Vegan challenge to MLA #kinderworld MEAT and Livestock Australia (MLA) has rejected the Sydney Vegan Club’s challenge to participate in a public debate on the merits of meat consumption. The Should We Eat Meat event is scheduled to be held at Sydney University on Saturday, September 27. The club’s founder Kym Staton said he’s tentatively hiring comedians to argue the affirmative side of the debate in MLA’s absence. “As well as MLA, I sent a personal invitation to more than 60 academics from Sydney University and University of Technology Sydney, a few people at CSIRO and some paleo experts around Australia,” he told Fairfax Agricultural Media. “We had a few people interested to take part but they were not available. “The rest didn’t respond [and were] not willing to put their voice ‘where their mouth is’, so at the moment we are tentatively hiring three comedians to represent the ‘yes’ angle.” The challenge A statement from the Sydney Vegan Club said it issued a formal invitation to MLA managing director Richard Norton, challenging him to put the group’s best experts forward and organise a team of speakers to “please explain why they continue to promote their destructive, cruel and outdated industry”. “Sydney Vegan Club has already assembled their team of experts to bring forward the no argument, which will comprise associate professor of environment and geography Andrew McGregor, psychologist and author Clare Mann and naturopath Robyn Chuter,” the statement said. “Whilst US President Barack Obama has already announced a plan to cut carbon emissions from power plants by 30 per cent by 2030, and Germany can now produce half of its energy needs from solar power, Tony Abbott has chosen to battle the future by axing the carbon tax, and Australia remains in a climate coma. “Agriculture, particularly meat and dairy products, accounts for 70 per cent of global freshwater consumption, 38 per cent of the total land use and 19 per cent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, said a 2010 UN report. queenslandcountrylife.au/news/agriculture/sheep/general-news/vegan-challenge-to-mla/2712395.aspx
Posted on: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 22:42:23 +0000
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