Mayor Gavin Newsom's Proclamation of World Veg Festival Weekend in San Francisco

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Proclamation

City and County of San Francisco

 

WHEREAS, the San Francisco Vegetarian Society, made up entirely of

volunteers, is celebrating its 40th anniversary, educating the public

on the health, ecological, spiritual, and compassionate nature of a

plant-based diet; and

 

WHEREAS, a plant-based vegan diet is truly a green diet that reduces

the serious ecological problems involved in livestock production

including fossil fuels consumption that is used in the transporting of

animal feed and also of the animal from feedlots to slaughterhouses

and to supermarkets; and

 

WHEREAS, the consumption of livestock utilizes vanishing water

supplies; depletes our precious topsoil; pollutes our water with waste

containing salmonella, e-coli, and antibiotic substances; pollutes our

air with ozone destroying methane; and causes destruction of Rain

Forests and wildlife habitat, and

 

WHEREAS, a plant-based vegan green diet promotes good health and

counteracts obesity, diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular diseases and

other degenerative diseases commonly reflected in this nation's

population; now

 

THERFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that I, Gavin Newsom, Mayor of the City and

County of San Francisco, do hereby proclaim October 4-5, 2008 as…

 

WORLD VEG FESTIVAL WEEKEND

IN SAN FRANCISCO!

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of

the City and County of San Francisco to be affixed.

 

Signed: Gavin Newsom

Mayor