This past week was really going VERY SLOW...kinda...
it is because me and Sim are going on this no meat diet...
which is really a pain in my ass... cause ppl who know me will know that I am like a big big meat monster, a meal without meat will really kill me...
But then I see that the food crisis is really getting to be a problem...with so much of our food going to the biofuel to feed our cars...
also lots of our food are going to feed the animals for the meat that we eat...
which could have been used to feed the poor and hungry...esp a famine is being predicted again in places like Ethiopia and many other countries...
With so many ppl having to go hungry... I think that trying to go on a meatless diet is not really a big thing to ask for... as many have them never tasted meat in their life time...
So I will be doing the no meat diet for this week, which is almost over and should be ending on Sunday night...
It was really really a painful journey, as I was faced with many many temptations from yummy beef steak to lambs and chicken wings...
While I was only eating mushroom, Tofu and fruits most of the time...and will go real hungry in no time...
But it was great that I am able to hold myself off and should be able to finish the quest at hand till then...and will try to go on a less meat diet bit by bit after that....
Sometimes I ask myself why are we doing something so silly...and it doesn't seem to be any use at all...
but in the process, even though it was painful, ppl that were eating with me get curious about it and I can pass the clause to them about it... which is a great great way to spread the message around...
We can have all these knowledge about it, but it is in the acting out of it that people get curious and get drawn to it...
Isn't it kinda the same as being a Christian?That I always ask myself over and over again
why we have to do something so different...
what is the pt of not downloading the music on the net for free?
or not buying the fake copies of films...
why have to be so honest in certain situations..
why have to speak out when you see something unjust or just wrong when everyone is doing it, what's wrong with you? So that ppl can hate you for it??
It is just life, take it easy...
Make some money, enjoy life... retire early... have fun... don't work so hard...
You are not going to make a difference... what can you do??
and what if this all turn out to be false?? Then you have wasted your whole life....
We are just silly ppl aren't we??
Oh... I thought you already know about that when you are called to be a Christian...
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THE CASE FOR VEGETARIANISM
by Bruce Friedrich, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)
Last month, The UN called the diversion of crops to biofuels “a crime against humanity”. Indeed, 100m tonnes of corn and other crops that could feed people instead feed our cars.
But what if I told you that 7 times as much crops (750m tonnes) are taken from the mouths of the global poor to feed chickens, pigs, and other farmed animals? Surely this is a crime against humanity of even greater impact.
I adopted a vegetarian diet more than 20 years ago, after I read Diet for a Small Planet, by Frances Moore Lappe. It changed my life.
In the book, Lappe makes the argument that using land to grow crops for animals is inefficient, polluting, and that it steals food from the mouths of the global poor.
The fact is, it’s not only her that has noticed. It seems so obvious, and slowly people are picking up on the point. Going veggie is a simple yet effective way to make sure everyone on the earth can eat.
The point is echoed by the respected environmental think tank, The WorldWatch Institute, which published a report a few years back that declares:
“[M]eat consumption is an inefficient use of grain—the grain is used more efficiently when consumed 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.”
More and more, that message is getting a hearing, so that the UN’s climate chief Yvo de Boer said:
“The best solution would be for us all to become vegetarians.”
Indeed.
A UN report recently found that eating meat is the number one human cause of global warming. Of course, poor communities are always the first to suffer the potentially grave consequences of climate change.
The official handbook for the Live Earth concerts says “refusing meat” is “the single most effective thing you can do to reduce your carbon footprint.“
The UN report also noted the meat industry’s contribution to:
*problems of land degradation
*climate change
*air pollution
*water shortage
*water pollution
*loss of biodiversity.
Clearly, there is problem, and something needs to be done.
Isn’t adopting a vegetarian diet the least that each of us can do?
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Are You A Meat-Eating Environmentalist?
Written by Noelle dEstries
The facts point out that your juicy sirloin steak is worse for the environment than your SUV. But does that mean we really need to put our forks down? Why can’t we still fight global warming while eating a cheeseburger — it’s better to be a meat-eating environmentalist than nothing at all. Amen. Dead flesh for everyone! From the New York Times Article:EVER since “An Inconvenient Truth,” Al Gore has been the darling of environmentalists, but that movie hardly endeared him to the animal rights folks. According to them, the most inconvenient truth of all is that raising animals for meat contributes more to global warming than all the sport utility vehicles combined.
The biggest animal rights groups do not always overlap in their missions, but now they have coalesced around a message that eating meat is worse for the environment than driving. They and smaller groups have started advertising campaigns that try to equate vegetarianism with curbing greenhouse gases.
Some backlash against this position is inevitable, the groups acknowledge, but they do have scientific ammunition. In late November, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization issued a report stating that the livestock business generates more greenhouse gas emissions than all forms of transportation combined.
When that report came out, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals and other groups expected their environmental counterparts to immediately hop on the “Go Veggie!” bandwagon, but that did not happen. “Environmentalists are still pointing their fingers at Hummers and S.U.V.’s when they should be pointing at the dinner plate,” said Matt A. Prescott, manager of vegan campaigns for PETA.
So the animal rights groups are mobilizing on their own. PETA is outfitting a Hummer with a driver in a chicken suit and a vinyl banner proclaiming meat as the top cause of global warming. It will send the vehicle to the start of the climate forum the White House is sponsoring in Washington on Sept. 27, “and to headquarters of environmental groups, if they don’t start shaping up,” Mr. Prescott warned.
