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What came first, the chicken or the Hummer?
Shunning posters as too conventional, two members of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals donned chicken outfits Thursday for a protest outside the State Department.
Their protest, they said, was to make the point that a meat-based diet is responsible for more greenhouse-gas emissions than driving a gas-guzzling SUV.
One chicken stood in front of the building holding a sign reading, “Meat: #1 cause of global warming.” The other chicken poked its head outside a chauffeured Hummer that was draped with anti-meat banners.
State Department officials mildly attempted to shoo the protestors away from the building entrance, but they refused to leave.
Inside, officials had gathered for an international summit convened by the Bush administration on energy security and climate change.
The chicken protestors’ goal was to convey their message to participants before they entered the building.
“We are urging people to become vegetarians,” said Matt Prescott, a PETA spokesman. “We are out here telling people the connection between meat and global warming, and I hope it works.”
In a 2006 report, the United Nations determined that raising animals for food emits 18 percent of all greenhouse gases, which is 40 percent more than all the world’s transportation systems combined.
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By TwinsFanatic
September 27, 2007 4:28 PM | Link to this
Great protest.
Check out www.GoVeg.com/eco for more information.
And check out www.Meat.org to see how meat is made.