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International - Event Notice Thursday January 01 1970 World Week for the Abolition of Meat: 23-30 Sept 2011
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Sunday September 18, 2011 15:13 by meat-abolition.org contact at meat-abolition dot org
The next WWAM will take place, as planned, between 23 September and 30 September 2011. As you know, the past World Week for the Abolition of Meat [ http://www.meat-abolition.org/en/wwam ] was a success [ http://www.meat-abolition.org/en/actu/closing-communiqu...-wwam ] throughout the world. |
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Jump To Comment: 1why not approach this subject by way of efficiency, biological danger and global warming?
the fact is it takes 5 times the area of land to produce one kg of meat protien versus 1kg of vegetable protien. In a world where the oil is running out yet the population has exploded to around 7 billion, Efficient land use and food production will become an increasingly important issue. Studies have indicated that without any fossil fuels, the arable land of the world and manual farming methods can only support around 2 billion people and even then can likely only do so if we maintain a strict vegan diet and compost absolutely everything possible including even the bodies of the dead!!
http://www.populationpress.org/essays/essay-pimentel.html
http://populationmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/oversho...x.pdf
http://www.paulchefurka.ca/Population.html
Cows expel vast quantities of methane gas which is 23 times as potent as CO2 as a greenhouse gas.
Vast swathes of rainforest are cleared to make way for cattle to graze thus releasing carbon previously locked up into the atmosphere.
http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change....html
Large concentrated factory pig farms run by huge corporate entities such as the one owned by smithfield foods in mexico are essentially virus amplification and diversification laboratories. The pigs are fed a constant diet of antibiotics to keep them alive in the terrible conditions resulting in the release of bacterial organisms that are resistant to most of our available antibiotics.
Previously this recipe for disaster resulted in the outbreak of swine flu. Next time it might not be such a mild pandemic if mixed in with bird flu elements..
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/apr/28/swi...lucas
Selfish pragmatism dictates that you should just give up meat. Even if you don't give a shit about cruelty or care about any species but human beings. ( Of course any sentient non sociopath would also have to add the horrific systematic cruelty element as a major factor in the equation!!)
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