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Post by Mel Mel on Jan 10, 2007 18:04:14 GMT
The documentary An Inconvenient Truth is superb. The film, featuring former US vice president Al Gore and his travelling show about global climate change, received a standing ovation at the Sundance Film Festival in 2006. The documentary does an outstanding job of presenting material in a manner that holds audiences spellbound, inviting the participation of mainstream North Americans in a way that is likely to get results. While the documentary dramatically summarizes a mass of material about the plight of our dear planet Earth, and reveals how our actions create negative impact, it misses one inconvenient truth: the documentary fails to recognize the impact of dietary choices on global warming. I have long been baffled by the fact that environmentalists have routinely disregarded dietary issues, and until three years ago, few articles linking food choices with climate change appeared in scientific publications. Is it because a truth that calls for a change in our daily eating habits hit too close to home? As 2006 came to a close, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) issued a report entitled Livestock’s Long Shadow: Environmental Issues and Options, which stated that cattle in the meat and dairy industries generate more global warming greenhouse gases than can be blamed on transportation and vehicle use combined. ...continued... commonground.ca/iss/0701186/cg186_Vesanto.shtml
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