FINALLY! Someone has published it!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have been saying this forever, I am an environmentalist and a strict vegetarian. I tell everyone who talks about how much they care about the environment and how right Al Gore is that he has left one MAJOR thing out. That is so awesome you sent him a letter, it will be interesting to see how he responds. It's always so interesting how people conveniently leave out things that they don't want to change for themselves. THANK YOU!

Posted by: lindsey | March 5, 2007 05:13 PM

I hope he decides to do whats best. I'm a fan of his. He better not let me down. :|

Posted by: Emily | March 5, 2007 05:37 PM

i agree totally!!! with all the comments!! his movie was great but he did leave a few things out!!!that is for sure

Posted by: kris shulfer | March 5, 2007 06:28 PM

Problem for Al is that some big donors are in the animal abuse industries!!!!

Posted by: kelly | March 5, 2007 06:33 PM

Thank you! I rented the video for my dad but refused to watch it. Without a doubt he sits on his leather couch at night and eats t-bone steaks while talking to Tipper about how great he is! Thank you for sending him a letter, I really hope he responds...

Posted by: doug | March 5, 2007 09:32 PM

Because turning the entire world into vegans is SO realistic.

Posted by: Vijaya | March 6, 2007 07:47 AM

all this environmental stuff becomes an insane religion. a hybrid car or solar power on the roof do not save one poor animal's life. the socalled environmentalists have nothing to do with animal protection - even if everything is organic and bioenergetic - animals continue to be slaughtered and abused and continue to suffer. let's say: environmentalism is a clever way to avoid troubles because it's impersonal! animal rights activists run a much higher risk to be exposed in public. there are even many former animal rights activists - who nowadays drive their hybrid car tranquilizing their conscience because they are not strong enough to hold on. animal rights activists have to know that the enemy is always trying to make them ridiculous or even worse: to threaten them in different ways and manners! so once again in history humans fail in saving animals - chosing the easy way - and environmentalism is eating animal cause!
and also: instead of lamenting about climate change people should get prepared for it - they cannot change anymore this climate and global warming - it's too late! but they should change their hearts of stone into living hearts and they would finally develop feelings for all living beings! but i think also this is anyway too late! we cannot turn back time and too many mistakes have been made through history: mankind has turned into stone - so we are actually in the stone age again!!!

Posted by: animalfriend | March 6, 2007 08:24 AM

In Response to Vijaya:

What an awful attitude you have. No wonder the world isn't changing, it's because of people like you who think it's too late so they just don't try. Just because you can't change everyone's mind doesn't mean you shouldn't try to change as many as you can. Or should I say, just because you can't stop all suffering doesn't mean you shouldn't try to stop all that you can. Even if you made a difference to just one single person then all your efforts are worth it. I can't adopt all the animals in shelters even though I would like to, but that doesn't mean I'm not going to try and save a few animals lives. Being pessimistic and lazy is the exact way to bring the world down. It's dissapointing to hear someone say they think it's already too late to do anything. It's too bad you lead your life that way, I feel sorry for you.

Posted by: lindsey | March 6, 2007 01:26 PM

"Because turning the entire world into vegans is SO realistic."

Isnt someone pissy? Listen, if you're going to go and make an international video about the dangers of C02 and greenhouse gases and then go on national TV and tell everyone about how you care for the environment so much, dont you think that you should stop creating one thing in this world of ours that generates the most C02 and greenhouse gases. Mr. Gore is a hipocrite and the day he stops consuming meat and dairy I will listen to what he has to say!

Posted by: doug | March 6, 2007 01:55 PM

Al Gore never claimed to have intented the internet; it's to the point now where PETA is parroting right wing noise.

Posted by: KevinfromTexas | March 6, 2007 03:18 PM

Good job lindsey!!!!!!!

very well put

Posted by: doug | March 6, 2007 03:19 PM

to lindsey: i think your message is for me not for vijaya - i understand and respect your feelings towards my pessimistic opinion and i shall try to be more optimistic but after 40 years in animal rights movements i saw too many bad things from inside and outside and i learned to know the human being and his miserable character and attitude and i can tell you this: humans are just for humans - they never go as far as to sacrifice themselves for the animals - the animals are always alone: one day a woman came to me and she was crying because passing by a slaughterhouse she heard the animals cry and she told me: we have to do something absolutely! then i said to her: ok i help you but you have to know that from today on we are all alone with our fight - there is no church, no police, no president, no god coming down to help us! you like to start - and then she looked down to the earth and did not react anymore! you see why i have this attitude - also i'm living in france and people here in the countryside are very primitive: they got just two things in their head: filling up their stomach with every kind of meat and going out for hunting. somebody told me that in the slaughterhouses they amuse themselves by cutting the testicles of the bulls - so you see why i'm pessimistic - but maybe you are young and ready for big things - i wish you every good luck! and then we have peta and the humance society and other great animal rights organizations all over the world and i hope with all my heart that things shall come always better for animals - this is all i hope for in my life!

Posted by: animalfriend | March 6, 2007 03:55 PM

Correction:

Okay, I have to correct in saying that my response is to animalfriend and not to Vijaya (sorry...)

Now, to KevinFromTexas...
Maybe Al Gore's words got taken out of context (which probably happens with at least one thing everyone says each day) but here is an Al Gore quote from an interview with Wolf Blitzer in March of 1999..."During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the internet." That is a fairly broad statement that can be taken in many contexts. I think it is Al Gore that is parroting his own noise.

Posted by: lindsey | March 6, 2007 03:58 PM

Hello lindsey.

"I think it is Al Gore that is parroting his own noise."

Since this was the first time Gore claimed to have taken the initiative in creating the internet, definitionally, he could not have been parroting himself.

OK that hopefully was something of a joke. Which is to say, the original entry was good enough to run on its own merit.

Posted by: KevinfromTexas | March 6, 2007 05:53 PM

Last weekend here in Australia there was a show called CoolAid which was all about the climate change issue. Al Gore was of course interviewed and they also surveyed several stars lives to see how much CO2 they were causing etc. The great thing was that the eating of animals was brought up several times as being a huge cause of the problem, of course there wasn't anything about the cruelty but at least it was brought up on live TV in a country that is strangled by the meat and dairy industries. The have a website which has the Al Gore interview on it www.coolaid.com.au for anyone that is interested.

Posted by: sb | March 6, 2007 09:49 PM

Besides this HUGE mislead, I thank Al Gore for showing me the documentary's title...

...because eating meat is THE inconvenient truth!

Human race is certainly a self destructive specie.

Posted by: Tiago | March 7, 2007 02:01 AM

Hi,
I'm not an environmentalist or anything, but I find the statement, "animals raised for food generate more greenhouse gases than all cars and trucks combined" interesting and I would just like to read more about this. Could you please post a link so that "uninformed" people could read up on your point of view to understand what you are saying with something factual (other than a random statement)?

Thanks,

Josh

Posted by: Josh | March 7, 2007 12:44 PM

Josh - I hope these help:

www.celsias.com/blog/2006/12/11/the-cow-public-enemy-number-one/

www.celsias.com/blog/2006/11/22/save-the-world-with-your-fork/

www.celsias.com/blog/2007/01/21/porkine-putridity-in-profusion/

www.celsias.com/blog/2007/02/17/earthlings/

www.celsias.com/blog/2007/02/14/will-disease-halt-global-warming/

Regards

Posted by: Craig Mackintosh | March 7, 2007 01:01 PM

Hey Josh,
the statistic comes from a 2006 U.N. report. You can read PETA's feature on the subject at
http://goveg.com/environment-globalwarming.asp

And the original report can be found at http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=20772&Cr=global&Cr1=environment

I hope that's helpful!
Jack

Posted by: Jack | March 7, 2007 01:10 PM