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Saturday, August 9, 2008

saYs no tO gLobal waRmiNg!!!

To the environment, that is. Cheong Kamei finds out if swearing off meat will help save the wolrd!!
It's sad that going green had to be hip before people cared but as the cliche goes, it's better late then never. Still, in our bid to fight global warming, one major cause remains relatively unrecognised: Our meat-guzzling diet. A United Nations report states that livestock production accounts for the production of 9% carbon dioxide, 37% methane gases and 65% nitrogen dioxide. All in all, livestock is responsible for more greenhouse gases than the automobile industry! it also takes up 30% of ice-free, land-based parts of the world and one-third arable land is devoted to producing feed grain to sustain them.
With meat production set to double by 2050, our unsustainable methods of consuming livestock are either going to leave parts of the world starving while the rest deal with obesity and other helath issues, or leave our planet irreversibly ravaged. Both ways, we're screwed..so,what do you say??

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