staring at
marika
cancer, obesity, and other diseases can also be caused by pizza, french
fries, ice cream, cheesecake, milkshakes, Tastykakes, fettucini alfredo,
potato chips, french toast, potato pancakes, and creme brulee?
OH NO!!!! Do you think this means they're going to institute a TWINKIES
tax!!!
>
>
> > For Immediate Release:
> > January 27, 2000
> >
> > Contact:
> > Bruce Friedrich 757-622-7382
> >
> > New Hampshire -- "Petunia the Pig" may not vote, but as citizens in New
> > Hampshire turn their attention to selecting candidates for the
> > presidency,
> > she will be proposing her own legislation on behalf of vegetarian
> > voters.
> > Waving signs reading, "Cut the Pork--Tax Meat," Petunia will greet
> > candidates and their audiences at various locations across the state to
urge
> > support for a meat tax.
> >
> > PETA is advocating an excise tax on each purchase of meat and poultry,
> > in
> > the same way cancer-awareness groups advocated taxing cigarettes.
> > Reports
> > estimate that Americans spend as much as 123 billion dollars a year to
treat
> > hypertension, heart disease, stroke, cancer, obesity, and other diseases
> > directly related to meat consumption. Work loss due to these illnesses
costs
> > businesses millions more. PETA wants a meat tax to pay for dietary
education
> > programs that would help reduce health care costs and save consumers'
> > and
> > animals' lives.
> >
> > A tax on meat would also help pay to clean up after the meat industry's
huge
> > detrimental effect on the environment. Groups like the National Audubon
> > Society and the Union of Concerned Scientists recognize that meat-eating
> > ranks in the top three worst things we do to the planet.
> >
> > "Candidates who talk about fair taxation and fiscal responsibility,"
> > says
> > PETA's Vegetarian Campaign coordinator, Bruce Friedrich, "must realize
that
> > meat consumption costs us billions of dollars and millions of lives each
> > year. A meat tax could be used as health insurance for health problems
that
> > America's meat-eaters will invariably face later in life."
> >
> > For an interview with Bruce Friedrich, please call 757-622-7382, ext.
> > 608.
> > For more information, please visit our Web site at www.TaxMeat.com, or
call
> > 1-888-VEG-FOOD.