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I have completed my studiesfrom India, how could I takeadmission in medical school inUSA.? |
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I have completed masters of
science in chemistry. In India
we have 3 years bachelor
degree and 2 yrs masters
degree, In my bachelor I
studied biology and Chemistry
and in Masters I studied
Chemistry with Organic
chemistry as a major. I
performed very well in my
studies. I am a permanent
resident of USA and living in
Houston, Texas. I want to take
my admission in Medical school
here. What I need to do for
that.?? I appeared in Toefl
and scored 102 out of 120 in
Toefl IBT test...Please help. |
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Your first step will have to
be getting your education
credentials evaluated for US
equivalency. There are a
number of companies that
provide this service and here
is a link to their association
web site:
http://www.naces.org/members.h
tm
Assuming you meet or exceed
the prerequisite course work,
you will need to take the MCAT
exam:
http://www.aamc.org/students/m
cat/
Once you get your MCAT scores
back you will need to apply to
the medical schools through
AMCAS:
http://www.aamc.org/students/a
mcas/
Good luck with your future. |
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Hindus who eat paneer pleaseanswer!? |
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Do you or your parents make
paneer or buy it store bought?
I notice there is no organic
paneer in Indian stores (I
don't see it sold in regular
stores at all), is this paneer
imported from India or made in
USA? If imported in India, the
cows are well taken care of I
assume. If the paneer is made
in USA, and its not organic,
how can Indians eat it knowing
the cruel standards of
traditional dairies here (this
is why we now have organic
milks, butter, etc).
Thank you for taking the time
to answer this and ask. |
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i don't know of anyone that
makes paneer at home. it is a
very cumbersome and tedious
procedure, moreover you cannot
make good paneer with
homogenised milk. everyone i
know in usa and canada use
nanak paneer. it is the best
paneer. also, for your info,
the only paneer that comes
from india is amul fried
paneer and it was banned due
to fungus growth. cows are
sacred in india, however you
must see ndtv news on urea
milk. you will stop eating
dairy products from india, i
am not kidding pleae see the
article on UREA MILK IN THE
INDIAN DAIRY INDUSTRY, this
will knock the socks off.
since i saw the news clip on
urea milk (milk made with
water, gum and urea) i have
stopped buying anything that
contains milk and is made in
india.
the dairy industry in usa
still allows hormone shots to
cows for higher milk
production but canada does not
allow any hormone shots to
cows. hence nanak, made in
canada is the best choice for
quality, value, availability
and resemblence to indian
paneer. |
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Can you name some reasons togo vegetarian? |
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ONE HUNDRED & ONE REASONS
TO GO VEGETARIAN
People Land Air Water
Efficiency Animals Health
PEOPLE
Every year in the UK we feed
our livestock enough food to
feed 250,000,000 people while
in the world 30,000,000 people
die of starvation
20 vegetarians can live off
the land required by one meat
eater
Every 3 seconds a child dies
of starvation somewhere in the
world
If Americans reduced their
meat consumption by 10% it
would free 12,000,000 tons of
grain - enough to feed
60,000,000 people (the
population of Great Britain)
If all Americans became
vegetarian, it would free
enough grain to feed
600,000,000 people (the
population of India)
Intensification in animal
farming has displaced
1,000,000's of people from
their traditional lands - eg.
indigenous people in south &
central america, native
americans in north america &
crofters in Great Britain -
this is continuing today
People displaced from their
lands into cities succumb to
dietary deficiency, diseases,
parasites & opportunistic
diseases
In third world countries 1 in
10 babies die before their
first birthday
The UK imports £46,000,000
worth of grain from third
world countries to feed our
livestock
Due to overgrazing 850,000,000
people live on land threatened
by desertification & over
230,000,000 already live on
land so severely desertified
that they are unable to
sustain their existence & face
imminent starvation
1,000,000,000 people in the
west gorging on meat & dairy
leave 1,000,000,000 to waste
away & 3,500,000,000 teeter on
the brink
LAND
If they continue to clear
American forests to raise
cattle at the present rate, in
50 years there will be none
left
1 acre yields 165 lbs of beef
or 20,000 lbs of potatoes
8/10 of cultivated land in the
UK is used to grow food for
animals (14,732,000 hectares)
It takes 16lbs of high protein
soya to produce 1 lb of beef
Since 1945 in the UK we have
lost 95% of flower meadows,
50% of ancient woodlands, 40%
of heathlands, 50% of wet
lands & 224,000 km of
hedgerows all due to animal
farming
Pressure on land due to meat
farming leads to soil erosion
6billion tons/year in the USA
If everyone went vegetarian
upto 90% of land used for
animal farming could be taken
out of production & used to
replant woodlands, leisure
activities etc.
25% of Central america's
forests have been destroyed
for cattle grazing since 1960
Between 1966-1983 38% of the
Amazon rain forest was
destroyed for cattle grazing
90% of cattle ranches
established on cleared forest
land go bankrupt in less than
8 years as the land becomes
barren due to nutrient loss &
overgrazing
Overgrazing by cattle is
destroying the land &
increasing desertification,
nearly 430 million acres in
the USA alone has suffered a
25-50% reduction in yield
since first grazed
An inch of topsoil takes
200-1000 years to develop -
yet in the USA they have lost
around 1/3 of their prime
topsoil in 200 years (around 7
inches) due to animal farming
Land will be lost due to rises
in sea level due to global
warming due to animal farming
AIR
The destruction of the
rainforest by cattle farmers
is destroying the lungs of the
planet & reducing the worlds
capacity to replenish our
oxygen supply
The 1,300,000,000 cattle in
the world emit 60,000,000 tons
of methane per year (methane
is a greenhouse gas & leads to
global warming)
Burning of forests, grasslands
& agricultural waste
associated with animal farming
releases 50-100,000,000 tons
of methane per year
Combining these figures, 25%
of methane emissions are due
to animal farming (not
including the billions of
sheep, pigs & poultry so the
real figure is much higher)
Fertilizer used to grow crops
to feed to animals releases
nitrous oxide - thought to
account for 6% of the
greenhouse effect
Fertilizer, weedkiller &
pesticides sprayed on crops
enter the atmosphere creating
a noxious carcinogenic
cocktail
CFCs are released into the air
from refrigeration units used
to store decomposing flesh
(meat), milk & butter - CFCs
are destroy the ozone layer
Ammonia from animal urine also
pollutes the atmosphere
CO2 is released by burning oil
& petrol in lorries, ships,
abattoirs, dairies, factories
etc. associated with meat &
dairy production
Emissions from large chemical
plants which produce
fertilizer, weedkiller & other
agricultural chemicals are
also poisoning our air
WATER
25 gallons of water to produce
1lb of wheat & 2500 gallons to
produce 1lb of meat
UK farm animals produce
200,000,000 tonnes of slurry
(liquid excrement) every year,
the majority of which ends up
in our rivers
Bloody waste water from
abattoirs ends up in our
rivers
In the USA every second humans
produce 12,000 lbs of effluent
while farmed animals produce
250,000 lbs
Nitrates & pesticides used on
crops grown to feed livestock
end up in our rivers
Meat & dairy farming uses 70
litres of water per day per
animal in the UK or
159,250,000,000 litres per
year in total
The water used to produce 10
lbs of steak is equivalent to
the average consumption of
water for an entire household
for an entire year
Depletion of groundwater
reserves to grow crops for
animals & to supply abattoirs
will lead to greater water
shortages
Aquafers (stores of
underground water) in the San
Joaquin valley in the USA are
being drained at the rate of
500,000,000,000 gallons/year
to produce meat
18% of all agricultural land
in the world is irrigated & as
global warming increases
(partly due to animal farming)
it will cost $200,000,000 to
keep these systems going
The water used to produce a
1000 lb beef steer is enough
to float a Destroyer
battleship
The liquid waste from the
various parts of the meat &
dairy industry flow into the
rivers & from there into the
seas polluting them &
encouraging huge algal blooms
to grow
EFFICIENCY
To produce 1calorie of energy
from meat takes 60 calories of
petrol, whereas growing grains
& legumes to directly feed
people produces 20 calories
for each calorie of fuel used
( thats 1200 times more
efficient)
Meat & dairy farming uses
billions of gallons of oil to
run tractors, fuel ships &
lorries (to move animal feed &
animals), pump billions of
gallons of water to irrigate
fields & run slaughterhouses,
power refrigeration units to
prevent the corpses from
decomposing & to power sewage
plants to clean up some of the
pollution produced
Cattle convert only 6% of
their energy intake (mainly
grains & soya) into flesh, the
remaining 94% is wasted as
heat, movement (which is why
they keep many animals in very
close confinement), hair,
bones, faeces etc
1lb of beef takes 1 gallon of
petrol to produce
A family of four eating beef
for a year uses enough petrol
to run a car for 6 months
(obviously depending on how
far you drive!)
If the full ecological cost of
meat was passed onto the
consumer - the price would be
quadrupled (at least)
The EC spends Å“100,000,000's
to subsidise animal production
resulting in lakes of unwanted
milk & mountains of unwanted
meat & butter. This money
could be better spent
encouraging organic fruit,
vegetable & grain production
In the USA in 1979 145,000,000
tons of crops were fed to
cattle resulting in only
21million tons of animal
bodies - the cost of the
wasted crops was
$20,000,000,000
Between 1950 & 1985 grain
production in Europe & the USA
increased massively but 2/3
was fed to animals
70% of all grain is fed to
animals
Eating vast quantities of
animal flesh, eggs, milk &
butter is a luxury that most
of the planet can not afford
ANIMALS
Fishing with drift (and other
modern) nets weakens &
destroys ecosystems by
indiscriminately killing
billions of sea creatures &
disrupting the sea bed
Fishermen's nets kill 10 times
as many other animals as the
fish they are hoping to catch
Fish caught in nets die an
agonising slow death of
suffocation
Each year 15,000,000,000 land
animals are slaughtered for
food & an unknown but much
larger number of sea creatures
(including 1000's of dolphins
caught accidentally)
Chickens are crammed into
battery cages with upto 3
other birds, they are unable
to even spread their wings &
many can not even stand up
Unwanted male chicks (because
they can't lay eggs) are
gassed or pulped while their
sisters go to the battery
sheds
Chicks are debeaked without
anaesthetic to prevent them
injuring each other in the
unnaturally confined
conditions they are kept in -
this is equivalent to having
your fingernails pulled out
without anaesthetic
Modern farming methods using
growth hormones & artificial
lighting mean that many
chickens out grow their bones,
resulting in fractured &
broken legs
Sows are kept tethered in
stalls 1.3 x 1 metre on
concrete or slatted floors -
they can not even turn around
Poultry raised for meat are
kept in windowless broiler
sheds, with around 20-30,000
in each shed, they live in an
area of 10-20 cm square -
fighting due to overcrowding
is common & like battery hens
they commonly suffer from
supperating bed sores
Broilersheds are artificially
lit 23 hours a day to produce
rapid growth
Animals travel between farms &
to slaughter in overcrowded
transporters with no food or
water - resulting in stress,
injuries & deaths - legal
requirements are widely
ignored
95% of poultry suffer injuries
before being killed & 30%
suffer broken bones
Problems with stunning
practices mean that many
animals have their throats
slit while still conscious
(around 6% of cattle or
200,000 per year) & are then
dipped in tanks of scalding
water (to loosen feathers,
bristles etc.) again while
fully conscious
4000 animals die spurting
their blood out every minute
in a British slaughterhouse
Calf leather comes from
animals killed at just 2 weeks
old
Cows were fed on the ground up
remains of other cows & sheep
- the result is thought to be
BSE (mad cow disease) in the
USA cattle are fed partly on
recycled plastic pellets
Cows only give milk for 10
months after they have a calf
- so they are routinely
artificially inseminated (ie.
mechanically raped) to keep
them pregnant & milking -
their calves are taken away
(usually at 12 hours old) for
meat or export to veal crates
Cows would naturally live upto
20 years but are slaughtered
after 5-7 years when their
milk production begins to fall
In the UK animals are killed
by first being stunned with
electricity or a captive bolt
gun (ie. a bolt is fired into
their heads) before having
their throats slit & being
plunged into boiling water -
all this happens on a
production line with the
animals being hung upside down
from a moving conveyor belt -
this is factory farming
"Animals are those unfortunate
slaves & victims of the most
brutal part of mankind" - John
Stewart Mill (philosopher)
Veal calves are confined in
stalls in the dark, unable to
move & are fed on pigs blood ,
chocolate & dried milk (we are
drinking the rich fresh milk
of their mothers)
Cows naturally produce 5
litres of milk per day for
their calves - under the
intensified systems of modern
farming they produce 25-40
litres per day - resulting in
swollen & inflamed udders - at
this rate they are soon worn
out
Large areas of land are under
monoculture to grow crops to
feed to animals - these areas
are wildlife deserts
supporting fewer & fewer
species.
HEALTH
Vegetarians have a 20% lower
rate of mortality from all
causes (ie. they live longer &
don't get sick as often)
Meat is full of traces of
antibiotics, hormones, toxins
produced by stress & pesticide
residues that become
concentrated from all the
crops they have eaten
Fish contain heavy metals &
other pollutants -many of
which originated on farms
The world health organisation
recommends a diet low in
saturated fat, sugar, salt &
with plenty of fibre - exactly
what you get on a
vegan/vegetarian diet
Farmed animals contain upto
50% saturated fat in their
bodies
Vegetarians have 24% reduced
risk of getting heart disease
& Vegans a 57% reduction
(heart disease is the biggest
killer in the UK accounting
for 50% of deaths)
Obesity is rare in
vegetarians, obesity is
related to many diseases
Vegans & vegetarians have
lower blood pressure &
cholesterol levels - high
levels are associated with
heart disease, strokes &
kidney failure
Vegetarians have a 50% reduced
risk of dying of diabetes
Vegetarians have a 40% reduced
level of cancer than the
general population thought to
be because they have a higher
intake of vitamins A,C & E
Vegetarians have a reduced
risk of developing gall &
kidney stones
80% of food poisoning is due
to infected meat (faeces,
bacteria etc.) after all meat
is decomposing flesh - most of
the rest is due to salmonella
in eggs
Osteoporosis due to calcium
loss from bones is mainly due
to the sulphur content in meat
& casein protein in milk that
cause calcium to be lost in
the urine - the countries with
the highest meat & dairy
consumption are those with the
highest levels of brittle
bones
50% of people do not have the
enzyme to digest milk properly
& milk allergy is related to
asthma & eczema
Meat eaters have double the
rate of Alzheimers disease as
Vegans & Vegetarians - some
people also think that
Parkinsons disease is also
linked to meat eating
Egg yolk is a dense
concentration of saturated fat
& the white is high in albumin
protein associated with
leaching calcium into your
urine. Butter is 80% saturated
fat, cream is 40% saturated
fat & cheese is 25-40%
saturated fat
Meat eaters are two and a half
times more likely to get bowel
cancer than Vegetarians
The cling film used to wrap
meat in supermarkets &
butchers contains chemicals
linked to falling sperm counts
in men
Chinese people (living mainly
on a vegetarian diet) consume
20% more calories than
Americans but Americans are
20% fatter
Of 2,100,000 deaths in the USA
in 1987, 1,500,000 were
related to diet (ie. meat &
dairy)
AND I COULD GO ON !
If you've read this far, I
hope that you are beginning to
see that the Meat & Dairy
industry is a major
contributor to misery on this
planet. It is destroying the
health of people in rich
countries, starving those in
poor countries, it is
torturing & killing billions
of animals every year and in
the meantime it is one of the
major factors in the
destruction of the environment
- so what does the meat &
dairy industry have to say in
it's defence?
Well their only real point is
usually "Meat is tasty" - fair
enough a lot of people enjoy
the taste of meat - but there
are plenty of delicious
alternatives (just consider
the huge range of vegetarian
dishes in Indian cooking - one
of the oldest & most
sophisticated cuisines in the
world) and if you really crave
meat & dairy, nowadays there
are plenty of healthy non
animal alternatives - just
look in the supermarket &
health food shop. So I hope
you will agree it's pretty
pathetic to consider all the
evidence & then say "well I
know you're right about the
environment & health & the
animals - but I just love my
meat"
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