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The 1st Middle East Vegetarian (MEVEG) Congress, Part 36 of a Multi-part Series, Dec. 7, 2010

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The 1st Middle East Vegetarian (MEVEG) Congress, Part 35 of a Multi-part Series, Dec. 7, 2010

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The 1st Middle East Vegetarian (MEVEG) Congress, Part 34 of a Multi-part Series, Dec. 7, 2010

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The 1st Middle East Vegetarian (MEVEG) Congress, Part 34 of a Multi-part Series, Dec. 7, 2010

“If you find one reference, fair enough, that’s good. But if you find another reference that confirms the first reference, that’s even better. Based on that, if you find a lot of information out there, it can get confusing. But if it gets confusing, this is why you have to think. You have to analyze the information and you have to think, make a decision based on what’s right for you. Because your
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The 1st Middle East Vegetarian (MEVEG) Congress, Part 33 of a Multi-part Series, Dec. 7, 2010

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The 1st Middle East Vegetarian (MEVEG) Congress, Part 33 of a Multi-part Series, Dec. 7, 2010

And now, I’d like to invite Anastasia, and she’s going to share how we can actually do our own little research. Because we can’t be dependent on asking questions or attending forums, we have to do some of it. She has been a vegetarian for over a decade and like many, turned to the lifestyle after serious health issues. Anastasia wears many hats; it would be an understatement. A bachelor’s degree i
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The 1st Middle East Vegetarian (MEVEG) Congress, Part 32 of a Multi-part Series, Dec. 7, 2010

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The 1st Middle East Vegetarian (MEVEG) Congress, Part 32 of a Multi-part Series, Dec. 7, 2010

“I just want to say something about organic food, that’s very special. I’m sure you all have heard of Jane Goodall. Jane Goodall, because she lived with the chimpanzees for so long, there’s a story that she tells in one of her latest books about where she had organic apples and non-organic apples, and because they’re family to her, she tossed them a non-organic apple first. And they just kind of,
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The 1st Middle East Vegetarian (MEVEG) Congress, Part 31 of a Multi-part Series, Dec. 7, 2010

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The 1st Middle East Vegetarian (MEVEG) Congress, Part 31 of a Multi-part Series, Dec. 7, 2010

“So, what I’m going to do is present to you some examples of how the different foods that you may be craving, or that you’re obsessing about, or that you have to have, can actually be a mirror to you of what you’re actually feeling. So the first one I talk about here: crunchy foods. So, crunchy foods are usually to do with anger, boredom, and mulling over something, or chewing on a decision or che
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The 1st Middle East Vegetarian (MEVEG) Congress, Part 30 of a Multi-part Series, Dec. 7, 2010

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“Amongst a lot of veg people also, I see very unhealthy habits. I mean, just having chips, fried chips or things with a lot of oil or overcompensating the meat, especially who are converts from non-veg to veg, they overcompensate by having a lot of bread by the way. Because as far as I know, a vegan or a vegetarian can never be fat. Where does that fat come from? Why are people overweight? So then
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The 1st Middle East Vegetarian (MEVEG) Congress, Part 29 of a Multi-part Series, Dec. 7, 2010

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The 1st Middle East Vegetarian (MEVEG) Congress, Part 29 of a Multi-part Series, Dec. 7, 2010

“Taxes, I already mentioned, on pesticides and fertilizers – that would be the easiest way to go for it. The lobby is not there yet, so, be my lobby. Help us to go there, all over the globe. This is the way to make it cleaner. You also should see the subsidies, which are invested in the wrong way of agriculture, still promoting the pollution more than avoiding it. And if you initiate programs to e
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The 1st Middle East Vegetarian (MEVEG) Congress, Part 28 of a Multi-part Series, Dec. 7, 2010

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The 1st Middle East Vegetarian (MEVEG) Congress, Part 28 of a Multi-part Series, Dec. 7, 2010

Our next speaker, Thomas, I’d like to share a bit of information about him. Thomas has a master’s (degree) in agriculture. He worked for five years for the German pioneer Fair Trade Company, GEPA, and for about 14 years he’s been with IFOAM (International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements) in different management functions, etc.“I’d like to speak a word for organic agriculture being the
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The 1st Middle East Vegetarian (MEVEG) Congress, Part 27 of a Multi-part Series, Dec. 7, 2010

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“We always feel ‘everything is mine, so the whole world is mine to enjoy, everything belongs to me.’ That kind of thinking we generate with more and more materialistic lifestyle. So we, being Indian vegans, we try to avoid that possession.” “And ‘Daya’ – mercy; when someone is suffering, it’s not just humans, it is for all sentient beings. All sentient beings who suffer need mercy. So when they ar
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The 1st Middle East Vegetarian (MEVEG) Congress, Part 26 of a Multi-part Series, Dec. 7, 2010

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“Mahatma Gandhiji, the father of India and my moral guru said, ‘Truth and nonviolence are as old as mountains. I have nothing new to tell the world.’”“The original concept of vegetarianism, or the essence of vegetarianism, doesn’t allow any animal products, at least in diet.” “So, vegan is one who doesn’t consume any animal products, including honey, and he doesn’t use any animal products also – l
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The 1st Middle East Vegetarian (MEVEG) Congress, Part 25 of a Multi-part Series, Dec. 7, 2010

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“The greed for money and the greed to make food is naturally meaning that none of us are going to have grand-, great-grandchildren because if we eat this, it’s going to stop us from having kids.”“Now, if this fish gene is in the tomato, is that tomato still vegetarian? You say no. Why? It’s a tomato. If I put a pork gene in the tomato, is it Halal (permissible)? I’m not God. I’m not going to start
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The 1st Middle East Vegetarian (MEVEG) Congress, Part 24 of a Multi-part Series, Dec. 7, 2010

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“If you put a suntan lotion on your skin, where does it end (up)? In your bloodstream. Exactly. So, you put a suntan lotion in your bloodstream. You put the shampoo on your scalp; you use toothpaste, and it ends (up) in your bloodstream. What stops it from getting into the bloodstream? What decides between putting it on your skin to going into your bloodstream?”“Sodium benzoate, by the way, is a p
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The 1st Middle East Vegetarian (MEVEG) Congress, Part 23 of a Multi-part Series, Dec. 7, 2010

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The 1st Middle East Vegetarian (MEVEG) Congress, Part 23 of a Multi-part Series, Dec. 7, 2010

“This is vegetables and fruits. This is fruits and this is non-starch vegetables: they are protective to most cancers. This is what we knew and this is what we encourage because vegetarianism is all about the merit of these two. First, because of the different chemicals in these food items. The proverb, ‘An apple a day keeps the doctor away.’ Why? There are 8,000 different chemicals. Anyways, one
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The 1st Middle East Vegetarian (MEVEG) Congress, Part 22 of a Multi-part Series, Dec. 7, 2010

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He did his BSc (Bachelor of Science), MSc (Masters of Science), and PhD – all in nutritional sciences at Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran. As a human nutrition student, Arash was initially very interested in biomedical sciences, but gradually he shifted his studies into nutrition, epidemiology, community nutrition, and food and nutrition policy and planning. “I’m going to tal
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The 1st Middle East Vegetarian (MEVEG) Congress, Part 21 of a Multi-part Series, Dec. 7, 2010

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“As long as you’re fit, (have) enthusiasm to work, and enthusiasm to (be) compassionate, don’t go to the doctor. Go to the doctor even if you have a headache, don’t take your medicines. But when you don’t have nothing, don’t you see the doctor. I always tell my students 3 things: don’t go to the hospital for health, preserving your health. Don’t go to the court for justice, and don’t go to the pol
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The 1st Middle East Vegetarian (MEVEG) Congress, Part 20 of a Multi-part Series, Dec. 7, 2010

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“Do you know how many times a young child smiles in a day? Five hundred to 1,000 times it smiles. Ask yourself how many times you smiled yesterday? The less number of times you smile, the (less) regular is your heart rate. And when you don’t smile, you may get a heart attack. So, keep smiling. God gave smiling capacity only to man.” “Smiling requires about 150 muscles to relax in the body, which m
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The 1st Middle East Vegetarian (MEVEG) Congress, Part 19 of a Multi-part Series, Dec. 7, 2010

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The 1st Middle East Vegetarian (MEVEG) Congress, Part 19 of a Multi-part Series, Dec. 7, 2010

“We teach students a lot of things in the medical school, but we don’t really teach them the right things because whole of medical education is based on the industry. You will be surprised. Medical textbooks are written, ghost written by the industry, and then some professor’s name is lent, for of course a price, and then you say so and so’s book, and so and so’s book. So, what we learn in medical
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The 1st Middle East Vegetarian (MEVEG) Congress, Part 18 of a Multi-part Series, Dec. 6, 2010

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“Industrial farms – we let out of a lot of carbon into the air, so the greenhouse gases go on increasing. During the production process, what happens is even the animals that are there in the farm, the methane that comes out fills 18% of the greenhouse gases today, are because of the animals’ what? You cannot imagine, we rear 56 billion animals for our food today, just to feed six billion people!”
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The 1st Middle East Vegetarian (MEVEG) Congress, Part 17 of a Multi-part Series, Dec. 6, 2010

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Mohana was born in Myanmar, and graduated with a diploma in industrial administration from the University of Manchester, and an MBA (Master of Business Administration) from the University of Toronto. She’s worked in the educational sector in Malaysia, Myanmar. And she is the author of two award-winning and very, very lovely, colorful books for children called, “Fruitastic” and “Vegemania.” It gene
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