One month from today, on Wednesday evening, October 7, Kamala Harris and
Mike Pence will meet on the vice presidential debate stage. Urge Sen. Harris
to use this platform and others to inform the American people how vital it
is that we replace animal products – not just “red” meat – with nutritious,
compassionate, environmentally-regenerative plant-based foods. Urge her to
use her powerful position and commanding voice to argue – for the sake of
our health, animals, and the planet – that choosing plant-based foods is a
winning vote for the future.
Email Kamala Harris:
https://www.harris.senate.gov/contact/email
Twitter:
https://twitter.com/SenKamalaHarris
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/SenatorKamalaHarris/
Address/Phone/Fax for each of Harris’s six offices:
https://www.harris.senate.gov/contact/offices
Click on each office image for postal service address, phone and fax
numbers.
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Vice Presidential candidate Kamala Harris has made vague but potentially
more invigorating suggestions that she favors educating the public about the
damaging effect of “red” meat on the environment, climate, and human health.
She said she’d consider changing the U.S.’s dietary guidelines to encourage
people to eat less meat. At a CNN town hall meeting in 2019, she expressed
support for “creating incentives that we will eat in a healthy way” and
“that we will be educated about the effect of our eating habits on our
environment.”
At this prospect, Vice President Mike Pence scoffed in a recent campaign
speech to Iowa farmers: “Well I’ve got some red meat for you. We’re not
going to let Joe Biden and Kamala Harris cut America’s meat.”
The Huffington Post reported that “Social media lit up after Pence made his
remarks, with commentators pointing out that they were looking forward to
the vice president engaging in meat debates with Harris on the national
stage.”
Favoring Harris’s remarks, an August 14 article on indy100, "Mike Pence
ridiculed for claiming Kamala Harris and Joe Biden want to stop Americans
eating meat," reminded readers that:
Harris' concerns are echoed by the United Nations, who found in 2019 that
the main contributors to the extinction crisis are farming and overfishing,
followed by meat and dairy production. During their annual report on climate
change, the UN also encouraged people to swap to a plant-based diet to help
mitigate the effects of climate change.
Thank you for everything you do for animals!
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