Meat-Free Meals Can Help Concerned Americans Reduce Their Carbon Footprints, Says PETA
For Immediate Release:
March 12, 2013
Contact:
Sophia Charchuk 202-483-7382
Portland, Or. -- Wearing green bikinis and bodypaint, sporting green hair, and holding signs that read, "Go Green, Go Vegan," three PETA members will distribute PETA's "Meat's Not Green" leaflets to lunchtime shoppers in downtown Portland on Wednesday. The bodypainted beauties' point? Whether you were born with the luck of the Irish or not, the best way to go green and help the environment is by chucking meat, eggs, and dairy products and going vegan.
When: Wednesday, March 13, 12 noon
Where: The intersection of S.W. Morrison Street and S.W. Broadway, Portland
"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 Americans 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.
