KOREAN BEEF PROTESTS

Koreans had a point in protest against beef deal
Letter
Published: Friday, June 13, 2008
This week, an estimated 100,000 South Koreans demonstrated against newly elected president Lee Myung-bak as his entire cabinet offered to resign. At the root of this massive protest was not a declaration of war against North Korea, a boycott of the Chinese summer Olympics or even escalating oil prices. It was over a treaty allowing U.S. beef imports that had been suspended due to the threat of mad cow disease.

Beef production accounts for more greenhouse gas emissions than automobiles. Its insatiable demand for feed grains has raised world food prices to levels beyond the reach of the world's hungry.

Creation of beef pastures is the key cause of worldwide deforestation, including the destruction of the Amazon rainforest. A beef-based diet requires more than 20 times as much land and water as a plant-based diet.


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Nutritionally, beef offers protein, iron and some B vitamins, but no fibre or carbohydrates and few vitamins and minerals. On the other hand, it is replete with saturated fat, cholesterol, pesticides and pathogens, including, occasionally, the prions that cause mad cow disease. We should have 100,000 demonstrators marching on Washington to protest taxpayer subsidies to the U.S. beef industry. In the meantime, each one of us can demonstrate our own outrage with beef production by selecting from the rich variety of soy- and plant-based meat alternatives available. ^ ^ ^ ^ ^THE ABOVE IS A LETTER TO THE VANCOUVER SUN NEWSPAPER FRIDAY JUNE 13-2008 CANADA.








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