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Recommended readings:
When Corporations Rule The World by David Korten
Dude, Where's My Country? by Michael Moore

Information on Denman Island, BC (home of Rawganique.com Hemp Store): denmanisland.com (it's run by our dear friends the very good folks at Stevensmedia.com) Denman Island, British Columbia



Links to more websites of interest follow below.

Bryanna Clark Grogan is a fellow Denman Islander and dear friend. She's a vegan author of many popular vegan books such as Nonna's Italian Kitchen. She's married to photographer and baker extraordinaire Brian Grogan. You can find more info on the ever-cheerful and inspiring Bryanna at: http://www.bryannaclarkgrogan.com.

Current Events:

Be sure to check out Alternet.org's article "Leave No NASCAR Dad Behind". Also, if you haven't seen it, Michael Moore's Oscar-winning anti-violence documentary Bowling for Columbine is great, so are his best-selling books Stupid White Men and Dude, Where's My Country? All are powered by Michael Moore's great sense of humor yet never skirt the difficult issues and questions that have to be asked. Judging from the box office of the film and sales of the books, many around the world think so too. The assault on the environment, human rights, and freedom have got to be stopped before it's too late. The good thing is we can do something about it (go out and make your voice heard: vote for the kind of world you want yourself and your family to live in!). Here's to true freedom of choice, liberty, peace, sustainability, and happiness for all.

Here are a few political news sources that aren't afraid to probe and ask difficult questions:

Progressive Hope  (editorial by Joel Bleifuss from In These Times):
Hope requires that one believe in a better future. In the realm of politics, hope is the necessary precursor to action. We hope for a more peaceful world, that our government will begin to put human needs before corporate profits, that one day “liberty and justice” will be for all...

"Nothing will benefit human health or increase the chances for survival of life on earth as the evolution to a vegetarian diet."
--- Albert Einstein

We're at a very exciting crossroads when it comes to health and ahimsa awareness. The raw vegan community has finally picked up momentum and speed (it's about time!) and there are so many wonderful resources on the internet for raw food novices and pros alike. This is far from the case when Touch became a raw foodist 10 years ago.

The raw food movement has had many stops and starts and numerous sporadic re-incarnations in the past 2 millennia, beginning with the ancient Greeks, many of whose outstanding thinkers were raw vegans; following which brief period of light, raw veganism seemed to have suffered a permanent dimming, that is, until the illustrious Luigi Cornaro came along in the 15th century and proved that restraint is a virtue almost as commendable as raw veganism. Since that time, many innovators--among them Graham, Trall, Tilden, Mcfadden, Wigmore, Shelton, and Fry--have picked up the thread and woven into the fabric of raw tradition their new-found thinking, experiences and inspiration. They were teachers and healers of the highest order who taught and healed through love and kindness.

But at no time in history has raw vegan and ahimsa awareness been as high as today! We are truly living in the Golden Age. There are so many articulate, inspiring, living, and practicing raw foodists out there, among them Joe Alexander (the original inspiration for Touch), Viktoras Kulvinskas, Michael McCarthy, Rhio, Jeff Rogers, and so many others too numerous to mention.

Isn't it great to be alive? Today! And to be raw. And vegan. Let's celebrate our uniqueness and shout the rawsome words from the rooftops. Let's aim for complete harmony with nature. Let's bring Nature into our lives by supporting all things organic, by shunning chemicals and pesticides, by growing our own food, by wearing clothes that are mindfully manufactured with low-impact materials and by sleeping on beds that are made without contaminating our sky, our oceans and our underground water system! Let's make things right for a better tomorrow for all.

Good health and good karma to you!

Pure Hemp Sweaters and Sandals

Raw Food & the Essenes: http://www.soystache.com/jesus.htm
Rawfood chef & author Rhio: http://www.rawfoodinfo.com

Raw Food Magazine (LN): http://www.livingnutrition.com
http://www.ecoforest.org
Alternative Health Talk (yoga, living foods, vegetarianism) http://www.alternativehealthtalk.com
Beautiful website for the expectant mother and her "organic" baby: http://www.katieskisses.com

Rohkostforum in Germany: http://www.rohkostforum.de

The following link is to the text from a little booklet called "Steps Toward Inner Peace' by Peace Pilgrim. "Steps" is not copyrighted and you are welcome to reprint it in whole or part. Please enjoy what is there. I hope you find this material as inspirational as I have. http://www.peacepilgrim.com/steps1.htm

Links for world peace:
Anti War http://www.antiwar.com
http://www.fireofpeace.com
Friends of Peace Pilgrim is a non-profit organization devoted to spreading Peace Pilgrim's message. In the tradition of her pilgrimage, all materials on this website are offered free of charge. Anyone working for peace, spiritual development, and the growth of human awareness has our willing permission to reprint non-copyrighted materials in whole or part. http://www.peacepilgrim.org
One Day in Peace. Peace on Earth, One Day at a Time http://www.oneday.net
Pax Cultura. Why not declare peace? http://www.peaceplan.com
Peace Pilgrim Homepage http://www.peacepilgrim.com
Professors World Peace Academy http://www.pwpa.org
The Peace Abbey http://www.peaceabbey.org
World Peace Prayer Society. May Peace Prevail on Earth http://www.worldpeace.org

We'll cover the ocean
And with our love light up the sky
All the world's gonna see
that you and me, we're meant to be
--Touch

Fox hunting is the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.
--Oscar Wilde

Endlessly repeating the same process, hoping for a different result.
--Einstein on Insanity

"Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security,
will not have, nor do they deserve, either one."
-- Thomas Jefferson

"Recall the face of the poorest and most helpless person you have seen
and ask yourself if the next step you contemplate is going to be of any use to that person."
---Mohandas Gandhi

"The animals of the world exist for their own reasons.
They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white,
or women created for men."
---Alice Walker

There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so SICK AT HEART, that you can't take part; and you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus and you've got to make it stop.
--Mario Savio

"If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, that there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance you may contribute to making a better world. That's your choice"
--Noam Chomsky

The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them.
That is the essence of inhumanity.
--George Bernard Shaw