People are fed a lot of lies to keep them feeding on products of
cruelty that are disastrous to their health as well as to the
environment.
One of these products of cruelty is chicken – something I’ve known
for quite a while. So I was happy to see an article in the Fall 2007
issue of PETA’s ANIMAL TIMES that further explains how eating chicken
contributes to the destruction of the environment.
In an article titled “Why You Can’t Be a Meat-Eating
Environmentalist,” there is a paragraph bearing the title “Eating
Chicken Destroys the Amazon” that states, and I quote:
“Eating Chicken is just as bad for the environment – and your health
– as eating beef is. (And chickens are abused even worse than cows.) KFC
and other companies that sell chicken flesh are largely responsible for
the destruction of rain forests, because the birds they raise are fed
crops grown in the Amazon. More than 2.9 million acres of Amazon rain
forest were destroyed in the 2004-2005 crop season in order to grow food
for chickens and other factory-farmed animals.”
People need to start facing the facts about the effect that their
eating habits are having: “According to the U.N., the meat industry
generates more greenhouse gases than all the cars, trucks, ships, and
planes in the world combined.” Wow! Yet politicians, who are beholden to
the powerful industries that keep this destruction going, would rather
lie to the public that they are supposed to serve.
See also:
http://www.all-creatures.org/health.html
http://www.all-creatures.org/recipes.html
http://www.all-creatures.org/anex/index.html
