Veg Climate Alliance urges Copenhagen assembly to acclaim accouterment to plant-based diets as capital to abstain an aberrant all-around altitude catastrophe. The accumulation cites contempo UN and added letters and statements by arch altitude experts and discusses added allowances of such diets. Vegetarianism: Essential to Save the Planet? We feel that the fate of altruism and all of Creation is at stake and it is capital that the coercion of comestible changes to abstain a altitude adversity be allotment of the bulletin consistent from the Copenhagen altitude conference. The account is absolutely austere - if the animal chase does not do anything, altitude change will accept austere impacts (...) Please eat beneath meat - meat is a actual carbon accelerated commodity. (...) I anticipate acid aback and substituting added bake-apple and vegetables is a amenable alternative. (...) in agreement of alone action alteration your diet is the best affair you can do. Meat is a careless use of baptize and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts astronomic burden on the world's resources. A vegetarian diet is better.
Staten Island, NY -- A above civic about-face to plant-based diets is capital to abstain an aberrant all-around altitude catastrophe! This is the bulletin that Veg Climate Alliance, a ample affiliation of environmental, vegetarian, abominable rights, bloom and added groups, is affirmation in affiliation with the above all-around altitude change appointment in Copenhagen from December 7 -18.
In an attack to "turn Copenhagen into CopenVegan," the accord is acclimation a appointment on "Vegetarianism: Essential to Save the Planet?" on Sunday, December 13, 2009. The event, to be captivated at Mogens Dahl Koncertsal, Snorresgade 22, DK 2300 København S, will accept talks, videos, console discussions, questions and answers and a sampling of vegan foods. In accession to the forum, the accumulation has placed an ad in the December 8 affair of the Copenhagen Post, a advertisement that will be broadly broadcast to humans in Copenhagen for the conference, will crop allotment in demonstrations and will use flyers, posters, banners and stickers to get their capital bulletin out. The accumulation is aswell sending belletrist to appointment assembly and to key authoritative admiral affirmation the coercion of comestible changes. A hotlink to the letter and the acknowledging groups and a hotlink to a flyer that the accumulation is distributing in Copenhagen are at the end of this release.
"We feel that the fate of altruism and all of Creation is at stake," declared Richard H. Schwartz, VCA director, "and it is capital that the coercion of comestible changes to abstain a altitude adversity be allotment of the bulletin consistent from the Copenhagen altitude conference."
Veg Climate Alliance is advancement application of contempo letters that appearance the cogent role that animal-based agronomics plays in causing all-around warming:
· Livestock assembly is amenable for added GHGs than all the world's carriage combined. (18 percent vs. 13.5 percent, in CO2 equivalents) (Livestock's Long
Shadow, United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization)
· According to the Worldwatch Institute the livestock area contributes at atomic 51 percent of all-around human-caused greenhouse gas emissions.
(Former World Bank Environmental Advisor Robert Goodland and World Bank Environmental Specialist Jeff Anhang, "Livestock and Climate Change", World Watch magazine, Nov/Dec 2009)
· The world's citizenry of farmed animals will bifold in 50 years if accepted trends continue. (Livestock's Long Shadow) The consistent access in GHGs would abundantly abate discharge reductions from all added sectors.
Veg Climate Alliance is aswell pointing out that altitude change is occurring faster than even in worst-case projections, and they are commendation arch altitude scientists and economists calling for a abridgement in meat consumption:
"The account is absolutely austere - if the animal chase does not do anything, altitude change will accept austere impacts (...) Please eat beneath meat - meat is a actual carbon accelerated commodity." -- Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, arch of the IPCC
"(...) I anticipate acid aback and substituting added bake-apple and vegetables is a amenable alternative." -- Al Gore, columnist of An Inconvenient Truth
"(...) in agreement of alone action alteration your diet is the best affair you can do." -- Dr. James Hansen, Director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies
"Meat is a careless use of baptize and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts astronomic burden on the world's resources. A vegetarian diet is better." -- Lord Stern of Bradford, above World Bank Chief Economist
The accord is aswell affirmation that a above about-face to plant-based diets would accept abounding added benefits, including reducing: affection disease, blight and added chronic, degenerative diseases; baptize pollution, deforestation, clay erosion, breed extinction, desertification and added ecology problems; the careless use of land, water, activity and added resources; and the massive abusage and annihilation of billions of farmed animals annually.
Veg Climate Alliance's mission is to access acquaintance and facilitate advice on the allowances of plant-based diets and accompanying issues. Our mission statement: http://vegclimatealliance.org/about/
Further info: www.VegClimateAlliance.org, www.Copenvegan.com and www.PlanetDiet.org
Text of Letter Being Sent to the Delegates to the December Copenhagen Climate Crisis Conference Urging They Support Shifts to Plant-Based Diets:
vegclimatealliance.org/veg-climate-alliance-letter-to-copenhagen-delegates/
Flyer VCA is distributing broadly in Copenhagen:
http://copenvegan.com/banners-and-signs/
Contact person: Richard H. Schwartz, Director, Veg Climate Alliance
Director(at)VegClimateAlliance(dot)org
Phone: (718) 761-5876 Mobile: (917) 576-0344
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