The Smiths say it Best: Meat is Murder

Speaking of meat, did you know that if all the greenhouse gases measured in CO2 equivalency from the millions of trains, planes and automobiles spewing out their excrement each day were compared with the excrement, hormones, antibiotics, and feed waste from the world's livestock, guess which has the greater impact? That's right you meatheads! And don't forget about all the water and land degradation Ms. Cowie Hamburger dearest is causing as well. Don't be involved in the industry of death as Jesse says…*And right on Nanako! I learned of your recent abdication of meat, and am so proud. And as for the rest of you…..? At least you're not eating shark fin soup. I watched this dismayingly informative movie the other night, Shark Water and was sadly devastated to learn that in the two hours I sat and drank a Corona watching the movie, 15,000 sharks were killed. For every one person killed by sharks (of which more people are killed by soda machines each year), more than 73 million sharks are cruelly slaughtered, and mostly for the mere texture of their tasteless fins in shark fin soup. After which the still-alive and finless sharks are thrown back in the water to sink to the bottom and die. They are truly one of the most important keystone species on Earth and there is not one of the 400+ species left that isn't endangered. Tragedy of the Commons, depressingly. Most of their numbers are down 60 to 99% from their original numbers. But, do not be too distressed because you can help... http://www.sharkwater.com/ has heaps of ideas on what you can do. And if you see shark for sale at a grocery store or a restaurant say something, and don't go back if they don't take it away. I made a huge scene at a shop in Jakarta in May that was full of shark jaws, teeth, cartilage pills and other souvenirs. Any potential customer within ten meters was not going for in for a little browse, that's for sure.