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“Chew on This” – in three minutes, learn 30 reasons to go vegetarian.
Meet your meat first, take the pledge here (30-day and you get help/advice by email) or here (60-day and you get the Healthy Beginnings Care Package and a 6 month subscription to Vegetarian Times Magazine), get a free vegetarian starter kit too, cook and eat out. Now off you go…good luck!
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You can’t be an environmentalist unless you’re a vegetarian? What a crock of shit. Before the American government systematically eradicated native Americans in the name of divine providence and manifest destiny, tribes from the Great Plains , Iroquois nation and Cherokees lived off the land, never took more than they needed…and they ate meat.
Stranger,
I hate to break this to you but no you can’t be an environmentalist if you eat red meat (you don’t necessarily need to be vegetarian)
Meat requires 10 times as much resources to produce than vegetables.
check this link out:
http://www.worldwatch.org/node/1670
Stranger,
I agree but what we’re talking abt here (if we’re talking that is) is the average American diet in today’s conditions; under which we have many alternatives to meat-eating. I think that today’s meat industry can’t be compared to anything else we’ve seen before.
Just a couple of facts:
- According to the Audubon Society, roughly 70 percent of the grain grown and 50 percent of the water consumed in the United States are used by the meat industry.
- According to the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization:
1) Livestock production generates more greenhouse gas emissions than transportation.
2) Raising animals for food is one of the top two or three most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems, at every scale from local to global.
Some Reading:
Livestock’s long shadow (w/ summary)
University of Chicago study
I’m surprised you haven’t heard of
environmental vegetarianism, you should google it and learn more…
euuh, just a question did u buy the starter kit ?
I dont agree with you on one issue:
D’ont be vegetarian if you dont know how to cook.
D’ont be vegetarian if the only thing you eat is delivered pizza and subway sandwiches.
D’ont be vegetarian if you can’t afford eating healthy and various food.
Because no matter how good your intentions are, instead of saving animals from slaughter, you need to save yourself first !
Beeing vegetarian starts with
a perfect knowledge of the food you are going to eat, otherwise it’s usless.
Anon? Kris?
The starter kit is free and no I didn’t get it, it was a recommendation for beginners.
I’m assuming this is in reference to the other twin, I am innocent of all of those things (I don’t really eat).
So what do you have to say for urself sandra?
Although I will concede to the fact that raising cattle and livestock for consumption contributes to global warming, all that means to me is the system needs to be reworked. Do we really need all those cows, chickens or pigs? In this regards, I still think you can be an environmentalist and enjoy red meat. However, I’m not about to side with the ‘you’re not an environmentalist unless you’re a vegetarian stance’ y’all are taking. One of the few choices anybody gets out of life is what they eat. So…let people enjoy their greens as well as their meat if they so choose.
anon c moi
Stranger,
I have never tried to push my views on others nor do I judge people by what they eat so by all means eat your meat but I think the point is that people must be aware of the negative effects and the consequences of their consumption.
My issue with the meat industry is
1) the (inhuman) way that animals are treated.
2) the growth hormones in addition to all the crap they inject into the animals
3) the env. impact
…etc
Anon,
I had you as my cook before and now I have Shani, so when I do eat, I eat very healthy food
En tt cas, toi, t’as tjrs kelke chose de méchant a dire!
Stranger,
You don’t need to be a vegetarian, just a decrease in consumption -> decreases demand -> decreases the need to breed so many animals.
So maybe that could reduce not only the environmental effects of the meat-industry, but could also let animals have more natural lives.
ce n’est pas mechant mais c une regle a suivre a la lettre.