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Originally Posted by razetheladder
the single biggest thing we as individuals can do to fight global warming is to go vegetarian. a recent UN report (fao.org/newsroom/en/news/2006/1000448/index.html) found that the livestock industry accounts for 18 percent of human-induced greenhouse gases (more than cars!), and a university of chicago study (chronicle.uchicago.edu/060511/veggie.shtml, geosci.uchicago.edu/%7Egidon/papers/nutri/nutri3.pdf) concluded that switching from a typical american diet to a vegetarian diet reduces your contribution to global warming more than if you switched from a regular car to a hybrid. not to mention all the other environmental damage done by the meat industry, or the horrific suffering of the animals.
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yes and the pig farms, chicken hatchery and turkey farms along with all the fish farms as well have problems. then agriculture its self produces a very large amount of CO2, uses even larger amounts of fresh water and requires many forms of fertilizer. aside from some major health problems i doubt the end results would be that great.
as i just inferred on the post before there are many things we can do and are not allowed to for the very groups that claim to be trying to limit the problems. trying to re-organize human society, is not going to happen. society will change, for reasons we may not now know, but it will be based on acceptance of a problem, not the possibility or opinions of some with alliterative motive.
by the way those feed yards also produce the fertilizer we use in the field that now produce many times the yields of previous generation of crops. add the leather products and the efficiency you have a much better picture then the old pasture systems. the whole problem is the proverbial catch 22...
