Posts Tagged ‘animals’

A fiction of environmental protection :偽りの環境保護

July 10, 2010 - 1:00 am 25 Comments

何とか完成しました。協力ありがとうございました。

Livestock’s long shadow,06.11.29
http://www.virtualcentre.org/en/library/key_pub/longshad/A0701E00.pdf

According to the 390 page 2006 United Nations report “Livestock’s Long Shadow”, the livestock sector (primarily cows, chickens, and pigs) emerges as one of the top two or three most significant contributors to our most serious environmental problems, at every scale from local to global. The report recommends an immediate halving of the world’s livestock numbers, in order to mitigate the worst effects of climate change.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livestock

Q&A of Japan’s research whaling in the Antarctic
http://www.icrwhale.org/QandAResearch…

Current population estimates of whales(IWC)
http://www.iwcoffice.org/conservation…
Data from Japanese investigation in 2005-2006
a) When there is no interference
   time to death instantaneous death
→  104 seconds     57.6%
b) In case anti-whaling group’s interference
   time to death   instantaneous death
→  258 seconds     48.0%

Data from Norway in 2000
time to death   instantaneous death
136 seconds     78%
http://www.icrwhale.org/gpandsea-geik…
http://luna.pos.to/whale/jpn_hna_deer…

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Profound. A Time to Think.

July 5, 2010 - 7:34 pm 25 Comments

I thought this video was very moving, maybe it was me….

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The Link Between Meat Eating and Climate Change

June 18, 2010 - 5:57 am 25 Comments

Jeremy Rifkin, president of the Foundation on Economic Trends, delivers a keynote address on the devastating role factory farms are playing in the climate change crisis at Animal Legal Defense Fund’s “Future of Animal Law” conference at Harvard Law School in March 2007. According to the 2007 report by the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), livestock generate a whopping 18 percent of human-related greenhouse gas emissions—that’s even more than the gas-guzzling transportation industry. For more information, visit http://aldf.org/article.php?id=434

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Livestock production & the environment

May 24, 2010 - 4:18 pm 25 Comments

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Edit from Compassion in World Farming film with Joanna Lumley. More information about the environmental impact of livestock production is available at http://www.ciwf.org.uk/resources/publications/environment_sustainability

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Oil Industry Insider: Offshore Drilling Dangerous

May 6, 2010 - 1:03 am 25 Comments

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Better to Go Naked

March 21, 2010 - 10:21 pm 2 Comments

I’d rather go naked.

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SUNY-ESF TV / Global Environment – Eutrophication (p1)

November 18, 2009 - 11:18 pm 2 Comments

SUNY-ESF Professor Rick Beal discusses eutrophication and its negitive impact on water systems. Part 1 of 4.

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