Awesome 13-Year-Old Has a Powerful Message for Al Gore About Serving Meat at Live Earth (VIDEO)

[bananas]

Just saw this a few days ago, wow!

13 Year Old Activist Tells Al Gore: NO MEAT AT LIVE EARTH!
Earth Peace Foundation
Published on May 9, 2015

Earth Peace Foundation discovered from Morrissey that Al Gore, Kevin Wall and the United Nations are putting on a climate change event called "Live Earth" - and that they are serving meat and animal products. Our founder had to do something about this glorious hypocrisy, so she's making sure these guys know that what they are doing is a slap in the face of mother earth. There is no way to slow climate change without ending animal agriculture, period. Follow 13 year old animal rights and green activist Lila Copeland on facebook www.facebook.com/earthpeacefoundation and insta: @earthpeacefoundation and check out our webpage www.earthpeacefoundation.org where we have a FREE color guide for young people who want to go and stay vegan when their parents may not be so hot on the idea! There is support! Visit us!

http://www.onegreenplanet.org/news/young-girl-has-a-powerful-message-about-serving-meat-at-live-earth/

Awesome 13-Year-Old Has a Powerful Message for Al Gore About Serving Meat at Live Earth (VIDEO)
Kate Good, June 8, 2015

Live Earth has become an iconic event for those who want to spread the word about climate change. Using live music and a fun, festival-like venue to host the event, Al Gore, Kevin Wall, and Pharrell Williams hope to reach an unprecedented number of people and encourage them to act for the planet. While this a wonderful goal, the Live Earth team took a bit of a misstep in planning the event when they chose to serve meat at the venue.

In the past decade, the role that animal agriculture plays in global greenhouse gas emissions has come to the fore. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that livestock production is responsible for 14.5 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, while other organizations like the Worldwatch Institute have estimated it could be as much as 51 percent. Many agree that livestock production is one of the leading causes of climate change … but Live Earth doesn’t seem willing to address this pervasive issue, so this 13-year-old activist is taking matters into her own hands and sending them a message.

It is time we all started to think about the negative environmental impact of our food choices and join this young rock star in spreading the word about the consequences of animal agriculture.

We can all make a huge positive difference by choosing to #EatForThePlanet and opt for plant-based foods. Did you know that you can halve your carbon footprint just by leaving meat off your plate? Join our #EatForThePlanet movement to learn more!

Here's the video description at youtube:

[erronis]

1. The youth will inherit the earth, and they see with clear eyes

what we are doing to it and to their future.

Let's listen to them even if they sound idealistic. At one point many of us were also.

Bravo!

[BlueJazz]

2. I would say: reduce the population of the earth, alternative energy and a host of other environment

...changes. People are not going to give up meat in the same way as people would not give up gas-guzzeling cars unless there was (and there IS) an alternative. I'm not a big meat eater but the populace certainly is. Getting them to stop eating meat is unreasonable.

[yuiyoshida]

3. Even if everyone on the planet went vegan

all the cows, chickens, pigs etc will still be around, unless someone plans one massive slaughter... that seems cruel and inhumane to me.

[BlueJazz]

4. Exactly... also this:"Awesome 13-Year-Old Has a Powerful Message"

No..NO..NO..This stuff has been known for ages. I'm sure that Al Gore is fully aware of the problems facing the Earth.

[ciaobaby]

5. and Factory Farming does not seem cruel and inhumane to you ?????

If a large number of people were to suddenly go vegan and there were too many cows, pigs and chickens, farmers would cut back abruptly on breeding, but the animals who are already here may be abandoned, slaughtered, or sent to sanctuaries. None of these fates are worse than what would have happened if people continued eating meat, so the concern for what would happen to the animals is not an argument against veganism.

In order to have factory farms unnatural breeding must occur.

[yuiyoshida]

6. hello? Excuse me...

TELL ME Where I said that?? Please point to where I said that?? Why do you try and put words in my mouth??? IF you are looking for an argument, go see MONTY PYTHON!!!

[ciaobaby]

7. Simmer

your initial statement implied that we can't stop factory farms because there would still be all those animals around. I was simply trying to point out that we wouldn't have an excess of animals if the factory farms weren't busy over breeding so they could kill them all to feed all the meat eaters on the planet !

[yuiyoshida]

8. It implied no such thing.

and don't tell me to Simmer!

[BlueJazz]

11. "and Factory Farming does not seem cruel and inhumane to you ?????"

I didn't say that or even remotely feel it. I think it's cruel but know this: I also know the American people and if they want something...even if it's high-priced, like a damn apple watch for 500.00, they'll move heaven and earth to get it.

I don't know all the answers, hell, I don't even know the questions.

[daleanime]

9. Framing the wrong question....

you don't have to stop, it would be nice if you did, but please cut back. Skip 2 or 3 meals of meat a week. Eat a few more locally grown veggies. It would be good for both the planet and you.

[BlueJazz]

12. Your words ring true.

[cstanleytech]

14. Ha, considering meat prices these days skipping meat is more due to the sheer cost more

than anything else for me.

[CrispyQ]

13. Geting people to give up meat is unreasonable but getting them to have fewer children is not?

Have you ever read a DU thread about human population & how to control/stabilize/diminish it? It looks something like this:

Personally, I think we're fucked.

[cstanleytech]

15. I never have understood why so many people are willfully blind on that subject to be honest.

It only makes sense that we need to start curbing our population worldwide after all all our world has limited space and resources but the "let's breed like blowflies" crowd doest care and wont listen.

[CrispyQ]

17. Resources required to support a population. They don't understand it.

It was maybe 10 -12 years ago or so when I read an editorial in the local paper that there couldn't be a human population problem with all the open space still available in Wyoming.

[BlueJazz]

16. Oh....I think we all are also, CrispyQ. I try to keep coming up with answers that in my heart....

...I know are ridiculous. People are what they are. If a higher power (I'm talking Aliens here) would cull out all the illogical, non-caring humans, we might have a chance. So...you're absolutely right. We're fucked.

[CrispyQ]

18. We are on the same wavelength, BlueJazz

Yes, the species needs culling, but I fear Mother Earth will cull us out of the picture, totally, without regard to ideology. We probably deserve it, for all the suffering we've caused.

Still, when I hear a piece of beautiful music, when I read about firemen rescuing small animals in a burning pet store, when I see photos of the Deep Field, & I could go on & on & on, I am filled with . . . awe & appreciation. And then, almost immediately after, remorse, that as a collective, we seem to gravitate to the bottom. We have exceptional individuals, but as a collective, the mediocre seem to prevail, in spite of the fact that I don't think they are the voice of the collective. It's an awful mess we're in.

On that happy note, have a wonderful evening. It is so beautiful here right now, with the sun just going over the mountains.

[daleanime]

10. Good message....

but seems a little staged.