We Are What We Eat
My Anthropology prof. offers up some additional reading between classes, and one article really caught my attention. Trying to Connect the Dinner Plate to Climate Change by Claudia Deutsch, published in The New York Times August 29, 2007. (Available online here, go here if you need an account.)
Essentially, the article reveals the shocking truth that “the livestock business generates more greenhouse gas emissions than all forms of transportation combined.” It goes on to detail how many animal rights groups such as People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals and The Humane Society of the United States are pushing for environmental groups to bring this connection into more prominence.
“You just cannot be a meat-eating environmentalist,” said Matt A. Prescott, manager of vegan campaigns for PETA.
Damn Right. Fucking Bloodmouths.
Eating green (local, little-to-no-meat, organic) isn’t as easy as buying a Prius or changing your light bulbs, but it’s way easier than having to explain to my kids in 30+ years why there are no more viable oceanic fisheries/why the icecaps are nothing more than an urban legend/why rain forests can only be seen in museum dioramas/why their life expectancy is less then that of their grandparents.
Maybe that’s a stretch, maybe I’m taking the associations and possible risks too far. Still preferable to underestimation though, no?