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Pumpkin Soup Chinese Style

This is a chinese style pumpkin soup with a medley of vegetables such as carrot, leek and button mushroom making it truly healthy. This combination of vegetables are also good for nourishing weak lungs.

You will need:

2 fairly large carrots, cut into chunks
some pumpkin, cut into chunks, skin removed
some leek
1/2 can button mushrooms
lean pork (scald pork)
2 slices ginger

Put all the above ingredients into a pot of boiling water. Boil furiously for 10 minutes. Lower heat and simmer for 2 hours. Before serving, season with salt.
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Mohd. Batu Bin Skru said…
According to United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization 2006 report, the number one contributor to global warming are livestock, livestock produces methane gas which are poisonous to us. The UN Chief of IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) Dr. Rajendra Pachauri Phd. says that the only way to prevent global warming/climate change is everyone to eat less meat. There are report that the planet will not be suitable for living due to air pollution on year end of 2012 if people do not take action.
http://www.fao.org/newsroom/en/news/2006/1000448/index.html

We can't expect the government to do everything, it have to start from everyone, government will only react base on the public interest.

Dr. Rajendra Pachauri even speak that its "A WIN-WIN solution" if everyone be a vegetarian. he is giving speeches around the world to raise public awareness on global warming/climate change.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ibd1HbGSFtY

Ways to prevent global warming/climate change:-
* drive less petrol/diesel vehicle - car pool, take bus, ride bicycle or walk if possible
* eat less meat or be vegetarian
* raise peoples awareness on global warming/climate change and ways to prevent it.

in religious practice:-
* one of Buddhist five precept - "do not kill any sentient being"
* the next main source for muslim after the Holy Quran the Hadith
Muhammad did mention "Don't make your stomach a graveyard of animals"
* in Christian Holy Bible and Judaism Holy Torah
Genesis 1:29
Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food."

Be Veg, Go Green, Save Our Planet
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