Members of the Climate Alliance, an NGO made up of more than 40 social-environmental movements and organizations, broadcast in a press conference on Sunday the content of a letter they have already sent to the president of the Rural Society, Daniel Pelegrina.In the door of the property where the traditional exhibition of the countryside takes place, on the corner of Avenida Sarmiento and Santa Fe, in front of a mural showing a girl and a boy standing on cows, they read the text in which they claim to the rural leadership a “dialogue table”.
“We want to come together to exchange to start working on the development of a sustainable productive system and healthy foods, and of course to taste some examples,” said Nicolás Fassi, a member of the Alliance and a ubA physician.
Activists members of the Climate Alliance at the door of La Rural.
They did so just a week after a group of young vegans stormed the central track of the Rural and hours from an original Greenpeace protest while Pelegrina himself gave his speech in the box, before President Mauricio Macri and other Gobi authorities Erno.
Vegans and environmentalists call for a “transition to a productive plant food system,” a measure they consider “urgent and complex, and that we must face together,” they argue to rural leaders.
“You may consider that a vegetable meat cannot satisfy the palate of many Argentines and Argentines. However, we encourage you to refute this claim,” the Climate Alliance raised the rural owner.
In the letter, they warn that “the climate and ecological crisis we are going through is serious” and recall that “the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has set a 10-year period to make unprecedented structural changes in our way to produce food and generate energy, if we are to avoid the worst effects of this crisis.”
“Agro-industrial activity is among the main causes of this crisis.”
They support this statement with alarming data: “Of all the lands in the world used to produce food, more than 70% are destined for livestock, while the remaining percentage, 30% is occupied by crops intended to feed livestock.”
“In terms of water use, agriculture uses 70% of the world’s fresh water and 30% of it is consumed by livestock.”
“Globally, livestock emits 14.5% of greenhouse gases. In our country, livestock activity is the main broadcaster, with 28.6% of the total (by end use)”.
“The use of pasture soils accounts for 45% of deforested forests 6, also generating biodiversity loss, increased risk of flooding and soil degradation.”
The letter addressed to Pelegrina concludes by saying that “we have a unique opportunity on which depends not only our future, but also that of the whole planet”. In this note:
