articles on vegan diet and environment

[Guest guest]

Does anyone know where I can find information on how a vegan diet can

be a positive affect on the environment. If it can actually show that

changing to avegan diet has a much greater impact than driving a hybrid.

 

thanks

Mari

[Guest guest]

Mari wrote: "Does anyone know where I can find information on how a vegan diet can be a positive affect on the environment."

The United Nations issued a report, Livestock's Long Shadow, that sums it all up. The summary and conclusions section gives some good statistics.

http://www.virtualcentre.org/en/library/key_pub/longshad/A0701E00.htm

Karen

[Guest guest]

In addition to the UN report that Karen posted, GoVeg.com has a page on

meat and the environment:

http://goveg.com/environment.asp

 

 

And here's a fabulous essay called Vegetarianism is the New Prius:

 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kathy-freston/vegetarian-is-the-new-pri_b_39014.ht\

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Last but not least, if you have any environmental friends who want to go

veg after reading these websites, there's a new " making the transition "

feature you can direct them to:

http://www.vegcooking.com/makingthetransition.asp

 

It's really good--upbeat, positive, and full of tips for easy veg eating.

 

Alex

 

> Does anyone know where I can find information on how a vegan diet can

> be a positive affect on the environment. If it can actually show that

> changing to avegan diet has a much greater impact than driving a hybrid.

>

> thanks

> Mari

>

>

[Guest guest]

A search for "vegan, environment" should give you more info than you need...http://www.google.com/search?client=safari & rls=en & q=vegan,+environment & ie=UTF-8 & oe=UTF-8On Jul 18, 2007, at 5:28 PM, liveforpeace2006 wrote:Does anyone know where I can find information on how a vegan diet can be a positive affect on the environment. If it can actually show that changing to avegan diet has a much greater impact than driving a hybrid.thanksMari

[Guest guest]

This just came out yesterday: Meat is murder for the

environment.

http://environment.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg19526134.500 & amp;feedId=eart\

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The results the study show that a kilogram of beef is

responsible for the equivalent of the amount of CO2

emitted by the average European car every 250

kilometres, and burns enough energy to light a

100-watt bulb for nearly 20 days.

 

 

Ajay

 

 

--- liveforpeace2006 <liveforpeace2006

wrote:

 

> Does anyone know where I can find information on how

> a vegan diet can

> be a positive affect on the environment. If it can

> actually show that

> changing to avegan diet has a much greater impact

> than driving a hybrid.

>

> thanks

> Mari

>

>

[Guest guest]

Just saw this article this morning so your question is

very timely.

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/07/19/nbeef119.xml

 

Below is just the first part of the article please use

the link for the full article.

By the way, on the Drudge Report where I found this

article there was also another article of interest to

the Vegan Community:

 

" Vegan Kucinich hospitalized for food poisoning... "

 

Of course they posted that article in the above way to

look down upon veganism.

 

Ira Hankin

 

Eating beef ' is less green than driving'

 

Last Updated: 2:59am BST 19/07/2007

 

Producing 2.2lb of beef generates as much greenhouse

gas as driving a car non-stop for three hours, it was

claimed yesterday.

 

Japanese scientists used a range of data to calculate

the environmental impact of a single purchase of beef.

 

Taking into account all the processes involved, they

said, four average sized steaks generated greenhouse

gases with a warming potential equivalent to 80.25lb

of carbon dioxide.

 

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This also consumed 169 megajoules of energy.

 

That means that 2.2lb of beef is responsible for

greenhouse gas emissions which have the same effect as

the carbon dioxide released by an ordinary car

travelling at 50 miles per hour for 155 miles, a

journey lasting three hours. The amount of energy

consumed would light a 100-watt bulb for 20 days.

[Guest guest]

I'm always thrilled to be vegetarian when these types of issues come

up. This was an article that was written in Time Magazine titled,

" The Global Warming Survival Guide: 51 Things You Can Do to Make a

Difference " . It was published approximately 3 months ago. I was extra

happy given where it came from. I'm quite certain people are more

impressed when it comes from a mainstream magazine vs. an animal

rights organization for instance.

 

Skip the Steak

Which is responsible for more global warming: your BMW or your Big

Mac? Believe it or not, it's the burger. The international meat

industry generates roughly 18% of the world's greenhouse-gas

emissions-even more than transportation-according to a report last

year from the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization.

 

Much of that comes from the nitrous oxide in manure and the methane

that is, as the New York Times delicately put it, " the natural result

of bovine digestion. " Methane has a warming effect that is 23 times

as great as that of carbon, while nitrous oxide is 296 times as great.

 

There are 1.5 billion cattle and buffalo on the planet, along with

1.7 billion sheep and goats. Their populations are rising fast,

especially in the developing world. Global meat production is

expected to double between 2001 and 2050. Given the amount of energy

consumed raising, shipping and selling livestock, a 16 oz. T-bone is

like a Hummer on a plate.

 

If you switch to vegetarianism, you can shrink your carbon footprint

by up to 1.5 tons of carbon dioxide a year, according to research by

the University of Chicago. Trading a standard car for a hybrid cuts

only about one ton-and isn't as tasty.

 

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