![]() Meat and dairy production are major sources of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas. ![]() If everyone chose plant-based foods for just half their meals, we would have fewer animals suffering, and a tremendously better shot at avoiding the most dire consequences of climate change. But we need not be hard-line about avoiding all animal products. In the United States and beyond, giant agribusiness corporations continue raising animals in ways that disregard their welfare, never allowing pigs or chickens to walk outside, crowding hens who lay eggs into cages that prevent them from stretching their wings and breeding chickens to grow so fast that their immature leg bones struggle to bear their weight.īoycotting this monstrous abuse of billions of animals each year is a powerful reason for not eating meat, but the outsize contribution of meat and dairy products to climate change is for me now an equally urgent part of shifting to a plant-based diet. It is wrong to ignore or discount the interests of sentient beings because they are not members of our species. I didn’t do it to save the Earth, but because I realized that there is no ethical justification for treating animals like machines for converting feed into meat, milk and eggs. ![]() ![]() ![]() MELBOURNE, Australia - The year of the first Earth Day, 1970, was the year I stopped eating meat. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Whatever my personal reservations, I had been pleased to see a slice of Sci-fi entering the MG world as it felt like there was a real gap to fill and, although I’m no expert, I thought this filled that gap splendidly. One of the most unique and original MG books I’ve read in recent years. I’ll be honest, I’m not a sci-fi fan and this did not sound like my cup of tea at all and, despite knowing lots of fellow bookish people had loved it, I wasn’t really looking forward to it.īut I thought it was BRILLIANT. Things become more complicated when the children gradually realise something’s amiss, but can they get to the bottom of it and put it right? However, when one of its ‘jumps’ goes wrong, all the adults are stuck in their sleeping state and it’s up to a crew of children, who don’t always see eye to eye, to try and get a badly damaged ship past space pirates, unknown alien (Videshi) ships to safety. Spaceship Orion is taking a crew from Earth to settle and start a new colony in space. This was my choice for Believathon prompt The Shadow – Read a book first published in 2020. Orion Lost by Alastair Chisholm, artwork by, published by Nosy Crow I was lucky enough to receive a free copy of this in exchange for my thoughts on it. ![]() ![]() The Five W’s and One H Method represents a list of The Six Universal Questions: What? Why? Who? Where? When? and How?. Rudyard Kipling used a set of these questions to help trigger ideas in his writing. The method gets its name from the content of a fragment of a poem by Rudyard Kipling in the tale “Elephant’s Child”(Just So Stories). Author: Rudyard Kipling (1865 –1936), English short-story writer, poet, and novelist.
![]() ![]() Today we celebrate 40 years of incredible books by staying true to our company credo. TASCHEN turns 40! Since we started our work as cultural archaeologists in 1980, TASCHEN has become synonymous with accessible publishing, helping bookworms around the world curate their own library of art, anthropology, and aphrodisia at an unbeatable price. ![]() Along the way, art historian and Bosch expert Stefan Fischer reveals the most important themes and influences in these cryptic, mesmerizing masterpieces. ![]() We encounter his hybrid creatures, his nightmarish scenarios, his religious and moral framework, and his pictorial versions of contemporary proverbs and idioms. ![]() Through full spreads and carefully curated details, we explore the full reach and compelling inventions of the artist's genius as well as disturbing imagination. This edition offers the complete and haunting Bosch world in one compact format. 500 years on from his death, his works continue to inspire scholars, artists, designers, and musicians, death metal band names and designer dresses. 1450-1516) but in their fantastical visions they have secured his place as one of the most cult artists in history. Only 20 paintings and eight drawings are confidently assigned to Netherlandish painter Hieronymus Bosch (c. ![]() ![]() I felt like they were treating her like a glass figure and and how she should always be careful. ![]() It was really frustrating hear the same dynamic between the characters in regards to saving Luce and wanting to protect her from deliberately knowing something she is supposed to find out on her own. I really liked the story I think it was well written but the whole playing blind victim and the "oh save me" thing was actually a bit much. Now as for the story, it was good BUT I did expected to be a little different from the first buuuttttt it wasn't. ![]() ![]() The way she changes her voice to every character in a way that you know who it is and her ability to change to the next is amazing. I loved the narrator of the book I think she's very talented and she manages to pull off every single character distinctively and beautifully. ![]() ![]() However, the story is very touching and has some really good elements, especially the Korean folktale ones, so I would still recommend this! I suppose I should have known once I started reading a little bit of it, as it does revolve around quite a young girl. I didn’t know this book was actually classified under a children’s book when I picked it up. But deals with tigers are never what they seem! With the help of her sister and her new friend Ricky, Lily must find her voice… and the courage to face a tiger. And when one of those tigers offers Lily a deal–return what Halmoni stole in exchange for Halmoni’s health–Lily is tempted to accept. Long, long ago, Halmoni stole something from the tigers. ![]() When Lily and her family move in with her sick grandmother, a magical tiger straight out of her halmoni’s Korean folktales arrives, prompting Lily to unravel a secret family history. ![]() ![]() ![]() Nate’s best friend Libby tells him about an audition for a Broadway musical version of “Lilo & Stitch,” and suggests they go to New York so he can audition. When Nate plays a tree in a middle school musical, it reminded me of my own school performances that were described as “wooden.” Writer-director Tim Federle, creator of “High School Musical: The Series,” says this movie, based on his book, is semi-autobiographical. ![]() Youngsters can go to the internet or, in most states, teachers and counselors at school, to learn why they feel an attraction to members of their own gender.īut there are still confused kids out there, and in some cases the pressures on them are even greater than they were in my youth so all generations of queers can celebrate “Better Nate than Ever” on some level. ![]() Of course there’s more information out there now. This is the movie I wish I could have seen when, like titular character Nate Foster, I was a 13-year-old theater queen, clueless about who I was and why I felt different. As if in penance, they’ve produced “Better Nate than Ever,” now streaming on Disney+. ![]() The Disney Company can be forgiven for donating to a few right-wing politicians in order to continue operating in Florida. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Joe decides to find an interesting person in a nursing home – figuring he will surely find someone with a story to tell. He has to interview someone he does not know and write a basic biography. ![]() He’s a college kid who has been given a writing assignment – one he’s been putting off for quite some time. The Life We Bury by Allen Eskens is a very good example of a book that stumbles in a place or two but is able to make up for it by excelling in other areas. Must they perfectly balance plot, character, depth, substance? Yes and no. That’s a lot to ask, and it’s surely the main reason that a lot of mysteries fall short.īut what of those that don’t? The ones that leave us satisfied and entertained. It needs to be well plotted enough so that the reader doesn’t solve the main plot too early, the characters have to be either likeable or despicable enough that we love to hate them, and there has to be enough meat on the bones of both to carry us into the world created by the author. A good mystery has a lot of moving parts. ![]() ![]() ![]() Learn about the major environmental problems facing our planet and what can be done about them! Saving Earth Britannica Presents Earth’s To-Do List for the 21st Century.100 Women Britannica celebrates the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, highlighting suffragists and history-making politicians.COVID-19 Portal While this global health crisis continues to evolve, it can be useful to look to past pandemics to better understand how to respond today. ![]()
![]() ![]() ![]() At the age of 14 Forrester rebelled against her life of drudgery and her parents agreed to allow her to attend evening classes to make up for her missed years of education. įor the next few years the family were forced to rely on meagre handouts from the parish, and the kindness of strangers. As the eldest child, the 12-year-old Helen was kept away from school to look after her six younger brothers and sisters. While Forrester's father searched unsuccessfully for work, the family were forced to live together in a single room. Evicted from their comfortable home in an English market town and with nothing more than the clothes they stood up in, the large family took the train to Liverpool, where they hoped to rebuild their lives. When her father went bankrupt during the Great Depression, the family was thrown into poverty. June Huband was born in Hoylake, Cheshire, Wirral Peninsula, the eldest of seven children of inept, socialite, middle-class parents who lived on credit. Helen Forrester was the pen name of June Huband Bhatia (6 June 1919 – 24 November 2011), who was an Anglo-Canadian author known for her books about her youth in Liverpool, England, during the Great Depression and World II, as well as several works of fiction. ![]() |