In last week’s Time Magazine, there’s a great article on the connection between meat consumption and global warming. When articles such as these come out, I’m always so happy that the mainstream press is reporting on such critically important information. I’m grateful that such news –- unpalatable though it may be to many –- is getting the press it so desperately needs.

But then I wonder why it takes so long. When so many people (such as scientists and changemakers) have been working for so many years to reveal important information like that in this story to the public, and when the mainstream media takes such a long time (in this case over a decade) to catch up, I read such articles with a sigh. “Finally,” I think, and get back to work.

We need our mainstream media to report information –- no matter how unwelcome -– when it comes out, not when they think the public is ready to hear it and they won’t get castigated for it. And we must do our part to urge them to do so and acknowledge the importance of these reports.

~ Zoe

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