Posts Tagged ‘meat costs’
Nice Cow – Baaad Cow Effects
It's hard to believe. I would have thought it was just an exaggerated interpretation within the heath food industry if it hadn't been published in Scientific American. What their February issue reveals is the tremendous environmental costs of meat production.
I was reminded of this because I have just returned from a health convention in Los Angeles. The convention was great but to get around you have to drive on a seemingly endless horizon of freeways and concrete – one freeway merging into the next – sometimes stacking two or three levels. When you think of all those vehicles – constantly pounding the earth and belching exhaust into the atmosphere throughout the world – its easy to see how this could be ruining our environment and contributing to global warming. Oddly enough though, all the scientific evidence to date shows that the hamburger in your kitchen right now (the beef industry) is actually having a greater impact.
How is this possible? Hint – it's NOT because of their farts – as has been joked at in the media! This great effect is possible mostly because cattle displace useful plants. Trees, grasses and other year round plants are what absorb C02 and capture carbon on this planet but they are displaced for specific crops to house and feed cattle. Read the rest of this entry »
A Revolutionary Simple Approach To Healthy Eating
