Tag: Global Warming
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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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Obama, Pollan on “Food” Policy
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…
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What’s Wrong With What We Eat & The Humane Myth
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…
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Carbon Footprint: Local vs. Vegan
(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…
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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…
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Killer Cow Emissions
Nice to see the LA Times taking up the links between vegetarianism and the environment: “Killer Cow Emissions” Now I actually have reason to use my digg and newsvine accounts. 😉 Highlights: All told, livestock are responsible for 18% of greenhouse-gas emissions worldwide, according to the U.N. — more than all the planes, trains and…
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Too Chicken to Go Vegetarian? NY Times article on vegetarianism and climate change
Good article in today’s NY Times by Claudia Deutsch: “Trying to Connect the Dinner Plate to Climate Change” Includes very prominently one of PETA‘s new ads: The article talks about the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization report “stating that the livestock business generates more greenhouse gas emissions than all forms of transportation combined” as…
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Stop Global Warming: Eat Vegetables
I’m often asked whether I’m a vegetarian because of ethical concerns about the treatment of animals (i.e., that we kill them) or for health reasons (because, I suppose you could argue, the animals humans eat kill us). The easy answer is yes. And also for environmental reasons. That’s the one people don’t even think to…