Don't Send A Cow - Plant a Tree!
Don’t Send a Cow
Think twice before donating money to charities that supply 'developing' countries with live animals. Farming animals is a wasteful, unsustainable and expensive way of producing food. Supplying cows, goats and chickens to impoverished people with limited resources just adds to their burden.All farmed animals require proper nourishment, large quantities of water, shelter from extremes of weather and veterinary care. Surely it makes no sense to devote such resources - in critical short supply in much of Africa - to such an indirect way of feeding people.
On her dont-give-cow blog, Colleen Patrick-Goudreau points out that "aside from the obvious problems this model creates ... globalizing our preventable diseases such as heart disease, cancer, and diabetes hardly seems charitable ... two-thirds of non-Caucasians on the planet are lactose intolerant and cannot digest dairy ... the last thing a hungry child in Africa needs is the milk of a cow".
Meanwhile according to a report published by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, the livestock sector generates more greenhouse gas emissions as measured in CO2 equivalent – 18 percent – than transport.
As well as providing food and many other resources sustainably, planting trees can help reverse climate change by sequestering carbon.
An article on www.veggieromance.com reports that an organic milk brand sold at Sainsburys is promoting this 'charity'. The article points out that educating the public here in the UK about how the use of animals is keeping the poor stuck in poverty is just as important as direct donations to these countries.
Poorer countries do not need aid in the form of live animals. There are many ways in which such communities can be helped. These range from providing appropriate technology to supplying drought-resistant, sustainable crops.
Read more at Animal Aid's DON’T SEND A COW Press Release.
Click here to find out how
Don't Give a Goat - Plant a Tree!
Donate £10 towards an ethical poverty relief schemeVeggies Catering Campaign and Animal Aid are supporting a tree-planting initiative in Kenya, which will provide fruit-bearing trees for local families. The aim is to help 100 families to plant 20 trees each, which will bear oranges, avocados, mangoes, pawpaws, kei apples, and macadamia nuts, with a few additional trees for timber and firewood.
Trees, not Goats
Sending livestock to impoverished communities adds to the burdens of those poorest people. Not only does an animal need food, water, land and veterinary cover - all of which are in short supply in much of Africa - but they often constitute an ecological disaster with some species decimating the local environment and increasing the risk of desertification.Helping local families to plant trees is a positive and ethical way to support those who live in impoverished and environmentally vulnerable parts of the world. Please pledge £10 towards this project today!
How Pledgebank works
You pledge to give £10 but only send your money if 200 other people make the same pledge. If the target number is not reached, no one pays. If 200 people pledge to donate £10 each, the project will succeed.How do I pledge?
Visit http://www.pledgebank.com/tree s4kenya and simply sign up!If/when 200 people also pledge you will receive an email telling you how to pay.
The deadline to sign up is 1st March 2007
Click here to find out how
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 This pledge is promoted by HIPPO (Help International Plant Protein Organisation), a British vegetarian charity supporting poor communities throughout Africa. We want to raise 2000 pounds for a tree planting project in Kenya. This will be located in the Piave rural community 10 miles from Nakuru where the two vegetarian orphanages that we support are situated and where most of the very poor families served by our Families Together care scheme live. But the tree planting would not be limited to the people in that scheme. We aim to get 100 families involved planting on average 20 trees each. The emphasis will be on trees for food, though of course there will be the knock-on environmental benefits. Included in the budget is an allowance for small payments at 6 months and 12 months for the good care and healthy survival of the trees. These are all very poor people and even a few shillings per surviving tree will give them a good incentive to look after them during the rather critical early stages. By 12 months the trees will be entering their second wet season and can be reckoned to be viable. Main types of tree will be orange, avocado, mango, pawpaw, kei apple, and macadamia nut, with a few other trees for future timber and firewood needs. Details from Veggies Directory : HELP INTERNATIONAL PLANT PROTEIN ORGANISATION - HIPPO Neville Fowler, Hippo, Llangynog, CARMARTHEN, Wales, SA33 5BS Ph: 01267 241547 . Email: hippocharity@aol.com Vegan famine relief and promoting and assisting strictly vegan projects in the developing world. Charity No: 1075420 See also DO YOU LOVE PEOPLE OR ANIMALS? by Neville Heath Fowler N.D.A., Director of HIPPO Help our Don't Send A Cow Link BombOn 5th January 2007 the first critique of the Send A Cow scheme was 20th on a Google Search. By adding a link to this page on your website, blog or favourite forums, you can help raise its search engine ranking and hence help alert the public to concerns about such schemes. Paste the following code into onto your website: <a href="http://www.veggies.org.uk/page.php?ref=955">Don't Send A Cow</a> - find out why at <a href="http://www.veggies.org.uk/page.php?ref=955"> http://www.veggies.org.uk/page.php?ref=955</a> On other blogs and forums you can simply reference this page: http://www.veggies.org.uk/page.php?ref=955 You can comment on the issues raised by this article at Indymedia
Although we've got the subject on to Page One on Google, the Animal Aid and Veggies references are down at 42 & 67 respectively on a Yahoo Search, so keep making those links. Click here to find more Don't Send A Cow References
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