Heifer Project Greatly Promotes Animal Agriculture Worldwide !!!

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HEIFER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL GREATLY

PROMOTES ANIMAL AGRICULTURE WORLDWIDE !!!

 

Original Message

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Barbara Biel

Fri Dec 1, 2000 10:24am

The Motley Fool supports Heifer Project Intl's-Pls send letter

 

BACKGROUND:

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Heifer Project International is a non-profit

organization that attempts to feed impoverished

families by giving them animals. The organization

gives pigs, chicks, cows, oxen, water buffalo,

donkeys, and camels, among other animals. Many

animals, like guinea pigs, rabbits, and pigs are

raised just for meat. Others, such as oxen, are used

to pull plows. (For more information, visit their Web

site at http://www.heifer.org .)

 

In the past we targeted the president of Heifer

Project International to no avail. I suggest this

time we try to reach the donors.

 

PLEASE SEND TO ALL OF THE FOLLOWING DONORS :

(sample letter is also enclosed) :

 

 

The Christian Science Monitor

The Christian Science Publishing Society

One Norway Street

Boston, MA 02115

E-mail: support (csmonitor.com)

web site: www.csmonitor.com

 

 

The Boston Globe

135 Morrissey Blvd.

P. O. Box 2378

Boston, MA 02107-2378

E-mail: pr (globe.com)

Web site: http://www.boston.com/globe

 

 

The Rocky Mountain News

400 W. Colfax Avenue

Denver, CO 80204

Mr. Jack McElroy, General Manager

Tel: (303) 892-2495 (in USA)

E-mail: mcelroy

(rockymountainnews.com)

web site: http://www.rockymountainnews.com

 

 

The Honorable Jimmy Carter

The Carter Center

One Copenhill

Atlanta, GA 30307

Fax: 404-420-5145 (in USA)

E-mail: carterweb (emoty.edu)

Web site: http://www.cartercenter.org/aboutus.html

 

 

Frank J. Devlyn

President - Rotary International

One Rotary Center

1560 Sherman Avenue

Evanston, Illinois 60201 USA

Phone: 847-866-3000 (in USA)

Fax: 847-328-8554 (in USA)

Frank J. Devlyn's Guest Book:

http://www.frankdevlyn.org/guestbook.htm

 

 

The Motley Fool

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Ph: 703.838.3665 (in USA)

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or webfool (fool.com)

 

 

 

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SAMPLE LETTER

***Don't forget to sign and include your address, city/state***

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RE: Please stop supporting The Heifer Project International

 

To whom it may concern:

 

I understand that your organization has in the past financially

supported The Heifer Project International. I urge you to

end your support immediately.

 

It is an outrage that in this day and age, The Heifer Project

International aggressively promotes animal agriculture despite

the documented research, which proves that animal agriculture

is harmful to the environment, wastes resources, causes enormous

amount of animal suffering, and produces products that are

detrimental to human health.

 

A plant-based diet conserves resources and is more

economically efficient than a meat-based diet. For example,

vegetarians require 1/6 of an acre of land to feed themselves

each year, but carnivores require 3 and 1/4 acres. The water

needed to produce one pound of wheat is 25 gallons, but the water

needed to produce one pound of meat is 25,000 gallons

(see www.veganvillage.co.uk/veganvillage/vegfam/feed.htm).

 

The consumption of animal products has been conclusively

linked with heart disease, cancer, diabetes, arthritis, and

osteoporosis. Cholesterol (found only in animal products) and

animal fat clog arteries, leading to heart attacks and strokes.

A plant-based diet can prevent 97 percent of coronary occlusions.

The rate of colon cancer is highest in regions where meat

consumption is high and lowest where meat eating is uncommon.

A similar pattern is evident for breast, cervical, uterine, arthritis,

osteoporosis, ovarian, prostate, and lung cancers

(Please refer this excellent site : www.pcrm.org ).

 

The Heifer Project International should focus on crops and

plant-based diet instead of animals. Please do NOT support

The Heifer Project International while it continues to

give away animals.

 

Please support instead ethical organizations, such as Plenty

(http://www.plenty.org), that helps impoverished people without

hurting animals, spreading diseases or destroying the environment.

Solving human problems does not require the exploitation and

killing of animals nor degradation of the environment.

Please support and promote only plant-based sustainable economics.

 

 

Sincerely Yours,

name,

address,

city , state.