You Libs and Candy's are eating too much meat!
Humans' beef with livestock: a warmer planet
American meat eaters are responsible for 1.5 more
tons of carbon dioxide per person than vegetarians every year.
By Brad Knickerbocker Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
As Congress begins to tackle the causes and cures of global warming,
the action focuses on gas-guzzling vehicles and coal-fired power plants,
not on lowly bovines.
Yet livestock are a major emitter of greenhouse gases that cause
climate change. And as meat becomes a growing mainstay of human
diet around the world, changing what we eat may prove as hard as
changing what we drive.
Methane could become a greater problem if the permafrost in
northern latitudes thaws with increasing temperatures, releasing
the gas now trapped below decaying vegetation. What's more
certain is that emissions of these gases can spike as humans
consume more livestock products.
What? we could grow more crops with more tillable land,
I thought we needed to grow more corn for ethanol?
Between 1970 and 2002, annual per capita meat consumption
in developing countries rose from 11 kilograms (24 lbs.) to 29
kilograms (64 lbs.), according to the FAO. (In developed
countries, the comparable figures were 65 kilos and 80 kilos.)
I like this one , no wonder we are all over weight!
We all need to get off our dead butts and all become vegetarians!
Fatty Fatty 2 X 4 , let all have a salad!
Link to article , thanks Drudge.
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