Posted on 07/05/2007 10:48:01 AM PDT by RWR8189
Organisers of the Live Earth concerts should not sell burgers or hot dogs at the high profile gigs, an animal rights group claimed today.
Peta said that selling meat at a concert for the environment would be like selling cigarettes at an anti-cancer fundraiser because of the amount of greenhouse gas emitted by the meat farming industry.
And Peta activists said that Wembley should take meat off the menu after a recent UN report found that the meat industry creates more greenhouse gases than all the cars, trucks, ships and planes in the world combined.
Wembley Stadium is set to host the London Live Earth on Saturday, and will see acts including Madonna, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Duran Duran, Damien Rice, James Blunt, Razorlight and the Pussycat Dolls perform to draw attention to global warming.
The concerts, championed by former US presidential candidate turned green campaigner Al Gore, will take place simultaneously across the globe, with a live audience of one million, and another two billion watching on TV or tuning in on the radio or internet.
However, Peta campaigner Yvonne Taylor said that it would be "hypocritical" if the damage caused by the industry was overlooked at the concert, and said that the group had written to the managing director of Wembley Stadium, Alex Horne, urging him not to sell meat at the event.
She said: "There's no such thing as a meat eating environmentalist.
"We're saying, it's all a very good cause and obviously we're very supportive, but one thing seems to have been missed, which is that even the UN say that the meat industry causes more greenhouse gases than all the cars, trucks, ships and planes in the world combined.
"It would be hypocritical to be serving meat at an event for the environment, and if you really cared about the environment, you wouldn't be eating meat in the first place.
"At most of these event they have burger stalls, so we've written to them asking them just to have vegetarian food there. You can get vegetarian versions of hot dogs and burgers. We're just drawing their attention to the UN report.
"Trying to ignore that is wrong, and the public need to know this fact."
In the letter, Peta campaigns coordinator Marie-Claire Macintosh wrote: "On behalf of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) Europe, I am writing to ask that you honour the spirit and goal of the Live Earth concert on 7 July by ensuring only vegetarian food will be sold at the event.
"A recent UN report has pointed out that the meat industry is 'one of the top two or three most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems, at every scale from local to global'.
"Researchers at the University of Chicago have determined that switching to a vegan diet is more effective in countering global warming than switching from a standard American car to a Toyota Prius.
"Selling meat at a concert to benefit the environment would be like selling cigarettes at an anti-cancer fundraiser. By only selling vegetarian foods, you will send a strong message that people need to change their dietary habits in order to save the planet while also introducing people to delicious new foods.
"You would be showing the world that you are committed to acting in an environmentally responsible way."
Madness. Counterproductive. Cows produce methane and should be eaten to control green house gases.
Make my wine and my meat RED.
If they really cared about Mother Earth they wouldn’t burn the carbon fuels to put on the gig nor would event-goers burn the carbon fuels to get there and back.
Don’t serve any food. Most food processing is bad for the environment. Don’t sell anything to drink. Bottled water requires shipping and the use of petroleum. All other contained beverages requires production that is bad for the environment and causes global warming. All music is to be done without electricity as this causes carbon emmisions. And no one should use any fuel burning vehicles to get to the show.
What concert?
The vegans would get soooooo angry, but I always thought it was hilarious.
Where I used to work there were allot of vegetarians so at evens where pizza was ordered it was like a salad and the folks who did eat mean had to fight over the 5% of the food that had pepperoni on it..
Yes - some of the performers insist no one should use more than three squares of TP when they go to the washroom - perhaps the facilities should be paperless as well at Wembley.
Oh, I love it. Their values can be forced on you, but you not only are not allowed to force your values on them, you cannot even practice them in their presence. Real tolerant.
It’s going to take at least two days to clean up all the trash the concert-goers are going to leave behind.
Honestly. The vegan food looked like a bowl of grass & some grapes. I stopped going to the parties long ago.
How many Gulfstream IVs will fly rockers, actors and politicians to the concert?
And all the water used to do laundry and to shower is a waste of gaia’s precious blood. Too much sunlight and farmland is used in the growth of the patchouli plant. Most of the plant is wasted when only the oil is used.
“Don’t serve any food. Most food processing is bad for the environment. Don’t sell anything to drink. Bottled water requires shipping and the use of petroleum. All other contained beverages requires production that is bad for the environment and causes global warming. All music is to be done without electricity as this causes carbon emmisions. And no one should use any fuel burning vehicles to get to the show.”
You left out: They should stop breathing.
I love what I call the PETA Paradox: They believe we're morally equivalent to animals and they further believe that this means we have no right to kill and eat or otherwise use animals for out benefit.
But...the [other] anumals use each other for food, etc., so if we're morally indistinguishable, shouldn't we just strive to be the baddest animal on the block, doing what all our animal brethren do as well as we possibly can?
If they believe we should follow some type of moral framework in our interaction with animals, it means they think we're different, in fact superior.
Cows taste good because they’re made of meat.
Join ‘PETA’
P-people
E-eating
T-tasty
A-animals
Here’s a novel suggestion for the complainers: Don’t pick up the hot dogs at the food court. It’s that simple, no reason to dictate what others may eat. But then, what’s a liberal to do if not dictate what others eat. Or do? Or say...
And past cocaine and heroin binges.
I love this. Imagine all the people having to suffer through veggie food. A whole generation raised on meat finally facing the reality of dealing with controlling hippies.
I bet they riot
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