Category Archives: Sound Bites

Land, Topsoil and Trees — livestock damage (Sound Bites)

Posted on 07/27/2011 by J. Morris Hicks

The third edition of our Sound Bite Series… The UN report, Livestock’s Long Shadow, came out in late 2006 and reported how the livestock industry is seriously damaging our environment in four separate categories: Land and Trees, Water, Climate Change … Continue reading →

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Wasteful, harmful and cruel — the Western diet. (Sound Bites)

Posted on 07/26/2011 by J. Morris Hicks

Continuing with my “sound bite” series; this is the second in the series. Bite #1 — Wasteful. On a per calorie basis, our typical Western diet requires twenty times more land, twenty times more energy and more than twenty times more … Continue reading →

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Three “sound bites” to ponder with your breakfast…

Posted on 07/21/2011 by J. Morris Hicks

Bite # 1. “Did you know that erectile dysfunction can save your life?”  That’s right. It turns out that heart disease and E.D. are basically the same disease — restricted blood flow in our arteries — ALL of our arteries. Caused … Continue reading →

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