It's time to whip out your Australian flag and chant 'Aussie Aussie Aussie!', cause we're number one! Actually... you might want to just sit on that flag when you hear this...
"Our region has the notorious distinction of having possibly the worst extinction record on earth," said Richard Kingsford, one of the authors of a new study on extinction. The study highlighted the fact that the earth is currently expreriencing its 6th greatest extinction, and guess what... Australia and the Pacific top the list of culprits.
According to the report, land clearing and overlogging are amonst the biggest threats to Aussie plants and animals. So who's cutting down all our trees? According to the UN the livestock industry is the number 1 cause of deforestation worldwide. When you connect the dots it's just obvious: eat less meat - save more planet!
And so on that note, it's time for another installment of "Spot the Difference"!
Meat and Livestock Australia have launched a new green-washing campaign to 'keep it real' and highlight the environmental contributions made by livestock producers. This campaign hopes to counter all these concerns about about deforestation, methane emissions (the livestock industry also produce 18% of all greenhouse gas emissions), and all that crap (Literally! - livestock produce 130 times the waste of the entire human population.).
The first image below is the ... ahem ... crap that MLA are trying to feed us. The second is the crap that they're polluting our land with.
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i suppose it's just ANOTHER reason (asif we needed another one) to go veg.
cant get any simpler than that.
What annoys me, though, is when I am reminded that Al Gole, the jesus man of climate change, is actually a meat eater.
Mr. Gore may drive a prius but he still likes his burgers.
Wake up guys!
Its so annoying that people think of issues separately when the are so connected.
Advertisers are genius' at making anything sound true even if its the biggest lie on the face of the earth.
Good blog though!
And yes, it is sad that some of the major proponents of environmental protection are meat eaters... Tim Flannery is another i can think of...
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