Guest guest Posted November 1, 2001 Report Share Posted November 1, 2001 URGENT, WORLD FOOD SUMMIT STARTS AT NOV. 5, 2001 , ROME , ITALY. Dear Caring friend, The World Food Summit is scheduled to be held in Rome from November 5 to November 9, 2001 at the headquarters of the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. The aim of the Summit is to assess progress made since the last World Food Summit in 1996. In 1996, Summit participants agreed to the following goal: " to halve, by the year 2015...the proportion of people who suffer from hunger... " The FAO now admits that progress towards that goal has been insufficient and that changes must be made if the goal is to be met. At the 2001 Summit, high level delegates (including heads of state) from most of the nations of the world will come together to discuss the situation and to make agreements about what should be done. It is likely that global food policy for the next decade will be decided at the Summit. Please let's send this very urgent, important letter by EMAIL and FAX to ALL of the CONTACTS below. They all need to be educated. They must know the responses from the concerned world citizens now. Every Contact below is very important. All of the REFERENCES are very important to reach them. Importantly , we must always contact FAO often to let them know the newest important information on our health, environment and animals issues. The SAMPLE LETTER, CONTACT INFORMATION are provided below. You are welcome to write your own letter if you wish. Thanks so much for your urgent help for the plight of billions of animals worldwide as well as the environment and human health. (note: If you have any more questions on the Summit itself, you may contact : http://www.globalhunger.net/summit.html ) =================================================== SAMPLE LETTER : (you may write your own letter if you wish). Dear FAO, In light of the upcoming World Food Conference on Nov 5, 2001, We would like to urge you please greatly promote " PLANT FOODS " in all countries for the sake of the Human Health, the Environment, and the Animal Welfare. Please replace the meat with much healthier " SOY " . The global trend in meat consumption is rising rapidly as the third world country is catching up the western lifestyle and its eating habit as well as its associated most popular western deadly diseases, Heart diseases, Cancers, Diabetes, Strokes, Obesity. The United States is leading the world meat stampede. The U.S. government has been exerting great efforts to export the meat, dairy and poultry to numerous countries. (see Important Reference # 1 ) The meat, dairy and poultry industries have enormous power, money and lobby in the Untied States Congress, the U.S. Government, as well as some of the biggest health organizations, media etc. in U.S., despite more than one million of Americans each year died from the above popular chronic degenerative diseases due to high saturated fat and high cholesterol primarily from animals sources foods. (see Important References # 2 ) Economic colonialism imposed on developing countries by transnational meat conglomerates. Several US meat companies are growing into transnational conglomerates by acquiring domestic and foreign firms and by pushing policies and trade agreements that would vastly expand their production capacity and markets in developing countries. Most of this expansion would involve massive, cruel " factory farming " operations that would eventually breed, raise, and slaughter as many as 100 billion animals per year in the world. Such operations would also devastate the local food supplies, environmental resources, public health, and economic infrastructures. Livestock industry projects a 65% and 87% expansion in worldwide production and consumption of meat and milk by the year 2020, mostly in developing countries. We would like to briefly divide the enormous ill impacts from the meat, dairy and poultry industries into three aspects : A: The Human Health B: The Environment C: The Animal Cruelty A: THE HUMAN HEALTH : 1.29 million in 1999, or 54 %, of all U.S. deaths in 1999, were attributed to diseases for which consumption of animal products represents a substantial risk factor. (see Important Ref. # 3). The death rate from the heart diseases is the highest and nearly one million Americans died each year in the U.S from such disease. The principal risk factors for Heart diseases are high cholesterol levels. Saturated fats raise cholesterol levels. They are found predominately in animal products . According to " Cancer Prevention Coalition " , Nitrites are widely used as preservatives in meat products. Nitrites combine with amines naturally present in meat to form carcinogenic and is associated with cancer of the oral cavity, urinary bladder, esophagus, stomach and brain. The breast cancers are so rampant in the United States particularly. Injections of Bovine Growth Hormone(rBGH) causes cows to produce up to 20 percent more " milk " and a ten-fold increase in IGF-1 levels in cows receiving the hormone. IGF-1 maintains the malignancy of human breast cancer cells. (see Important References # 3 ). However, Fruits , Vegetable, Beans, and Grains protect human health against those deadly western popular diseases. There are numerous documents demonstrated that the Soy contains high protein and is more superior to the meat and dairy. Soy can replace the meat and dairy in terms of the nutritional value. Unlike the meat and dairy, soy does not contain the harmful, deadly cholesterol. (see Important References # 3 and # 4 ) B: The ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT : In U.S., " factory farms " generate more than 130 times the amount of waste that people do. Pollution from livestock farms seriously threatens humans, fish, and ecosystems. Animal waste contains disease-causing pathogens such as Salmonella, E. coli, Cryptosporidium, and fecal coliform, which can be ten to 100 times more concentrated than in human waste. Of all agricultural land in the U.S., 87 percent (87%) is used to raise animals for food. That is 45 percent of the total land mass in the U.S. More than 260 million acres of U.S. forest have been cleared to create cropland in order to produce human meat-centered diet. Half of all species on earth live in the tropical rain forests of Central and South America. These forests are being destroyed at the rate of 260 acres a day to produce grazing land for cattle whose flesh is exported to the United States for fast-food hamburgers. At this rate, all the rain forest in Central America will be gone in 40 years. The meat industry is directly responsible for 85 percent of all soil erosion in the U.S., because so much grain is needed to feed animals being raised for food. In the U.S., animals are fed more than 80 percent of the corn we grow and more than 95 percent of the oats. Raising animals for food is grossly inefficient, because you have to put 20 calories of food into an animal to get just one measly calorie back in the form of " flesh " . The world's cattle alone consume a quantity of food equal to the caloric needs of 8.7 billion people—more than the entire human population on Earth. According to environmental think-tank Worldwatch Institute, " [T]he easiest way to reduce grain consumption is to lower the intake of meat and milk, grain-intensive foods. Roughly 2 of every 5 tons of grain produced in the world are fed to livestock, poultry, or fish; decreasing consumption of these products, especially of beef, could free up massive quantities of grain and reduce pressure on land. " (see Important Reference # 5. ) C: ANIMAL CRUELTY in Factory Farms and Slaughterhouses : Nearly ten billion sentient farm animals are killed in the United States alone each year for " Food " . The vast majority are raised in intensive- confinement systems (factory farms), in which the greatest possible number of animals are raised in the smallest possible space and at the lowest possible cost to maximize productivity and profits. These animals are treated as mere commodities rather than social, intelligent creatures who are capable of great suffering and emotional stress. The Humane Slaughter Act (HSA) in the US, a law passed in 1958 to ensure that animals at federally inspected slaughterhouses are handled humanely, is Not being enforced by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA). Dave Carney, an USDA meat Inspector for nearly two decades in both red meat and poultry plants and was Chairman of the National Joint Council of Food Inspection Locals, signed Affidavits and stated in 1998 that : " There is problem with enforcing Humane Slaughter Act. That's because these large slaughtering operations are primarily concerned with productivity and Profits. They are not even killing animals. They are " disassembling " them. To keep production line moving fast, uncooperative animals are beaten, they have prods poked in their faces and up their rectums, they have bones broken and eyeballs poked out...... Some animals are simply beaten to death... Some even reach various stages of the slaughtering process alive. They have their hooves cut off, parts of their bung and their cavities opened .... The inspectors are required to enforce humane regulations on 'paper' only. The Inspectors I talk to are from all over the country, it is an everyday occurrence clear across the United States. It occurs in swine. It occurs in beef. It occurs in calves. Sheep. All species ! The Humane Slaughter Act is a regulation on paper only. It is not being enforced. " (see Important References # 7) According to the most recent reports , the killing rate for cattle has been pushed to 300 cattle per hour on the assembly killing line in the large slaughterhouses. The workers do not even have enough " time " to " kill " . Therefore, they have no choice but to " dismember " animals alive ! The US meat industry has been committing the most sadistic, unimaginable atrocities, horror and terror to billions of sentient animals in its daily operating activities. We do believe this is a common scene worldwide. In the year 2000, nearly 98 million hogs were slaughtered in the U.S., and the vast majority were raised in " hog FACTORIES " farms. At such facilities, breeding sows spend most of their lives in a " gestation crate " about two feet wide and similar to the size of the back seat of a compact car. She can NOT turn around. She is fed at one end of the crate, and her feces collects at the other. She often frantically and repeatedly biting the metal bars. Against all her natural instincts, she must give birth to piglets, nurse them, eat, sleep, defecate, drink, stand and lie in the same cramped space. The nursing period is cut drastically short by the premature separation of the piglets from their mother. The sow is immediately re-impregnated and then sent back to the " Gestation Crates " again ! This evil, vicious Cycle is repeated over and over again until the sow's " productivity " decreases, and the mother sow is promptly dragged to slaughter ! The pig factory farms workers torture and kill pigs is very common in the U.S. (see Important References # 6 ) In the modern dairy factory farms, cows have to be subjected to pregnancy every year so that milk, butter, cheese, ice cream may be produced. Cows' babies are dragged away within 24 hours of birth, so humans can drink cow's milk which intended for calves. Giving birth is a prolonged and painful business for the cow, however, cows are rewarded only by separation from her babies. Cows often cry out and search for their babies for days. Then the male calves are sold to feed lots and put into tiny veal crates, fatten and chained to endure 16 weeks of hell in the dark, confined to stalls so small they can not even turn around, then slaughtered and sold as Veal, Hamburger or Pet foods. Female calves follow in their mother's hoofprints, slaughtered when their milk production decreased, usually before their 4th birthday to become hamburger or pet food. (note: A healthy cow can usually live up to 26 years old. ). The dairy industry is inseparable from the cruel exploitation and degradation of helpless, highly intelligent animals. (see Important References # 8 ) Based on the above enormous documents and ill impacts on the Human health, the Environment, and the Animal Cruelty from those animal industries, We are urging you please do all you can to promote " PLANT " foods worldwide. Please educate the world the benefits and importance of the Fruits, Vegetables, Beans and Grains. Please phase out the meat eating habit in the world. Thanks so much for your kindness, compassion, and urgent help. Sincerely yours, Your Name(s), Your Address, City, State, Zip COUNTRY . P.S.: IMPORTANT REFERENCES : # 1: http://www.worldwatch.org/alerts/pr980704.html # 2 " The Politics of Meat and Dairy. " : http://www.earthsave.org/news/polsmd.htm # 3: Some important references on human health : http://www.vegsource.com/articles/meat_deaths99.htm http://www.vegsource.com/articles/calcium_prostate_cancer_study.htm http://www.howtopreventcancer.com/cpc/petitions/april25,95.htm http://www.howtopreventcancer.com/cpc/alerts/igf.htm http://www.pcrm.org/health/Cancer_Project/food_choices.html http://www.llu.edu/llu/vegetarian/redmeat.htm http://www.factoryfarm.org/humanhealth-antibiotics.html. http://www.pcrm.org http://milksucks.com/osteo.html http://www.globalhunger.net/ http://www.vegsource.com/ , Please click on the right side of the screen under " VegSource Sites " .then click on any Doctor. http://www.enn.com/ , enter the word: diet ,on upper left corner Search http://www.pcrm.org/health/index.html http://more.abcnews.go.com/sections/community/2020/chat_breastcancer01011 8.html ----------- # 4: Some important references on Soy : http://www.msnbc.com/news/621470.asp http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_1257000/1257583.stm http://enn.com/news/enn-stories/2001/06/06072001/soycancer_43901.asp http://www.psa-rising.com/medicalpike/nutri/soy-june01.shtml http://unisci.com/stories/20002/0406004.htm --------------- # 5: some important references on Environment : http://www.meatstinks.com/earth.html http://www.goveg.com/eday/index.html , please click left side topics. http://www.sierraclub.org/factoryfarms/factsheets/health.asp http://www.nrdc.org/water/pollution/ffarms.asp http://www.nrdc.org/water/pollution/nspills.asp http://www.nrdc.org/water/pollution/cesspools/cessinx.asp http://www.sierraclub.org/factoryfarms/factsheets/ http://www.farmweb.org/c/20010223_dumping_aerials.htm http://www.gracepublicfund.org/ffact.html http://www.madcowboy.com/ http://www.earthsave.org/ http://www.earthsave.org/news/factfarm.htm http://www.vegsource.com/articles/pimentel_resources.htm http://www.vegsource.com/articles/pimentel_water.htm http://www.enn.com/news/wire-stories/2001/03/03012001/krt_pork_42298.asp --------------------- # 6 : some important references on pig factory farms : http://www.hfa.org/pigs-2.html , click every topic on the top. http://www.meatstinks.com/pigcasei.html http://www.peta.org/feat/invest/indexold.html --------------------- # 7: some important references on Animal cruelty : http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60798-2001Apr9.html http://www.hfa.org/video.html http://www.hfa.org/slaughterhouse.html , " Slaughterhouse " by Gail Eisnitz. http://www.meatstinks.com/VegKit/meetmeat.html http://www.cok-online.org/abol/9/exhibit/ http://www.bancruelfarms.org/ http://www.factoryfarming.com/gallery/turkey1.htm (Please click each photo to get clear and larger photo view. ) http://www.hfa.org/campaign.html http://www.hsus.org/programs/government/byrd.html http://www.hfa.org/usda_petition1.html thru http://www.hfa.org/usda_petition9.html http://www.meat.org/holocaust.htm http://www.peta-online.org/image/veg/f8.jpg http://www.factoryfarming.com http://www.hfa.org/pigs-2.html http://www.bancruelfarms.org/ http://www.bancruelfarms.org/evidence.htm http://www.hsus.org/programs/farm/halthogfactories/ http://www.hfa.org/veal.html ------------------------ # 8 : some important references on dairy factory farms : http://www.hsus.org/programs/farm/library/mcarthur/mcarthur101299.html http://www.factoryfarming.com/gallery/photos_dairy.htm http://www.milksucks.com/downbig.jpg http://www.milksucks.com/index2.html http://www.factoryfarming.com/dairy.htm http://www.hfa.org/veal.html http://www.meatstinks.com/rfact8.html http://www.hsus.org/programs/farm/library/mcarthur/mcarthur_dairy101299_a ..html (***** Letter Ends here ******) ============================================= CONTACT INFORMATION : every contact is very important: 1: General Comments for World Food Summit : FAX : 011-39-06-570-55249 (011 is the international code if you dial from USA. 39 is the country code for Italy. 06 is the area code for Rome. ) EMAIL: food-summit (@fao.org ) ------------- 2: Please EMAIL and FAX to : FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf Jacques Diouf FAO Director-General Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, 00100 Rome, Italy Telephone: 011-39-0657051 (if you dial from USA ). Fax: 011-39-06-57053152 Telegrams: FOODAGRI ROME Email: FAO-HQ (@fao.org ) Please address to : Dear Director-General, -------- 3: Please also EMAIL to : Committee on World Food Security : Barbara.Huddleston (@fao.org ) Please address to: Dear Committee on World Food Security, -------------------- 4: Please also Email to : Mr. David Harcharik, FAO Deputy Director-General Email: david.harcharik (@fao.org ) Please address to: Dear Deputy Director-General, ----------------- 5: Other important Contacts in FAO : Please Copy the following short list of addresses and then Paste into your BCC field in your new email. Then put your other email address in the " TO " field. It needs to have a comma between two addresses. Type the letter, check everything carefully and then hit SEND. Please simply address to : Dear FAO, (note: All of the following addresses have @fao.org at the end.) Land-and-Water , Tony.Putter , Samuel.Jutzi , rlc-webmaster , FAO-RAP , nutrition , esc-registry , SD-Dimensions , policy-training , FAO-RAF , FAO-REUR , FAO-SEUR , Again, also send email to following list of addresses. All of the following addresses has @field.fao.org at the end : Please simply address to : Dear FAO, FAO-SLAC , FAO-SAPA , FAO-SAFR-Registry , FAO-RNE , FAO-SNEA , ============================================ 6: You may also send the similar letter to the Media people in your country(national and local media ) to educate them. The media contacts in the US by clicking following : Please simply address to : Dear Editor, Please click : http://capwiz.com/vision/dbq/media/ Then enter your local Zip Code , then click right side " Go " , then click on each Media Name itself, it will show all of the important Editor's names and then click on each name, you will find their corresponding email address and contact info. Or send your Letter to Editor by clicking : http://www.opedletters.com/html/ Then click your State. @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Important Additional note for your own references : All of the FAO Contact information can be obtained from : http://www.fao.org/info/default.asp then click on " General Information on FAO " . " World Food Summit " Contact information : http://www.fao.org/worldfoodsummit/contactus.htm @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Thanks so much for your kindness, compassion and urgent help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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