Vegetarianism

I became a vegetarian many years ago now, and never regretted a single day. There are a lot of concerns over the diets lacking certain essential vitamins or minerals. With properbalanced diet, we could overcome that. There are also concerns for various reasons that vegetarians make you weak. Quite the contrary, I feel light and full of energy. There are a lot of vegetarian athletes even body builders now.

I hence like to encourage everyone who is concerned either for their health, environment or our planet Earth to seriously consider switching to this type of diet. It is unlikely that we could manage the global warming without the significant reduction of the green house gas emission, contributed significantly by the meat industry. The industry needs to be educated as well. If you believe in this, please make your own contributions in your local area to assist the stock industry to make the transition.

Therefore, I would recommend the following website(s) for further information about this.

• Meatout: the world's largest and oldest annual grassroots diet
  education campaign. A free veg starter
  kit could be for those who like to get into the lifestyle.
  On (or around) March 20, which is the first day of spring,
  a MEAT OUT day is hosted by thousands of caring people
  in all 50 US states and two dozen other countries to provide
  informative and educational on vegetarianism and its benefits.
• Tryveg: help to assist you with becoming a vegetarian. Free vegetarian starter kit is available. Easy steps to becoming a vegetarian are also discussed to help you with the transition on the website. What are you waiting for, no more excuses, all the help is here.
• Susan's Vegetarian and Vegans Pages. Very useful bookmarks for diversed topics for vegetarian/vegan interests.

Animal Rights

Human beings are given the highest position in this world to provide care to the weak ones, like the animals or plants alike. Animals and insects are blessings to human beings for their presence and beauties whatever form they are. People are given intellects to make decisions, create choices and find solutions. Here are some resources to help you decide what path you like to follow.

K.N.C: stands for Kindness not Cruelty. There is a range of resources availalbe on animal rights and the reasons why we need to be more loving to the animals and treat them as friends/companions, not something to be abused.

Meatmeanzmurder: appropriately so. You would find reasons of why eating meat is not so healthy, ecological, compassionate, etc etc.

Being Organics

I believe organic foods are the true food for our consumption. There were created in the beginning with organics in mind, without much chemical boosts to yield production and excessive chemical usage against the pests. There are a lot of natural pest controls including ladybugs and other insect predators in the wild. They were created to create a balance in this world. Once we take one element away, it would affect the rest.

• Natural
  Resources Defense Council: covers
  why organics are good for the Earth and its inhabitants.
  They also cover issues on global warming, wildlife, health
  and many other topics

• Organic
  Guide: this website covers the topic on organics with
  links to local information in Australia, New Zealand,
  Canada, UK and Ireland and the USA. They cover the information
  on the terms used in the individual country as well their
  local governing bodies

• Biological
  Farmers of Australia: this website provides the places
  to get your organic food in Australia.

Natural
Health Remedies

When we are not eating well or being active enough, our system is vurnerable to attacks from external sources like viruses and bacteria and the like.  Prevention is of course always the best way of life. In the case of weakness, I have the preference of using traditional or natural way to overcome illnesses and would suggest the following:

• Heaven
  Earth Natural Therapies Clinic - A Balance of Traditional
  Chinese and Western Medicine Acupuncture
  - Herbal Medicine - Lifestyle Coaching - BodyTalk - Kinesiology
  - Emotional Freedom Techniques

• Earth
  Link: earth link is one of the best natural cure website.
  It covers using traditional, home kitchen remedy for optimal
  health. It is a holistic approach to your health. People
  are sharing their remedies based on their personal experiences.

If you know any great link we should know about, please post here. However, please mind that this is a vegetarian/vegan forum so links should cater for these groups.