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A life of compassion can simply begin with three meals. We have already changed our light bulbs to energy saving models. We try our best to recycle. We try to eliminate our carbon footprint by carpooling and staying away from gas guzzlers. But until we watched the movie "Food Inc", most of us didn't know that our food choices had such dire consequences to our environment. It made us sad but we didn't stop there. We took action. This beautiful group of people dedicated a lot of time promoting Meatless Mondays in their families and among their friends. When we share a common virtuous source of motivation and actively promote it in our community, a real sense of appreciation for humanity, compassion, and love develops. We hope you will join us too.
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Meatless Mondays
Your Last Chance to Save Earth!!!
週一無肉日
我們最後的機會 救地球 !!!
Earth is Sick!
地球生病了 !
Problem: WaterLivestock industry requires a lot of water while contaminates drinking
water sources.
水源污染在美國，畜牧業一天製造出的排泄物是美國總人口排放量的 130 倍，而且全球最大水污染源 – 酸雨，大都是由排泄物裡的氨造成的。
Problem: Water
1 Kilogram Beef22,000 Liters of
Water
我們吃一公斤的牛肉就需 22,000 公升的水(包括牛隻的飲用水、牛糞清潔等用水 )
1 公斤的牛肉
22,000 公升的水
水資源問題
Problem: Atmosphere
Livestock is the largest source of greenhouse-gas emission.
空氣污染 全球排放二氧化碳最多的，竟然是畜牧業！ 全球畜牧業，所排放的二氧化碳，佔全球總排放量的 18%
Problem: Soil Many acres of forestland are
converted into cropland… to feed livestock, but not people.
土地資源問題 • 70% 熱帶雨林已遭砍伐，無數動植物絕跡，絕大部分是畜牧業所致。
•全球 40% 穀物，用於餵養經濟動物而非人類。
Problem: Soil
1 Kilogram Beef
16 Loaves of Bread
十六公斤的穀物僅能產出一公斤的牛肉
1公斤的牛肉
16條的麵包
Solution: Water
Vegetables and grains take less water to
produce and maintain.
多吃蔬食…
可以保護水資源及減少消耗
Solution: Atmosphere
Less livestock means less greenhouse gases are
produced.
多吃蔬食…可以減少二氧化碳的排放量
Solution: SoilPreserves our soil quality while
preventing deforestation
多吃蔬食…可以防止森林的砍伐，
還可以保護地球的物種！
Conclusion
Your food choices affect our
land and mind.
只要稍微改變一下飲食習慣，就可以減緩地球惡化及創造身心健康！
Venerable Jih-Chang once taught us:
From a limited perspective, we are just killing those insects. But gradually, we are in fact killing ourselves. And actually, we are also killing our future generations. This is a very serious, very frightening situation.
日常法師曾經教導我們：
我們從小的地方來說，只是殺那些昆蟲，更進一步來說，慢慢一步步提升的話 --殺我們自己；除了殺我們自己，還殺我們後代，這是非常嚴重，非常可怕的狀態。
Save our planet!
One Meatless Monday
at a time!
搶救地球就從每個星期一多吃蔬食開始
