ok, so I just have to get this off my chest...

...and then we'll be back to the more interesting Africa stories. Every once in a while, I just have to have a veggie rant. So, here goes.

I admit that I've never sat down and watched "The Inconvenient Truth" all the way through. This is mostly because after she saw it Molly told me that I already knew all that stuff and it would probably just make me depressed. So, Gilles just so happened to have rented it and was watching it today, and I sat through a couple of parts. And it just made me so, so angry. Not because of the mess we are in with our environment and climate change. Not because our leaders refused to believe scientists who knew what was going on years ago.

But because Al Gore is a pompous hypocrite. He goes around the world informing everyone about the dangers of global warming and how we HAVE TO DO SOMETHING NOW !!!! to change it. But, he refuses to take the biggest step to reducing his environmental impact by going vegetarian.

"A 2006 United Nations report summarized the devastation caused by the meat industry by calling it "one of the top two or three most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems, at every scale from local to global." The report recommended that animal agriculture "be a major policy focus when dealing with problems of land degradation, climate change and air pollution, water shortage and water pollution, and loss of biodiversity."

I know this might not be the most popular opinion to my meat and Al Gore loving lovely friends out there, but, dude....you just have to practice what you preach. Especially when you're standing for the health of the planet.

Be brave. Be honest.
Live your values.