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Our New Branch in the North Is Opening Soon

One World Cuisine is pleased to open its third Pay as You Feel international cuisine restaurant in Tuart Hill on January 14, 2010. Our buffet style restaurants have been featured in newspaper, television and rated highly by visiting chefs. Try our Sweet and Sour Vegan Chicken, Vegan Lamb Curry, Pork, Fish and even Garlic King Prawn dishes.

Main Shop:
Shop 7, 23 South Street, Kardinya (Next to Super IGA) WA 6163
Lunch 11:30am - 2:00 pm / Dinner 5:45 pm - 9:00 pm
Closed Monday & Tuesday
Phone: (08) 9331 6677

One World Cuisine in Conjunction with PAWS:
120 Beaufort Street, Perth WA 6000
Wednesday to Friday
Lunch 11:30am - 2:00 pm
Phone: (08) 9228 2435

Branch in the North:
249 North Beach Drive, Tuart Hill WA 6060
Lunch 11:30am - 2:00 pm / Dinner 5:45 pm - 9:00 pm
Closed Monday & Tuesday
Phone: (08) 9207 1668

Save Copenhagen: Real Deal Now!

from Avaaz

With only 2 days left, the crucial Copenhagen climate summit is failing.

World leaders have arrived and begun 60 hours of final negotiations. Each one will have to decide whether to step forward as heroes, or fail us all. But they will only act if we do. Around the world a global movement has been building towards this moment. Now it's time for one last, massive push -- with a global public outcry for a real deal that will stop catastrophic climate change. In the next 48 hours we can build the largest petition in history. The names of petition signers are actually being read out inside the summit.

Please sign the petition, and tell everyone:
http://www.avaaz.org/en/save_copenhagen/97.php?cl_tta_sign=c56897e38ad419280418bb335a6aeb0b

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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You didn't know, did you?

Help End Factory-Farming at AnimalsAustralia.org

ANIMAL AGRICULTURE: THE FACTS

ANIMAL AGRICULTURE: THE FACTS @ Yahoo! Video

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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Climate chief Lord Stern: give up meat to save the planet

From The Times
October 27, 2009
Methane is 23 times more powerful than carbon dioxide as a global warming gas


by Robin Pagnamenta, Energy Editor

People will need to turn vegetarian if the world is to conquer climate change, according to a leading authority on global warming.

In an interview with The Times, Lord Stern of Brentford said: "Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the world's resources. A vegetarian diet is better."

Direct emissions of methane from cows and pigs is a significant source of greenhouse gases. Methane is 23 times more powerful than carbon dioxide as a global warming gas.


Lord Stern, the author of the influential 2006 Stern Review on the cost of tackling global warming, said that a successful deal at the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December would lead to soaring costs for meat and other foods that generate large quantities of greenhouse gases.


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World Go Vegan Week

"I chose to be vegan initially as an energetic pursuit, as meat and dairy slowed me down, but have since become convinced that it is not only the most healthy way to live, but also the most compassionate and ecologically responsible way."
-Woody Harrelson, World Go Vegan Week Supporter

World GO VEGAN Week

Celebrate Compassion...

The 4th annual World GO VEGAN Week is taking place this year from October 25 through 31. This week is a celebration of compassion and a time to take action for animals, the environment and everyone's well-being. We encourage people to use this week to use this week to educate their community about the vegan lifestyle as a compassionate, sustainable, and healthy way of eating and living. Promoting veganism through outreach events and the media, we know that our annual World GO VEGAN Week is helping make the word "vegan" a household word, universally recognized as meaning love and compassion for all living beings.

World GO VEGAN Week is also about celebrating what it means to be vegan. Veganism enables people to live in balance with all of Earth's creatures and promote freedom from exploitation for animals as part of their everyday lives. Modern animal agriculture is cruel and violent toward the chickens, cows, pigs and other creatures used to make meat, milk and eggs. During World GO VEGAN Week, we encourage people to become conscious of what - and who - they are eating, the effect it has on the world, and that a non-violent alternative exists.

We urge people to recognize the effects their actions have on the world, and our ability to actually avert some impending disasters such as global warming.

For the health of people, the environment, and farmed animals, veganism is the best choice. World GO VEGAN Week embodies this idea. As an international campaign, it encourages people around the world to experience the benefits and joys of a more compassionate way of life.

For more information, please visit:

http://www.worldgoveganweek.com/

Climate benefits of changing diet

Article from Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency

Reducing global meat consumption would reduce greenhouse gas emissions and cut the costs of climate policy substantially. This is the result of a PBL study published in Climatic Change. Apart from a reduction in methane and N2O emissions, vast agricultural areas would become unused, mostly as a result of reduced cattle grazing, and could take up large amounts of carbon. Shifting worldwide to a healthy low-meat diet would reduce the costs of stabilising greenhouse gases at 450 ppm CO2 eq. by more than 50%.

Abstract

Climate change mitigation policies tend to focus on the energy sector, while the livestock sector receives surprisingly little attention, despite the fact that it accounts for 18% of the greenhouse gas emissions and for 80% of total anthropogenic land use. From a dietary perspective, new insights in the adverse health effects of beef and pork have lead to a revision of meat consumption recommendations. Here, we explored the potential impact of dietary changes on achieving ambitious climate stabilization levels. By using an integrated assessment model, we found a global food transition to less meat, or even a complete switch to plant-based protein food to have a dramatic effect on land use.

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Organic Farming Could Help Stop Global Climate Change

Organic soils such as those seen here could sequester 40% of global carbon emissions.

Article from Treehugger

by Timothy J. LaSalle, Rodale Institue, Kutztown

Global Climate Change Chaos

We've overshot sustainability. Three hundred fifty parts per million (350 ppm) is the recommended safe threshold for carbon dioxide in our atmosphere. Today, at 386 ppm, we're over the limit. There is evidence that we will see ice-free summer Arctic a hundred years before IPCC estimates and we have already seen flooding in Iowa's city that would never flood and massive fires in the American west. An ice-free Arctic full of dark water will absorb more heat and change global climate patterns. Burning forests emit massive amounts of carbon dioxide, producing a deeper greenhouse effect. To avoid further expensive climate chaos we must deploy the most creative and innovative technology in the world to rapidly pull carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. And regenerative farming is it.

Hope in Organic Farming: Agricultural Carbon Capture and Sequestration

Even if we acted sustainably by stopping carbon emissions today, we would not be living on a healthy planet-- we need agriculture to pull carbon out of the atmosphere. The US Congress is considering a law to cap emissions of greenhouse gases, and to award credits for technologies that capture carbon from the atmosphere and sequester it safely. Write your representatives to tell them you support the most sophisticated carbon capture and sequestration method around: organic farming. Or better yet, call them up, and tell them that organic farming could pull fortypercent of global greenhouse gas emissions out of the atmosphere -- each year.

Let's Hold Agriculture Accountable

The Senate's new climate bill caps our nation's greenhouse gas emissions, and begins rewarding people and organizations that reduce our impact on the climate system. Farmers can store atmospheric carbon dioxide in their soils as soil organic carbon, which is why the Senate climate bill must support farmers with carbon credits. Unfortunately, the current bill does not limit the amount of greenhouse gases that farmers can emit, even though agriculture is responsible for 15% of our national emissions. Agricultural greenhouse gas emissions are mainly produced when chemical companies burn fossil fuels to produce synthetic fertilizers, and when distributors fly food around the world. Why should we give farmers credit for storing carbon in soil and not hold them accountable for their greenhouse gas emissions? You can help create this accountability when you tell your Senator to cap agricultural emissions.

The Real Farmers of the Future Will Build Soils

The most cutting edge forms of climate-friendly agriculture -- organic, regenerative, local, biodynamic -- don't produce greenhouse emissions the way industrial chemical farming's toxic inputs do. Rather, the real farmers of the future nurture their soils with innovative techniques such as advanced crop rotations, intercropping, soil amendments, and even animal grazing. These healthier soils are more resistant to dry and wet years, the frequencies of which are increasing as our climate transforms. The cutting-edge techniques these farmers use are continuously being improved and developed by farmer experience and supported by scientific research. Rather than giving carbon credits based on specific practices (which may become outdated or disproved) farmers should get credits based on the measured amounts of carbon they sequester in soil. A bill that rewards farmers for measured sequestration means farmers can work to increase soil carbon, rather than be limited by a specific law.

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Nature Makes Us Nicer People, New Study Says

Article from Treehugger

by Jaymi Heimbuch

Don't disregard those wall calendars showing far-off nature scenes quite yet. It just might make you a more caring, community-oriented, and generous person. A new study by the University of Rochester found that after looking at nature scenes, people feel closer to their community, are willing to give more money to a charitable cause, and care more about social outcomes than they are after looking at man-made scenes. The reason, the researchers state, it communing with nature helps people also commune with their basic values.

The University of Rochester reports what we all have been savvy to for awhile now, that seeing naturescapes helps reduces stress, and even having a window in a hospital room helps people recover more quickly. "While the salubrious effects of nature are well documented... this study shows that the benefits extend to a person's values and actions. Exposure to natural as opposed to man-made environments leads people to value community and close relationships and to be more generous with money, find [Richard] Ryan and his team of researchers at the University of Rochester.

From experiments including 370 participants, the results show that after viewing urban settings or natural settings, people exposed to natural settings rated close relationships and community higher than they had before seeing the scenes, whereas after viewing urban settings, people placed more value on wealth and fame. Additionally, those who viewed nature scenes were more likely to give higher amounts of money to a good cause.

"Lead author Netta Weinstein says that the findings highlight the importance of creating green spaces in cities and have implication for planners and architects. Incorporating parks and other representations of nature into urban environments may help build a stronger sense of community among residents, she explains. By contrast, "to the extent that our links with nature are disrupted, we may also lose some connection with each other," the authors warn."

If it is the case that being around and seeing nature makes us more people-oriented and generous, perhaps we should flood the offices of Copenhagen delegates with plants, scenes from natural settings, and earthy furniture so that they're really ready to negotiate with the future of the planet front and center.

Need to see some nature now? Check out this slideshow of 20 Wild Spaces for Getting Back to Nature - It'll make you a nicer person.

Save The Human! "Don't Eat The Planet"

SAVE THE HUMAN STOP GLOBAL WARMING!!
GO VEGGIE NOW!!

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=32068839545

DO YOU KNOW... "18% of all global Green Houses Gases are from the consumption of MEAT and DAIRY?"

Recently we came across some statistical facts that shocked us. Alarm bells began to ring loudly inside our being! There was nothing I could do to stop them ringing.

Out of this an idea to launch a graphic and visual campaign to raise public awareness to save the human came to me.

We have been increasingly hearing about saving the whales and saving the tigers and saving the Amazon rain forests for over 20 years now...

This is all good and noble and necessary, but to most people it is too far detached from their busy lifestyles and immediate bubble of existence...

However to save the human implies something far more serious and urgent, it forces one's mind to stop, think and connect the dots. It shocks us into awareness.

Humanity needs to wake up now in large numbers if we are to survive at all.

According to Dr. James Hansen, leading climate scientist with NASA: "we have passed tipping points. We have not passed a point of no return. We can still roll things back, but it is going to require a quick turn in direction."

Some of the recent facts* that we came across:

-- Livestock production is responsible for 18% of global GHG emissions from all human activities.

-- 70% of previously forested land in South America is used for livestock production.

-- At present there are nearly 60 billion animals a year used to produce meat & dairy. The human population is 6.7 billion.


The UN FAO predicts that between 2001 & 2050 the above figure could double.
-- A vegetarian driving a gas guzzling SUV car is more eco friendly than a carnivore riding a bicycle.

**OUR MISSION STATEMENT**
Save the Human campaign is to raise public awareness about these alarming facts in a funky graphic way that appeals to young & older people in an inspirational way that empowers them to not only change their lifestyles but also to pro-actively be part of the solution.

The team with which to manifest this campaign at this moment in time is made up of designers, directors, producers and sponsors all acting selflessly & voluntarily with a strong passion and full-hearted support to see this change happen.

This is an idea whose time has come and therefore it will receive popular support.
It is the time to save us, go vegetarian, go organic now and today.
- Bobsy Gaia, Chairman of ABLE Charity

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed people can change the
world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." -Margaret Mead-

Pug uses pushchair to walk puppies

Jenny the pug has taken puppy love to a whole new level, after taking to pushing toy dogs around in a pushchair.

Jenny's owner, Ellen Zessin, a children's book artist from Portland, Oregon, US, explains: "Jenny loved the little stuffed pugs we got for her right from the beginning and was forever picking them up in her mouth and mothering them.

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FAMOUS AUSSIES PLEDGE TO TRY VEG TO HELP SAVE THE BARRIER REEF

National Vegetarian Week, 28 September - 4 October 2009

An impressive line-up of celebrities are supporting the third annual National Vegetarian Week by making a 'Pledge to Try Veg' to boost awareness of the effect of meat consumption on our health and the environment, and to raise vital funds to help save the Great Barrier Reef from destruction due to climate change.

Cricket legend Brett Lee, world surfing champion Stephanie Gilmore and head of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Dr Rajendra Pachauri are among those who have made a pledge to support National Vegetarian Week, with television and radio personality Sami Lukis leading the charge as this year's campaign ambassador.

Pledge to Try Veg is the theme of this year's National Vegetarian Week (28 September - 4 October 2009) and Australians are encouraged to make a pledge either to try a plant-based meal, increase their plant based meals or commit to eating vegetarian for the week by visiting www.vegetarianweek.com.au. For every pledge, one dollar will be donated to the Great Barrier Reef Foundationi to help fund research into protecting the national icon and tourism drawcard from environmental threats such as rising water temperatures and water acidification. If left unchecked, such issues could cause major problems such as coral bleaching and damage to reef ecosystems.

Sami Lukis, a vegetarian since the age of nine, said the purpose of National Vegetarian Week is to demonstrate that eating too much meat may have an impact on our health and a very real impact on the environment, and to inspire people to make small adjustments to their diet.
"We are not asking people to make a complete switch to a meat-free diet. Rather, we are encouraging them to consider how they can make a difference globally and within the skin they're in, by eating more vegetarian meals. We need as many people as possible to make a pledge so we can help save our Reef, one of the seven natural wonders of the world and improve everyone's health," said Ms Lukis.

According to new Newspoll research commissioned by Sanitarium Health Food Company, seven out of 10 Australians are now eating plant-based meals. The national survey of 1200 adults also showed a continuing trend in the belief that eating less meat and more plant-based foods improves overall health.

Sanitarium Accredited Practising Dietitian, Angela Saunders, said, "Including more plant based foods provides a number of health benefits including protection from common lifestyle diseases such as heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes and some cancers."

"People on plant-based diets eat more fruits, vegetables, grains and legumes which are naturally low in fat, and so manage their weight more easily. These foods also contribute more fibre, helping us feel full and reducing the need for snacking," she added.

Part of National Vegetarian Week this year is to also raise awareness of how meat production negatively impacts the environment.

Livestock activity such as agriculture involving cattle and sheep is responsible for more than a third of all human-produced methane, a greenhouse gas more potent than carbon dioxide. While methane breaks down in less than 20 years, carbon dioxide stays around for 100 years or more. Cutting carbon dioxide emissions will have no effect on global warming for decades, but reducing methane by restricting our meat intake will make a difference very quickly.

For more information visit: www.vegetarianweek.com.au

Beef-Dairy Fat May Fool Brain's Appetite Signals

Article from Vital Choices Newsletter

Saturated fat abundant in butter, cheese, milk and beef is seen to block fullness signals sent from rats' brains via appetite hormones

by Craig Weatherby

While the basic physiology of rodents and humans is very similar, the two species can differ significantly when it comes to weight control.

So it's smart to take weight control experiments in rodents with a grain of salt, so to speak.

But the results of a recent rat study seem to dovetail with a very human experience... that is, bingeing on burgers and ice cream seems to beget more burger-and-ice cream bingeing.

The findings from Texas suggest that we may be able to blame our bodies' reaction to a particular saturated fat - palmitic acid, which abounds in beef and dairy - for sabotaging efforts to get back on track after enjoying its major food sources ... such as beef burgers and ice cream.

Scientists from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center suggest that the specific saturated fat called palmitic acid causes rats' cells to ignore any appetite-suppressing signals received via the key weight-regulation hormones called leptin and insulin (Benoit SC et al. 2009).

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