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Speaking about her attempt to become a vegetarian at age 13, Victoria Moran says she ate a lot of fruit cocktail. Moran spoke last night at the Kansas Union.
Giuliana Nakash
Author says avoidance of animal products is more ethical, healthy
by Jennifer Corser Kansan staff writer
Victoria Moran closely examined a piece of chicken when she was 13 years old.
was is yet old for.
"I realized for the first time that what I was eating was a part of an animal," Moran said.
Moran, who has been a vegetarian since 1970, spoke last night at the Kansas Union about the ethical, health and economic reasons for being a vegetarian. The speech was co-sponsored by the Campus Counsel Society and the Community Mercantile Coop, 700 Maine St.
A vegetarian does not eat meat, Moran said. A vegan does not eat any animal products, including beef, pork, and fish. Moran has been a vegan since 1980.
Moran said she became a vegetarian for ethical reasons and to support animal rights.
"In the old days, being an animal was hard," Moran said. "Today being an animal is hell."
Before World War I, animals lived on family farms, had names and ate some of the grain produced on the farms, she said. Animals now live on large, factory farms and are reduced to mere units.
Moran also spoke about the poor treatment of calves before they were slaughtered to make veal and poultry, and forced chickens to produce eggs.
In economic terms, a vegetarian can help world hunger because the amount of grain used to fatten
In the old days, being an animal was hard. Today, being an animal is hell.'
- Victoria Moran
'The Great American Meatout'
coordinator
livestock could feed more people than the meat could, Moran said. Such facts need to be stressed to everyone, she said.
"In my opinion, it should be the headline on every paper, large and small: '40,000 children die of starvation today,' " she said.
Being a vegetarian and cutting meat from the diet also is healthy and reduces the chances of heart disease and other illnesses, Moran said.
"The best way to eat, in my opinion, is like a peasant," she said. "This is how the human race got this far."
Ned Mattta, Lawrence resident, said Moran's use of statistics and examples to make her point that vegetarianism is a logical reasons for being vegetarian.
Moran is the author of "Compass:
the Ultimate Ethic, an
Exploration of Veganism." She is the
1989 regional coordinator of
"The Great American Meatout," to be held March 20.
Sealed environment module temporary home for biologist
Mattila, who is a vegetarian, said he was interested in becoming a vegan.
The Associated Press
ORACLE, Ariz. — A marine biologist has begun a five-day sojourn in a sealed environment that generates its own air and rain, part of an ecosystem that natureators say may work as well on distant planets as in the Arizona desert.
Abigale Alling entered the unnamed module Wednesday through an airlock, abandoning Earth's atmosphere for one created to test the systems of Biosphere II, a futuristic, closed ecosystem which won't be completed for about 15 months.
"I will live, move and breathe in another life system," Alling said before she entered the airlock. She climbed back up into the hookup that she felt a pioneer.
apart from where you are. It is a remarkable feat." she said.
Researchers from the Soviet Union have experimented with non-food-producing closed systems, and the University of Hawaii has kept a closed experiment going for 20 years, but no one has integrated natural processes into a long-term habitat capable of sustaining human life, project director Margaret Augustine said.
"It is another world and a world
That is the mission of Biosphere II, which will provide a world within a world for eight "biospherians" from September 1980 until September 1992.
Biosphere II will feature desert, ocean, farmed land, marsh, savanna and jungle "biomes," or life zones, with 250 animal species ranging from goats to insects and 3,900 plant spe-
uses the human habitat, listed as another biome, will include laboratories and an amphitheater in a six-story building resembling a mosque.
Augustine and other officers o. Space Biosphere Ventures, a private company largely funded by Texas oilman Edward P. Bass, expect the $30 million project to pay for itself in sales of biospheres to governments and researchers for space colonization, preservation of endangered species or other projects.
Ms. Alling said her experiment would be the longest test so far of a human-inhabited module cut off from Earth's atmosphere and food chains.
There have been $2\frac{1}{2}$ years of unmanned studies in the test module and a three-day manned study.
Kassebaum casts vote against Tower
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Nancy Landon Kassalebau was the lone Republican to vote against John Tower for secretar of defense Thursday.
It wasn't the first time the junior senator from Kansas had gone against her party — and her party's leader, Bob Dole, the senior senator from Kansas and the leader of the losing fight to save the nomination.
"This has not been an easy decision for me or for any of us," Kassbauer said in a statement entered into the Congressional Record but not spoken to by witnesses. The high respect on both sides of the aisle are diametrically and vehemently in opposition."
Lie frequently charged that the fight was strictly partisan, minority Republicans against majority Demo-Kassbaum saw things differently. Kassbaum saw things differently.
If there was any irony in Kassebaum splitting with Dole on such a key vote, there as also the matter of being in favor of Tower's attitudes toward women.
But her prime concern was not women. Nor was it Tower's past drinking habits, which several senters noted.
Kassbeau, one of only two women in the Senate, noted that a Pentagon study "recently high" the number of incidents of harassment and promotion.
tens or harassment and pokedom. . . I am not confident that Senator Tower would give these issues the priority they demand or would demonstrate the necessary sensitivity to their seriousness."
"Most importantly," Kassebaum said, "the next secretary of defense is going to have to counter the
oenmutating impact that the defense procurement scandal has had on public confidence in ou defense establishment.'
"In meeting these challenges, the next secretary of defense must have the confidence, trust and respect of the American people and the Congress," do not be deterred that is necessary to forge a consensus on the critical national security issues confronting us today."
"My most serious concerns about the nomination of John Tower are from the public record," Kasebause said. "Although Senator Tower did not break any laws, his consulting activities over the past couple of years, in my opinion, raise very serious concerns about the nomenice's judgment and his sensitivity to those major issues of conflict of interest."
Survey shows teens try drugs, drinking
The Associated Press
The Centers for Disease Control reported the results of the National Adolescent Student Health Survey, and national questionnaire since the 1960s.
ATLANTA — A survey of eighth- and 10th-graders shows that a vast majority have tried drinking, most don't wear seat belts and about one in three has seriously contemplated suicide, researchers reported Thursday.
The 1987 sampling of 11,000 students in 20 states answered questions about alcohol, drugs, violence, substance abuse and the results showed unhealthy habits:
- Thirty-four percent of the students, 25 percent of the boys and 42 percent of the girls, reported that they had thought seriously about their lives, and it is percent gone so far as to attempt potentially fatal injuries.
we were surprised by the suicide figures," said Dr. Lloyd Kolbe, director of the CDC Division of Adolescent and School Health.
In the eighth grade, 51 percent had tried cigarettes and 77 percent had tried alcohol, by 10th grade, the smoking and 89 percent for booze.
Overall, 22 percent reported smoking in the previous month and about 32 percent reporting having five or more time in the previous two weeks.
"Drinking and drug use . . contributes very substantially to homicide and suicide." Kolbe said.
■ Thirty-four percent of the students reported they had been threatened with violence in the preceding year, and 14 percent had been robbed. ■ Girls girls reported that someone had tried to force them into sex, including 6
percent who said it happened at school.
- Twenty-three percent of the boys said they had carried a knife in the past year, and nearly one in 10 packed a knife every day.
- Fifty-six percent of the students said they didn't wear seat belts the last time they rode in a car, and 44 percent of the 10th-graders and 32 percent of the eighth-graders reported riding in the last month with someone who was drinking or on drugs.
The survey also measured students' knowledge about health-related topics:
Forty-seven percent believed wrongly that donating blood increases the risk of AIDS.
- Fifty-one percent thought incorrectly that washing after sex could decrease the likelihood of getting AIDS.
Only 43 percent were able to figure out from a cereal box which was the chief ingredient, and only 42 percent said that the data on a milk carton means.
■ More than 90 percent did know that having sex with an infected person or sharing drug needles can the chance of AIDS transmission.
According to Kolbe, the tragedy and the opportunity — in adolescent health is that education and awareness present a large number of needless deaths.
"In the 1-10-24-year-old age group, there are only really four (predominant) causes of death," he said. Car crashes, other injuries, homicide and suicide account for two out of three fatalities in that age group."
The margin of error for the survey was plus or minus 3.5 percentage points for each sex or grade category, the CDC said.