The mentioning of over breeding, a couple of weeks ago I came across this:
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WHAT'S YOUR POISON?
When animals are slaughtered, meat can be contaminated with gut contents, faeces and urine, leading to bacterial infetion. In an attempt to counteract infection in their animals, farmers routinely inject them with doses of antibiotics. These, in addition to growth-promoting hormone drugs and pesticide residues in their feed, build up in the animals' tissues and can furter damage the health of people on a meat-based diet.
FIFTY ACRES EVERY MINUTE
EVERY year an area of rainforest the size of Britain is cut down or defoliated, and burnt. Globally, one billion people depend on water flowing from these forests, which soak up rain and release it
gradually. The disaster in Ethiopia and Sudan is at leastpartly due to uncontrolled deforestation. In Amazonia - where there are now about 100,000 beef ranches - torrential rains sweep down through the treeless valleys, eroding the land and washing away the soil. The bare earth, baked by the tropical sun, becoms useless for agriculture. It has been estimated that this destruction causes at least one species of animal, plant or insect to become extinct every few hours.
McDonald's require that their "fresh lettuce leaf", for example, is treated with twelve different chemicals just to keep it the right colour at the right crispness for th right length of time. It might as well be a bit of plastic.
http://www.mcspotlig.../factsheet.htmlGlobal Warming on people:
Even though I use to be contented with take aways from these places with feeling ill after due to the misleading tastes I always questioned why they used throw away packaging instead of plates and cups. That is one sign of wastefullness. As for the food the more knowledge I learn the more miserable I become. This is not a lesson I learn there. Long term effects from the chemicals and hormone drugs are what concerns me. To exploit children with decorations and toys into eating decorative junk with throw away materials, I see this as a scam and to the environment.
It is similar to taking sweets of a stranger only to have your health kidnapped without knowing. - McDonald's Clown. The effects could take a long while to show with the growth hormones fed to the animals.
With the amount of people going to McDonalds now I wonder how much of waste is generate from the recyclable resources and inks. If they used plates twenty years ago a lot of trees could be saved.
Take a read of the full article. I know this is twenty years old which proves those points of what was happening then but after reading the entire article I think Mcdonalds qualifies as a culprit to global warming who agrees?
This post has been edited by Deepsycher: 16 January 2007 - 07:59 PM