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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, 2 months ago 101 Responses

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.

Meat is the Number One Cause of Global Warming:

Can you be an environmentalist who clear-cuts the rainforest?

Environmentalist should mean something...

www.GoVeg.com/eco:
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 the link for more.

www.GoVeg.com/eco

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

Um, no.

The stuff you're saying about PETA is just not true. People can check out PETA at www.PETA.org.

Since you can do well on a vegetarian diet, if you choose to eat meat, you're making a bad environmental choice. There's a big difference between the amount of meat you eat vs. your dog/cat, and also between the fact that your cat may have trouble as a vegetarian. You won't.

To minimize suffering as much as possible, adopt a vegan diet.

Check out www.Meat.org to see what eating meat entails.

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

You really can't be a meat-eating environmentalist

These are good points. How can Al Gore and the environmental groups ignore what the U.N. calls the number one cause of global warming?

Al Gore says he cares so much about global warming (and he does seem genuine), so how can he ignore the science from the U.N., the Univ. of Chicago, and every other report that's been done?

The U.N. report also says that eating meat is among the top three causes of every environmental problem, from the smallest to the largest, as detailed at GoVeg.com.

Al and his pals could do a ton of good by encouraging people to adopt a vegetarian diet; it's hard to understand how he can just keep ignoring this issue.On Animal-rights groups point out the climatic effect of meat-eating posted 2 years, 3 months ago 15 Responses