If you want to live longer, feel healthier, and save the world all at the same time, there’s only one thing you can do: go vegan.

Don’t believe me? Just look at the facts. The most common cause of death in the United States right now is a heart attack, but if you stop eating meat, dairy, and eggs, your risk of a heart attack falls by 90, I repeat, 90 percent.

Meanwhile, people who eat animal products are around 3 times more at risk of developing cancer than people who’ve either gone totally vegan or seriously cut back on the amount of meat they eat.

Oh, and if that wasn’t reason enough to drop meat, dairy, and eggs from your diet, consider this: breast milk infected with pesticides is about 35 percent more common in moms who eat meat than it is in moms who don’t eat meat. But the health benefits of going vegan are almost secondary to all the good it does for the planet.

Vegans are often portrayed in the media as extremists, but when you consider the amazing amount of waste and destruction that goes into supporting our meat-heavy diet, it’s the carnivores that look extreme.

Not only does a meat-based diet require 3 times more fossil fuels than vegan diet, it also hoards resources that could be used to feed the tens of millions of people that go to bed hungry every night.

In fact, John Robbins, one of the world’s leading experts on vegan diets, estimates that we could feed almost 100 million people if Americans cut their meat consumption by as little as 10 percent.

Read more here.

-Thom

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- Stephen Spaulding, Common Cause

Screwed: Exposing the Bigger Crisis in the Atlanta Teacher "Cheating" Case
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Best of the Rest: How Conservatives Have Stolen Religious Freedom
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Everything You Know Is Wrong: Being a 'Night Owl' is Risky
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Monday's Daily Stack

Article: "Ted Cruz Isn't an Idiot -- He's Delusional and That's Far More Dangerous" by Sophia A. McClennen.

Article: "When Corrections Fail: The Persistence of Political Misperceptions" by Brendan Nyhan, Jason Reifler.

Quote: "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so" - Mark Twain".

Article: "Confirmation bias" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Tea Party Tax Experiment Forces Schools To Cut The Academic Year Short" by Alan Pyke.

Article: "Kansas Bans Poor People From Spending Welfare On Cruise Ships" by Arthur Delaney.

Site: Fantastic Fungi.

Site: Fantastic Fungi kickstarter.

Site: Elect David Soll (Loves Park).

Site: Wolf PAC.

Site: Move to Amend

Article: "Thousand points of light" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Veto Act on Incorporating the Alexandria Protestant Episcopal Church (February 21, 1811)" by James Madison.

Article: "Ted Cruz's Father Suggested His Son Is 'Anointed' to Bring About 'End Time Transfer of Wealth'" by Bruce Wilson.

Hour Two: Why you should be terrified of the Supreme Court
- Ian Millhiser, Think Progress & Injustices: The Supreme Court's Nearly Unbroken History of Comforting the Comfortable and Afflicting the Afflicted

Case: "Marbury v. Madison", 1803 (judicial review).

Letter: "Thomas Jefferson to Spencer Roane", 6 Sept. 1819 "The constitution, on this hypothesis, is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist, and shape into any form they please."

Quote: "John Marshall has made his decision: now let him enforce it!" -- Andrew Jackson.

Case: "Dred Scott v. Sandford", 1857.

Article: "Colfax massacre" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Obamacare Subsidies Argued at the Supreme Court" (King v. Burwell) by Shane Farnan.

Article: "Study Details Deadly Consequences Of Gutting Obamacare" by Ian Millhiser.

Article: "Ted Cruz Threatens To Take Away The Supreme Court’s Power To Decide Marriage Equality Cases" by Ian Millhiser.

Article: "Never Count on the Supreme Court to Protect Voting Rights" by Ian Millhiser.

Law: "Voting Rights Act of 1965".

Article: "Supreme Court Invalidates Key Part of Voting Rights Act" by Adam Liptak, June 25, 2013.

Article: "Despite A 0.0002 Percent Rate Of Voter Fraud, Reince Priebus Claims Wisconsin Is ‘Riddled With Voter Fraud’" by Scott Keyes.

Case: "Bush v. Gore", 2000.

Article: "Judicial selection in Alaska" by Ballotpedia.

Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission"

(2010).

Article: "Ted Cruz Runs First Ad Of 2016 Presidential Cycle On Easter Weekend" by Igor Bobic.

Article: "Dan Quayle" by Wikipedia.

Documentary: The Curious Case of Philip Marshall.

Book: The Big Bamboozle: 9/11 and the War on Terror by Philip Marshall.

Book: False Flag 911: How Bush, Cheney and the Saudis Created the Post-911 World by Philip Marshall.

Article: "Former airline pilot and conspiracy theorist 'shot dead his two teenage children and his dog before turning the gun on himself'" by Rachel Quigley, 7 February 2013.

Talk Radio News Segment:
- Victoria Jones

Article: "Iranian deal a 'forever agreement'" by Jordan Fabian.

Article: "Israel Suggests Ways to Make Iran Nuclear Deal ‘More Reasonable’" by Isabel Kershner.

Article: "Dems: Pay gun owners to hand over assault weapons" by Tim Devaney.

Article: "Australia’s Gun Control Law Caused A Drop In Gun-Related Deaths, And An Even Bigger Drop In Suicides" by Jeff Spross.

Article: "Accused Boston bomber followed brother's lead, defense argues" by Scott Malone and Elizabeth Barber.

Article: "Watch: Cholene’s ThankList" by Ellen Ratner.

Site: Thank List.

Article: "TRNS News Notes- 4/6" by Victoria Jones.

Article: "Vegan diet best for planet" by Lydia Wheeler.

Article: "You Cannot Be A Republican And A Christian" by SquareForceOne.

Article: "49 Reasons Why I Am A Vegetarian".

Article: "Adventist Health Studies" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Clarence Thomas failed to report wife's income, watchdog says" by Kim Geiger, January 22, 2011.

Article: "Impeach Justice Clarence Thomas" by Karoli.

Article: "Turning the other cheek" by Wikipedia.

Bible: "Matthew 26:52" "'Put your sword back in its place,' Jesus said to him, 'for all who draw the sword will die by the sword.'".

Article: "Prosperity theology" by Wikipedia.

Article: "'Their compassion is unending': School shooter's wife relives moment the family of Amish girls her husband killed came to offer her love and forgiveness".

Article: "Is This Photo Proof Mike Pence Knew RFRA Discriminates Against LGBTs?" by Lucas Grindley.

Article: "Epic of Gilgamesh".

Article: "Starve the beast" by Wikipedia.

Site: Rodale Institute.

Book: "The Crash of 2016: The Plot to Destroy America--and What We Can Do to Stop It" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Gene Robinson" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Bake for them two" by tenthousandplaces.

Video: How to fight desertification and reverse climate change - Allan Savory TED talk.

Article: "Trans-Pacific Partnership Proves Rules Are Rigged in Favor of the 1 Percent" by Katrina vanden Heuvel.

Article: "Seattle City Council Votes 9-0 to Oppose Fast Track" by Stan Sorscher.

Article: "How Paid Sick Days Are Benefiting This City’s Businesses" by Bryce Covert.

Article: "This City Could Become The Next Detroit" by Carl Gibson.

Article: "New York May Enact First-Ever ‘Warning Label’ For People Who Want To Protect Their Life Savings" by Bryce Covert.

Article: "Amid Talks With C.F.P.B., Student Debt Strikers Take Aim at Arne Duncan" by Sam Sacks.

Article: "From Original 15 to More Than 80, Student Loan Strike Numbers Grow" by Jon Queally.

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