The truly inconvenient truth is that eating meat murders our descendants. More than 1/3 of human induced global warming is from animal agriculture. Methane is 24 times more potent than CO2. But actually, I found it convenient, healthy and easy to stop eating meat. With 60+ BILLION food animals on the planet our best chance to mitigate climate change is to severely reduce consumption of animal foods. Methane takes only 7 years to cycle out of the atmosphere. CO2 takes around 100 years to come out. Human pursuit of animal protein is the leading cause of methane release and a primary cause of CO2 concentrating in the atmosphere. As environmental science has advanced, it has become apparent that the human appetite for animal flesh is a driving force behind virtually every major category of environmental damage now threatening the human future: deforestation, erosion, fresh water scarcity, air and water pollution, climate change, biodiversity loss, social injustice, the destabilization of communities, and the spread of disease. Worldwatch Institute, Is Meat Sustainable? “If every American skipped one meal of chicken per week and substituted vegetables and grains... the carbon dioxide savings would be the same as taking more than half a million cars off of U.S. roads.” Environmental Defense Fund A 1% reduction in world-wide meat intake has the same benefit as a three trillion-dollar investment in solar energy. ~ Chris Mentzel, CEO of Clean Energy There is one single industry destroying the planet more than any other. But no one wants to talk about it... cowspiracy/ Step by Step Guide: How to Transition to a Vegan Diet onegreenplanet.org/vegan-food/step-by-step-guide-how-to-transition-to-vegan-diet/
Posted on: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 11:12:45 +0000
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