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To:danielbarker123@yahoo.com

‎Sep‎ ‎23‎, ‎2008 at ‎9‎:‎53‎ ‎AM

Dear Daniel,  

Thank you for contacting NRDC and for your interest in our work. Comments and suggestions are tremendously important to us, and we really appreciate your taking the time to write. Although NRDC does not endorse any particular dietary lifestyle as a solution to global warming, we do provide studies and recommendations to the public for environmentally sensitive food lifecycles. Following are links to some examples you might be interested in from the NRDC website regarding organic foods, buying locally grown foods, and the dangers of factory farming:

Pollution from Giant Livestock Farms Threatens Public Health: http://www.nrdc.org/water/pollution/nspills.asp

How Green Is Our Valley: http://www.nrdc.org/onearth/05spr/livgreen.asp

Cesspools of Shame - How Factory Farm Lagoons and Sprayfields Threaten Environmental and Public Health: http://www.nrdc.org/water/pollution/cesspools/cessinx.asp

Organic Foods 101: http://www.nrdc.org/health/farming/forg101.asp

Our “This Green Life” newsletter has also covered topics related to diet in the following editions:

Down with Meat
http://www.nrdc.org/thisgreenlife/0603.asp

Poor Henny Penny
http://www.nrdc.org/thisgreenlife/0507.asp 

Thanks again for contacting NRDC.

Sincerely,
Jennifer Lam
NRDC Membership

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From: Daniel Barker [mailto:danielbarker123@yahoo.com]
Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 3:56 PM
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Subject: vegetarian campaign

Dear concerned citizen,     I do not need to tell you the consequences of using petroleum.  Climate Change.  Greenhouse gas emissions.  American foreign policy.  What are we doing about it?    When I eat out, I see something on the menu that some people miss because it hides in plain sight.  The menu is meat, meat, meat, almost every dish, three meals a day.    As Al Gore has stated, it takes forty times the fossil fuel to produce a pound of protein from feedlot beef as does soybeans.  Eating vegetarian greatly reduces both our consumption of fossil fuel as well as endowments to the Republican Party.  It would behoove us to end the madness of eating meat!    Therefore I propose a public campaign of vegetarian.  Tell your friends about how what they eat affects the planet.     This is something that does not require any money yet achieves so much.  We can help stop climate change and donating so much money to the Republican regime.    Spread the word - the fate of the planet depends on it. Daniel Barker 6339 Egret Drive Lakeland, FL  33809 863-815-4534