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Last login: 16 hours agoMumZau: MumZau is a person from TAS, Australia.; Likes 6,281 pages, 35 videos, 161 photos • 350 fans • Received 87 reviews; Member since Jul 22, 2003

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May 12, 8:56pm: news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4514399.stm [news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4514399.stm]

FTP:'The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice) looked at whether lifestyle issues were relevant to how effective a drug will be and the effect on value for money.

Its draft recommendations said there was no case for discrimination on the basis of gender and sexual orientation.

It also said discrimination against patients with conditions which are self-inflicted should be avoided, effectively ruling out restrictions on access for people who smoke or are obese.

Nice is in danger of sending very mixed messages, and it is older people who will lose out
Michelle Mitchell, of Age Concern

However, the recommendations say that where age is an indicator of benefit or risk, age discrimination is appropriate.'

..Old people in the UK being placed neatly on the scrap heap..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Egypt.Luxor.Nile.01.jpg: May 12, 7:37pm 0 review egypt-luxor
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May 11, 8:01am: Hay

I cannot understand you
we walk in different ways
and yet the sun smiles benignly
as if we were one

We walk roads of deflection
I do not follow your lead
as you do not follow mine

I wonder at you
at the workings within
a frame that seems ostensibly
the same as mine

We are not one
and never mind
and never mind

But there are times
when I want to shake you
and shake you and shake you

And then the sun shines
and I feel I want nothing more
than to be at your side

And never mind
the disparity
and never mind
the compression of lips
at times

And never mind
the inadvertent
passion of words
that flick from lips
uninvited

That make us so mad

Oh never mind
never mind never mind

(C) Phoebe Francene Andrews

2008

Vegetarianisms Benefits - Christian Vegetarian Association: May 11, 7:12am 1 review health
http://www.all-creatures.org/cva/vegbenefits.htm; From the page: "The trade magazine Hog Farm Management sums up the industry's attitude: "Forget the pig is an animal. Treat him just like a machine in a factory.”50 Indeed, Oregon State University Professor of Animal Agriculture Peter Cheeke has acknowledged:

Most people who eat meat don't think too deeply about all the processes involved in converting a living animal to meat on their plate ... In my opinion, if most urban meat eaters were to visit an industrial broiler house, to see how the birds are raised, ... they would not be impressed and some, perhaps many of them would swear off eating chicken and perhaps all meat. For modern animal agriculture, the less the consumer knows about what's happening before the meat hits the plate, the better. If true, is this an ethical situation? Should we [in animal agriculture] be reluctant to let people know what really goes on, because we're not really proud of it and concerned that it might turn them to vegetarianism?51"

vegetarian action : articles: May 11, 6:52am 1 review health
http://www.vegetarianaction.org.au/Articles/06RedMeat.htm; From the page: ""This is why your body instinctively desires red meat for health and wellbeing.

When was the last time you seized a small furry animal, ripped it apart with your bare hands and ate it on the spot, with the dripping blood still warm?

If your body "instictively desires red meat for health and wellbeing", then like other carnivores, you should desire your meat raw.

For that matter, why do we disguise it by calling a dead cow "beef", or a dead sheep "mutton"?"

HEALTH, WORLD PEACE AND THE VEGETARIAN DIET & NEXUS: May 11, 6:31am 1 review health
http://nexusnovel.wordpress.com/2006/08/25/health-world-peace-and-the-vegetar...; From the page: "Numerous other potentially hazardous chemicals are present in meat and meat products. Growth hormones such as diethylstilbestrol (DES) and arsenic continue to be used in the meat industry despite studies that have shown it to be carcinogenic and/or poisonous.

Sodium nitrate and sodium nitrite are chemicals used as preservatives to slow down putrefaction in cured meat and meat products. These chemicals give meat their bright red appearance and without them, the natural grey-brown colour of dead meat would turn off many prospective consumers. The FDA points out that �oeonly a small margin of safety exists between the amount of nitrate that is safe and that which may be dangerous.” These chemicals do not distinguish between the blood of a corpse and the blood of a living person, and many persons accidentally subjected to excessive amounts have died of poisoning.

The excessive amount of antibiotics used by the livestock industry affects human health because the antibiotics are showing up in the meat being consumed which contributes to the increase in drug -resistant bacteria and infectious diseases."

May 11, 6:06am: blog.atmajyoti.org [blog.atmajyoti.org]

FTP: 'Have you ever seen what happens to a piece of meat that stays in the sun for three days? Meat can stay in the warmth of the intestine for at least four days until it is digested. It does nothing but wait for passage. Often, it usually stays there for much longer, traces remaining for up to several months. Colonic therapists always see meat passing through in people who have been vegetarians for several years, thus indicating that meat remains undigested there for a long time. Occasionally this has been documented in twenty-year vegetarians!'