vegan 401k

I've got a small 401k account, and I was thinking, I don't know what companies that fund is invested in! I could be invested in hot dogs! Gah! I've got to figure out how to move my 401k to turtle island, then maybe I'll get discounts on tofurkey =D

Anyone know anything about a vegan 401k? I suppose it takes some research into the companies to start something like that. And law degrees and stuff. Garsh!

Ideas at change.org

Barack Obama has started a website which is a sort of forum for collecting ideas. The site is: Change.org. There's an animal rights section and an agricultural policy section which I think we may have some things to say about. Anyone can post an idea, comment on ideas, and vote for ideas.

I posted one today here:
http://www.change.org/ideas/view_idea/stop_subsidizing_animal_industries

Convincing people to change

It may be difficult to accept when someone tells you about veganism, because you don't want someone else telling you how to eat, especially when it's being stigmatized with large support from the meat industry. You can do it, you can change, be the world you want to see.


Methods of introducing this information in a way that is convincing, as people often want to ignore ideas which are contrary to what they have believed, there is cognitive dissonance, and it's easier to ignore or dogmatically refute than to change. It is especially difficult for someone to change at the suggestion of another, so some methods will have the person suggesting the change to themself instead of suggesting that they change. This can work by asking questions or suggesting the opposite, which will lead the person to defend your position. Change sticks well when a person feels that they own the idea and convinced themselves, not that someone else convinced them.

In this political season we saw a great acceptance of change, a change in government which should reflect our modern civilization, moving away from the corrupt, violent, greedy politics of the past. This want for change should be brought to individuals as well, forgoing the shallow, selfish, isolating ways of the past for the creative, communal, peaceful ways of a modern society.

I happened upon some star trek, really an idealistic vision of the future. I wish shows like this were more popular, by focusing on how things can be, we can plan our way to that future.

What is natural/herbivore vs omnivore vs carnivore

It's only because of the invention of fire that humans can survive on animal flesh, and survival only goes as far as heart disease, cancer, and diabetes will get you. Any herbivore can survive on the kind of cooked flesh diet that most humans eat today [citation needed].

It's not about what's historical, it's about what is best for us and our fellow earthlings now. The rate of consumption of resources is unsustainable, and the industries producing meat from the flesh of animals are oversubsidized, overpolluting, and overconsuming resources to produce an inferior source of nutrition. And why should animals suffer when we have a healthy alternative.

Think about the news: cholesterol drugs

So, today in the news, a study has suggested that everyone should start taking cholesterol drugs, because you're going to get heart disease eventually and these drugs will stave off the inevitable. No mention of diet of course. It could have been more accurately written as: If You're Eating Animal Flesh, Your Diet Will Kill You Unless You Take These Pills. The meat industry has got to love this, the consumers of their "products" can now live another day to eat another animal. Next they'll be injecting cholesterol drugs directly into the meat.

Link:
http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSN0939180520081109