Was reading an article about how to eat well and save the earth at the same time during noon. It is about this book titled "A Meat Eater's Guide to Climate Change and Health".
This 90-page publication draws the line for you between the food that you heck-care-just-eat to satiate your cravings and those where your conscience will be clear and crystal clear after consuming them.
The books emphasized that different kinds of meat and differing health and environmental impacts. Topping the list of carbon polluters is lamb, which amounts approximately 40 kg of carbon dioxide for every kilo consumed.
Taking the runner-up spot is beef which generates about 27 kg per kilo eaten. The book further justified the findings by allowing readers to understand from another perspective.
Enjoying a mere 110-gramme slice of lamb shank is tantamount to driving a mid-sized car for 21 kilometres. The same amount of beef is equivalent to just over half of that distance.
It is also mentioned that Americans eat (much) more meat than most developed countries, with a century of kilos produced annually for every adult man, woman and child.
Coming in third for generating the most greenhouse gases is cheese due to the fact that considerable amounts of milk is required for producing this diary product.
Seeing how critical the writers are of meat consumption, the conclusion of the report shouldn't be too hard to predict. That is, vegetables are virtuous.
But then again, some would argue that eating too little meat or going for a vegetarian diet is not the right way because of a lack of protein and how nutritious can a herbivore meal be? It is a vicious cycle.
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