Comments on: European Union Parliament Joins the Climate Change Conversation http://www.takeabite.cc/blog/european-union-parliament-joins-the-climate-change-conversation/ a project of the Small Planet Institute Mon, 15 Aug 2011 12:13:26 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Susan Miller http://www.takeabite.cc/blog/european-union-parliament-joins-the-climate-change-conversation/comment-page-1/#comment-2677 Susan Miller Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:33:31 +0000 http://www.takeabite.cc/?p=483#comment-2677 The article says less meat, not no meat. But our precious heat stopping meateaters cannot change. Especially in the US. But remember Pink Floyd in The Wall? "You can't have any pudding until you eat your meat!" It's ingrained that people in the north must eat meat. Excuse me, but that is bull. Each time I visit the doctor despite my smoking non-filtered cigarettes, he says, "I wish all my patients were as healthy as you." Must be 35 years of a high fiber vegetarian diet. I am not starving and my organs are healthy. You can live well without meat. Considering that the livestock industry is the second largest (bigger than the transportation sector) contributor to climate change, I think these guys in the EU Parliament gotta just keep at it. I think that US Ag Secretary Vilsack's action with US dairy farmers is a good first step, but I am surprised that he took on dairy and not beef. While diabetes and obesity rise to epidemic proportions around the world, can we afford to sit back and not put Monsanto, Cargill, National Beef, Tyson, JBS-Swift, ConAgra and Archer Daniels Midland out of their "too-big-to-fail" businesses? I guess not. They have become synonymous with the WTO/G-20/UN and other such megalomaniacal pirates. One serving of beef per month is more than enough for would be meat eaters. And imagine if all beef producers had to use anaerobic digesters to supply the energy required to process and transport that beef. Now we're talking not none, but substantially less meat. Less heart disease, more rainforests, less polluted water. If we rolled back NAFTA Mexicans might stop pouring over the border to work in the meatpacking industry and return to their farmlands. Wimps they are, puppets held up by industries that are sunsetting. But their denial is our poison. Try again EU Parliament. The folks you're addressing are suffering a protein and animal fat overload and their brains have shut down. The article says less meat, not no meat. But our precious heat stopping meateaters cannot change. Especially in the US. But remember Pink Floyd in The Wall? “You can’t have any pudding until you eat your meat!”

It’s ingrained that people in the north must eat meat. Excuse me, but that is bull. Each time I visit the doctor despite my smoking non-filtered cigarettes, he says, “I wish all my patients were as healthy as you.” Must be 35 years of a high fiber vegetarian diet. I am not starving and my organs are healthy. You can live well without meat.

Considering that the livestock industry is the second largest (bigger than the transportation sector) contributor to climate change, I think these guys in the EU Parliament gotta just keep at it.

I think that US Ag Secretary Vilsack’s action with US dairy farmers is a good first step, but I am surprised that he took on dairy and not beef.

While diabetes and obesity rise to epidemic proportions around the world, can we afford to sit back and not put Monsanto, Cargill, National Beef, Tyson, JBS-Swift, ConAgra and Archer Daniels Midland out of their “too-big-to-fail” businesses? I guess not. They have become synonymous with the WTO/G-20/UN and other such megalomaniacal pirates.

One serving of beef per month is more than enough for would be meat eaters. And imagine if all beef producers had to use anaerobic digesters to supply the energy required to process and transport that beef. Now we’re talking not none, but substantially less meat. Less heart disease, more rainforests, less polluted water. If we rolled back NAFTA Mexicans might stop pouring over the border to work in the meatpacking industry and return to their farmlands.

Wimps they are, puppets held up by industries that are sunsetting. But their denial is our poison. Try again EU Parliament. The folks you’re addressing are suffering a protein and animal fat overload and their brains have shut down.

]]> By: Sophie@foodforchange.org.uk http://www.takeabite.cc/blog/european-union-parliament-joins-the-climate-change-conversation/comment-page-1/#comment-2564 Sophie@foodforchange.org.uk Fri, 03 Apr 2009 09:30:45 +0000 http://www.takeabite.cc/?p=483#comment-2564 I think the problem is that many of the European Parliament members who were behind deleting the crucial line about reducing meat consumption were from countries with large livestock industries (such as Ireland). The Christian Democrats, the EU Parliament's largest political faction and one with ties to farm interests, also had a part to play. So it all comes down to putting the interests of farmers before climate change. http://www.foodforchange.org.uk/2009/02/euadoptsclimatechangereportbutdeletescrucialpoints/ I think the problem is that many of the European Parliament members who were behind deleting the crucial line about reducing meat consumption were from countries with large livestock industries (such as Ireland).

The Christian Democrats, the EU Parliament’s largest political faction and one with ties to farm interests, also had a part to play.

So it all comes down to putting the interests of farmers before climate change.

http://www.foodforchange.org.uk/2009/02/euadoptsclimatechangereportbutdeletescrucialpoints/

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