Nottingham vegan campaigners Veggies Catering Campaign have created a Google Bomb which expodes myths about animals ab/used by charity schemes.
Don’t Send a Cow
Think twice before donating money to charities that supply 'developing' countries with live animals. Farming animals is a wasteful, unsustainable and expensive way of producing food. Supplying cows, goats and chickens to impoverished people with limited resources just adds to their burden.
All farmed animals require proper nourishment, large quantities of water, shelter from extremes of weather and veterinary care. It makes no sense to devote such resources - in critical short supply in much of Africa - to such an indirect way of feeding people.
Globalizing our preventable diseases such as heart disease, cancer, and diabetes hardly seems charitable ... two-thirds of non-Caucasians on the planet are lactose intolerant and cannot digest dairy ... the last thing a hungry child in Africa needs is the milk of a cow.
Meanwhile according to a new report published by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, the livestock sector generates more greenhouse gas emissions as measured in CO2 equivalent – 18 percent – than transport.
Ref:
http://www.veggies.org.uk/page.php?ref=917
As well as providing food and many other resources sustainably, planting trees can help reverse climate change by sequestering carbon.
Don't Give a Goat - Plant a Tree!
Veggies Catering Campaign and Animal Aid are supporting a tree-planting initiative in Kenya, which will provide fruit-bearing trees for local families. The aim is to help 100 families to plant 20 trees each, which will bear oranges, avocados, mangoes, pawpaws, kei apples, and macadamia nuts, with a few additional trees for timber and firewood.
Help our Don't Send A Cow GoogleBomb!
On 5th January 2007 the first critique of the Send A Cow scheme was 20th on a Google Search. By adding a link on your website, you can help raise its search engine ranking and hence help alert the public to concerns about such schemes.
On other blogs and forums you can simply reference this page: http://www.veggies.org.uk/page.php?ref=955
By 20th January we had made it onto entries 4 and 5 on page one on Google, but help is needed to maintain its' position.
See http://www.veggies.org.uk/page.php?ref=955 for details.
Think twice before donating money to charities that supply 'developing' countries with live animals. Farming animals is a wasteful, unsustainable and expensive way of producing food. Supplying cows, goats and chickens to impoverished people with limited resources just adds to their burden.
All farmed animals require proper nourishment, large quantities of water, shelter from extremes of weather and veterinary care. It makes no sense to devote such resources - in critical short supply in much of Africa - to such an indirect way of feeding people.
Globalizing our preventable diseases such as heart disease, cancer, and diabetes hardly seems charitable ... two-thirds of non-Caucasians on the planet are lactose intolerant and cannot digest dairy ... the last thing a hungry child in Africa needs is the milk of a cow.
Meanwhile according to a new report published by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, the livestock sector generates more greenhouse gas emissions as measured in CO2 equivalent – 18 percent – than transport.
Ref:
http://www.veggies.org.uk/page.php?ref=917 As well as providing food and many other resources sustainably, planting trees can help reverse climate change by sequestering carbon.
Don't Give a Goat - Plant a Tree!
Veggies Catering Campaign and Animal Aid are supporting a tree-planting initiative in Kenya, which will provide fruit-bearing trees for local families. The aim is to help 100 families to plant 20 trees each, which will bear oranges, avocados, mangoes, pawpaws, kei apples, and macadamia nuts, with a few additional trees for timber and firewood.
Help our Don't Send A Cow GoogleBomb!
On 5th January 2007 the first critique of the Send A Cow scheme was 20th on a Google Search. By adding a link on your website, you can help raise its search engine ranking and hence help alert the public to concerns about such schemes.
On other blogs and forums you can simply reference this page:
http://www.veggies.org.uk/page.php?ref=955 By 20th January we had made it onto entries 4 and 5 on page one on Google, but help is needed to maintain its' position.
See
http://www.veggies.org.uk/page.php?ref=955 for details. 
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careful now!
25.01.2007 18:06
"Bomb"...."explodes"... could be enough for the anti-terroist squad to kick your door in and drag you off these days.
Fly Posters
Cow or not cow?
25.01.2007 22:44
I think the problem with land and food is much wider than your argument.
yes and no
donkey
26.01.2007 00:36
dp
dp
27.01.2007 00:13
H4TE TH3IR GR33D
Jon B
27.01.2007 17:16
Goats eat almost everything including crops and trees. In some areas of Africa trees have been planted by charities only to have them destroyed by goats.
A hectare of land produces 10 times more protein for human consumption when growing crops that for raising animals to eat.
And.. animals need huge quantities of water, for growing crops to feed the animals, to water the animals and for meat processing.
I will never send a cow, try helping in a more sustainable way be providing a clean water well or renewable electricity.
Jon B
the priority is here
28.01.2007 10:00
A wider point would be it is imperialist to condemn farming practices in developing countries when we factory farm all sorts of useless beasts at home. Sorting out European meat markets would be a better contribution to the environment than indulging in this pettiness. I'm sure Pat does his bit on this front but I'm not sure about the rest of the posters on this thread.
dp
green hypocrites
28.01.2007 10:15
SOME OF the groups in Scotland campaigning against the pollution that causes climate chaos have often chosen to fly within Britain, even though flying is the most harmful way to travel.
A Sunday Herald survey of flights within Britain has exposed the Soil Association, Oxfam and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) as the most frequent fliers among non-governmental organisations.
Food which is imported to the UK by air may be denied the ‘organic’ label under proposals being put forward today by the country's main organic certification body.
The Soil Association is concerned about the damage being done to the environment by greenhouse gas emissions from flights carrying food products around the world.
dp
Planting trees in Sahara
03.02.2007 03:23
Peace
Shopping in Himalaya
03.02.2007 12:24
bedouin
We could just have the best of all worlds...
11.03.2007 05:37
Give them olive trees, give them technology, give them livestock, give them books translated in their local languages, give them charitiy, give to Africa, Palestine/Israel, see your family, give to your neighbors, give to your strangers and local crazies, give to your wall mart, your mom and pop stores, give them some animals, and don't forget crops ...just give and your life will be whole.
SkyPilot
what right?
01.04.2007 20:02
To quote Gandhi, "We should be growing food not feed, supplying need not greed."
I do also look in the mirror and I notice that the developed, western, world countries are the worst culprits (I don't think anyone was implying the opposite), but duplicating such folly in the name fair play is madness. Instead, many of us (in addition to not sending a cow) actively campaign to end the misuse of the developing world's natural resources by the global meat industry.
Whatever, when it comes to addressing the consequences of greed and selfishness, shouldn't we maintain an objective perspective?
If so, then consider:
Condemning one feeling individual to help another is NOT charity, but bigoted favouritism.
I can just imagine in previous centuries some well-meaning, humanitarian organization launching a "send a slave" initiative for beset gentlefolk out in the colonies (having asked the gentlefolk in question what they need).
The goat is not yours to send.
D. Otieno