8/24, Radio Interview - 10 am, Soy Happy on Meet the Planet

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Wednesday, August 20, 2003 5:38 PM

Soy Happy

SH radio interview this Sunday

 

 

Catch the interview with SH founder/director Johanna McCloy on the

environmental radio program " Meet the Planet " .

 

WHEN: This Sunday, August 24th from 9:00-10:00 pm PST (midnight EST)

 

WHERE CAN I LISTEN: Around the bay area of CA on 910 AM or online (live) at

http://www.knew910.com (click on Listen Live on the left)

 

To offer feedback: talk910

If you're outside the area and would like this program to air on a local

radio station, make the suggestion to your local talk radio show!

 

Following the interview with Johanna, host Doug Ivey declared, " From this

moment on, beef will never touch my lips! " He plans to throw out all the

beef in his freezer and promptly ordered his first Gardenburger for lunch

after the taping of this show. And you know what? He loved it.

 

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Here are some of the factoids on factory farming's effects on our

environment that Johanna did not have time to mention on the program. NOTE:

They are taken directly from " The Food Revolution " by John Robbins. He

cites every fact and statistic with a reference. A link to this amazing

book is available at http://www.soyhappy.org/links2a.htm

 

Tropical rainforests contain 80 per cent of the world's species of land

vegetation and acount for much of the global oxygen supply. In one square

mile of Amazon rainforest, there are more species of birds than exist in all

of North America. Two thirds of Central America's rainforests have been

cleared primarily to raise cattle whose stringy, cheap meat is exported to

profit the u.s. food indsutry. When it enters the United States, the beef

is not labeled with its country of origin, so there is no way to trace it to

its sources.

(pg. 256-257)

 

Gallons of oil spilled by the Exxon-Valdez: 12 million

Gallons of putrefying hog urine and feces spilled into the New River in

North Caroline on June 21, 1995, when a " lagoon " holding 8 acres of hog

excrement burst: 25 million

(pg. 242)

 

" Livestock account for 15-20% of (overall) global methane emmissions. "

" American feed (for livestock) takes so much energy to grow that it might as

well be a petroleum byproduct. " World Watch Institute

(pg. 267)

 

Since beef requires the burning of 54 fossil fuel calories for the

production of a calorie of protein, and soybeans require only two, people

deriving their protein from soybeans are, in effect, consuming only 4

percent as much energy- and producing only 4 percent as much carbon dioxide-

as people deriving their protein from beef.

(pg. 266)

 

Amount of waste produced by the 1,600 dairies in California's Central

Valley: more than the entire human population of Texas.

Total number of water quality inspectors in Clafiornia's entire Central

Valley: 4

" Dairies are the single largest source of water pollution...Our volunteers

frequently encoutner massive discharges of diary waste that lieterally

cauterize waterways and kill fish...We're in the process of losing one of

the most marvelous and diverse aquatic ecosystems in the world. "

-Deltakeeper, an environmental group that monitors California's waterways

(pg. 246-247)

 

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Check out " The Food Revolution " and get informed!

 

David L. Katz, M.D., M.P.H. Yale University School of Medicine offers this

quote:

" In The Food Revolution, John Robbins points out that the typical " American

diet " is not only associated with adverse effects on human health, but with

the reprehensible treatment of animals and irreparable harm to our land and

water. Packed with startling facts and provocative insights, The Food

Revolution is compelling reading for anyone interested in nutritional

health, the treatment of animals, or even, simply, the fate of the planet! "

 

 

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