I received this posting from another list, and thought vegetarian EcoFemmers
living in the U.S. would want to know about it (also anyone else who receives
this CNN broadcast in other countries). The original post came from Pat
Fish, an animal rights and environmental activist in upstate New York.
Cheers!
--Katharine English
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I'm asking all you vegheads out there to contact CNN's "Future Watch"
to ask that they take advantage of this week's "Meat Out" festivities
in preparation for an Earth Day story on Green diets.
Future Watch is on Saturdays on CNN at 4:30PM USA EST. I believe it also
runs at 3:30 AM on Sat and Sun mornings.
Our last Email Campaign to FutureWatch about rodeo cruelty was successful-
they read several of our letters on the air. This time, let's get them
to cover the environmental impact of animal agriculture.
Feel free to send the Executive Editor any factoid you remember, personal
perspectives on how Meat Eating hurts the Earth, or EMail her canned
quotes from books like "Diet For a New America" and the like.
I know that somewhere on some FTP site, there's some stats from Robbins'
books. Anybody know where they are? Anyway, send Email to:
CNN FutureWatch Exec. Editor Lori Waffenschmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Also: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hey, why not?)
CNN FutureWatch 404-827-3299 FAX:404-827-4295
CNN Network Earth 404-827-3299 ext.0 Heidi Deutsch Chet Burdgess
Network Earth 404-827-4040
REMEMBER: Point out that Veg*ism is gorwing more popular, and it will be
even more common in the Future (key word). Also point out that
Veg*ism is also vital to sustainable agriculture and Earth's future.
>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Mar 22 09:42:48 MST 1995
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 1995 11:43:08 -0500
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Global Climate Change Meeting
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FINS SPECIAL REPORT March 21, 1995
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GORE ANNOUNCES GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE MEETING
VP Denounces Republican Actions to Block Environmental Progress
Washington, DC--In remarks delivered to a gathering of environmentalists at
George Washington Universaity, Mar 17, Vice President Al Gore announced that
two-weeks from now the "issue of global climate change" will be discussed by
more than 120 different countries in Berlin as they begin the first confer-
rence of the parties for a framework convention on climate change [Fins-SD-
11]. In his St. Patrick's Day address, Gore said he believes the issue of
global climate change "is the single most serious manifestation of the
environmental crisis which now characterizes the radical change in the
relationship between human civilization and the Earth's environment."
Gore quoted an old Irish politician, Sir Boyle Roche, who once asked in the
last century, sarcastically, "Why should we put ourselves out of our way to
do anything for posterity? For, what has posterity ever done for us?" He
observed "That way of thinking would go over real well in this session of
Congress." Gore reminded the audience that "we are now witnessing the most
extreme and concerted assault on the environment in history." He then blasted
the Republican leadership in Congress,
The core of the so-called Contract with America is a borehole
through the heart of the nation's environmental laws and
commitments. Buried in arcane rhetoric about regulatory reform is
a deliberate attack, widely acknowledged in the popular press, that
effectively revokes many of this nation's most important
environmental laws from the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act
to the Endangered Species Act. The President and I don't support
this, and will not accept it. The health of our children, the
safety of our workers, and the integrity of our environment cannot
be so recklessly jeopardized.
"Rather than attack environmental initiatives," Gore said, "we hope the
Congress will work with us to craft policies that are as environmentally
sound as they are economically beneficial."
