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From an Environmental standpoint, avoiding this one meat makes you 78% like a Vegan
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02-20-2009, 06:54 AM
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From an Environmental standpoint, avoiding this one meat makes you 78% like a Vegan
 Beef consumption has 4x the emission of pork and 10x the emissions of poultry
Environmental Leader - Feb. 17, 2009
So maybe it's easy to make an impact with your diet. -- Ed.
When it comes to global warming, Hamburgers are the Hummers of food. Thats because beef is an inefficient food to produce and cows release a large amount of methane into the atmosphere, according to Nathan Pelletier of Dalhousie University in Canada, AP reports.
Although beef only accounts for 30 percent of meat consumption in the developed world, its responsible for 78 percent of the emissions. A single kilogram of beef produces 16 kilograms CO2 equivalent emissions: four times higher than pork and more than ten times more than a kilogram of poultry, said Pelletier.... [Read More]
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Re: From an Environmental standpoint, avoiding this one meat makes you 78% like a Veg
Interesting. This makes my preference for fish and poultry a benefit?
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Re: From an Environmental standpoint, avoiding this one meat makes you 78% like a Veg
The green choices aren't easy.
Now we must decide if Orange Juice is out too.
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009...e-is-worse.php
If it isn't organic, farmed without machines, and delivered to the market on foot or bike it's probably bad.
Avoiding beef can only make you 78% like a veg if there is zero footprint in vegetables, which of course is impossible.
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Re: From an Environmental standpoint, avoiding this one meat makes you 78% like a Veg
I already prefer chicken, but I like a burger or a steak every now and then. I already knew about the cows producing methane gas so I cut back a long time ago.
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Re: From an Environmental standpoint, avoiding this one meat makes you 78% like a Veg
Beef?
I have it about once every day or two. What would I replace it with? How about sheep products? They didn't mention them in the article.
My question is... Why didn't they publish the results for sheep in the article as well? It's much worse than beef.
One sheep produces enough methane to power your car for 8 miles per day (15 to 20 or more for some of the drivers here).
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Re: From an Environmental standpoint, avoiding this one meat makes you 78% like a Veg
Methane from animals is a natural process. Earth can handle that emission. We should be worrying more about coal and oil.
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Besides I like steak, and fish and seafood and chicken and vegetables, I don't care if they all fart before I eat them. I'll eat anything but sea urchin, it was soooo bad I ate it again to see if it was just a singularly awful event. It wasn't any better. There will not be a third attempt. 
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Re: From an Environmental standpoint, avoiding this one meat makes you 78% like a Veg
Dale, I just spit water all over my desk! 
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Re: From an Environmental standpoint, avoiding this one meat makes you 78% like a Veg
OK....all kinds of gas bad. Guess I'll have to stop eating onions too.
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Re: From an Environmental standpoint, avoiding this one meat makes you 78% like a Veg
Once you've had a Royal Red Robin burger you can never so goodbye to beef!
2 slabs of beef, 4 strips of bacon, 2 fried eggs, plenty of grease, and enough calories for half a week. Yum yum!
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Re: From an Environmental standpoint, avoiding this one meat makes you 78% like a Veg
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Originally Posted by GreenVTEC
Once you've had a Royal Red Robin burger you can never so goodbye to beef!
2 slabs of beef, 4 strips of bacon, 2 fried eggs, plenty of grease, and enough calories for half a week. Yum yum!
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Or in my case, enough calories for half a day...
Yeah, I eat quite a bit and still weigh less than 130#.
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