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Germany’s Environment Agency: Eat Less Meat to Help the Planet

Posted in Global Warming on Feb 15th, 2009

(1/23/09 – UK Guardian) Germany’s environment agency has recommended to German citizens that they should lower meat consumption, if they want to lower their carbon footprint and stop global warming. Speaking at Berlin’s Grüne Woche (Green Week), Andreas Troge, president of the UBA (Germany’s environment agency) said: “We must rethink our high meat consumption.  I [...]

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Eating Less Meat Could Save $20 Trillion

Posted in Global Warming, Study on Feb 14th, 2009

New Scientist Magazine reports that researchers from the Netherlands have concluded that cutting back on meat could save $20 trillion off the cost of fighting global warming. According to the study (published Feb. 2009), if the world were to adopt a low-meat diet (defined as 70 grams of beef and 325 grams of chicken and [...]

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