Awareness is good, Action is much better - find out the most effective solution

Want to go below 350? Way below 350? Its super easy. Go Vegan B 4 its 2 L 8 - Sustainability Starts with Your Stomach.

To get below 350 you need to do a 180 with your diet. A vegan diet is the #1 fastest, most inexpensive way to immediately reverse climate change.

Plus a pure veggie diet can end world hunger due to the inefficient use of: water, grain, and soy which causes water/food shortages - not to mention the inefficiencies in electricity and petroleum usage. Plus a pure veggie diet can prevent: deforestation; soil degradation; oceanic dead zones; air and water pollution; climate change. Plus a pure veggie diet can dramatically reducing health care costs (go to a hospital and ask who there is a vegetarian better yet vegan.

Dr. James Hansen - NASA's top climatologist and 350 “Messengers”
"There are many things that people can do to reduce their carbon emissions, but changing your light bulb and many of the things are much less effective than changing your diet, because if you eat further down on the food chain rather than animals, which have produced many greenhouse gases, and used much energy in the process of growing that meat, you can actually make a bigger contribution in that way than just about anything. So, that, in terms of individual action, is perhaps the best thing you can do."

Hear what Dr. James Hansen has to say:

HELP END WORLD HUNGER -
No one wants to see a child go hungry, they shouldn't have to because there is plenty enough to go around. If you want to stop 1 billion people from going hungry each day; If you want to stop the needless deaths taking place every 5 seconds due to starvation then a vegan lifestyle is the solution to solve these dire diet driven situations due to the inefficient use of resources directed towards animal agriculture. Grain currently fed to livestock is enough to feed ２ billion people. Compassion in World Farming, "[c]rops that could be used to feed the hungry are instead being used to fatten animals raised for food." It takes up to 16 pounds of grain to produce just 1 pound of edible animal flesh. Clearly, what we eat does affect the rest of the world and we are partly responsible for the lack of resources due to our unnecessary consumption of meat.

Plan:

Approach the public in small groups letting them know that this Saturday is the International Day of Climate Action and there are over 4,500 events taking place in 173 countries. Our specific event is sharing the fact that reducing one’s meat consumption is the easiest and fastest way to cutback on over 50 percent of the green house gasses being emitted (see attached World Watch Report, October 2009).

Material
I’ll have some Alternative Living bags and flyers (both in English and Spanish) along with PETA’s celebrity quote brochure. I also have a limited number of coupons/discount offers from local veggie restaurants to hand out.

Feel free to bring any veggie campaign related material that you have so that we can also distribute those. And if you’d like to capture some pictures for our Facebook fan page, feel free to bring your camera or camcorder.

Meeting Location
From Victory and Balboa intersection:
Make a left into the first Balboa Lake entrance as you head South. Then enter the first parking lot on your left.

From Balboa and Burbank intersection:
Make a right into the first Balboa Lake entrance as you head North. Then enter the first parking lot on your left.

Meeting Time
9:45am to 10am and the event will take place till 2pm

If you plan to attend after 10am you can contact me at 818.921.4845 and I’ll try to make my way back to the parking lot. Please free to send me your contact details as well.

If you have any other questions, comments or concerns, please don’t hesitate to contact me.

Looking forward seeing you and reaching out to expand the ever growing veggie community :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZw5zQbOWqA

For now you can take the vegan pledge and help others to too by signing and sharing the petition to be “Meat Free” at least for one day if not more

http://www.MeatFreePetition.com

Prestigious Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production concluded that factory farms pose unacceptable risks to public health, the environment and animal welfare. http://www.ncifap.org/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_BjptdM_Ss

LIVESTOCK’S ROLE IN GLOBAL WARMING IS HUGE

According to a 2006 report by the Food and Agriculture Organization of The United Nations (FAO), entitled “Livestock's Long Shadow”: The FAO report found that livestock production causes 18 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions, including nine percent of all carbon dioxide emissions, 37 percent of methane and 65 percent of nitrous oxide which is 296 times more potent than CO2 as a global warming gas. According to Dr. Kirk Smith, a member of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and professor at University of California-Berkeley, methane is 100 times more potent than CO2 within 5 years of being emitted.

Scientists across the globe have recognized that climate change is happening so fast, human civilization is under threat if we don’t do something within the next few years to significantly reverse the trend of global warming. At the same time, researchers have also realized that although CO2 is the most prevalent gas by weight, even if we were to achieve a zero carbon economy today, the earth will continue to warm hundreds if not thousands of years.

For this reason, if we want to preserve the planet for our children’s generation, we need to reduce those gases and aerosols causing the greatest effect on global warming in the short term, thus giving us time to develop CO2 reduction technologies that can be commercially deployed.