An Eye-Opener

The New York Times ran an excellent article yesterday about the high environmental costs of meat, ”Rethinking the Meat Guzzler.”

In a well-documented, well-written article, author Mark Bittman lays out such facts as that the U.N.’s Food And Agriculture Organization estimates that “an estimated 30 percent of the earth’s ice-free land is directly or indirectly involved in livestock production” and that “livestock production generates nearly a fifth of the world’s greenhouse gases - more than transportation.”

And as Bittman, says, “Perhaps the best hope for change lies in consumers’ becoming aware of the true costs of industrial meat production.”

Articles like this should help bring about that awareness.

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