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little bit about me
Well enough about me - let's talk about . . . me. I live in Winnipeg, Manitoba (Canada), where I was born on a snow drift on January 20, 1953. (Just kidding - I was actually born under a snow drift.) I've been a writer since the 1980s - my specialty, natural health and medicine. More recently, I've concentrated on ethical issues, particularly animal welfare, ethical eating and global justice and governance. I'm the author of three books, all of which are shamelessly promoted all over this website. I also write record reviews (well, seldom since the 1990s), a reflection of my love of music, which I've played and composed since my long-haired kid with an electric guitar days. My favourite music was actually composed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century by a bunch of dead European guys (mostly French) named Faure, Ravel, Debussy, Satie, and Vaughan Williams, among others. (They were alive at the time.) You can sample some of my own fairly lively at times "works in progress" here.
I love animals more than I love meat. In 1980, I began my voyage to vegetarianism and, in 2000, veganism -- and advocacy for ethical eating and agriculture and animal rights and welfare. I'm a very active board member of the Winnipeg Vegetarian Association. I'm on the advisory committees of the Society of Religious and Ethical Vegetarians and the Jewish Vegetarians of North America. In 2004, I joined the Farm Animal Welfare Committee of the Winnipeg Humane Society. That year, several of my fellow Winnipeg animal advocates and I began organizing demonstrations and a listserv which led to the creation early in 2005 of AnimalWatch Manitoba. In 2004 I also created a website called eatkind.net. Its purpose is to help visitors follow a more compassionate, ethical and sustainable diet. In a similar vein, in 2006 I created anotherinconvenienttruth.org and vegfoodnation.com. My conviction that an inordinate amount of suffering in the world could be relieved and prevented by the formation of a democratic world government -- i.e., a constitutional federation of the world's countries -- led me to join the World Federalist Movement (WFM) around 1990. In 2004 I was elected to the National Council of WFM-Canada. My belief in just global governance also led me to adopt the Simultaneous Policy in 2002. I was a webmaster/editor/designer for the International Simultaneous Policy Organisation from 2003 to 2005. Syd
Baumel
February, 2007
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Art
is another personal avocation. In the late 70s and early 80s I developed
my own idiom of complex, subtley hued abstract geometric paintings. Aside
from one or two of the simpler background textures you see on this website
and the photos, all of the graphics here (including the ones on this page)
were "painted" by me in the 90s on my Amiga 4000 computer (mostly with
Deluxe Paint IV).
I've
been Editor of the Winnipeg quarterly 
