Today one billion people are hungry. 20 million people will die from
malnutrition. Around the world developing
nations sell their grain to the developed nations while their own children
starve in their arms. The west feeds it
to livestock so they can drink milk, eat a steak, ice cream and cheese. Does anyone see this as a crime? Every morsel
of meat and dairy is a slap on the tear-stained face of hungry child. Look into her face and tell me if you can
remain silent. Cutting meat and dairy by
10% will feed 100 million people. Eliminating meat and dairy will end
starvation forever.
Water is the new oil.
Nations will be going to war for it.
Underground aquifers that took millions of years to fill are running
dry. It takes 50,000 liters of precious
drinking water to make one kilo of beef.
Even more water is needed for dairy.
Greenhouse gas emission from livestock is 50% greater than
transportation. Cars, buses, trains,
trucks, the whole lot.
The Earth can produce enough for everyone’s need, but
not enough for everyone’s greed. If
everyone ate a western diet, we would need two planet earths to fed us. We only have one and she is dying.
Farmers are the ones with the most to gain. Farming won’t end, it will boom. Only the product line will change. Governments will love it. Health insurance premiums will plummet. Meat causes a wide range of cancers and heart
disease. New industries will emerge and
flourish.
Animals are not just another species, they are other
nations. We murder them at our
peril. The peace map is drawn on a
menu. Peace is not just the absence of
war, it is the presence of justice.
Justice must be blind to race, color, religion, or species. If she is
not blind, she will be a weapon of terror.
There is unimaginable terror in those gastly Guantanamos we call
“factory farms” or “slaughterhouses”.
Lets
get animals off the menus and out of the torture chambers. Please act for justice
and for those who have no voice. Go
Vegan!
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