Have Plans on Earth Day? Watch This

by Stephanie Ernst · 2009-04-21 06:33:00 UTC
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I assume that even if you're not planning to celebrate Earth Day tomorrow with a party or by attending an event, you're at least going to be going about your life as usual on Earth Day, right? I mean, you're still going to at the very least eat at some point, right? And on Earth Day and every day, you care about the planet and your effects on it, right? Then watch this. The link has been floating around for a while, but I never watched it until Mary Martin of Animal Person posted it the other day because, for some reason, I had the idea that it was a specific video I'd already seen a dozen times. I was wrong; this one was new to me.

Watch. It covers a lot of issues, with compelling images of what's happening around--and to--this world of ours and how it's happening.

I will make but one remark on the video's message, the same one I've made at other times: the issues attributed to "beef" production are dairy issues too. Replacing omnivorism with vegetarianism and replacing flesh intake with increased dairy and egg intake isn't a solution--it doesn't reduce your environmental footprint nearly as much as cutting out animal products altogether, and it doesn't reduce suffering either if your reasons for cutting out flesh intake are ethical; it just moves the suffering to dairy cows, veal calves, egg-laying hens, and baby male chicks.

Stephanie Ernst wrote the original Animal Rights blog at Change.org until December 2009. She can now be found at Animal Rights & AntiOppression.
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