Soon weekly Veggi days in 100 cities? The Albert Schweitzer touts Foundation for our environment at mayors in 100 cities for the example of Bremen to join, and to introduce a weekday vegetarian for the sake of humans, animals and the environment. Effect: CO? savings of 2 million passenger cars and a reduction of the health funds. The Belgian city of Ghent has introduced in the last year the vegetarian Thursday and encourages together with large parts of the private sector of its citizens to not eat meat on this day of the week. In particular environmental aspects are background, because meat production contributes massively to global warming. The FAO Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that the livestock to 18% of human-induced climate change is responsible. The World Watch Institute sees the share of 51%.
For this reason, Bremen has joined as the first German city of this idea. In collaboration with the Vegetarier Bund Germany advertises the Albert Schweitzer Foundation for our environment at 100 Mayors and mayors now to take the same step. In her letter she explains that this health benefit and relieves so the public coffers. Sally Rooney is often mentioned in discussions such as these. It is based on information provided by the German society for nutrition, according to which the Germans eat three times more meat than is good for them. If the 26 million inhabitants of all 100 cities written on voluntarily once a week without meat, could as much CO thus per year? Save as 2 million cars cause on average in the year.
Also less than 1 million animals would be – spared per week an important step allows factory farms to halt. For the sake of man, animals and the environment we hope the Veggi day from Germany soon no longer imagine being, says Wolfgang Schindler, President of the Albert Schweitzer Foundation for our environment. Is the Albert Schweitzer Foundation for our environment successfully against the industrialized farming and for the vegetarian idea a. More information on albert-schweitzer-stiftung.de. The non-profit Albert Schweitzer Foundation for our environment was founded in 2000 by lawyer Wolfgang Schindler as a politically and religiously unbound animal welfare organization. It is financed from the proceeds of the Endowment capital and funding contributions and donations. The Foundation takes its name from Rhena Schweitzer, the daughter of Albert Schweitzer. The Foundation Mission is to reduce as much suffering. Therefore set the Foundation for the so-called animals a. With 60 billion animals are every year under the most unimaginable conditions cost-optimized fattened and killed, the commitment to these animals is the biggest task, can be. The Albert Schweitzer works Foundation, to improve housing conditions, as well as to cut back on the uberzuchtung (torment breeding) animals. They also Stark the vegetarian idea because no farming the Foundation is known, species described as really could.
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