Re: good video - Global Warming & Nutrition

RF wrote:
Ron Peterson wrote:
On Mar 19, 11:27 pm, TC <tunder...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=1399900408121222150&q=warming&;...

I don't see the connection between global warming and nutrition.

Are you saying that we shouldn't eat beef and dairy because of bovine
produced methane?

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Ron

Hi Ron,

There is a correlation.

The stats for the production of beef are astonishing - the vast amount of water it takes to produce it,
the pollution the manure produces and the methane, of course. It takes more than 10 times as much water to produce meat than to grow the grain it was fed on.


Sounds like we should exterminate all animals to save the planet from itself.

A couple of extracts:

http://www.earthsave.org/environment/water.htm
In their landmark book Population, Resources, Environment, Stanford Professors Paul R. and Anne H. Ehrlich stated that the amount of water used to produce one pound of meat ranges from 2,500 to as much as 6,000 gallons. (Dr. Borgstrom, Drs. Ehrlich and I all used the word “meat,” to refer specifically to beef.)

So every year there's less water on earth? Darn, kill all those animals.

From DrWeil.com 21 Sept 07 :

Change Your Diet, Save the Planet

Cutting back on red meat will improve your health and may give you added power to combat global warming. Here’s how: agricultural activity around the world is responsible for about 22 percent of total greenhouse gas emissions, roughly the same as industry and more than transportation. Livestock production accounts for 80 percent of agriculture’s share, mainly in the form of methane, a heat-trapping greenhouse gas. In a paper published online September 13, 2007 in the medical journal the Lancet, researchers from Australia suggest that emissions related to livestock production could be stabilized by 2050 if meat eaters in developed countries cut their daily consumption of meat from roughly eight ounces to 3.17 ounces per day. (This is assuming that no other efforts are made to reduce emissions and that global population increases by 40 percent, as projected.) More food for thought: a Japanese study published in the August, 2007 issue of Animal Science Journal showed that producing 2.2 pounds of beef generates the equivalent of 80.08 pounds of carbon dioxide, more than you would personally account for by driving for three hours or letting a light bulb burn for nearly 20 hours.


RF has been a vegetarian for 35 years :-) I'm doing my part.

I've increased my consumption of meat (and veggies) and virtually eliminated grains and sugars, and cut back on legumes. Fruit consumption remains a constant. The result is that my A1c, which was at the high end of normal, has decreased. My next dietary changes will be to move towards organic meats - lots of them - and organic fruit and veggies.

And I take LONG showers and conserve not at all. I water my large yard/garden with unmetered pressurized irrigation and conserve not a wit. I do get out the weed killer and kill of some of the unwanted plant invaders - that must save me some watering.

Vegetarian fanaticism is not for me. I prefer a paleo diet.

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Pramesh Rutaji

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