Sorry this is a separate post but I decided to add a couple of additional quotes from the SciAm story on dioxin contamination in animal products. It's just a bit more ammo for us Vegans :-) Enjoy your toxic burgers guys! "Dioxins are a family of persistent organic pollutants that are global in reach and persistent in the environment. Once dioxins find their way into the food web, they tend to stay there accumulating in fats, and slowly making their up way to us. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates that food of animal origin contributes to about 80 percent of our overall exposure... Long-term exposure is linked to impaired immune systems, nervous systems, endocrine systems and reproductive functions. (More on the harmful health effects of dioxin exposure.)"
I didn't make our local Tea Party , but it pulled hundreds of people as well... Tea, anyone? from Father Hollywood by Father Hollywood Like hundreds of thousands of other Americans, the Hollywoods enjoyed a tea party this past Wednesday. "Tea party" (wink wink). Nothing subversive about sipping a little Darjeeling, eh wot? Nothing to see here, Miss Napolitano. Anyway, our local festivities were held at Veterans Memorial Boulevard in Metairie. There were literally thousands of people crammed into the neutral ground (though on that day, the ground was anything but...), as cars and trucks poured by the busy boulevard laing on their horns in support. Here are pictures. And like every such gathering in our environs, there was even a brass band and an improptu "second line" parade. It was a "party" after all. But it was a party with a serious reason. The crowds were so overwhelming that it was hard to hear the speakers, and unfortunately, we did have a fe...
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