UN: Vegetarianism protects People, Environment, Animals and the Planet.

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UNITED NATIONS AND FAO REPORTS SAYS:

 

VEGETARIANISM PROTECTS

PEOPLE, THE ENVIRONMENT, ANIMALS AND THE PLANET

 

 

 

 

FOR MORE INFORMATIONS:

Meet your Meat - http://www.meetyourmeat.com

GoVeg.com - http://www.goveg.com

The Vegan Society - http://www.vegansociety.com

Vegan Outreach - http://www.veganoutreach.com

Vegan Peace - www.veganpeace.com

 

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Henning Steinfeld, Chief of FAO's Livestock Information and Policy Branch:

" Livestock are one of the most significant contributors to today's most serious

environmental problems. Urgent action is required to remedy the situation. "

 

Dean Ornish M.D., head of the Preventive Medicine Research Institute in

Sausalito, Calif.who has successfully used a vegetarian diet to reverse heart

disease:

" I don't understand why asking people to eat a well-balanced vegetarian diet is

considered drastic, while it is medically conservative to cut people open or put

them on powerful cholesterol-lowering drugs for the rest of their lives. "

 

 

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1. During the last months of 2006, the vegetarian way of life found a lot of

appreciation in the international press and even by FAO. Some years ago there

had been FAO talk of exporting the 'blessings' of technical ingenuity in

agriculture also to developing countries (factory farming?) but now they finally

admit a fact they never wanted to acknowledge before: 'LIVESTOCK IS A MAJOR

THREAT TO ENVIRONMENT'. We can but hope that this late awakening of the UN

agency will lead to a long overdue serious and objective research of the

benefits of vegetarianism.

 

- FAO: Livestock a major threat to environment:

http://www.evana.org/index.php?id=17389 & lang=en

- FAO Report Creates a Stink Over Farm Animals:

http://www.evana.org/index.php?id=17373 & lang=en

- Cows, pigs and sheep: Environment's greatest threats?

http://www.evana.org/index.php?id=17880 & lang=en

- Cow 'emissions' more damaging to planet than CO2 from cars:

http://www.evana.org/index.php?id=17801 & lang=en

 

 

 

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2. To make matters worse, the FAO and national agencies are also informing about

poor harvests, a huge percentage of which is fed to animals (example: up to 95

percent of soy is used as fodder). Will the dangerous combination of ecological

damage through animal husbandry and failing harvests now finally (better late

then never!) get official attention and, hopefully, stop the present

meat-pushing policies?

 

- FAO: Cereal prices surge to highest levels in decade:

http://www.evana.org/index.php?id=17606 & lang=en

- Native Vegetables Could Help Solve Africa's Food Crisis And Boost Weak Rural

Economies: http://www.evana.org/index.php?id=16840 & lang=en

- FAO: Climate change will affect future food availability:

http://www.evana.org/index.php?id=16821 & lang=en

- FAO: 40 countries face food shortages worldwide:

http://www.evana.org/index.php?id=15894 & lang=en

 

 

 

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3. The European Vegetarian Union wants to discuss the topic 'The veggie answer

to world hunger'. Why not send us your comments and ideas about the subject? Of

course, messages of support for our project are also very welcome!

http://www.evana.org/index.php?id=18175 & lang=en

 

- EVU Talks 2007 - 'The vegetarian answer to world hunger':

http://www.european-vegetarian.org/lang/en/events/evutalks/2007.php

 

 

 

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4. More and more politicians, scientists and spiritual leaders speak up for

animals.

 

- Dutch Animal Rights Party Says no Fad:

http://www.evana.org/index.php?id=17780 & lang=en

- Party for the Animals gains 2 parliamentary seats in the Netherlands:

http://www.evana.org/index.php?id=17430 & lang=en

- UK: Animals Party at Parliament:

http://www.evana.org/index.php?id=17508 & lang=en

- Israel: Establishment of Knesset Lobby for Animal Welfare:

http://www.evana.org/index.php?id=18041 & lang=en

- USA: Dennis Kucinich joins 2008 presidential race 'Kucinich's personal ethics

begin on his plate'. He is a vegan:

http://www.evana.org/index.php?id=17779 & lang=en

- UK/Oxford: Thinktank launched to debate animal ethics:

http://www.evana.org/index.php?id=17417 & lang=en

- Why is it that many Jewish religious leaders advocate vegetarianism:

http://www.evana.org/index.php?id=16039 & lang=en

 

 

 

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5. The Vegetarian Wave is getting stronger.

 

- Today: Germany: On 16 November 2006, the Vegetarier Bund Deutschlands e.V.

distributed a press release stating that 10% of Germans are already vegetarian

- VEBU: -Jede/r zehnte Deutsche schlemmt mittlerweile fleischlos:

http://www.evana.org/index.php?id=17150 & lang=de

- Indonesia: Compassion, health driving more people to meatless diet:

http://www.evana.org/index.php?id=17582 & lang=en

- Tomorrow: 'Most people on earth these days are vegetarians - if not by choice,

by necessity' / A chapter from the book 'UTOPIA TODAY - REALITY TOMORROW - A

vegetarian world': http://www.evana.org/index.php?id=17498 & lang=en

 

 

 

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6. Bad news is showering down on us all the time but here is some uplifting

information for a change.

 

- More intelligent kids are more likely to turn vegetarian when they become

adults / A predominantly vegetarian diet is healthy for the body and the brain:

http://www.evana.org/index.php?id=18262 & lang=en

- Some Really Good News from Japan:

http://www.evana.org/index.php?id=18241 & lang=en

- Australia joins new push to save whales:

http://www.evana.org/index.php?id=18081 & lang=en

- Animal_net: Christmas Quiz, 2006:

http://www.evana.org/index.php?id=18275 & lang=en

- Wilderness animal welfare activist and author Chris Mercer has won an

international award in recognition of his work in fighting canned hunting in

South Africa: http://www.evana.org/index.php?id=18257 & lang=en

- That's Life: Music to the ears -- Indian charmers play on without snakes:

http://www.evana.org/index.php?id=18243 & lang=en

- USA: Endangered ocelots get help in S.Texas:

http://www.evana.org/index.php?id=18182 & lang=en

 

 

 

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( Text by Evana - www.evana.org )

 

 

 

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