In Wake of Bottled-Water Ban, PETA Hopes to Turn Environmentally Conscious Students On to Meat-Free Meals
For Immediate Release:
January 23, 2013
Contact:
Sophia Charchuk 202-483-7382
Burlington, Vt. -- Another "hot-water" environmental issue will hit the University of Vermont (UVM) on Thursday, courtesy of two naked, green-painted, and bewigged PETA members, who will hold signs that read, "Go Green, Go Vegan," as they distribute PETA's "Meat's Not Green" leaflets and vegetarian/vegan starter kits. The bodypainted beauties' point? That while UVM's ban on plastic, disposable water bottles is a good way to start protecting the environment, the very best thing that concerned students can do for the planet is to chuck meat, eggs, and dairy products and go vegan.
When: Thursday, January 24, 12 noon
Where: University of Vermont, at the intersection of Union and Main streets, Burlington
"PETA wants students to know that it's impossible to 'go green' without going vegan," says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. "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."
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." It takes an amount of water equivalent to six months' worth of showers to produce just 1 pound of meat, and factory farms are a major producer of the greenhouse-gas emissions that cause climate change. And, of course, the meat industry is responsible for the daily suffering and terrifying deaths of billions of animals every year.
For more information, please visit PETA.org.