Less meat means less heat

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Less meat means less heat

 

September 13, 2007

 

It's a slogan that leading scientists hope will catch on worldwide, part

of a call for people to reduce consumption of meat and dairy products to

slow the pace of climate change.

 

Writing in the medical journal /The Lancet/, a team of international

health experts led by Tony McMichael warns that the world's growing

appetite for meat is increasing greenhouse gas emissions, as vast areas

of rainforest are bulldozed for grazing land and as more sheep and

cattle burp....

 

Source/Quelle: Limit meat eating to tackle climate change: study

<http://www.smh.com.au/news/environment/limit-meat-eating-to-tackle-climate-chan\

ge-study/2007/09/13/1189276861060.html>

 

 

 

Also see various links at:

 

*Meat Eating and Global Warming

http://www.ivu.org/members/globalwarming.html

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