Pledge To Go Veggie For 30 Days, PETA Plants A Fruit Tree In Your Name

For every person who joins the 'Pledge to Eat Veg 30 Day Challenge' through the end of January 2009, PETA will make a donation to The Fruit Tree Planting Foundation, providing support towards planting a tree in an impoverished village where people go hungry every day. The Fruit Tree Planting Foundation's goal is straightforward: to collectively plant 18 billion fruit trees for a healthy planet (approximately 3 for every person alive). Fruit trees heal the environment by cleaning the air, improving soil quality, preventing erosion, creating animal habitat, sustaining valuable water sources, and providing healthy nutrition. So not only will you be helping animals, you'll also be helping to nourish a hungry person.

The trees that you will help plant will also provide shade and shelter. They will reduce carbon emissions and allow rainfall to soak into the ground instead of washing away precious top soil. But the connection between your diet and the environment doesn't stop there.

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Comments

[FabulousAt52]

Of course Part I is sucked away into the "Pending Approval" file.... [rolls eyes]

But I forgot to add one other thing:

Imagine all our domestic companion animals AND the animals now in zoos or wild life preserves, rescues, or safari parks... animals not even indigenous to our country/habitat ALSO set free to frolic amongst the other animals now enjoying their New Life.....

[FabulousAt52]

Let's consider for a moment what might happen should the entire USA (we'll limit this idea just to the USA) goes Vegan:

Imagine for a moment the VAST amounts of "farm land" that will need to be cleared and farmed to help produce the New & Improved Extensive Veggie Diet for every man, woman and child in America....
Land that has to be re-purposed; parkland, woodlands, open spaces, national conservation areas, wetland areas, etc. All farm land now.
So imagine the new American landscape all across the country... a huge industrialized farming conglomerate. Oooh How pretty!

Next, let's imagine what will happen to the *many millions* of head of cattle, sheep, pigs, chickens, turkeys, and ducks that we raise(d) as food; All set free! To roam the new age Farmlands, scavenging food wherever and however they can... starving in the streets, ruining those crops we so desperately need to feed ourselves.... but we can't Shoot them! Oh no... against the law. We just have to deal with them.

Continued in Part II

[FabulousAt52]

Part II:

Now let's imagine what will happen to the already "wild" animals; the foxes, badgers, beavers, otters, buffalo, deer, elk, moose, wolves, eagles, peregrine, osprey, song birds, and other wild creatures.
All jumbled up into a new, chaotic food chain! Interesting times! wow... how wild and free!

Of course this will also change how Humans live, too... densely populated urban areas will eventually empty out with everyone migrating out into the Farmlands so they have easier access to food at cheaper prices... But where will they build their homes? Can't sacrifice any of the government owned and regulated Farmlands- too precious. Where will they work? Oh yeah, we'll ALL be farmers.....

Hmmmm..... yeah I LOVE this idea that we should ALL be vegans and set our country's --and eventually the world's -- ecology "right".

[bannorhill]

The best way to be a Vegan....

Let the chicken eat the corn then you eat the chicken.

[FabulousAt52]

I certainly wouldn't trust PETA to uphold their end of the bargain...... unscrupulous bunch of fanatics.

[gifu]

Where are the trees planted? I listened to a BBC report on carbon colonialism that high-lighted a Dutch company in the carbon -credit industry who planted trees in this fashion. The people who originally inhabited the land would go and pull out every tree planted by the Dutch firm, because under force of armed corporate armies the native's agricultural land and water was being eliminated so the Dutch firm could make their mint off the "carbon credit" market with these other human's soil, water, and labor. It was an abhorrent and tragic story to listen to. Google "carbon colonialism" and you will see this is a human rights issue as much as an environmental one, for many in the 3rd world.

[FrankenPC]

If PETA was REALLY serious they would realize plants have rights as well. Soylent Green is the only solution.

[gifu]

Are you going to eat yourself, eventually? Do you throw some boogers on top of some marinated, freshly clipped fingernails for dinner?

[RightWingMarine]

if someone takes the pledge and the tree is planted but then falters and eats meat anyway... does PETA go and cut the tree down? There has to be some kind of punishment involved or else cheating becomes too easy.

[BlackWidowPilot]

LOL!!! Hmmmm.... how about making the offender go and plant new trees, and tend them in a Third World country? Might do some good for some slacker to get out of his cubicle and do some real physical labour like most of our fellow human beings... >;D

I must now apologize to my fellow carnivores, as my resolve is slipping, and I may very well take this pledge.... confounded Heifer.org... got me thinking about sustainability and all that again.... went and contributed to give some families chicks, goslings, and honey bees....

Hey, PETA, can I still eat an egg every now and again during this pledge, or is it strictly vegan?

Leland R. Erickson

Citizen

[BlackWidowPilot]

30 days vegetarian? Welll... as much as I love my fish and chicken (to say nothing of my wife's superlative pork chops and beef stew!!).... it might do me a world of good.....

Must ponder this....

Leland R. Erickson

Citizen

[little old lady]

It's a really strange odd to join in any PETA campaign, because I had big differences with them. But there's a saying about "politics having strange bedfellows." Perhaps "Saving the Planet makes strange bedfellows" could be true too. I can do this challenge!

I didn't see anything about "vegan" as earlier blogger mentioned. It's a Vegetarian pledge.

[Swerinjer4]

PETA's heart is definitely in the right place, but their support for veganism is wrong. Weston A Price Foundation.

[enveg01]

I just went to the Weston A. Price Foundation website. If that isn't a front for the meat and dairy lobby I don't know what is. Countless books have been written documenting and detailing the health benefits of a vegetarian/vegan diet. It's not only better for your health but better for the environment and certainly a more compassionate way of eating with regards to "food" animals. Check out Dr. Fuhrman's Eat to Live, Dr. Cambell's The China Study, or any book by Dr. Bernard.

[blimie]

Are you joking? It's ok to eat meat, but to be vacuous and eat meat is just wrong.

[glockman]

30 days? I'd miss my chicken too much....