Anti-meat groups using climate change as argument

Groups who would prefer that we eat all veggies and no animal products continue efforts to push their agenda.

Let's Act Now has launched a nationwide "public service announcement" campaign "stressing the urgency of climate change and its connection to our food choices." In other words, don't eat meat because livestock production contributes to "runaway climate change".

The group likes to cite a United Nations study that says animal production produces more greenhouse gases than all global transportation combined. (Doesn't that sound just a tad bit wacko?) It also quotes Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change who just happens to be a vegetarian. And on and on.

The organization's website is full of fluffy quotes and general garbage. Its public service announcement mixes images of livestock, food and meat with hurricanes and starving masses. Other pages on their site have an assortment of videos that assign human qualities to animals. (Apparently animals that are pets don't contribute to "global warming"?)

No single group is behind the site - it's a "collection" of organizations and people. The Human Society of the United States, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (an oxymoron if there ever was one) and some vegan groups are listed in different places, so who knows. (The website domain is registered to Zhihua Dong, a physicist with Columbia University in New York.)


Elsewhere, The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) is making its way to our nation's Capitol to argue that the time is right for reform. See this article and audio on Brownfield.

Here's a quote from HSUS's Wayne Pacelle: "And we really do hope, and I say it sincerely, that we can work with the agricultural community, to advance reforms that will benefit it, as well as benefiting animals and the interests that the Humane Society of United States Advances."

That could be the biggest lie ever reported in this blog. (Even bigger than this.) Pacelle doesn't want to work with animal agriculture. He wants to shut down animal agriculture.