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Published - Monday, May 12, 2008

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LETTER: Meat is the biggest global threat there is

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Al Gore mystifies me. He works tirelessly to raise environmental awareness, yet he continues to ignore evidence that eating meat is the No. 1 cause of global warming.

Making “carbon offsets” can’t counteract the damage done by the meat industry. That’s like smoking three packs a day and then making a nominal contribution to a lung-cancer charity. If we’re serious about saving the planet, it’s time to go vegan.

A University of Chicago study showed that switching to a vegan diet is about 50 percent more effective in countering global warming than switching from a standard car to a Prius.

The Live Earth Global Warming Survival Handbook — the companion volume to the Live Earth concerts inspired by Gore — states that “refusing meat” is “the single most effective thing you can do to reduce your carbon footprint.”

Going vegan will also “offset” pollution, deforestation and other problems — not to mention help billions of animals. With all due respect to Mr. Gore, it’s time to face the “inconvenient” truth and go vegan.

Please do your part: Visit www.OffsetAlGore.com for a free vegetarian starter kit.
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Stupdity rules wrote on May 12, 2008 10:31 AM:

" Ok, make eating meat a criminal offense and jail us all.

And what happens to the animals? Since PETA won't allow killing them, what do we do with all the animals currently on farms? Do we really want to create a feral cow, feral chicken, and feral turkey issue that wackos make into yet another agenda to demand tax dollars to "fix"?

And what about our crop land that is increasingly being used for corn to fuel the irrational ethanol craze instead of growing FOOD for 300 million Americans being forced by a authoritarian/totalitarian state into vegetarianism?

Al Gore is pushing for nothing more than a politically-induced panic, neither proven or real.

Get real with your view of reality and quit wasting our time with left-wing wacho ideas!
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Our Biggest Global threat... wrote on May 12, 2008 12:37 AM:

" is stupidity! "

I love animals wrote on May 11, 2008 12:13 PM:

" too. I think they are usually best grilled. "

Laura Aaron wrote on May 10, 2008 6:13 AM:

" In the book, The World Peace Diet,by Will Tuttle, the chapter on Sowing and Reaping, draws stark parallels between what we do to animals and what happens in the human social order(if you call what is happening out there, order). We have inherited the cruelest, most desensitizing diet, that not only kills 60 billion so called farmed animals globally, annually, but puts humans in hospitals for organ failure and all the preventable degenerative diseases(NOT GENETIC)humans have eaten themselves to.
Upton Sinclair wrote long ago(author of The Jungle)"If they,(the commerical broadcasters)are allowed to continue, we will have the most debased society in the world." Discerning ears and eyes can see that the media, radio and tv, are used explicitly to sell meat, dairy, processed foods, and pharmaceuticals. Even in "programs" and kids shows, burgers, dogs, ice cream, milk, meat, constantly being shown, eaten, and shows usually include scenes at dining room tables where milk and meat are being consumed. We've been HAD. We have been marketed, literally, to death. The same death that occurs from eating dead food, is happening to our earth. Bees, bats, amphibians....all perishing because of human behaviors.
It's shocking to hear claims that this nation protects children, or desires to be "pro-life," while it systemtically, because of animal agribusiness chemicals, fossil fuels, GM crops, is poisoning the unborn, and the earth for future generations.
The issue of diet is woven into every fabric of society. Our "culinary art," has become a thing of disgrace and ugliness, and our "comfort food," is most hideous to the animals enduring torture every day.
For the so called "intelligent" species, humans are proving that the animals are our teachers, NOT products or commodities. They are as close to Divine as possible. It is we, humans, who are living unnaturally and out of place because of what we do to animals.
Vegan, in my view, is the essence of every religious aspiration.
A "food crisis," while we feed and fatten 60 BILLION farmed animals? FARCE. "


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