"CNN reporter Isabelle Gerretsen reported on the United Nations Scientis Major Report released Thursday: Change food production and stop abusing land - Humans have damaged around a quarter of ice free land on earth, scientists warned, stressing that further digression must be stopped to prevent catastrophic global warming. The warning comes a year after the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concluded in a landmark report that we only have until 2030 to drasticaly reduce our dependance on fossil fuels and prevent the planet from reaching the crucial threshold of 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
I read this when I turned on my phone this morning and it made me think how important my talk was with the Chef and Owner of Colonial Diner in Woodbury on Wednesday. A group of my friends who are vegan and vegetarian have been meeting there because they have a large and delicious array of vegan choices on their menu. On Wednesday, we met the chef and praised his recipes and his dishes. He told us he had become a vegan 6 months ago and it has changed his life. He feels so much better and healthier and has lost a lot of weight.
Animal agriculture is one of the main factors in global warming. Also this week I read an article about an outbreak in the midwest of antibiotic resistant salmonella from picnics featuring pig roasts. The animals had been raised in unhealthy conditions (needless to see inhumane as well) and were so sick the farmers pumped them full of antibiotics for pneumonia and other diseases, creating a new strain of salmonella that is resistant to antibiotics.
It seems the general public is so stupid and ignorant as well as lacking in compassion that they will have to sicken and lose their homes before they realized that bloated gas guzzling vehicles and meat based diets are bad for us and for the planet.
When I see the state of the people in my supermarket, I am appalled. And their carts are filled with sugary sodas (another report connects sugar laced drinks with early onset dementia) and fattening unhealthy foods. Along side that, they are eating at fast food places. They drag their bulging bodies through the store blindly buying salt and sugar filled and nutrition deficient foods to eat at home and feed their children. It makes me sad.
We have had revolutions before and we will again and the chef at the Colonial Diner gave me hope!
Happy Trails,
Jo Ann
wrightj45@yahoo.com
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