Livestock

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Livestocks Long Shadow

• The livestock sector emerges as one of the top
  two or three most significant contributors to the
  most serious environmental problems, at every
  scale from local to global.
• The livestock sector is a major player,
  responsible for 18 percent of greenhouse gas
  emissions measured in C02 equivalent. This is a
  higher share than transport.

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Livestocks Long Shadow

• The findings of this report suggest that it i.e.
  the livestock sector should be a major policy
  focus when dealing with problems of land
  degradation, climate change and air pollution,
  water shortage and water pollution and loss of
  biodiversity.
• Livestocks contribution to environmental
  problems is on a massive scale and its potential
  contribution to their solution is equally large.
  The impact is so significant that it needs to be
  addressed with urgency.

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Bad Has Become Normal

• Farm animals are genetically manipulated,
  artificially bred, mutilated, confined, cruelly
  beaten and killed for food
• Farm animals are specifically excluded from the
  federal Animal Welfare Act
• Agricultural practices (considered common) are
  excluded from most state anti-cruelty laws
• Agriculture is exempt from many labor and
  environmental laws (eg. farm minimum wage is less
  than in other sectors)

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if one person is unkind to an animal it is
considered to be cruelty, but where a lot of
people are unkind to animals, especially in the
name of commerce, the cruelty is condoned and,
once large sums of money are at stake, will be
defended to the last by otherwise intelligent
people.Ruth Harrison, Animal Machines
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Obesity Trends Among U.S. AdultsBRFSS, 1985
(BMI 30, or 30 lbs. overweight for 5 4
person)
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Obesity Trends Among U.S. AdultsBRFSS, 1990
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Obesity Trends Among U.S. AdultsBRFSS, 1995
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person)
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Obesity Trends Among U.S. AdultsBRFSS, 2000
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person)
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Obesity Trends Among U.S. AdultsBRFSS, 2006
(BMI 30, or 30 lbs. overweight for 5 4
person)
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Be A CitizenNot Just a Consumer

• Each snowflake in an avalanche pleads not
  guilty Stanislaw Lee
• Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no
  one thinks of changing himself - Leo Tolstoy
• How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a
  single moment before starting to improve the
  world. Anne Frank

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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful
committed citizens can change the world. Indeed,
its the only thing that ever does. Margaret
Mead
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Laws are Starting to Change

• 2002 Florida Initiative Banning Gestation Crates
  (effective 2008)
• 2004 Law banning production and sale of foie gras
  passes in California (effective 2012)
• 2004 Federal ban on slaughtering downed cattle
  (became permanent in 2007)
• 2006 Chicago law bans sale of foie gras
• 2006 Arizona initiative bans veal and gestation
  crates (effective 2012)
• 2007 Oregon legislature bans gestation crates
• 2008 California initiative....

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