The Great American Meatout encourages you to give up meat for a day (or more). Here's a look at some of the environmental reasons why that's a good idea.
Consider Cutting the Meat Out
Consider Cutting the Meat Out
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Submitted by wonderyort on Thu, 2008-03-20 00:57. | Tags: food | diet | factory farming | food | livestock | meat industry | vegan | vegetarian
Don't cut meat out completely...
I think it's worth mentioning that if you're cutting out meat for environmental reasons, there are right ways to go about raising meat. The reason meat is harmful to the environment nowadays (in most cases) is that it is raised in an industrial fasion on a corn/grain diet. The diet makes the cows produce methane and the industry is energy/resource intensive.
But if cows and other livestock are raised sustainably (the best indicator for this is in the supermarket is "grass-fed" or "pasture-fed"), then they can actually make the state of the environment better than if they had not existed. For a farm raising cows in possibly the most sustainable way there is - www.polyfacefarms.com
For more info, read Michael Pollan's book "The Omnivore's Dilemma."