4th doesn’t mean eat meat
What ever happened to the good old days when our worst worries on the Fourth of July were traffic jams and wayward fireworks?
A well-warranted worry, according to the Department of Agriculture’s Meat and Poultry Hotline, is food poisoning by nasty E. coli and Salmonella bugs hiding in hot dogs and hamburgers at millions of backyard barbecues. The hotline’s advice is to grill them longer and hotter. Of course, they avoid mentioning that the high-temperature grilling that kills the bugs also happens to form cancer-causing compounds.
Fortunately, some forward-thinking U.S. food manufacturers have solved these issues by creating an amazing assortment of healthy and delicious veggie burgers and soy dogs. No nasty pathogens or cancer-causing compounds in these tasty plant-based foods. They don’t even carry cholesterol, saturated fats, antibiotics, or pesticides. And, they are conveniently waiting for us at almost every supermarket.
This Fourth of July offers a great opportunity to declare our independence from the meat industry and to share wholesome veggie burgers and soy dogs with our family and friends.
Washi Hamada
Kailua-Kona
Brexit should teach lesson
This morning the news was all about the Brexit. The people of the United Kingdom have spoken out against imperialism, government by corpocracy, increased diminution of civil rights and the increasing oppression by a police class that is totally unaccountable.
That’s what the Bernie Sanders campaign has been all about. Now we in the US have a the opportunity to do the same.
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, whew, that’s the best we can do for options for the leader of the Free World? Well, as long as we persist in voting the lesser of two evils (not really sure which is the lesser) we will end up with the evil of two lessers.
There’s a choice a real choice. Jill Stein is running for president on the Green Party ticket. You can read her platform (every bit as revolutionary as Bernie’s) at jill2016.com. She’s already on the ballot and people are looking around for an alternative to the spirit and body crushing crusades of Hillarious and Trumpet, Jill fits the bill 100 percent. Just take a look and see if you wouldn’t prefer to be led by this woman, unconnected to the political steamrollers and corporate megaliths, than by the bought and sold rehashes that we’ve been presented with as the “only” alternatives. At least the media could bring Jill Stein and Gary Johnson (the Libertarian Party candidate) to the debates. Might inject some reason and facts into the mudslinging, that while true, isn’t very informative about the real issues and the real choices we need to make. Check out Jill don’t settle for less.
Kije Hazelwood
Hawi