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lisa commented on the article |This is so awful....and so many more cases like this go unreported.
It may be that these anti-cruelty laws will never be enforced as judges and courts know that a serious conviction and bad publicity would result in people finally connecting the dots between a a monkey being boiled alive and chickens, pigs and the other innocent beings being boiled alive on a daily basis.
They (corporations and judges they pay off) do not want those kinds of visual-ethical connections implanted in the public's mind...because that would suddenly hurt the bottom line - PROFITS
I hope so much that people's love, empathy and compassion is expanded upon reading articles like these so that horrifying deaths is not in vain.
I also find it pretty sad that there are only 14 comments on this article.
Indifference is the worst kind of response...
Really agree with - and appreciate- what Haley O said, thank-you for your heart felt words. -
lisa commented on the article |Oh, they are so adorable!! Yes, thanks so much for sharing this!!
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lisa commented on the article |Hi John, are you aware of the statistics of how long it takes to make even one inch of soil? 100 to 500 years.
You still haven't explained where people are going to get the 2500 litres of water (per pound of beef) thats being given to the cows instead of directly to people. If you take the average cow's weight and multiply it by 2500 litres, just imagine how much that really is....
Compassion in World Farming is one of the lobbies that believes eating less meat is critical for a sustainable future:
“Lack of water,” says CEO Philip Lymbery, “is set to be the biggest threat to global stability in coming decades. “Producing meat uses up vast amounts of water."
"Minimising the amount of water taken to produce food must now become a priority of global food policy.” The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA) has called for a massive 75% reduction in the consumption of meat in order to save water, protect the environment from further degradation and help to alleviate poverty. SEPA suggests a reduction from145g per person per day to just 35 g per person per day.
"Hundreds of Millions of South Asians Face Increasing Water Stress - South Asian water resources increasingly vulnerable. A report by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and Asian Institute of Technology in Thailand have concluded that freshwater resources in three major river basins in South Asia are threatened due to climate change and over-use. The report states that the severe water shortages predicted in all three basins would jeopardize the lives of some 750 million people. With two-thirds of the Himalayan glaciers now receding, intense pumping at lower elevations has led to groundwater levels declining rapidly in the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna and Indus basins, resulting in contamination by saltwater intrusion."
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"Water resources imperiled in New Zealand - Based on a review of the government’s recently proposed National Policy Statement for Freshwater Management, New Zealand author Elizabeth Chambers notes that quality freshwater sources across the nation are becoming scarcer due to unsustainable water management, increasing climate change-related droughts, pollution from the widespread use of fertilizers and, most significantly, the large dairy industry which not only requires immense amounts of fresh water but causes waterway pollution from farm runoff. The New Zealand government is developing a number of regulations to ensure a continuous and reliable supply of safe freshwater across the nation. At the same time it is recognizing that dairy production is a major part of the problem, with one cow requiring between 2000 and 4000 liters of water for every liter of milk, according to British journalist Fred Pearce."
Unless we drastically change our lifestyles and dietary choices global water shortages are only going to get worse. In turn this will cause social unrest of unimaginable proportions as more people, countries, industries compete for the same water source.
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