Food Choice and Sustainability: Why Buying Local, Eating Less Meat, and Taking Baby Steps Wont Work by Richard Oppenlander This book will change your ideas on meat, farming, global water usage, climate change, sustainability, land use, food distribution, pasture lands, greenhouse gases, and much more. It is believed now that livestock cause up to 50% of all greenhouse gases compared to 13% by all forms of transport. 77% of all coarse grains produced in the world and 23% of all agricultural water go into livestock. Meat production gives about 120 pounds per acre per year whereas food production [grains, fruit and veg] produces 5,000 to 10,000 pounds per acre per year. In other words: A global shift towards a vegan diet is vital to save the world from hunger, fuel poverty and the worst impacts of climate change. https://youtube/watch?v=Fws0f9s4Bas
Posted on: Sat, 17 Jan 2015 11:23:34 +0000
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