Earth Day Reflection

It’s been a couple days since Earth Day, but this great article from the HuffPo highlights some of the important connections between eating a vegetarian diet and lowering your impact on the earth’s resources.

Here are some quick highlights: (read the full article here)

• Farm animals produce more waste in one day than the human population produces in 3.5 years! 
• 240 TRILLION gallons of water are used each year for farmed animals and irrigating feed crops.
• It takes more than 11 times as much fossil fuel to make one calorie of animal protein as it does to make one calorie of plant protein.
• You can save more carbon by going vegan than by switching to a hybrid automobile.

So consider a lower impact way of life in the kitchen. You don’t have to go strictly straight edge: farm your own chickens and eat more black beans. Don’t buy Tyson, but a locally made tofu instead. Even a grilled cheese is better on the earth than a ham sandwich.

Take actions to make yourself, and our earth, healthier.

***Download a free vegetarian starter kit here.

~ by iloveOrange on May 23, 2009.