Supporting farm practices that nourish life. A drought that is being called one of the worst in six decades has caused crop fields to wilt throughout Mexico and city water supplies to be rationed. With officials saying that to conserve water, more regulation is needed to restrain livestock activities, the Veracuz state government organized a conference in Orizaba on November 16 to address the interrelated issues of climate change and meat production.
Veracruz Environment Coordinator Mr. Alonso Domínguez Ferráez invited Supreme Master Ching Hai,who attended the meeting via videoconference, to address the concerns as they related to Mexico and beyond.
Supreme Master Ching Hai: It’s easy to see that if we stopped this raising of animals for meat, the weather patterns would be quickly restored, along with the land. In an interview, the president of the Cattlemen’s Confederation mentioned the need for more government subsidies for cattle raising. But what we actually need are subsidies for life-giving practices, not the ones that take the life away from the animals, take away life from us and take away life from our future generations and take the life from our one and only planet.
The government could easily subsidize organic farming instead, which would provide abundant benefit for all the people of Mexico and even would remove 40% of the atmospheric carbon if all tillable land on Earth were organically farmed. For yourself and your children, please ask everyone: Be veg, go green and save the planet.
VOICE: The Mexican media reported about this climate change videoconference with Supreme Master Ching Hai, with the following being an excerpt from an article written for En Politica Zona Centro.
“The goal is to reduce pollution that harms the planet Earth, and this can be achieved by removing the methane in the atmosphere. The proposal to reduce gases is to stop raising the large numbers of cattle being produced today, as this generates 35 percent of the gas that goes into the atmosphere of the Earth.
For this reason, the Environmental Association promotes alternatives so as to avoid consumption of meat from animals, as well as a noble lifestyle, hence the importance of attending the videoconference with Supreme Master Ching Hai…”
VOICE: Our respectful thanks concerned government officials of Mexico and participants of this conference. We join in appreciation for Supreme Master Ching Hai’s shared thoughts and genuine concern for all countries and inhabitants of the planet. May we be veg, go green, and save the planet, to offer our next generations life, abundant natural resources and a peaceful future.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-mexico-drought7-2009sep07,0,6988447.storyhttp://www.thecattlemanmagazine.com/issues/1998/12-98/updateMexCattle.asphttp://enpoliticazonacentro.blogspot.com/2009/11/propone-organizacion-internacional.htmlChina’s lakes are disappearing. Experts report that more than 1,000 lakes have vanished in the past 50 years, with an average of 20 that are now drying up annually. In Hubei province, once known as the land of 1000 lakes, only 34% of the total water area remains. In addition, more than 80% of the lakes along lower Yangtze River are affected by
excessive algae growth, a condition associated with nitrogen runoff from livestock manure and pesticides that suffocates aquatic life. Although the government has allocated funds for clean-up, the researchers are advocating a halt to the discharge of such pollutants, including livestock production. Our appreciation,
all Chinese scientists for alerting us to this disturbing change drying and pollution of the Earth's precious water bodies.
Let us quickly change this picture by switching to sustainable lifestyles that include the Earth-renewing organic plant-based diet. Supreme Master Ching Hai has often addressed these planet-wide tolls while highlighting the effective and necessary solution, as during an August 2009 videoconference in Thailand.
Supreme Master Ching Hai: Many tens of thousands of rivers and great lakes are dying, dead, gone or going. And I don’t know how many more we must wait for to die in order for us to wake up.
The leaders of the nations must do something. The people of all nations must do something. We have to do something to avoid the tragedy that is already happening to billions of other people.
There are one billion people hungry already because of climate change, and short of water and food. And three billion people are short of water. Just be veg. Stop the meat, dairy, fish industry.
Be benevolent. Create a merciful energy that will envelop our world, that will emit mercy, love, protection for us and our children on this planet. Please take action now.
http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/enviornment/china-lost-1000-lakes-in-50-years-says-expert_100269542.htmlhttp://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-11/04/content_12385612.htm http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-11/03/content_12375799.htm http://finance.yahoo.com/currency-converter/#from=CNY;to=USD;amt=14500000Extra NewsIndia announces the Revised National Ambient Air Quality Standards, which encourage the use of cleaner fuels by imposing uniform rules on pollution and air quality for both industrial and residential areas.
http://www.france24.com/en/node/4928396A study by the UK-based Royal Society for the Protection of Birds shows that fishing methods threaten to extinguish certain avian species such as albatross, with a record number that die from getting tangled in the fishing lines.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/6525005/Tuna-demand-threatens-to-wipe-out-albatross-conservationists-claim.htmlThe Mobile GreenWash is gaining favorable comments from customers in Malaysia as the company travels door-to-door offering a waterless carwash service that is eco-friendly and uses safe, biodegradable products.
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2009/11/16/nation/5118031&sec=nation At a meeting in Rome, Italy, Swiss environmental officials speak of the need to protect forests for their important role in mitigating climate change, noting that these protective abilities have begun to diminish with rising temperatures and drought.
http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/front/Forests_need_protection_from_climate_change.html?siteSect=109&sid=9887007&cKey=1224852716000&ty=st&rs=yes
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