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Contributing To A Greener 2010 |
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Written by Administrator
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Thursday, 17 June 2010 15:11 |
In supporting South Africa's promise to deliver a greener 2010, The Brightwater Commons, in conjunction with the Aluminium Federation of South Africa and Hulamin, has launched a recycling campaign for the collecting of used aluminium foil for recycling.
An appeal is being made to the public and corporates, especially those in the food and hospitality industries, to support this initiative by depositing their used foil at the foil deposit venue adjacent to Woolworths inside The Brightwater Commons. Arrangements can also be made for the collecting of large amounts of used foil from organisations within the Johannesburg area. |
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Written by Louise Van Der Merwe - Animal Voice
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Monday, 05 October 2009 07:40 |
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In South Africa there are 22.8 million laying hens trapped in battery cages with no solid bases and no perches. The space allowance per hen is 75% of an ordinary A4 sheet of paper; they are debeaked because in the overcrowded confines of the battery cage, there is no place to hide and, unable to peck at anything else, the hens peck at each other’s feathers and sometimes draw blood; they are often detoed so that they won’t scratch each other as they clamber over one another to get to the food trough in front. After a year in the battery cages, they are sold to hawkers for informal slaughter, never having experienced even one of their natural behaviours such as sun-bathing, dust-bathing and foraging for food. They die never having felt the soil beneath their feet nor the warmth of the sun. |
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Written by www.caaa.co.za
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Monday, 14 September 2009 09:40 |
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Please join us and take the Meat Free Mondays pledge. If every South African had one (extra) meat free day a week for a year, it would be the equivalent of taking close to one million cars off the road for a year.
18% of climate change is produced by factory farming methods, plus the clearing of the Amazon forest to feed the animals we eat. 10 kg’s of soy and grain gives us ONE kg of meat. Half of the grain produced world wide doesn’t go to humans, it goes to feeding animals in the production of meat.
A lot of people go to the gym on a Monday. With Meat Free Mondays it's a bit like going to the gym but with the added advantage of protecting the planet, says Sir Paul McCartney. What we choose to eat is one of the biggest factors in our impact on the environment. Indeed, animal agriculture is a major source of water pollution and deforestation and has become one of the biggest culprits in global warming, with this contributing to 18% of all greenhouse emissions, while all forms of transport globally is 13%. |
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