Stop eating meat
This is the cheapest, quickest and most effective thing you can do to reduce your demmand for precious resources and reduce your emissions. This site has some good arguments. http://www.enviroveggie.com/
This is the cheapest, quickest and most effective thing you can do to reduce your demmand for precious resources and reduce your emissions. This site has some good arguments. http://www.enviroveggie.com/
I have a little issue here, i was vegie for a total of 6 months and then had to stop because everywhere i used to buy it downsized the department!
The the soy department is a cubby 3 feet by one foot and only carries 2 different things!
Somewhere though im sure there is a better department and i'm going to find it no matter how many store i have to go to!
Having been a total vegan for several years I have gradually, over the last few years, lapsed back into using dairy produce, leather and wool ... I also eat fish (sustainable and never farmed) for clear health reasons...
My point really is that stopping eating meat is just one part of the job - reducing the use of animal produce in general will obviously go further to reducing the problems of land-use, methane! and welfare....
I'd debate whether this really is the most effective way to reduce your environmental impact. I see the point sites like http://www.goveg.com/worldHunger.asp are making, but world hunger has a lot more to do with economics.
Many people would claim we can't produce enough crops to feed the world properly - bear in mind the different proteins and fats meat gives you opposed to crops.
On a positive note I buy all my meat from a local independent butcher's, where everything I buy is free range and the quality/animal welfare is more guaranteed than you'd get at the local supermarket. Not sure whether that would constitute an "environmental goal" for this site but it's certainly one worth doing if you are going to eat meat.
My wife, however, is vegetarian so at least half of our household agrees with you!
Oh and i forgot to add the horrendous and mindless cruelty enacted on billions of animals every year to supply "animal products" to the market.
