British Environment Report: 'Be a Vegetarian'

cow beef A new British report concludes that the resources used to raise livestock will produce more CO2 gases than all of the cars in the world combined. The 408-page report titled 'Livestock’s Long Shadow,' demonstrates that the average meat-lovers will be responsible for emitting 1.5 tones of carbon dioxide. The solution given by the report was to move as a society towards a vegetarians diet.

"More than 260 million acres of U.S. forest have been cleared to create cropland to grow grain to feed farmed animals; farmed animals are fed more than 70 percent of the corn, wheat, and other grains grown in the U.S.; and almost half of the water and 80 percent of the agricultural land in the U.S. are used to raise animals for food." - TreeHugger

These numbers are shocking. To think that with the price of wheat going up, we are using that much of our grains to feed animals. I'm sure that for most people, being a vegetarian would be hard. However, Canadian environmentalist David Suzuki offers a more realistic solution. "Eat meat-free meals one day a week." - Nature Challenge

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