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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]