My Paper
30th November 2009
Viewpoints
ALL of us have a role to play in addressing the emerging crisis of climate change.
One of the many actions we can take to reduce global warming is to reduce our meat consumption.
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization produced a major report titled Livestock’s Long Shadow in 2006, which demonstrated that meat production is very intensive in the emission of greenhouse gases and use of water, as compared to equivalent plant-food production.
To address these environmental concerns, the Vegetarian Society (Singapore)would like to propose that companies, schools, organisations, families and individuals adopt a weekly Eat Greens Day, a day when everyone eats plant foods instead of animal-based foods.
Elsewhere in the world, places such as Ghent in Belgium and Sao Paulo in Brazil have adopted a weekly day of this type.
Would this work in Singapore?
DR GEORGE JACOBS
PRESIDENT,
VEGETARIAN SOCIETY
(SINGAPORE)
