Begin (or Maintain) a Vegetarian (or Vegan) Lifestyle

Begin (or Maintain) a Vegetarian (or Vegan) Lifestyle

The Issue

While pledging to eat only grass-fed farm animals is something all omnivores would benefit from (and it is environmentally beneficial when compared to industrial meat), maintaining a vegetarian or vegan lifestyle has even less impact on our fragile ecosystems and our own bodies. It is also a powerful message to industrial agriculture's callous and destructive production practices. So I personally pledge to maintain my vegetarian lifestyle and hope others will pledge to do the same.

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D WPetition StarterThere is still very limited awareness of the nature of the threat. This is an era of specialists, each of whom sees his own problem and is unaware of or intolerant of the larger frame into which it fits. It is also an era dominated by industry, in which the right to make a dollar at whatever cost is seldom challenged. When the public protests, confused with some obvious evidence...it is fed little tranquilizing pills of half-truths. We urgently need an end to these false assurances, to the sugar coating of unpalatable facts. It is the public that is being asked to assume the risks...The public must decide whether it wishes to continue on the present road, and it can do so only when in full possession of the facts. In the words of Jean Rostand, "The obligation to endure gives us the right to know." - Rachel Carson
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The Issue

While pledging to eat only grass-fed farm animals is something all omnivores would benefit from (and it is environmentally beneficial when compared to industrial meat), maintaining a vegetarian or vegan lifestyle has even less impact on our fragile ecosystems and our own bodies. It is also a powerful message to industrial agriculture's callous and destructive production practices. So I personally pledge to maintain my vegetarian lifestyle and hope others will pledge to do the same.

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D WPetition StarterThere is still very limited awareness of the nature of the threat. This is an era of specialists, each of whom sees his own problem and is unaware of or intolerant of the larger frame into which it fits. It is also an era dominated by industry, in which the right to make a dollar at whatever cost is seldom challenged. When the public protests, confused with some obvious evidence...it is fed little tranquilizing pills of half-truths. We urgently need an end to these false assurances, to the sugar coating of unpalatable facts. It is the public that is being asked to assume the risks...The public must decide whether it wishes to continue on the present road, and it can do so only when in full possession of the facts. In the words of Jean Rostand, "The obligation to endure gives us the right to know." - Rachel Carson
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Petition created on January 18, 2009