Animal-rights groups are attacking Al Gore because "you just can't be a meat-eating environmentalist." Gore has been seen as the darling of environmental groups since An Inconvenient Truth won an Oscar last spring. But groups such as PETA and the Humane Society of the United States say the most inconvenient truth of all is that raising animals for meat contributes more to global warming than all the sport utility vehicles combined. The groups point to a study published last November by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization that states that the livestock business generates more greenhouse-gas emissions than all forms of transportation combined. To read the report, follow this link (PDF format). The well-funded animal-rights groups have launched advertising campaigns to gain Gore's attention and that of other Americans. Matt A. Prescott, manager of PETA's vegan campaigns, told the New York Times his group plans to send billboard-toting trucks to the Colorado Convention Center in Denver when Gore lectures there on Oct. 2. The billboards will feature a cartoon image of Gore eating a drumstick next to the tagline: "Too Chicken to Go Vegetarian? Meat is the No. 1 Cause of Global Warming." The Times reports that "even tiny pro-veggie operations are starting to squeeze dollars out of their shoestring budgets to advertise the eating meat/global warming connection."— Greg Henderson, Drovers editor
- Drovers Alert
When is everyone, particularly realistic ranchers like you and I, going to wake up and realize that this "global warming" issue is the most over-sensationalized issue in the world today? Has in not dawned on everyone that perhaps it is simply one of the earth's natural cycles? Left-leaning enviromentalists and animal-rights activists make the far-fetched claim that raising cattle is the number one cause of global warming when there is substantial evidence that the earth has been going through these hot and cold cycles since the beginning of time. Ice ages were prevelant long before fuel-combustion engines and mass production of cattle were even thought of. Many enviormentalists claim that CO2 levels are responsible for increasing global temperatures, when in fact the reverse is actually true. CO2 levels are the result of increasing global temperatures, which traditionally go through cycles. Remember the scare back in the 80's that we were entering the next ice age? That was concluded to be a natural cycle. Would it not make sense that the "global warming phenomenon" that is happening now is simply the next stage? Professor Robert Essenhigh of the University of Ohio seems to think so. In a recent article in Science Daily, he stated "Today, we are simply near a peak in the current cycle that started about 25,000 years ago." Maybe enviormentalists and activists should spend more time researching their outlandish claims and less time whining about global warming and cattle production, two things they clearly don't understand.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2001/06/010615071248.htm