Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site zinfandel.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!zehntel!zinfandel!berry From: berry@zinfandel.UUCP (Berry Kercheval) Newsgroups: net.flame,net.rec.wood Subject: As if it weren't enough... Message-ID: <395@zinfandel.UUCP> Date: Mon, 6-May-85 12:22:15 EDT Article-I.D.: zinfande.395 Posted: Mon May 6 12:22:15 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 11-May-85 00:27:57 EDT Reply-To: berry@zinfandel.UUCP (Berry Kercheval) Organization: Zehntel Inc., Walnut Creek CA Lines: 25 Xref: watmath net.flame:9809 net.rec.wood:195 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)