Yearly Archives: 2011

U.N. urges global move to meat and dairy-free diet

Posted on 07/31/2011 by J. Morris Hicks

After learning enough facts, you will no longer be able to call yourself an environmentalist if you continue to eat the typical Western diet. Almost five years ago (2006), the United Nations produced a 400-page report called Livestock’s Long Shadow … Continue reading →

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Biodiversity issues — driven by livestock (Sound Bites)

Posted on 07/30/2011 by J. Morris Hicks

The sixth edition of our Sound Bite Series. Once again, livestock appears to be causing the most damage; from the U.N. Report: The livestock sector may well be the leading player in the reduction of biodiversity. The UN report, Livestock’s Long … Continue reading →

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Climate change – largely driven by livestock (Sound Bites)

Posted on 07/29/2011 by J. Morris Hicks

The fifth edition of our Sound Bite Series… Do you remember Al Gore’s movie for which he won the Nobel Prize? It was An Inconvenient Truth and it came out in 2006. The movie was all about global warming and … Continue reading →

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