, you might expect, Obesity
What animal protein? milk, meat, poultry and eggs. It doesn¹t say much about fish but I gather he and his family no longer eat fish.
Prior to the China Study Dr. Campbell¹s team researched the effects of aflatoxin, found in the mold on peanuts, a potent carcinogen, on rats. Some rats got 20% protein, actually casein from milk, others got 5% protein. All of the ones on the 20% protein died, none of the ones on 5%. Message: excessive protein kills.
Then they went to mice, and got the same results.
Then fortituously they were invited into the study of diet and health in China because Chou En Lai had cancer and wanted to understand the relationship. So through the China Study they were able to document the rats/mice studies on people, in very large numbers.
In the promotion of cancer they found that cancer cell production corresponded to rate of enzyme activity. High protein in diet meant high enzyme activity, low meant low. High toxin amount and low protein amount led to no cancer. Low toxin amount and high protein led to cancer.
However even high VEGETABLE protein amounts led to no cancer.
Our US diet has 15-16% protein compared to China at 9-10%. However 80% of our protein is animal while 10% of China¹s is. That means we eat about 13 times as much animal protein as they do.
About the China Study study itself: 24 0f 27 provinces, 65 population centers, 50 men and 50 women, age 35 to 64, from each of the 65 for a total of 6500 people but each set representing a much larger number of people. 50% gave urine samples, many gave blood samples, lengthy questionnaires with I think 360 items. Campbell¹s original conclusions set out the differences between us and them as having diseases of affluence versus diseases of poverty. All the ones listed above are our affluent diseases.
The Chinese eat more calories and are not obese. Weight is not directly related to caloric input, you put out more heat and energy with a sensible plant-based diet (avoid pastries, soft white bread, sweet stuff etc.)
Another interesting investigation was the influence of Vitamin D in controlling development of serious disease. Vitamin D comes from the sun reacting with our skin which the kidney converts to Vitamin 1,25D. However we can hamper this beneficial compound by ingesting animal protein which prevents formation of 1,25d.
Animal protein also enhances Insulin Growth Factor 1 or IGF-1 which promotes cancer cell growth in prostate cancer.
I¹ll read you the 8 Principles for food and healthŠ.
And I¹ll read you some chapter headingsŠ.
And I can try to answer some questions although I imagine many of you here know much more about diet and health than I do!
6/25/05
Economic Aspects of Reducing U.S. Animal Protein Intake
(My understanding is that this is a qualitative, not a quantitative
survey of the implications of our use of Animals for food in the U.S.
Mike wants serious economists to do a quantitative study. The article is 13 pp. long. ellen)
Mike Fremont
816 Van Nes Drive
Cincinnati, OH 45246
DIET, THE U.S. ECONOMY, THE FEDERAL BUDGET,
PUBLIC HEALTH, AND THE ENVIRONMENT
February 2004
A change in the American diet to avoid animal protein meat, milk, eggs, poultry, fish and any processed foods with these ingredients would have enormous beneficial implications as set out on the following pages.
So far as we know there are no health costs in adopting such a change in diet just the opposite. There are however very powerful reasons not to change diet. Most people select foods for taste, convenience, habit, tradition and social reasons, and are unaware of the good or harm they may be doing to themselves and their children (see statement on Diet and Health following). Very few consider food as fuel (mainly athletes!) but some perhaps feel, as Bill Cosby says, ³I am what I ate, and I¹m frightened!² And no one considers what our diet may be doing to, or denying to, our country.
Since the original version of this was written (1994) many vegetable protein products have become available mimicking to some degree the taste of various meats, poultry, cheeses, butter, milk and ice cream, such that a switch to them is increasingly smooth. There is also a far greater awareness of the impacts of diet upon personal health. Despite the success of certain high-protein weight-loss diets, weight itself seems to be proportional only to caloric input, no matter whose patented regimen one follows. And no one knows the long-term health effects of a high-protein diet.
The vegetarian, and following on, the vegan, diets are not yet peripatetic but are becoming more popular. The health community, the federal food pyramid and nutritionists are recommending a mix different from before, favoring grains, vegetables and fruit.
With these changes it becomes more realistic to consider seriously the full consequences of possible diet change on a large scale.
Almost the entire focus of diet has been on personal health, and that, primarily on weight loss. So far as we know the enormous Health Bill just voted on makes no mention of diet. Our government isn¹t looking at diet and its effects on energy usage in the Energy Bill that just went down. Nor, looking at the record, did it consider the effect on the economy, the environment, oil wars, animal cruelty, feeding the world, international trade, global warming, the ozone hole, water supplies etc.
Because of population growth, resource depletion, climate change and a wealthier China, we are rapidly approaching steep increases in the price of grain and all that entails, as superbly described in Lester Brown¹s book, ³Plan B². This book comes after 30 years of Brown¹s work at the Worldwatch Institute tracking resources and trends and it suggests a ³Plan B² for how the world can still cope in the face of pretty imminent disaster if we act fast. He did not point out the effect of diet change most Americans believe that would be impossible, and certainly undesirable. But from a global point of view it could be inevitable. Since we¹re world leaders we should find out what diet change could mean to us here.
What our diagram did not consider in 1994 was the dollar benefits and costs of a switch, or a definitive way of showing what our future could be. How would we redeploy the energies of these industries and the changes in land use etc.? We have updated the statistics now and are citing references to the newer values.
We want to explore the feasibility of affixing costs and benefits to a putative new national diet. We seek the assistance of resource and agricultural economists to assess the national costs and benefits, in enough depth to give ranges, and to evoke serious interest among decision makers if the B/C is sufficiently large.
A cost-benefit study could greatly advance our national welfare if it supported a change of the national diet.
DIET AND HEALTH
1. We have a health-care crisis because we have a public health crisis.
The main purpose of health care should be to improve the public health. That is, to take care of illness, to reduce suffering, to extend the lives of the ill and to prevent disease and increase life expectancy for all.
What we hear about today is health care cost -- it is out of control and growing. We hear that many are not covered by health insurance and thus are denied care they cannot personally afford. At issue has been how to design a plan that delivers care to all and is still nationally affordable.
The debate has been about how to improve efficiency -- by competition, choice, savings accounts, subsidies the Health Bill. This is attacking the problem from the wrong end. We will neither significantly improve public health nor affect cost very much this way.
2. The most important single action we could take to improve public health and reduce health care costs would be to change the American diet. That would be called prevention.
These conclusions are drawn from statistics as follows:
Total health-care cost is about $1.65 trillion per year, about 15% of the Gross Domestic Product. It consumes one fourth of the federal budget, more than defense. Per capita expenditure is about $6,215 per year.
The Surgeon General¹s report on Nutrition and Health says that two-thirds of U.S. mortality is diet- related.
There are currently 1,200,000 new and recurrent heart cases per year, with 931,108 deaths (in 2001). The cost of cardiovascular disease and stroke in the United States in 2003 was $351.8 billion.
New cancer cases stand at 1,330,000 per year, with 556,500 deaths; one out of three will get cancer, one out of 8 women will get breast cancer. The National Institutes of Health estimates that the overall costs for cancer in the year 2002 at $171.6 billion.
The Surgeon General holds that 30 to 40% of cancers are diet related, and roughly 40% of female and 60% of male cancer is diet-related (American Institute for Cancer Research).
Diet is also implicated in causing diabetes, arthritis, osteoporosis, obesity, and dental troubles.
It is assumed that our public health is "normal". When 64% of our adult population (and 15% of our children and adolescents) are overweight or obese, and one out of three will get cancer, and elderly people are expected to be sickly, "normal" is a poor standard. Instead of accepting our condition as normal, if we were to consider it poor, in effect, terrible, we would ask why it is so and look at our public health planning accordingly. If we are living longer, perhaps it is because we are using (very costly) artificial means to overcome the damage done to our bodies by our diet over the years. We are propped up by doctors, operations, chemotherapy, radiation, hospital visits, injections, drugs, supplements, vitamins, and pills.
3. Health insurance. An insurance policy insures only against the dollar cost of a disease. It doesn't insure against a disease. The only insurance against some diseases is lifestyle -- primarily diet, but also exercise, avoidance of tobacco, alcohol, drugs, etc. The premium for this policy is very small in dollars.
Health insurance policies could be written excluding charges for heart disease and cancer. If people have the assurance the diet will protect them, they do not need the health insurance for those diseases, or at least the full premium for them. Thus, the diet can save them even more money. The three reasons for diet as insurance are thus: 1) insurance against disease, not loss of dollars; 2) no charge for the insurance (=diet); 3) buy cheaper health insurance as it need not cover the same risk of main diseases.
4. Means by which governments can improve public health and reduce health care costs: all programs wherein there is control of the foods offered, as in: food stamps, school lunches, veterans' hospitals, military installations and deployments and in actuarially adjusted health insurance premiums reflecting the lower risk of better-nourished policy owners. This is similar to "non-smoker" premiums.
Other measures include labeling, public information programs, the phased reduction of certain agricultural subsidies, government-sponsored research into alternative medicine involving diet (In 1998, Congress enacted legislation to create the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM). This entity is part of the National Institutes of Health.
Ten and twenty years ago, we spent one out of every seven dollars on health care. It is now about one out of six dollars, and moving to one out of five dollars. Almost all this money goes to repair us and prop us up, not to armor us against sickness. That would be accomplished by a healthy lifestyle. If we moved to a better diet, we would charge up this great national battery with higher productivity and enormous savings.
People will resist changing their diet, but our bodies do not need any meat, poultry, eggs, or milk. We do have addictions to meat, cheese, sugar, and chocolate, but there are cures and substitutes.
We could change our diet habits because we have in the past. We are becoming vegetarian as well as Atkinsian. We are going organic. The rate of smoking in this country has declined. John Robbins has written that "The revolution sweeping our relationship to our food and our world, I believe, is part of an historical imperative. This is what happens when the human spirit is activated. One hundred and fifty years ago, slavery was legal in the United States. One hundred years ago, women could not vote in most states. Eighty years ago, there were no laws in the United States against any form of child abuse. Fifty years ago, we had no Civil Rights Act, no Clean Air or Clean Water legislation, no Endangered Species Act. Today, millions of people are refusing to buy clothes and shoes made in sweatshops and are seeking to live healthier and more Earth-friendly lifestyles. In the last fifteen years alone, as people in the United States have realized how cruelly veal calves are treated, veal consumption has dropped 62 percent."
Robbins also sums these issues up succinctly by stating that "The same food choices that do so much to prevent disease -- that give us the most vitality, the strongest immune system, and the greatest life expectancy -- are also the ones that take the least toll on the environment, conserve our precious natural resources, and are the most compassionate toward our fellow creatures."
Some of the externalized costs of animal protein
Hormones ingested
Antibiotics ingested
Hormones and antibiotics in waterways affecting drinking water surface and well -- and aquatic organisms including fish
Mad Cow costs of changing feeds, and inspections, lurking cases of vCJD
Possible costs of Avian Flu
Possible costs of SARS
Additional cost for and need to freeze animal protein vs. herbivorous crops
Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFO) costs to communities: public health, fecal material in waterways and wells, reduced quality of life for neighbors, reduced property values, flies
Loss of anadromous fish runs
Loss of species through overfishing, hi-tech fishing, use of bycatch as feed, corruption of wild fish strains, diseases attacking wild fish
Why we eat what we do Is Change Easy?
Taste not very, but we can add to it
Convenience depends
Cost yes, if you have money
Tradition sometimes
Habit sometimes Health somewhat, but limited
Performance includes beauty not very, except for fatness
Pluses and minuses of the Vegan Diet
Reason What to do
Taste (-) Limits choices substitute
Convenience (- ) Limits choices in short run better distribution
Cost (+) ultimately cheaper (opinion)
Tradition (-) non-traditional advertising
Habit (-) must change incentives
Health (+) very good for us
Performance, beauty (+) very good for us
BLOCK DIAGRAM
The following block diagram and explanation key cover many of the impacts of a potential change in the western diet. Unfortunately for the world, much of the rest of the world is adopting our western diet. Although all western diets are not the same, the worst may be the American diet where these statistics came from.
Providing food, fiber, and shelter for the world's peoples is considered unsustainable by leading scientists in the face of growing populations and diminishing natural resources.
Important issues include less arable land, energy costs, and the great inefficiency of providing animal protein, which, as many cultures as well as nutritional experts and vegetarians can attest, is entirely unnecessary for good health, or performance for that matter.
Dr. T. Colin Campbell of the China study avers, "animal protein is one of the most toxic nutrients that can be considered."
KEY TO BLOCK DIAGRAM
1.00 Improved Diet. No animal products (meat, poultry, dairy, eggs).
2.00 Less Animal Cruelty, (Animal Rights). Animals raised for slaughter are mostly kept in overcrowded, filthy conditions, requiring copious antibiotics to prevent infection; sometimes given growth-stimulating hormones. Some animals are mutilated to prevent their damaging each other in their misery and anger at crowding in an unnatural environment.
3.00 Reduced Energy Usage. Close to thirty percent of the nation's oil usage is dedicated to livestock, from the production of feedgrains through the freezing, refrigeration, transportation, processing, and packaging operations. Close to 60 percent of our oil imports go to livestock production. The percent of total oil used for livestock was 33% because we import about 55% of our oil. In 2002, the U.S. imported 11 million barrels per day (and used 20 million barrels of oil per day). In the 1940¹s, we got 100 barrels of oil per barrel that we spent getting it. Today we get only ten barrels per barrel.
Calories of fuel energy used by U.S. farms in 1940 per calorie of food produced = 0.4
Calories of fuel energy used by U.S. farms in 1974 per calorie of food produced = 1.0
Calories of fossil fuel expended to produce one calorie of protein from soybeans: 2
Calories of fossil fuel expended to produce one calorie of protein from corn or wheat: 3
Calories of fossil fuel expended to produce one calorie of protein from beef: 78
3.01 Better Balance of Trade. Greatly reduced import of meat and cheese, including that proportion of imported fish catch, 50% of which is used for animal food. 22 million tons of wild fish were used by the livestock industry for cow and pig feed in 1997. That is a figure greater than the combined weight of the entire human population of the U.S.
3.02 Less Involvement in Oil Wars. Many believe certain U.S. military actions and military aid given other countries were to ensure our supplies of imported oil. See 4.00. We would become more self-sufficient.
3.03 Less Air Pollution. With lowered energy consumption, less sulfur oxides (SOx), nitrogen oxides (NOx), particulate pollution and carbon dioxide (CO2), reduced airborne pesticides (the Great Lakes' main source of pesticides). Also, less dust from wind erosion of fields, reduced manufacture of plastic refrigerated food packaging, reduced transportation inputs per calorie delivered to the table, reduced animal flatulence and CO2 production. Cattle and other livestock account for twice the amount of pollutants as come from all U.S. industrial sources.
3.04 Less Water Pollution, Fewer Oil Spills. Less farm animal waste runoff -- from feed lots, pastures, grazing lands along streams, reduced treated and untreated animal waste sewage, reduced sewage from food livestock-connected manufacturing, fewer marine oil spills (with reduced imports).
3.05 Fewer Toxics, Ash. Fewer chemicals required in feed grains, from fertilizers that leach into groundwater and surface water supplies, through pesticides, processing additives (although used in other foods, too). Less fossil-fueled power plant ash with reduced energy; less incinerator dioxin and heavy metal ash from meat, dairy, egg, and their processed products packaging.
4.00 Improved Personal Health. Diet-related diseases cause 68% of American deaths; 30 to 40% of cancers are caused by diet, particularly fats (roughly 60% of American fat intake is from animal, not vegetable origin). In China, 11% of protein comes from animals, 89% from vegetable. Diet can prevent, alleviate, and sometimes cure numerous diseases including breast, colon, and prostate cancer. 11 percent of cancer risk is from pesticides in beef alone.
Scientific data suggests a positive relationship between a vegetarian diet and a reduced risk of several diseases and conditions, such as diabetes, hypertension, and coronary artery disease. The risk of death from heart disease for vegetarians is half that of non-vegetarians -- even after controlling for smoking, body mass index, and socioeconomic status. In 2001, 64,400,000 Americans had one or more forms of cardiovascular disease (CVD).
The American Institute of Cancer Research says 40 studies have linked regular consumption of whole grains with a 10 to 60 percent lower risk of certain cancers. In 1997, they analyzed more than 4,500 research studies and found that 60 to 70 percent of all cancers can be prevented. This, primarily by eating predominantly plant-based diets that are rich in a variety of vegetables and fruits, legumes, and minimally processed starchy staple foods. (They also recommend staying physically active and not smoking).
4.01 More Disposable Income. Better health = more days on the job, lower individual health cost and insurance premiums.
4.02 Longer Life Expectancy. Not definitively established but all signs imply it; greatly reduced death from degenerative diseases. Vegetarians are leaner and fitter than non-vegetarians are, and John Robbins suggests that they outlive the rest of the population by 6 - 10 years. (Vegan statistics are scarce but likely to be more favorable).
4.03 Higher Quality of Life. Because of better health.
4.04 Better Public Health. Same as 4.00.
4.05 Lower Health Costs. Healthier people = less sickness = less required from doctors, hospitals, insurance, drugs. Each year, over $33 billion in medical costs, and $9 billion in lost productivity due to heart disease, cancer, strokes, and diabetes are attributed to diet. The USDA estimates that healthier diets might prevent $71 billion per year in medical costs, lost productivity, and the value of premature deaths caused by just four diet-related diseases. Leading health economists say that the drop in mortality from coronary heart disease yields an economic value of $300 billion annually. In 2003, our expenditures for food were $150 per $1000 and our expenditures for health care were $190 per $1000. Dr. T. Colin Campbell, of Cornell University, conservatively estimates that excessive meat consumption is responsible for between $60 and $120 billion of health care costs each year in the U.S. alone. Insurance companies and court judgments put a value on "early death." of $4 to $8 million per person. Taking the $4 million figure, just taking 1% of early cancer deaths, 1% of heart case deaths, and 1% of the medical care cost of diet-related diseases, that amounts to $60 billion. In 2000, the total cost of obesity was estimated at $75 billion (Medicare and Medicaid pay half of that amount, the other half is borne by taxpayers).
4.06 Improved Genetics. Healthier parents mean fewer defective births and miscarriages; healthier children.
4.07 More Dollars for Personal Investment. As less is needed for private sector health care, insurance and workforce absenteeism, more is available for other purposes.
4.08 More Dollars for Infrastructure. Health care is 15% of the GDP which is now $1.65 trillion. We do not have a health-care crisis; we have a public health crisis.
4.09 More Dollars for Business Development. Same as 4.07, but public sector dollars.
4.10 Higher Productivity. Less absenteeism, more vitality.
4.11 More Competitive Internationally. See 4.10, also health costs would be a smaller percentage of product costs of goods and services.
5.00 Improved Environment. See all previous. Reduced air, water, land pollution; fewer toxics, less ash, less solid waste, reduced draft upon and damage to our natural resources -- including the ozone layer, CO2 global warming, acid rain. See following.
5.01 Cleaner Air. See 3.03.
5.02 Reduced Global Warming. Reforestation of farmlands converted for livestock feed and grazing would reduce threat. So would less use of fossil energy; likewise less animal flatulence (methane). Methane emissions, at 177 million tons in 2000, were 9% of global warming factors, and cattle (the highest contributor) and other ruminants accounted for 25% of total global warming factors. Methane traps 21 times more heat per molecule, compared to carbon dioxide (CO2).
5.03 Less Methane. See 3.03, 5.02.
5.04 Preserve Ozone Layer. Reduced use of ozone-destroying refrigerants; less automotive-exhaust nitrogen compounds, fertilizer-generated nitrous oxide, less animal methane.
5.05 Less Acid Rain. Fewer automotive and power plant SOx and NOx emissions.
5.06 Reduced Ocean Fish Catch. About half of the non-table-grade fish catch is fed to animals.
5.07 Less Demand for Water. 50% of U.S. water usage goes to livestock production and preparation for the table. For irrigation, feeding, and watering livestock, the industry draws down aquifer water tables, reduces surface water levels, and is responsible for numerous impoundments -- with impacts upon drinking water supplies, fish, and other species and their populations, recreation, property values, and quality of life. Fewer cows, pigs, and chickens and their feed operations would allow recovery of natural water supplies, functions, and multiple-use values. 345,000 gallons of water are required to produce 1 ton of grain. Producing a pound of animal protein requires, on average, about 100 times more water than producing a pound of vegetable protein. Growing grain to feed cattle requires 12,000 gallons of water for every pound of beef. Vegans use 300 gallons of water per day for food, and meat eaters use 4,000 gallons per day for food.
5.08 Less Grazing. In the arid west grazing is a significant destroyer of riparian areas. These areas are trampled, polluted, and their vegetation eaten or flattened. Grazing causes serious erosion of stream banks, sedimentation of the waters, and reduced fish populations. Without grazing, these natural resources would recover.
5.09 Save Endangered Species. The presence of livestock, with their land and water pollution, the land deprived of natural vegetation to grow feed and to provide pasture and grazing land, the chemicals, fences, and predator controls to protect farm animals all compromise the continued existence of numerous rare, threatened, and endangered species. Removal of these pressures would allow the return of some populations to sustaining levels and give greater life expectancy to others.
5.10 Save Rain Forests and Other Natural Lands. See 6.02. Hundreds of millions of acres of rainforest and other tropical and sub-tropical lands have been cut and burned over to feed cattle to become American (and in other countries increasingly) fast-food hamburger. Some of this land could be returned to other uses if not already permanently destroyed.
5.11 Less Refrigeration, Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) et al. Because less is needed from slaughterhouse to consumption.
6.00 More Arable Land Available. Roughly 64% of American agricultural land is used for livestock production; 70% of all American grain is for livestock, 77% of corn, close to 90% of soybeans, and close to 95% of oats. This land would be available to grow other crops to feed people, supply sustainable energy, and grow trees for lumber and other purposes.
The U.S. exports upwards of 50% of the world¹s grain, shipping grain to more than 100 countries. The U.S. exports 78% of the world¹s corn. 2003 production of corn was 10.2 billion bushels, soy -- 2.8 billion bushels, wheat -- 2.52 billion bushels, and oats -- 73 million bushels. The production of every quarter-pound hamburger in the U.S. causes the loss of five times the burger's weight in topsoil.
6.01 Food, not Feed, Grain for the World. Much more land available to feed people, not
animals. Severe shortages exist now, and this situation is certain to worsen. Of U.S. grain exports, 2/3 now goes to feed livestock, not people. There are now about 60 million beef cattle in the U.S., (of a total herd of 100,000,000) and the 7 billion livestock animals in the U.S. now eat five times as much grain as is consumed by the country's entire human population.
6.02 Less Cause for War. As land that formerly fed and sustained peoples in less-developed countries is increasingly converted to cattle raising for export, it worsens the lot of the landless -- ultimately destroying lands converted from rainforest after a few years. Landless peasants, poverty, a few wealthy landowners, and not enough land to feed the people all contribute to a scenario leading to dictatorship and war.
6.03 Less Famine. See 6.00, 6.01. This country could feed a lot more people from our land if we didn't feed farm animals from it. Also, livestock production is the primary cause of desertification in less developed countries, causing mass migration.
6.04 Reduced Subsidies. Irrigation subsidies are $500 million to $1 billion per year for livestock growers. Grazing on national lands enjoys a subsidy in the billions of dollars, as well. There are several subsidies for milk, poultry, feed grain, and eggs. Possible reduced subsidies for food stamps, school lunches, veterans' hospitals, and military installations to provide lower cost, healthier food of equivalent caloric, mineral, and vitaminic content. Total irrigation subsidies amount to $2.2 billion. Federal subsidies received by Tyson, just for their factory trawler fleet, amount to $200 million. The fossil fuel industry is still being subsidized by U.S. taxpayers to the tune of $210 billion per year.
6.05 Sustainable Energy Source. See 6.07. Biomass, alcohol and other crop-derived fuels rather than fossil or nuclear.
6.06 Energy Independence. A major step to reduce the need for imports.
6.07 Biomass for Energy. Crops grown for conversion to energy (for direct burning or processing) as with alcohol from sugar cane and diesel oil from soybeans. A use for land removed from livestock production, providing sustainable alternative fuels.
6.08 Fewer Pesticides. See 3.05. Likely a net reduction of pesticides, even if livestock-dedicated lands were converted to other crops.
7.0 Lower Cost to Feed People. As more land is available to grow food crops, and where the calories produced from food grain are up to 10 times that produced by feeding cattle on the same acreage. For herbivorous species of farmed fish (such as carp, tilapia, and catfish), it takes less than 2 kilograms of grain to produce a 1 kilogram gain in live weight. For cattle in feedlots, it takes roughly 7 kilograms of grain. The U.S. produced 240,000 tons of Catfish using aquaculture in 2002 -- this amounts to approximately 2 pounds per person here. (Catfish is currently the leading aquacultural product in the U.S.).
6/25/05
John David Charter* remarks about the Drug War Scam thing:
(* He is the guy who is involved with African diamonds and wants to promote literacy in W. Africa through computers.)
Hi Ellen I have been in Maine and NYC but am returning to Cincy now. I plan to attend the salon next week. Thank you for the invitation.
Of course you are correct that the illegality of drugs drives all of the "problems." so it would seem to be disengenuous (sp?) to raise penalties for pot (for example)....but the status quo is that the illegal status is the VERY THING that supports the existing structures. It becomes a catch 22 like how do you eliminate the IRS? On one hand it seem obviously nuts that ANY penalty for the smoking of a common plant could be illegal at all! On the other hand since we theoretically have the power to govern ourselves WE have made it illegal. One woman MAD changed our society totally in relationship to alcohol and driving. Her personal mission for change played well into several camps.
I agree there is a HUGE human tragic cost in muddling mind's relations with mood altering drugs. Even the overground drug industry finally is ready to sanction for profit the abuse of mood altering drugs for "treatment" of personality conditions which are software problems - not chemical problems.
I personally have learned through experience that drug use opens as well as closes doors on every level. Ultimately an integrative personality will automatically stop all self medication as the process is self teaaching. We might encourage that process if we see it and all of the rest is just the way it is....so far.
I was seriously affetced by George Orwell's powerfut statement - " you want a picture of the future? ..... Just imagine a boot stomping on a childs face forever! Considering the beautiful way that he presented the argument and considering the prophetic nature apparent in the development of our consensus story, it would seem there is an inevitability would seem bleak to one like myself.
My second son was born at home in an open loving environment with all of the inclusion of the older son in all of the process realizing that there must be an integration of a new and more dependent being into the family. We had just gotten Jac a pair of cowboy boots. Shortly after Kalin was born we were all in bed together when Jac very deliberately kicked Kalin (only a day or two old) in the head with that cowboy boot and with obvious malice. There was no predictive behavoir for this.
After integrating that experience I realized that Orwell's " BOOT" is on another CHILD'S foot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What a relief that was. We are simply operating as children in a more or less "Lord of the Flies" level. Stagnation at that level is not possible ultimately. As to the future I say "Come on with it!!!!"
Apparently the stiffening of penalties for pot did not fly. That is the long and the short of it. Next case --------------- Sincerely
J.David
6/25/05
Absentee Salonista Noreen writes on:
"Speaking or racism and kissing etc.
Reminded me of the early 70¹s (Cincinnati when I got 86¹d from a barŠnot for being drunk but for having had the audacity
To have been kissed by a black man
Also got evicted (before tenants rights) from a Mount Adams apartment for having black friends visit.
In the 60¹s, in Boston, my father¹s campaign headquarters was burnt to the ground because ³he sold out his birthright to the ³N¹s²
Likely burned by, the now-on-the-fbi-most-wanted-list, Whitey Bulger who conveniently happened to be the brother of my father¹s opponent Billy Bulger .
Blessings go to you.
Love, Hugs & Sobriety ODAAT
Noreen L-S "
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