Eat less meat ... save the planet

Humans' beef with livestock: a warmer planet

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As Congress begins to tackle the causes and cures of global warming, the action focuses on gas-guzzling vehicles and coal-fired power plants, not on lowly bovines.

Yet livestock are a major emitter of greenhouse gases that cause climate change. And as meat becomes a growing mainstay of human diet around the world, changing what we eat may prove as hard as changing what we drive.

Changing one's diet can lower greenhouse gas emissions quicker than shifts away from fossil fuel burning technologies, Mr. Mohr writes, because the turnover rate for farm animals is shorter than that for cars and power plants.

"It doesn't have to be all the way to the extreme end of vegan," says Dr. Eshel, whose family raised beef cattle in Israel. "If you simply cut down from two burgers a week to one, you've already made a substantial difference."

Comments:

1. I personally like vegetarian meals and typically 4 nights a week, I am vegetarian for dinner. They are filling and low in calories.
   
2. My motivation is to reduce my waist-line, not reduce "greenhouse gases that cause climate change"
   
3. As for meat eating:
   
   
   
   1. Acts 10:13, "Rise, Peter; kill and eat" (begin reading at Acts 10 for the full context!)
      
   2. Genesis 9:3, "Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you" (God to Noah and his family after the flood!)