From the Stacks: August 25, 2006

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September's Nutrition Action Health Letter, published by the Center for Science in the Public Interest, fills its 16 pages with useful information. The issue features an interview with Michael Jacobson, the organization's executive director, who advocates a vegetarian or low-meat diet by outlining the myriad problems with raising and eating meat: pesticides consumed by cows and passed to people, foodborne illness, manure and other pollutants, fat, cholesterol, cruel treatment of animals, and using resources to raise meat instead of feeding people directly. Though that's hardly breaking news, it is alarming and urgent. The issue also has a breakdown of drinks at Starbucks that will have you skipping the Venti Caf? Mocha -- a 'Quarter Pounder with Cheese in a cup' -- for good old black coffee. -- Rachel Jenkins

UU World, published by and for Unitarian Universalists, explores topics of global concern. The cover article posits 9/11 as a call to rethink Americans' worldviews and offers up freedom, community, and individuality as parts of a new theology. Also in this issue, two women make fun of hulking road hogs with a country song called '90 Pound Suburban Housewife Drivin' in her SUV,' and the president of the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations argues for 'sexuality education in liberal religious terms.' -- Rachel Jenkins

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