At
a recent conference on glaciers and climate change hosted by the
Norwegian Polar Institute, Dr. Christian Nellemann, a senior officer
heading the global Rapid Response Assessments for the United Nations
Environment Program, stated that the disappearance of the Himalayan
glaciers would cause billions to lose all access to water, thus hugely
impacting the food supply of Asia and beyond.
Dr. Christian Nellemann – Head of Rapid Response Assessments for United Nations Environment Program (M):
I think the situation is actually extremely urgent, simply because of
the fact that in Asia we’re talking about over three billion people that
will be impacted,1.3 billion people directly impacted by the changes in
these water resources.
But globally, with the current food
crisis, with the financial crisis that we are experiencing, any change,
in 30-40 years from now is going to have a huge impact on global food
supply and food prices, for anyone, whether you live in the United
States or in Africa or in Asia, it's going to have an impact.
VOICE:
With now more than a billion people going hungry in the world each
year, Dr. Nellemann highlights the livestock industry as a more
fundamental threat to food security because it is a major cause of
global warming.
Dr. Christian Nellemann – Head of Rapid Response Assessments for United Nations Environment Program (M):
The primary cause of loss of natural environments, of wildlife all
over, it’s not by hunting, it is primarily by the loss of their habitat
and their homes by cutting rainforest and converting these areas into
crop lands [for animal feed].
VOICE: Dr. Nellemann forecasts that we may lose 25 percent of the global food supply due to current rates of
meat production and
meat consumption.
Dr. Christian Nellemann (M):
In many areas the whole livestock sector is a major threat to not just
climate change but also to global food supply. We need to ensure that we
do not spend all of our cereals simply on feeding animals, because it
is not sustainable. So one of the most significant things we can do
globally to reduce the loss of biodiversity and help support feeding of
the rising populations, is actually focusing on our global
meat consumption.
VOICE:
Our appreciation, Dr. Christian Nellemann and the United Nations
Environment Program for helping us to understand the interrelated
consequences of livestock production on the humans and the planet.
We pray we may stop this tragic and unnecessary loss of so many lives through a global shift away from
meat and toward the sustainable
vegan diet.
In
March 2009, during a videoconference in Xalapa, Mexico with dignitaries
and the public, Supreme Master Ching Hai offered once again a simple
yet comprehensive solution to the crisis facing our planet.
Supreme Master Ching Hai : With
the world food shortage continuing to worsen, more people are going
hungry every day, so if we just stop the animal raising practices and
turn instead to growing organic vegan food for humans, everyone in the world will benefit, and we can save our planet.
If
we don’t feed all the corn and all the cereals and vegetables to the
animals, all the food that we produce right now could feed two billion
people already.
So, there’s not even worry about a food shortage
and then we have a better future, a better conscience. And our planet
will have a bright future if everyone turned to organic vegetarian diet and organic vegan farming.
Reference http://www.unep.org/Documents.Multilingual/Default.asp?DocumentID=528&ArticleID=5751 http://news.scotsman.com/world/One-billion-people-now-.5363018.jp
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