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Outrageous: We are Destroying the Planet
February 22, 2016

  1. Dr. Jane Goodall Talks About Climate Change and Diet
  2. This Week’s Famous Quote: Fyodor Dostoevsky
  3. Outrageous!
  4. Depleting the Oceans One Bite at a Time
  5. This Week’s Video: Eat Plants!

1. Dr. Jane Goodall Talks About Climate Change and Diet

Dr. Jane Goodall sat for an interview to discuss the impact of food choices on climate change, especially as it relates to destruction of rainforests. The Democracy Now! article states, “At the U.N. climate summit in Paris last month, Goodall talked Republican climate change denial, the link between diet and climate change, her hopes ‘to save the rainforests’ from corruption and intensive farming, and how climate concerns drove her to be a vegetarian.”

To read this compelling interview, please visit Jane Goodall on the Threat of Animal Agriculture, GOP Climate Change Denial & Why She's a Vegetarian.

2. This Week’s Famous Quote

Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will soon perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love.

~ Fyodor Dostoevsky

3. Outrageous!

Mother Jones helps expose a loophole the livestock industry uses to hide the terrible pollution it produces. The article states: “In its latest appropriations bill passed in December, Congress renewed a provision that prevents the Environmental Protection Agency from requiring emission reports from livestock producers. The move came only days after US officials stressed to other governments the importance of accurate reporting at the Paris climate negotiations.”

To learn more about this outrageous loophole, please visit This Huge Loophole Helps the Meat Industry Hide Its Pollution. 

4. Depleting the Oceans One Bite at a Time

According to new data that The Washington Post highlights, the state of the world’s fish stocks may be in worse shape than official reports indicate. Overfishing has been steadily depleting the oceans for decades and unless serious measures are taken, fish populations will never be able to recover.

Please visit Why we've been hugely underestimating the overfishing of the oceans

5. This Week’s Video: Eat Plants!

It takes just 1.5 min to get a good glimpse of how destructive the animal agriculture industry is to the whole planet. The solution? Eat plants!

Check it out here - The Most Shocking 1.5 Minute Video the World Must See!

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