Meat is no business for either humans or the climate - 5 Oct 2009  
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As an industry that is a major cause of global warming, the livestock sector currently employs more than one billion people globally. Knowing that a worldwide transition to the plant-based diet is necessary for the planet, the question arose as to how this might adversely affect those whose jobs are tied to meat production.

Responding to this concern during the climate change conference in Hong Kong on Saturday, October 3, Supreme Master Ching Hai pointed out that refraining from involvement with livestock raising really is the only choice, offering a range of both life- and soul-saving reasons.

Supreme Master Ching Hai: It's high time we turn away from the harmful, unsustainable meat business and go toward a more civilized, more efficient, more sustainable, more humane means to earn a living.
Namely, organic vegan farming or vegan restaurants, vegan products, vegan product selling, etc.  Everything to do with compassionate living is good for you and it’s pleasing to Heaven and it will save the planet.

It's not just good business, it will save the planet. And it will save countless lives now and in the future, including the ones involved in the meat business.

If you believe in the life hereafter, if you believe in Heaven and hell, you should stop the meat business immediately, like yesterday, because nothing good awaits you in the life after if you cause suffering to others, be it human or animals. You will have multiple suffering in return and for a long, long time.

So instead, these people in meat industries should join in the trend which has already begun and expands hugely every day, I’m happy to say.

Be veg, go green,plant organic vegetables.

VOICE: We are grateful to Supreme Master Ching Hai who as a true friend has shown us the safest exit from the disastrous course we have been on. May we as a global society invest in the organic vegan choice and thus redeem for everyone a prosperous and elevated future.

Please tune in to Supreme Master Television’s Words of Wisdom for the full rebroadcast of this live event at a later date, with multi-language subtitles.
Reference
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/03/16/eco.food.miles/