Eating As If the Climate Mattered

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too bad they mention Greenpeace as being veg...as they aren't...

 

 

Eating As If the Climate Mattered

By Bruce Friedrich, AlterNet. Posted January 23, 2008.

 

Changing what we eat can help alleviate one of the most serious global

environmental

problems.

 

Last week in our nation's capital, the National Council for Science and the

Environment (NCSE) held a climate change conference focused on solutions to the

problem of human-induced climate change. And in Paris the head of the

Intergovernmental

Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which is sharing the Nobel Peace Prize with Al

Gore,

held a press conference to discuss to discuss " the importance of lifestyle

choices " in combating global warming.

 

Notably, all food at the NCSE conference was vegan, and there were table-top

brochures

with quotes from the U.N. report on the meat industry, discussed more below. And

the IPCC head, Dr. Rajendra Pachauri declared, as the AFP sums it up, " Don't

eat meat, ride a bike, and be a frugal shopper. "

 

 

full story: http://www.alternet.org/environment/74605/

 

 

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