Articles Index: Environment and Vegetarian Diet

Energy and Environment, Global Warming, Permaculture, Organic Food, Non-GMO, Sustainability, Vegetarian Diet

When we first started yelling about the vegetarian-diet-environment connection, the general public didn't have a clue. Energy and environment experts were in denial. Even Al Gore, famous global warming expert and author of 'An Inconvenient Truth', chose to ignore that particular truth.

But nobody can ignore an elephant in the room for long. Now, 'global warming' 'renewable energy', 'sustainability' 'non-gmo' 'permaculture' are buzz words. Green = vegetarian - or at least semi-vegetarian! Author Michael Pollan is famous for saying "Eat food, not too much, mostly plants."

Author Gretchen Primack connects the dots between what we eat and the world we've created. What follows is an excerpt from her excellent article: Environment, Global Warming, World Hunger and Vegetarian Diet

"Global warming, we say, shaking our heads, and biting into a hamburger. World hunger, we sigh, grabbing another slice of pizza. What’s wrong with this picture?"

"The fact is that there's nothing so pervasively damaging to our environment - and to world hunger - than eating animal products. And until we connect the dots and change our habits, the problems will continue and worsen on many levels. It’s up to all of us to start making a difference right from our own refrigerators."

"The U.N.'s recent report on livestock and the environment could hardly be more sobering: 'The livestock sector emerges as one of the top two or three most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems, at every scale from local to global,' it declares. From pollution to water and land degradation, the predator is clear."

"Take global warming. We’re used to blaming automobiles and factories for the greenhouse gases that are leading to alarming climate change, and well we should. But the fact is, as the U.N. report notes, almost a fifth of those deadly emissions come from livestock."

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