[Eco] Fascinating!

[TVTom]

Yep, if you eat dead animals, all the recycling and composting and even
switching from a Hummer to a Prius won't make up for the environmental waste
you to which you are contributing.  Indeed, I'd almost like to say that
being a vegan, or at least vegetarian, is a strict necessary condition for
being an environmentalist; else you are just paying lip service to
environmentalism and giving yourself an ego-boost, and even doing harm by
spreading the denial of the brute facts that all one's recycling and
composting doesn't make up for a fraction of the waste one produces by
eating dead animals and supporting the meat and dairy industries.

And given that vegetarianism (if you actually eat vegetables, fruits, beans,
and raw nuts and seeds, and almost no processed food) is so much better for
you than a meat diet, you get to maximally save the environment and at the
same time be healthy and live longer and with a fraction of the chance of
heart attacks or strokes or cancer too?  That's a no-brainer.

-TVTom

On 8/2/07, Ginohn <ginohn at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> In case you don't read to the end, here's a little bon mot from the
> bottom of the page:
>
> Let's review what I've said here: By not eating beef– and other farm
> animals as well–you:
>
> ·          save massive amounts of water – 3,000 to 5,000 gallons of
> water for every pound of beef you avoid,
> ·          avoid polluting our streams and rivers better than any
> other single recycling effort you do,
> ·          avoid the destruction of topsoil,
> ·          avoid the destruction of tropical forest,
> ·          avoid the production of carbon dioxide. (Your average car
> produces 3 kg/day of CO2. To clear rainforest to produce beef for one
> hamburger produces 75 kg of CO2. Eating one pound of hamburger does
> the same damage as driving your car for more than three weeks);
> ·          reduce the amount of methane gas produced. (I imagine the
> next bumper sticker: stop farts, don't eat beef);
> ·          reduce the destruction of wildlife habitat, and
> ·          help to save endangered species.
> That's a pretty good day's work, for just what you don't put in your
> mouth.
>
>
>
>
> On Aug 2, 2007, at 1:03 PM, Ginohn wrote:
>
> > In this article, early on, it says essentially -*one pound* of beef
> > = showers for 1/2 year- in water consumption.
> > Amazing!
> >
> > http://www.lovesorganic.com/page.asp?page_id=4231
> >
> > Gina
>
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