Making Room for Wildlife to Improve Livelihoods

by NourishingthePlanet

Crossposted from the Worldwatch Institute's Nourishing the Planet.

This is the second part in a two-part interview with Steve Osofsky, Director of Wildlife Health Policy for the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). In this first part of the interview, Osofsky explains Transfrontier Conservation Areas (TFCAs) and how small-scale farmers can benefit from the conservation of wildlife. To read the first part of this interview see: Finding Common Ground to Improve Livelihoods and Conserve Wildlife.

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Macca's Meatless Monday..Oil Woman, Oil Why

by beach babe in fl

In this weekly series we have been discussing the benefits of a vegetarian diet including: better health, frugal living, animal rights, food safety, global food crisis and the immense contribution of meat production to climate change/depletion of resources.

We are killing our planet in our quest for more oil. It is past time for us to break our addiction to oil. The simplest and most effective way to break our personal consumption of oil is to reduce our consumption of meat.

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Macca's Meatless Monday..."Freedom" from oil

by beach babe in fl

In this weekly series we have been discussing the benefits of a vegetarian diet including: better health, animal rights, frugal living, global food crisis,food safety/public health, and the immense contribution of meat production to climate change/greenhouse gas emissions.

by reducing the amount of meat and dairy eaten and changing farming practices, by 2055 we could reduce emissions of methane and nitrous oxide--two greenhouse gases far more potent than carbon dioxide--from agricultural sources by more than 80%.

Acid rain is back, and thanks to farming, worse than ever..

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Macca's Meatless Monday..Help! for oil addiction here

by beach babe in fl

In this weekly series we have been discussing the benefits of a vegetarian diet including; better health, animal rights, global food crisis, food safety, frugal living and the immense contribution of meat production to climate change/depletion of resources. If all Americans went meatless once a week, it would save the same CO2 emissions as 90 million airplane flights from NYC to LA. If all Americans cut out meat for two days a week, this would have the same positive effect on reducing greenhouse gasses as replacing all household appliances like fridges, freezers, microwave ovens, dishwashers, washing machines, tumble dryers and so on Continued below the fold

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Macca's Meatless Monday...Tofu On The Hill

by beach babe in fl

In this weekly series we have been discussing the benefits of a vegetarian diet including; better health pdf, food safety, global food crisis, animal rights, frugal living and the huge contribution of meat production to climate change/depletion of resources. Where the environment is concerned, eating meat is like driving a 16-wheeler and leaving the engine running all the time. Eating a vegetarian diet is like riding a motorbike, and eating a vegan diet is like riding a bicycle. the average vegan uses about one-sixth of an acre of land to satisfy his or her food requirements for an entire year; the average vegetarian requires about three times as much land; and the average meat-eater requires about 20 times as much land. It takes about four times as much water to feed a vegetarian as it does to feed a vegan and 14 times as much water to feed a meat-eater.

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