Meat-Free Meals Can Help Concerned Canadians Reduce Their Carbon Footprints, Says PETA
For Immediate Release:
January 9, 2013
Contact:
Kaitlynn Kelly 202-483-7382
Saskatoon -- Wearing green bikinis and bodypaint, sporting green hair, and holding signs that read, "Go Green, Go Vegan," two PETA members will distribute PETA's "Meat's Not Green" leaflets and "Glass Walls" DVDs to lunchtime shoppers in downtown Saskatoon on Thursday. The bodypainted beauties' point? Canadians can help the environment by chucking meat, eggs, and dairy products and going vegan.
When: Thursday, January 10, 12 noon sharp
Where: Midtown Plaza Shopping Mall, at the intersection of 21st Street E. and 1 Avenue S., Saskatoon
"Between polluting the soil, water, and air and gobbling up our natural resources, the meat industry is as toxic to the Earth as it is to human health," says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. "PETA wants Canadians to know that each of us can personally fight climate change—and save animals—simply by going vegan."
According to the United Nations, raising animals for food is "a top contributor to the most serious environmental problems, at every scale from local to global." In its report, the U.N. found that the meat industry causes local and global environmental problems even beyond climate change. It said that the meat industry should be a main focus in every discussion of land degradation, air pollution, water shortages and pollution, and loss of biodiversity. In addition, vegans are, on average, trimmer than meat-eaters, and they're less prone to suffering from heart attacks, strokes, diabetes, and cancer. And, of course, every vegan spares the daily suffering and terrifying deaths of more than 100 animals every year.
For more information, please visit PETA.org.