Climate Change is A Choice

Climate change is about choices – our choices.  We all know that we face a serious threat in the form of climate change, especially in Florida.  Sea levels are expected to rise, thus eliminating miles of coastal areas.  Global warming melts polar ice caps and mountain glaciers causing increases in sea levels that threaten coastal areas and small island nations.  Food, water, and security issues are exacerbated by the droughts and floods brought on by global warming.  Tsunamis, hurricanes, earthquakes, droughts, and floods have been scientifically linked to greenhouse gasses - carbon dioxide and methane – in the atmosphere.  There is a deep injustice in climate change.  Rich countries grow richer while causing the problem.  The poorest countries are the most affected, and have the least responsibility for the causes

Warming of the climate is directly linked to human activity and choices.  The meat and dairy based diet, the livestock sector, generates the most greenhouse gas emissions according to a U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization report.  The massive amount of animal feces produced in factory farms is the largest source of airborne methane in the United States.  Methane traps heat in the atmosphere almost 100 times more effectively than carbon dioxide does.

Pollution is about choices.  Animals raised for the meat and dairy based diet in the United States produce 130 times more excrement than the entire human population does – 86,000 pounds per second.  A typical pig factory generates a quantity of raw waste equal to a city of 50,000 people, but without the sewage system.  The runoff from factory farms pollutes rivers and lakes more than all other industrial sources combined.  Chicken, hog, and cattle excrement have polluted 35,000 miles of rivers in 22 states and contaminated ground water in 17 states. 

Use of scarce resources is also about choices.  Of all agricultural land in the U.S., nearly 80% is used to raise animals for food.  Twenty times more land is required to feed a meat-eater than to feed a vegan.  Raising animals for food consumes nearly half the water used in the U.S.  It takes 2,500 gallons of water to produce a pound of beef, but only 25 gallons to produce a pound of wheat.  More than one third of all the raw materials and non-renewable fossil fuels used in the U.S. are required to raise animals for food.  This includes fuel to produce fertilizer for the crops that are fed to animals, oil to run the trucks that take them to slaughter, electricity to freeze their carcasses, and much more. 

Trees and forests combat rising temperatures, remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, and provide a defense against climate change.   However, more than 260 million acres of U.S. forest have been cleared to create cropland to grow grain to feed farmed animals.  Currently the Amazon rain forest in Brazil is being burned down to provide grazing land for animals raised to be murdered and cannibalized.

The choices you make impact not only you and your family, but the planet, other people, and the billions of sentient beings that are killed in ways that would horrify any compassionate person.  There needs to be a change in human values, hearts, and minds.  We need to plant more threes, and we need to eat a plant based vegan diet.

“The Search For Raoul Wallenberg  - The Truth”, tells the behind the scenes story of the efforts to learn the fate of disappeared World War II hero, Raoul Wallenberg, savior of 100,00 innocent people.  This inspirational story is full of intrigue and surprises.  It will educate, inform, inspire, and empower you!  It goes beyond the past and applies Wallenberg’s qualities of courage and compassion to present day issues. 

“The Search For Raoul Wallenberg – The Truth” is a true story which reaches back over 100 years, touches on the lives of over 100,000 people, involves the governments of four countries, includes hundreds of documents, and both exposes scandals, and showcases heroism.

There are many books about Raoul Wallenberg, the Diplomat who saved 100,000 innocent lives during World War II.  This one is unique.  It is about all the behind the scenes activity involved in the release of his prison records from the Soviet Union, where the idea originated, why it was important, how it was done, and the background of the impartial investigation which followed. In addition, it exposes the people who tried to prevent the truth, the reasons why, who confronted them, and those who worked tirelessly on behalf of this great hero.  I know because this is my story.

The book will demonstrate what an individual can accomplish if they are dedicated, imaginative, courageous, and compassionate.  Further, the book extends into the present and future by advocating implementation of lessons learned, avarice avoided, and compassionate lifestyles adopted.  It applies Wallenberg’s qualities of compassion, courage, determination and imagination to contemporary issues. This includes Climate Change, Sustainable Energy, Sustainable Agriculture, Plant Based Diet, optimal health, and showing compassion to ALL travelers on spaceship Earth.   

“The Search For Raoul Wallenberg - The Truth” is available for sale through the website or AuthorHouse.com, Amazon.com, and Barnes and Noble.com.

A presentation by the Author, Sharon Wallenberg can be arranged.

UN Convention Against Speciesism

“Freedom is never voluntarily granted by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Unfortunately, not all the oppressed are in the position to demand their freedom or rights.  Sometimes it must be done on their behalf as in President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation - which ultimately ended slavery.  Raoul Wallenberg Vegan International has initiated a United Nations Convention Against Speciesism on behalf of all the abused, victimized, and exploited individuals who currently have absolutely no rights. 

The global issues we face, specifically the unsustainability of the meat and dairy based diet, its impact on human health, (causing cancer, heart disease, diabetes) the health of this planet (climate change, pollution, misuse of scarce resources - land and water),and the welfare of our fellow travelers on spaceship earth (the animals) needs to be addressed by the United Nations in a Convention.  A global patchwork quilt approach is not sufficient.

Left unchecked, the global demand for meat, eggs, and milk is due to double from 2000 to 2050, and will have a major impact on land and energy use globally.  The seriousness of this situation calls for a major step in addressing the issue.  A UN Convention Against Speciesism should be created to insure that all aspects of sustainability are taken into consideration, and that all individuals on earth are taken into consideration and treated justly.

Eliminating Meat Will End Starvation Forever

According to experts at both Cornell and Harvard, the optimal amount of meat in the healthy human diet is precisely zero.  Today one billion people are hungry.  20 million people will die from malnutrition. Cutting meat by 10% will feed 100 million people.  Eliminating meat will end starvation forever. 

Currently, poor countries sell their grain to the West while their own children starve in their arms.  The West feeds it to livestock so they can eat a steak.  This is a crime!  Every morsel of meat we eat is slapping the tear-stained face of hungry child, and an act of violence to an innocent being. The Earth can produce enough for everyone’s need, but not enough for everyone’s greed. 

Water, as you know, 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! Greenhouse gas emission from livestock is 50% greater than transportation: cars, buses, trains, trucks, the whole lot.  If everyone ate a western diet, we would need two planet earths to fed us.  We only have one and she is dying!

No More Bacon

No More Bacon

How could something so popular be so evil?

It starts with the treatment of the pigs – one of the most intelligent and affectionate animals on earth.  Undercover investigations reveal that when these docile, loving creatures are raised for food they are subjected to the most egregious abuses imaginable.  For example, semen is collected from the boars (male pigs).  Outside of a factory farm this would be called the crime of beastiality. 

The sows (female pigs) are locked in cages so small that they cannot stand or turn around.  They are immobilized like this for their entire short lives.  Even in prison solitary confinement, prisoners can stand and walk.  And the sows have done nothing wrong to deserve this!  Under other circumstances, this would be called cruel and unusual punishment.

In this vulnerable position, from which there is no escape, the docile, intelligent, sentient girls are artificially inseminated by workers.  They manipulate the sows’ vaginas to insert the semen.  Sometimes a male pig, a boar, is dragged around by a robot in the hope that this poor unfortunate’s smell will facilitate the heinous procedure.  Under other circumstances this would be called rape.

When the innocent baby pigs are born, they nurse from their incarcerated, pinned down Mothers briefly before being removed by workers.  The Mother’s and Babies’ screams are heartbreaking.  Under other circumstances this would be called kidnap.

The baby boy pigs have their testicles removed without anesthesia.  Their high-pitched screams are heart breaking.  They also have their tails removed to prevent the natural act of sucking by their companions looking for mother’s milk.  Their teeth are filed down to prevent ‘financial loss’ from cannibalism caused by the unbearable circumstances of their short lives.  Under other circumstances, this mutilation would be called torture.

Slaughter/murder comes for the Mothers when they are no longer able to produce babies either because their reproductive organs have been expelled from their bodies, or they have become so hopeless that they stop eating.  The babies are killed after they have gained weight.  This qualifies not only as murder, but since literally billions of pigs are killed annually, it is more accurately called genocide.

The only reason crimes committed against these individuals do not qualify to be called beastiality, rape, torture, kidnap, murder and genocide is their species.  It is the same reason that black individuals were forced into slavery, that a nuclear bomb was dropped on the already decimated Asian Japanese, and not the European Nazis.  It is because they do not look like the rich and powerful.

This evil will only stop when consumers gain some perspective and empathy, and stop eating bacon, sausage, ham, etc.  There are plenty of delicious plant based substitutes available. 

No more bacon!

Let's Save The Earth

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!

My Trip To Europe

There is a serious problem in the European Union today.  Hundreds of thousands of immigrants are arriving from North Africa, the Middle East, and Afghanistan. 

In Sweden the mandatory retirement age has been raised to support the new arrivals.  Approximately 90% are young men.  They form gangs, and are responsible for rapes, gang rapes, murder, attempted murder, arson, and other crimes.  Rape and gang rape victims are as young as ten and as old as 90.  The response in Sweden is to teach women and young girls to hold out their hand and say ‘Stop’.  One 12 year-old rape victim, was told that she did not firmly say ‘Stop’ to her assailant.  The youngest murder victim was a one-year old baby who was beheaded.

 

Several areas in Goteborg and Malmo are called ‘No Go’ zones because Police and Firefighters will not enter these ghettos under any circumstances.  ISIS fighters are reportedly living in Goteborg, leaving to make attacks, and then returning.  All this is accepted regardless of the burden on society because it is termed ‘politically correct’, and any protest against it is labeled ‘hate talk’.  Churches are even taking down crucifixes so as not to offend Muslims.

Germany’s political correctness allows this criminal behavior.  Anyone  against these criminal abuses is accused of ‘hate’.  It has been said that what Hilter did not accomplice militarily, the EU is achieving diplomatically.

France has hundreds of thousands of these immigrants living on the streets of Paris and other areas.  This is accompanied with bedding and belongings, urination and defecation in public areas.  There are now urinals in public, and ‘Pee Police’ who catch the urinators and miss the rapists.  There is also suspicion regarding the fire in Notre Dame Cathedral.

In response to the EU open borders policy, some countries try to escape this dilemma by leaving as in the UK ‘Brexit’.  Other countries that are less fortunate, and more vulnerable to repercussions from the EU, are refusing to open their borders. 

Hungary is the leader in this group.  Historically Hungary has experienced both Nazi and Soviet domination, and stubbornly refuses to submit to the inevitable immigration chaotic, oppressive, tyranny destined to follow the current social upheaval.  It is joined by Poland, Czech Republic, and Italy, 

Italy has closed its borders.  A Somali bus driver became so infuriated by this that he locked school children in their school bus, poured gasoline on it and set it on fire.  Fortunately a passer-by subdued the immigrant and rescued the children.

The current situation in Europe promises a radical change in the ethnicity of the continent, and the threat of a European Union civil war.  Europe is forever changed.  I am so glad I had the opportunity to see Europe years ago, because I do not want to go there now!