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Increasing public concern is matched by a
feeling of impotence. People are increasingly
Planet on a Plate provides a worrying adopting those practices they are asked to –
introduction to the climatic damage caused recycling, using less plastic, switching off lights,
by large-scale meat, dairy and fish eating and so on – but they instinctively know that
across the world. In 2009, some 55 billion this is tinkering at the edges and are looking
food animals were slaughtered, 80 per cent for leadership. They aren’t getting it!
of which were reared in obscene, intensive
factory farms. These simple facts are at the They are simply not being asked to do the one
heart of almost all of the world’s huge thing that could have an immediate and
environmental problems, any one of which massive impact – change their diet! By giving
could eventually prove catastrophic for the up meat and fish, and preferably dairy
human species but are already destroying products too, a person massively reduces his or
other species at an unprecedented rate. her contribution to most environmental
calamities because livestock are at their heart.
This well-researched insight explains what
we as individuals can do to reduce this
relentless destruction. Forests are being Tony Wardle is a journalist,
felled on an industrial scale, the extinction of writer and award-winning
plant and animal species is accelerating TV producer and helped to
whilst topsoil is being lost or degraded. Air found Viva!. He is now its
and water pollution are increasing, fresh associate director and edits
water is rapidly reducing and deadly its magazine Viva!Life and
superbugs threaten our future. At the same Veggiehealth, the magazine
time, the world’s oceans are being raped and of the Vegetarian & Vegan
poisoned at an unsustainable rate. Foundation (VVF). He co-
authored The Silent Ark
All these problems are potentially with Viva! and VVF founder, Juliet Gellatley. Tony
catastrophic but none more so than global Wardle is author of a 50-page referenced report
warming – and all stem largely from the on the environment called Diet of Disaster, from
same cause. which much of this information was taken. It is
available from Viva! for £3.50 (inc p&p).
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