By Robert Cohen -
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http://www.notmilk.com
Please do not consider committing an act of agricultural
bioterrorism.
The stated goal of the Earth Liberation Front (ELF)
includes an agenda designed to:
"Inflict economic damage to those who profit from the
destruction and
exploitation of the natural environment."
The stated goal of the Animal Liberation Front (ALF)
includes an agenda designed to:
"Inflict economic damage to those who profit from the
misery
and exploitation of animals."
Should America's meat and dairy supply become tainted
with foot and mouth disease, anthrax, mad cow disease, or other
infectious diseases, the consequence of your action will result in an
unprecedented American tragedy.
People will immediately cease eating meat or consuming
dairy products, and that might appear to be a good thing, but it is not.
Millions of animals will have to be slaughtered as they were in England
during last year's foot and mouth disease outbreak. Such dramatic change
will only be temporary, as it was in Europe. Once the food supply
becomes safe again, people will go back to their old habits and perhaps
eat more meat. Terror does not teach people new ways. The world must be
changed with education and love.
Without meat and dairy, there will be a run on existing
supermarket foods. People will hoard commodities, and there are no
emergency measures that will prevent looting and food riots.
The effects of an act of passion, performed by those
with honorable intentions, might very well backfire by hurting millions
of people very badly.
Please...if you are considering an act of terror and
justify your action as "for the animals," you must reconsider.
This past Monday, March 25, 2002, 140 agriculture
industry representatives met in New York City at the Conference for
Agricultural Bioterrorism and learned that just one case of foot and
mouth disease would probably destroy America's agriculture industry. One
area of discussion at this conference was a review of law enforcement's
role in combating bioterrorism, and the latest technologies used to
prevent acts of bioterrorism, including sophisticated surveillance
measures.
Three years ago, milk and dairy products in Belgium were
found to contain 100 times the safe level of dioxins. For one full
month, milk, cheese, and meat were pulled from supermarket shelves. The
people of Belgium never again want to relive the worst examples of human
depravity. People will do anything to obtain food for themselves and
family members.
The United States Department of Environmental Protection
has not released a dioxin report that reveals greater contamination in
our food supply that even Belgium experienced. USDA and FDA both fear
food riots. For once, I agree with both agencies. The existing news is
horrible, and is being censored so that such food riots do not occur in
America. The report should not be released.
One day, everybody will eat a plant-based diet. One day,
all people will learn that drinking body fluids from diseased animals
and eating polluted flesh do not do the human body any good. One day,
people will learn that twelve pounds of diseased and contaminated milk
are concentrated to become one pound of delicious toxic ice cream.
Today is not that day. Too much change too quickly will
create enormous harm. We need a gradual transition to a plant based
diet.
Biological terrorism is not the answer. Agricultural
terrorism will do more harm than good. Should such an event happen, food
will immediately become very scarce.
PLEASE, if you are considering an act that will change
the world in this way, consider all of the consequences.
If we have learned one lesson from the horror of 9/11,
we must face the reality that a small group of motivated individuals,
willing to die for a cause, can defeat billions of dollars worth of
sophisticated security measures.
The animal and earth liberation fronts include
individuals who have unquestionable passions and motivations to change
the world. It is unfortunate that their methods include violent actions.
These controversial people are proud of the fact that for all the burned
buildings and damaged property, they have never taken a human life.
As an ex-volunteer firefighter, I responded to over 500
calls. I and other firefighters are aware that hundreds of firefighters
have been seriously and permanently injured, some killed, by responding
to false alarms or by acts of arson. I have zero tolerance for acts of
violence.
Animal and earth liberators want the world to
immediately begin the transition to a plant based diet in which living
creatures no longer die. That is mankind's benevolent destiny. That
transition can occur over the course of a few months or a year, as
factory farm owners or small farmers transition into alternative food
growing operations. To change the world in one day will create a three
dimensional domino effect of unparalleled magnitude.
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