MFOA’s Martha Macdonald discusses the multiple and endless affects of animal agricuture on the planet, the animals and our quality of life.
INTERVIEW PREFACE
Recently Patrick Walsh, a reporter from WBFY-LP radio in Belfast, who hosts an environmental show, Climate Talk, contacted MFOA about interviewing someone to discuss animal agriculture and its negative impacts on the planet and its well-being. MFOA Board member, Martha Macdonald, who is well versed on animal agriculture and is a vegan herself, welcomed the opportunity and the interview was scheduled and aired this summer.
Prior to the meeting she sent Patrick links to four documentaries ‘Cowspiracy’, ‘Eating our way to Extinction’, ‘Milked’ and ‘Dominion’ to help set the stage on just how impactful animal agriculture is, and the catastrophic damages that we are facing in the not-so-distant future. It generates billions of gallons of waste, increases our carbon footprint, is the methane emissions leader, the major cause of deforestation, and uses one-third of the earth’s fresh water every year.
These factory farms called ‘Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFO) are hidden from public and are easy to ignore, but they are immense and brutal. For farm animals, life is short, confined in crowded cages, pens and restrictive stalls, 24/7, many never seeing daylight, and often subject to abusive practices. There is no greater killer of animals.
In this short interview these moral and environmental subjects are discussed in more detail by Martha and Patrick, as well as the benefits of an animal free diet and lifestyle.
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