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Saturday, July 26, 2025

Going vegan can save the environment

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If there were one thing–just one thing–that you could do to make the biggest pos­i­tive en­vi­ron­men­tal change in your life, what would it be? Would you pledge to re­cy­cle? Maybe you'd dri­ve a small­er car–or bet­ter yet, a hy­brid or elec­tric ve­hi­cle.

How about re­plac­ing your in­can­des­cent light bulbs with en­er­gy-ef­fi­cient LED bulbs? You could con­serve wa­ter by turn­ing off the tap when brush­ing your teeth, and no longer ig­nore your toi­let's wa­ter tank's slow leak. You might even de­cide to re­place the old tank-style wa­ter heater, which could use as much as 30 per cent of your home's en­er­gy needs, with a tan­k­less heater.None of these things, even when you put them all to­geth­er, will make as much of a dent in your glob­al en­vi­ron­men­tal foot­print as giv­ing up one thing: meat.

Meat pro­duc­tion af­fects every­thing dis­pro­por­tion­ate­ly. It takes ten to 14 pounds of grain-based feed for each pound of beef. The caloric val­ue of a pound of beef is 800 calo­ries. There are 606 calo­ries in a pound of corn.The cal­cu­la­tion is easy: it takes be­tween 6,060 and 8,484 calo­ries of (corn) grain to pro­duce 800 calo­ries of beef.

A per­son on a 2,000-calo­rie per day di­et can sur­vive for three-four days on that grain. If we dis­re­gard the fact that most food short­ages are a re­sult of failed po­lit­i­cal regimes and ide­olo­gies, an end to world hunger seems with­in reach, doesn't it?"Live­stock's long shad­ow" is the name of a Unit­ed Na­tions Food And Agri­cul­ture Or­gan­i­sa­tion (FAO) re­port. It states, "Live­stock are re­spon­si­ble for 18 per cent of green­house gas emis­sions (GHGs), a big­ger share than that of trans­port."

http://www.guardian.co.tt/dig­i­tal/new-mem­bers


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