Ignoring the Facts

One thing that always gets me is how most people I know have finally begun to acknowledge global warming and environmental destruction, but seem to think it’s all caused by cars. The truth is that two big industries are significantly contributing to the problem - factory farming and the fashion industry.

Check out this report on the facts behind the relationship between global warming and livestock.

clipped from us.f379.mail.yahoo.com BE A MEAT REDUCER Recently I talked to ex-Beatle Sir Paul McCartney about vegetarianism and the environment, an important link he feels is being overlooked in the global warming discussion. He shared some shocking statistics from a 2006 UN report entitled Livestock’s Long Shadow: Environmental Issues and Options.” The report found that 18 percent of global warming emissions come from raising cows, chickens, pigs, turkeys and other animals we eat. That’s 40 percent more than all the world’s cars, SUVs, airplanes, and other modes of fossil-based transportation, which combined account for 13 percent. For further comparison, every house, residential and office building in the world accounts for just 8 percent.

January 21, 2008 at 9:28 am | Soapbox, Animals

Don’t Let Anyone Tell You You Can’t Make a Difference!

December 23, 2007 at 10:11 am | Soapbox, Animals

Most people who know me

Most people who know me personally know that I’m committed to reducing animal suffering. (I give money to animal rights groups including the Humane Society of the US, the ASPCA, the North Shore Animal League, the World Society for the Protection of Animals, and especially The Animals in Asia foundation, which is working to end bear farming. Bear farming is inexcusably cruel and inflicts literally 20+ years of suffering on these animals that would horrify you if you knew the details. Here’s what Olivia Newton-John had to say about it in a recent TV commercial.

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September 3, 2007 at 2:08 pm | Soapbox, Animals

Heartless Politicians

I will never understand the heartlessness that permeates Butch Otter and Ron Gillet. I sincerely hope that Karma will make these men suffer like the suffering they’ve inflicted have a greater understanding.

July 31, 2007 at 11:55 am | Soapbox, Animals