Green politicians should be vegan
THE stated aim of the Green Party is to save the planet. So why do most Greens continue the singularly most environmentally destructive act – eating meat, dairy and eggs?
The highly respected WorldWatch Institute says the consumption of animal product is responsible for 51 per cent of all human-made greenhouse gases.
Why, also, do the Greens encourage the consumption of free-range eggs when they say they are in favour of animal rights?
They know that hens are pushed to their biological limits and forced to produce up to 30 times more eggs than they would in the wild and that all hens meet a brutal end at the slaughterhouse.
There are also 30 million day-old male chicks – products of the hen breeding industry – that are gassed or tossed alive into giant industrial shredders each year in the UK.
To my knowledge, there are three vegans in the house of commons. The 'Green' MP Caroline Lucas, below, is not among them.
All are Labour MPs.
You must question the Greens' real agenda. If they say they are for the environ-ment but won't live a lifestyle that makes the most environmental sense then what is their real agenda?
MARK RICHARDS Newcastle
5 Comments
by mole10
Wednesday, January 25 2012, 2:07PM
“Rainbow Joy.
Nice posting but I fell off my chair in near cardiac arrest on the last line.
I hadn't been to the doctor's surgery for twenty years as running marathons didn't seem like I was about to die. The odd cold or sparain was tolerated for the good of the NHS.
One day, a nurse said I should visit my GP to get my record up and running as she believed I may have a slight problem.
I took the advice and after having a quiet word with my Doctor, he assures me I live with at least two killer diseases requiring urgent medication as directed by the WHO!
I walked out of the surgery a complete train wreck and I live life day to day thankful of waking up in the mornings.
When a cold caller phoned asking me about requiring life insurance I thought about and considered his views on why I should max myself up on it.
Once we got over the sell, he then asked about my health...
Marathons, Esporta, you name it I did it.
Perfectly healthy.
Then he asked me about any illnesess.
I told him about my two life threatening diseases found by my doctor and of course, he drew his breath in sharpening his pencil.
The cost of Insurance has to be substantially higher he said because I was a 'risk'.
Risk,I said?
To cut a long story short, I saked him when was the last time he went ot the doctor's surgery.
Never, he said.
I then went on about how he might be dying due to life threatening diseases he doesn't know he has and any life insurance he has may be illegal and void.
He hung up.”
by Jobeeone
Wednesday, January 25 2012, 11:58AM
“Yeah, but you have forgotten spelling and grammer. Three months!!! What about caring for ALL animals. Just had a lovely veggie curry thing my man did for me. Having a look see if doggo has fleas later on. Oh, what to do.”
by rainbowjoy
Wednesday, January 25 2012, 11:19AM
“As a Vegan for many years I would like to say the becoming a vegan is a personal choice.
Admittedly I did it to save animals from the cruel way they were being treated by farmers and food producers.
Free range eggs are kinder because the hen is given a better life living outdoors rather than being cooped up pardon the pun 20 chickens to one very small cage and never seeing daylight. they are constantly sitting on perches and rescued chickens feet are curled permanently for months into the recovery period.
I am fed up with the diet argument I have been a vegan for over 15 years and like any diet you have to eat in a balanced way you don't miss any of the important things like iron, omega oils or protein as the milk marketing board would have you believe, eating nuts like Brazil's and walnuts have high concentrations of omega oils, Quinoa is a grain that has high protein and almonds too soya is far more healthy than meat and in countries where it is eaten all the time there is a very a minuscule rate of cancer of course exercise is important too, my health radically improved three months into my vegan diet and I haven't looked back, I haven't visited a doctor for many years because I am so healthy.”
by Jobeeone
Tuesday, January 24 2012, 7:44PM
“Dear God Mole man what are you? Bored as flu ridden me?
Angelina Jolie (apparently the most beautiful person alive) was a vegan and has made an enormous point of being totally okay with all living things. I used to keep chickens and to be honest they would have been bored ****less (not as much as you'd think but by God! The smell!) by this vegan person. Whats going to happen if we stop eating each other (readers of the Star need not apply)? Anyway back to looks good. She is now not a vegan because her hair fell out and she looked iller than she does now. We are all parasites. My chikadees scratted for grubs and then bit the bums off the others when my step father couldn't be ****d to buy some food for them. What the hell does this person think we all feast on? EACH OTHER BOZOO.”
by mole10
Tuesday, January 24 2012, 3:58PM
“A hen will lay an egg regardless of the conditions it lives in, cage or free range.
It is humane that the hen is allowed to lay the egg after having full access to outside and inside habitation.
It is always better that the hen is fed an organic diet but the cost will be more due to lack of farming subsidy by the Government.
The undermining of free range eg production is coming from Europe which exports battery eggs and is an anomoly of the sytem.
The clear choice is not to buy them and allow the British sale of battery eggs to collapse.”