Aligning Ethics & Action: 1) the environment ; 2) concern for animals.

97 percent of Americans believe that animals deserve legal protection from abuse. Gallup, May 2008 Gallup, May 2003

“The unexamined life is not worth living.” —Socrates

Aligning Ethics & Action 1: the environment

Resource Use

The Global Food Crisis Example: Soybean Production

Aligning Ethics & Action 2: concern for animals

“[Other] animals, like humans, manifestly feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.” —Charles Darwin Animal Rights—The Science

Animal Rights: The Science

From PETATV.com Animal Rights: The Science

Integrity: Would you kill them yourself?

What does “integrity” mean? “It’s staggering when think about it. Vegetarianism takes care of so many things in one shot: ecology, famine, cruelty.” —Sir Paul McCartney

Aligning Ethics & Action: 1) the environment ; 2) concern for animals.

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Environment Eating animals is “one of the most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems, at every scale from local to global.”

Environment Eating animals contributes to “problems of land degradation, climate change and air pollution, water shortage and water pollution, and loss of biodiversity.”

Environment Eating animals causes 40 percent more greenhouse gasses than all SUVs, 18-wheelers, jumbo jets, and other vehicles combined.

Humane Meat?

Integrity: Would you kill them yourself?

If you care about (a) the environment or (b) cruelty to animals, the only ethical diet is a vegetarian one.

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Going vegetarian is “ the single most effective thing you can do to reduce your carbon footprint” [ emphasis in original ]. —Live Earth Global Warming Survival Handbook “A major shift toward plant-based diets is imperative if we are to have even a chance of preventing catastrophe …” —Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, chair, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Nobel Peace Prize winner

If you oppose gluttony or cruelty to animals, the only ethical diet is a vegetarian one.

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United Nations Report The different methodologies do not invalidate the conclusions of Livestock’s Long Shadow, including the conclusion that livestock production contributes 18 percent to total global climate change in both direct and indirect ways. Gerber told the Columbia Journalism Review, “We stand entirely behind the 18 percent figure.”

Global Poverty “Meat production is an inefficient use of grain―the grain is used more efficiently when consumed directly by humans. Continued growth in meat output is dependent on feeding grain to animals, creating competition for grain between affluent meat eaters and the world’s poor.” ―WorldWatch Institute

According to the American Dietetic Association (2010): Vegetarians have lower rates of heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, cancer, and obesity than meat-eaters. Vegetarian and vegan diets are appropriate for all life stages, including infancy and pregnancy. Health

According to the American Dietetic Association (2010): Vegetarian diets have health benefits in the prevention and treatment of certain diseases. Obesity Rates: Meat-eaters 65% Vegetarians 20% Vegans 3% Health

Fish “I never eat anyone I know personally. I wouldn't deliberately eat a grouper any more than I’d eat a cocker spaniel. They're so good-natured, so curious. You know, fish are sensitive, they have personalities, they hurt when they’re wounded.”

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