What was Rajiv Gandhi’s fatal error in politics? It does not need a seer to say that it was his claim to honesty &..
It's time to confront a major threat to our global environment:
cows. Yup - turns out that livestock are a major contributor to
greenhouse gas pollution. Right up there with cars, planes and
trains.
And at the rate we're producing beef worldwide, emissions from cows
- along with other harmful practices in beef production - threaten
to mess up our climate, land and water. Big time.
On average, Americans eat three times more meat than people in
other countries. From the end of World War II to the mid---1970s,
beef consumption per person doubled. The U.S. is now the largest
beef producer in the world. Our beef industry is a powerhouse worth
$74 billion a year and providing millions of jobs.
Today, more and more Americans are choosing chicken and pork, even
tofu. But much of the meat we eat is still beef Let's look at an
all---American food: the hamburger. On average, we eat about three
burgers per week. So let's see: If all 313 million Americans eat
three burgers per week, that's 156 burgers per person per year. All
together, that's more than 48 billion burgers every year.
A quarter---pounder at a fast food joint costs 3 or 4 bucks. That's
pretty cheap. But what we don't pay for at the counter, we end up
paying for in other ways. What are the hidden costs?
First of all, cows take up a lot of space. Worldwide, livestock use
30 percent of the earth's entire land area - that's counting
pastures and land used to grow grain for feed. We use about eight
times as much land for feeding animals as for feeding humans.
And in places like Brazil, acres of forest are still being cleared
for livestock - which creates pollution and also removes a perfect
sponge for absorbing carbon dioxide. And did someone mention water?
It takes about 1,800 gallons of water to make a single pound of
grain---fed beef - that's about four times the amount for chicken
and more than 10 times the amount for a pound of wheat.
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