Dada Veda

Thanks for listening today. I promised some links so you can check out Dada Veda, his yoga blog, and Ananda Liina. Dada Veda also shared two songs with us:

A Better Deal

and
I Don't Eat Meat


We hope to have Dada Veda on the show again and thank him for spending some time with us today.

DADA VEDA TO BE ON "FOOD FOR THOUGHT" THIS SUNDAY!

Greetings! The day is near! Dada Veda will be making a visit to WEFT THIS SUNDAY, August 21 as a guest on "Food For Thought!" Please tune in or listen on line to experience a different perspective on vegetarianism! Don't miss it!

The Face Behind the Voice and Loads of Links

Okay, a bunch of links for you all and a special treat...

Here is Meat-free Mike (he's the one with the hat on and anticipating all the wonderful food on his plate) at the last Vegan Meet-up. Now you can put a smiling face with the voice you hear every Sunday. See what you are missing if you don't come to the meet-ups?

Okay now to links to much of what we've been discussing the last few weeks:

Vegan for Life - this is the essential guide to living well on a vegan diet. I am a long-time fan of Jack Norris and Virginia Messina and mention them often on-air. Now they have put all the latest vegan nutrition advice in one book!

Mark Bittman on taxing junk food and subsidizing vegetables to feed people. I couldn't agree more!

Meat Eaters Guide to Climate Change and Health (interesting read for anyone interested in/worried about the environment). For those of us who like pictures, don't skip this graphic.

We've been talking a lot about local farmers markets. Like the Farmers Market on Historic N. 1st St., Market at the Square, Sustainable Student Farm on the U of I quad, etc.

My friends have started a mini CSC and weekly farm stand for their farm, The Mulberries Farm and Orchard.

We played a song last week from Dada Veda and hope to have him on the show in the near future.


We have several guests we need to schedule and we'll let you know when and who very soon!

Great Minds Think Alike

Two of the sources I site the most on FFT, both wrote about understanding nutrition research this week. Check out the post from Jack Norris, here, and Virginia Messina, here. I might have linked to Jack's before because it was posted a little while back, but worth a second looksie.

Another Link for You

We discussed the German E. coli outbreak, see here. Don't forget where E. coli comes from. Plants don't have E. coli without animal poop getting in the picture some how.

Can we all agree that intensive factory farming practices are harmful to everyone involved? Good. Let's abandon the insanity.

Interesting Links for Today's Show

Mark Bittman rounds up some "must read" articles about meat eating. Check out the link here. He is a big proponant of "less meat". While, I love my veg*ns, it is nice to have meat-eaters who espouse being more plant-based. I feel like Mark Bittman "gets it" in a way that Michael Pollan doesn't yet, but they both get people talking and that is important.

As if there weren't enough reasons to not eat fish (mercury, genetic-engineering, by-catch, environmental impact, human working conditions), now fish caught in US is sent to China then back. See link here.

New USDA food guide graphic. See here.

Vegan research subjects needed. See here.

Happy Mother's Day from FfT!

I hope everyone had an fun Cinco de Mayo! Meat-free Mike is giving me Mother's Day off, thanks Mike!! I'm sure he has lots of awesome stuff planned for you all this Sunday, so tune in. I'll be back the next Sunday to hopefully share some information my family has been learning about chocolate and sugar. A sweet show indeed! Don't miss it!