They say …

They say, “Dave, you need to tone it down and be nice otherwise they won’t listen. Try to be more loving and tolerant. Look for the good in people. You are making vegans look bad. They won’t like us.”

They say, “The hole in the ozone layer has never been larger”

They say, “Dave, you need to tone it down and be nice otherwise they won’t listen. Try to be more loving and tolerant. Look for the good in people. You are making vegans look bad. They won’t like us.”

They say, “The western edge of the Antarctic ice shelf is melting more than twice the projected worst estimates projecting a 5 foot rise in sea levels in this century.”

They say, “Dave, you need to tone it down and be nice otherwise they won’t listen. Try to be more loving and tolerant. Look for the good in people. You are making vegans look bad. They won’t like us.”

They say, “With rising temperatures, rising sea levels, melting icecaps and glaciers, shifting ocean currents and weather patterns, climate change is the most serious challenge facing the human race.”

They say, “Dave, you need to tone it down and be nice otherwise they won’t listen. Try to be more loving and tolerant. Look for the good in people. You are making vegans look bad. They won’t like us.”

They say, “The livestock business is among the most damaging sectors to the earth’s increasingly scarce water resources, contributing among other things to water pollution from animal wastes, antibiotics and hormones, chemicals from tanneries, fertilizers and the pesticides used to spray feed crops.”

They say, “Dave, you need to tone it down and be nice otherwise they won’t listen. Try to be more loving and tolerant. Look for the good in people. You are making vegans look bad. They won’t like us.”

They say, “The major sources of pollution are from animal wastes, antibiotics and hormones, chemicals from tanneries, fertilizers and pesticides used for feed crops, and sediments from eroded pastures. Global figures are not available but in the United States, with the world’s fourth largest land area, livestock are responsible for an estimated 55 percent of erosion and sediment, 37 percent of pesticide use, 50 percent of antibiotic use, and a third of the loads of nitrogen and phosphorus into freshwater resources.”

They say, “Dave, you need to tone it down and be nice otherwise they won’t listen. Try to be more loving and tolerant. Look for the good in people. You are making vegans look bad. They won’t like us.”

They say, “The livestock sector may well be the leading player in the reduction of biodiversity, since it is the major driver of deforestation, as well as one of the leading drivers of land degradation, pollution, climate change, overfishing, sedimentation of coastal areas and facilitation of invasions by alien species.”

They say, “Dave, you need to tone it down and be nice otherwise they won’t listen. Try to be more loving and tolerant. Look for the good in people. You are making vegans look bad. They won’t like us.”

They say, “The livestock sector is by far the single largest anthropogenic user of land. The total area occupied by grazing is equivalent to 26 percent of the ice-free terrestrial surface of the planet. In addition, the total area dedicated to feed crop production amounts to 33 percent of total arable land. In all, livestock production accounts for 70 percent of all agricultural land and 30 percent of the land surface of the planet.”

They say, “Dave, you need to tone it down and be nice otherwise they won’t listen. Try to be more loving and tolerant. Look for the good in people. You are making vegans look bad. They won’t like us.”

They say, “The livestock sector emerges as one of the top two or three most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems, at every scale from local to global. The findings of this report suggest that it should be a major policy focus when dealing with problems of land degradation, climate change and air pollution, water shortage and water pollution and loss of biodiversity.”

They say, “Dave, you need to tone it down and be nice otherwise they won’t listen. Try to be more loving and tolerant. Look for the good in people. You are making vegans look bad. They won’t like us.”

They say, “Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.”

They say, “Dave, you need to tone it down and be nice otherwise they won’t listen. Try to be more loving and tolerant. Look for the good in people. You are making vegans look bad. They won’t like us.”

They say, “Atmospheric concentrations of CO2 and CH4 are at higher levels than experienced in the last 800,000 years and are increasing at rates unlikely to have been seen in the (geologically) recent past. Antarctica was warmer in the last interglacial (130,000 years ago) and sea levels were higher.”

They say, “Dave, you need to tone it down and be nice otherwise they won’t listen. Try to be more loving and tolerant. Look for the good in people. You are making vegans look bad. They won’t like us.”

They say, “Loss of ice from the West Antarctic ice sheet is likely to contribute some tens of centimeters to global sea level by 2100. This will contribute to a projected total sea level rise of up to 1.4 meters (and possibly higher) by 2100.”

They say, “Dave, you need to tone it down and be nice otherwise they won’t listen. Try to be more loving and tolerant. Look for the good in people. You are making vegans look bad. They won’t like us.”

I say, “No, I won’t tone it down; in fact, I will be so loud that they can’t help but hear me. I am plenty loving. Love is caring enough to do something about the holocaust. No I won’t tolerate corpse-munching. I see the good in people and I see the bad. I also see the good in animals and very little bad. Peer pressure does not rule my actions. I don’t care if corpse-munchers don’t like us. I don’t like corpse-munching. I am not leaving the children a dead planet on my watch.”