Veggie Pride Parade / Environmentalists and Meat

sandylee · 2008-03-29 16:30:11

As a long-time Sierra Club member, I remember trying to get the local chapter to serve vegetarian food at Sierra Club events, because whether they want to believe it or not, eating meat products puts a strain on the environment. We were successful in getting the local SC chapter to serve only veggie food and also to take on some local animal related issues, but since moving to Las Vegas, I found the group to be less amenable to the environment/meat production connection. This is a huge issue that needs to be addressed. There are alot of environmental groups out there that need to be educated and hopefully will promote plant based eating. Most just want to make sure the resources aren't impacted with factory farming with CAFO promotion (confined animal feeding operations), but don't advocate the elimination of eating meat. With enviro groups on board with the no-meat eating issue, we'd have more than double our constituants!!

Talk to your local enviro group and see what they think about the meat-enviro connection, and what they plan to do about it!

Sandy:)

VeganVoice · 2008-04-14 11:44:05

Hey Sandy--for sure. What is the connection now-a-days--? Like one 10 people can be fed for the grain raised for one cow--here are some links I found--I'm sure there are even better ones out there--please share.

http://www.earthsave.org/environment/foodchoices.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmen … etarianism

https://www.worldwatch.org/node/1626

The last article is great and relates to the current UN position that biofuel production is a crime to take land to produce fuel instead of food. My assertion is that there *is* land to produce food for the hungry--it's just being taken up by grain-for-meat production and the crime is there.

sandylee · 2008-04-22 20:26:36

Great articles! I'm sure the meat consumption has gone up dramatically since the 1998 numbers given in the last article.

I know that Pam Rice (who created and is organizing the Veggie Pride Parade), gave in her book "101 Reasons Why I am a Vegetarian," many, many examples of how eating meat impacts the environment. Below is a link I found to a very long (390 page) report written in 2006 entitled: "Livestock's Long Shadow--Environmental Issues and Options." It covers every topic imaginable on meat eating and it's impacts to everything! You can click on each chapter's topic to read, so you're not overwhelmed with a large publication.

Let me know what you think of it.

http://www.virtualcentre.org/en/library … 701E00.htm

Sandy smile

devidhussy · 2010-04-22 16:29:50

Very easily. Unless everybody in the world stops eating meat, or meat is banned, it is not going to change. Its a question of economics.
As demand drops, prices drop first, not supply. It will take a large number of people in a given area to stop eating meat to have any effect on the supply. And the first casualties will be the more expensive natural or free range type ranches.
The same argument can be said for use of electricity. Most people are not going to give up the conveniences they have now to slow down something that may happen in 100 years.

Rebbeca · 2010-05-26 07:33:58

Environment and ritually acceptable meat is interdependent each other. Fluctuation in environment can enforce the ecosystem be hampered anyway. So the problem can be seen even in meat of such animals. Cows are seen in road of Nepal, because of lack of green grass it begin to eat plastic and rubbish instead. Inevitably meat of such animals will be unhealthy to consume. On the other hand water contamination is also increasing day by day so the fish of such water is influenced apparently consequently meat of such fish is not considered healthy.

johansmith · 2010-06-28 04:27:22

I see this as a negative campaign. We have enough difficulty convincing Midwesterns that global warming and climate change exist. Which means we can hardly get them to change a light bulb let alone forgo a T-bone. No the masses will see this as,"see ma, I tol ya them crazie t-huggers done lost der mind. Now they say Besty is causing the storms. Deh add going join up with the PETA people too, hurry up ma. Fix me a steak, I's going hunten and kill me something." Yee-Haw, I's going to hab my works cut out for me know here.

I have nothing agaisnt Vegans, personally I have reduced my meat intake, and have a lot of neat recipes for vegatable dishes. Although, and I consider myself an environmentalist, firt rate, I will never quit eating meat.

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