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March 20, 2002
Letter in Hornell NY The Evening Tribune March 7, 1991

GIVE UP MEAT AND SAVE THE PLANET
There is a hopeful trend amid all the frightening facts that make us feel helpless and despondent: more heart attacks; cancer; strokes; diabetes; starvation; AIDS; arthritis; soil erosion; rainforests cut down causing loss of oxygen, medicines, species of birds and animals, climate changes; energy shortages; pollution of air,land and water; cruelty to people and animals; shortages of water; even the probability life on earth will not survive.

This hopeful trend is that all these evils can be reversed by ordinary persons, and more of them are taking this way,simply by stopping the eating of meat. If this sounds too good to be true, read the book Diet for a New America by John Robbins, which gives all the reasons with figures, facts and graphs.

Anyone who thinks that meals without meat would be like eating sawdust is in for pleasant surprises.  Actually eating without meat is more fun, and it's a grand feeling to be helping along so much good for the whole world.  A good time to get started is March 20, the annual Great American Meatout, sponsored by the Farm Animal Reform Movement, which is gaining more support each year.
V. A. Keeler
Hornell

(The late Veva Keeler, author of The Price to Pay, lived well into her 90's.  She was a lifelong activist in human health and animal causes and a valuable volunteer assistant at CIVITAS,).

March 3, 2002
Letter in The Hartford Advocate

LIGHTLY DUST YOUR GOOSE BEFORE COOKING IT
The Advocate ran an article some time ago about eating meat, specifically chicken ("Cluck You," May 17). I'd like to comment on some issues relating to that article that are currently in the news.

In mid-December, a U.S. Court of Appeals blocked the United States Department of Agriculture's ability to shut down a major ground beef supplier for the school lunch program for repeated violations of the Salmonella standard. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Salmonella sickens 2 million to 4 million people in this country every year and kills up to 1,000 Americans.

Then a week later the Justice Department indicted Tyson Foods, the nation's largest chicken processor, for smuggling 2,000 undocumented workers into its 57 plants. Just how hard would it have been for an al-Qaida operative to join that crowd and drop some anthrax in the vat?  But why worry about al-Qaida when we have our own meat industry to contend with?

Harold Avery
Hartford (CT)                                                                 

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