SF Chronicle's Opinion Piece on Religion and Climate Change omitted meat industry

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Today's opinion piece in the San Francisco Chronicle missed the mark:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2007/02/13/EDG\

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It describes how religion is teaching people about climate change. However,

the piece did not once allude to the meat industry's undeniable contribution

to global warming and pollution, which would have been even more meaningful.

 

 

 

Evidences of meat industry's role in global warming and pollution:

 

 

1. Freston #1:

*http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kathy-freston/vegetarian-is-the-new-pri_b_39014.h\

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2. Freston #2:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kathy-freston/a-few-more-inconvenient-_b_40261.htm\

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3. VivaUSA website:

*http://www.vivausa.org/activistresources/guides/planetonaplate1.htm

* <http://www.vivausa.org/activistresources/guides/planetonaplate1.htm>

 

4. Eating our Planet to Death (contains a link to the UN report):

*http://www.drmcdougall.com/misc/2006nl/dec/truth.htm

* <http://www.drmcdougall.com/misc/2006nl/dec/truth.htm>

 

5. Very good " Pig poo " article: * *

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/12840743/porks_dirty_secret_the

 

 

-Jon