Happy Earth Day world! Today I celebrated Earth Day by proving I was 'hip' with recycling. They gave out free hula hoops made out of recycled piping, then I decorated it with electrical tape! Eugenians loooove hula hooping, they actually love any hobby that came out of the 60s (ie, smoking weed...i'll take the hula hoop) Below you can see my new hula hoop and my outfit today...i call it "soccer mom circa 1994"
I also celebrated Earth Day by eating all raw today, you can visit my vegan blog for a food diary.
You can celebrate earth day by cutting down on your animal product intake. Natebobhousely wrote a great blog on veggie/environment...i have copied and pasted a portion of it below
If you're concerned about climate change (you know, melting of the ice caps, disruption of centuries-old weather patterns, famines, floods, polar bears and puffins and shit dying, etc.) you can buy a hybrid car and marginally lessen your carbon footprint, or you can stop contributing to a bigger greenhouse gas producing industry: livestock. Land animals have a bigger global warming impact than transport. The methane that they produce is 20 times more effective at trapping heat than the carbon dioxide from cars. According to Environmental Defense, if every American skipped one meal of chicken per week, the greenhouse gas savings would be equivalent to taking 500,000 cars off the roads.
If you're not concerned about climate change, there is still the huge impact of livestock production on an increasingly-strained water supply. It takes 100,000 liters of water to produce 1 kilogram of beef. Agriculture accounts for 87% of all US fresh water consumption. If you want to reduce your water impact, you can stop taking showers altogether, or you can cut meat out of your diet. Additionally, there is the issue of concentrated waste from factory farms seeping into and contaminating water supplies.
Maybe you're concerned about land use. In 1900, about 10% of grain produced worldwide was fed to animals. Today, it's 60%. The raising of livestock (21 billion land animals slaughtered each year) takes up more than 2/3 of agricultural land and 1/3 of land total. It takes 16 pounds of grain to produce one pound of beef. While it is true that some livestock forage on plants like grass that aren't edible to humans, factory farming relies on grains that could go towards feeding humans, essentially throwing calories down the tubes.
You can celebrate earth day by cutting down on your animal product intake. Natebobhousely wrote a great blog on veggie/environment...i have copied and pasted a portion of it below
If you're concerned about climate change (you know, melting of the ice caps, disruption of centuries-old weather patterns, famines, floods, polar bears and puffins and shit dying, etc.) you can buy a hybrid car and marginally lessen your carbon footprint, or you can stop contributing to a bigger greenhouse gas producing industry: livestock. Land animals have a bigger global warming impact than transport. The methane that they produce is 20 times more effective at trapping heat than the carbon dioxide from cars. According to Environmental Defense, if every American skipped one meal of chicken per week, the greenhouse gas savings would be equivalent to taking 500,000 cars off the roads.
If you're not concerned about climate change, there is still the huge impact of livestock production on an increasingly-strained water supply. It takes 100,000 liters of water to produce 1 kilogram of beef. Agriculture accounts for 87% of all US fresh water consumption. If you want to reduce your water impact, you can stop taking showers altogether, or you can cut meat out of your diet. Additionally, there is the issue of concentrated waste from factory farms seeping into and contaminating water supplies.
Maybe you're concerned about land use. In 1900, about 10% of grain produced worldwide was fed to animals. Today, it's 60%. The raising of livestock (21 billion land animals slaughtered each year) takes up more than 2/3 of agricultural land and 1/3 of land total. It takes 16 pounds of grain to produce one pound of beef. While it is true that some livestock forage on plants like grass that aren't edible to humans, factory farming relies on grains that could go towards feeding humans, essentially throwing calories down the tubes.
3 thoughts:
no idea how i actually found your blog (it was weeks ago), but maybe it was through your vegan blog? anyway i just wanted to say hi because i think you're funny and awesome and i've really been enjoying your posts on eating raw, recipes, etc.
plus i always wanted to be an architect and a vegan (but i'm neither). so basically you could be my hero?
yeah. hi, i'm angela.
oh man angela...you just made my earth day! before i decided on architecture i wanted to be a graphic designer...cooool.
thanks for posting, because i have now found your blog which if you don't mind i will be adding to my reader!
nice to meet you.
i tried telling my family these things about two years ago! how they laughed! now i'm the one laughing!
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