EATKIND
Eatkind.net
is here to help you balance your diet with:
compassion
for family farmers, the world's hungry and our fellow animals;
sustainability
-- to preserve the planet and its finite resources;
wholesome
nutrition to be kind to the body that brung you.
We believe
ethical
eating is an indispensable component of ethical consumerism.
The Elements
of
Ethical Eating
COMPASSION
Modern
farming is a brutal business. Neither family farmers, food workers nor
farm animals fare well within today's industrial agricultural system. In
particular, the grossly wasteful use of the planet's finite natural resources
to produce ever-increasing quantities of meat, fish, dairy and eggs threatens
to increase, not decrease, hunger and starvation among the world's roughly
one billion malnourished poor. By following a diet that emphasizes efficiently
and sustainably produced plant foods and that limits or eliminates factory
farmed animal foods, we can create a win-win-win situation for all people,
animals and the planet itself.
SUSTAIN-
ABILITY The
industrialization of food production has created the illusion of cheap
food. Low prices at the checkout counter and prosperity for food- and agricultural
corporations have come at a price: an unsustainable assault on arable land,
fresh water and clean air. Increasingly, independent scientists are joining
environmentalists in calling for a return to sustainable, organic farming
practices.
NUTRITION Call
it poetic justice, but the more compassionate and sustainable farming is,
the more nutritious and healthful the food is. Animals that are neither
confined nor fed a diet unnatural to their species produce more nutritious
meat, milk and eggs. Protein from beans, whole grains, nuts and seeds appears
to be the most nutritious and healthful of all.
In the early 1960s I became a
vegetarian. But then I got hepatitis. So I went back to my previous diet;
for a while it would be vegetarian one day, non-vegetarian the next. My
kitchen is now totally vegetarian. But when I visit places, occasionally
I take non-vegetarian....
The Dalai Lama
Industrial farming isn’t just
bad for chickens and hogs, it destroys family farms, aquifers, soils, and
pollutes the air and water....Industrial meat moguls site their stinking
farms in the poorest communities and pay slave wages to their miniscule
work force for performing one of the most dangerous and unhealthy jobs
in America.
Why
kind
food?Click the graphic links on the right (mouseover for more
info) and visit the ethical eating page
to learn more. Help support this nonprofit service by patronizing the Kindfood
Store.
To
a mournful ballad by Radiohead, this video shows investigative footage
of the everyday treatment of farmed animals in Canada, the United States
and Europe. If you don't like what you see, please change how you eat.
Caution: contains scenes of graphic violence.
"Veggie
Heaven" - The UK Vegetarian & Vegan Restaurant Guide
Search for vegetarian restaurants anywhere
at VegDining.com.
Farm
Shopping - "farmers & producers who sell direct through Pick-Your-Own,
farm shops, stallholders at farmers' markets, and Home Delivery from the
farm"
LocalHarvest
-- "With the LocalHarvest map, you can find all the farmers' markets, family
farms, locally-grown produce, grass-fed meats, and other sources of sustainably
grown food in your area."
JAPAN
