1. No-Beef Climate Solution
2. Famous Quote – Barbara Ward
3. Environmental Destruction by Animal Agriculture
4. Bible verse – Genesis 2:15
5. Great Britain New “Green” Labels
6. Video: Amazon Deforestation and Global Warming
1. No-Beef Climate Solution
Meat production accounts for approximately a fifth of all greenhouse
gas emissions; therefore, India's Environment Minister, Jairam Ramesh,
suggests stop eating beef as solution to reduce greenhouse gases
emission. R. K. Pachauri, the leading Indian climate change scientist
who headed the UN's influential panel on climate change, said "If you
look at the beef cycle today, you first clear forests, which increases
emissions, then you feed cattle all kinds of food grain, which is energy
intensive, and then you kill and refrigerate these animals, and then
they are transported long distances. Then you buy it and refrigerate it.
If you count all the emissions associated with this entire cycle, it is
huge."
To read the full article please search online for
India offers no-beef climate solution
Transition to a plant-based diet helps to restore the environment by
reducing not only greenhouse gases emissions, but also air, water and
soil pollution as well as deforestation. It is our sacred responsibility
to take care of God's Creation to the best of our abilities.
2. Famous Quote
"We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on
the earth as its other creatures do." ~Barbara Ward, Only One Earth
(1972)
3. Environmental Destruction by Animal
Agriculture
Three-fourths of all the grain grown in the US is devoted to feeding
farmed-animals. In fact, there are 86 million acres planted with corn in
the U.S. compared to 4.35 million acres planted with vegetables (a mere
5 percent of what's devoted to growing corn). This insane demand for
cheap food has helped the expansion of factory farms that now produce
almost all of the animal products in this country. This is causing
unimaginable suffering to farmed animals and serious problems to our
health. Moreover, the tremendous devastation caused by animal
agriculture is one of the worst problems humanity is facing. From air,
water and soil pollution to deforestation and global warming, industrial
agriculture itself is responsible to a wide range of environmental
problems.
Please search online for The Ecological
Impacts of Animal Agriculture
We are failing miserably at our sacred role of being good stewards of
God's Creation! We are causing misery everywhere and we still continue
to fulfill our desires for taste, profit and power we no regard of what
has been lovingly entrusted to us by our Creator. There is still time to
turn things around and one way is to adopt a plant-based diet, which
helps reduce the massive cruelty on farmed animals, the degradation of
the environment and the production of animal products that sicken so
many people every day.
4. Bible Verse
(RSV) Genesis 2:15
The LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to
till it and keep it.
God instructed Adam to “till” and “keep” the Garden of Eden, and by
analogy we may see caring for God’s Creation as our sacred task. We can
help take care of God's Creation by transitioning to a plant-based diet
that is good for our health, animals and the environment.
5. Great Britain New “Green” Labels
In an effort to transform the British diet and to reduce the emission
of greenhouse gases, new “green” food labels will show how much carbon
was produced in the manufacture and transportation of food. Although the
government calls on companies to consider measuring the carbon footprint
of goods as well as being more honest about where meat was bred and the
standards of welfare, environmental groups said the government needs to
bring in legislation rather than a voluntary labeling scheme to really
transform food and farming.
To read the full article please search online for
Food labels to show 'carbon footprint' under
government plans
It would be helpful if labels would actually reflect the truth behind
the manufacturing of a product. However, industries such as the meat and
dairy ones, would not likely choose to show in their labels the cruelty
inflicted on their animals, the devastation of the environment and the
consequences to our health. By adopting a plant-based diet we are
confident we are alleviating animal suffering, helping to restore the
environment and helping ourselves to reclaim our health.
6. This Week’s Video: Global Warming and
Deforestation
Deforestation in the Amazon jungle is largely due to the need for
more room to raise cattle and to grown grains to feed them. This video
shows the need to transition to a plant-based diet in order to help
reduce deforestation and global warming gases.
Please visit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTS2Yp-UgI0.
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