Trump and climate change

I am sad, surprised, horrified
that Americans have chosen Donald Trump for president
One of the things that worry me the most
is his position on climate change...
so today I wrote on Facebook:

You know who is in more denial than Trump voters?
And is hurting our planet more than Trump?
Just look around,:
people not willing to accept that eating animals
is destroying our planet.

Please read this article
news.vice.com/article/meat-is-murder-on-the-climate-anyway
and then read some of the horrible comments and attacks of meat-eaters on vegans,
tell me this doesn't sound Trump-like,
yet, every day we can make great choices to help our planet
and not hurt others when choosing a vegan life,
but we stand stubborn,
we stand racist against animals (speciesists)
and we stand utterly cruel!

Help our planet!
Stop the violence!
Go Vegan!

Killing Animals is Killing the Planet!

Please read this article by Mercy for Animals

by Sarah Von Alt - December 7, 2015

Believe it or not, many people who care about the environment still have no idea that raising animals for food is so incredibly destructive.

Consider some of these facts:

• Animal agriculture uses a whopping 56 percent of water in the United States. In fact, just one hamburger requires 660 gallons of water to produce—the equivalent of 2 months’ worth of showers.
• Because animals are so densely packed on today's industrial farms, they produce more manure than can be absorbed by the land as fertilizer. The runoff from these facilities grossly contaminates rivers and ground water.
• Animal agriculture is culpable for nearly 91 percent of Amazon destruction according to The World Bank.
• Raising animals for food (including land for grazing and growing feed crops) now uses over one-thirdof the earth’s landmass.
• Factory farms have created more than 500 nitrogen-flooded dead zones throughout the world’s oceans.
• Raising animals for food produces more greenhouse gas emissions than all of the cars, planes, and other forms of transportation combined
• Animals raised for food produce 7 million pounds of excrement every minute.
• A pound of beef requires 13 percent more fossil fuels to produce than a pound of soy.
• Overfishing is pushing our oceans to the brink of collapse, with over 90 percent of large fish at risk for total extinction.
• But there’s good news too! Going vegan immediately cuts your CO2 emissions in half and spares countless animals from a lifetime of suffering on factory farms.

So what are you waiting for? Click here to order your FREE Vegetarian Starter Guide.

Leonardo DiCaprio Vegan and Enviromentalist Watch Cowspiracy

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Did you know Leonardo DiCaprio co-produced an incredibly powerful documentary all about climate change and how animal agriculture is its leading cause? Watch Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret on Netflix today!

Truth or Drought

http://www.mfablog.org/now-that-leo-won-the-oscar-its-time-you-watched

February 2016

It is so long since I posted on my good old blog
I am all recovered from surgery
Have been working for 2 weeks now
But I surely wish I was at home resting
Reading books, being lazy...
This is just a quick come back.

A fun picture of my mom and my aunt Alicia
We went for a walk to Balboa Park this past Saturday
This February is unseasonably warm!
I know it's wrong to be this warm & dry in February
Global warming / Climate change anyone?
Still we had a lovely day.

Mi mamá y mi tía Alicia en Balboa Park, brincando de alegría

Hurricane Patricia, Global Warming, Animal Agriculture and Man-made Climate Change

A letter (e-mail) to my co-workers:

All this talk about hurricane Patricia being the strongest recorded in history adds to the concern of  animal welfare, human welfare, and the future of our planet…

“Scientists have linked the global ocean temperature departures from average to manmade global warming, in addition to El Niño.”

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2015/10/23/hurricane-patricia-strongest-ever-measured/74446334/

On manmade global warming and climate change: The meat industry (chickens, pigs, cows, dairy, eggs) is number 1 cause of global warming, 51% of greenhouse emissions are coming from animal agriculture. http://www.cowspiracy.com/facts/

“Livestock and their byproducts account for at least 32,000 million tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) per year, or 51% of all worldwide greenhouse gas emissions.”

This is more than all transportation: planes, trains, cars, COMBINED.

Goodland, R Anhang, J. “Livestock and Climate Change: What if the key actors in climate change were pigs, chickens and cows?”

WorldWatch, November/December 2009. Worldwatch Institute, Washington, DC, USA. Pp. 10–19.

Animal Feed Science and Technology “comment to editor” Goodland, Anhang.

The Independent, article Nov. 2009.

Every minute, 7 million pounds of excrement are produced by animals raised for food in the US.

This doesn’t include the animals raised outside of USDA jurisdiction or in backyards, or the billions of fish raised in aquaculture settings in the US.

All that excrement is polluting our rivers and creating ocean dead zones. There is a huge problem in North Carolina with hogs and manure.

United States Environmental Protection Agency

It is not just about the ‘meat’ or animals we eat, but the water needed to grow the grains they eat, the antibiotics we feed them (70% of all the antibiotics sold in the US are administer to farmed animals) and all the waste the produce that has ‘nowhere’ to go, the energy needed to run slaughterhouses, transportation, freezing of the corpses, etc. etc. etc. Beans and broccoli come from farm to fridge to table, and don’t poop, plant-based protein is more readily and easily digested by our bodies too.

I have read some of Chris Hedges work, I didn’t know he is a vegan:

"I'm a vegan, and I'm a vegan because the animal agriculture industry maybe surpasses the fossil fuel industry in terms of destroying the planet, and you can wake up tomorrow and be a vegan." (don’t have to join Greenpeace and leave your job to fight the fracking industry or Exxon) On California: "And you're enduring this drought. It takes 1,000 gallons of water to make one gallon of milk [source: Water Footprint Network]. And milk's not even good for you. It's made for cows, it's not made for humans. It's made for baby cows. Who we kill."
– Harvard-educated journalist, best-selling author, professor, Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism recipient, and member of the team of reporters at The New York Times awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for the paper’s coverage of global terrorism Chris Hedges of Truthdig
“What We Choose to Eat Is Killing Us and Our Planet” http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/saving_the_planet_one_meal_at_a_time_20141109

You can watch the video here, on FB but open to the public

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10153585761485090

                                                                                                                                       

Thanks for reading, there is something we can do every day to help our planet and our health and we can do it 3 times a day, with our forks.

wildfires in San Diego County

it has been two infernal days in North County
San Diego, yesterday there were 9 fires going on!
The high temperatures and low humidity are
the most dangerous combination to create fires
The Santa Ana winds conditions keep fueling
the fires, Santa Ana winds happen typically
in September and October, when it is fire season
it is only May but after years of drought
California is hot & dry
and there are global warming deniers out there!

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• NEW: The number of raging fires falls to eight, from three dozen overnight
• NEW: A total of 9,987 acres are now scorched earth
• NEW: A fire in San Marcos is now firefighters' No. 1 priority
• Thousands are ordered to evacuate; schools across region close

tomorrow temperatures will start cooling off
and the winds will start coming from the shore instead
of coming from the East, we are hoping for some relief!

May 14, 2014 at some point there were 9 separate fires in the county!

Check this gallery!
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/05/15/california-fire-san-diego-san-marcos/9115705/