Vegans for World Peace

Our food system is inefficient, cruel and we are wasting our resources. We will run out of clean water, deplete the soil of nutrients and collapse the ecosystem. We are destroying the tropical rainforest, the lungs of the planet, and home to millions (if not trillions) of species of life forms that took millions of years of evolution to create. We are growing food on this land to feed the animals we eat (for the most part.) We are creating mass extinction and we are not immune to extinction ourselves as we are dealing in a land of finite resources. Humans are starving right now because we choose to feed their food to the animals we eat. Approx. 50,000 litres of drinking water goes into producing 1 kilo of beef or a gallon of milk. It takes approximately 10 times more grain to feed a "food" animal to eat it than it does to just feed the grain directly to the human being. We can feed 7 billion humans much more efficiently than 100 billion or more land animals. And we are ignoring our moral obligation to protect innocent animals and people who cannot protect themselves. Yes animals in the wild eat flesh but they do not breed in captivity and confine their prey to spaces indoors without space enough to turn around or be comfortable at all during the entire life. These animals are living a life of torture. No wild animal is so cruel to abuse, torture, confine, neglect, overcrowd, beat, cram in cages so small they never move, allow them no exercise, no sunshine, EVER, no movement even! Cut up into pieces while conscious, skin them alive, boil alive, etc etc etc This is common the world over. 100 billion a year we slaughter!!!!! and we kill another 1-3 trillion in the oceans. Non human animals are not capable of cultivating plant crops, however we are. We do not need animal products to survive. Some animals do need other animals to survive we are not one of them - many have proven this. Our intestines are long like herbivores and we have a back up emergency system we are abusing. Animal protein and fat creates disease in our body where plant food does not. We can derive all we need from plants and bacteria, rather than have the animals process this for us. If we focus on feeding the people directly we stop the torture and slaughter. If you eat meat dairy or eggs and you watch how the pigs, cows, chickens, farmed fish etc live you, will see they suffer immensely. When we take from the oceans we risk the lives of the sharks and whales who are essential to the ocean ecosystem. We need to keep it in balance. And the taste for flesh is not worth mass suffering beyond comprehension. We can learn to eat the plants. If you don't have the stomach to watch these videos on how the "food" animals live - it is because you already know it is creating suffering for them. Please stop supporting animal cruelty immediately! We can eat if we grow food for us rather than the animals we breed into existence to consume. We threaten the wildlife when we farm the land to grow the animal food. There is enough food for everyone but not enough to feed and care properly for so many animals! Every social issue is solved by going to a plant based diet and provides a tangible way of knowing who is cruel and who believes all life is sacred. The torture can stop but it takes each and every one of us to make it happen. Violence is a choice. Please stop contributing to lifetimes of starvation, torture, confinement, abuse, and slaughter. Please stop! Let us instead worship all life, not just our own. Let's love and worship instead of destroy, torture, and exploit ok?! Please! We can do this! And we will be better for it!

Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Global Warming and Farming

Global warming deniers are the new Holocaust deniers. In the past 50 years we have wreaked havoc on our planet all in the name of agricultural, technology and industrial revolutions. The growth of transportation, the world's enormous appetite for the Western diet and the increase 1000 fold for consumer goods has pushed our natural resources output right off the cliff. 

Call it what you want; modernization, corporate achievements, advancements in farming, world growth.....The bottom line is "devastation" of our land, water and the air we breath. 1000's of animal and plant species that has managed to survive millions of years earth is in jeopardy of extinction or has already been wiped out by man's greedy domination and careless denial that you cannot take from our planet without giving back.

We have been warned by the science community of the twenty-first century and some of our greatest environmentalist like Robert Redford, Al Gore, David Rockefeller, and Brad Sewell have all been villainized by the right wing conservative movement as quacks, opportunist and conspirators.

The environmentalism movement has been taken over by politics and the media. Science still plays a substantial role, but policies are often based upon popular opinion rather than the reasoned weighing of various scientific factors. Despite the honest commitment that modern-day environmentalists have to making the world a better place, implementing their ideas without first engaging in robust scientific discussions has had disastrous results.

At the moment around 252 million people are affected by "natural disasters" - not including earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and other emergencies unrelated to the weather. However this number is set to increase by 54 per cent to 375 million every year by 2015 as the number of people living in vulnerable areas like Bangladesh increases and levels of poverty mean more die. Densely populated slums in coastal cities like Mumbai, mean millions more people are living in flimsy shacks and are at risk of water-born disease caused by rising temperatures.

Scientists outline dramatic evidence that global warming threatens the planet in a new and unexpected way – by triggering earthquakes, tsunamis, avalanches and volcanic eruptions. It is profoundly alarming that a Presidential candidate in the United States of America and all his Republican Conservative supporters define Global Warming as a "Liberal conspiracy." What do you expect from people that call evolution a fallacy and anti-religion......It is unfathomable that grown men in 2012 actually subscribe to these insane theories. What is even more dangerous is that they are within a heartbeat of being President of the United States. These same Republicans advocate wars, elitist superiority and class domination of the poor and middle class.....

Reports by international groups of researchers that were presented at a London conference last year will show that climate change, caused by rising outputs of carbon dioxide from vehicles, factories and power stations, will not only affect the atmosphere and the sea but will alter the geology of the Earth.

Melting glaciers will set off avalanches, floods and mud flows in the Alps and other mountain ranges; torrential rainfall around the world is likely to cause widespread erosion; while disappearing Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets threaten to let loose underwater landslides, triggering tsunamis world wide. At the same time the disappearance of ice caps will change the pressures acting on the Earth's crust and set off volcanic eruptions across the globe. Life on Earth faces a warm future – and a fiery one.

Not only are the oceans and atmosphere conspiring against us bringing baking temperatures and more powerful storms and floods, but the crust beneath our feet seems likely to join in too. Maybe the Earth is trying to tell us something. Global warming is not just a matter of warmer weather, more floods and stronger hurricanes. It is a wake-up call as global warming affects every aspect of our lives, especially our economy, job market, our food resources, water, the air we breathe and the general psychological tone in our community.

Scientists have found the first unequivocal link between man-made greenhouse gases and a dramatic heating of the Earth's oceans. The researchers - many funded by the US government - have seen what they describe as a "stunning" correlation between a rise in ocean temperature over the past 40 years and pollution of the atmosphere. The study destroys a central argument of global warming skeptics within the Republican party.


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