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Subject: Re: As if it weren't enough...
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Date: Fri, 10-May-85 14:18:38 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 10 14:18:38 1985
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> 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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