Please Do Not Tap On the Glass

The latest DawnWatch alert addresses a problem that you’ll NEVER STOP READING ABOUT AS LONG AS I’M ABLE TO TYPE.

While too many people in the environmental movement hate to acknowledge the impact of meat diets on global warming, David Kelly is, of course, on top of the matter. The storyline of this week’s episode of “Boston Legal,” which aired Tuesday December 18, included the fictitious firm being sued by one of its clients, an organization called “Green People.” In the episode, the head of that environmental organization is distressed to see massive energy waste at the law firm’s offices, and brings a lawsuit, claiming that the firm had misrepresented itself as green. Cross examining the green clients, the lawyer suggests the green organization comes down harder on others than itself, and notes that one of its employees is drinking water from a plastic bottle, most of which end up in land fills. Then she asks if the man she is cross-examining, the head of the green group, eats meat.

She explains, “I only ask because studies show eating meat contributes more to greenhouse gases than driving a car. Denny says you two often have rib-eye together. Is that true?”

When the defendant says he doesn’t believe eating meat is worse for the environment than driving a car, she responds:
“It is. Contaminated runoff from slaughterhouses is a major source of water pollution. Livestock itself contributes 18% of greenhouse gases just from, pardon me, farting. That’s more than all the planes, trains and automobiles put together.”

Now, thanks to David Kelly, about eight million viewers have that information. Please send a huge thank you! Go to http://tinyurl.com/2szdx4 and choose “Boston Legal” from the pull-down menu.

I send thanks to Kristen from societyofpeace.org for the heads up on the episode.

Yours and the animals’,
Karen Dawn

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STOP GLOBAL WARMING. GO VEGAN.

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Filed under: animal rights, factory farming, global warming pollution