The folks at Change.org will be hosting Blog Action Day again this year, with a focus on Climate Change.

It’s a great opportunity to remind people of the link between animal-based agriculture and climate change.
Related links:

Livestock’s Long Shadow – the UN report from the Food and Agriculture Organization which concluded that “livestock are responsible [...]

(Via Vegan.com)
Excellent piece by Mike Tidwell in Audubon Magazine: The Low Carbon Diet.
I was a bit concerned when Tidwell opened with the usual “confession” that so many apologias for meat eating use, a trope I’m tired of reading:
Full disclosure: I love to eat meat. I was born in Memphis, the barbecue capital of [...]

While I’ve not doubt that a vegan president-elect Kucinich would be closer to my views on the animals-we-call-food, it’s enheartening truly to see Obama talking about food policy with a true intellectual approach, trying to understand how environmental issues are mixed up with how “food” is produced.
First, to backtrack. Via ecorazzi ( Barack Obama Discusses [...]

Two recent finds online worth sharing.
First, a video which came through the TED Talks video feed in Miro. It’s not actually from TED but from EG, which is a similar conference in Monterey focused on innovative ideas and wealthy audiences.
It’s Mark Bittman, a food critic for the New York Times (and author of How to [...]

(Via Organic Consumers Association) A new study published in Environmental Science & Technology discusses the contribution that food makes to global warming:
Van Wing, who coined the term locavore with a friend 3 years ago, says curbing global warming is one of many social and environmental reasons for eating locally. And for many people, “food miles”, [...]