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  stereotypical role of women as sex objects?

  
  How does it do that, though?

  Personally, I'd give Alicia Silverstone the benefit of the doubt on this: I've seen her interviewed on "The View" and other talk shows, and she seems savvy, smart, thoughtful, and committed to making the world a kinder place--including by promoting veganism.

  So if someone is going to call her sexist, I think they should spell that out a bit more. I just can't imagine Alicia doing something SHE saw as sexist, so if she is missing something...

  Again, is any female nudity sexist? That is the only standard by which this advert could be seen as sexist, it seems to me.

  But I may not be seeing this correctly. I do see myself as a feminist, and I think feminists can't just accuse people of Alicia of sexism without explaining.

  I did check out the link at www.PETA.org; Alicia's message about the advert seems totally value-focused.On From Population to PETA posted 2 years, 1 month ago 101 Responses

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  Is any nudity sexist?

  
  Can someone who thinks this is sexist spell out how and why? How does this exploit Alicia Silverstone (or anyone)?

  Is any nudity sexist, by definition (if it's a woman)?

  It seems to me that the two Grist editors that posted the item, both female, didn't think it was sexist. I assume they're both feminists.

  I think calling Alicia Silverstone sexist requires more explanation.On From Population to PETA posted 2 years, 1 month ago 101 Responses

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  Meat is the number one cause of global warming.

  
  Biodiversivist,

  What your charts fail to account for is all the stages of production mentioned in the article. So where meat causes 18 percent of global warming (that includes parts of your transport and powerplants and other categories), all transport requires about 13 percent.

  Considering the vast waste, ineffeciency, and pollution caused by the meat industry, you really do have to totally suspend reality to claim that you can eat meat and be an environmentalist.

  But definitely, concern for animals (which should speak to environmentalists) is another great reason to be a vegan!

  Check out www.Meat.org & www.GoVeg.com.

  On PETA VP argues vegetarianism is the best way to help the planet posted 2 years, 1 month ago 77 Responses

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  Meat: It's not just global warming

  If environmentalism means anything, it should mean that we don't make choices that are excessively resource intensive and polluting, and eating animal products is hugely resource intensive and polluting.

  The U.N. report concluded that the meat industry is "one of the ... most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems, at every scale from local to global."

  It specifically addressed the contribution of eating meat to "problems of land degradation, climate change and air pollution, water shortage and water pollution, and loss of biodiversity."

  The U.S. chart doesn't figure in all the extra stages of production that are required for meat production (i.e., you don't just grow the crops, but you also have to ship them, ship the feed, ship the animals, operate slaughterhouses and feed mills and factory farms, and so on). Once you add in all that stuff, the average American's carbon footprint from eating meat is much larger than their transport footprint (unless they fly often--but that's a different discussion).

  The U.N. report doesn't discuss vegetarianism b/c it's written from a global vantage. For people in the developed world, the best thing we can do to decrease our carbon footprint is to go vegan. If we all gave up our cars, we'd also make less than a 2 percent overall global warming dent (since we're just 5 percent of the global population), but by that standard, no one should do anything to address the issue!

  Partial vegan is better than nothing, but it's still an unnecessary half measure. The best thing any of us can do to walk more lightly on the earth is to adopt a vegan diet, and it's remarkably easy, as well.

  Check out www.Meat.org & www.GoVeg.com.

  On Veganism: All or nothing? posted 2 years, 1 month ago 30 Responses

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  Eating meat is horrible for the environment:

  Meat is the Number One Cause of Global Warming:

  Can you be an environmentalist who clear-cuts the rainforest?
  Environmentalist should mean something...

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  Would you ever open your refrigerator, pull out 16 plates of pasta and toss them in the trash, and then eat just one plate of food? How about leveling 55 square feet of rain forest for a single meal or dumping 2,500 gallons of water down the drain? Of course you wouldn't. But if you're eating chicken, fish, turkey, pork, or beef, that's what you're doing--wasting resources and destroying our environment.

  Animals raised for food expend the vast majority of the calories that they are fed simply existing, just as we do. We feed more than 70 percent of the grains and cereals we grow to farmed animals, and almost all of those calories go into simply keeping the animals alive, not making them grow. Only a small fraction of the calories consumed by farmed animals are actually converted into the meat that people eat.

  A major 2006 report by the United Nations summarized the devastation caused by the meat industry. Raising animals for food, the report said, is "one of the top two or three most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems, at every scale from local to global. The findings of this report suggest that it should be a major policy focus when dealing with problems of land degradation, climate change and air pollution, water shortage and water pollution and loss of biodiversity. Livestock's contribution to environmental problems is on a massive scale ...."

  Click on this link
  for more. On Umbra on meat eating and global warming posted 2 years, 1 month ago 41 Responses