Vegetarianism - a safe, ethical and sustainable way to go

13 Canadians died because of food poisoning - many more are sick

-Canadian public-health officials have linked food poisoning and as many as 13 deaths and many more people sick to meat products made by Maple Leaf Foods Inc.. On 20 August the company informed about a recall after finding listeria, type of bacteria that can lead to fevers and death. ..
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-Things don’t seem to go so well in USA either:
--Nebraska Beef Ltd. has recalled nearly 6.7 million pounds of beef this summer
--E. coli Risk Prompts Whole Foods to Issue Recall

More problems with the bloody stuff:

BSE and other zoonoses
-Canada: Another mad cow confirmed in Alberta
-EU in 2007: Report on the monitoring and testing of ruminants for the presence of transmissible spongiform encephalopathy
-New bird flu strain detected in Nigeria


Environmental Havoc – Meat&Heat:
-Factory farms produce cheap meat, until you consider the rivers of sewage, the contaminants and the superbugs
-Water Shortages: 15500 litres of water per kg of beef
-The Meat of the Matter: Our Livestock Industry Creates More Greenhouse Gas than Transportation Does


Mindboggling suffering:

China:
--Cruel beyond belief - China's live animal markets
--China's Dog Meat Trade

-Video-India: Cruel animal transportation around Delhi

Philippines: Six people illegally selling dog meat have been arrested

-USA:
--California Weighs Sweeping Laws Against Factory Farm Cruelty
--The HSUS Exposes More Appalling Abuses of Dairy Cows

-Humans eating monkeys into extinction

Link: A special kind of meat
Link: Background Info: The livestock industry and climate – EU makes bad worse
Link: Japan is to launch carbon footprint labelling scheme. Great idea! When are we going to have such labels also on meat parcels?
Link: Meat&Heat/EU: Climate Change: Commission launches public consultation on post-2012 agreement
Link: USA: Cloned Meat: It's What's for Dinner?