A TRUE ENVIRONMENTALIST
IS A VEGAN
Which causes more
greenhouse gas emissions, rearing cattle or driving cars?
Says Henning Steinfeld, Chief of FAO’s Livestock Information and
Policy Branch and senior author of the report: “Livestock are one of
the most significant contributors to today’s most serious
environmental problems. Urgent action is required to remedy the
situation.
In the News: Andy Rooney comments on vegetarian diet on "60
Minutes"
Most of us think of vegetarians as nuts and I'm not a vegetarian but
I wouldn't be surprised if we came to a time in 50 or 100 years when
civilized people everywhere refused to eat animals. I could be one
of them.
“Rearing Cattle Produces More Greenhouse Gases Than Driving Cars,
UN Report Warns,” UN News Centre , 29 Nov. 2006.
In a groundbreaking 2006 report, the United Nations (U.N.) said that
raising animals for food generates more greenhouse gases than all
the cars and trucks in the world combined . Senior U.N. Food and
Agriculture Organization official Henning Steinfeld reported that
the meat industry is “ one of the most significant contributors to
today’s most serious environmental problems .” 2
Peter Singer, Author
Those who claim to care about the well-being of human beings and the
preservation of our environment should become vegetarians for that
reason alone. They would thereby increase the amount of grain
available to feed people elsewhere, reduce pollution, save water and
energy, and cease contributing to the clearing of forests.…
[W]hen nonvegetarians say that “human problems come first” I cannot
help wondering what exactly it is that they are doing for human
beings that compels them to continue to support the wasteful,
ruthless exploitation of farm animals.
Peter Singer, Animal
Liberation , 1990
JOIN US IN ENDING LIVE ANIMAL RETAIL SALES.
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!
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