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Glenn Gaetz
Vancouver, Canada
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Glenn commented on the article |We don't need to promote the further commodification of any animal, especially here on a blog that is supposed to promote consideration for animals. We don't even need to buy mason bees, even in the name of "saving the ecosystem." If you live where mason bees are native you can attract and promote a healthy mason bee population by building a high quality mason bee house (excellent instructions are here: http://www.masonbeevancouver.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4&Itemid=8).
Buying and selling animals just perpetuates the idea that the world and its inhabitants are all here for our use. It's also worth noting that the value of bees is in pollinating our vegetable and fruit crops - that's what we're really worried about, not the actual ecosystem.
If you live in a place where mason bees are not native you shouldn't be buying mason bees, since introducing a non-native species is often bad for the ecosystem and often also for the introduced species. The honey bee is a perfect example - not native and not well-suited to most North American climates.
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Glenn commented on the article |
Are you kidding me? This blog is supposed to be about caring for animals and you write about purchasing them online?
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Glenn commented on the article |ALL farming of animals is built on mistreatment of animals - the ultimate mistreatment of murder, not to mention the hijacking of reproductive systems and stealing of offspring.
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Glenn commented on the article |Dairy is also a major source of the hormones that lead to early puberty. Milk contains naturally occurring estrogens, along with other naturally occurring hormones.
Just check out this quote from Harvard Magazine (http://harvardmagazine.com/2007/05/modern-milk.html)
"Even as the scientific community has become interested in the effects of the bioactive substances found in pesticides, says Ganmaa, not much attention has been paid to the naturally occurring estrogens found in food, which are both far more abundant and more biologically available than environmental estrogens. In fact, she is concerned that the high levels of hormones found in commercially produced milk may be harmful to human health. Estrogens and other growth factors have been implicated in the development of hormone-dependent cancers: those affecting the prostate, testes, ovaries, breasts, and uterus."
Our excessive milk consumption is quite likely the primary culprit in early puberty, along with a host of other medical issues - issues which strangely enough do not show up as much in cultures that drink less milk than we do. BPA may just be a smokescreen for the dairy industry.
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Glenn commented on the article |You know what else is bad for lobsters? Killing them and eating them. If you really cared about the residents of the oceans, you wouldn't be tossing them in boiling water or grilling them.
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Glenn commented on the article |Want to really help sharks and the environment? Stop eating fish. Eating sharks is not the major threat to sharks - fishing is.
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Glenn commented on the article |Give me a break with all these euphemisms! "harvest their goods"? Don't you really mean kill animals? And who says these animals are "theirs"? Let's at least try to speak about things as they are, without pretending that living animals are simply someone's goods, as if we humans own the world and it's all for us to mow down and devour.
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Glenn commented on the article |Thanks for this post, especially the part about comparing organic apples to organic apples. However, I think both the original study and your article unfairly characterize some soy products. There are many brands of tofu made from organic soybeans, so there really is no need to leave soy off your plate if your concern is GM soy. You just need to be selective about which kind you buy. Also, Tofurkey is made from non-GMO soy, so I'm not quite sure why you would unfairly class Tofurkey in with products made from GM soy?
From Tofurkey's website:
"Are your Tofurky® products organic?
We make Tofurky Products using only certified organic tofu, and we use other organic ingredients wherever supply and costs make it feasible. Our manufacturing facility in Hood River, OR is certified by Oregon Tilth as an organic food processor."
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Glenn commented on the article |Ooops, looks like I was looking at a report that was itself incorrect - the study was not funded by the Weston A Price Foundation. Sorry about the mistake - I should have checked more before posting it. The rest of my comment still stands, though.
Mother Jones has a good piece about it:
http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2010/04/veggie-burgers-neurotoxin-hexane
"How about other soy products like tempeh and tofu? Are they often made with hexane, too?
Tempeh is rarely made with hexane, and most tofu isn't either, unless it's advertised as low fat or fat free. "If the product is made with whole soy beans, which most regular tofu is, that's not hexane extracted," says Vallaeys. "But some tofu companies are now coming out with a low-fat line of tofu, which is often done with hexane-extracted soy."
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Glenn commented on the article |Just a comment about Kobe beef.
http://www.chow.com/blog/2007/11/kobe-the-arthritic-beef/
Apparently Kobe beef cattle are raised like veal, only for a longer period of time. Maybe we'd know more about that if activists could get into those farms?
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