To: Colin Moynihan, HDH Sustainability Manager
Tell UCSD to Reduce Consumption of Animal Products
Reduce UC San Diego's meat, egg, and dairy consumption by 15% in all on-campus dining facilities by 2025.
Why is this important?
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
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