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Rethinking The Meat Guzzler - NY Times article

Category: Issues | Date: Jan 29 2008 | By: tumaren

I eat meat and probably too much of it. I found this article in the New York Times rather alarming. I have always known about these issues but the implications for just slowing down our meat consumption (rather than quitting outright) are incredible with regard to greenhouse gas.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/27/weekinreview/27bittman.html?ref=science

7 Responses to “Rethinking The Meat Guzzler - NY Times article”

Sheryl, Washington, DC, on 29 Jan 2008

OH MY GOD! I am so thrilled that you found this story and posted about it. I blogged about it just a few days ago and I’ve been blogging about how eating animals is killing our planet, not to mention the insane cruelty of factory farming 10 billion land animals in the U.S. every year.

THANK YOU!

So, if you want to read the U.N. report titled “Livestock’s Long Shadow,” there are links on my blog (which is linked to my name) or you can go here: http://www.virtualcentre.org/en/library/key_pub/longshad/A0701E00.htm

There’s another great report from two University of Chicago researchers as well: http://www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/06/060413.diet.shtml

Here’s a great quote from Henry David Thoreau, author of Walden: “I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.”

s.

THERESA SISKIND, on 29 Jan 2008

Very alarming info, but something that has been out there a while. Primative man had no choice but to hunt, but through time, we do! I really believe that water, and more importantly, lack there of, will prove to be our greatest challenge as time goes on. All governments need to invest in desalination plants and systems of delivery to land locked countries. The rate of desertification is very alarming, we will lose hundreds of species this way and many battles will be waged over this most precious of resources, water.

sheryl, washington dc, on 29 Jan 2008

I posted this earlier but it was eaten by the SPAM filter.

OH MY GOD! I am so thrilled that you found this story and posted about
it. I blogged about it just a few days ago and I’ve been blogging
about how eating animals is killing our planet, not to mention the
insane cruelty of factory farming 10 billion land animals in the U.S.
every year.

THANK YOU!

So, if you want to read the U.N. report titled “Livestock’s Long
Shadow,” there are links on my blog (which is linked to my name) or
you can go here:
http://www.virtualcentre.org/en/library/key_pub/longshad/A0701E00.htm

There’s another great report from two University of Chicago
researchers as well:
http://www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/06/060413.diet.shtml

Here’s a great quote from Henry David Thoreau, author of Walden: “I
have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race, in its
gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.”

s.

sheryl, washington dc, on 29 Jan 2008

I posted this earlier but it was eaten by the SPAM filter.

OH MY GOD! I am so thrilled that you found this story and posted about
it. I blogged about it just a few days ago and I’ve been blogging
about how eating animals is killing our planet, not to mention the
insane cruelty of factory farming 10 billion land animals in the U.S.
every year.

THANK YOU!

So, if you want to read the U.N. report titled “Livestock’s Long
Shadow,” there are links on my blog (which is linked to my name) or
you can go here:
http://www.virtualcentre.org/en/library/key_pub/longshad/A0701E00.htm

There’s another great report from two University of Chicago
researchers as well:

sheryl, washington dc, on 29 Jan 2008

http://www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/06/060413.diet.shtml

Here’s a great quote from Henry David Thoreau, author of Walden: “I
have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race, in its
gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.”

s.

F. J. PECHIR, on 30 Jan 2008

Thanks God I´m a vegetarian, and I hate the slaughter of any animals for any reason!

THERESA SISKIND, on 30 Jan 2008

Well guys, CNN just showed a snippet of a video taken at a slaughter house in California. Downed cattle ( too sick to stand) being shocked with electric cattle prods and being forked lifted to the conveyer belt. As a member of PETA, I know only too well the absolute horrors these animals face…people need to realize how their diets impact the welfare of all animals. Can you imagine being a chicken, in a cage so small you can’t spread your wings or turn around? Soy is a great protein source, and be grown almost anywhere…

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