09 July 2005

Cut Global Warming by Becoming Vegetarian

"British physicist Alan Calvert calculates that animals we eat generate 21% of all the carbon dioxide that can be attributed to human activity. 'We could therefore slash man-made emissions of carbon dioxide simply by abolishing all livestock.' he continues: 'Worldwide reduction of meat production in the pursuit of the targets set in the Kyoto treaty seems to carry fewer political unknowns than cutting our consumption of fossil fuels' "

Treehugger: Cut Global Warming by Becoming Vegetarian: [:vegetarianism:]

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