kind of scary, but I've seen it coming for a while.

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Subject: [LowCarb Lounge] Food for thought



Subject: L.A. Times editorial: "The U.N.'s meatless drive"



http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-ed-meatless9-2008sep09,0,4
449766.story

>From the Los Angeles Times
Editorial
The U.N.'s meatless drive

Our appetite for steaks and burgers is a huge contributor to global warming.
September 9, 2008So it turns out that meatless Fridays, which for
generations inflicted fish sticks and tuna casseroles on millions of
school-age children, Catholic and otherwise, were actually saving the
planet. The United Nations is now urging wealthy nations to make a dramatic
shift in eating habits, saying the best way to curb climate change is for
people to go at least one day a week without meat.And Rajendra Pachauri,
chairman of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change -- which
shared the Nobel Peace Prize last year -- isn't just asking diners to bypass
a burger now and then. After achieving a weekly day without meat, he said,
they should embark on a progressive reduction of their meat intake.The
problem isn't so much with hamburger patties as it is with cow patties. Meat
production accounts for nearly a fifth of global greenhouse gas emissions,
according to the United Nations. Cows and other ruminants, such as sheep and
goats, release methane and nitrous ox!
ide in amounts that put to shame the carbon dioxide belched out by cars. In
fact, a red-meat-eater in a Prius is probably hurting the environment more
than a vegan in a Hummer.The U.N. also is calling for governments to launch
campaigns to reduce meat eating. If they do, such efforts will probably
start in Europe, then sweep through every city, town, village and hamlet in
Asia, Africa, Australia and Antarctica before the U.S. Department of
Agriculture stops propagandizing on behalf of meat without any regard for
human or environmental health. Which brings us back to individual
abstinence. We're not calling for a vegan revolution, but this page has
noted that a sincere personal effort to fight global warming must include a
reduction in eating red meat. Were fish sticks on Fridays really that bad?

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