Mark Bittman TED Video: Link Between Food and the Environment
by Michael Graham Richard, Ottawa, Canada 
on 05.17.08
Mark Bittman, known for his food & cooking columns at the New York Times and his cooking books, spoke at TED about the link between our food and global warming, environmental degradation, and human health problems. Worth watching! ::Video of Mark Bittman at TED
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And at the end, he says that he'll still eat meat. Doesn't sound like he's changing much. That's one less convinced. I hope a lot of people are!
When will people realize that we're sacrificing so much for meat and corn???
Every time I look at meat (as food), it haunts me!
great Presentation on, well food. I had no idea that cows put out so much methane, and i really do think i am going to go vegetarian after watching this video. Thank you Mark Bittman for all of your useful information. Wish I was in an are where I could buy local grown food.
We've moved to just eating grass-raised and finished meat (and eggs), from a ranch about 30 miles from us (lucky Texan). I can't bring myself to buy mass-produced meat anymore. The only glitch for us is eating out. It's rare to find a reasonably-priced restaurant that even identifies their source of meat. And we still haven't figured out the fish conundrum (unlucky Texan).
I realize this puts me in the "elitist" category, and this stuff is expensive ($3.99 for a dozen eggs). But I feel the same way about cheap meat as cheap gas: it artificially increases the quantity we consume.
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