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Re: Sustainable Food Production
« on: October 13, 2014, 10:01:16 pm »
LEARN about the "Food Disparagement LAW". LEARN the ORWELLIAN way this LAW is used to HIDE the Big Ag Corporate TRUTH from being told to the American Public!  :o Say what? ???  If you tell the TRUTH, you are SUED for telling an "untruth" ;D.

And you are ALSO guilty  under the "Patriot" Act if you do that because FOOD is a "National Resource". HELLO FASCISM! ;D Ka Ching for the LAWYERS! Are they fighting to overturn this TRAVESTY of LAW?  NOPE! They ARE, however, making TONS of money suing anyone that DARES to tell the TRUTH about Big AG in the USA.   


Big Ag is a greater contributor to global warming than the direct burning of Fossil Fuels. Is that a reason for the fossil fuelers to cheer?    Why? ???

The CAUSE of the ocean dead zones is Chemical FERTILIZERS manufactured by the PETROLEUM INDUSTRY. So it is ALL of a piece.  And the LAW and the LAWYERS are not doing JACK **** to stop them. On the contrary, the most high powered (CIVIL) Law Firms are the HANDMAIDENS of these planet polluting, ethics challenged villains. 
 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nV04zyfLyN4&feature=player_embedded
Before anybody tries to BLOW OFF what is said in this video as a "conspiracy theory", try to remember that it is a TRAILER of a documentary of 90 minutes duration. Don't make rash statements. These people HAVE done their homework. Please do YOURS.   8)


Cowspiracy Exposes the Truth About Animal Agriculture
Ward Pallotta | October 10, 2014 8:57 am

A recent documentary, Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret, asks why most leading environmental organizations are ignoring a leading cause of environmental damage.

In 90 minutes, co-producers Kip Andersen and Keegan Kuhn argue that our institutional and individual attention to selected environmental issues will not make a collective difference unless we also confront the realities of animal agriculture. Animal agriculture’s environmental effects are so pervasive that apparent progress elsewhere cannot counter its destructive and growing impact.

The film suggests why protection for expanded areas of the ocean will not protect oceans or ocean animals. Growing food organically, even on a commercial scale, will not protect the land. Keeping lumber operations out of the Amazon will not save the rainforest.

Making homes more water efficient and taking short showers will not make more water available. Driving electric cars will not solve the carbon emissions problem. Installing LED lights and converting to renewable energy will not stop global warming.

Here is some of the data gathered by the producers and woven into this powerful film.

Animal agriculture uses 55 percent of the water in the U.S. American homes use five percent. One thousand gallons of water are needed to produce 1 gallon of milk. Two thousand five hundred gallons of water are needed to make one pound of beef. Growing water shortages make animal agriculture unsustainable.

Livestock uses 30 percent of the Earth’s total land mass, including nearly 50 percent of the U.S. mainland. The growing demand for animal farmland is responsible for 80 percent of Amazon rainforest destruction. (Palm oil production is second). With 160-million acres cleared or degraded annually for the animal industry, 40 percent of the rainforest will be destroyed in 20 years, affecting species survival and carbon sequestration.

Animal agriculture is responsible for 18 percent of greenhouse gas emissions. All forms of land, air and ocean transportation total 13 percent. Transportation industry air pollution is overshadowed by animal agriculture air pollution.


Seventy billion animals are raised annually worldwide.
Everyday 144 million animals are killed for food. U.S. farm animals produce 7 million pounds of excrement every minute. Our lakes, oceans and psyches cannot sustain animal agriculture.

Too many environmental groups are dodging this issue, but the cattle industry is steaming. One cattle association blogger reminds its members that it also takes a lot of water to make a T-shirt or produce a car.

Seventy-five percent of Americans consider themselves environmentalists. Only 5 percent of Americans are vegetarian or vegan, however their percentage has quintupled in five years.

The average American consumes 209 pounds of meat each year. Everyday, a person that eats a plant-based diet saves 1,100 gallons of water, 45 pounds of grain, 30 sq. ft. of forested land, the equivalent of 20 lbs. of CO2 and one animal’s life.

This issue is an environmental advocate’s dream come true. It requires no political action money, no corporate boardroom decisions, no re-negotiated food policy, no tax incentives. When we eat meat, dairy and eggs, we feed this growing catastrophe. Change will happen as quickly as we convince each other to change what we eat. While producing his film, Kip Andersen became a vegan.

Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret was self-funded by the producers and crowdfunded via Indiegogo. The marketing efforts for the film depends on community organizations to sponsor the film, promote ticket sales through their networks and fill a local theater. They bear no cost, only effort, and it is working. Cowspiracy showings are accelerating all over the country—during the last two weeks in October, the film will be seen in 35 locations.

Click here for a list of upcoming events or to host a screening.

Ward Pallotta is retired from social justice, nonprofit fundraising in Cleveland, Ohio. He and his life partner, Ann Urick, are members of VegSarasota and Transition Sarasota in Sarasota, Florida, and are advocates for safe and healthy food. Nine years ago they realized they were eating dangerously and switched to a plant-based diet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqZTaaGSKg0&feature=player_embedded

http://ecowatch.com/2014/10/10/cowspiracy-exposes-animal-agriculture/
He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. Matt 10:37

 

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