http://wrongside.vox.com/library/links/page/1/ en Vox Sat, 22 Sep 2007 19:58:35 +1000 Copyright 2007 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://wrongside.vox.com/library/link/6a00d41437c1203c7f00e398ab14950001.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Fiona) http://wrongside.vox.com/library/link/6a00d41437c1203c7f00e398ab14950001.html?_c=feed-rss http://wrongside.vox.com/library/link/6a00d41437c1203c7f00e398ab14950001.html?_c=feed-rss Sat, 22 Sep 2007 19:58:35 +1000 <a href="http://ivegan.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00d41437c1203c7f00e398ab32a90003.html" title="Car Free Day! - The V-Word"><img src="http://a5.vox.com/6a00d41437c1203c7f00e398ab14950001-75pi" alt="Car Free Day! - The V-Word" style="float: left; margin: 0 10px 10px 0;" /></a> <p style="margin: 0 0 0 85px;">Today was Car Free Day - a world wide event encouraging consciousness about our use of vehicles and how it affects not only our environment, but also our communities. Here in Australia I didn&#39;t hear anything at all about it - but I have a friend in Germany who was aware of it (go figure). We&#39;ve been sans car since we moved to Australia 10 months ago. There are times when not having a car irritates or worries me - grocery shopping is now a recurring aggravation - and we do use a taxi to bring it all home. I sometimes worry as well that one of the kids will be sick or need immediate parental presence.I will have to have a car when I return to work - and that is unavoidable. I can say however, that I will be MUCH more conscious about using it. I am very supportive of car share programs - and if an idea to make this work for our family was put in front of me - I&#39;d grab it in a second!</p> <p style="margin: 10px 0 0 85px;"><a href="http://ivegan.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00d41437c1203c7f00e398ab32a90003.html" title="Car Free Day! - The V-Word">http://ivegan.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00d41437c1203c7f00e398ab32a90003.html</a></p> <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://wrongside.vox.com/library/link/6a00d41437c1203c7f00e398ab14950001.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d41437c1203c7f00e398ab14950001?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://wrongside.vox.com/library/link/6a00d41437c1203c7f00e398ab10210001.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Fiona) http://wrongside.vox.com/library/link/6a00d41437c1203c7f00e398ab10210001.html?_c=feed-rss http://wrongside.vox.com/library/link/6a00d41437c1203c7f00e398ab10210001.html?_c=feed-rss Sat, 22 Sep 2007 18:08:51 +1000 <a href="http://ivegan.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00d41437c1203c7f00e398ab19120002.html" title="Why Go V? - The V-Word"><img src="http://a1.vox.com/6a00d41437c1203c7f00e398ab10210001-75pi" alt="Why Go V? - The V-Word" style="float: left; margin: 0 10px 10px 0;" /></a> <p style="margin: 0 0 0 85px;">I&#39;ve been talking a bit with friends and family about my decision to go vegetarian/vegan and find myself having to come up with a short list of why I have made the decision. It&#39;s funny because even people who are really close to me seem to find this choice of mine hitting from left field. For me going vegetarian feels anything but - I have spent months thinking about it, researching it and ever so gradually - stepping away from meat.I&#39;m discovering I don&#39;t like giving &#39;reasons&#39; for why I have made the decision to go vegetarian because I notice that often &#39;listing reasons&#39; makes people defensive. I say, &quot;I can&#39;t justify the killing of a living being to put food on my plate anymore&quot; and then get to hear how animal killing doesn&#39;t bother *them* (yes but we weren&#39;t talking about why you decided to become vegetarian, and honey you did ask me why I did - lol) Or I say, I really feel better about my health when I am not eating meat - less problems with hives, bloat - don&#39;t have to worry about my heart and arteries etc. Then I hear how *they* don&#39;t believe the health &#39;propaganda&#39; being spread by vegetarians. Heh, it&#39;s all a bit funny.All that said, I do have some good reasons why I made this choice. My top 5:1 - My health; cheaper health care/life insurance2- Better nutrition; more conscious consumption3 - Sustainability4 - The environment5- Humanitarian - choosing a &#39;do no harm&#39; policy not only for animals, but for issues of global hungerOther people have developed their own lists - and if you&#39;d like to look at them, check out these 49 Reasons, or these 21 Reasons. If you&#39;re toying with the idea of trying out vegetarianism, you may also want to look at VegCooking: Making the Transition or Vegetarian Society: Going Vegetarian as starting points.It was really helpful to me to know that it was ok for me to &#39;try it out&#39;. Choosing to go vegetarian for 30 days is a viable introduction. You don&#39;t have to sell your life away - and its quite alright to make small or incremental change too. I noticed an article called something like Simple Tips For Good Health (lost the link sorry) but one of the ideas in there was &#39;try eating vegetarian occasionally&#39;. For some people &#39;occasionally&#39; meant one or two days a week, for others it meant eating vegetarian one month each year. There&#39;s no rule, any change toward health is better than none.I also think it is important to know your own reasons for giving a no meat diet a go. Research the subject, make your own list of reasons why you&#39;re interested in giving it a go. If you can&#39;t come up with any good reason to bother - vegetarianism is probably not for you at this point in your life - maybe it will be some other time :) </p> <p style="margin: 10px 0 0 85px;"><a href="http://ivegan.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00d41437c1203c7f00e398ab19120002.html" title="Why Go V? - The V-Word">http://ivegan.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00d41437c1203c7f00e398ab19120002.html</a></p> <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://wrongside.vox.com/library/link/6a00d41437c1203c7f00e398ab10210001.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d41437c1203c7f00e398ab10210001?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://wrongside.vox.com/library/link/6a00d41437c1203c7f00e398ab101f0001.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Fiona) http://wrongside.vox.com/library/link/6a00d41437c1203c7f00e398ab101f0001.html?_c=feed-rss http://wrongside.vox.com/library/link/6a00d41437c1203c7f00e398ab101f0001.html?_c=feed-rss Sat, 22 Sep 2007 18:08:34 +1000 <a href="http://ivegan.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00d41437c1203c7f00e398ab19120002.html" title="Why Go V? - The V-Word"><img src="http://a7.vox.com/6a00d41437c1203c7f00e398ab101f0001-75pi" alt="Why Go V? - The V-Word" style="float: left; margin: 0 10px 10px 0;" /></a> <p style="margin: 0 0 0 85px;">I&#39;ve been talking a bit with friends and family about my decision to go vegetarian/vegan and find myself having to come up with a short list of why I have made the decision. It&#39;s funny because even people who are really close to me seem to find this choice of mine hitting from left field. For me going vegetarian feels anything but - I have spent months thinking about it, researching it and ever so gradually - stepping away from meat.I&#39;m discovering I don&#39;t like giving &#39;reasons&#39; for why I have made the decision to go vegetarian because I notice that often &#39;listing reasons&#39; makes people defensive. I say, &quot;I can&#39;t justify the killing of a living being to put food on my plate anymore&quot; and then get to hear how animal killing doesn&#39;t bother *them* (yes but we weren&#39;t talking about why you decided to become vegetarian, and honey you did ask me why I did - lol) Or I say, I really feel better about my health when I am not eating meat - less problems with hives, bloat - don&#39;t have to worry about my heart and arteries etc. Then I hear how *they* don&#39;t believe the health &#39;propaganda&#39; being spread by vegetarians. Heh, it&#39;s all a bit funny.All that said, I do have some good reasons why I made this choice. My top 5:1 - My health; cheaper health care/life insurance2- Better nutrition; more conscious consumption3 - Sustainability4 - The environment5- Humanitarian - choosing a &#39;do no harm&#39; policy not only for animals, but for issues of global hungerOther people have developed their own lists - and if you&#39;d like to look at them, check out these 49 Reasons, or these 21 Reasons. If you&#39;re toying with the idea of trying out vegetarianism, you may also want to look at VegCooking: Making the Transition or Vegetarian Society: Going Vegetarian as starting points.It was really helpful to me to know that it was ok for me to &#39;try it out&#39;. Choosing to go vegetarian for 30 days is a viable introduction. You don&#39;t have to sell your life away - and its quite alright to make small or incremental change too. I noticed an article called something like Simple Tips For Good Health (lost the link sorry) but one of the ideas in there was &#39;try eating vegetarian occasionally&#39;. For some people &#39;occasionally&#39; meant one or two days a week, for others it meant eating vegetarian one month each year. There&#39;s no rule, any change toward health is better than none.I also think it is important to know your own reasons for giving a no meat diet a go. Research the subject, make your own list of reasons why you&#39;re interested in giving it a go. If you can&#39;t come up with any good reason to bother - vegetarianism is probably not for you at this point in your life - maybe it will be some other time :) </p> <p style="margin: 10px 0 0 85px;"><a href="http://ivegan.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00d41437c1203c7f00e398ab19120002.html" title="Why Go V? - The V-Word">http://ivegan.groups.vox.com/library/post/6a00d41437c1203c7f00e398ab19120002.html</a></p> <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://wrongside.vox.com/library/link/6a00d41437c1203c7f00e398ab101f0001.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00d41437c1203c7f00e398ab101f0001?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p>