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Yesterday 300 people gathered on a football field near Climate Camp to create a moving human sign: a clock which ticked towards midnight… and then exploded!
Yesterday 300 people gathered on a football field near Climate Camp to create a moving human sign: a clock which ticked towards midnight… and then exploded!
July 14th, 2008 at 10:35 pm
Hello Greenpeace,
Do you know that there are three things to save the planet – reduce power consumption, reduce transport emissions and reduce meat consumption.
The first two are great,but going vegetarian will have the largest impact in the shortest period of time.
Scientist Gerry Bisshop in Queensland reckons nearly a third of our greenhouse emissions come from cows.
“They eat all day and burp all day. Not much out the other end but they burp a lot,” he says.
Apparently there are more cows in Australia than people and each one produces 300 litres of methane every day.
Methane, it seems, is 25 times more potent as a greenhouse gas pollutant than carbon dioxide.
“So you can be a vegetarian and drive a Hummer and you’re still more eco-friendly than a meat-eater on a bicycle,
And Dr. Rajendra K. Pachauri, Chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), himself said “Don’t eat meat, ride a bike, and be a frugal shopper — that’s how you can help brake global warming”. (Paris, January 15, 2008).
It’s the future you need to think about and targets set for 2020 and 2050 might not be good enough if you listen to James Hansen, NASA’s top scientist on Climate change- Hansen has said that a global tipping point will be reached by 2016 if the human population is unable to reduce greenhouse gases [http://www.space.com/spacenews/businessmonday_060206.html]. So those targets would be too late and there is also the methane under the sea that will be released if all the arctic ice melts for which there are predictions that it will by 2012.
Think about it wouldn’t you like your children and your grandchildren even yourself to live a healthy long life? If by stopping eating meat this is possible- isn’t it worth it?
July 24th, 2008 at 10:44 pm
There are many facts that are true about the meat industry contributing to Greenhouse gas emissions. I am not going to try and disclaim these facts. Most of them are indeed true.
What I do not like is that many people and even organisations are educating people with these facts and then using them to pump one solution and only one solution to the problem and that is to ‘go vegetarian’. This I believe is wrong. There are other alternatives other than simply telling people to “go vegetarian”.
There is plenty of pest animals in Australia that we should support the culling, eradication and yes the consumption of. Camel is just one example. Camel meat is now being sold in many parts of Australia that comes from pest camels in the desert.
Instead of asking people to eat vegetables that usually come from monoculture crops that fence out native animals, we should be running education campaigns to hunt and eat non-native pests, to revegetate native vegetation and pull down the fences so that we can re-create ecological ecosystems that can feed us all. Oh and don’t breed.
I was a vegetarian for 12 years and vegan for 5. Although I kept up to date with my vitamin levels during this time with 3 monthly blood tests, very slowly I lost B12 which did not show in my results until I was 30. I am now on injections for the rest of my life. This is quite common for people in their 20’s who were vegetarian during their teens and 20’s. People need to know these facts as the type of propaganda that only offers vegetarianism as a solution is downright deceptive.
May 28th, 2009 at 7:01 pm
Hello Greenpeace,There are other alternatives other than simply telling people to “go vegetarian”. I am now on injections for the rest of my life. This is quite common for people in their 20’s who were vegetarian during their teens and 20’s.
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