"Every child who dies of hunger in today's world has been murdered."(Jean Ziegler)
Yesterday was the first
demonstration against world hunger in Cologne, organised by a couple of local AR groups as well as attac.
What for?
- producing one unit of meat require an average of 8 units of plant based food (mainly grains and soy)
- that means 35 % of the world's total grain crop is used to feed cattle
- meanwhile, 840 million humans world wide do not have access to enough food... we're not talking about "I could eat something" hungry, but about being nowhere near to meeting the required 1000 calories a day that keeps the metabolism going
- every minute, 11 children world wide die because of malnutrition
The problem is not that there's not enough food for all of us. The problem is what it is used for and major corporations speculating and making money with the poverty of others.
If the crops used to feed cattle would be used to feed humans, we could easily nourish double of today's world population.
I'd better not even start talking about the waste of water and other natural ressources.
Even if you're 150% cold hearted about animals and animal rights- can you ignore those facts when it comes to humans, dear omni reader?
There were about 150 people at the demo which was really well-mannered and quiet for an AR thing from my experience, but there's a bigger one planned in Nuremberg on 13 September.
That living a cruelty-free life that respects both humans and animals is possible was shown by the ever popular nearly vegan restaurant/takeaway Sattgruen from Düsseldorf as well by a bake sale.
soy tomato stew with rice and loads of parsley:
apple-something cake, another non-definable one and strawberry cream goodness!
The Case for Animal Rights by Tom Regan
