Greg Mortenson on Bill Moyers

Here's a clip of Greg Mortenson talking to Bill Moyers on building a girls' school in Mullah Omar's village and recent troop deployment to Afghanistan. I don't think I've ever seen him in a suit and not in traditional Pakistani dress. He must have felt awkward as hell.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/15/greg-mortenson-on-bill-mo_n_425339.html

(Well, the link works on my Facebook page. Find me there.)

You can even tell how painfully shy he is--like it hurts to talk. It would be great to see him really getting into a lively discussion in one of the jirgas (councils of elders) deep in Afghanistan, drinking tea and swapping stories in the Dari (or Pashto, etc.) language. Read more!

It's Not About "Eating Animals"

Admittedly one of the worst design covers in recent history--N.D.

"The everyday horrors of factory farming are evoked so vividly, and the case against the people who run the system is presented so convincingly, that anyone who, after reading Foer's book, continues to consume the industry's products must be without a heart, or impervious to reason, or both." J.M. Coetzee, author of The Lives of Animals

This is not about being a vegetarian or vegan or omnivore, it's about knowing where 99% of our meat, poultry and fish come from and deciding if this is a system we want to continue to support, to the detriment of our own health, the animals' welfare, and the devastating effects on our world, in terms of global warming, pollution and disease creation.

Want to know more? Read the book. And yes, you DO have time. It's not War and Peace, for Christ's sake.

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