Call for the upcoming WWAM:
23 Sept-30 Sept 2011

As you know, the past World Week for the Abolition of Meat [ http://www.meat-abolition.org/en/wwam ] was a success [ http://www.meat-abolition.org/en/actu/closing-communiqu%C3%A9-may-2011-wwam ] throughout the world.

The next WWAM [ http://www.meat-abolition.org/en/call ] will take place, as planned, between 23 September and 30 September 2011.
The aim is to promote again and again the idea that the production and consumption of animal flesh must be abolished [ http://www.meat-abolition.org/en/presentation ].


Advocating the abolition of meat is the logical extension of vegetarianism or veganism. People who are against bull-fighting do not only ask the public to boycott bull-fighting events, they ask for bull-fighting to be banned. The opponents of “foie gras” do not only advise people against buying it, they want force feeding to be banned. Why would the opponents of meat be the only ones to restrict themselves to giving individual advice?
The refusal to eat meat can be seen as a political boycott and as the expression of one’s support for the demand for abolition similar to the campaign for the abolition of slavery in Britain at the end the 18th century where 300,000 people boycotted the sugar produced from slave plantations.

The movement for the abolition of meat is a political act: its aim is to get the public to adhere to the idea that meat should be banned. Its objective is that human societies, one after another, decide to ban the production, sale, and consumption of meat.
The idea is to claim loud and clear that it is not only the duty of each individual to stop supporting the murderous exploitation required by the consumption of animal flesh and "by-products", but that it is also, therefore, the duty of societies as a whole to declare themselves
for the banning of farming, fishing and hunting.


This form [ http://www.meat-abolition.org/en/node/add/announcement ] is at your disposal: please publish announcements as soon as possible (even if dates and events are still tentative).

You can find material here [ http://www.meat-abolition.org/en/resources ].

For widespread visibility, it is also up to us to:

- post this call, circulate it widely and publish it on the indymedia [ http://www.indymedia.org/en/index.shtml ] (please let us know about your publications at contact(at)meat-abolition.org);

- contact the media about the demand for the abolition of meat and about the events that will be organized around it;

- print and distribute leaflets, brochures and/or posters that are available on the "ressources" page [ http://www.meat-abolition.org/en/resources ];

If it is not yet published, please send in your logo (maximum 150 pixels for length and width) so that it can be posted on the "groups" page [ http://www.meat-abolition.org/en/content/partakers ];

All the best with your events!

Contact: contact(at)meat-abolition.org

WWAM organization: meat-abolition.org

Short, introductory texts: For a world-wide movement for the abolition of meat [ http://meatabolition.blogspot.com/ ]

Frequently asked questions [ http://www.meat-abolition.org/en/faq ]

For in-depth information: "Meat Abolition" brochure [ http://abolir-la-viande.org/pdf/meat-abolition.pdf ]

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I like meat and as long as it's raised in a humane way, as in a natural fashion; not a factory farm and slaughtered quickly and painlessly as possible, I don't see any thing wrong beside the American habit of eating too much for one's own health.

Meat Eater, I'm glad you're concerned about the treatment of animals. That was a critical factor in my becoming a vegetarian in the mid-'80s.

Beyond the issue of treatment, I'm concerned about the role of mass-production/distribution of meat in global warming emissions. Also, there's the factor of overpopulation of humans on a planet with finite supplies. We're seeing a sharp decline of animal populations, including marine life, due to meat consumption.

I'm not trying to convert you. These are just some of my concerns.

(By the way, I understand that at least some of the Tongva Indians here in southern California had a way of catching fish by stunning them and then collecting them. This was done by throwing a certain type of plant into the water. That seems a lot more humane to me than using hooks. (I never could stand fishing.) Of course, many American Indians considered themselves indebted to the animals that provided their sustenance. And today, some indigenous groups are at the vanguard of saving such beings from extinction. For example,the Intertribal Bison Cooperative (ITBC), made up of 14 tribes, has been working to repopulate Buffalo and stop their slaughter at Yellow Stone National Park.)

if you're going to chant 'global warming' like a typical mindless parrot, you lose all and any creditability.
just in case you haven't clued in yet; there is no 'global warming' just another carbon tax rip-off and de-industrialization to bring 3rd world status to the developed societies.
You are either a dupe or worse.

the problem with meat is that the production and harvesting is done on a typical economy of scale which invites profit but also encourages and rewards disregard to health, the environment [ no, not the idiot CO2 boogyman ] by pollution and shear cruelty. My advice to all of you is to raise it yourself or find a direct source from a local independent farmer. They really need your help, people.
BTW, it cracks me up to see people who buy this factory farm crap go, eeeuuwwww when you tell them you slaughter your own meat. What a bunch of hypocrites.
oh well....

Global warming is real. The evidence that it's man-made is extremely strong.

WRT to meat - what I read is that beef is the big contributor to GHGs. Chicken is less so. And vegetables are the least (of the foods) of course.

As far as third world status is concerned - you're being rhetorical. The third world is the place with the oil - and we invade these countries to topple governments so our oil companies can take over. The oil companies get rich, and we, the people, get stuck paying for it. We work, and the oil companies get the money.

Of course, the end result of this imperialist global domination, is that even our poor people are rich by global standards. We get screwed, but at least we're in the US, where even poor people can afford to eat meat. Go to a food bank, and there's usually some kind of canned meat available. We can buy beef for our pets, too.

Net result - more GHGs.

Cutting meat is a good thing. But this "world" part, I don't know about. You can read "world" to mean we're going to force the world to not eat meat. You can also read "world" to mean a global network of anti-meat-eating activists. It can go both ways, but I can only support the second way.

I forgot to add - the issue is not CO2, but methane. Growing meat, including cruelty-free organic meat, produces a lot of methane as well as CO2. Methane is worse than CO2 in the long run. The burger you eat today has released methane that won't go away for 17 years.

"Global warming is real. The evidence that it's man-made is extremely strong. "
by whom? The UN quakademics who had to insert cheat codes into the software to bend the 'hockey stick'? And then 'lost' their raw data?
Put
climategate
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