The Vegetarian Union of North America (VUNA) challenges global warming
activists and environmentalists to acknowledge the "Inconvenient
Truth" that eating animals and their byproducts is the single greatest
cause of global warming and that humankind can take an essential and
enormous step in reducing global warming by eating lower on the food
chain -- ideally, a plant-based diet. VUNA is initiating a major
campaign to urge Al Gore and the environmental community to transfer
the meat from their plates to the center of their climate
change-fighting agendas.
Washington, DC (PRWEB) May 14, 2007 -- The Vegetarian Union of North
America (VUNA) challenges global warming activists and
environmentalists to acknowledge the "Inconvenient Truth" that eating
animals and their byproducts is the single greatest cause of global
warming and that humankind can take an essential and enormous step in
reducing global warming by eating lower on the food chain -- ideally,
a plant-based diet.
"Al Gore and climate activists have consistently failed to recognize
one of the most inconvenient truths of our time," says VUNA President
Saurabh Dalal. "Animal agriculture and animal product consumption on a
global scale is perhaps the greatest (anthropogenic) cause of global
warming today," continued Dalal, "and given a personal choice between
helping to save the planet and consuming animal products, too many
people who should know better are ignoring that truth while they gorge
on their chicken wings and hamburgers."
VUNA, an umbrella organization for independent vegetarian groups
throughout the United States and Canada, cites a 2006 United Nations
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) report "Livestock's Long
Shadow" http://www.fao.org/newsroom/en/news/2006/1000448 which concludes
global animal agriculture contributes more greenhouse gas emissions
(in CO2 equivalents), an astonishing 18 percent of the total, than ALL
forms of transportation.
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full story: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2007/5/prweb525956.htm
