Save Our Planet

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Save Our Planet
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urgency
WE ARE AT CRISIS POINT

• If there is no action before 2012, it is too
  late. What we do now in the next 2-3 years will
  determine our future. This is the defining
  moment.
• - Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, Chairman of IPCC
• We are really running out of time, in fact this
  next year or two years are the critical time
  period.
• - Dr. James Hansen, Director of NASAs Goddard
  Institute for Space Studies
• We are so close to the red line, we may wake up
  tomorrow and discover there is nothing left to
  save.
• - Maneka Gandhi, former Indian Environment
  Minister
• We have a full-scale planetary emergency.
• - Al Gore, former US Vice President

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• The Union of Concerned Scientists, some 1,700 of
  the worlds leading scientists, including the
  majority of Nobel laureates in the sciences
  issued this warning as far back as 1992
•  WARNING
• We the undersigned, senior members of the world's
  scientific community, hereby warn all humanity of
  what lies ahead. A great change in our
  stewardship of the Earth and the life on it is
  required, if vast human misery is to be avoided
  and our global home on this planet is not to be
  irretrievably mutilated.
• The scientists issuing this warning hope that our
  message will reach and affect people everywhere.
  We need the help of many.
• We call on all to join us in this task.

• Source
• 1992 World Scientists' Warning to Humanity.
  www.ucsusa.org .Union of Concerned Scientists.
• Retrieved on 17-01-2009 http//tinyurl.com/5q
  ndft

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Global Environmental Crisis

• Unprecedented ice melts in the Arctic and
  Antarctic
• Melting of many of the worlds glaciers
• Submergence of 18 islands already around the
  world
• 25 million environmental refugees in 2007 alone
• Decimation of rainforests at 13.5 million
  hectares per annum
• Species loss 1,000 to 10,000 times higher than
  the expected natural extinction rate
• Ocean acidification and water pollution causing
  oceanic dead zones and affecting marine life and
  ecosystem
• 80 of global fish stocks fully or over-exploited
• Water scarcity and food insecurity
• Atmospheric CO2 levels at 385 ppm steadily
  reaching 450 ppm catastrophic level
• Exponential increase of Methane vs Carbon Dioxide
• Frequency and intensity of natural disasters
  all over the world, including, droughts, floods
  and wildfires

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Main Cause of Global Crisis

• Many sectors contribute to Greenhouse Gases
  (GHGs), however
• ONE SECTOR is the single largest source of two of
  the most significant GHGs methane and nitrous
  oxide
• This sector is also our single largest user of
  land and water a major cause of deforestation,
  wide-scale land degradation and species loss and
  a major polluter of our rivers, oceans and
  drinking supplies it is ANIMAL AGRICULTURE

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• 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.
• - U.N. Food Agriculture Organization, 2006

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the facts

• Livestock Production
• One of the biggest contributors to GHG Emissions

Livestock industry accounts for 80 of all GHG
emissions from agriculture. Livestock accounts
for 18 of global GHG emissions from human
activities more than the entire transport
sector globally.

• Source
• Livestocks Long Shadow Rome 2006 (PDF). Ch.
  7, P.272. Retrieved on 17-01-2009.
• http//tinyurl.com/96csxh

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livestock industry
Emissions The single largest source of methane
nitrous oxide

• 37 of global methane emissions - 23x more
  potent than CO2 over 100 years - 68x more potent
  than CO2 over 20 years
• 65 of global nitrous oxide emissions - 297x
  more potent than CO2
• 64 of the worlds ammonia - contributing to
  acid rain - affecting biodiversity
• 9 of total CO2 emissions

Source - Livestocks Long Shadow Rome 2006
(PDF). Ch. 3, P. 82, 112, 114. Retrieved on
17-01-2009. http//tinyurl.com/96csxh
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Environmental Costs
Land Use

• Livestock sector is by far the single largest
  anthropogenic user of land.
• Feed crop production uses 33 of the global
  arable land.
• Feedcrop production uses 471 hectares of land
  (33 of total arable land).
• Livestock sector is a major cause of wide scale
  land degradation with 70 of all grazing land in
  dry areas considered to be degraded because of
  overgrazing, compaction and erosion.

livestock industry

• Source Livestocks Long Shadow Rome 2006
  (PDF). Ch. 7, P. 270, 272. Retrieved on
  17-01-2009. http//tinyurl.com/96csxh

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livestock industry
Environmental Costs
Water Pollution

• Livestock industry is the largest sectoral source
  of water pollutants.
• Animal wastes contribute to large oceanic dead
  zones, which extended to nearly 7,903 square
  miles in the Gulf of Mexico during Summer 2007.
• More than 2 billion tons of animal manure was
  produced in the late 1990s allowing 100 million
  tons of nitrogen finding its way into our water
  systems.
• Once pollutants, including nitrogen, phosphorus,
  antibiotics and pesticides, reach the waterways
  they cause a great deal of damage to aquatic and
  human life.

• Source
• Livestocks Long Shadow Rome 2006 (PDF).
  Retrieved on 17-01-2009. http//tinyurl.com/96csxh
  
• NOAA and Louisiana Scientists Predict Largest
  Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone on Record This
  Summer.
• www.noaanews.noaa.gov. Ben Sherman. Retrieved
  on 17-01-2009. http//tinyurl.com/5atfov

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A Major Cause of Deforestation

• 70 of the Amazon deforestation is due to
  clearing land for pasture and a large part of the
  remainder for livestock feed crops.
• By year 2010 cattle are projected to be grazing
  on some 24 million hectares of neotropical land
  that was forest in 2000.
• If we lose the forests, we lose the fight
  against climate change. - Declaration signed by
  300 climate experts at the 2007 United Nations
  Climate Change conference in Bali.

livestock industry

• Source
• Livestocks Long Shadow Rome 2006 (PDF).
  Retrieved on 17-01-2009. http//tinyurl.com/96csxh
  
• Livestocks Long Shadow Rome 2006 (PDF). Ch.
  5.3.1 P 188. Retrieved on 17-01-2009.
  http//tinyurl.com/96csxh

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Effects of Deforestation

• Deforestation causes 18-25 of global carbon
  emissions.
• Deforestation affects rainfall and freshwater,
  soil productivity, clean air, forestry, and
  biodiversity resources.
• Habitat destruction through deforestation is a
  major cause for loss of biodiversity.
• Heavily deforested areas can see a 300 fold
  increase in the risk of malaria infection
  compared to areas of intact forest.
• Tropical forests are critical to the survival of
  over a billion of the worlds poorest and most
  vulnerable people.
• Deforestation and overgrazing are two causes of
  desertification. By 2020 about 135 Million
  people risk being driven from their lands because
  of continuing desertification.

• Source
• Global Canopy Programme Forests Now Declaration
  http//tinyurl.com/6fgnym, http//tinyurl.com/6hbq
  bx, http//tinyurl.com/6n73dj
• State of the World's Forests 2007, UN Food and
  Agriculture Organization, Rome, 2007, Part 2,
  Selected Issues in the Forest sector
• UNDP Human Development Report 2007/2008
  Fighting Climate Change Human Solidarity In A
  Divided World

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Environmental Costs
Loss of Biodiversity
We are in an era of unprecedented threats to
biodiversity. Fifteen out of 24 important
ecosystem services are assessed to be in
decline. The sheer quantity of animals being
raised for human consumption is a threat to the
Earths biodiversity. -UN Food and
Agriculture Organization, 2006
livestock industry

• Livestock take up 30 of the earths land surface
  which was once habitat for wildlife.
• Tropical forests hold half of the worlds species
  which are becoming extinct at an alarming rate
  due to deforestation for meat production.
• Species loss today is 1,000 to 10,000 times
  higher than the expected natural extinction rate.

• Source
• Livestocks Long Shadow, UN Food and Agriculture
  Organization, 2007 http//tinyurl.com/6bowo7
• International Union for Conservation of Nature
  2007 http//cmsdata.iucn.org/downloads/species_ext
  inction_05_2007.pdf

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Water Scarcity - The Facts
Environmental Costs

• Over 1 billion people worldwide do not have
  access to clean water.
• More than 2 billion people do not have proper
  sanitation.
• By 2025 there will be 1.8 billion people living
  with absolute water scarcity and 2/3 of the
  worlds population could be living under water
  stressed conditions
• On a global basis, the amount of fresh water
  available per person is falling rapidly.

livestock industry
Source -Livestocks Long Shadow, UN Food and
Agriculture Organization, 2006 -United Nations
Environment Programme (2002) Global
Environmental Outlook
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livestock industry
Environmental Costs
Water Scarcity - Usage
Meat production, particularly the production of
feed, consumes large amounts of critically
important water resources. - U.N.
Food Agriculture Organization, 2006

• Homes use 10 of all water
• Industry uses 20
• Agriculture uses 70 most of which is used by the
  livestock industry

Source - Livestocks Long Shadow, UN Food and
Agriculture Organization, 2006 http//tinyurl.com/
6bowo7 - Saving Water from Field to Fork, SIWI,
IWMI, Chalmers SEI, May 2008 http//tinyurl.com/
58padp
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water scarcity
Environmental Costs
Does our choice of food matter?

• Livestock sector is among the most damaging
  sectors to the Earths scarce water resources.
• Producing 1 kilo of beef requires 13,000-100,000
  litres of water.
• Producing 1 kilo of wheat requires 500-2000
  litres of water.
• Water-intensive food items like meat and dairy
  products is placing increased stress on food
  production systems.
• A diet containing less meat and dairy products is
  not only healthier than our current eating
  habits, but is better for the environment.

Source - Livestocks Long Shadow, UN Food and
Agriculture Organization, 2006 - Pimentel D and
Pimentel M 2003 Sustainability of Meat-Based and
Plant-Based Diets and the Environment, Am. J,
Clin. Nutr. 2003 78(suppl) 660S-3S.
http//www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/full/78/3/660S -
SIWI, IWMI, May 2008 Saving water from field to
Fork http//www.siwi.org/documents/Resources/Poli
cy_Briefs/PB_From_Filed_to_Fork_2008.pdf - Food
Matters, Cabinet Office, July 2008, p.15
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Energy Use
Environmental Costs
Does our choice of food matter?

• One calorie of animal protein requires more than
  10 times as much fossil fuel input as does one
  calorie of plant protein.
• Producing 1 kg of beef leads to the emission of
  greenhouse gases with a global warming potential
  of 36.4 kg of CO2.
• 1 kg of beef produces the same amount of CO2
  emitted by the average European car every 250 km,
  and burns enough energy to light an 100 watt bulb
  for 20 days.
• Grain fed to animals reared for human consumption
  loses 90 of the energy form the original grain.

Source -Pimentel D and Pimentel M 2003
Sustainability of Meat-Based and Plant-Based
Diets and the Environment, http//www.ajcn.org/cg
i/content/full/78/3/660S -Animal Science Journal,
Evaluating environmental impacts of the Japanese
beef cow-calf system by the life cycle assessment
method, 2007. -Dr. David Archer, Professor of
Geophysical Sciences at University of Chicago
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World Grain Supply
Our Choice Food or Feed

• Global Grain Crop Production 2109 million tons
  (2007/08)
• 36 to feed animals
• 47 to feed people
• 5 for grain-derived biofuels
• 12 for other

Source -Crop Prospects and Food Situation, UN
Food and Agriculture Organization,
http//www.fao.org/docrep/010/ai465e/ai465e04.htm
(calculated from data therein)
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World Hunger
Food or Feed?

• Every 6 seconds, a child dies from hunger.
• More than 1.02 billion people in the world go
  hungry every day.
• Hunger and poverty claim 25,000 lives every day.
• Whilst 760 million tons of grain are fed to
  animals every year.

the facts

• Source
• Livestocks Long Shadow, UN Food and Agriculture
  Organization, 2006
• World Food Programme http//www.wfp.org/hunger/sta
  ts

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Overcoming World Hunger

• 1 hectare of land produces
• beef to support 1 person
• lamb to support 2 people
• rice to support 19 people
• potatoes to support 22 people
• With 1.02 billion people hungry in the world
  (more than the populations of USA, Canada, and
  the European Union), diverting the critically
  needed grain from cattle to humans would ensure
  that the worlds hungry get their share of food.
• The 760 million tons of grain feeding animals now
  could cover the global food deficit 14 times
  over.

• Source
• - Diet, Nutrition and Prevention of Chronic
  Diseases, WHO/FAO 2003, (3.4, P 21)
• UN FAO The State of Food Insecurity in the
  World, 2006
• Photo Finbarr OReilly, Canada, Reuters, Mother
  child at emergency feeding center, Niger
• George Monbiot, The Real Crisis is World
  Hunger, if you Care, Eat Less Meat, Guardian 15
  April 2008

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livestock industry
Future Outlook
Meat consumption is expected to double by 2050

• Raising animals for food is a major cause of
  deforestation, land degradation, air pollution,
  water shortage, water pollution, loss of
  biodiversity and global warming and yet the
  global livestock sector is growing faster than
  any other agricultural sub-sector.
• Dairy output is expected to more than double by
  2050.
• EUs subsidies to the livestock industry was
  3,500,704,000 Euros in 2007, ensuring the
  industrys continuing growth.

• Source
• UN FAO, Livestocks Long Shadow, Rome 2006
• The livestock industry and climate EU makes bad
  worse, Jens Holm Toivo Jokkala, Parliamentary
  Group (p. 17-18)

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Status Quo ? Our Future

• Following the unprecedented ice melt in Summer
  2007, the thickness of ice fell by nearly half a
  metre (19) in large parts of the Arctic in
  comparison to the previous five winters.
• The Arctic ocean is predicted to be ice free by
  the end of summer of 2012, causing catastrophic
  climate change with increased severity and
  frequency. 
• The most devastating effect of rising
  temperatures is the release of 400 billion tonnes
  of methane gas from the melting permafrost and
  the ocean seabed.
• This ticking bomb once triggered will result in
  runaway global warming and there will be nothing
  humans can do to stop it.

• Source
• - Natural Environment Research Council,
  http//tinyurl.com/5jrpp2
• Jay Zwally, NASA Scientist
• Methane Burps, Ticking time Bomb, Energy
  Bulletin, 15 December 2004 http//www.energybullet
  in.net/node/3647
• - Katey Walter, Nature 443 71-75, 7th Sept. 2006

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• At least 18 islands have been submerged around
  the world already.
• Another 40 islands are at risk from rising sea
  levels, including the Maldives (369,000
  residents) whose president wants to relocate the
  whole island, the Soloman Islands (566,000
  residents) and Dubai (1.2 M residents).
• The IPCC estimates sea level rise of .4 to 1.4
  meters due to thermal expansion alone. However,
  the water released from melting ice bodies
  increases this substantially.
• Sea level rise will cause displacement of coastal
  populations. About half the world lives within
  50 miles of a coastline.
• - James Hansen, Director of NASA GISS
• Environmental deterioration currently displaces
  10 million people every year. 50 million
  environmental refugees are expected by 2010.
• UNHCR statistics show 25 million people became
  environmental refugees in 2007.

Status Quo ? Our Future

• Source
• http//tinyurl.com/cvt26c
• -http//tinyurl.com/al5scg
• -http//tinyurl.com/p4ctuv

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Solution?

• The fastest way to slow global warming and curb
  climate change?
• Cut down on short-lived greenhouse gases such as
  Methane the single largest source of which is
  livestock.

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Why Methane?

• Methane is x72 more potent than CO2 over 20 years
  but cycles out of the atmosphere in 9 years.
• Even if the entire world switched to a zero
  carbon economy and lifestyle tomorrow, it would
  take 100 1000 years for CO2 to dissipate out of
  the atmosphere.
• Cutting down on short-lived GHGs will quickly
  translate into cooling of the Earth which will
  give us time to deal with CO2 emissions.

Source IPCC 4th Assessment, IPCC Fourth
Assessment Report Synthesis Report 2007
http//www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/ar4-syr.htm,
chapter 2 http//ipcc-wg1.ucar.edu/wg1/wg1-report.
html
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Methane Reduction
Buys us time in fight against global warming
many of us are saying if you want to make an
impact soon, slow down the melting of the
glaciers, slow down the rise of the sea level,
and so on, give us more time to deal with things,
give us, society, more time, shouldnt you work
more on methane?

• Kirk R. Smith, MPH, PhD
• Professor of Global Environmental Health
• University of California, Berkeley

Source - Interview with Supreme Master TV
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Methane
Key to rapid emissions reductions
The mitigation of non-carbon dioxide (Non-CO2)
greenhouse gas emissions can be a relatively
inexpensive supplement to CO2-only mitigation
strategies. Methane Mitigation has the largest
potential across all the Non-CO2 Greenhouse
Gases.
Source US Environmental Protection Agency,
Global Mitigation of Non-CO2 Greenhouse Gases,
June 2006
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Methane Reduction
Buys us time in fight against global warming
Control of methane emissions turns out to be a
more powerful lever to control global warming
than would be anticipated.

• Drew Shindell, PhD
• Atmospheric Physicist
• NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies

Source - NASA GISS Report Methanes Impact on
Climate Change May Be Twice Previous Estimates
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The single most effective action individuals can
take for their health and for the survival of the
planet?
Reduce or eliminate meat dairy consumption

• ...the balance of environmental analysis
  suggests that a healthy, low-impact diet would
  contain less meat and fewer dairy products than
  we typically eat today.

• Eat mostly foods of plant origin.

• Source
• Cabinet Office, Food Matters Towards a
  Strategy for the 21st Century, July 2008
  http//tinyurl.com/6bhjho
• World Cancer Research Fund and the American
  Institute for Cancer Research. Food, Nutrition,
  Physical Activity, and the Prevention of Cancer
  A Global Perspective. 2007. www.dietandcancerrepor
  t.org

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Meat-free Diet
A quicker easier solution

• Turnover rate of farm animals is 1-2 years,
  while turnover rate of cars power plants, etc
  can be decades.
• Methane can disappear from the atmosphere in
  9-15 years, while CO2 can stay in the atmosphere
  for more than a century.
• Introduction of new techniques and further
  research takes many years.
• Cut in CO2 involves fighting powerful wealthy
  business interests, while vegetarian foods are
  readily available.

Source - A New Global Warming Strategy, Noam
Mohr, EarthSave International, August 2005
http//tinyurl.com/2usvxl
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Meat-free Diet
Environmental Advantages

• If everybody in the UK ate no meat for 1 day a
  week, it would be equivalent to replacing one
  billion light bulbs with low-energy ones.
• If everybody in the UK ate no meat for 2 days a
  week, it would save an equivalent of almost 73
  million return flights from London to Ibiza.
• If everybody in the UK ate no meat for 6 days a
  week, it would create greater carbon savings than
  removing all the cars off UK roads (29 million
  cars).

Source - Pieter van Beukering, Kim van der
Leeuw, Desirée Immerzeel and Harry Aiking (2008)
Meat the Truth. The contribution of meat
consumption in the UK to climate change.
Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), VU
University, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
http//tinyurl.com/5q3vwx - HM Government (2006)
Climate Change, the UK programme 2006
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Meat-free Diet
Health Benefits

• Prevents high blood pressure
• Lowers cholesterol levels
• Reduces Type 2 diabetes
• Prevents stroke conditions
• Reverses atherosclerosis
• Reduces heart disease risk - 50
• Reduces heart surgery risk - 80
• Prevents many forms of cancer
• Strengthens immune system
• Increases life expectancy up to 15 years

• Source
• American Dietetic Association position paper on
  vegetarian diets http//tinyurl.com/djodu
• -Jenkins DJA et al., 2003. Type 2 diabetes and
  the vegetarian diet, American Journal of Clinical
  Nutrition, Vol. 78, No. 3, 610S-616S, Sep 03
  http//tinyurl.com/9sohlt
• -Ornish D, Scherwitz L, Billings J, et al.
  Intensive lifestyle changes for reversal of
  coronary heart disease, Five-year follow-up of
  the Lifestyle Heart Trial. Journal of the
  American Medical Association. 1998 280
  2001-2007
• http//tinyurl.com/6djlgg

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Being vegan means less emissions than eating
organic meat dairy

• Foodwatch of Germany compared the GHG
  emissions of meat versus non-meat consumption
  over a one year period and translated that into
  car mileage.
• Results
• A vegetarian diet reduced emissions by nearly a
  half.
• An animal free vegan diet produced less than
  1/7th the GHG emissions of a meat eater 86
  savings in GHG emissions.
• An organic vegan diet produced 94 savings in GHG
  emissions.

Source Spiegel Online International, 27 August
2008 http//tinyurl.com/557yxs
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Vegan diets are the most water efficient
(tofu, whole grain rice, 2 vegetables)
(227g)
(227g)

• Source
• Water Inputs in California Food Production, Water
  Education Foundation, September, 1991 (chart E3
  p28)
• http//tinyurl.com/6kd6kx

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Vegan or local food?
Carnegie Mellon University researchers found that
shifting less than one day per weeks
consumption of red meat and/or dairy to other
protein sources or a vegetable based diet could
have the same climate impact as buying all
household food from local providers.

• Source of Food Emissions
• Transportation (Food Miles) 11
• Agricultural industrial processes 83

Source Food-Miles and the Relative Climate
Impacts of Food Choices in the United States,
Carnegie Mellon University, 2008
http//tinyurl.com/3w377g
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What our greatest scientists politicians say
now

• Please eat less meat meat is a very carbon
  intensive commodity.
• - Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, Chairman, IPCC
• The single action that a person can take to
  reduce carbon emissions is vegetarianism.
• - Dr. James Hansen, Top World Climatologist,
  NASA
• I would advocate getting off of the meat diet,
  that it really is not sustainable.
• - Dr. Jonathan Patz, Professor of Env. Studies
  Populations Health Sciences, University of
  Wisconsin Madison
• We have to reduce the meat consumption and one
  way of doing it is of course that a larger amount
  of what we eat is vegetarian and everything else
  other than meat.
• - Erik Solheim, Env. Dev. Minister, Norway

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What our greatest scientists politicians say
now

• We must transform ourselves from being passive
  consumers to active consumers. We need to lobby
  government for change, eat less meat and fewer
  dairy products, and garden more.
• - Professor Tim Lang, UK Government Advisor on
  Food Security Obesity
• We should abolish meat subsidies, let meat bear
  its own environmental costs and work to make
  modern vegetarian food cheaper.
• - Jens Holm, MEP, Sweden
• Unless we change our food choices nothing else
  matters because it is meat that is destroying
  most of our forests, it is meat that pollutes the
  waters, it is meat that is creating disease which
  leads to all our money being diverted to
  hospitals, so its the first choice for anybody
  who wants to save the Earth.
• - Maneka Gandhi, Parliamentarian former Env.
  Minister, India

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And in the past

• Nothing will benefit human health and increase
  chances for survival of life on Earth as much as
  the evolution to a vegetarian diet.
• Albert EinsteinWhile we
  ourselves are the living graves of murdered
  beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on
  this Earth?
• George Bernard Shaw
• Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which
  is the goal of all human evolution. Until we stop
  harming all other living beings, we are still
  savages.
• Thomas Edison, Inventor

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And in the past

• The greatness of a nation and its moral
  progress can be judged by the way its animals are
  treated.
• Mahatma Gandhi
• Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a
  slaughterhouse and thinks theyre only animals.
  
• Theodore Adorno - Philospher
• In their behaviour towards creatures, all men
  are Nazis. Human beings see oppression vividly
  when theyre the victims. Otherwise they
  victimize blindly and without a thought.
• Isaac Bashevis Singer, Author, Nobel Prize 1978
• A man can live and be healthy without killing
  animals for food therefore, if he eats meat he
  participates in taking animal life merely for the
  sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral.
  
• Leo Tolstoy

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Call for action
Its time for the truth about meat to be brought
to light. Animal agriculture and the consumption
of animal products are destroying our planet and
are the root cause of the most pressing
challenges of our time. We can no longer hide
from the fact that meat is the single greatest
contributor to the most prevalent and deadly
global health problems, such as cardiovascular
disease, diabetes and obesity. We must recognize
that meat is causing global food shortage as we
feed over one third of all grain products to
animals (over 7 times the amount used for
biofuels), and as farmers in developing nations
grow feed crop for animals rather than food crops
for their fellow citizens. And we must address
the reality that meat and dairy are the leading
causes of global warming, pushing our Earth
beyond the tipping point, heading to where it can
no longer maintain life as we know it. The facts
and figures presented here are compiled from the
latest research by leading climate scientists,
governmental bodies, the United Nations, many
independent organizations, and health
professionals. They show clearly how by stopping
the devastation of meat production and
consumption and embracing a plant-based diet, we
will be able to live in optimal health, preserve
our planet and have enough food and clean water
for all.
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UN on Climate Change, Executive Secretary, Yvo
de Boer, has pointed out that a bigger part of
higher food price increases comes from feeding
grain to animals being raised for meat. Secretary
de Boer stated, The best solution would be for
us to all become vegetarians.
Source -http//www.enn.com/pollution/article/3457
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Links
VIDEOS The Bio-Da Versity Code by Earth Scope A
Community of Scientists Conducting
Multidisciplinary research across the Earth
Sciences http//tinyurl.com/3nlz2z Earthlings
Documentary video on the correlation between
nature, animals, and human economic interests
http//tinyurl.com/3n5jgj A Delicate Balance
Documentary with the latest discoveries of some
of the most prominent experts on nutrition in the
world, unravelling the mysteries behind the
disease epidemic which has struck affluent
countries with a vengeance. ORGANIZATIONS
Nutrition Ecology International Center An
interdisciplinary scientific committee
established with the purpose of investigating the
impact of all stages and methods of food
production and consumption, with regard to
health, environment, society and economy
http//tinyurl.com/4x3dzf European Parliament
European United Left/Nordic Green Left The
Livestock Industry and Climate Change EU Makes
Bad Worse http//tinyurl.com/6kn3vw Global
Canopy Program An Alliance of 29 scientific
institutions in 19 countries, which lead the
world in forest canopy research, education, and
conservation http//tinyurl.com/6fgnym Food
vs. Feed http//tinyurl.com/5sn8ob
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Our Mission

• To share scientific data
• with the public, the media,
• the government and other organisations
• on the significant and devastating effects
• of eating animal products
• on the health of our planet,
• including climate change, drought and
  deforestation,
• and on global hunger. To provide the means for
  individuals
• to encourage the media to speak about these
  topics,
• and to encourage governments and other
  institutions
• to pass and adopt laws and policies
• which will result in people eating less animal
  products
• in order to reverse climate change,
• ensure there is enough clean water for all our
  needs,
• and feed the worlds hungry.