First Oprah and Now Barack Obama Has A Vegan Moment
Filed under: animals, campaigns, events, green and famous, interviews — Michael Parrish DuDell @ 10:31 am
August 5th 2008
Part of our job here at Ecorazzi is to read, read, read just about everything we can find to bring you the most up-to-date, delicious green gossip on the web! Therefore if you have a blog and it has anything to do with green living, celebrities, charity, vegetarianism or any related sub-topic, chances are the Ecorazzi team has sifted through your site before! Yesterday, while on Vegan.com, I read this story about Barack Obama’s thoughts on factory farming. Check out a selection from the post as told by animal activist Nikki Benoit:
“I stated how the UN’s reporting that animal agriculture contributes more to greenhouse gas emissions than all of transportation. I mentioned that over 10 billion land animals are funneled through egregious conditions in factory farms and that it requires an obscene amount of water and resources to maintain them [70% of all our grain goes through them]. I reiterated that our health epidemic is only compounded by our environmental crises and resource depletion, and what, as the leader of the most amazing nation, would he do about this…
His response included an admission that our infrastructure needs fixing, and that subsidies need to be taken away from large scale animal ag, helping small family farms. He acknowledged that our health care crises needs to incorporate preventative measures, including more fresh vegetables and fruit. He also said schools need more of these items versus pre-packaged food and meat products. And of course, he pointed the finger at China and India and that their new diet [which is mimicking ours] needs to be changed.”
Sounds to me like progress!! To read the whole piece visit Vegan.com!
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i read the whole article on vegan.com and i just can tell you that i’m very content with mr. obamas reaction! let’s put a part of our hopes into him! i’m sure he is sensible to the whole thing!
I’ll believe it when I see it. Action speaks louder than words.
He didn’t say stop killing animals and eating their decaying flesh. He never said he would not eat animals. Obama parrots anything his handlers decide that a particular crowd wants to hear. I don’t believe anything he says. Why should anyone believe a person who spends 20+ years in a church who has a minister who is also his “spiritual advisor” who rants and raves about 9/11 being the “chickens coming home to roost”, and “God Damn America”, and claims he never heard any comments like Rev. “God Damn America” Wright recorded for all the world to hear, and then “throws him under the bus”, as he did his “typical white” grandmother, Resko, and who knows how many others.
I agree with Barb. He’s not advocating change, he’s agreeing with the statements put before him. I’d rather see him adopt a cow than a dog to prove his devotion to the inprovement of AM’s current conditions – ie- greenhouse gas emitions, unstable health and unethical food production (animal curelity).