Yearly Archives: 2011

Water shortage and pollution caused by livestock (Sound Bites)

The fourth edition of our Sound Bite Series… The UN report, Livestock’s Long Shadow, came out in late 2006 and reported how the livestock industry is seriously damaging our environment in four separate categories: Land and Trees, Water, Climate Change and … Continue reading

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Land, Topsoil and Trees — livestock damage (Sound Bites)

The third edition of our Sound Bite Series… The UN report, Livestock’s Long Shadow, came out in late 2006 and reported how the livestock industry is seriously damaging our environment in four separate categories: Land and Trees, Water, Climate Change … Continue reading

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Wasteful, harmful and cruel — the Western diet. (Sound Bites)

Continuing with my “sound bite” series; this is the second in the series. Bite #1 — Wasteful. On a per calorie basis, our typical Western diet requires twenty times more land, twenty times more energy and more than twenty times more … Continue reading

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