Have Plans on Earth Day? Watch This

categories: Environment and Global Warming, Farm Animals, Vegan, Videos

Published April 21, 2009 @ 06:33AM PT

I assume that even if you're not planning to celebrate Earth Day tomorrow with a party or by attending an event, you're at least going to be going about your life as usual on Earth Day, right? I mean, you're still going to at the very least eat at some point, right? And on Earth Day and every day, you care about the planet and your effects on it, right? Then watch this. The link has been floating around for a while, but I never watched it until Mary Martin of Animal Person posted it the other day because, for some reason, I had the idea that it was a specific video I'd already seen a dozen times. I was wrong; this one was new to me.

Watch. It covers a lot of issues, with compelling images of what's happening around--and to--this world of ours and how it's happening.

I will make but one remark on the video's message, the same one I've made at other times: the issues attributed to "beef" production are dairy issues too. Replacing omnivorism with vegetarianism and replacing flesh intake with increased dairy and egg intake isn't a solution--it doesn't reduce your environmental footprint nearly as much as cutting out animal products altogether, and it doesn't reduce suffering either if your reasons for cutting out flesh intake are ethical; it just moves the suffering to dairy cows, veal calves, egg-laying hens, and baby male chicks.

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Great video...I even posted it to my own website, urging others to go Vegan tomorrow...keep up the amazing work.
-Kristen

Posted by Kristen Magno on 04/21/2009 @ 08:06AM PT
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I would love to see this signficantly discussed on Earth Day and all the time. This is more relevant than how many ways corporate America is coming up with green gestures. Rev. Bookburn - Radio Volta

Posted by Rev Bookburn on 04/21/2009 @ 08:49AM PT
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LOVE the video. im sending it to like everyone i know

Posted by amanda goodwin on 04/21/2009 @ 09:17AM PT
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THANK you so much for highlighting the non-difference between meat & dairy. Unlike just about everyone else I know, I do not think ovolactovegetarianism is any better than omnivorism. In many ways it is worse, both environmentally (pollution from waste & effects on wildlife) and welfare-wise.
In addition, using the word "vegetarian" to ease people into the scary idea of veganism only encourages people to remain stuck in vegetarianism. It helps people believe that they are doing as much as they need to, and veganism is too far on the fringe to be feasible. It further marginalizes veganism.
If we're in it for the long haul, we need to be consistent and bring veganism out into the public eye. Vegans, stop hiding behind the more socially acceptable moniker of "vegetarian." Stop betraying cows & chickens!

Posted by Susan Cho on 05/09/2009 @ 02:06AM PT
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Stephanie is an independent animal rights advocate, a vegan, a tree-hugging environmentalist, and a freelance editor and writer. She lives in St. Louis with an aging corgi-lab and an adolescent rescued pit bull.