Saving the Planet One Meal At A Time [InCity Times]
Posted by Drew.
Worcester’s InCity Times has a history of publishing lots of pro-animal and pro-vegetarian articles, but Rosalie Tirella has outdone herself with her most recent article. In the Jan 4, 2010 issue, Tirella ran an article by Ingrid Newkirk called Saving the Planet One Meal At A Time. In it Newkirk reflects on a talk she recently gave at a “green” conference on economic stability in Mumbai, India. Newkirk makes a solid argument for veganism from an ecological perspective. Check it out:
From Ingrid Newkirk in The InCity Times:
“It shouldn’t be news anymore that the most important thing that we can do for the planet is not to use less holiday gift wrap — it is to go vegan. That’s because it is impossible to be a meat-eating, milk-drinking environmentalist. Meat and milk are not “green,” which makes it all the more shocking that our government has decided to help large dairy farms use newfangled machines to deal with methane gas burped up by all those cows rather than helping to wean America off its ugly, fatty, Earth-destroying dairy habit. Actually, meat and milk are anti-green! Of course, such remarks give those who have grown up with or acquired a taste for meat and cheese cause for consternation to add to their constipation. No one likes change. Witness the handwritten sign on a little jar at an airport coffee stand that read, “Afraid of change? If so, leave yours here.”
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It’s bizarre, really: In order to eat meat and drink packaged milk, we take a crop like soybeans, oats, corn, or wheat, which are all rich in protein, fiber, and complex carbohydrates―the things we need―and totally devoid of cholesterol and artery-clogging saturated fat―the things we don’t need and shouldn’t have. We feed it to a chicken or pig to create a product with no fiber or complex carbohydrates at all but with megadoses of cholesterol and saturated fat! All bad for us and bad for the Earth and bad for animals. It makes about as much sense as taking a glass of sparkling Evian, running it through a sewer, and then drinking it.”
You may be surprised to hear this, but Ingrid Newkirk, the founder and president of PETA is  a frequent contributor to our local alternative newspaper. Newkirk has been contributing to the InCity Times since at least as far back at 2006.
Rosalie Tirella, the editor for InCity, has been publishing animal rights articles in her paper since the beginning. She has run stories about the greyhound racing ban, animal cruelty at Ringling Brother’s circus (see photos from this year’s protests in Worcester), companion animal issues, and many more.
Kudos to InCity for publishing this really rad piece!
January 5, 2010
Tags: Environment, InCity Times, science Posted in: Animal Rights, News, Veg Advocacy
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