Tag: Study
10 Popular Studies on Meat and Global Warming for Anyone
This is a useful post for illustrating meat’s carbon footprint to different people. Do you like exotic food? Know a Prius or SUV owner? Don’t plan on going veg anytime soon? There’s something for everyone. Hopefully, at least one of these ten studies will help you or someone you know to consider eating less meat. [...]
Eating Less Meat Could Save $20 Trillion
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 [...]
Beef Creates 57 Times More Greenhouse Gasses Than Potatoes
Scientific American has put together 5 slides about the environmental costs of meat. This one in particular caught my eye. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; Transportation Energy Data Book, U.S. Department of Energy, 2008; Seattle Food System Enhancement Project: Greenhouse Gas Emissions Study; Subak and Fiala references in “More to Explore” So if… 1/2 lb. of [...]
The Cattle Industry Is Destroying the Amazon Rainforest
The #1 human cause of deforestation in Latin America? Surprise…it’s the cattle industry. A burnt area of the Amazon rainforest in Itaituba 2, a protected area (Photo: Daniel Beltra) Why are rainforests important? First of all, rainforests help to slow global warming by significantly absorbing CO2 in our atmosphere. So as a result of deforestation, [...]
UN: Meat Is a Leading Cause of Global Warming
According to a 2006 United Nations FAO Report, the world’s cattle herds give off more greenhouse gasses than all forms of transportation (including planes) put together. “It’s an area that’s been largely overlooked,” said Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, head of the Nobel Prize-winning United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. He says people should eat less [...]
