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14 Sep 2008 Issue
1. Sustaining Membership
2. Are You Seeking Local CVA Members?
3. This Week’s Sermon from Rev. Frank and Mary Hoffman
4. CVA Outreach
5. Less Meat, Less Heat: IPCC Chairman Insists on Eating Less Meat
1. Sustaining MembershipThe CVA offers Sustaining Membership to those paying our $25 annual subscription. In addition to the weekly e-newsletter available to all members, Sustaining Members receive the Take Heart! daily e-messages, which include inspirational comments, biblical commentary, health tips, an advice column, and recipes.
To become a Sustaining Member, go to our membership page, and fill out the form, which will take you to the dues-paying section. Or, you can send a check to CVA, PO Box 201791, Cleveland, OH 44120. Donations to the CVA are tax-deductible.
2. Are You Seeking Local CVA Members?In the near future, we will list CVA members who are seeking like-minded members in their region. If you would like to be listed, please provide your first name, city, and e-mail address.
3. This Week’s Sermon from Rev. Frank and Mary HoffmanLearning to Walk in the Assurance of God’s Promises http://www.all-creatures.org/sermons97/s8sep91.html
4. CVA OutreachMichael in Minnesota writes: I am very happy to announce that I have gotten permission to leave CVA leaflets at our church.
I will also be meeting with the Sacred Heart health and wellness board to discuss having vegetarian materials at next year’s parish festival!
5. Less Meat, Less Heat: IPCC Chairman Insists on Eating Less MeatAugust 31 Gent, Belgium. On Saturday, Rachendra Pachauri, head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and Nobel Peace prize winner, lectured at length about the effects of meat consumption on climate change. Dr. Pachauri was invited by the Belgian vegetarian organisation EVA and addressed more than 600 people at the University of Ghent. The event was called "Less Meat, Less Heat" and was organized together with Greenpeace Belgium and WWF Belgium.
Dr Pachauri said that in order to counter climate change, lifestyle changes are very important. One of the potentially most beneficial lifestyle changes, according to the IPCC president, would be the switch to a diet with less meat and more vegetarian meals.
Addressing his Belgian audience, Dr. Pachauri made the following comparison: if during one year, all Belgians would just have one meatless day a week, this would have the same beneficial effect on greenhouse gas emission as taking almost one million cars off the Belgian roads for an entire year.
Dr. Pachauri said meat production is responsible for 18% of global greenhouse gas emissions, mainly due to emission of methane from ruminants (cows, sheep and goats), emissions from manure, and the effects of deforestation for cattle grazing and animal feed. He also pointed out that producing a kilogram of beef requires about 15.000 liters of water.
Dr. Pachauri ended his talk by a quote from Gandhi: 'be the change you want to see in the world'. He said we each need to take our responsibility and can create a big effect by individual actions, decreasing our meat intake being one of them.
After the talk, Tobias Leenaert of vegetarian organisation EVA presented five policy recommendations for meat reduction, signed by about 20 environmental and other organizations. Leenaert: "A lower meat intake would be beneficial on so many levels, not just on climate change and other environmental problems, but also on public health, animal welfare, and the world hunger problem. Still, government and politicians are not taking this issue seriously."
The policy recommendations include setting a good example by offering sustainable vegetarian food in government funded restaurants, focusing more on sustainable food in school lunch programmes and education in general, a government campaign about the benefits of eating less meat, and making the production and sale of sustainable food products more profitable.
Source: www.vegetarisme.be/pachauri
See also http://www.guardian.co.uk:80/environment/2008/sep/07/food.foodanddrink.
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