Sign this petition to use your buying power! Pledge to cut out (or at least severly cut back) beef and cow products. The demand for beef (coupled with the billions of people on the planet) is directly killing our last packs of wolves, many other endangered species and their habitas to make room for grazing the cattle. Now, the demand for beef is even causing the last remaining tribal peoples cultural and land distruction (many sources, including survival international, report on instances where indigenous peoples are being threatened (or killed) in the name of the cattle industry. A new law in Brazil that is 'anti-Indian' and would allow ranchers to take over tribal lands: http://intercontinentalcry.org/brazil-thousands-of-indigenous-peoples-mobilize-against-absurd-decree-303/
Links about Wolves: in Washington state one of the 7 last remaining wolf packs was massacred due to ranchers failing to use non-lethal means of protecting their cattle: http://howlingforjustice.wordpress.com/tag/wedge-pack/ OR http://www.king5.com/news/Wildlife-agents-looking-for-Wedge-wolf-pack-survivors-172584191.html
Wyoming, Idaho, Montana and other states have thrown out all conservation efforts and endangered species protection in favor of bloody massacre and the cattle ranchers who would rather the wolves dissappear!!! Research will reveal cases like this involving Wolves and other species and habitats around the country and world!
THE ONLY WAY for us to have change this course of the every growing, and ever powerfull, cattle industry is to USE OUR BUYING POWER to stop the huge demand for beef! We sign this petition and make a pledge to stop severly cut back our demand for beef/cattle products and CLEARLY STATE to ranchers and the government agencies and officials that our last remaing wolves, other species and our very last tribal peoples left on the planet are MORE IMPORTANT to us than having our beef!
We are cutting out beef because the cattle industry is wiping out our last remaining Wolves, other species, many habitats and even our last Tribal Peoples left on Earth. We want to send a clear message that we do NOT agree that cattle and ranchers' profits are more important that our endangered species and certainly beef is NOT more important than saving the last Tribal Peoples on Earth. We do not want rainforests cut down to make way for grasing lands, we do not want wolves massacred in whole packs, and we do not want big business to have access to Indigenous lands....We know big business..ie: the ranching industry, has much power within governments...we know they do not care about the Wolves, or saving them....and we are choosing to utilize our power to send a clear message. It is time for big business to be strictly regulated and no longer have unfettered access to whatever resources they want, at the expense of our people, our diverse species, habitat ...and the future of all!!!
