Have you been to the calculator page?
5. Healthy eating
Skip the beef. It’s not difficult.
"Beef is the most carbon-intensive food because of the
sheer amount of plant food needed to raise a cow ...
Cows create lots of methane."
For more on BEEF, go to beef-and-climate, also see the Agribusiness page.
"Meat and dairy account for ... 14.5% of the world’s greenhouse gases."
For more on DAIRY: nrdc.org and Inside Climate News
Palm oil production causes damage –
"to forests, climate, people and endangered species."
For PALM OIL info: environmental
impact and human rights
Regarding CHOCOLATE, some sources are better than others: chocolatescorecard
visit: The Good Shopping Guide, or
Exercise, drink plenty of fluids. For more health tips: healthy-habits.
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“What we should be scared of is ... cheeseburgers.”
"Meat consumption is linked to ... health issues.”
Food waste "went straight to landfill,
incineration, down the drain,
or was simply left in the fields to rot."
For food scraps and composting advice:
Garden-Compost-Tips, Compost-Heap, or Homeowners Guide. (Thanks Tara!)
"Food waste in America ... is now estimated
to be 30 - 40% of [our] entire food supply."
And buying food to later throw away doesn’t help you save money. (Thanks Sarah!)
Search "10 ways to avoid food waste". Also: farmers markets near me.
In 1971, Frances Moore Lappe wrote the book, Diet for a Small Planet, which noted that
"world hunger is not caused by a lack of food", but rather by inequality.
She argued in favor of environmental vegetarianism, which can lessen "biodiversity loss, pollution,
deforestation, unsustainability, and the [mis]use of water and land."
For more on famine go to the Death page.
