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Kirsten Stade
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Profession or Area of Expertise
Graduate student, writer, activist
Personal Statement
I graduated from Stanford University in 1995 with a bachelor's degree in Earth Systems, and went on immediately to
an internship with the Park Service in southeast Utah. My passion for western wildlands and the life
they support began in my college years, when I spent a summer living in an
alcove beneath a rock outcropping in a canyon in southern Utah, and came to
feel an incredible kinship with these fragile and beautiful ecosystems. My
former work with Forest Guardians was motivated
by my love for these ecosystems and by a fierce protectiveness for all the wild
critters who suffer from the ranching industry and other destructive uses of our public lands.
"After looking at 34 published studies in 16 countries, researchers
at Yale University found that countries with the highest rates of
osteoporosis--including the United States, Sweden, and Finland--are those
in which people consume the most meat, milk, and other animal foods.
...Another study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
(2000) looked at all aspects of diet and bone health and found that high
consumption of fruits and vegetables positively affect bone health and
that dairy consumption did not." From http://www.notmilk.com/calbones.html
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