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November 17, 2022
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Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt – PETA Asia’s scantily clad “lettuce women” headed to the United Nations Local weather Change Convention (COP27) at the moment to reveal their pores and skin and lay naked the summit’s hypocrisy of serving meat, dairy, and different planet-killing meals. Based on the UN’s personal suggestions, going vegan is critical if we’re to keep away from the worst results of the local weather disaster, since animal agriculture is answerable for practically one-fifth of human-induced greenhouse fuel emissions. Photographs are obtainable right here.
“Would an oncologist take puffs of a cigarette whereas administering chemotherapy? As a result of that’s precisely how leaders look once they discuss saving the planet in between bites of meat,” says PETA Director of Outreach Ashley Byrne, who traveled to Egypt to volunteer as a lettuce woman (pictured above, left). “Double requirements are on full show at COP27, and PETA is asking on the UN to go vegan or go residence.”
By some estimates, animal agriculture is answerable for extra greenhouse fuel emissions than all of the world’s transportation methods mixed. The meat, egg, and dairy industries additionally use an infinite quantity of water—it takes greater than 2,400 gallons to supply simply 1 pound of beef—whereas polluting waterways with manure runoff, and greater than 90% of all Amazon rainforest land cleared since 1970 is used for grazing livestock, exacerbating the local weather disaster. Along with serving to save the planet, every particular person who goes vegan saves practically 200 animals yearly from day by day distress inside a darkish shed or on a squalid feedlot and a terrifying dying underneath the slaughterhouse knife.
PETA—whose motto reads, partly, that “animals aren’t ours to eat”—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For extra data, please go to PETA.org or observe the group on Twitter, Fb, or Instagram.