Blog - Page 9 - Ioannis Zabetakis

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December 4, 2020 / Blog

Dr Ioannis Zabetakis of the University of Limerick’s health research institute feels Irish Cement has not properly evaluated the hazards and calculated the risk.

He said: “These are questions not just to Irish Cement, but also the EPA. How will you monitor these hazards in an independent way and create data which speaks for itself. We don’t need to look at literature to find out if incineration or co-incineration is safe or not. We need to do a trial run in the kiln at Irish Cement itself. We need to put proper monitors at the top of each chimney.”

Incinerators emissions and the Public Health

December 2, 2020 / Blog

To conclude, there is a number of toxic emissions from incinerators.

Heavy metals are water soluble and they can cross-contaminate the water and the sea and hence milk and marine organisms.

Dioxins are fat soluble and they can cross-contaminate all fat containing foods, namely milk and dairy products.

Having Irish Cement Factory burning toxic/hazardous waste creates a number of food chain problems.

Advent calendar by our Librarians @ UL

December 1, 2020 / Blog

As we are all staying local this Christmas, this year’s advent calendar explores a variety of Munster localities, through the townland, city and county maps and sketches held at the Special Collections and Archives Department at UL.

Dairy products and the Sacred Cow

November 30, 2020 / Blog

Veganism and the Sacred Cow.
The film Sacrew Cow talks about animals, meat rich diets and the Environment. As communicated before, the film is a game changer. It should make us think what we eat and why we eat it. The film can influence our way of thinking. Veganism under the prism of the film, should not be encouraged!

We watched Sacred Cow and here is what we think

November 29, 2020 / Blog

Turning people to vegans, there is a loss: their diet suffers from lack of essential amino acids and lipid-soluble vitamins (A, D, E and K).

This is the reason that we need to stop the nonsense of “light” (reduced fat) foods and focus to the high nutritional value of full fat meat, dairy, fish. The animal fats (lipids) are healthy. Nations who eat red meat and full fat foods have lower levels of obesity and CVD (CardioVascular Diseases) and other NCD (Non-Communicable Diseases) to nations (e.g. US) who eat “light” processed foods.