Tuesday, 26 January 2010 11:41

With phrases like "Animals are not toys," "death brings to your table," "A Christmas without cruelty" and "Leave the animals coming in your heart" AnimaNaturalis Bogotanos sent a message of love and peace extended to all species.

With skins of animals exhibited the phrases and the other gave the wheel "Christmas without cruelty" through which promotes vegetarianism, adopting instead of buying, responsible ownership, and overall respect for you.

Some argued for a long time since I had to eat meat because that meant "kill" animals. Now they can argue that this also kills the planet, given the enormous contribution of livestock to the emission of greenhouse gases.

The livestock sector generates about 18 percent of emissions, Livestock accounts for 37 percent of methane induced by humans. It is an important vector of deforestation, as forests are cleared to create new pastures and arable land, causing the release of carbon dioxide stored in trees felled or burned. This process also has an enormous impact on biodiversity.

"Vegetarianism is the best and most effective that someone can do for the environment," said one reader in a forum of the Berlin Web site of The New York Times, on how individuals can tackle climate change.

Assadourian argues that reducing meat consumption in the industrialized world, without necessarily eliminating, enable produce meat that is eaten in a climate-friendly, animal feed instead of grazing on grain in industrial plants, for example.