Inherit the Earth

Woody Harrelson

c/o Creative Artists Agency

9830 Wilshire Boulevard

Beverly Hills, California 90212-1825

Dear Woody,

Please find enclosed, my screenplay, “Inherit the Earth,” based on a true story. You are the man for this role. I understand you are concerned and passionate with the same issues this movie deals with. Imagine playing the role of a mid-western Middle School Art Teacher who was fired for incorporating kindness in his art lessons despite being told not to.

The story garnered worldwide attention in 2007-2008. Even the beef industry followed the media analysis of the story’s impact. The story has been covered by CNN, CBS, ABC, NBC, FOX, USA Today, Associated Press, UPI, and many more. This story has mass appeal as the issues deal with every part of our lives.

“Inherit the Earth” is similar to a movie produced years ago, “Inherit the Wind,” about a public school teacher who was honest with his students about evolution. “The Scopes Monkey Trials,” garnered world-wide attention. When I was fired for teaching my students about veganism, the world heard that as well; however, the State of Illinois Board of Education closed the hearings from the public; for fear that Humane Education---hidden from students and teachers---would enter into curriculum across the country - just as Evolution is now taught in schools. “Inherit the Earth” will help get Humane Education in schools.

“Inherit the Earth” is based on actual court proceedings and the events surrounding - namely, the nations largest recall of beef - 143,000,000 LBS from the Westland/Hallmark company - the number two supplier to the school lunch program! The recall was too late, as most of the children in public schools ate the Mad Cow infested lunches between the years 2006 to 2008. The human variant of Mad Cow is called Creutzfeld-Jacob Disease which takes as little as 10 years to show signs and is 100% fatal. The children who ate that meat could be the dropping like flies tragedies of tomorrow.

Imagine the surprise of the evil villains when Dr. T. Colin Campbell, author of "The China Study," showed up to testify at the hearing. Well, the sad, flesh-addicted morons were unmoved and chose to continue lying to children rather than keeping Warwak on. “Inherit the Earth” will bring this information into the public realm of discussion, as well as, the connected issues of bullying, school shootings, and our tendencies toward violence.

"Inherit the Earth," is the movie the world has been waiting for - and desperately needs. It connects the dots between Humane Education, the school lunch program, bullying, the Health Care Crisis, the plight of the animals, children, Earth and our ultimate future. It address not only the source of most of our problems, but offers a solution. "Inherit the Earth," will make people laugh, cry, learn and change.

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Dr. Will Tuttle writes:

"This case of tenured art teacher Dave Warwak being fired by Fox River Grove Middle School for bringing truth and compassion to his students is not only fascinating, illuminating, and ironic, but potentially explosive as well. I am struck by the enormous amount of light this case shines on all the most pressing issues our culture faces: the angst of our children, the devastation of our environment, the domination of our schools, government, and media by powerful corporate interests, the hidden violence at the core of our culture that manifests as abuse, disease, and war, and our ongoing inability to deal effectively with our dilemmas.

There is an old Zen saying: “Whatever you ignore most forcefully will control you the most.” The Peep Show [Inherit the Earth] offers a precious glimpse straight into the living reality of the shadow of oppression that generates our suffering. Dave Warwak’s quest to inform children about the realities that matter to them most is, I believe, an example of authentic education. That he was quickly and ruthlessly forced out of his position by the local authorities reveals the essence of our dilemma today. Dave Warwak’s story is our story: the story of our indoctrination by a culture of reductionism and violence.

I believe that what happened to Dave Warwak in Illinois could happen in almost any public school district in our nation, and this is why it is so important to understand his story and its implications. Are we awake and loving enough to care wisely about our children, our Earth, animals, people, and future generations? With their innate sensitivity, perhaps our children can teach us something - but only if they can somehow avoid the cultural onslaught that strips them of their capacities. This case reveals that onslaught clearly for those with eyes to see.

For the school board to claim that Dave Warwak turned his classroom into a "zone of indoctrination" is not only ironic, but ludicrous. It is clear that the entire school is a zone of indoctrination, complete with posters promoting dairy products and a cafeteria offering a continuous supply of foods derived from terrified and abused animals. The school and its teachers and administrators present this cruelty as normal in an overwhelmingly pervasive way to impressionable children. The school is itself an institution embedded in a culture that uses all its other institutions to do exactly the same thing. Dave Warwak was providing a small counterpoint of awareness, compassion, and sensitivity to this flood of indoctrination to which all children in our culture are routinely subjected and for this he could not be tolerated. That he should be painted by the school board and media as the "indoctrinator" is beyond absurd, and what is astonishing is how difficult this is for most people to comprehend. Dave Warwak was creative and honest in his efforts to help students rise above culturally-imposed attitudes of violence and cruelty toward animals, and because of this he was viewed as dangerous to the status quo. In actuality, he was fulfilling a higher mandate, and for this he deserves respect and honor, not the disrespect and abuse that he has been forced to endure for questioning a culture that is ferocious in its routine cruelty toward billions of animals used for food." Dr. Will Tuttle PhD., The World Peace Diet. Eating For Spiritual Health And Social Harmony

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Dr. T. Colin Campbell writes:

"Certain ideas, in my mind, are sacred. One of these is honesty. Another is freedom of speech, at least here in the United States. And a third is the right to a good education, especially for young people. I do not claim to know all the details surrounding Dave Warwak's dismissal from his school post in northern Illinois. But I do not need to know everything because these three sacred concepts were being maligned.

With this information in mind, I quickly caught a flight to Chicago's O'Hare airport then drove north for an hour to testify in his hearing before a hearing officer, the school superintendent and the attorneys for the school board. I was not disappointed. I was asked to give under oath my views on the truthfulness of the posters on dairy that were displayed in the school building and that touted the alleged health benefits of milk for children.

I personally felt offended, not only for Dave but also for his students and, in a larger sense, for the American public who are too often entrapped in ignorance. How dare a school administrator and a school board take the extraordinary action—tantamount to a near-crime in my book—of dismissing a tenured teacher for sharing with his students his thoughts on the origins of violence and his related thoughts on the association of certain foods with poor health? Isn't a teacher's sharing of new ideas what education is all about?

If I had any further reservations about the veracity of this story, they were largely dispelled by Dave's willingness, indeed courage, to openly challenge his dismissal. Any unmentioned baggage could be exposed in such a setting. In a way, I felt a certain sadness with this episode for I was seeing, once again, how otherwise good people have become so thoroughly indoctrinated for so long in the health virtues of milk, thus leading them to equate Dave's views as heresy, perhaps also believing that he was doing something really evil. Let there be no mistake, the scientific evidence now questioning the alleged health value of milk has become substantial and is worthy of public dissemination, especially to children.

Although I did not directly testify to Dave's interest in teaching, through art, his ideas on non-violence, I also believe that it is well past time that schoolchildren also be informed of this very important consideration as well. As I write this, I am still so disbelieving that this event ever occurred. When are we going to come to our senses?

I repeat: I do not know the full details of this unfortunate event in Dave's life. But I know enough for now. Dave Warwak on this basis of my background information and my witnessing the trial was teaching compassion and health, as he must. He also had the courage to be bold in expressing his opinions. His actions are not only a great lesson for young people, they also are the stuff that made this country great." Dr. T. Colin Campbell PhD. Professor Emeritus of Nutritional Biochemistry, Cornell University

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A True Hero
by Mary Hoffman

When I heard that Dave Warwak was fired from Fox River Grove Middle School in Illinois for his attempts to teach Humane Education, I thought about Socrates who was executed thousands of years ago for his teachings. That ancient Greek philosopher was accused of “corrupting the youth.”

I thought how any attempt to teach the truth to youth seems always to be met with opposition and resistance by those who are really corrupt and want to keep the status quo at any cost.

Dave Warwak uses his sense of humor and his artistic talent to help make this a kinder and more gentle world. Isn’t this exactly what the world needs?

Inherit the Earth is a fascinating true chronological account of the events surrounding the unwarranted dismissal of a compassionate tenured art teacher, Dave Warwak, from the Fox River Grove Middle School because he taught the truth to the children in his classes about the harmful effects of eating animal flesh (meat) and bodily secretions (dairy).

While we were reading the documentation and accounts contained in this book we kept thinking about three Bible verses:

John 8:32
32 Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."
NIV

and...

Matthew 18:6
6 but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it is better for him that a heavy millstone be hung around his neck, and that he be drowned in the depth of the sea.
NASB

and...

Proverbs 12:10
10 A righteous man has regard for the life of his beast,
But the compassion of the wicked is cruel.
NASB

To us, Inherit the Earth represents the struggle between good and evil: the good being represented in the person of Dave Warwak who tried to teach the truth about the horrors of animal agriculture and the harm and suffering these industries are causing humans, other animals, and the environment; and evil being represented by the parents and school board members who bought into the lies of corporate interests to the detriment of their children.  Dave Warwak was setting the children free; he didn't want them to stumble over the lies laid out before them; and he wanted them to have compassion and recognize the wickedness of farming animals.

Dave Warwak always told his students to look up the truth for themselves and verify the facts, so that they could confirm the truthfulness of what they were being taught. But most of the parents and the the entire school board wanted to preserve the lies, so they used their power to try to silence this art teacher, but all they did was shine light on their wickedness and exposed it to the whole world.

Frank and Mary Hoffman, http://all-creatures.org

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John Robbins gives thanks:

Thanks, Dave, for all you are doing to dispel the darkness. Reading all the articles on your website about the recent developments at Fox River Grove, brought many feelings to my heart. Mostly gratitude to you for your efforts, and also sadness at the resistance we can encounter when we start speaking out and being voices of the greater conscience. But the trick is to keep going, keep your spirits flowing, even in the face of entrenched denial.

I send much peace and great blessings to you,
John Robbins, Author of Diet for a New America, The Food Revolution

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Persecuting Men of Vision
By Robert Cohen

A book burning was held recently. Welcome to the new United States of Amerika, a place in which Homeland Security means protecting our children against subversive ideas such as the promotion of compassion to animals. Such as the vegetarian lifestyle.

A vegan teacher dared to distribute books by John Robbins to his students. Those books were joyously burned at a barbecue in which animals were roasted by members of an Illinois community. What was his crime?

Let me quote Mrs. Lovett in the Johnny Depp movie, Sweeney Todd, brilliantly directed by Tim Burton. When asked what crime a barber was prosecuted for and transported away for a life of hard labor in a ship's galley, she responded, "His crime? Foolishness."

In real-life 21t century terms, Dave Warwak's middle school crime was to inspire his art students (just as Peter Max once did) that compassion to animals and people was a blessing and not a crime.

Dave Warwak took the burdens of the world upon his own shoulders. Like many men of wisdom and courage throughout history who have been honored by those who are touched by greatness, Dave has been persecuted for society's sins.

I cannot do anything other than compare Dave's continuing struggle to Galileo.

Long ago, Galileo turned his attention to a new frontier, and in doing so, angered religious leaders. By placing lenses inside of a long tube, Galileo's primitive telescope allowed him to discover four moons revolving around the planet Jupiter. His invention was destroyed and Galileo imprisoned. Man's laws gave this fanatic and visionary two choices: remain in prison or recant his discovery and previous testimony. Galileo had no choice but to exist in a world in which his truth became a threat to the men of his time. Dispelling myths has always been dangerous to one's health. Dave refuses to betray his values or his mission. Welcome this new vegan visionary into a movement badly in need of heroes.

Robert Cohen, Author of Milk - The Deadly Poison

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Pamela Rice says ...

“Warwak is an extremist, yes. But have vegans forgotten that everything around us is extremely horrible: animal cruelty in unfathomable numbers, a planet imploding because of animal agriculture, and a human health crisis?

Why can’t vegans get uppity like every other constituency that is or ever was? Do people think that the meat world is going to just kick over and die one day?

We vegans know the score. It’s up to us and no others to take a stand on these issues. We cannot count on meat eaters to see things the way we do…

Warwak made a strong one stand. We vegans don’t know how to process it. Unfortunately, the kids are the ones most to suffer from today’s agriculture policies.

Warwak gets it. As a teacher, he has to look into their eyes.”

Pamela Rice, Author of 101 Reasons Why I'm A Vegetarian.

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Ingrid Newkirk says,

“Fox River Grove Middle School is standing education on its head when it cracks down on instructors who teach our kids about kindness and good health,” says PETA President Ingrid E. Newkirk. “Mr. Warwak is exposing the meat industry’s dirty secrets, and his students have every right to know the truth behind their food choices.”

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Nathan Runkle says,

"We believe that in a time when there’s so much violence, especially in schools, that teachers who show kindness and compassion for all life should be commended," said Nathan Runkle, executive director of the Chicago-based Mercy for Animals advocacy group, which lobbies against factory farms. "It’s appropriate for students to learn about the horrendous cruelty that animals endure on factory farms, and about the benefits of a healthy diet."

"We believe there would be no controversy if Mr. Warwak was talking about, let’s say, the Michael Vick case and the cruelty of dog fighting," Runkle said. "I think his case shows there’s a disconnect of what’s considered cruel for animals considered pets versus those meant for human consumption."

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Bruce Friedrich says,

"It’s a sad day when a teacher is punished for telling students the truth: that by going vegetarian they will dramatically improve their health while saving animals from cruelty so extreme it would warrant felony-level cruelty charges in the state of Illinois if the victims were dogs and cats, rather than chickens, pigs, and cows. In a time of growing violence in schools, a teacher who is bringing a message of compassion should be applauded, not punished. Students in every school should have teachers like Mr. Warwak to tell them that the “chicken nuggets” they consume in the cafeteria were once living, breathing animals who were crammed into filthy sheds and pumped full of drugs before having their throats slit while still conscious.

Mr. Warwak was also apparently distributing copies of John Robbins’ book “The Food Revolution”, which documents not just the cruelty of the meat industry, but also the environmental and health benefits of a vegetarian diet. In these days of skyrocketing childhood obesity, hopefully Mr. Warwak’s students will take this health message to heart: according to the American Dietetic Association, a vegan diet is appropriate for all ages and vegans have lower rates of heart disease, cancer, diabetes and obesity than meat-eaters" Bruce Friedrich, Vice President PETA

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Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, vol.7. no.2
To Find the Cost of Freedom: Theorizing and Practicing a Critical Pedagogy of Consumption: Don’t Get Mad, Get Vegan!
By Jennifer A. Sandlin, Richard Kahn, David Darts, Kevin Tavin

"In this way, the immediate pedagogical lesson to Warwak‘s students was perhaps a kind of Biblical injunction: Thou shall not transgress the hidden curriculum of food as it is prescribed from on high, which students further learned is vengefully backed by a type of bureaucratic penal system which threatens detention, suspension, and ultimately one‘s removal from school altogether for not upholding school dietary norms. Alternatively, the students may have learned from the larger media battle that took place during and after Warwak‘s firing that contemporary political resistance necessarily occurs in the media as a zone of struggle. Perhaps some of the students were able to evaluate and compare how news stories (mis)characterized events as they knew them to be true and so additionally gained a type of critical media literacy in this way. Or, finally, maybe at least a few students came to realize that due to their collective critical work—at however limited a level—material conditions did change in their school! Rotten and diseased meat was exposed and removed from their cafeteria kitchen; and not just from their own school but from many others as well around the nation in fact, as a coast-to-coast dialogue was raised that exposed pervasive corruption and collusion between the meat and dairy industries, government administrators charged with regulating school food, and the local schools providing the lunches in question."

http://www.jceps.com/PDFs/07-2-05.pdf

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My Lack of Courage
by Robert Cohen

After reading today's Notmilk letter, you might be motivated to send an email to a Chicago Tribune reporter who wrote the story of a vegan teacher who no longer teaches Chicago kids about milk's dangers.

You might also consider sending an email to today's hero, a teacher by the name of Dave Warwak. Somebody should make a movie about this man's exploits. I see Robin Williams playing the feature role.

In past years, I have had the courage to walk into a dairy class at Penn State university, facing two hundred very angry sons and daughters of dairy farmers. Two of them filed bogus charges against me with authorities. One with the Penn State police, and one with the United States Department of Agriculture anti-terrorism squad who later showed up at my front door.

In past years, I have taken on Monsanto and gone to federal court against The Company and their team of legal reps, King & Spalding. In past years I have appeared on national television and pointed my finger at USDA undersecretaries, accusing them of conflicts of interests by working for the dairy industry. I have accused congressmen and senators of taking bribes. I have taken on two presidents, one of whom enacted legislation (the Economic Espionage Act) directly against me while I was in federal court seeking to get Monsanto's smoking gun research (the Richard, Odaglia, & Deslex study) legally released.

I have had dead animals accompanied by out of state milk cartons thrown onto my lawn. The FBI has arrested two people who made threats against me. One possessed plastique explosives.

I have not feared many things, but there is one thing above all which terrifies me, and I will forever avoid.

Local school systems.

Every mother has an agenda. Do I dare take on dairy in the schools? No way! Been there, done that. One cannot beat city hall or a local school system.

Not only do I fear local moms, but those spineless eunuchs lacking principles, called principals.

Which brings me to this week's Chicago Tribune story.

Vegan Teacher May Lose His Job
By Jeff Long and Carolyn Starks, September 7, 2007

Dave Warwak has taught art at Fox River Grove Middle School for eight years, and for most of that time, he was happy to eat meatloaf, hot dogs or whatever else the cafeteria workers dished out.

But in January he became a vegan and started spreading the word about the benefits of a meatless diet to students at the McHenry County school. He even built an exhibit out of candy that depicted animals in cages and as road kill.

On Thursday, Warwak said his crusade might cost him his job. He said he was told to stay away from class this week by administrators he described as "ardent meat-eaters."

Warwak, of Williams Bay, Wis., near Lake Geneva, said he is scheduled to meet with Fox River Grove District 3 officials Monday about the discussions he's had in class about vegetarianism, which excludes meats, and veganism, which excludes meats and other animal products such as milk. Officials asked him to leave the school Tuesday because he refused to stop talking about the harms humans cause animals, he said.

Principal Tim Mahaffy declined to comment Thursday, calling the dispute a personnel issue. He would not discuss issues raised by Warwak or verify the teacher's version of events.

The candy display came down after three days, when Mahaffy decided it was too much of a "PETA advertisement," Warwak said. The battle over diet lessons resumed this week after Warwak distributed the book "The Food Revolution" to his 8th-grade students and talked to his classes about vegetarianism.

"It's probably one of the most life-changing books a person can read," Warwak said of the book, written by John Robbins and subtitled, "How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and the World."

"It's about how we're destroying the planet with pollution from factory farming," Warwak said. "It's about health. It's about living longer."

Neither the American Civil Liberties Union nor the Illinois Education Association had an opinion on the case, but Warwak drew support from animal rights advocates.

"We believe that in a time when there's so much violence, especially in schools, that teachers who show kindness and compassion for all life should be commended," said Nathan Runkle, executive director of the Chicago-based Mercy for Animals advocacy group, which lobbies against factory farms.

"It's appropriate for students to learn about the horrendous cruelty that animals endure on factory farms, and about the benefits of a healthy diet."

Runkle said his group plans to write a letter to the school in support of Warwak.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or PETA, is giving Warwak its "Compassionate Educator" award, vice president Bruce Friedrich said. The group is also sending the school a letter in support of the teacher.

Warwak, meanwhile, sees no problem discussing the topic he cares about passionately during art classes.

"It's art in every way," he said. "Art is something different for everyone...Art is like philosophy."

District 3 Supt. Jacqueline Krause was out of the office Thursday and unavailable for comment. Warwak, who said he makes $55,000 per year, said he feels a responsibility to warn his students about the dangers of what he calls an unhealthy diet and to open their minds to new ideas.

"I'm telling kids, 'Don't believe everything you see and everything you read,'" he said. "I'm trying to get them curious enough to check things out for themselves."

I lack the courage to do what this teacher has done. I will never again try to take on my local school system. My children went through years of ridicule and tireless Gotmilk jokes after my first (successful) attempt to change the milk from GMO to organic in 1994. I have learned my lesson.

Your letter of support can be forwarded to Jeff Long, the reporter: jjlong@tribune.com and to Dave: dwarwak@gmail.com

Dave's very cool website: http://veganschool101.blogspot.com

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/notmilk/message/2757

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Kimberly Steele writes:

"Eating animals, bullying, school shootings... all are part of a larger violent picture of a society that tries to maintain status quo at all costs.

Dave Warwak dared to connect the dots in order to reach out to the children he taught and was fired. The corrupt Fox River Grove system that fired Dave Warwak would not listen when Colin T. Campbell, author of The China Study, only the largest, most comprehensive study of diet and health ever made, testified at Dave's hearing.

Those indoctrinated into the culture of eating animals would often rather ignore all the distressing signs around them, including the ones coming from their own bodies than to shake off their conditioning.

The difference between Dave and the school system he challenged was that Dave actually cared about the health and well being of children, enough to risk and then lose his job. The Fox River Grove school administrators who fired him proved beyond a doubt they were far more concerned with kickbacks and subsidies from Big Ag than the welfare of children, anything to service their addiction to eating their rump of dead pig without suffering those annoying stirs of conscience."

Kimberly Steele, Author of Forever Fifteen, and Honey

 

Warwak tells corpse-munchers the truth

Speaking the truth at Hollywood's big Halloween bash 2010: Corpse-munchers dress up as they really are. I see through their bullshit all year long three times a day.

Talk Show Host Bob Linden Wrongfully Arrested By Beverly Hills Cops at "Fur-Free Friday" Demonstration

Radio talk show host Bob Linden was arrested by Beverly Hills cops on Friday in front of a Wilshire Boulevard animal-skin market as Mr. Linden turned on his bullhorn power switch and announced "fur is murder." Beverly Hills cops immediately charged at Linden, yanked the megaphone from his hands, and then yanked his hands behind his back, handcuffing him, and charging him with using amplified sound without a permit, pursuant to a Beverly Hills municipal code which Linden calls "blatantly unconstitutional."

"I can't believe it," Linden said. "Years after I won a settlement with Beverly Hills because of its unconstitutional practices and rights violations, here it is behaving again like George W. Bush, creating its own rogue state, a lawless constitution-free zone. Here we go again, having to show Beverly Hills that, whether it likes it or not, the constitution is still enforced there." Linden was referring to long-standing U.S. Supreme Court decided settled law recognizing the bullhorn as an instrument of free speech expression. Linden has experienced a number of similar wrongful arrests associated with bullhorn usage (which instead of resulting in convictions have resulted in greater animal rights free speech opportunities at such venues as the Los Angeles Sports Arena, Arrowhead Pond in Anaheim, and the San Diego Sports Arena).

In the current oppressive environment where we are losing our rights every day, especially so for animal rights activists, it is more important than ever to assert the rights that we do have. The right to free speech is so important for those who speak for the voiceless - the poor innocent ones raised or trapped to become the fur for sale in Beverly Hills. We need to reach people, to appeal to their humanity. We know that if shoppers know the cruelty of fur, how animals are confined, how they are stomped, gassed, drowned, anally and genitally electrocuted, how maybe 40 lives are killed for one fur coat - of course people won't want to buy it - and maybe that's why the Beverly Hills cops only let me get three words out before arresting me. Do you think everyone who violates the Beverly Hills code is roughly handcuffed - or is that treatment reserved only for animal rights activists", Linden asked.

Prior to the arrest, Beverly Hills cops refused to divulge the municipal code under which Linden was being warned he would be arrested if he used the bullhorn. Subsequently, an officer read Beverly Hills Municipal Code 4-3-501 to Linden, to which Linden replied to the officer that none of what he read applied to his activities and that such a code usually has an explicit or implicit provision that such a restrictive code would not apply to those engaged in constitutionally protected activity. Beverly Hills police arrested Linden anyway, with a court date scheduled for early February.

You can help Bob Linden with his court costs, his defense, and his subsequent lawsuit against the City of Beverly Hills for its repeated egregious violations of our constitutional rights as American citizens. Donations for legal (re not tax-deductible) and should be made payable to Bob Linden, and sent to PO Box 475414, San Francisco, CA 94147.

Dave’s Absurdities

Ignorance, time and time again, imposes its absurdities in complete opposition to reality. This creates paradoxes that one can identify and use to formulate and solve oxymoronic equations. Ignorance fades as its illogicalities are identified and the truth is exposed, enabling change. This idea spurned the writing of, Dave’s Absurdities:

Absurd how corpse-munchers claim high and mighty vegans are judgmental of others; while, the robbers-of-life are the ones playing high and mighty gods passing judgment on our friends claiming animals are insignificant lesser beings unworthy of life.

Absurd how corpse-munchers claim vegans are terrorists trying to destroy their world through violent means; while the robbers-of-life have no problem turning their eyes blind---and claiming their right--- to destroy our world through violent means. Those who demand violence on their plates are in no position to call us violent.

Absurd our corpse-munching POTUS wins a Nobel Peace Prize while in a meeting to order 40,000 more of other people’s children for his war; thereby delaying his disrespectful death sentences by 4 weeks so as not to seem too war-like.

Bad men are just immature selfish little boys who have acquired the power to prevent reason from taking away their toys. A good man helps the bad man improve himself by unearthing and embracing his soul.

Bob Linden tells the truth

Bob Linden telling it like it is ... as we all should. And if you like what Bob does with his activism and want him to continue, give his web a visit at http://goveganradio.com and consider helping him out with an online donation for his non-profit project of the 501C3 International Humanities Center.

Corpse-munching peace prize givers wish all to hail corpse-munching Obama and his peaceful ways

The Norwegian Nobel Committee, who determines Nobel Peace Prize recipients, is comprised of corpse-munching political appointees. It should come as no surprise Barack Obama would be declared a man of peace joining the ranks of those who betray the very cause they fight for like Al Gore as they both talk a good game.

Talking and doing are very different things.

Absurd to realize the very same day Obama meets with his buddies to order up tens of thousands more---of other people's---young children into battle in Afghanistan, he is erroneously labeled a man of peace. Now he will have to put off his troop increases for his bogus war for a few more weeks so as to not seem too "war-like" in the eyes of the peace loving world.

Have no fear or concern that we are under the helm of a corpse-munching/war-mongering Obama.

We are the ones invading foreign lands and causing and heightening disruptions via murder and mayhem to topple others and stealing their resources and launching drone attacks murdering women and children.

Have no worries about children dying younger thanks to Obama’s do-nothing-approach to his National School Lunch Program.

All is great as we are led by a man of peace.

The prize has become an embarrassing sham and slap in the face to the very idea of its namesake. It just goes to show, vegans should not trust corpse-munchers, especially with important issues like life and death.

Let’s all celebrate the corpse-munching Norwegian Nobel Committee and all they hail as special beings worthy of our praise and reward them with gratis---at everyone’s expense---gourmet foie gras, veal, and baby pigs.

“All ancient philosophy was oriented toward the simplicity of life and taught a certain kind of modesty in one’s need. In light of this, the few philosophic vegetarians have done more for mankind than all new philosophers, and as long as philosophers do not take courage to seek out a totally changed way of life and to demonstrate it by their example, they are worth nothing.” Nietzsche

http://veganschool101.blogspot.com/2009/02/barack-nothing-that-i-will-do-obama.html

Wikipedia's milk-chugger/strip-miner: Hereditary ignorance wishes Warwak was never born

Corpse-munchers and/or fellow vegans take exception to my Wikipedia page (one embittered vegan even tried vandalizing/blanking my page) and have put it up for speedy deletion on October 5th.

Fired from my job, blackballed from surrounding schools, banned and erased from Facebook and the Vegan Freaks, ALF, PPK, Vegan Represent, and PeTA forums, as well as canned from the TPC and all writings deleted, this should come as no surprise as most---corpse-munchers and vegans alike---don’t like my message of being honest with children. A message so frightening, it must be erased from the internet.

It is hoped---and worked hard for---that the only vegan stories remaining on the web are those of how vegans kill their babies with vegansim and of course, that Hitler was a vegetarian. This is how it continues ...

Current butchered Wikipedia page up for speedy deletion October 5th: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Warwak

What was my Wikipedia page a few weeks back: http://inslide.com/DaveWarwak-Wikipedia.htm

Seems Wikipedia's abuser kelapstick, a milk jug promoter and strip-miner from Nevada is the pus-chugging robber-of-life who is working hard to have me erased.



In all fairness, I am no Joe the Plumber

Through discovery comes ownership

As part of my preparations/hoop-jumping to become a certified public school teacher, I was required to take educational theory classes to better understand how students learn best. Much of the educational theory I learned in college didn’t mean much at the time; however, once I began teaching I saw the value of some of the ideas I learned years earlier. One such idea is that the best learning comes through discovery in which the student attains ownership in their ideas.

Imagine the power of people discovering veganism on their own and realizing ownership.

People go vegan in many ways. Maybe a friend or family member introduced them to veganism. Perhaps a stranger handed them a brochure or maybe they heard their favorite celebrity talk about animal rights. Some people discover veganism all by themselves.

The internet is the perfect place for discovering veganism. People do searches on certain unrelated terms and stumble upon animal rights and/or veganism and may or may not continue looking depending on their interest level or the web site’s appeal. The key to getting people to go vegan is to spark their curiosity so they will take it upon themselves to investigate and discover veganism by their own efforts ultimately attaining ownership.

When sparking curiosity, less is often more. This is what makes my business cards so effective. Another effective variation of the card is worded for parents:

Front reads: Want your child to live 10-12 years longer?
Back reads: Go to your favorite search engine and look-up "vegan"

“The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards” Anatole France

We are living in the information age and the truth shall set us free.

Murder is not vegan

Murder is not the answer. Murder should not be on our menus, especially when we have not exhausted all other options. Vegans are in the minority and we need more vegans to step-up and become activists. Along with increased numbers of vegan abolition activists, we need more creative vegan education taking place in schools and society at large.

The educated man looks for more creative solutions rather than opting for violence only to claim that nothing else works. What kind of message does this send to our children?

“Do as I say, not as I do” never works; while, children are excellent at imitating our behaviors. The hereditary ignorance passed to our children is in our hands.

My parents never hit me and I have a hard time advocating something I can not do myself. I will leave the promotion of violence to those who actually carry it out – otherwise, it's all just empty words and embarrassing stuff.

And as far as those who advocate violence without carrying any out themselves, well they are simply poseurs. I try my best to walk the walk with my activism/writing and therefore don’t feel I should be the one advocating violence. Yes, I did at one time, but I am a free thinking individual whose thoughts are always evolving and I was narrow in my view on this one. Don’t forget the children learn from what we do, not what we say and if we want violence to end, then we have to make it stop with ourselves first.

Who, how, what, where, when, and why should all be considerations when planning good activism. One example of good activism would be for vegans to go across the street from a school (where) armed with bullhorns and literature (how), alerting children (who) lining-up in the morning (when), that the food their school is serving is unhealthy and damaging to the planet and that animals are our friends – not food (what). Children have not been fully indoctrinated and many still have open minds and hearts (why). Video tape the activism and post it on You Tube. Now that would be good activism.

We need more people putting pressure on our leaders to address factory farming, the National School Lunch Program, and to adopt vegan diets themselves so they can live by example instead of just delivering empty words.

“All ancient philosophy was oriented toward the simplicity of life and taught a certain kind of modesty in one’s need. In light of this, the few philosophic vegetarians have done more for mankind than all new philosophers, and as long as philosophers do not take courage to seek out a totally changed way of life and to demonstrate it by their example, they are worth nothing.” Nietzsche

We need more vegan activists approaching and educating their local school boards and administrators to include Humane Education and vegan school lunches for the impressionable and trusting children.

More vegan teachers need to step forward and educate their fellow teachers and administrators.
Start a vegan blog (they are free – go to blogspot.com), teach some animal rights classes, write some books, make some vegan art, music, and movies, promote vegan abolition in personal interactions and at work, be honest with children and everyone you meet everywhere you go---as silence is complicity---and yes, promote peace.

Be the change you want to see and show us---not tell us---how to be better activists.

If we murder our fellow man, we sink to their level---proving vegansim is not the answer----setting a bad example for our children and perpetuating the hereditary ignorance, becoming the problem instead of the solution. “An eye for an eye just makes the whole world blind” Gandhi

Veggie Pride Parade post rally in Union Square Park, New York City May 17, 2009

Barack Obama knows the horrors of Factory Farming and chooses to do nothing about the National School Lunch Program.

“The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it” Albert Einstein

"As soon as one sees the truth contained in vegetarism and continues to eat meat, he is no longer innocent and ignorant of his mistake. He is guilty of crime." "Shall We Eat Flesh?" Rational Living Library, B. Liber 1934



History cares not of pride, nor, conformists, only to a gasp at how primitive they must have been; whereas, we always remember those who are able to change with great reverence, for they put aside pride and refused to conform to evil.



We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common good, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish veganism for the United States of America

"Never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way." Martin Luther King, Jr.



Audio Engaging Children:
http://inslide.com/WarwakEngagingChildrenAnimalRightsConference2009.mp3

People say, “There goes that vegan, Warwak”

It’s cool. I want people to know that I am a vegan.

It is so strange to think corpse-munchers refer to us as vegans.

I mean, do we define ourselves by our diet or the job we keep … or lose?

[Slightly off topic: If so, how can Whole Foods’ owner, John Mackey claim to be vegan when he makes money off of the promotion and sale of happy-meat? Diet is not the only criteria in determining one’s veganhood or lack there of.]

Anyways, I thought how absurd it is defining others by their diet and then realized, I do it all the time. Whenever I go out into the world, all I see are corpse-munchers everywhere ruining everything.

“They think they accomplish much by living a life apart from the rest of their fellow-men, adopt an attitude of superiority and are satisfied with their capacity not to soil their bodies with corpses” Shall We Eat Flesh, Rational Living, 1934

Summer recalls---millions of pounds of wasted life---and pestilence; as we subsidize animal agriculture and ponder the Health Care Crisis

Aug 17, 2009 043-2009, Marcacci Meats Ground Beef Products (E. coli O157:H7) Recalled - 128 lbs of ground–up corpses contaminated with E. coli O157:H7 were unleashed on Aug. 12, 2009, and were distributed to a consumer at the wholesale level in the Atlantic City, N.J., area, and packaged for sale to consumers at the retail level in Vineland, N.J.

Aug 13, 2009 042-2009, Sterling Pacific Meat Co. Ground Beef Products (E. coli O157:H7) Recalled - 3,516 pounds of ground-up corpses contaminated with E. coli O157:H7 were unleashed on May 18, 2009 (recall issued 3 months too late – most was eaten) and were distributed at the wholesale level to food service companies, who further distributed the product to restaurants in Calif. and Ariz.

Aug 5, 2009 041-2009, Beef Packers, Inc. Ground Beef Products (Salmonella) Recalled - 825,769 pounds of ground-up corpses diseased with salmonellosis were unleashed on various dates ranging from June 5, 2009 through June 23, 2009 (recall issued 2 months too late – most was eaten). The nasties were distributed to retail distribution centers in Arizona, California, Colorado and Utah. Because these products were repackaged into consumer-size packages and sold under different retail brand names, consumers were told to check (WTF? By who? When? No one told me shit. This information is very well hidden – I know, I had a hell of a time tracking this shit down) with their local retailer to determine whether they may have purchased any of the nasties. This particular strain of Salmonella Newport is resistant to many commonly prescribed drugs, which can increase the risk of hospitalization or possible treatment failure in infected individuals.

Jul 29, 2009 040-2009, Camacho's Foods Pork Skin Products (produced without inspection) Recalled - 1,450 pounds of pig skins were recalled because they were prepared without federal inspection. Yes, our tax dollars pay huge salaries to orchestrate the inspection (and production) of corpse-munching goodies. The ready-to-eat pig skins were unleashed from June 16, 2009, through July 29, 2009 (1 ½ months without inspection) and were repackaged for sale to consumers and distributed to retail stores in California.

Jul 22, 2009 039-2009, King Soopers, Inc. Ground Beef Products (Salmonella) Recalled - 466,236 pounds of ground-up corpses diseased with salmonellosis were unleashed on various dates ranging from May 23, 2009 through June 13, 2009 (recall issued 1-2 months too late – most was eaten). The nasties were distributed to retail establishments in Colo., Kan., Mo., Neb., N.M., Utah and Wyo.

Jul 12, 2009 038-2009, E. S. Miller Packing Co. Ground Beef Products (E. coli O157:H7) Recalled - 219 pounds of ground-up corpses contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, from July 7, 2009, through July 10, 2009 were distributed to consumers and several local restaurants in the Montgomery and Paw Paw, Ill., areas, located in northern Illinois.

Jul 1, 2009 037-2009, Traditions Pre-Packaged Meal Products (Salmonella) Traditions, a Pearl, Miss., death-house, is recalling an undetermined amount (WTF?) of various boxed pre-packaged meal kits. The boxes contain separate portions of instant nonfat dried milk, which was previously recalled (WTF?), the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced. Due to potential Salmonella contamination, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced a recall of the instant nonfat dried milk product on June 28, 2009. Although the nonfat dried milk product has already been recalled, as announced by FDA, the master boxes, which contain the various pre-packaged meal items, bear the USDA mark of inspection on the outside of the box. The instant nonfat dried milk products were packaged in the master shipping boxes on various dates ranging from January 28, 2008 to June 5, 2009 (Over 4 months worth). The final shipping containers bear the establishment number "EST. 18350" and/or "P-18350" within the USDA mark of inspection printed on the side of the box. The pre-packaged meals were distributed nationwide to various food distributors and regional nutrition service providers.

Jun 25, 2009 and Jun 28, 2009 (Expanded) 034-2009, JBS Swift Beef Products (E. coli O157:H7) Recalled - 380,000 pounds of assorted cut-up corpses contaminated with E. coli O157:H7 were unleashed on April 21, 2009 (recall issued 2 months too late – most was eaten) and were distributed both nationally and internationally.

Jun 24, 2009 035-2009, Sausage Product (undercooked) Recalled - 350 pounds of a cervelat pig sausage chubs distributed to small grocers in the San Antonio area.

Jun 22 2009 033-2009, Ground Beef Products (E. coli O157:H7) Recalled - 6,152 pounds of ground-up corpses contaminated with E. coli O157:H7 were unleashed on June 17, 2009, through June 19, 2009 shipped to distributors and restaurants in the Chicago, Ill., metropolitan area.

Jun 8, 2009 030-2009, Snow Creek Meat Processing Fresh Beef Trim (E. coli O157:H7) Recalled - 75 pounds of cut-up corpses contaminated with E. coli O157:H7 were unleashed on June 2, 2009 distributed to retail establishments for further processing in North Carolina and South Carolina.

Jun 5, 2009 029-2009, Cameco, Inc. Ready-to-Eat Meat and Poultry Products, various (underprocessing) Recalled - 79,312 pounds of pigs and chickens were unleashed on May 29, 2009 and June 1, 2009 distributed to wholesale distributors in Alabama, Arizona, California, Connecticut, Michigan, North Carolina, Ohio, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, Texas and Virginia.

Jun 3, 2009 028-2009, Duck Leg Confit; Hungarian Brand Kolbase (Listeria)
RECORDS MISSING

Jun 2, 2009 027-2009, SP Provisions Ground Beef Products (E. coli O157:H7)
RECORDS MISSING

May 29, 2009 025-2009, 20-pound cases of 100% PURE GROUND BEEF BULK (foreign materials) Recalled - 241,000 pounds of ground-up corpses containing foreign materials were unleashed January 2009 (Up to 5 months late) through May 2009 and distributed to institutions in Del., Fla., Ill., Ky., N.C., N.M., Ohio, S.C., Tenn., Texas, and Va.

May 22, 2009 023-2009, Paisano Meat Beef and Pork Products (undeclared sulfites) Recalled - 350,000 pounds (unleashed date unknown – WTF?) of cow and pig parts containing undeclared sulfites were distributed to food service institutions, lunch wagons and retail establishments in southern California.

May 21, 2009 022-2009, Valley Meats Ground Beef Products (E. coli O157:H7) Recalled - 95,898 pounds of ground-up corpses with E. coli O157:H7 were unleashed on March 10, 2009 (recall issued 2 months too late – most was eaten) and were distributed to various consignees nationwide.

May 12, 2009 R01-2009, Bob's Food City Ground Beef Products (E. coli O157:H7) Recalled - 375 pounds of ground-up corpses contaminated with E. coli O157:H7 were unleashed on May 7, 2009 sold to customers of the Bob's Food City retail store located at 800 Malvern Avenue, in Hot Springs, Ark.

May 4, 2009 019-2009, A & G Brand Ground Beef Products (E. coli O157:H7)
RECORDS MISSING

And let’s not forget the 143 million pound recall of Westland Hallmark’s Mad Cow goodies. That fiasco was issued in early 2008 recalling vCJD poison dating back to 2006 – most of which was already rammed down trusting children’s throats in the USDA’s school lunch/tumor feed disposal program before they knew what hit them. Recalls can come at anytime---some 2 years down the pipe---long after the poison has been ingested. These robbers-of-life desire only your money; all the while, hoping/wishing/praying that you will be too far gone before your cash-strapped weak sick dying ass has a chance in hell at figuring out what happened and who to chase down. What about the children? The National School Lunch Program is a dumping ground for garbage poisons that no one else in their right mind (unless too poor) would buy/eat.

E. coli O157:H7 is a deadly bacterium/shit/crap/poop that can cause bloody diarrhea, dehydration, and in the most severe cases, kidney failure. The very young, seniors and persons with weak immune systems are the most susceptible to foodborne illness.

Consumption of food contaminated with Salmonella can cause salmonellosis, one of the most common bacterial foodborne illnesses. Salmonella infections are life-threatening, especially to those with weak immune systems, such as infants, the elderly, and persons with HIV infection or undergoing chemotherapy. The most common manifestations of salmonellosis are diarrhea, abdominal cramps, and fever within eight to 72 hours. Additional symptoms may be chills, headache, nausea and vomiting that can last up to seven days.

Corpse-munchers claim they are living life to its fullest. Nine times out of ten, whatever corpse-munchers say, the opposite is true. They are not based in reality.

“An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong” Russell Baker

And using up valuable space on Earth as a lying all-consuming corpse-muncher is one thing, but the truth is, if these blood-sucking robbers-of-life would just leave animals alone and we were all vegans, not only would we live longer and solve the Health Care Crisis, but we would never have to worry about: Strokes, Heart Disease, Osteoporosis, Kidney Stones, Colon Cancer, Prostate Cancer, Pancreatic Cancer, Ovarian Cancer, Cervical Cancer, Stomach Cancer, Endometrial Cancer, Breast Cancer, Hypoglycemia, Diabetes, Kidney Disease, Peptic Ulcers, Constipation, Hemorrhoids, Hiatal Hernias, Diverticulosis, Obesity, Gallstones, Hypertension, Asthma, Salmonellosis, Trichinosis, Irritable Colon Syndrome, Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (the human variant of Mad Cow Disease), Smallpox, Smithfield's Swine Flu Virus (Influenza), Tuberculosis, Malaria, Aids, Bubonic Plague, Measles, Cholera, Global Warming, Factory Farming's Cruelty and Pollution, Starvation/World Hunger, School Shootings, and War.

Anyways ... happy grilling

Barack Obama follows the Socialist Doctors’ dairy health care blueprint for America mapped out in 1934

The Socialist Doctor
VOLUME II. NUMBER 3 MAY, 1934

The Official Organ of the Socialist Medical Association

NESTLE'S MILK Richest in Cream [WTF?]

NUTRITION NEEDS PLANNING
By Dr. Leslie J. Harris (Nutritional Laboratory, Cambridge).

INTEREST in the subject of nutrition is at present almost universal, and opinion as to the needs of the community and the presence of under-nourishment among the working classes varies enormously. Nevertheless, there are certain facts which are indisputable and which demand free publicity. From these basic facts readers can be left safely to draw their own conclusions.

I am thinking primarily of those diseases, mainly “deficiency diseases,” for which modern medical science has now found the remedy- remedies of which there is no inherent shortage in nature, but of which man is nevertheless still kept deprived, solely because of the stupidity and ignorance of a society which fails to apply its knowledge, or to make proper use of its available resources.

It is useful to look back and see how much has been already accomplished, not in any spirit of self-satisfaction, but to give us confidence of how much is possible.

Again compare a picture of any group of elementary school children of thirty or forty years ago, and you cannot dispute the remarkable change for the better in the corresponding group of to-day. The year-by-year improvement in physique can be seen from the reports of the Ministry of Education. In 1927 the average five-year-old child was no less than four pounds heavier than the corresponding child in 1921, and half-an-inch taller. A good achievement for a short space of six years.

But now, if we accept the axiom that Governments are responsible for the welfare and health of their citizens, it seems to me that there can be no halfway house in the process of amelioration. The very first call on the administration must inevitably be the health of the individual; and we should no longer tolerate the position which we know to-day, in which the means of health, although known and recognized, are still beyond the means of many. How anomalous, by this criterion—not because of any lack of knowledge, but rather because of shortage of money! What an astounding sidelight on our civilization will this appear to our more enlightened descendants.

But I err in tending to see the mote only in my neighbor’s eye, and, after all, charity begins at home. When we consider what might be done, and what little has been done, have we in this country so much to be proud of? We know from large-scale and carefully-controlled clinical experiments carried out in orphan asylums and in other institutions, among elementary school children up and down the country, what wonderful improvements result in physique, health, and good spirits when extra milk is added to the child's diet. Yet how many school children in this country are able to receive the full amount of milk which modern science demonstrates to be desirable?

What seems much more to the point is the demonstrable and admitted fact that many working-class people have not available even the limited sum needed for this bare sustenance allowance, and that after paying rent only, and making no allowance for such elemental necessities as clothes and coal. I think attention might be concentrated on this essential point, rather than on the relatively small differences between the two bodies. It deserves to be pointed out, moreover, that the scales which have been put forward seem to be based on the rather unnatural assumption that the un¬employed person possesses so perfect a knowledge of dietetics and nutrition that he is to be able to choose his dietary constituents to the best (or meanest) possible physiological advantage (as well as in the cheapest market).

HOW ARE THE CHILDREN?

THE question of whether a child can be fed on a sum of 2s. or 3s. per week or not is one that can be considered from many angles. It may be discussed from the theoretical aspect by counting the cost of a diet giving an adequate caloric value. It may be considered from the statistics available for the cost as it works out in private homes and in institutions. It may also be discussed from the aspect of obvious results, from the effect on the health of children whose parents cannot have more than a bare minimum with which to provide food.

Further, the observer must necessarily be influenced by what he has come to regard in his own mind as the average, or rather the normal. If he has been working in a poor district for some time, he will quite naturally and unconsciously tend to accept lower standards of what constitutes the normal than an observer in a good-class community, such as a Medical Officer to a public school, where the majority of the children come from well-to-do homes.

Hence the points to be aimed at are the greater use and dissemination of such information on nutrition as already exists, the stimulation of further inquiries, and a much wider distribution of free milk and meals in a planned, directed, and purposive effort to direct is an upward trend towards the optimum for the greatest possible number.
Caractacus.

SOCIALISM AND PUBLIC HEALTH
By Somerville Hastings, M.S., F.R.C.S. (Chairman of Hospitals and Medical Services Committee, L.C.C.)

During the last half-century there has been a steady and continuous improvement in our people's health and a corresponding reduction in mortality rates. It is a little doubtful, perhaps, how long this improvement will continue to be seen, for the privations necessitated by the world crisis and the economy campaign must have had an adverse effect on the national physique and resistance to disease. Still, we have this to our credit, that during the last half-century the expectation of life for the average citizen has been increased by some twelve to fifteen years. Now if we look round carefully for the causes of this decreased mortality, we shall find that it is due much more to diseases which we have prevented than to those that we have cured. By careful supervision of our water supply we have almost completely wiped out those terrible epidemics of typhoid fever that we had in the past; by instruction given in our maternity and child-welfare centers we have to a large extent disposed of those attacks of infantile diarrhea that used to be such a menace to child life; by notification, isolation, and disinfection we have been able to reduce both the incidence and mortality of infectious disease.

The history of Public Health legislation and administration in this country during the last fifty years is for the Socialist both inspiring and convincing. It is the story of how people who did not believe in Socialism and did not want it were compelled to adopt it to obtain not only efficiency, but any results at all, because private enterprise invariably let them down whenever they depended on it.

And people are beginning to ask why should not the principles that have served us so well in connection with preventive medicine be applied to clinical medicine also? If Socialism has been so effective in preventing disease, why should it not help us to cure it as well? And it is not only members of the Labor Party who are asking this.

How can we expect improved results in the treatment of disease when we adopt our present individualistic, disorganized, and utterly chaotic methods for dealing with it?

Minimum Adequate Allowance for Children

The diets were carefully scrutinized, and a selection made of these cards in which the diet appeared adequate without extravagance, rich in vitamins, and embodying at least one pint of milk per day. In this group the average cost per week was, for children one year and under, 4s. 9d. and for children from one to two years, 4s. 9¼ d. A small group of children, from two to three years, gave an average of 4s.11½d.

None of the mothers included anything for cooking, and they were not asked to include any sum for clothes, heating, &c. From reading the diets and analyzing the figures, one is prepared to state that a child cannot be given a diet adequate in every detail at a cost of less than 4s. 9d. per week. A nation which tries to rear its future citizens on less will find itself in later years populated by people who have never had a chance to build a strong, healthy, and disease-resisting bodies.
D. S. M.

AMERICA NEEDS A NEW HEALTH SERVICE

WHILE contending forces are struggling for supremacy in the American business world, quite a large section of the community is taking a very active interest in the need for reorganizing the medical services of that country. A writer in the "Journal of the American Medical Association," early this year, stated that "at least 100,000 persons in the United States sorely need hospital care, but are not getting it. Why? The answer seems to be that only two-thirds of the beds are in use!" He adds, however, as a less satirical reason, that only 2-5ths per cent, of those attending hospital clinics are able to pay the fees.

For such reasons, meetings of the medical profession and of social workers generally, are being held everywhere to discuss what can be done, and the American Academy of Political and Social Science has passed a resolution that America needs "a socialized health service that is adequate, effective, easily available, and cheap, if not gratuitous."

It is an interesting point that the London correspondent of the "Journal of the American Medical Association" goes out of his way, week by week, to produce arguments, based on English experience, against the National Health Insurance Acts, and against the whole idea of a socialized medical service. He constantly reiterates that there is really no support for such a scheme in this country, shutting his eyes to such phenomena as the new L.C.C.

Nevertheless, American opinion is gradually being built up in favor of either an insurance system or a complete free service, and the director of the Milbank Research Fund has declared "that some insurance system should be developed—providing every type of medical service to every member of the family of people having incomes below an amount sufficient to guarantee medical service in every contingency." It is insisted that, while there should be a joint committee of lay people and doctors to deal with complaints, the professional service and personnel should be under professional control.

It is too early yet to say what the medical profession will say to this, but when the situation in America becomes clearer it may be that one of the results of the depression will be some form of State organization of the medical services of the American Continent.
M.O.H.

MOVEMENTS

A committee has also been meeting to discuss the cost of a State Medical Service, and an immense amount of detailed matter has been considered. This is a very big problem, and certain figures have proved difficult to get, but the work is progressing, and it is hoped that at an early date a report will be available.

The third committee has been formed to consider disease in relation to social and economic factors, and have begun on the subject of nutrition. Already the ground has been cleared, but it is obvious that a large number of problems are involved, and the committee proposes to tackle each by asking one of its members to prepare a paper on the subject.
ON-LOOKER.

MILK

MILLIONS of gallons of it! Yet we don't use nearly enough of it in this country. A lengthy report has just been issued dealing with the consumption in Scotland, and this confirms the backward position of the country as a whole. It is shown that the amount of milk was a little less than 0.5 pint per person per day. The consumption varied greatly in different districts, but even the highest did not reach the figure for the United States, which in 1926 was just over one pint per day. An increase in our daily consumption would not only mean a big improvement in the position of farmers, but, as numerous experiments and observations show, a big advance in the health of the nation.

This is only one of the problems offered by the milk question, and the Socialist movement, and the Socialist Medical Association in particular, will have to decide what it is going to do about the production, distribution, and control of milk in this country. The report quoted above mentions that it was found that in nearly all towns the largest proportion of the milk was handled by the co-operative societies. Are we to organize the milk supply through the already existing machinery of the Co-operative Movement or, as has been suggested in some quarters, through a new national and municipal organization?

More important, from the medical point of view, is the question of how milk should be produced to prevent its being, as it can and is, one of the worst of disease-carriers. Should pasteurization be made compulsory or should we go all out for a complete elimination of disease among milk cattle and their attendants? The latter would be a lengthy and. expensive business, and while tuberculosis can probably be got rid of, other conditions, such as Br. Abortus infection, are difficult of elimination, and there will always be some bacterial contamination of even the best milk. This is particularly the case with the milk supply of large towns, and in these cases, pasteurization seems to be the best method of ensuring safety. One thing must be insisted on, namely, that all milk sold should be subject to the closest bacteriological and chemical control.
D. P. H.

The Abolitionist Approaches the Wrong Direction

Gary Francione: “Inasmuch as I maintain the necessity of revolution, let me make clear what I mean. I am absolutely and unequivocally opposed to any sort of violence directed toward humans or nonhuman. I am firmly committed to the principle of non-violence. The revolution I seek is one from the heart: I try to get people -- especially other men -- to question and reject violence”

Gary, like everyone else, is not 100% correct about everything. Some are more wrong than others. One of the things Gary is wrong about is nonviolence. Gary doesn't understand: Violence is the only thing some corpse-munchers understand. They just can't understand peace, love, compassion, logic, real science, ecology, humanity, or even common fucking sense for that matter. The subject is not even up for discussion. They don’t want to change and just toss your leaflets.

Grovel and shower the corpse-munchers with flowers until they cave for veggies is the cry of the friendly abolitionist. The corpse-munchers in charge of the Holocaust only understand violence – no matter how cool, beautiful, and loving we think we are.

Peace loving nonviolent vegans allow/enable violence to continue on a massive scale just because they don't "believe in" violence. No one is asking them to "believe in" anything. Only to realize, the hour is way late and we are not dealing with the open-minded or rational; but, we are denied by stunted children in adult bodies who have inherited the tools to prevent reason from taking away their toys. They need a good spanking.

We fight today so we can have peace tomorrow.

Note added September 1, 2009: Since the writing of this, my thoughts have evolved on the subject of violence. Gary actually has this one correct: http://veganschool101.blogspot.com/2009/08/murder-is-not-vegan.html

Barack Obama phoned me, Dave Warwak

BARACK OBAMA: I have heard a lot about you Mr. Warwak … can I call you Dave?

DAVE WARWAK: Sure.

BARACK OBAMA: Now in the interest of honesty, some of the things you have said about me and my family are well … disturbing to say the least. For instance, this business about me being the Antichrist. I mean, come on Dave, you’re a smart guy.

DAVE WARWAK: Well, I like to play Devil’s advocate, so I guess you could say, we are on the same side. But seriously, imagine if you are the Devil himself. Do you think you would know it? Maybe you would believe you do no wrong and are the most powerful man in the world because you are so cool. Maybe.

BARACK OBAMA: Wow, not sure how to take that.

DAVE WARWAK: Take it for what it is. When are you going vegan?

At which point our connection was lost and he never called me back. WTF?