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Belo Monte is just one of a dozen giant dam projects Brazil plans to build in the Amazon region in the coming decades and opens up the world’s largest tropical rainforest to oil and mining exploration
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Watch Gary Yourofsky present his entire lecture to students at Georgia Tech, USA, in the Summer of 2010.
Gary Yourofsky, probably the finest veganism & animal rights educator on the planet, has lectured to more than 60,000 students in 170 middle schools, high schools and universities across the USA.
This passionate lecture by Yourofsky is [...]
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It’s been ten years since the United Nations Millennium Goals to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger were proposed. So how are we doing?
The United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals were up for their ten year review at this week’s UN summit in New York. First drawn-up at the Millennium Summit in 2000, the goals include [...]
As the UK announces severe government spending cuts, we enforce our Peaceful Economy proposal that the world needs a new monetary system – now.
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The 2010 Global Hunger Index (GHI) (published 11th Oct 2010) shows that eight out of the nine countries where hunger is increasing are from Sub-Saharan Africa.
Produced by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Welthungerhilfe and Concern Worldwide, the annual index is calculated for 122 developing and transition countries.
This year’s study shows that [...]
It is the obligation of all who embrace veganism to educate others in creative ways about the fundamental moral truth of not exploiting the vulnerable.
We must all become teachers of nonviolence in our homes, social circles, schools, workplaces, and communities. We start teaching by our own example.
Ethical veganism is nonviolence in action; it [...]
George Clooney has said that his hi-tech attempt to prevent a resumption of civil war in Sudan is “the best use of his celebrity”.
The actor’s pressure group Not On Our Watch is funding a project which uses commercial satellites to monitor any signs of impending conflict.
There is concern that a referendum on Sunday [...]
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Facts About Hunger & Poverty WORLD POPULATION
6.8 billion
WORLD HUNGER
925 million people do not have enough to eat — more than the populations of USA,
Canada and the European Union combined.
98% of the world's undernourished people live in developing countries.
Two-thirds of the world's hungry live in just 7 countries: Bangladesh, China,
the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia and Pakistan.
WHERE IS HUNGER THE WORST?
Asia and the Pacific: 578 million
Sub-Saharan Africa: 239 million
Latin America and the Caribbean: 53 million
Near East and North Africa: 37 million
Developed countries: 19 million
WOMEN & CHILDREN
60 percent of the world's hungry are women.
50 percent of pregnant women in developing countries lack proper maternal care,
resulting in over 300,000 maternal deaths annually from childbirth.
1 out of 6 infants are born with a low birth weight in developing countries.
A third of all childhood death in sub-Saharan Africa is caused by hunger.
Every five seconds, a child dies from hunger-related diseases.
POVERTY
1.4 billion people in developing countries live on $1.25 a day or less.
Rural areas account for three out of every four people living on less than $1.25
a day.
22,000 children die each day due to conditions of poverty.
HIV/AIDS & OTHER DISEASES
35 million people are living with HIV/AIDS.
65 percent of young people living with HIV/AIDS are women.
90 percent of all children and 60 percent of all women living with HIV are in
sub-Saharan Africa.
More than 11 million children die each year from preventable health issues such
as malaria, diarrhea and pneumonia.
AGRICULTURE
75 percent of the world's poorest people — 1.4 billion women, children, and men
— live in rural areas and depend on agriculture and related activities for their
livelihood.
50 percent of hungry people are farming families.
WATER
1.7 billion people lack access to clean water.
2.3 billion people suffer from water-borne diseases each year.
12 percent of the world's population uses 85 percent of its water, and none of
the 12 percent lives in developing countries.
Source:
The Hunger Project Animal Kill Counter
Estimate of animals slaughtered since you opened this page:
0 marine animals
0 chickens
0 ducks
0 pigs
0 rabbits
0 turkeys
0 geese
0 sheep
0 goats
0 cows and calves
0 rodents (excluding rabbits)
0 pigeons and other birds
0 buffaloes
0 horses, donkeys, mules, camelids
These are the numbers of animals killed worldwide by the meat, egg, and
dairy industries since you opened this webpage. These numbers do NOT include
the many millions of animals killed each year in vivisection laboratories.
They do NOT include the millions of dogs and cats killed in animal shelters
every year. They do NOT include the animals who died while held captive in
the animal-slavery enterprises of circuses, rodeos, zoos, and marine parks.
They do NOT include the animals killed while pressed into such blood sports
as bullfighting, cockfighting, dogfighting, and bear-baiting, nor do they
include horses and greyhounds who were exterminated after they were no
longer deemed suitable for racing.
Many thanks to Gary Yourofsky at
www.adaptt.org for the text and source code.
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