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Meat industry

mercredi 2 août 2017 à 02:00

Meat Industry Blamed for Largest-Ever 'Dead Zone' in Gulf of Mexico.

We Americans need to eat less meat, for our own health, for the ocean's health, and for the ecosphere's health.

Eating a lot of meat is dangerous because it gives us high cholesterol levels. Current meat production methods, using antibiotics, promotes antibiotic resistance which can kill people.

The massive plantations that we use to feed the animals cause deforestation, which promotes global heating.

No room in India

mercredi 2 août 2017 à 02:00

There's no room in India for wildlife and the increasing number of humans.

Wiping out natural ecosystems is a disaster.

Greedy corporations chop down forests and destroy other wild ecosystems. They ignore land that isn't suitable for a plantation. However, in the last desperate years, hungry humans, regarded as superfluous by the plutocrats, will destroy every remaining wild place. They won't succeed in surviving very long that way, but they have destroyed will not come back once they are dead.

To avoid that, we must stabilize the global population and maybe leave some of those wild places alone.

Banning prostitution

mercredi 2 août 2017 à 02:00

The latest twisted argument for banning prostitution: claiming that anyone who is paid for sex didn't really consent to sex.

Try telling your bank, "I got money from accepting this mortgage so I didn't really consent to make payments." Then try telling your tenants, "I got money for leasing this apartment to you, so I didn't really consent to your living in it."

Urgent: protect Social Security and Medicare

mercredi 2 août 2017 à 02:00

US citizens: call on Congress to protect Social Security and Medicare.

Urgent: overrule Corporations United

mercredi 2 août 2017 à 02:00

US citizens: support the constitutional amendment to overrule the Corporations United decision.