EVIDENCE SHOWS THAT AUSTRALIA'S LIVESTOCK INDUSTRY IS A MAJOR CONTRIBUTOR |
Livestock are one of the most significant contributors to today’s most serious environmental problems. Urgent action is required to remedy the situation
Henning Steinfeld, Chief of UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization’s Livestock Information and Policy Branch, Nov. 2007
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BE GREEN, GO VEG!
It’s the easiest, cheapest, most effective, empowering action, anyone can take now. It will buy us time to ASK MORE from our leaders to work on other areas where a policy shift is needed.
It will also help to improve our national heath , saving water, saving our bush land and forest from further clearing, less pollution to water ways, reefs, saving lives.
Climate change is a real and urgent threat to our civilisation and to the natural systems of Australia. We all have to make an effort to reduce our individual contribution to greenhouse pollution. One of the easiest ways to do this is to reduce our meat consumption. Start by doing without meat one day a week, then spread the practice to more days. You'll be surprised how easy it is to make a significant difference".
Professor Ian Low, Chairman, Australian Conservation Council. May 2008
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