Cut Global Warming by Becoming Vegetarian

Here is a study that hits all kinds of treehugger buttons: 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" They should be serving tofu tonite at Gleneagles. ::Physorg

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