Global Warming Hearing with Sir Paul McCartney and Dr Rajenda K. Pachauri

The European Parliament will host a major event on global warming and food policy on 3 December where Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Dr Rajendra K. Pachauri and environmental activist Sir Paul McCartney will urge legislators and experts to focus on what an individual can do to fight climate change, for example by eating less meat.

The "Global Warming and Food Policy: Less Meat = Less Heat" hearing takes place on 3 December, in Parliament's plenary chamber, in Brussels, from 10.00 to 12.30, chaired by Vice-President Edward McMillan-Scott. The opening speech is to be delivered by Parliament's President Jerzy Buzek. It will be followed by a press conference.

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Climate Change and Meat Consumption

A recent authoritative report published by the World Watch institute, authors Goodland and Anhang concluded that over 51% of greenhouse gases (GHGs) emissions come from Livestock.

In the run up to the Copenhagen climate change summit, it is vital the following information be disseminated to the public as well as to our political leaders.

A widely cited 2006 report by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, Livestock"s Long Shadow, estimates that 18 percent of annual worldwide greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are attributable to livestock....however recent analysis by Goodland and Anhang co-authors of "Livestock and Climate Change" in the latest issue of World Watch magazine found that livestock and their byproducts actually account for at least 32.6 billion tons of carbon dioxide per year, or 51 percent of annual worldwide GHG emissions!

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Al Gore Admits Meat Eating Dangers

Al Gore has finally come clean about his thoughts on meat consumption and the environment.

"I'm not a vegetarian, but I have cut back sharply on the meat that I eat," Gore told ABC Television from New York.

Gore had been criticized in the past for claiming to be an environmentalist, but not discussing the effects of the meat industry and global warming, especially in his narrated documentary on the environment, An Inconvenient Truth.

"It's absolutely correct that the growing meat intensity of diets around the world is one of the issues connected to this global crisis – not only because of the CO2 involved, but also because of the water consumed in the process."

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Walnut and Almond Pie

Ingredients:
Pie crust:

150g margarine
4 Tbsp raw sugar
220g plain flour
50g almond meal
1/2 tsp salt
3 Tbsp soy milk

Filling:
300g lightly roasted walnuts
120g margarine
200g raw sugar
3 Tbsp No Egg (egg replacer)
1/2 cup soy milk
100g almond meal
50g plain flour
Some almond flakes

Directions:
To make pie crust: Preheat oven to 180℃. In a medium mixing bowl, cream margarine and sugar. Add plain flour, almond meal and salt, and mix well. Add soy milk and mix together to form a dough. Press evenly into a greased pie pan. With a fork, pierce bottom of the crust all over. Bake in oven at 180℃ for 15 to 20 minutes. Remove from oven and set aside to cool.

In a small mixing bowl, mix No Egg and soy milk. In a large mixing bowl, mix margarine, sugar, almond meal and plain flour. Add No Egg mixture, and mix well. Add walnuts, and mix well. Pour the mixture into pie crust and sprinkle some almond flakes on top. Bake at 170℃ for 40 minutes or until toothpick inserted comes out clean.

Mung Bean Pastries

Ingredients:
Filling:
600 g peeled split mung beans
1000 g cold water
500 g raw sugar
120 g margarine
100 g coconut cream powder*

Pastry:
Inner layer:
210 g cake flour
140 g margarine
Mix together to form a dough. Divide into 25 portions, 14 g each.

Outer layer:
110 g bread flour
90 g cake flour
75 g margarine
65 g raw sugar
60 g water
Mix together and knead for 5 minutes until very smooth. Divide into 25 portions, 16 g each.

To Finish:
1 Tbsp No Egg (egg replacer)
3 Tbsp soy milk
1 Tbsp caster sugar
2 tablespoon white sesame seeds, for sprinkling as topping
Mix No Egg, soy milk and caster sugar for brushing.

Directions:
Rinse the peeled split mung beans, and soak in 1000 g cold water for 2 hours. Cook in a rice cooker until soft. Crush with a wooden spoon to form a paste. Add sugar, margarine and coconut cream powder, and mix well. Turn this mixture into a non-stick pan and stir constantly over low heat until all the moisture is gone. Set aside to cool. Take 750 g of mung bean paste and refrigerate the rest for future use. Divide into 25 portions, 30 g each, and shape them into small balls. This will be the filling.

Take one portion of inner layer pastry and wrap it inside a portion of outer layer pastry. Press lightly, roll it out into a thin flat sheet using a rolling pin. With your hand, roll the thin sheet up into a cylinder. Turn 90° so that one of the round ends faces you. With the rolling pin, roll it out into a flat sheet again. Then roll it up into a cylinder again. Repeat with the rest of the pastry portions. This is the pastry crust.

Roll each pastry crust into a flat disk, place filling in the centre, and gather the edges of the circle, to seal. Place the pastries, pleated side down, on a baking sheet. Brush with soy milk mixture and sprinkle a pinch of sesame seeds on top. Bake in a preheated oven at 180℃ for about 20-25 minutes, or until golden brown.

*Coconut cream powder is available at Asian shops.

Scientists say curry compound kills cancer cells

Wed Oct 28

LONDON (Reuters) – A molecule found in a curry ingredient can kill esophageal cancer cells in the laboratory, suggesting it might be developed as an anti-cancer treatment, scientists said on Wednesday.

Researchers at the Cork Cancer Research Center in Ireland treated esophageal cancer cells with curcumin -- a chemical found in the spice turmeric, which gives curries a distinctive yellow color -- and found it started to kill cancer cells within 24 hours.

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