PETA slams Al Gore for ‘hypocrisy and sheer laziness’ for not limiting festival food to vegan only

BuzzFeed ^ | April 26, 2015 | Kyle Blaine

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PETA is demanding to know: Why won’t Al Gore’s climate change music festival go vegan?

On stage at Davos this year, Gore and Pharrell Williams announced the return of the Live Earth music festival — a concert series meant to raise awareness of climate change. And now the animal rights group is demanding each of the concerts exclusively serve vegan products, arguing that Gore’s own group touts the benefits of giving up meat to reduce greenhouse gas production.

In a series of emails obtained by BuzzFeed News, representatives from PETA repeatedly ask Live Earth’s organizers if they plan to serve vegan only food, meaning the menu would be absent from all animal products like meat and dairy. The organizers do not directly answer PETA’s questions in the emails, but say that they were working with their partner organizations on sustainability at the events and that they were invested in promoting the vegan lifestyle.

Lisa Lange, senior vice president of PETA, accused Live Earth of “hypocrisy and sheer laziness” if they serve non-vegan food at their events.

“They either care about stopping climate change or they’re more interested in the appearance of caring,” Lange said in an email to BuzzFeed News. “While they decide, the earth is dying so PETA is hoping they immediately announce that they’re putting their mock meat where their mouths are, and making the Live Earth events vegan.”

Several studies, including one conducted in 2006 conducted by the United Nations, have concluded that livestock production is a top contributor to global warming.

In fact, Live Earth’s official guidebook mentions the 2006 U.N. study and says “the single most effective thing you can do to reduce your carbon footprint” is to not eat meat:

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Let the Left devour its own.