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Be Cruelty Free Canada English Version Hello Joseph, last year, the team of the campaign "No to cruelty" (#BeCrueltyFree) Canada was proud to announce the filing of the bill on cosmetics! This is great news, but we desperately need your help to enable its enactment. Ask your MP to support the bill on cosmetic products (S-214) signing and circulating our petition!   This bill would not only outlaw testing of cosmetic products or ingredients on animals in Canadian laboratories, but also to prohibit the sale of cosmetics tested on animals recently and this anywhere in the world. With your help, HSI was able to provide the cosmetics industry a new start humane  - first in Europe and then in India, New Zealand and South Korea. It is now Canada's turn, and this bill brings us a little more of a world where no animal suffers or dies for cosmetics. But we still have some way to go before this bill is adopted and we need your help to make it a reality! Over 110,000 Canadians have already signed the petition. Add your name today to create even more impact! Together we can make Canada the next country to say no to cruelty (#BeCrueltyFree)! Thank you so much for everything you do for animals. Sincerely, Rebecca Aldworth Executive Director Humane Society International / Canada *** Dear Joseph, Last year, our team #BeCrueltyFree Canada Was proud to tell you que la Cruelty-Free Cosmetics Act Was Introduced! This is great news, goal we still urgently need your help to make it law. Ask your Member of Parliament to supporting the Cruelty-Free Cosmetics Act (S-214) by signing and sharing our petition! This Bill Would not only make it illegal to test cosmetic products or ingredients on animals in Canadian labs, goal it Would aussi ban the sale of beauty products That-have-been newly tested on animals anywhere in the world. With your help, HSI has-beens Giving the beauty industry a cruelty-free makeover - first in Europe, Then India, New Zealand, and South Korea. Now it's Canada's turn, and this progressive bill Brings us one step closer to Achieving a World Where No animal Has to Suffer and die for the sake of cosmetics. Purpose there's still a long road ahead before this Bill Becomes Law, and we need your help to make it a reality. Over 110,000 Canadians-have signed the petition so far. Add your name today to make year-even bigger impact. Together, we can make Canada the next country to #BeCrueltyFree! Thanks so much for All That you do for animals. Sincerely, Rebecca Aldworth Executive Director Humane Society International / Canada

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The White House	This week, First Lady Michelle Obama travels in support of the Let Girls Lear...	12:20 PM (12 hours ago)

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THE WHITE HOUSE    I see myself in these girls, I see my daughters in these girls, and I simply cannot walk away from them.” -- First Lady Michelle Obama Imagine being told that you are not allowed to go to school. Imagine being told that an education -- one of the most fundamental building blocks for a healthy, long, and fulfilling life -- is simply not an option for you. It’s hard, right? But, for millions of girls around the world, it’s a reality. In fact, more than 62 million girls -- half of them adolescents -- are not in school. Millions more are fighting just to stay there. These girls deserve a chance to fulfill their potential. All girls deserve that chance. That’s why, as part of the Let Girls Learn initiative, First Lady Michelle Obama is traveling this week to Liberia, Morocco, and Spain to meet with young women and girls -- and to talk about why getting an education is something that every girl deserves. First Lady Michelle Obama participates in a roundtable discussion with Freida Pinto and students, in support of the Let Girls Learn initiative, at R.S. Caulfield Senior High School in Unification Town, Liberia, June 27, 2016. (Official White House Photo by Amanda Lucidon)

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Around the world, a girl can face complex physical, cultural, and financial barriers to education. She may have a long, unsafe walk to school from a remote village. Sometimes, even when a school is nearby, it may not have adequate bathroom facilities for girls -- meaning that female students have to stay home when they have their period. And, even after overcoming all of these obstacles, she may face school fees that her family is unwilling or cannot afford to pay.
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Walnuts and Garlic and Lentils are good foods to eat.

Alex P

Veganism: Healthy, Kind, Climate & Forest Friendly

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The normal ratio of omega 3 to omega 6 has been 1 to 1-4 for eons. Recently, due to industrialization, our diets ratio moved from 1:1 or 1:4 to 1:20. This has led to an epidemic of inflammatory diseases, heart disease, increase in violence, hypertension, diabetes, etc ► http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12442909.

The richest vegan sources of omega 3 are

walnuts - 4 times the omega 3 in salmon, 5.4 times the omega 3 in sardines, 41 times the omega 3 in tilapia, 32 times the omega 3 in tuna ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexP/posts/4eaSGEwuNiS

No nut comes even close, the only one close in omega 3 to omega 6 ratio are macadamia nuts, but those have 44 times less omega 3s. Walnuts have 9.1 g of omega 3, 38 g of omega 6 in 100 grams ► http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/nut-and-seed-products/3138/2.

flax seeds - 10 times the omega 3 in salmon, 14 times the omega 3 in sardines, 103 times the omega 3 in tilapia, 80 times the omega 3 in tuna ► https://plus.google.com/+AlexP/posts/6JTzFJ5AaaY

Flax seeds are very cheap (compared to walnuts or chia seeds) and have 22.8 grams of omega 3, 5.9 grams of omega 6 in 100 g ► http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/nut-and-seed-products/3163/2

chia seeds - 8 times the omega 3 in salmon, 11 times the omega 3 in sardines, 82 times the omega 3 in tilapia, 64 times the omega 3 in tuna - 17.6 grams of omega 3 in 100 g, 5.8 g of omega 6 in 100 g. ► http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/nut-and-seed-products/3061/2. For more on these seeds you can go to https://plus.google.com/u/0/+AlexP/posts/iNnEtutSc8w.

I know a lot of MDs (Ornish) suggest avoiding oils, all foods with fat added, even nuts and seeds to maintain perfect arterial health and just relying on vegan DHA-EPA and the ALA and fats in normal foods - so many people used a low fat diet to reverse diabetes and heart disease. I avoid all vegetable oils (even olive oil has a bad omega 3 to omega 6 ratio, 1:12, and little omega 3, 0.76g, compared to walnuts, 9.1 g) Some people eat avocados for omega 9, but i almost never eat avocados either, being a low fat vegan to prevent heart disease. Avocados (http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/fruits-and-fruit-juices/1843/2) have omega 3 to omega 6 1:15, very bad, and just 0.1 g of omega 3 per 100 grams, 90 times less than walnuts. I don't think eating walnuts, chia or flax seeds rarely is an issue, it's just some people don't digest them well unless soaked.

Flax seeds and chia seeds have far less omega 6 than walnuts, so they are superior from that point of view (flax seed oil has omega 3 to omega 6 ratio about 4:1, while walnut oil has this ratio 1:5), but not many people eat flax seeds, even if they are cheaper. With a coffee grinder, one can grind them and add them to foods. Or one can go to Walmart or amazon and buy algae vegan DHA or DHA-EPA capsules.

Omega 3 fatty acids increase brain volume. People thought the brain shrinks with age always, but it's not true. DHA-EPA can reverse that shrinkage. DHA is 97% of all omega-3 fats in the brain and 93 % of omega-3 fats in the retina. 8% of the brain is omega 3 fatty acids. ► http://www.lifeextension.com/magazine/2010/8/omega-3-fatty-acids-increase-brain-volume/page-01.

The vegan algal plain DHA or vegan DHA-EPA supplements are way better than "mercury free" fish oil supplements for those few people (usually men) who cannot turn ALA into DHA. Today many fish oil supplements are mercury free, but there are PCBs and other heavy metals sometimes in fish oil - besides saturated fat and cholesterol. The animal saturated fat and cholesterol in fish (which was shown to affect heart and vascular health of babies in the womb) and fish oil supplements are working against recommending intake of fish during pregnancy or at any other time, since vegan DHA exists.


Violence increases when there is low omega 3 in diet ► http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2006/oct/17/prisonsandprobation.ukcrime.

Notice how ALA conversion to DHA is men is 5 times less than in women sometimes, leading to low DHA. Could this explain why we got so much more men engage in violent crime? Perhaps that's why men should always take vegan algal DHA if they are vegan, since almost everyone gets too much omega 6, which furthers lowers ALA to DHA conversion and the uptake of DHA by the brain.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12323085 explains that in healthy young men 8% of ALA (alpha linoleic acid) is converted to EPA and 0 to 4% is converted to DHA. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12323090 shows that in healthy young women 21% of dietary ALA is converted to EPA and 9% is converted to DHA. So, women have far less issues with DHA than men. Even so, it's better to get some DHA (the typical 200 mg per day found in most algal DHA capsules) to be safe, especially since most women today get too much omega 6 from vegetable oils.


DHA can convert into EPA at a rate of about 9% ► http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9076673. Therefore, many people choose to take DHA only or DHA mainly supplements, such as vegan algal DHA supplements. There are also vegan DHA-EPA supplements, but there is a huge debate whether DHA is more useful than EPA and should be used in larger quantities - so many people who believe DHA is more useful tend to go for DHA supplements, as they view EPA as secondary and anything needed is made from DHA anyway. Also many papers showed too much fish oil leads to cancer and that some algal vegan DHA oil has more DHA than fish oil percentage wise and is better than fish oil for a variety of reasons related to fats interfering with the fatty acids biochemical cycles in the human body and the prostaglandin synthesis as relating to inflammation. I myself just use vegan DHA algal oil supplements, since I think DHA is more important than EPA and any EPA is made from DHA and ALA.


http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20861171 was a 4900 people study that showed that vegans and fish eaters had almost the same level of EPA and DHA in their blood plasma, with vegans having more DHA (286 micromoles per liter instead of 271) but less EPA (50 instead of 64). These studies indicate that when we eat less DHA, the body increases the conversion rate of ALA to DHA and makes better use of DHA. Hence, DHA supplementation may only be needed for pregnant women and those males (females convert ALA to DHA much easier) who have very low DHA in their blood due to poor conversion, or those vegans who eat very little ALA due to being on a very low fat diet to prevent heart disease or diabetes. There are many studies that show ALA to DHA and EPA conversions being low (you will see that there is a wide variation in these studies where they give people ALA and measure blood level of DHA and EPA), but in the end all we need to look at is the final DHA and EPA concentration in the plasma, not what happens when you increase ALA in the diet. The body is very intelligent and knows when it needs more DHA and it produces more regardless of how much ALA is in the diet.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3164236 has the full free paper that found that the Japanese (the longest living nation on Earth, Monaco lives longer but it's just a town of 37000 people) have 2 times the EPA-DHA level in their blood compared to Americans. However, other studies found that Norwegians eat as much DHA-EPA as Japanese and have poorer heart health, probably due to eating more fat. The Eskimo studies have shown that just eating 4 times the DHA-EPA omega 3 that Japanese eat doesn't improve heart health, since they get too much saturated fat. Apparently, DHA is only effective as dietary intake method to prevent atherosclerosis, etc when the total fat is low and people avoid too much saturated fat. The blood levels of DHA and EPA are affected by the amount of EPA, DHA and ALA ingested, smoking, diet, omega 3 to omega 6 ratio, and lots of other things. Every second a million trillion chemical reactions take place in our body, so it's very hard to determine which people may have their ALA (the omega 3 precursor to DHA in most plant foods) to DHA (the omega 3 in algae that is used by the brain, eyes, etc a lot) and EPA (the other major omega 3 used by the body) conversion working better. Even when 2 people have the same blood level of EPA-DHA, one cannot really know how much DHA is made from ALA and is being taken by the cells or stays in the blood. So, while we may look at a lot of biomarkers and assess these concentrations over a few weeks after a rise of ALA consumption, it's hard to know precisely what is going on at the cellular level. Some people pick and choose a study or two and write a general nutrition article and then come up with a conclusion, but with the hundreds of related studies and issues of the fatty acid cycle biochemistry, things are quite complex - so it's very hard to make any preliminary conclusion or hypothesis into a "science fact".

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nhs.12182/abstract is a very good study too ► Low DHA in blood was found in depressed women ► Nursing & Health Sciences, Volume 17, Issue 2, pages 257–262, June 2015

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Dear President  Obama:
What happened to Bradley Manning?

  Dear: President Barack Obama and General Jeffrey. S. Buchanan:  

1.  Is war a crime against humanity?                                            Yes or No?

2.  Is it a crime to expose ethical and moral crimes committed by your side during a war?...                                                                                          Yes or No?

3.  Are not soldiers allowed the right to expose crimes and to refuse to participate in a crime?...                                                                                Yes of No?

4.  Are only leaders such as: religious priests, dictators, generals, presidents or kings allowed the absolute freedom to send young people to war for the purpose of killing or to be killed?...                                                            Yes or No?

5     Is it a crime to indoctrinate and teach young people to kill and then send them off to fight and to kill other indoctrinated young people?...           Yes or No?

 6.  If war crimes are committed during a war, should those responsible not be exposed?...                                                                                   Yes or No?

 7   Is exposing a war crime a war crime?...                                  Yes or No?

 8.  Should leaders who mandated soldiers involved in a war crime be exempt from punishment?...                                                                                Yes or No?

 9.     If soldiers are legally mandated by their leaders to commit crimes, Bradley Manning should have the same mandated protection....                Yes or No?  

10.   Is there such a thing as a just war?...                                     Yes or No?

11.   What is the motivation for war? Is the motivation to either protect or to acquire territory and natural resources?                                         Yes or No?

12.  Is the motivation for war to seek revenge for a perceived wrong committed by an opposing faction with opposing religious or political views?      Yes or No?

13.     Is the attempt to acquire and dominate another country for their resources or for their territory or even for political revenge, a crime?...           Yes or No?

14.     Bradley Manning is a prisoner of conscience and he is being punished by the U.S. military for exposing crimes mandated by his leaders.

          Should he have been placed before a military court and charged as a traitor for exposing a war crime?...                                                            Yes or No?

15.     Should Bradley Manning be given a Presidential Pardon and a discharge by the military and released immediately? ...                                        Yes of No? 

         

           Where is Bradley Manning today? The fact he was a soldier did not exempt him from his legal responsibilities as a civilized human being to expose crimes when and if he discovered those crimes.

16. Today, Bradley Manning is considered an international hero and absolutely not a criminal or a traitor. Is he still in prison?                                    Yes or No?

17.      Are you, President Obama or you General Buchanan, legally allowed to commit a war crime or even a non-military crime for that matter?...    Yes or No?

          Are you, president Obama and you General Buchanan, controlled by a legal moral and ethical code of conduct?...                                                  Yes or No?

18.     Would you not expose a crime if you discovered it?                  Yes or No?

19.     Was Bradley Manning committing a crime by exposing crimes when he leaked information of war crimes to the world with the full understanding he would           be personally abused and punished by the military if he was discovered?...

Answer:                                                                                                Yes or No. 

20.  Which crime is more heinous? Manning breaking the military code of silence by blowing the whistle on cold blooded murder for which he is now incarcerated, or the actual cold blooded murder? Manning, as a soldier of conscience, should never have been incarcerated?                                                            Yes or No.

21.  Are you, as leaders, exempt from your responsibility to protect all your soldiers, including Bradley Manning?...                                                Yes or No?

   At this point in history, President Obama and General Buchanan, I can honestly tell you that Bradley Manning is not regarded by millions of people around the world as a criminal or a traitor. He is without a doubt regarded by the international News Media as a prisoner of conscience. If you believe you are doing your duty by continuing the incarceration of Bradley Manning, you are wrong! You are doing more harm than good to your leadership and to your country. You are abusing a human for his moral and ethical convictions.

Dear President Obama:

  Bradley Manning will be placed in the history books as a whistle blower and a protector of human rights. 

Does he continue to be a political prisoner?                                          Yes or No?

 You could do one last thing good thing before leaving office as president of the United States and that is to free Bradley Manning.     Thanks for reading!

Signed: Joseph Raglione

Executive Director: The World Humanitarian Peace and Ecology Movement. 

We continue to maintain our links with the New York Times, GreenPeace, the AVAAZ organization, the Sierra Club, Amnesty International and the U.S. federal government. This article has been distributed to those organizations. Thank you again for reading.

Signed: Joseph Raglione

human4us@bell.net