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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 and the immense contribution of meat production to climate change/depletion of resources
In this weekly series we have been discussing the benefits of a vegetarian diet including: public health, global food crisis, animal rights , food safety, better health and the immense contribution of meat production to climate change/depletion of resources/public health
because of increases in population and per capita consumption we will have to cut back on meat between 19-42% by 2050 just to keep environmental damage at current levels.
"a profound disconnect between the anticipated scale of potential environmental impacts associated with projected livestock production levels and even the most optimistic mitigation strategies."
in really simple terms: More meat means more greenhouse gas emissions, more nitrogen runoff and pollution, and more land needed for grazing or to grow food for animals which humans will eat.
In this weekly series we have been discussing the benefits of a vegetarian diet including:better health, animal rights, food safety, frugal living, global food crisis and the immense contribution of meat production to climate change.
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Lesser consumption of animal products is necessary to save the world from the worst impacts of climate change, UN report says
"Animal products cause more damage than [producing] construction minerals such as sand or cement, plastics or metals. Biomass and crops for animals are as damaging as [burning] fossil fuels."
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The industrial agricultural system, now the predominant form of agriculture in the USA and increasingly world-wide, has consequences for public health owing to its extensive use of fertilisers and pesticides, unsustainable use of resources and environmental pollution.
High-income nations feed over 60% of grain to livestock compared with low-income countries , where people consume most grain directly 2,13
1000 tons of water needed to grow 1 ton of grain for feed43.
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Nitrous oxide is about 300 and methane about 20 times more effective in trapping heat in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide.
agricultural emissions of greenhouse gases, mainly methane and nitrous oxide, have increased steadily. In 2005 they accounted for 14 percent of total anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions.
By 2055 the emissions of methane and nitrous oxide from agriculture could be cut by more than eighty percent, researchers of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research find
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What You Eat Is More Important Than Where It Came From
"Where you get your food from is a relevant factor in family food decisions, but what you are eating - and the processes needed to make it - is much more important from a climate change perspective,''
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Writing in the journal Environmental Science & Technology, Xiaobo Xue and Amy Landis examine which foods contribute most to ocean dead zones through nitrogen pollution and compared this with their carbon footprint, as established by previous studies. Red meat topped both footprint lists, making it the food with the greatest impact on both climate change and eutrophication: Eating a pound of beef creates about 22 lb of greenhouse gases and about 2.5 oz of nitrogen pollution. Cereals and carbohydrates had the smallest footprints, with each pound of food releasing only 3 lb of greenhouse gases and almost no nitrogen pollution.
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.
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.
Animal products are important because more than half of the world's crops are used to feed animals, not people.
Agricultural production accounts for a staggering 70% of the global freshwater consumption, 38% of the total land use, and 14% of the world's greenhouse gas emissions.
Agriculture and food consumption are identified as one of the most important drivers of environmental pressures, especially habitat change, climate change, water use and toxic emissions.
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 and the immense contribution of meat production to climate change/depletion of resources.
In the United States, 400 gallons of oil equivalents are expended annually to feed each American (as of data provided in 1994).7
In a very real sense, we are literally eating fossil fuels.
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.
The report by the UN Environment Programme’s International Panel for Sustainable Resource Management concludes that food production and the burning of fossil fuels are the greatest cause of greenhouse gas emissions. But while fossil fuels will eventually run out and be replaced by renewable energy such as solar, tidal and wind, the way we feed ourselves will be an ongoing concern.
The report’s lead author, Professor Edgar Hertwich, said animal products were more harmful in terms of emissions than the production of sand, cement, plastics or metals, adding that biomass and crops for livestock were as damaging as burning fossil fuels such as coal and oil.
Feeding the world and reducing climate change at the same time can only be accomplished if the world reduces its dependence on meat and animal products, and adopts a more vegetarian or vegan diet, its authors recommend.