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Mark Allen
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Do You REALLY Care about the Environment?

A lot of people care about the environment and encourage cleaner electricity and slam other people who are big wasters of energy and greenhouse gas producers.

But what is the single biggest greenhouse gas producer on the planet?

Do you know? 

If you could help stop it, would you?

I'll give you a hint.  It's not cars.

In fact - it's a bigger problem than all the other categories combined!

Watch this video to find out:

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTS2Yp-UgI0 Read that one line agin - every SECOND an area of the rain forest the size of a football field is destroyed to produce 257 hamburgers......  This is 86,400 football fields... a day.  That's a huge part of our planet....  if you can't quite grasp... know that a large footballs stadium hold 100,000 people....   so, if we say even a quarter of thos people would fit on a football field... then we can say that enough rain forrest to hold 2 billion people goes away every day.  

...we live off that rain forrest.

Recently a friend sent me this video which reminded me of why I stopped eating land animals many many years ago when I had a conversation with someone which conveyed this same information and I just couldn't justify eating meat any more.

Now... know this...  even though I became a pescaterian (fish and vegetable eater) so many years ago... I'm not saying meat-eaters are bad people - just asking people to consider the  information when 1) wondering why I made the choice I made and 2) to consider it when they evaluate their own environmentalism. 

Frankly, eating fish isn't the greatest thing for one's health or the planet either - so I'm not totally innocent - but I'm working on moderation and I wonder if the world might think of working on moderation about land animals.  Just as oil is not sustainable - neither is our increasing world wide consumption of beef.

There are alternatives and they're really good.

大约 15 年 前 0 赞s  12 评论s  0 shares
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Without digging too deep, www.savetherainforest.com says there are 2 billion acres of remaining rain forest. And lets assume they mean two thousand million acres. A soccer pitch is 1.4 acres (60m x 100m) so 84600 soccer fields per day equals 120960 acres destroyed. Ergo the whole lot will be gone in 45.3 years. I'll be 78 years old by then. And probably have eaten 300 more 'burgers! "Children die of hunger. Cows on factory farms NEVER die of hunger." Cows on factory farms never die in hang-gliding accidents either?! Cows AND children in third world countries die from starvation & malnutrition all the time, unfortunately.
大约 15 年 ago
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Couldn't resist a bit more digging! "By one estimate, for every acre of rain forest cut down each year, more than 50 acres of new forest are growing in the tropics" Not sure who the hell comes up with these figures, nor who stands to benefit from what information! http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/30/science/earth/30forest.html
大约 15 年 ago
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Mark, thanks btw. Good to catch up w/you. btw, FUEL is the best film re: the earth currently. Hopefully they will show it over in HK. hugs. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YiDoWrgOLU&fm
大约 15 年 ago
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Arden - the video seems to be working now. The biggest issue is cattle (i.e. hamburgers) it's the most inefficient meat source and the most planet damaging. As for chicken... as I was commenting - one thing people can do is just think in altering habbits. So if you don't cut it out - think about only eat free-range chicken just so at least you know the treatment of the chickens isn't so ridiculous. And maybe just try a few alternates now and then, like 20% of the time... I actually have been doing that with fish and finding I like what I'm finding.
大约 15 年 ago

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