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“When I eat my lunch with my friends, they always throw away all of their school lunch and only eat the piece of fruit or dessert because they say the rest is nasty.”
You heard it folks. From the mouth of a babe, school lunches (and our national diets) need a bit of an overhaul. Thankfully, eight-year-old Genesis Butler of Long Beach, California is here to tell it like it is! In the wake of restrictions to combat an unprecedented drought, Butler spoke before the Long Beach city council along with others from the community in order to draft a resolution that would declare Mondays in the city meatless.
Butler is vegan and obviously extremely passionate sharing the benefits of her dietary choices, and she does it with passion and enthusiasm. Speaking more clearly than many with considerably more years on the earth than she has, Butler urged the council to take action not only on behalf of human health, but for the environmental benefits.
Listening to her is positive proof that everyone can make a difference, regardless of age, gender, size, ethnicity, religion or background. Everyone has a voice and, like Butler, we all must use it!
Great effort on this little girl\’s part. She has a whole life of activism ahead of her! Lame response by the city council…they could make a proclamation simply based on the environmental impact of meat eating and lame diversion on the part of the media talking about chocolate. Yes it takes a lot of water but we typically don\’t eat it at every meal. It\’s an ludicrous comparison and we are talking about the suffering, slavery, abuse and killing of other sentient beings in the animal agriculture industry.
In the chocolate industry, you do have to worry about ethical production and child slavery. Wake up California and the rest of the world. Please watch http://www.cowspiracy.com
Wow what an inspiration this one little girl is :)
i like the bit about chocolate haha the average person consumes 0.36 pounds of meat per day 131.4 pounds a year, it takes 1800 gallons of water per pound of beef, the average person consumes 0.06 pounds a day, 24.6 pounds a year of chocolate & takes 2000 gallons of water per pound, i like how they try to confuse people into thinking the meat & dairy industry isn\’t that bad by adding that comment at the end, funny that. do the math people.