[net.rec.wood] As if it weren't enough...

berry@zinfandel.UUCP (Berry Kercheval) (05/06/85)

As if it weren't enough that fast food help is polite to people, here's
a tit-bit I found in the Notes and Comment Section of the current issue 
of FINE WOODWORKING magazine. (May/June 1985, No. 52, page 106):

	If hauling the Sunday paper off the porch doesn't make you feel guilty 
	enough about depleting the world's forests, John Seed of the
	Rainforest Information Center would have you pause to ponder
	before devouring your next Whopper.  The RIC, an Australian
	environmental group, claims that multinational fast-food chains
	are logging off much of the Central American rain forest to raise
	beef bound for American hamburgers.

	According to a story in THE MOTHER EARTH NEWS, the RIC and
	several environmental groups in the US plan fast-food boycotts to
	save the rain forests -- 40% of those in Central America are
	already gone and at present logging rates, the rest will follow
	by the year 2000.  For more information you can contact The
	Rainforest Information Center, P.O. Box 368, Lismore 2480,
	N.S.W., Australia (the center also publishes WORLD RAINFOREST
	REPORT) and Earth First!, P.O. Box 235, Ely, Nev. 89301


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Berry Kercheval		Zehntel Inc.	(ihnp4!zehntel!zinfandel!berry)
(415)932-6900				(kerch@lll-tis.ARPA)

smuga@mtuxo.UUCP (j.smuga) (05/10/85)

> As if it weren't enough that fast food help is polite to people, here's
> a tit-bit I found in the Notes and Comment Section of the current issue 
> of FINE WOODWORKING magazine. (May/June 1985, No. 52, page 106):
> 
> 	If hauling the Sunday paper off the porch doesn't make you feel guilty 
> 	enough about depleting the world's forests, John Seed of the
> 	Rainforest Information Center would have you pause to ponder
> 	before devouring your next Whopper.  The RIC, an Australian
> 	environmental group, claims that multinational fast-food chains
> 	are logging off much of the Central American rain forest to raise
> 	beef bound for American hamburgers.
> 
> 	According to a story in THE MOTHER EARTH NEWS, the RIC and
> 	several environmental groups in the US plan fast-food boycotts to
> 	save the rain forests -- 40% of those in Central America are
> 	already gone and at present logging rates, the rest will follow
> 	by the year 2000.  For more information you can contact The
> 	Rainforest Information Center, P.O. Box 368, Lismore 2480,
> 	N.S.W., Australia (the center also publishes WORLD RAINFOREST
> 	REPORT) and Earth First!, P.O. Box 235, Ely, Nev. 89301
> 
> 
> -- 
> Berry Kercheval		Zehntel Inc.	(ihnp4!zehntel!zinfandel!berry)
> (415)932-6900				(kerch@lll-tis.ARPA)

An argument for vegetarianism!
You can spare yourself the agravation of being asked what you want to eat,
and feel morally superior at the same time.

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