Did you know? want to save the planet,
One thing everyone can do is eat less meat and eat more vegetarian!
Natural and environmentally friendly
Only when human beings live in harmony and friendship with all living beings can they truly enjoy a life of prosperity, prosperity and peace. When we deprive other beings of their right to live in order to satisfy our selfish desires, one day we will lose our beautiful country. As a result, many environmentalists are also staunch vegetarians.
Vegetarians contribute immensely to the conservation of the planet's natural resources. According to the best-selling book "A Small Planet's Diet" in the United States, 80%-90% of cereals in the United States are used to feed animals. If every American reduced meat consumption by 10 percent, all the starving people on the planet would have enough grain to feed on.
The environmental pollution and waste of resources brought about by modern meat production are staggering.
Water ContaminationWater can be contaminated by fertilizer and wastewater flowing from livestock farms, chicken farms, or other farming areas.
Air pollution generates 30 million tonnes of biogas (a gas that contributes to global warming) every year from wastewater or compost from livestock farms.
Twelve pounds of wheat wasted can make 12 loaves of bread for a week, but only one pound of beef can be produced if it is used to feed cattle.
For every pound of meat produced in soil erosion, livestock farms lose about 5 pounds of topsoil.
Water consumes about 390 gallons of water to produce one pound of beef.
Energy consumption is more than 10 times more energy needed to make and transport livestock than plants.
Psychic environmental protection
A vegetarian diet brings us back to a state of balance and harmony in life. When the body gains health and vitality due to vegetarianism, wonderful changes are also taking place in the depths of our hearts. We will be pleasantly surprised to find that when we are in the embrace of nature, our hearts will become pure, bright, peaceful and friendly. Through vegetarianism, we can gain a vegetarian heart without any miscellaneous things. No matter bitterness or happiness, no matter whether it is noble or low, no matter whether it is honor or disgrace, no matter whether it is defamatory, it is the highest state of vegetarians.
Social and environmental protection
In order to save other lives from being killed, they are willing to restrain their desires with three meals a day. If we put the good deeds of releasing life and abstaining from killing into our daily lives, then our compassion and love will surely grow day by day. Caring for teachers, relatives, friends, colleagues, and all other lives with this heart will enable those around us and ourselves to live in joy and harmony every day. Far from murder and greed, the heart is full of compassion and benevolence, a vegetarian will have a sunny affinity, and one more such heart in the world will reduce a kind of greed, a trace of fear, a little hatred; Add a sense of peace, a ray of warmth, and a point of joy......
Documentary section
1. Documentary: "Citizen of Earth" aka "All Living Things on Earth"
Video viewing: 1 hour and 35 minutes in total.
A shocking documentary that a person must watch in his or her life!! The best film in the history of mankind, it can awaken people's conscience and benevolence that have sunk! Best Documentary Award.
"If I could get everybody in the world to watch a movie, I'd ask them to watch 'All Things on Earth.'" Peter Singer, philosopher and ethicist
"Watching All Living on Earth was the best gift I've ever received, and I couldn't believe I was so ignorant in the past." Actress Bryce Dallas Howard
2. 101 Reasons to Go Vegan
1.5 trillion innocent lives are being mutilated, tortured, and killed for food and products that can be easily substituted and are completely unnecessary. So that's already 1.5 trillion reasons to be vegan. It's a persuasive, truth-revealing video that will make you reflect on why you've valued your taste buds more than animal life.
3. Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret
The video was watched for 1 hour and 30 minutes.
In a groundbreaking environmental documentary, intrepid filmmaker Kip Andersen exposes the most devastating industry on the planet and investigates why the world's leading environmental groups are afraid to talk about it.
Livestock is the leading cause of deforestation, water scarcity, pollution, and more greenhouse gases than the transportation industry, as well as rainforest destruction, species extinction, habitat loss, soil erosion, ocean "dead zones" and almost every environmental problem. And yet it continues, almost unhindered.
4. British vegetarian environmental documentary "Caring for Life"
Through interviews with different personalities, various aspects of the vegan lifestyle are introduced. Topics include gastronomy, nutrition, health, the environment, organic farming, animal welfare, and more.
English title: Making the Connection
Runtime: 30 minutes
Producer: Produced by Environment Films and The Vegan Society
Translation: Beijing International Vegetarian Club Translator authorized by the British Vegetarian Society.
Plot: This film introduces various aspects of the vegan lifestyle through the perspectives of different characters.
People: Chefs of famous vegetarian restaurants, vegan athletes, dietary health experts, vegan mothers and their babies, members of parliament, environmentalists, farmers, university students, writers, etc.
Through interviews with different characters, the film introduces the various aspects of the vegan lifestyle. Topics include gastronomy, nutrition, health, the environment, organic farming, animal welfare, and more.
Founded in 1944, the British Vegetarian Society has a long history of filming the widely circulated vegan campaign "Devouring the Earth". The purpose of this new film is to educate the public about the many benefits of veganism in a new way.
Since the characters in the film are all about personal experiences, it makes the audience feel that the film is closer to life and easier to understand. The film begins with an interview with a vegan chef at the Saff Vegan Restaurant in London, and the delicious vegetarian dishes are exquisitely made, which shortens the audience's sense of distance at once.
A vegan marathon runner told the audience how vegan food helped her run well.
A dietitian who works at the National Health Service talks about her love of veganism and the healthy life it has brought to her.
A vegan mother who works as a fitness instructor told the audience about her journey from pregnancy to childbirth to nursing her baby, and she is proud of being a healthy vegan baby.
One member of Congress spoke about the importance of human eating habits with food security and the sustainability of the planet.
An environmentalist talks about the great harm that animal husbandry does to the environment.
A farmer who planted a farm told the audience about his experience in organic farming, allowing people to see the hope of saving the ecological environment from an organic farm without breeding.
A writer and poet tells us that "becoming vegan is an active, positive, and compassionate choice".
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The film tells people to choose a vegan diet, care for life, protect the environment, and save the planet.
5. Forks over Knives
Now, you can calm down and listen to the world's leading experts explain the benefits of not eating animal products for your health. There is no such nutrition in animal products that a vegetarian diet cannot provide you. Being vegetarian is better for the animals and better for ourselves! This movie tells us that most of the degenerative diseases that afflict us can be cured by not eating animal products.
6. Documentary: A delicate balance - the truth
This documentary focuses on the catastrophic effects of human diet on health and the environment, and reveals the latest findings from some of the world's most prominent nutrition experts. The director spent three years working on the documentary, which interviews some of the top experts and explores questions we never think about, and which many meat producers don't want people to ask. Above all, these arguments prove that life must maintain a delicate balance, and that we can all turn the tide.
7. Documentary: vegetarian, Indian sacred cow
8. Documentary: How to avoid knife robbery
9. Documentary: The Cry of Life
10. Video: Food and Life
11. Video: The benefits of vegetarianism
12. Documentary: Devouring the Earth [Chinese]
13 Documentary: New Century Diet
14 Documentary: Is This the Pork We Eat?
15 documentary: Cruelly kill animals, do we still eat meat or not?
16 Recording: Confronting the Truth About Meat
17 Recording: Caring for Small Animals
18 Documentary: Eleventh hour
19 documentary: 6 degrees that changed the world
20 Earth 2100 (USA 09 latest documentary)
21 Recording: "Food Company"
22 Documentary: Rescuing the Earth
23 Documentary "The Tragedy in the Iron Enclosure"
24 Zhou Yongbin "Healthy Diet in the New Century"
25. What should I do if flies, mosquitoes, and these pests are not killed?
26 Why we can't eat them
27 Beijing Taiwan - Health and economy start with a vegetarian diet
28 Drops of Blood Deal
29 bloody tables
30 Qiang Threesome - Meat or Vegetarian
31 Vegetarian, Health, Nutrition & Immunity
32 Vegetarian Health and Cancer Prevention
33 wide with her vegetarian world
34. "The Inconvenient Truth"
35 "The Age of Ignorance"
36. Harmony saves the crisis
37. Dolphin Bay
Ric O'Barry captured 5 dolphins from the wild in the 1960s and trained to film a TV series featuring dolphins, Dolphin Baby. The TV series quickly became popular, and the general public's love for dolphins was aroused. But the fame and fortune of O'Berry didn't last long, because Casey, one of the five dolphins, died in his arms one day. O'Berry believes that Casey was suicidal, and that the dolphin's breathing was a conscious act, and because he didn't want to bear the pressure of being captive anymore, Casey chose to stop breathing and die. Ric O'Barry wakes up after Casey's suicide and travels the world for dolphins' right to live. After meeting with Auberry, Sihoyous began operations in Taiji Town. The town of Taiji is actively promoting cetacean tourism along the annual migration path of cetaceans, but in fact, dolphins are slaughtered every night in a hidden bay in Taiji Town, which is plastered with signs prohibiting entry. In addition to the demand for dolphins in marine parks around the world, there is also a direct demand for meat, even if dolphin meat has been found to contain excessive amounts of mercury. A secret team of Sihoyos and Aubergy hatches a plan to bring the world's attention to the dolphins slaughtered in Japan.
The film won the Best Documentary at the 82nd Academy Awards in 2010.
38 "Legend" of animal rescue
39 Taiwan Environmental Documentary "Plus or Minus 2 Degrees"
40. Why I'm a weekday vegetarian (4 mins)
In TED Talks, which reached more than 1.3 million viewers, speaker Hill provided a good way to go semi-vegetarian, advocating a vegetarian diet from Monday to Friday, and you can choose your own choice on weekends. Hill sees such an approach as a great benefit to himself and the planet. Graham Hill is a journalist who also started a blog about environmental protection, Tree Hugger.com, and has been committed to environmental protection and sustainability.
Books section
1. "Animal Liberation" is a book that shocks like "Citizens of Earth!!
2. "Vegetarian Guide" is an e-book made by netizens, and it is also very good!
3. "Vegetarianism"
4. "Why You Should Be Vegetarian"
5. "Beyond might is right"
6. "The Truth I Don't Want to Face"
7. "The Earth Is Theirs Too"
8. Animal Rights and Vegetarianism
9. "Even if you love meat"
10. "Look at Our Lives"
11. "Deep Vegetarianism"
12. "Meaningful Life"
13. "Reflections on Life and Consciousness"
14. "Vegetarian Introductory Booklet"
15. "Vegetarian Saves the Earth"
16. "The Benefits of a Vegetarian Diet"
17. "Feng Zikai - Nursing Painting Collection"
18. "China Health Survey Report: Surprising Findings on the Relationship between Diet and Disease"
19. "Nursing Vegetarian Food"
20. "The Original Vegetarian Diet is the Healthiest: The Traditional Doctrine of Correcting Vegetarians' Nutritional Deficiencies"
21. "New Woman Vegetarianism"
22. The Complete Vegetarian Handbook
23. "Eating Like This is the Healthiest"
24. "Vegetarian is the most beautiful"
25. "Vegetarian New Cooking" (recipe)
26. "The Harvest of Hope"
27. Why Vegetarian (Graphic Edition).
28. The Vegetarian Bible
Authors: Brenda Davis / Wisanto Melina
Publisher: Guangdong Science and Technology Press
Translator: Guo Wen
Special experts: Dr. Yu Li, Dr. Li Juan
Publication year: February 1, 2015
Introduction
Do you think that being vegetarian means simply not eating meat and fish?
Do you think that as long as you are vegetarian, you must be healthier and healthier than eating meat?
You may have a lot of misconceptions about being vegan. In fact, choosing to eat a vegetarian diet without paying attention to the combination of diet can easily lead to malnutrition, cause various problems, and harm physical and mental health. The key to getting the right vegetarian diet is not what not to eat, but knowing what to eat more.
Brenda Davis and Wisanto Melina are not only the nation's leading experts in vegan nutrition, but also vegan practitioners for many years. In this book, they combine their professional experience to provide scientific guidance for vegetarians of different ages and needs, thoroughly correct your dietary structure, ensure balanced and comprehensive nutrition, and let you eat healthy and eat with peace of mind.
Since its publication, this book has become a nutrition bible for vegetarians around the world. Open this book and feel the positive changes that a vegetarian diet can bring, leaving your body and mind light and pure.
29. "Life-Saving Diet: China Health Survey Report"
By T. Colin Campbell
Translators: Lu Yixin/Ni Wanjun
The book was based on three epidemiological studies on diet, lifestyle, and disease mortality conducted by professors from the United States, the United Kingdom, and China in various provinces and cities in China between 1983 and 1989. The book's findings are striking: animal proteins, especially cow's milk proteins, significantly increase the risk of cancer, heart disease, diabetes, multiple sclerosis, kidney stones, osteoporosis, high blood pressure, cataracts, and Alzheimer's disease. However, the book also states that all of these diseases can be controlled and treated by adjusting the diet. Professor Campbell believes that a diet based on animal foods will lead to the occurrence of chronic diseases (such as obesity, coronary heart disease, tumors, osteoporosis, etc.); A diet based on plant-based foods is the most beneficial for health and the most effective in preventing and controlling chronic diseases. That is, eat more grains, vegetables and fruits, and eat less chicken, duck, fish, meat, eggs, milk, etc.
30. "Eating Animals: The Confusion of an Omnivore"
Author: Jonathan Safran Fur
Translator: Lu Xiangru
You may have heard of Natalie Portman, who became a vegetarian because she read this book.
Why do we eat meat? If we knew how meat was brought to the table, would we still eat it? These are the two questions the author keeps asking himself. At the heart of the book is an exploration of industrial meat production. Skillfully combining philosophy, literature, science, and his own undercover experience, the author explores some of the conventional legends that shape our eating habits, highlighting the costs paid by the environment, governments, and the Third World in modern industrial societies to make meat more accessible to our tables. This is a must-read for everyone who cares about the way we eat.
31. "The Harvest of Hope"
Author: Jane Goodall
Translator: Fan Xiaocheng/Fan Yihan
Watching the first half of "Harvest of Hope", you may feel that you can no longer survive, and you may feel that what you eat every day is some toxin. The author tells us that we are destroying the planet in countless ways: the heavy use of agrochemicals such as fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides in the production of food pollutes the air, water and land, and causes diseases and environmental degradation to create new diseases; Large multinational corporations control more and more arable land and seeds in the world, and even control the growth process of crops; Food animals are increasingly intensively reared and raised in an unnatural way, just to extract the maximum profit from each animal in the shortest possible time. But the author tells us: only by fully understanding the harsh reality will we make efforts to improve the lives of animals. We must not tolerate passive inaction, bury our heads in the sand and continue to live a normal life. The choices we make and the way we do them have an impact.
32. "Classic Vegan Celebrity Kitchen"
Author: Ryan Berry
Translator: Zhang Ruoying
In this book, the author first introduces Pythagoras and his vegetarian story, you may ask who is Pythagoras? Before the term vegetarian was coined, people called people who did not eat meat in their lives "Pythagoras believers", so Pythagoras may be considered the "father of vegetarianism". After the introduction of Dagoras, the author also introduces Shakyamuni, the founder of Jain in India, Nobita, Lao Tzu in China, Plato in ancient Greece, and McCartney, the Beatles singer in the present day. What makes them willing to give up delicious meat? What kind of mental journey did they go through during this period, and how did they persist in their lives? After introducing each vegan celebrity, there is a "kitchen" named after that celebrity, where you can see their most representative vegetarian recipes. Readers can refer to the kitchen.
33. "New Century Diet"
Author: John Robbins
Translators: Zhang Guorong/Tu Shiling
Eating is an indispensable pleasure in life, and it is also the basis for the existence of life. The author of this book has been researching for three years, with a large number of research reports and historical events, as well as many shocking true stories that will make you choke up tears, to expose the crisis caused by the wrong diet. He debunked the nutrition myths that food producers fabricate to hide from the public, and showed us how to live longer, more vigorously and more energetically, and provided us with an exciting new choice for healthy eating. The book tells us: What diseases are caused by eating? How many things can't be eaten? Are you eating nutrients or poisons right now? This book may change the way you think about what you eat into your body.
34. "A New Life-Changing Diet"
Authors: Francis Moore Lappe, by Anna Lappe, Lin Yan, Yuchen
Translators: Lin Yan, Yuchen
The author and her daughter travel to all corners of the world, continuing to explore the meaning of the interlocking relationship between people, food and the planet, as well as solutions to food scarcity. This journey starts with food, and discovers a new worldview through different cultures, climates and food habits, as well as careful observation of food and society. The author believes that the concept of sustainable ecology based on agriculture and food is the best way to solve the current ecological and environmental problems and change the way of life. Another book by the author: Diet for a small planet, which influenced Steve Jobs to become a vegetarian, can also be read.
35. "Eating Like This is the Healthiest"
Author: Jiang Shuhui
This book tells us:
The best health model: natural and clean diet + good attitude towards life + abundant life care
Diamond combination of food + three treasures: wheat germ, soy lecithin, yeast
Start the three principles of health: give up meat and eat vegetarian; increase raw food; Fasting at your discretion.
The true way to health is to enhance the energy of life in all aspects
Always observing and being aware of your body is the best doctor.
Eating a balanced, natural diet is the best medicine.
The above videos and books can be found and downloaded online, and I hope you can check them out and learn the truth about what we don't know. Meat is the seed of all human violence, so if you want to be a compassionate and moral person, the first step is to eat a vegetarian diet.
☞ World celebrity vegetarian quotes
Whether a country is great or not and whether it has high moral standards can be judged by the way it treats animals. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Humanity will never find peace unless it is able to extend its love to all living beings. -- Schweitzer
Where there is a slaughterhouse, there is a battlefield. --Tolstoy
"He who despises life does not deserve it." --Da vinci
Eating a vegetarian diet allows wisdom not to be blinded. --Einstein
Eating meat is simply unethical, as it involves an unethical act – a killing poke. --Tolstoy
"700 million people in the world are hungry" (1 day vegetarian = save 20 people from starving)
International Alerts
FAO Director-General Da Silva said: Ending hunger and malnutrition in a sustainable way is one of the key challenges facing humanity in the 21st century. He believes that citizens should "do their part" by reducing food waste and choosing environmentally friendly products.
1. The current situation of the world's hungry people
Would you believe it? On average, one child now dies of hunger every five seconds, more than 790 million children go to bed hungry every day, and 15,000 children die of malnutrition. More than 5 million people die of hunger every year, most of them children under the age of five.
Back in 1996, heads of government gathered in Rome for the World Food Summit. They agreed that hunger is a global problem that needs to be addressed urgently – 2 billion people live in poverty, and about 1 billion people live in "extreme poverty".
World leaders have pledged to halve the number of undernourished people in the world by 2015 from 1990 levels. However, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) reported in The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2015 that there are still 795 million hungry people in the world.
According to FAO in The State of Food Security in the World 2004, "Hunger and malnutrition are devastating to humanity, killing more than 5 million children each year and causing billions of dollars in lost productivity in developing countries." ”
The study found that more than 70% of the world's food needs to meet the food needs of 9.6 billion people by 2050. However, the current state of the world's efforts for 25 years is not objective. So the question is, what do our children and grandchildren eat? And, where does the food grown on the world's major farms go?
2. Global food production and utilization
1. China
China is the world's largest grain producer, and in recent years, it has produced more than 500 million tons of grain every year.
2. United States
The United States has a highly developed agriculture and a high degree of mechanization, with an annual grain output of about 500 million tons, making it the second largest grain producer in the world.
3. Brazil
Brazil is the world's third-largest grain producer, the world's second-largest exporter of soybeans, the third-largest producer of corn, and ranks among the top five in the world in corn exports.
Looking at the above figures, do you think that the world's food should be sufficient? There should be no hungry people, yet about 36% of the world's crops (measured in calories) are used to feed livestock (76 billion tons of cereals) every year; 30% is for direct human consumption; 25% is wasted by humans; 9% into biofuels and industrial products.
And the amount of food used to feed livestock is 14 times as much food as there is to address the global food shortage. Seeing this, do you understand how much of a threat animal husbandry poses to humans?
3. Livestock waste of global food
David Pimanto, an ecologist at Cornell University in the United States, pointed out that "poultry and livestock in the United States — cows, chickens, turkeys, sheep, pigs, etc., eat five times as many cereals as the American population." If every country on the planet were like the United States, it could feed 3.02 billion people, and 3.07 billion people would go hungry.
"Poor countries sell their food to Western countries for hard currency, and their children are starving in the arms of their parents, and Western countries are using this food to feed their livestock! Can we still eat steak? Remember, every bite of meat we eat is a slap in the tearful face of a hungry child. — Philip Wollen (Former Vice President, Citibank)
To produce 1 kg of beef, it takes 10 kg of grain (soybeans, corn, cereals) and more than 20 tons of water. At the same time, 36.4 kg of carbon dioxide is produced. This means that while nearly 1 billion people around the world are hungry, a small fraction of the rich are eating unhealthy meat, milk and eggs, while consuming vast amounts of water and food on the planet.
Every day there are at least 18,000 people in the world who starve to death, in other words, the food of these starved people is provided to the animals that are eaten by the people who eat meat. The same 1 hectare of land can feed: 61 people who eat soybeans, or 24 people who eat wheat, and in the case of livestock, can only feed 1 person who eats beef or 2 people who eat mutton.
Fourth, human waste of global food
"The world wastes 1.3 billion tonnes of food every year, worth about US$1 trillion, which not only causes huge economic losses, but also puts a lot of pressure on natural resources," said Achim Steiner, UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UNEP. The carbon footprint of wasting food exceeds the carbon emissions of any country outside of Chinese mainland and the United States.
The global economy loses about $750 billion a year to produce these lost foods, as well as a waste of natural resources, with 1.3 billion tonnes of food consuming 250 cubic kilometres of water and 1.4 billion hectares of land.
The 1.3 billion tonnes of food wasted globally each year feed 2 billion people. Yet only a quarter of this food is needed to feed the hungry people around the world.
The main reason for food waste is that people in developing and developed countries dump uneaten food and throw away their stocks after spoiling their storage due to large purchases, and at the same time sell agricultural products to these countries are often carefully selected. Moth-eaten, unsightly, and large and small items will be discarded, resulting in more than half of the food being wasted.
A supplier in a UK supermarket was forced to waste 40 tonnes of vegetables per week, or 40% of the vegetables grown. This happens in almost every supermarket and market in the world. Do you see unsightly fruits and melons in supermarkets now? Even if you saw it, would you buy it? Isn't that the reason? Each of us decides where everything goes!
"If we can help food producers reduce losses in harvesting, processing, preservation, transportation and marketing, and profoundly and permanently change the way people consume food, we will have a healthier world without hunger," said Brazilian politician da Silva. "Do you know what to do?
5. Eat a vegetarian diet to solve the global food crisis
Former UN Secretary-General Waldheim said: "Food consumption in rich countries has led to hunger around the world. Many scientists say that the first step in solving the global food crisis should be to replace meat with a vegetarian diet.
If the calories lost from feeding cereals to animals were directly replaced as human food, the extra calories would be enough to feed 3.5 billion people in one year, which would be enough to solve the hunger problem of nearly 1 billion people today.
The United Nations World Food Council estimates that by converting "10 to 15 percent of the food currently fed to livestock, the world's food supply could grow enough to feed the world's current population."
As we all know, the rich often get sick from eating meat, but it is inefficient and unfair for us to use such a large amount of food resources for meat production. If you go vegetarian, you can save 20 people from starvation every day. This is the greatest contribution you can make for the planet and your fellow citizens!
Sixth, the importance of saving food
According to CCTV, there is a very serious food waste phenomenon in China, at least 8 million tons of kilograms of grain are wasted every year, worth as much as 200 billion yuan, and this is enough for 200 million people to eat for one year.
According to the news, there is a phenomenon of eating half and half of the food in school canteens, restaurants and restaurants for individual meals, as well as wedding banquets, conference meals, and business banquets. Just one family wastes 10 per cent of its food, which is equivalent to the food ration of a province.
The good face and pomp of the Chinese are the main causes of food waste, but this is a suicidal practice. Because what we are throwing away now is not only our own food, but also the food that future generations will be able to survive in the future. Don't forget the era of the "Great Famine" experienced by the previous generation, when at least 36 million people starved to death. Everyone wants to have a rich and happy life, and how we can avoid consuming the blessings of ourselves and our children and grandchildren in advance is the most important life plan!
If we continue to be willful, and don't stop the precipice, please think: the earth's area and resources are limited, when the global population continues to increase, the earth's resources are endlessly consumed and wasted, how many generations can your children and grandchildren survive? People, when you enjoy yourself, you must know to leave some for future generations!
In order to let more people no longer be starved to death, let's start today, let's eat vegetarian, save and protect the environment together!
Animals are friends
Would you eat your friend?
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