Washington Post Reports Meat Eating is 'Huge Contributor' to Climate Change

(highlights taken from the Organic Consumers Association) - Washington Post Reports Meat Eating is 'Huge Contributor' to Climate Change

Last week, the Washington Post summarized a number of recent reports indicating that one of the best things you can do to reduce your carbon footprint or greenhouse gas pollution is to reduce your meat consumption. Here are some quick highlights:

-A Carnegie Melon study found that the average American would benefit the planet more by being vegetarian one day per week than by switching to a totally local diet (heck, why not do both?).

-A University of Chicago study found that switching to a vegan diet would have a bigger impact than trading your gas guzzler for a Prius

-The head of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, recommended that people give up meat one day a week to take pressure off the atmosphere

-According to a 2006 United Nations report, livestock accounts for 18 percent of worldwide greenhouse gas emissions.

Glad to finally see a mainstream media outlet bring attention to the topic. It really is not hard to go without meat, or partially at least. If you have to eat meat, you can buy it from local Spokane area farmers at the farmers market. Taiwan and others are introducing a meat free day. This is a gradual and easy way to ease your way to a lower harm and resource footprint.

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We are entering the age of "Radical Transparency"!!! Or to put it another way, we are "radically revisioning our relationships" to everything. By being aware of the resource or harm footprints of everything we vote with our dollars for, we also become more intimate with everything and vice versa. This is an exiting time of change to live in.