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Gore and Beef

ranch hand

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Al Gore vs meat diet?



… Most of us blame automotive and industrial emissions. But animal agriculture is a major culprit as well…

… a meat-free diet reduces greenhouse gas emissions …



Gore's film unveils global nightmare



Alex Sankari

Leesburg

Loudown Times-Mirror

06/27/2006

Northern Virginia

US



Al Gore's riveting documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" has focused public attention on the looming disaster of global warming and the associated flooding of coastal communities, extreme weather conditions and destruction of wildlife habitats.



Global warming is brought on by emission of "greenhouse gases," primarily carbon dioxide and the much more potent methane and nitrous oxide. These gases trap the sun's heat in our atmosphere creating a greenhouse effect.



Most of us blame automotive and industrial emissions. But animal agriculture is a major culprit as well. It emits carbon dioxide from the burning of forests to create animal pastures and from combustion of fossil fuels to operate farm machinery, trucks, refrigeration equipment, factory farms and slaughterhouses. It emits methane from the digestive tracts of cattle and nitrous oxide from animal waste cesspools.



According to a recent University of Chicago study, a meat-free diet reduces greenhouse gas emissions by the equivalent of 1.5 tons of carbon dioxide per year -- as much as switching from an SUV to a hybrid car.



Folks who care about the future of life on Earth would be well advised to consider switching to a meat-free diet even before they switch to a hybrid car.
 

Murgen

Well-known member
It emits carbon dioxide from the burning of forests to create animal pastures and from combustion of fossil fuels to operate farm machinery, trucks, refrigeration equipment, factory farms and slaughterhouses

I get a kick out of this reason for not eating beef. They think you grow crops in the bush, and weed and harvest/process them by hand!

The US sounds like they are being hit in quite a few areas this year with drought. Which is more efficient food production? Crops on those acres or pasturing cattle?

Don't even get me started on organic versus chemicals etc.

I'd love to see everything go organic, anyone see a planet about the same size as Earth for rent!
 
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