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deadline: 5-13-2009
goal: 10,000

Pledge to Eat Conscientiously, for Animals and the Planet

Target: YOU!
Sponsored by: Care2

One of the best things you can do for the environment and for the planet is to become vegetarian, eat less meat or pay more attention to where your meat comes from.

Due to the way meat is processed and transported, the meat industry accounts for more pollution than the entire transportation industry! If you think cars and planes are bad, take a deeper look into the meat industry.

Animal agriculture not only produces carbon dioxide, but also methane and nitrous oxide emissions. Those three are the toxic cocktail that causes global warming.

Eating 1 pound of meat emits the same amount of greenhouse pollution as driving a hummer 40 miles!

As if that wasn't a good enough reason, there are many issues about the treatment of farm animals in factory farms, who are crammed into tiny cages and subjected to horrifying lives.

Pledge to help our environment, our exploited farm animals, and yourself by eating less meat, and knowing where your food comes from.

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# 4,558:

5:58 pm PDT, May 11, Edita Hajdar, Minnesota
I promise to not eat ANY meat. :)

# 4,557:

5:35 pm PDT, May 6, Kellie Noffsinger, California

# 4,556:

5:04 pm PDT, May 2, Freya Hall, Florida

# 4,555:

4:08 pm PDT, Apr 28, Ian Encarnacion, Canada

# 4,554:

9:38 am PDT, Apr 28, Natalie Encarnacion, Canada
Become Vegan!!!!

# 4,553:

7:08 am PDT, Apr 28, Patricia Snel, Canada

# 4,552:

5:47 pm PDT, Apr 27, Louis Reginato Jr, Virginia

# 4,551:

1:55 am PDT, Apr 27, Sophie Cornell, United Kingdom

# 4,549:

2:19 pm PDT, Apr 26, Name not displayed, California

# 4,548:

9:20 am PDT, Apr 26, David Rossi, Texas
I have been vegetarian for three years, and vegan for one.

# 4,547:

9:10 am PDT, Apr 26, Karen Nichols, United Kingdom
Eating less mass produced meat alone is not the solution to global warming. This article implies that reducing the impacts in one area justifys continuing to drive gas guzzlers. Offsetting is not reduction. It is necessary to reduce carbon emissions in all aspects of life.

# 4,546:

4:37 pm PDT, Apr 25, Natalia Bokatanova, Cyprus

# 4,545:

11:14 am PDT, Apr 25, Sophie Alevizaki, Greece

# 4,544:

8:09 am PDT, Apr 25, Sarah Keech, California
This is the easiest pledge to sign up for since I am already a vegan. Being vegan is the least you can do for the planet and the animals. Try to grow some of your own veggies so you don't have to get veggies that were transported using fossil fuels. Buy locally if you can and buy organic. I could go on and on. I wish everyone was vegan.

# 4,543:

7:19 am PDT, Apr 24, Lynda Markowski, New York

# 4,542:

2:21 pm PDT, Apr 23, Karen Weils, New York

# 4,541:

3:54 am PDT, Apr 23, Lily Karapas, Australia

# 4,540:

12:36 am PDT, Apr 23, Elaine Robinson, United Kingdom
I AM VEGAN - I ENCOURAGE YOU IF YOU CAN'T BE/DO VEGAN THEN BECOME A VEGETARIAN - THAT'S AS GOOD FOR OUR ANIMALS AND OUR PLANET

# 4,539:

6:57 pm PDT, Apr 22, Virginia Kennedy, Florida

# 4,538:

5:29 pm PDT, Apr 22, Sage Oswald, Canada

# 4,537:

1:43 pm PDT, Apr 22, Name not displayed, Connecticut

# 4,536:

3:35 pm PDT, Apr 21, Elizabeth Spawn, Minnesota

# 4,535:

3:25 am PDT, Apr 21, Jennifer Hall, Tennessee

# 4,534:

12:20 am PDT, Apr 21, Gina Danielle Kohn, Norway

# 4,533:

10:15 pm PDT, Apr 20, Joesph Ransdell-Green, Alaska
That's freaky. I have been vegetarian all my life. Please sign!

# 4,532:

12:56 pm PDT, Apr 20, OSKAR & MATHIAS OBRIST, Chile

# 4,531:

5:14 am PDT, Apr 20, Neall Shennan, United Kingdom

# 4,530:

10:08 pm PDT, Apr 19, Dalia Hettfield, California
I don't eat meat.

# 4,529:

8:18 pm PDT, Apr 19, Jaqueline Fisher, Australia
I have always been an omnivore, but I have recently decided to cut down on meat as much as I can for many reasons. I have already stopped eating pork/bacon. Next I will cut back on cow products.

# 4,528:

6:20 am PDT, Apr 19, Michele Zuccali, Italy

# 4,527:

5:35 am PDT, Apr 19, Margaret Sweeny, United Kingdom

# 4,526:

11:47 am PDT, Apr 18, Ivette Figueroa, Mexico
i am a vary happy and healthy vegetarian person, meat it�s not good for our health at all. we don�t need to kill to survive.!!!

# 4,525:

11:06 am PDT, Apr 18, Timothy Stewart, Oregon

# 4,524:

10:20 am PDT, Apr 18, Name not displayed, California

# 4,523:

7:57 pm PDT, Apr 17, N. Wallace, Oregon

# 4,522:

1:24 pm PDT, Apr 17, Jamie Lee, California

# 4,521:

7:34 am PDT, Apr 17, Sonia Trimboli, Italy

# 4,520:

5:15 am PDT, Apr 17, Linda Iafe, New Jersey

# 4,519:

2:11 am PDT, Apr 17, Name not displayed, South Africa
I am an omnivore! I was made to eat both meat and plants. However, I do believe that we humans consume far too much meat for our own health. There is no balance! As a family, we have cut our meat intake considerably over the past year, and we will continue to do so. Apart from helping the environment, it makes sense economically too!

# 4,518:

1:34 am PDT, Apr 17, Joanna Karatsaneva, Bulgaria

# 4,517:

1:21 am PDT, Apr 17, Ivana Dmitrovic, Serbia And Montenegro

# 4,516:

1:08 am PDT, Apr 17, Valentina Sconocchia, Italy

# 4,515:

7:38 pm PDT, Apr 16, John Seider, New York

# 4,514:

5:56 pm PDT, Apr 16, Simonetta Ticciati, Italy

# 4,513:

5:23 pm PDT, Apr 16, Harry Mauney, North Carolina

# 4,512:

3:16 pm PDT, Apr 16, Name not displayed, Italy

# 4,511:

2:15 pm PDT, Apr 16, Miglena Bozhikova, Bulgaria

# 4,510:

2:08 pm PDT, Apr 16, Simona Minopoli, Italy

# 4,509:

11:40 am PDT, Apr 16, Renato Campino, Portugal
I don�t eat mest

# 4,508:

11:14 am PDT, Apr 16, Ilirka Stevanovic, Argentina
I have been a vegetarian for almost 20 years and I�m proud of my decision. Unfortunately, I live in a meat-eating country where meat is part of its culture. And it hasn�t got any better throughout the years. No matter how much I might rave about the benefits of not eating animals (which, by the way, they are many) I cannot convince anybody, except for my mother and my best friend. Yet I keep trying. Protecting the environment should be another good reason to stop eating meat.

# 4,507:

11:04 am PDT, Apr 16, Name not displayed, Missouri

# 4,506:

11:03 am PDT, Apr 16, Christiane Page, Spain

# 4,505:

10:56 am PDT, Apr 16, Erica Stovall, California

# 4,504:

10:49 am PDT, Apr 16, Ilirka Stevanovic, Argentina
I�ve been a vegetarian for almost 20 years and I�m very proud of my decision. I live in a meat-eating country, where meat is part of its culture and it hasn�t got any better throughout the years. No matter how much I rave about the benefits of not eating meat (which by the way are many) I cannot convince anybody, except for for my mother and my best friend. Yet, I keep trying. Protecting the planet should be a good reason to stop people from eating meat.

# 4,503:

10:15 am PDT, Apr 16, Patricia Long, Indiana

# 4,502:

9:11 am PDT, Apr 16, Lee Moore, Mexico

# 4,501:

8:54 am PDT, Apr 16, Name not displayed, Colorado
I have been getting an education around changing my diet to a plant based diet. I am in the process of going vegetarian.

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