Public Agenda (Accra)
Nyadudzi Enam Aseye
6 October 2008
Accra — The President of the Vegetarian Association of Ghana (VAG), Nathan Adu has urged Ghanaians to cultivate the habit to become vegetarians since the practice would immune one's system from many diseases and extend ones life span.
"In order to save our lives and the planet we must keep away from meat, lower our sugar standards, avoid cutting down of trees and plant more trees instead," he advised. He also called on the government to help educate people to patronize locally produced foods.
The occasion was a news conference organized by VAG on Friday in Accra to commemorate the International Week on Global Warming.
Mr. Adu urged the public to take advantage of the variety of nutrients in soyabean product by consuming enough of them since it would help avoid many health related problems.
The VAG President appealed to the Minister of Health and Agriculture to put in enough measures to prevent people from indiscriminately cutting down trees to protect the environment from global warming.
On his part, Mr. Mordechai Nyamekye, a member of the union said that, the current world food and oil crisis and many other difficulties are as a result of Global Warming and called on the public to take care of the environment.
He said the quest for meat and money has resulted in about 70% of the Amazon Forest being depleted due to cattle raising for money. "The more trees we cut down the less air we get to breathe therefore if the last tree dies the last man dies," he stressed.
He said the intake of too much sugar and meat would make it possible for many of diseases such as cancer and heart related diseases to attack us and called on the public to minimize the intake of these things.
Mr. Nyamekye urged the government to help protect the environment and to promote organic agriculture more than chemical base.
Mr. Ebo Nyamekye, another member of the union, challenged the media to play an important role in protecting the environment by reporting on important issues such as global warming and healthy diet.
According to him eating of pork creates a lot of problems for the body by shortening our life span by ten years and called for all hands on deck to promote healthy lifestyles and sustain the environment.
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