Posted on 07/19/2017 10:16:43 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
With America preparing to exit the Paris climate accord, mayors and governors are setting their own climate goals, protests are erupting, and social media is all atwitter. But the reality is that combating climate change is largely a matter of personal responsibility—and one of the easiest and best steps we can take concerns what we put on our plates.
Take protein, for example. Worldwide, over 80 billion land animals are farmed for food. To produce just a single pound of meat, those animals may each eat upwards of 15 pounds of feed—meaning mass meat production funnels far more resources through animals than it gets out of them. One report from the World Resources Institute found that even the most efficient sources of meat convert only around 11% of feed energy into human food.
There are whole, plant-based foods readily available to help us each curb climate change. We can replace the chicken in our chicken salad with chickpeas. We can try black bean burgers, and fill our sandwiches with sautéed Portobello mushrooms instead of turkey for a meaty, smoky texture and flavor. The list of options is only as limited as our creativity in the kitchen.
We clearly each have the power to show the world—starting with our families, friends, and neighbors—that we needn’t wait for Washington in the war on the climate change. As individuals, each of us can rise to meet climate change’s challenges by adjusting our own habits to create a cleaner world.
(Excerpt) Read more at fortune.com ...
eat chemical burgers instead of real meat and die from B-12 shortage to “save the planet”
“beef and other meats are generally raised on land which is not suitable for vegetable production.”
only 9% of the world’s beef graze on open land.
the other 91% of the world’s beef are raised in feed lots, and are fed hay and corn that are intensely cultivated, using vast quantities of synthetic fertilizer, massive quantities of water, and large amounts of fuel for the tractors that pull the various cultivating machinery.
and essentially ALL pork and poultry in the U.S. are raised in gigantic factory buildings, generally fed with corn and similar feeds since, unlike cattle, pigs and chickens are not ruminants.
Stole this and the reply before it yet?
Then there’s the cheap rice and beans if you don’t mind your personal methane emissions.
We have enough food produced today to feed everyone. The only reasons people starve are:
* true poverty, lacking the money to buy food
* regional disruptions like war or bad weather
* government policies like refusing GMO grains, choosing to let people starve over eat what they think is evil
And end the ethanol / biofuel mandates that consume a portion of the US corn crop and result in oil palm plantations displacing food farmers in the developing world because it is more profitable to raise biofuels.
Hehheh you know I’m going to! :)
WELL, Did you?
Which did you like best? Calvin of Calvin & Hobbs X Ray or the laughing mouse?
Oh...always Calvin and Hobbes! :)
As it turns out, I already had the mouse. LOL!
Make no mistake, these psychotics hate humanity.
A cadaver looking for a funeral...........
My dog can convert one pound of food into 10 pounds of poop.””
Which can be used to fertilize their veggie garden.
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