COMPASSION IN WORLD FARMING TRUST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

Keynote speaker: Dr Jane Goodall DBE of the Jane Goodall Institute

Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, London
17-18 March 2005 with optional excursions on 19 March

I went this past summer.

There were plenty of talks given by health professionals and vegans.  Some of the big names were Dr. Michael Greger MD, Dr. Michael Klapper MD, Brenad Davis RD, and George Eisman RD.

The consensus among these experts is that a good vegan diet is one of the best things for your health AND that a bad vegan diet is one of the worst things for your health.

One of the messages the speakers strove hardest to expose everyone to through the plenary talks was that of an incipient health crisis in the vegetarian and vegan community.  

In a nutshell, vegetarians ( and vegans ) need to regularly use a reliable source of vitamin B-12, increase their calcium intake, increase their intake of fresh green vegetables, increase their intake of fresh yellow/orange vegetables, secure a source of iodine, secure a source of essential fatty acids, reduce their consumption of sweets, minimize their use of refined flour products (pasta, breads, bagels, etc.), and get more exercise.  

This is not a new message, but the experts at Summerfest emphasized -- with a palpable sense of caring and urgency -- that many vegetarians and vegans are simply not following this advice, to their great detriment.

This information inspired me to put a web site with links to information from these experts........in a format emphasiszing brevity.......for veg*ns who want to improve their health:

HTH

Steve

Hi there, Dave Louthan here.

See I told ya we'd get it figured out. J. Patrick Boyle CEO of AMI is slapping Ann Veneman around like a rag doll. Get the Canadian border open and do it now. He says he wants to do it to spur all foreign countries into buying our meat but the fact is he's got a lot of beef standing up there eating hay and getting to fat to sell.

I told everybody the meat people only had until calving season to get this fixed. That time is now upon us. All that inventory they have been holding back to keep the prices up must move now to make room for all the new feeders popping out now, today.