Tag: Diet
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Vegans – Join Blog Action Day
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…
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Audubon Magazine on Diet and Global Warming
(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…
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NPR Gets the Point – Minimizing Greenhouse Gases Through Diet
I’ve blogged a fair amount (too much, some might say) on the connections between global warming and animal agriculture – it’s the true inconvenient truth that many meat-eating environmentalists have no interest in hearing, and many mainstream media outlets have little interest in reporting. (Gee, I assume that has no connection with whom the major…
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The Cheeseburger Footprint
Just came across an excellent post from Jamais Cascio on the Carbon Footprint of the Cheeseburger In summary, he concludes: To make it clear, then: the greenhouse gas emissions arising every year from the production and consumption of cheeseburgers is roughly the amount emitted by 6.5 million to 19.6 million SUVs. There are now approximately…