BULLETIN N°17 - December 2002
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Dateline Nice, France, October 30, 2002
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Last night, at Moby's request, Alliance Végétarienne, along with a representative from PETA, was present at the Salle Nikaia to distribute information on veganism and vegetarianism to the enormous crowd of Moby fans who turned out for his Nice concert.
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Here is Moby's statement :
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Often when I meet people, they ask me why I am vegan (a vegan is someone who doesn't use animal products, neither for food nor for clothing). Before listing the reasons why I have chosen to be vegan, I want to say that I do not judge people who choose to eat meat. People make different choices for different reasons and it is not my place to judge the choices that others make. The simple fact of being alive is an inevitable cause of suffering. But here is why I am vegan :
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1.I adore animals and I believe that vegan food causes less suffering than food based on products of animal origin.
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2.Animals are feeling beings who have their own desires and it does not seem justified to impose ourselves on them, just because we can.
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3.Numerous medical studies have shown that a diet based on products of animal origin have deleterious effects on our health. It has been proven many times that such food causes an increased risk in cancer, heart probems, obesity, impotence, diabetes, etc...
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4.Vegan food produces much more than food based on products of animal origin. What I want to say is that it is possible to feed many more people directly with grains than to feed a cow, for example, with these same grains and afterwards to kill it. In a world where people die of hunger, it seems criminel to fatten animals with grains that could save the lives of numerous people.
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5.Intensive farming has a disasterous effect on the environment. All the excrement produced from such farming drains directly into the ground water, thus poisoning drinkable water and polluting our lakes and waterways and oceans.
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6.Vegan food is pleasant to look at. Compare a dish with grains, fruit and vegetables with a dish full of pork intestins, chicken legs or scraps of cow muscles.
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Here in essence is why I am vegan. If you ever decide to become vegetarian or vegan, please, be prudent. Most traditional diets use so much meat and animal products that if you drop the meat, you don't know what to replace it with. Even though being vegetarian or vegan is a million times better for your health than a meat diet, the transition to a diet which no longer requires killing animals should be done intelligently. Most health and natural food shops and book shops have good books which can help you to make the transition from a diet based on products of animal origin to a vegan diet.
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MOBY
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For more information, contact Alliance Végétarienne (04 93 85 59 50 or speakeasy@wanadoo.fr ).
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We will soon be making available to all interested people holiday menus and receipes so that this year those who wish can join us in celebrating the birthday of one of mankind's greatest teachers of non-violence with non-violent holiday meals, and no animal sacrifices...
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Ladies! Gentlemen!
Let Us Wake Up ! We Have Been Sleeping Too Long !
"Never believe that a few caring people can't change
the world.
For indeed, that's all who ever have."
Margaret Mead
 
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