In an effort to increase campus wide sustainability, overall health of students, staff and faculty, and awareness of animal agriculture's effect on the environment, UC San Diego should reduce consumption of meat, egg and dairy by 15% in all on campus dining facilities by 2025. By providing more appetizing and healthy alternatives to animal products, it is our hope that HDH will successfully decrease its dependency of meat, dairy and eggs. The manufacturing of animal products (meat, eggs, and dairy) is a major contributor to climate change. The unsustainable practices of industrial animal agriculture have massive implications on the environment; emitting methane at an uncontrollable rate, sucking the land dry of water and nutrients, causing extensive pollution and destroying ecosystems and biodiversity. The main reason animal agriculture persists despite its horrific ramifications is consumer preference. We must act now to phase out the production and sale of animal products in order to save the planet and our future. This initiative correlates with the UC system’s goal to execute the Carbon Neutrality Initiative,  which “commits UC to emitting net zero greenhouse gases from its buildings and vehicle fleet by 2025.” While carbon neutrality is a huge success, it only accounts for fossil fuel emissions and neglects greenhouse gases from other sectors, including animal agriculture.   For more information visit: https://reducemeatconsumption.wordpress.com

These are my arguments against SB405. LEAVE COMMENTS that say WHY you oppose SB405 and politely ask that Governor Colyer VETO SB405. Your comments will be delivered by email to him the minute you Sign this Petition. Below are some of the facts you might use: The fundamental effect of this legislation is upon separation distances from these mega chicken barns, allowing up to a third of a million (333,333) chickens just one-quarter mile (1320ft) away from a home or business or only 100 foot away from a neighbor’s property line. By changing the animal conversion unit ratio to .003, SB 405 dramatically weakens the setback requirements and could bring millions of chickens and their thousands of tons of stinky manure to close proximity to countless Kansas communities. These massive, 500 to 600 feet long, 20,000 square foot chicken barns continually exhaust ammonia, odor, and bacteria-laden manure dust out of their barns, exposing those neighbors downwind to a strong stench as well as health-harming particles and gases. How close should these large poultry farms be to neighbors? We think that SB 405’s ACU formula is too low for a healthy distance setback. A GREATER formula would mean LESS DENSITY of chickens for the quarter-mile separation. Animal Conversion Unit formulas were originally intended to compare different animals in relation to their waste impact risk to water pollution. Because the impact of poultry production is a greater risk to water pollution, the ACU for chicken needs to be much higher than the .003 proposal. The proposed .003 ACU formula is based upon the animal’s weight, rather than its potential impact on water pollution, which is the original basis for the ACU formula and required separation distances. However, the impact of the animal goes further than its weight. Kansas State University research shows chickens produce more manure than beef finishing cows and the manure is much richer. Chicken manure contains twice as much Nitrogen and four times as much Phosphorus compared to beef finishers, and as such is a bigger risk of polluting nearby water bodies with the vast land-spreading of this waste. Thus, because of the nitrogen and phosphorus loads and massive amount of manure that will need to be spread around these chicken barns, the ACU formula should be increased to .008, like it is in Georgia (the number one poultry-producing U.S. state) Missouri, and Wisconsin. Even federal regulators use the .008 ratio, and KDHE currently relies on the .008 standard. Did you know that Kansas does not allow counties to have zoning requirements for agricultural use, meaning that current law provides local residents no way to challenge these mega-chicken farms from coming to their area? SB 405 needs an amendment for home rule, where county residents have the right to file petitions against industrial-agricultural chicken barns and have a county-wide vote. Without an opportunity to challenge these operations locally, SB 405 enables these mega chicken farms to infringe on the property rights and quality of life of surrounding neighbors and communities. Some counties may decide they want a large poultry slaughterhouse and these mega chicken barns. We respect the right of counties to choose whether they want this type of agribusiness or whether they DO NOT want this type of business, but the point is, the counties and their residents should be able to make that choice for themselves. Counties and local residents should be able to decide whether or NOT they want a large poultry slaughterhouse and these mega chicken barns. Without an amendment to provide for a local option for counties to decide whether they want this type of agribusiness in their district or a greater ACU formula like .008, we encourage you to VETO SB 405 because of its impact to air and water quality, public health, and the quality of life for residents and communities nearby.

DTE Energy can and must do better for Michigan than spending $1 billion on a new gas plant. Right now, DTE is seeking approval from regulators at the Public Service Commission, which will make a decision in April on whether to move the plant forward. Investing in clean energy will create 10 times more construction jobs and 4 times more ongoing jobs than building a new gas plant would. Unfortunately, DTE’s current plan seems designed to benefit its shareholders, at the expense of its customers, Michigan citizens, public health, and the environment. Instead of prioritizing fossil fuels and a short-term profit for shareholders, what if DTE could help expand the state’s economy and place Michigan at the forefront of our country’s clean energy cultivation? Raise your voice to power up Michigan with clean energy and stand against this $1 billion gas plant.

This petition was created for a school project but because we are so compassionate about our love for animals we think it is much more important for animals to avoid pain than it is to get a good grade.

Whatever the cause of this extinction, humans caused it and humans need to clean it up....and it's not that difficult: • Leave the dinosaurs in the ground, count more than cash crushing life on earth, to stop causing hell on earth… • Harvest free, infinite flows & cycles of nature, 100% Renewable Energy (efficiency & storage) 100% Doable by 2030 (IRENA 2016), by 2050 (100.org 2015)….if we redefine our word “economic” as more than mechanical rates of fossilized cashflow floods crushing life on earth….if the fossil fuel industry and war profiteer industry would stop causing hell on earth and help harvest free infinite flows of free infinite energy for all power all energy needs on earth so we can play instead of suffer…… to share to fill in hungry voids of the negative to lift all up to light instead….obvious or not, counted in cash or not… • Plant, Protect, Grow, Replace the Green Cooling Photosynthesis of Nature that humans have crushed for the last 150 years of fossilized, cash-driven industrialization/urban sprawl…and the last several thousand years of erroneous human assumptions that humans need to crush nature’s productivity to consume…crushing of photosynthetic cooling causing global heating because Heater Cliamte Carbon Heating has become dominant on earth in human worlds and beyond, such as “urban heat islands” o Green cooling photosynthesis simultaneously converts heater climate carbons to cooling o2 + cooling living carbons circulating cooling flows of cooling o2 and also cooling water as h2O as both circulatory within plants and as water transpiration to participate in whole earth cooling of climate, oceans, green watersheds ….. o If humans caused desertification,then humans can reverse desertification with photosynthesis

A Remington Research Group poll in December 2017 found that a large majority of Americans favor banning imports of elephant and lion trophies, 78% to 15%. By political party, 76 percent of Republicans, 84 percent of Democrats, and 75 percent of non-partisan voters favor a ban. President Trump and Secretary Zinke need to listen to the American people!

As a civic action project for our government class, we plan to make community places cleaner. Through other student's studies here at Athens high school, we noticed there was a large amount of plastic bottles littered in our community parks, so, adding recycle and trash bins will benefit the environment and help keep public places clean.

GMO foods are poisoning and killing people. The food in the US is dangerous to eat.This practice has been stopped in other countries. America demands our food is no longer poisoned.

East New Orleans does not want a Power Plant located in their area.

We are starting this petition because throughout the years we have noticed that there are a lot of unnecessary houses that are being built. People should be concerned about this issue because this will cause a huge increase in pollution rates and a huge decrease in the amount of organisms that live in New York.

Paint contains toxic chemicals including Volatile Organic Compounds such as toluene and benzene; metals like lead, silver, mercury, and cadmium; binders and solvents like methylene chloride which affect the ecosystem of beautiful Sausal Creek and the San Francisco Bay. Just 1 gallon of paint can contaminate 1,000,000 gallons of water. The Rock in Marj Saunders Park at 5801 at Ascot Drive in Oakland has been painted continuously since the 1950s, allowing as much as 50 gallons of paint per year to enter our watershed negatively affecting our ecosystem and health. Not only is this an environmental problem, it's ugly and it's illegal. The City should enforce its own laws and protect our ecosystem and public health. I am a 6th-grade student at Bentley School and I live near the rock. Signs actually encourage this behavior! I don't think people should be harming the environment, including our fish and wildlife, on purpose. We should be setting a better example for kids like me and not celebrating pollution. Painting the rock should be stopped, and the area should be restored to its natural beauty and protected from further pollution.

National Geographic is one of the top circulating magazines in the US with around 42 million magazines mailed annually--each and every issue wrapped in plastic. The Polybags used, made of polyethylene #4, is a common plastic, recyclable with grocery bags made of the same or similar (#2) material. But, according to the National Geographic article titled "A Whopping 91% of Plastic Isn't Recycled"-well, you get the gist. This "environmental" magazine has published dozens of articles on the hazards of plastic bags--there is no room for this level of hypocrisy in our country's 8th largest circulating magazine. So let's encourage them to set a precedent and to stop mailing their publication in plastic bags.