Petition Tag - meat free monday

Did you know that by not eating meat for just one day a week, you really can help to slash levels of dangerous greenhouse gas emissions in the air you breathe?

A “meat-free” day of the week is not a new idea. Countries across Europe have already suggested the idea to their respective governments, some of which have embraced the idea. Belgium’s Brent City Council introduced a “Meat-Free Thursday” in 2009, which is still going strong.

By opting to take part in a similar campaign here in Ireland, you too can make a contribution to the environment. Dangerous greenhouse emissions are a direct result of mass cattle farming and, as we all know, Ireland is a major beef farming nation.

Our country must now accept a slice of responsibility for the global increase in greenhouse gas emissions. It can, and should, demonstrate to the world a commitment to make its carbon footprint smaller.

The benefits of ‘Meat-free Monday’ are immense: you lower your intake of meat and reduce your carbon footprint. You also improve your health and make sure fewer animals in Clare are slaughtered for food. Consider this: if demand for meat lessens – even just a small bit - more land, typically used for cattle grazing, can be used instead to cultivate trees, organic vegetables and grains. This is good news, especially for Clare. Why?


• The Centre for Environmental Living and Training (CELT) is based in Clare. CELT is dedicated to environmental awareness and is right now driving forward their Agroforestry campaign. Agroforestry involves the integration of trees into farming systems to create more diverse, profitable, healthy and sustainable land-use systems. It also reduces the need for fertilizers by providing habitats for natural predators. These natural predators eat ‘pests’, negating the need for harsh chemical fertilizers.

We can help CELT’s Agroforestry policy by spearheading a campaign to eat less meat and therefore reduce the amount of space needed on farms for cattle grazing. The government has already showed its support for CELT’s scheme. Will you?

If you want to commit yourself to Clare Veg Group’s meat-free Monday campaign, please sign our petition here. Remember, all movements start out small and grow bigger and bigger the more people get involved. We want Clare can be the first county in Ireland to launch “Meat-Free Monday?” We can lead by example and get the whole country on board. It’s down to you.

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“Livestock farming is the most significant contributor to today’s most serious environmental problems. URGENT ACTION is required to remedy the situation.” - FAO, United Nations

This petition calls for the citizens of Ottawa to make a leading example to the country and to the world by adopting "Meatless Mondays". It also calls for Canadian officials, media, school boards and doctors to promote the many health and environmental benefits of an organic plant-based diet to the general public.

In the last couple of decades humans have increased their meat intake drastically, and as a result there are now 60 billion farmed animals being raised to be killed worldwide each year. This is destroying our planet and our health.

WorldWatch Institute reports that the Livestock Industry is responsible for at least 51% of all greenhouse gas emissions, which is 4 times more than the emissions from all the world’s transportation combined. Animal agriculture is responsible for more than 80% of deforestation; is the single largest user of land and water; the major cause of oceanic dead zones, wide-scale land degradation and species loss; and a major polluter of all our water and land. It is also responsible for excessive use of chemicals, antibiotics, hormones, and other harmful substances that ultimately end up in us, our water and our environment.

Our animal-centered diet is strongly linked to heart disease, cancer, diabetes, obesity, allergies, Alzheimer’s, osteoporosis, hypertension, Crohn’s desease, and many other major health issues. Swine flu, pig’s desease (PMWS), mad cow disease, and bird flu are all derived from consuming the flesh of animals or by being in contact with their contaminated waste. E. coli, Salmonella, blue-tongue disease, listeriosis, shellfish poisoning, and many others come from animal products as well.

A balanced plant-based is proven to be adequate in protein, amino-acids, vitamins, minerals, micronutrients and all other nutrients vital to the body, and can prevent, stop and reverse many of our degenerative diseases. The food used to feed livestock is enough to feed everyone on the planet and leave a surplus. Half of the world’s grain and 90% of world’s soy is fed to animals. 16 pounds of plant protein is required to produce just 1 pound of animal protein.

One factory farm creates more pollution than the city of Huston, Texas. In the USA alone, factory farms generate an estimated 575 billion pounds of animal manure yearly, 130 times as much excrement as the entire U.S. population. Eventually, it ends up in our water and food.

Since methane emitted by farmed animals remains in the atmosphere for less than 20 years but is 72 times as potent than carbon dioxide during this period, reducing the number of farmed animals would have a major, rapid effect in halting climate change, allowing us to gain more time to implement green technologies.

By signing this petition and staying connected with this cause, you are following the example of many well known people that have chosen to live on a plant-based diet, including: Albert Einstein, Leonardo Da Vinci, Charles Darwin, Mark Twain, Socrates, Pythagoras, Mahatma Gandhi, Leo Tolstoy, Mohammed Ali, Brad Pitt, Kate Winslet, Ellen Degeneres, Natalie Portman, Carrie Underwood, and many more.

"Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances of survival for life on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet." Albert Einstein

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“채식의 날, 월요일” – 지구를 구하는 첫걸음

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In recent headlines, the city of Ghent in Belgium has taken steps to reduce its carbon footprint and has made the brave decision to ask its citizens to go meatless one day a week. Every Thursday will be veggie day.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8046970.stm

According to a 2006 report by the United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), entitled Livestock's Long Shadow: it stated that livestock production is responsible for 18 percent of all greenhouse gas (ghg)emissions which is more than all the cars, trains and planes combined. However a recent report published by the World Watch Institute stated that the livestock sector is responsible for 51% of all greenhouse gases.

Due to the impact that meat has on the environment, we need to reduce our consumption of this carbon intensive product as an effective solution to the climate change crisis. This petition calls for Taiwanese officials to take action now that will show Taiwan’s commitment to tackling Climate Change.

We urge the government to promote every Monday as a day when the citizens of Taiwan will abstain from meat products in an effort to protect the environment and halt global warming.

We call on everyone’s support in expressing to Taiwanese officials the need for Taiwan to adopt and promote a meat free Monday.

So please sign this petition and forward it to your friends and family.

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