Meat-Free Meals Can Help Concerned Canadians Reduce Their Carbon Footprints, Says PETA
For Immediate Release:
January 10, 2013
Contact:
Sophia Charchuk 202-483-7382
Regina, SK -- 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 Regina on Friday. The bodypainted beauties' point? Canadians can help the environment by chucking meat, eggs, and dairy products and going vegan.
When: Friday, January 11, 12 noon sharp
Where: Cornwall Centre, on the southeast corner of Scarth Street and 11th Avenue, Regina
"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 saves more than 100 animals every year from daily suffering and a terrifying death.
For more information, please visit PETA.org.