Tag Archive for 'diet'
Vegans – Join Blog Action Day
Published September 27th, 2009 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments Tags: Blog Action Day, Climate Change, Diet, Environment, Global Warming, vegan.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 [...]
Audubon Magazine on Diet and Global Warming
Published January 7th, 2009 in veg'nism. 1 Comment Tags: Carbon Footprint, Climate Change, Diet, food, Global Warming, Globalization, vegan, vegetarian, World Hunger.(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 [...]
NPR Gets the Point – Minimizing Greenhouse Gases Through Diet
Published April 23rd, 2008 in veg'nism. 0 Comments Tags: Diet, Environment, Global Warming, NPR, vegan.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 [...]
The Cheeseburger Footprint
Published February 26th, 2008 in veg'nism and video. 0 Comments Tags: Carbon Footprint, Climate Change, Diet, Environment, Global Warming, Green, vegan, vegetarian.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 16 [...]
