Tag Archive for 'environment'
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 [...]
Obama, Pollan on “Food” Policy
Published November 20th, 2008 in veg'nism. 0 Comments Tags: Climate Change, Environment, Food Policy, Global Warming, Health, Livestock, obama, Politics, Pollan, UN Report.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 [...]
What’s Wrong With What We Eat & The Humane Myth
Published June 25th, 2008 in veg'nism and video. 1 Comment Tags: Climate Change, Environment, Global Warming, Green, humane, locavore, myth, Organic, vegan, vegetarian.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 [...]
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 [...]
