Moby has hit out at organisers of the Live Earth concerts for selling meat at the shows.
Speaking through his blog, the vegan dance veteran quoted the UN statistic that livestock breeding and the gases the animals emit is a huge contributor to worldwide the greenhouse gases in the environment.
He writes: “The one thing that still stuns me… is that almost no one in the 'stop global warming' camp talks about the environmental ramifications of animal production. To quote a UN article: ‘rearing cattle produces more greenhouse gases than driving cars.’
”Livestock production is responsible for the release of more greenhouse gases than every car or SUV or pickup-truck on the planet.”
Clearly on a roll, he continues: “When the major news media report on global warming why do they rarely (if at all) discuss the role of livestock production in climate change?
”It's kind of like talking about the causes of the civil war and forgetting to mention slavery and abolitionism, or talking about someone with lung cancer and neglecting to mention that they smoked 2 packs of cigarettes a day.
”Yesterday at the 'live earth' concerts people were eating hamburgers and hot dogs and chicken, which is akin to getting drunk at the funeral for someone who died of alcohol poisoning.
”It's just depressing that some huge truths about climate change are too inconvenient even for the well-intentioned left.”
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- The issue should address both meat and
animal products which means birds’ eggs
and dairy. A lacto-ovo-vegetarian diet
still supports the breeding and commodification of cows and other
animals who emit methane gasses. So
the clearest thinking environmentalists
are ones committed to a plant-based diet.
Prscilla Feral
Friends of Animals
www.friendsofanimals.org
- I agree, but I don’t think that blaming ”the bloody farting cows” is appropriate. It’s not the cows’ fault, it is the fault
of humans who breed, raise, exploit, abuse, murder and eat them.
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- Way to go, Moby... as Howard Lyman has aptly said: ”being an environmentalist who eats meat is like being a philanthropist who doesn’t give out money.”
It’s amazing that NON of the 7 Live Earth Pledge steps involved consuming less meat and dairy.
Glad you’ve spoken out!
let all the cows, pigs, chickens etc go free and stop eating meat then fill the atmosphere with fart gas instead of eating the fuggin animals.
moby and all your followers you are dick heads stick to taking your E’s and die
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- Yeah, Moby! It’s not a matter of opinion, the science is clear. Animal agriculture is killing the planet, and you can’t be a meat-eating environmentalist. See for yourself at www.GoVeg.com/eco
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