Obama Urged to Revive National Meatless Program

Environmental and accessible bloom experts alarm for Americans to go "Meatless" on Mondays With the President's notable embrace of advantageous aliment and able abutment for environmentally complete policies, reintroducing 'Meatless Mondays' at the White House will authenticate a abundant way for Americans to advance their health, while abating our nation's carbon foot-print. one of the a lot of important claimed choices we can accomplish to abode altitude change. When we anticipate about the altitude crisis, we tend to anticipate about Big Oil or bedraggled coal-fired ability plants Meanwhile, the all-around aliment arrangement is amenable for as abundant as one-third of our absolute greenhouse gas emissions. Livestock abandoned contributes added to the all-around abating aftereffect than emissions from the world's transportation. Asking Americans to abandon meat just one day a anniversary will allure able abutment from pediatricians and parents, economists and environmentalists, farmers and foodies alike. This is a abundant befalling to aggrandize our vegetable repertoire and do acceptable things for bloom and for the planet. Looking aback to a aeon if millions of Americans fabricated simple sacrifices for the greater good, President Obama can appetite Americans to cut out meat, just one day a week. It's simple to do and can accept huge allowances for our bloom and the bloom of our planet. A Prospective Study of Red and Processed Meat Intake in Relation to Cancer Risk. Meat burning and accident of colorectal cancer: A meta-analysis of -to-be studies.

(Vocus/PRWEB ) April 15, 2009 -- With World Health Day and Earth Day both in April, bloom and ecology advocates are calling on President Obama to crop a page from history and affirm civic "meatless" days, as three of his predecessors in appointment accept done. Watch the Meatless Monday video here.

Presidents Wilson, Truman and Roosevelt all instituted civic meatless canicule in adjustment to alter aliment to troops across and allay common aliment shortages. Today, a growing anatomy of experts say that abstinent reductions in meat burning will abate altitude change, abate deposit ammunition dependence, conserve beginning baptize and advice abate the abiding preventable altitude that today annihilate 70 percent of all Americans -- cancer, obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

Dr. Robert Lawrence, administrator of the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future at the Bloomberg School of Public Health says, "With the President's notable embrace of advantageous aliment and able abutment for environmentally complete policies, reintroducing 'Meatless Mondays' at the White House will authenticate a abundant way for Americans to advance their health, while abating our nation's carbon foot-print."

Meatless Monday envisions meatless airheaded and recipes arising from the White House every Monday, alarming Americans to baker convalescent meals, and the administering accouterment all-embracing administration by administering the White House Chef to plan and adapt meat-free banquets and accompaniment dinners.

At December's all-embracing acme on all-around abating in Poznan, Poland, United Nations emissaries cited meat assembly as a primary antecedent of greenhouse gas. Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, armchair of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has alleged bistro beneath meat "one of the a lot of important claimed choices we can accomplish to abode altitude change."

"When we anticipate about the altitude crisis, we tend to anticipate about Big Oil or bedraggled coal-fired ability plants," says Anna Lappé, columnist of Taking a Bite out of Climate Change. "Meanwhile, the all-around aliment arrangement is amenable for as abundant as one-third of our absolute greenhouse gas emissions. Livestock abandoned contributes added to the all-around abating aftereffect than emissions from the world's transportation."

Eating beneath meat aswell makes bread-and-butter sense. More and added humans are award that abnegating meat for just a few commons anniversary anniversary can crop cogent savings.

Sustainable Table's Regina Weiss says, "Asking Americans to abandon meat just one day a anniversary will allure able abutment from pediatricians and parents, economists and environmentalists, farmers and foodies alike."

Marion Nestle, nutritionist, advocate and columnist of the arrive Food Politics and What to Eat, says, "This is a abundant befalling to aggrandize our vegetable repertoire and do acceptable things for bloom and for the planet."

Peggy Neu, President of Meatless Monday, says, "Looking aback to a aeon if millions of Americans fabricated simple sacrifices for the greater good, President Obama can appetite Americans to cut out meat, just one day a week. It's simple to do and can accept huge allowances for our bloom and the bloom of our planet."

To get the facts on meat, apprehend below.

Contact: Regina Weiss/212-991-1069

Meat: The Consequences
 

The meat industry generates about 1/5 of the counterfeit greenhouse gases that are accelerating altitude change worldwide, far added than transportation.(1)
 
About 40 calories of deposit ammunition activity go into every calorie of augment lot beef in the U.S.(2) Compare this to the 2.2 calories of deposit ammunition activity bare to aftermath one calorie of plant-based protein.(3)
 
The estimated 634 gallons of beginning baptize appropriate to aftermath one 5.2 ounce hamburger would be abundant for a four-hour shower.(4) Compare this to the 143 gallons of baptize appropriate to aftermath the aforementioned abundance of tofu.(5)
 
2/3 of Americans are ample or ache from obesity. 6 Studies appearance that individuals on vegetarian or low-meat diets accept decidedly lower anatomy weights and anatomy accumulation indices.(7)
 
Chronic preventable altitude like affection disease, stroke, diabetes and blight annihilate 1.7 actor Americans anniversary year, 70% of all deaths in the U.S.(8) Diets abounding in red and candy meats accept been affiliated to added blight risk, abnormally of the digestive tract;(9) while diets top in fruits, vegetables and accomplished grains may abate the accident of cardiovascular ache and diabetes.(10)
Endnotes
(1) Steinfeld, H., et al., Livestock's continued shadow: Environmental issues and options. 2006, Food and
Agriculture Organization of the United Nations: Rome, Italy

(2) Pimentel, D. and M. Pimentel, Sustainability of meat-based and plant-based diets and the environment. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2003. 78: p. 66S-3S.

(3) Pimentel, D. and M. Pimentel, Sustainability of meat-based and plant-based diets and the environment. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2003. 78: p. 1.

(4) Hoekstra, A.Y. and A.K. Chapagain, Water aisle of nations: Water use by humans as a action of their burning pattern. Water Resource Management, 2007. 21(1): p. 35-48.

(5) Kreith, M., Water Inputs in California Food Production. 1991, Water Education Foundation: Sacramento, CA.

(6) National Center for Health Statistics, Health, United States, 2008, With Special Feature on the Health of Young Adults. 2008, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Hyattsville, MD. p. pp. 50, 327, 336.

(7) Berkow, S.E. and N. Barnard, Vegetarian Diets and Weight Status. Nutrition Reviews, 2006. 64(4): p. 175-188.

(8) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "Chronic Disease Overview," Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, March 20, 2008, Accessed February 5, 2009.

(9) Cross, A.J., et al. "A Prospective Study of Red and Processed Meat Intake in Relation to Cancer Risk." PLoS Medicine, 2007. 4(12): p. e325.

(10) Susanna C. Larsson, A.W. "Meat burning and accident of colorectal cancer: A meta-analysis of -to-be studies." International Journal of Cancer, 2006. 119(11): p. 2657-2664.