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Forget Fur: New Celeb Cause Is Food

Overfishing, too much meat are the top causes

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(Newser) – Protesting fur is so last decade. Celebrities are now championing their favorite food-related causes, whether it's Paul McCartney asking Brits to cut back on meat, Jamie Oliver refusing to serve endangered bluefin, or celebs lining up to publicize a new film about overfishing, the Guardian reports. Why now? Government inaction and a stubborn sushi chain have riled up a few tempers.

A letter signed by several celebs had little effect on the Nobu chain, which refused to stop serving bluefin. So the producers of The End of The Line, a doc promoting sustainable fishing methods, rounded up a few celebs—and soon British actor Richard E Grant was posing for bare-chested publicity shots. The author whose book Line is based on says it's "awesome" to see his words "in the mouth of someone who didn't know anything about it until five minutes before."

Ashley Fruno, Shawn Mcrae and Park Ki-Hyun of PETA hold banners against fur in front of SETEC on March 27, 2009 in Seoul, South Korea. The new trend is protesting overfishing.
Ashley Fruno, Shawn Mcrae and Park Ki-Hyun of PETA hold banners against fur in front of SETEC on March 27, 2009 in Seoul, South Korea. The new trend is protesting overfishing.   (Getty Images)
Paul McCartney and daughter Stella are promoting no-meat Mondays in hopes that the British will reduce their consumption of livestock.
Paul McCartney and daughter Stella are promoting no-meat Mondays in hopes that the British will reduce their consumption of livestock.   (Getty Images)
Greenpeace demonstrators protest with five tons of tuna heads unloaded outside the Agriculture ministry in Paris Monday, Nov. 17, 2008.
Greenpeace demonstrators protest with five tons of tuna heads unloaded outside the Agriculture ministry in Paris Monday, Nov. 17, 2008.   (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)
Paul McCartney holds his hand to his heart in Los Angeles, Tuesday, April 14, 2009.
Paul McCartney holds his hand to his heart in Los Angeles, Tuesday, April 14, 2009.   (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
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The trailer for Rupert Murray's documentary "The End of the Line," which, it's been said, should do for our oceans what "An Inconvenient Truth" did for climate change.   (YouTube)
In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation's food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that's been hidden from the American consumer.   (YouTube)

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TerrifiedCitizen
Jun 14, 09 3:30 PM CDT
Pass me some more PETA bread. Whatever; maybe if we didn't kill so much more wildlife with the environment, we could sample a bit more on the table. Reply
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Forderon
Jun 14, 09 3:34 PM CDT
This should be a human cause, not just celebs. It's alarming how people completely ignore overpopulation and the effect the meat/food industry has on the environment. They are the two biggest worldwide issues, I think, and no one talks about them. Overpopulation has deep economic, environmental, and social implications. And the meat industry and it's giant reach is responsible for the largest contribution to global warming of any other source. Raising, producing, and distributing meat requires enormous land and fuel consumption. The effect on healthcare is never mentioned but processed, drugged up foods are what's really killing us and driving up healtcare costs. If we keep up this unsustainable meat consumption and unsustainable population growth, we are setting ourselves up for a disastrous positive feedback loop that we won't recover from. Reply
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Forderon
Jun 14, 09 3:45 PM CDT
Couple good links on this issue: http://www.emagazine.com/view/?4264 http://priceofmeat.com/ http://www.waitingforthestorm.com/en/meat-industry-statistics-environmental-impact-meat
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DJM420
Jun 14, 09 5:11 PM CDT
not to mention overfishing and the speedy destruction of our oceans, which is probably even more serious than the seriousness of the above
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Mad
Jun 14, 09 4:03 PM CDT
You want spooky? Two words: Con Ag [or is that one word? or two sounds?] Reply
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