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How to Save the Planet with your Knife and Fork

A CONTROVERSIAL talk is being hosted in Leicester by an author,
award-winning journalist and director of Europe’s largest campaigning animal
organisation. Read more…

Tony Wardle, associate director of Viva!, will explain how we can save our
health, animals and the planet with a knife and fork, during the event on
Thursday, July 2, at The Friends Meeting House, Queen’s Road, Leicester.

Learn about how the large-scale consumption of meat, dairy and fish across
the world is causing massive climatic damage on a number of levels.

Tony says: “In 2009, some 55 billion food animals were slaughtered, 80 per
cent of which were reared in obscene, intensive factory farms. These simple
facts are at the heart of almost all of the world’s huge environmental
problems, any one of which could eventually prove catastrophic for the human
species but are already destroying other species at an unprecedented rate.”

He will put the case forward that by giving up meat and fish, and preferably
dairy products too, a person massively reduces his or her contribution to
most environmental calamities, including global warming, because livestock
are at their heart.

The talk will start at 7.30pm.

For more information, please call organiser Sue Daniels on 07786 175445 or
visit http://www.leicesterveggies.org.uk/index.html