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WOW! UN Report Says Meat Causes More Global Warming Than Cars

A propos of a letter I sent to Care 2 earlier today (see below):
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UN Report Says Meat Causes More Global Warming Than Cars

In "Diet, Energy and Global Warming"
(http://geosci.uchicago.edu/~gidon/papers/nutri/nutriEI.pdf ),
scientists at the University of Chicago calculate that switching from
the average American diet to a vegetarian one causes a 50% greater
cut in climate warming than switching from the average car to a
Prius, thus suggesting that a shift toward a plant-based diet should
be at least as high a priority as advocating improved fuel economy.

Animal burps, flatulence, and feces are the largest sources of
airborne methane. According to the EPA, methane is 23 times more
effective than carbon dioxide in trapping heat in the atmosphere.
In "A New Global Warming Strategy"
(http://www.earthsave.org/globalwarming.htm), Noam Mohr, a physicist
graduated from Yale and Penn (and a former lobbyist on global warming
with the U.S. Public Interest Research Group), demonstrates that
methane from the billions of animals raised on factory farms will be
the most significant source of climate change over the next half-
century, not cars and power plants.

Well now, guess what?! A report from the UN's Food and Agriculture
Organization says the same! Well, not exactly the same. Although it
clearly admits that animal agribusiness generates more greenhouse
gasses than cars and is "one of the most significant contributors to
today's most serious environmental problems," it stops short of
advising that we eat a mostly, if not entirely, plant-based diet as
the main solution to both global warming and environmental
destruction. But, that's okay. We're smart enough to go veg on our
own!

To read the full report, click here:
http://www.fao.org/newsroom/en/news/2006/1000448/

To help you go veg, click on any of these:
www.vegcooking.com, http://www.vegcooking.com/searchrecipes.asp,
http://www.vegcooking.com/productArchive.asp

Remember, three times a day, every day, we have the power to save the
planet!

All the best,
Mary Max

Posted on SHARE Yahoo group Dec. 9, 2006