Al Gore and His Inconvenient Diet.
If you eat meat you are NOT an environmentalist. That may be an exaggeration but it is true that becoming vegan is one the simplest and most important things you can do to save the planet. Too bad Al Gore can’t see this Inconvenient Truth.
Thankfully the public is finally seeing the link between our dying planet and the dead flesh they consume. PETA President Ingrid Newkirk explains the issue beautifully at Huffington Post:
“A 2006 United Nations report concluded that the meat industry produces about 40 percent more greenhouse gas emissions than all the world’s transportation systems — that’s all the cars, trucks, SUVs, planes and ships in the world combined; Worldwatch estimates that filthy factory farms, transport and all the related parts of putting the nugget into the bucket and the burger into the bun account for 51 per cent of all greenhouse-gas emissions; and that animal-based agriculture is responsible for deforestation, river contamination and 130 times more manure than the whole human population produces.”
Al Gore refuses to acknowledge these findings because he is a self-described “steakaholic.” He, like many people around the world, care more about what they can eat with A1 than about all the fresh air, clean water, rainforest, and human life on earth. If Al Gore really believes in what he says, he would go vegan.
