Report to UN highlights vegetarianism, meaning an animal-free diet, in alleviating global poverty. 

Anders Berntell of the Stockholm International Water Institute presented the report, “Saving Water from Field to Fork,” along with co-authors from Sri Lanka and Sweden. In evaluating water needs for meeting the United Nations Millennium Development Goals of a 50 percent reduction in world hunger by 2015, the report found that water requirements were more dependent on people’s diet than any other factors such as household water use. Dr. Berntell stated that a vegetarian diet consumes up to ten times less water than a meat-based diet

Dr. Berntell and colleagues, you have our gratitude for highlighting the effectiveness of the vegetarian diet in conserving our precious natural resources. We pray that all governments heed this message in our efforts to ensure that everyone in the world receives enough food. 

Human-made climate change is already affecting ecology worldwide.

A group of international experts conducted a study of nearly 30,000 animal and plant species for changes in their behaviors and populations since 1970. Checking against historical records to account for natural variations, researchers found that the recorded changes could only be explained by global warming in 90 percent of the cases, and that 95 percent of the environmental changes such as glacial retreat and permafrost melting, also corresponded to rising temperatures. Cynthia Rosenzweig, head of the climate impact group at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, said, “When we look at all these impacts together, it is clear they are across continents and endemic.

We're getting a sense that climate change is already changing the way the world works."  
Our appreciation, concerned scientists, for this detailed and comprehensive study that reveals the serious state of our Earth. May we appreciate the interdependent quality of all life and take effective actions to save our unique ecosystem.