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Mark’s Meat in Space Petition

Here’s a copy of Mark Reinhardt’s petition to the UN to ban meat and dairy products from space. Completed petitions can be mailed to Mr. Annan at 1 UN Plaza, United Nations, New York, NY 10017, or emailed to him at inquiries@un.org . Soft copies of the petition will be circulated in the next issue of The Virtual Vegetarian, the VSC’s email newsletter, or may be downloaded from the Public Shared Files page of the VSC Stewdio, http://cstew.com/VegetarianSocietyofColorado/ . Send them to everyone you know!

Petition to Designate Space as a Meat and Dairy–Free Zone

To The Honorable Kofi Annan

Secretary-General of the United Nations

We, the undersigned people of the planet Earth, respectfully petition the United Nations and its member nations to actively promote such international treaties as may be required to designate space, including all areas of the Universe outside of Earth and its atmosphere, as a Meat and Dairy–Free Zone.

In support of our petition, we call to the attention of the General Assembly the following facts:

	The production of meat and dairy products is the cruelest and most environmentally destructive of all human activity.
	The consumption of meat and dairy products is the leading preventable cause of human disease and death.
	The goal of space exploration should be to strive for higher values, not to export our vices. (What’s next—gambling on Neptune? A smoking lounge on the International Space Station?)
	Cows, pigs, chickens and fish get nauseous in zero-gravity, and their space suits fit poorly.

For these reasons and others, we hope and trust that the people of the Earth, led by our United Nations, will work to accomplish this noble cause. Thank you.

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