Mission Statement

We are vegan we are pirates.

What is a Pirate? Here are some bullet points (extracts) of the pirate codex, which matter to us:

• Pirates are free: Pirates are freedom-loving, independent, autonomous and disapprove blind obedience.
• Pirates are fair-minded: Pirates counteract the blind-eye-mentality of society and take action when moral courage is necessary.
• Pirates respect life: Pirates are peaceful. Therefore they reject the destruction of our environment. Pirates stand for the sustainable agriculture and conservative handling of natural resources. We strictly reject patents on life.
• Pirates are eager for knowledge: The access to information, education, knowledge and scientific findings has to be unlimited.
• Pirates are international: They take advantage of the opportunities offered by the World Wide Web and therefore enabled to think and act without borders.

Are you a pirate, too? You don’t have to be a member of a pirate party. A Pirate is defined by heart!

Motivation
The frightening picture of a global society in transition to a future at risk brought us together. People from the East, North, South and West are driven and caught at the same time by the rules of the game dictated by modern civilization.

• In 2010 the world population was 6.9 billion people, 925 million people were undernourished. Link
• 50% of the world wide grown crop is used to feed pathetic, wasting away farm animals instead of distributing it to the 1 billion hungry people. Link
• To treat animals like products is alarming and loathing.
• The production of 1 kg wheat costs 1,300 L water, broken rice 3,400 L and beef 15,000 (!) L. Link
• The production of 1 kg beef causes about 13.3 kg of CO2. The same quantity of CO2 is released when you burn about 6 liters of petrol! 1 kg of Butter causes even more CO2 (23.8 kg). Link
• Beef/Meat consumption per person, kg, 2007: #2 USA (42.1/125.4), #3 Australia (43.5/121.2), #7 Austria (17.8/103.1), #40 Greece (18.1,74.8), #1 is Luxembourg (43.8,136.5)
• Some Math: 315.000.000 Americans x 42.1 kg beef x 15.000 L water = 198.922.500.000.000 L of water per year in the US just for producing beef! And this doesn’t even include Pork, Poultry, Goat and others.
• Calculate the CO2 emissions by yourself?
• The tremendous harm to our nature, food companies are causing with genetically engineered foods and seeds, is unpredictable and in our opinion a threat to life on earth.
• In times when corruption in politics is rather the rule than the exception and ethical considerations are subordinated to financial benefits, evil can expand easily and unnoticed.
• Dairy products are responsible for most of our modern chronic illnesses. Believing they would suit us is a left over from a big ad-campaign in the late 1950’s, from which huge corporations derived from. Nowadays they control 90% of the world’s food market, by selling products, we actually don’t need. Can you see the dilemma?

“As Pirates, we keep an eye on bad states of affairs and are not afraight to take action when moral courage is necessary!”

Goals
Our intention is neither to blame a few for being responsible, nor many for playing along. We want to provide an open minded forum to develop and discuss constructive ideas to improve or eliminate bad state of affairs. We propose adopting a vegan/vegetarian lifestyle as a means of recovering balance on our planet, but also understand that there will be a period of transition, in which lowering the consumption of meat and dairy products will play an important role.[/justify]
Since Rome wasn’t built in a day, we selected the following topics to primary focus on first:

• Sustainable Agriculture (organic, local, natural): Keep an eye on multinational food corporations, shape the legislation process to strengthen local farmes.
• Nutrition (health issues, climate impacts): Collect and distribute latest scientific points of view.
• Human and animal rights

By focusing on healthy nutrition and sustainable agriculture in line with human and animal rights, we want to contribute and push necessary amendments for a harmonized and sustainable coexistence between humans, animals and our planet!

Realization
We collaborate with various organizations and communities (that go in line with our goals, mission and philosophy) on relevant topics. Together we produce jointly drawn up position papers on respective topics. In the course of doing so, we purely focus on the matter itself, regardless of popularity or influence by third parties. Our results will be presented to qualified Pirate Parties to become part of their party platform that will then be represented by the whole party. Thereby even minorities with excellent, but maybe unpopular, ideas gain a political advocate for their mission.
“We offer a fair and unbureaucratic way for good ideas to become a party platform item, which is then supported by the whole party. We want to help unpopular or minor groups to extend their visibility and to allow them to address their concern to policy makers.”

Relations to other parties
Any party is more than welcome to contact us and to join in or build up on our work (CC BY-SA 3.0). Unlike most other parties, the Pirate Parties support [url=http://liquidfeedback.org/mission/#1]Liquid Democracy[/url] and some already introduced the online system Liquid Feedback for discussing and voting on proposals in an inner party context.
Here is a little video about Liquid Democracy: german / dutch

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