Have you been to the calculator page?
5. Healthy eating
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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."
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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." ​​
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For more on DAIRY: nrdc.org and Inside Climate News
Palm oil production causes damage –
"to forests, climate, people and endangered species."
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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.”
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"Meat consumption is linked to ... health issues.”
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Food waste "went straight to landfill,
incineration, down the drain,
or was simply left in the fields to rot."
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​"Food waste in America ... is now estimated
to be 30 - 40% of [our] entire food supply." ​
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For food scraps and composting advice:
​​​​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."
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For more on famine go to the Death page.
