Take Extinction Off Your Plate
An Animal Rights Article from All-Creatures.org

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Take Exinction Off Your Plate / Center for Biological Diversity
March 2014

The Center's new Earth-friendly Diet campaign provides facts about the effects of meat production on the planet, as well as helpful resources to help you take extinction off your plate. Every meat-free meal makes a difference, and we need you on board. Please take the pledge today, then share it on Facebook with your friends.

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From habitat destruction and massive greenhouse gas emissions to wasted water and fouled skies, our nation's voracious appetite for meat is causing great harm to our planet and its wildlife.

We asked you earlier this year about your eating habits and what you thought about the effect of meat production and consumption on wildlife and the environment. Overwhelmingly you told us that groups like the Center for Biological Diversity should be doing more to address the harms of meat production and help change the American diet. We listened, and today we're launching the Earth-friendly Diet campaign.

Thank you for taking our survey. Now we're asking you to join the movement by taking a pledge to eat less meat for the planet.

Cutting just one-third of the meat from your diet can save as much as 340,667 gallons of water, more than 4,000 square feet of land and the greenhouse gas equivalent of driving 2,700 fewer miles a year. By pledging to reduce your meat consumption by one-third or more, you'll have a huge impact on the environment and the hundreds of species threatened by livestock and Big Agriculture.

The Center's new Earth-friendly Diet campaign provides facts about the effects of meat production on the planet, as well as helpful resources to help you take extinction off your plate. Every meat-free meal makes a difference, and we need you on board. Please take the pledge today, then share it on Facebook with your friends.

Already a vegetarian? We need your help, too. You're like many of our supporters who indicated on the survey that they don't eat meat or have already started to cut back. That makes you a valuable wildlife advocate who can help others join the movement. Spread the word by taking the pledge today and telling your friends to sign, too. For the planet, for wildlife and for us.

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