Takoma Park hosts city’s first veg week - 3 May 2009 | |
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Takoma Park hosts city’s first veg week. Senator Raskin(m): I've been seeing as a state Senator the environment costs of livestock production in our state and what the poultry industry has meant to the environment. Because it's a source of pollutants and toxic contamination, nitrogen run-off in the Chesapeake Bay as well as a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions, and so therefore, to global warming, the over arching peril that threatens all of us. VOICE: Senator Raskin wrote to the Takoma Voice journal, calling on all local residents to choose vegetarian meals for one week. This led the nonprofit organization Compassion Over Killing to initiate the weeklong event, which was then officially designated by Mayor Bruce Williams as Takoma Park Veg Week. Executive Director for Compassion Over Killing, Erica Meier, explained more. Erica Meier(F): It specifically encourages people to to choose vegetarian foods because a meat-based diet has been shown to be harmful for our health. It has been shown to harm the planet and it also is responsible for tremendous animal suffering. VOICE: With local restaurants also agreeing to serve additional vegetarian options, businesses and individuals alike joined in the exciting pledge to be veg and contribute to a sustainable world. Madina (f): Hi, I’m Madina, I’m with the International Association of Approved Basketball Officials. Be Veg, Go Green, Save the Planet. Senator Raskin(m): I'm psyched, at least for one week, hopefully more, to be part of this vegetarian community. VOICE: Bravo, Senator Raskin, Mayor Williams, Executive Director Meier, Compassion Over Killing and all others for your Earth-saving initiative in making Takoma Park Veg Week a reality. May people the world over quickly adopt this noble lifestyle for the health of all beings and the planet. For more information about the Takoma Park Veg Week, please visit TakomaVegWeek.com. Bolivian indigenous people at risk of extinction due to climate change. We pray for the protection of the Uru Chipaya and other indigenous peoples through these urgent times. Let us work together in adopting truly sustainable lifestyles to ensure the survival of all humankind. In an international seminar on August 20, 2008, Supreme Master Ching Hai once again expressed her concern and explained how a global shift to a vegan diet could actually restore fresh water supplies and other natural resources to the Earth. International Seminar Supreme Master Ching Hai: Meat consumption is the one that takes away all things. Water, cereals, and the vegetable protein, up to 85 percent of it. So, it’s taking away a lot of the world resources. And water, 70 percent of it. So even if we don’t shower, we don’t brush teeth, it amounts to nothing when they don’t stop eating meat. We’re going to damage this planet. The resources will be running out. It’s already running out.
Germany, our warmhearted thanks for your support of the Alliance of Small Island States and the fragile state of their nations. May this be the year when change on a global level is made to protect island residents and all lives.
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