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Post by Mel Mel on Jan 23, 2007 19:11:27 GMT
President Herbert Hoover promised "a chicken in every pot and a car in every garage." With warnings about global warming reaching feverish levels, many are having second thoughts about all those cars. It seems they should instead be worrying about the chickens.
Last month, the United Nations published a report on livestock and the environment with a stunning conclusion: "The livestock sector emerges as one of the top two or three most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems, at every scale from local to global." It turns out that raising animals for food is a primary cause of land degradation, air pollution, water shortage, water pollution, loss of biodiversity, and not least of all, global warming....continued... www.huffingtonpost.com/kathy-freston/vegetarian-is-the-new-pri_b_39014.html
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Post by jessica345 on Jan 24, 2007 21:11:31 GMT
Great article!
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Post by Mel Mel on Feb 25, 2007 6:01:18 GMT
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