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July 14, 2012Exclude hot dogs and other obesity- and cancer-causing foods from photo ops that feature the president.
May 11, 2012.WE PETITION THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION TO:
Exclude hot dogs and other obesity- and cancer-causing foods from photo ops that feature the president.
The nonprofit Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine believes that food-related photo ops featuring the president, vice president, first family, or members of the cabinet routinely conflict with government health messages. The photos often present foods that contribute most strongly to cancer, obesity, and premature mortality in a favorable light. A typical photo op depicts a president entertaining a foreign dignitary, with both stuffing processed meats or hamburgers into their mouths for the assembled cameras. All recent presidents have been involved in such events. There is no justification for encouraging Americans to eat foods that will harm them and their children. Instead, photo ops that include food should portray government officials eating healthfully.
Created: May 09, 2012
Issues: Health Care
Animals Are Found Dead or Dying in Lab
April 30, 2010
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Vermont Professor Faces Charges After Animals Are Found Dead or Dying in Lab
A professor at Johnson State College, in northern Vermont, faces criminal charges after dozens of reptiles and other animals were found dead or dying in a science laboratory this past summer, according to WCAX, a television station in Burlington, Vt. The animals were used mainly for demonstration and education purposes, not research, thestudent newspaper reported in September, shortly after the lab was closed. The professor who directed the lab, John Wrazen, is accused of importing and stocking wild animals without a permit. He is on paid administrative leave.
Religion and Animals – at Harvard Summer School – Taught by Professor Paul Waldau
April 29, 2010Would GOD liberate the animals and save our planet?
December 6, 2009which was followed by a rousing rendition of "Speak a word to us, Isaiah" (to be released in 2010) – definitely a Christmas hymn.
Speak a word to us, Isaiah, as you spoke long ago.
Tell the news that comes from Zion; bring the hope we long to know.
Swords and spears are found in gardens tilling soil and pruning trees.
Schools of war are closed and shuttered; from that madness all are freed.
Speak a word to us, Isaiah, of the one from Jesse’s tree.
Tell us of his thirst for justice and his zeal for equity.
In his realm the wolf is harmless; calves with lions rest secure;
Nursing children feel no danger, peace and amity now endure.
Speak a word to us, Isaiah, how the desert will rejoice
As all the exiles struggle homeward and the ransomed find their voice.
Tell how God will heal the sightless, loose the mute, and heal the lame;
How, when they return to Zion, all will praise God’s Holy Name.
Now we come, o blest Isaiah, to the dawning of the morn
When the God of every nation will appear in human form.
What you saw and spoke so boldly in your great prophetic dream
We now see with jubilation in the simple Nazarene.
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Isaiah 8:10 (English Standard Version)
10Take counsel together, but it will come to nothing;
speak a word,(A) but it will not stand,
for God(B) is with us.[a]
Footnotes:
Isaiah 8:10 The Hebrew for God is with us is Immanuel
Cross references:
Isaiah 8:10 : Isaiah 7:7
Isaiah 8:10 : Isaiah 8:8; Rom 8:31
When I speak with knowledgeable Christians about ‘the prophecy of Isaiah’, their informed response is often a question: "Which one?"
Indeed, there ARE both (a) several prophetic visions attributed to Isaiah AND (b ) several writers attrrbuted to the book with the name ‘Isaiah’.
Often I’m interested in the pacific co-grazing herbivorously of the wolf and the lamb, the ex-predator and the liberated ex-prey… of numerous species …. ‘religiously converted’ not merely to vegetarianism, but to veganism across the planet. (Isaiah 11:6) Huh! What’s a happenin’ here? What it is ain’t exactly clear.’ Bob Dylan
http://bible.cc/isaiah/11-6.htm
One thing is certain, if and when that starts happening, I’m confident that we WILL hear songs like that – but new songs of befuddled puzzlement – on the radio and in public.
But today I’m interested in this passage from Isaiah 29:4.
Isaiah 29:4 blog this
http://bible.cc/isaiah/29-4.htm
Then deep from the earth you shall speak, from low in the dust your words shall come; your voice shall come from the ground like the voice of a ghost, and your speech shall whisper out of the dust.
Isaiah 29:4 Posts see more posts for Isaiah chapter 29
<< Isaiah 11:6 >>
New International Version (©1984)
The wolf will live with the lamb, the leopard will lie down with the goat, the calf and the lion and the yearling together; and a little child will lead them.
New Living Translation (©2007)
In that day the wolf and the lamb will live together; the leopard will lie down with the baby goat. The calf and the yearling will be safe with the lion, and a little child will lead them all.
New American Standard Bible (©1995)
And the wolf will dwell with the lamb, And the leopard will lie down with the young goat, And the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; And a little boy will lead them.
GOD’S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Wolves will live with lambs. Leopards will lie down with goats. Calves, young lions, and year-old lambs will be together, and little children will lead them.
King James Bible
The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.
American King James Version
The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatted calf together; and a little child shall lead them.
American Standard Version
And the wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.
Bible in Basic English
And the wolf will be living with the lamb, and the leopard will take his rest with the young goat; and the lion will take grass for food like the ox; and the young lion will go with the young ones of the herd; and a little child will be their guide.
Douay-Rheims Bible
The wolf shall dwell with the lamb: and the leopard shall lie down with the kid: the calf and the lion, and the sheep shall abide together, and a little child shall lead them.
Darby Bible Translation
The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid, and the calf and the young lion and the fatted beast together, and a little child shall lead them.
English Revised Version
And the wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.
Webster’s Bible Translation
The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.
World English Bible
The wolf will live with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the young goat; The calf, the young lion, and the fattened calf together; and a little child will lead them.
Young’s Literal Translation
And a wolf hath sojourned with a lamb, And a leopard with a kid doth lie down, And calf, and young lion, and fatling are together, And a little youth is leader over them.
Geneva Study Bible
The {c} wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.
(c) Men because of their wicked affections are named by the names of beasts, in which the same affections reign: but Christ by his Spirit will reform them, and work in them such mutual charity, that they will be like lambs, favouring and loving one another and cast off all their cruel affections, Isa 65:25.
Wesley’s Notes
11:6 The wolf – The creatures shall be restored to that state of innocency in which they were before the fall of man. Men of fierce, and cruel dispositions, shall be so transformed by the grace of Christ, that they shall become gentle, and tractable. A child – They will submit their rebellious wills to the conduct of the meanest persons that speak to them in Christ’s name.
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
6. wolf . lamb-Each animal is coupled with that one which is its natural prey. A fit state of things under the "Prince of Peace" (Isa 65:25; Eze 34:25; Ho 2:18). These may be figures for men of corresponding animal-like characters (Eze 22:27; 38:13; Jer 5:6; 13:23; Mt 7:15; Lu 10:3). Still a literal change in the relations of animals to man and each other, restoring the state in Eden, is a more likely interpretation. Compare Ge 2:19, 20, with Ps 8:6-8, which describes the restoration to man, in the person of "the Son of man," of the lost dominion over the animal kingdom of which he had been designed to be the merciful vicegerent under God, for the good of his animal subjects (Ro 8:19-22).
The Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary says that "a literal change in the relations of animals to man and each other, restoring the state in Eden" is a more likely interpretation.a literal change in the relations of animals to man and each other, restoring the state in Eden, is a more likely interpretation.
If "a literal change in the relations of animals to man and each other, restoring the state in Eden" is predixtesd, is Al Gore’s call for a species-widedecision to transform OUR OWN SPECIES’ relationship with planet Earth that unthinkable? I think not. Indeed, it seems to me to be entirely thinkable – whether or not Al Gore goes vegetarian voluntarily. Duh!
But it would to some folks seem disingenuous of me to suggest that human research could devise some way to voluntarily turn the predatory species into vegans (and humans likewise).
In any case, we’re supposed to remain nice to the point where lives are jeopardized, as they are today in the ‘wicked food systems’ characterized by intensive animal agriculture, factory farming, etc.
But could WE bring about ecological salvation through our David and Goliath approach on our own steam? Few really think that possible, however many Clif Bars and salads we munch down.
Uh, I think some folks look to the Lord for that, thinking it’s not merely a lack of individual confidence but a real need for Some Power Greater than all of us together – presently or potentially. Others point to the 100th monkey phenomenon, which could also be seen as something bigger happening among a group in the same place (or did that 100th monkey see, hear, or otherwise feel one or more of the other 99?).
Bob Barker donates $1 million to Drury University to establish Animal Rights Professorship
November 8, 200911/08/2009
Bob Barker, Animal Rights Activist
Come on down, you’re the next contestant to earn a degree in animal rights!
While it may seem far-fetched to some, this may just be on the horizon and may happen within a few years to come. Especially since Bob Barker has backed the idea by helping to finance the start of it all.
That’s right, this past week famous former game show host Bob Barker donated $1 million to his alma mater, Drury University, to establish an animal rights professorship that will hopefully lead to a full undergraduate degree program in animal rights.
Barker has been a long time vegetarian and animal rights activist and had already donated $1 million last year to the school to establish the Drury University Forum on Animal Rights, according to the Associated Press. That donation led to a course in animal ethics at the college. In addition to these contributions, he has also established animal right law endowment funds at eight law schools.
This is great news, not only for the animals, but those of us who are passionate about animal rights and would like to learn more about it in a professional setting, as well as be able to apply it to our careers. Good things will come out of his donation, there is no doubt. Kudos to Barker for his long-lived compassion toward animals and for his generosity.
Check out the Drury University video, where the donation is discussed.
See also: The Impact of Humane Education
First Puppy (Charles Obama) to be Appointed Tuesday in Obama White House
April 11, 2009-
April 11, 1:09 AM · 1 comment
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This adorable Portuguese Water Dog puppy is not the Obamas’ puppy.
TMZ
is reporting that the Obamas long-awaited puppy is a six-month old
black male Portuguese Water Dog puppy who will arrive to the White
House on Tuesday, April 14.The puppy came from the same Texas breeder from whom Senator Ted Kennedy got each of his three Portuguese Water Dogs and shares their lineage.
(According to The Obama Dog Blog, the kennel is named the Amigo Portuguese Water Dog Kennels in the Dallas/Forth Worth area.)
According to TMZ, the puppy had been returned to the breeder by somebody who had initially bought it.
(Responsible
breeders usually require that if a purchaser of one of their puppies
can no longer care for it, the dog is to be returned to the breeder, no
matter the age.)The puppy is named Charlie, but will be getting a new name once it is "re-homed" to the Obamas and the White House.
‘Charles Obama’ has a nice ring, eh? (Oh, that’s a Canadian expression.)
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