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Going veggie can slash your carbon footprint: study - Yahoo! News
by dmv at 5:59 am EDT, Aug 27, 2008 |
BERLIN (AFP) - Giving up meat could drastically reduce your carbon footprint, with meat-eaters' diets responsible for almost twice the emissions of those of vegetarians, a German study said on Tuesday.
ADVERTISEMENT A diet with meat is responsible for producing in a year the same amount of greenhouse gases as driving a mid-sized car 4,758 kilometres (2,956 miles), the Institute for Ecological Economy Research (IOeW) said.
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RE: Going veggie can slash your carbon footprint
by noteworthy at 6:39 am EDT, Aug 27, 2008 |
dmv recommended: Giving up meat could drastically reduce your carbon footprint, with meat-eaters' diets responsible for almost twice the emissions of those of vegetarians. A diet with meat is responsible for producing in a year the same amount of greenhouse gases as driving a mid-sized car -- 2,956 miles.
I posted about this back in January: If Americans were to reduce meat consumption by just 20 percent it would be as if we all switched from a standard sedan -- a Camry, say -- to the ultra-efficient Prius.
Of course: In all his speeches, John McCain urges Americans to make sacrifices for a country that is both “an idea and a cause”. He is not asking them to suffer anything he would not suffer himself. But many voters would rather not suffer at all.
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