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There is a big debate about global warming and carbon foot prints in the

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Group of Twenty (also known as the G-20 or G20) and other forums and
India listens to western lectures on dangers of coal and emissions etc.
So far the discussion is only on fossil fuels and items like concrete
constructions but not on eating habits of people. The latter contributes
much more to global warming and Ecological destruction. We often do

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not bring that to the top of the table since all discussion is essentially
West determined.

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An interesting report in Scientific American says

Mostofusareawarethatourcars,ourcoal
generatedelectricpowerandevenourcement
factoriesadverselyaffecttheenvironment.Until
recently,however,thefoodsweeathadgottenapass
inthediscussion.Yetaccordingtoa2006reportby
theUnitedNationsFoodandAgriculture
Organization(FAO),ourdietsand,specifically,the
meatinthemcausemoregreenhousegasescarbon
dioxide(CO2),methane,nitrousoxide,andtheliketo
spewintotheatmospherethaneithertransportation
orindustry.(Greenhousegasestrapsolarenergy,
therebywarmingtheearthssurface.Becausegases
varyingreenhousepotency,everygreenhousegasis
usuallyexpressedasanamountofCO2withthesame
globalwarmingpotential.)
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Further it is suggested that

major accusation /case

against Stalin in bribery

Curbing the worlds huge and increasing appetite for meat is essential to

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avoid devastating climate change, according to a new report. But

tolerant /effective leader --

governments and green campaigners are doing nothing to tackle the

issue due to fears of a consumer backlash, warns the analysis from the
think-tank Chatham House.

@Swamy39
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The global livestock industry produces more greenhouse gas emissions

than all cars, planes, trains and ships combined, but a worldwide survey
by Ipsos MORI in the report finds twice as many people think transport is
the bigger contributor to global warming.

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@kksubbu2003 : And what
about JJ putting the Kanchi
Shankaracharya in jail on a

More importantly it is to be noted that the study shows red meat or beef
dwarfs others for environmental impact, using 28 times more land and
11 times water for pork or chicken.

bogus charge of murder

54minutesago
RT @tisaiyan: . @Swamy39

Beefs environmental impact dwarfs that of other meat including

chicken and pork, new research reveals, with one expert saying that
eating less red meat would be a better way for people to cut carbon
emissions than giving up their cars.

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The heavy impact on the environment of meat production was known

but the research shows a new scale and scope of damage, particularly for
beef. The popular red meat requires 28 times more land to produce than

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pork or chicken, 11 times more water and results in five times more

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climate-warming emissions. When compared to staples like potatoes,

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wheat, and rice, the impact of beef per calorie is even more extreme,
requiring 160 times more land and producing 11 times more greenhouse
gases.

with a Hinduised DMK

56minutesago
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The biggest intervention people could make towards reducing their

carbon footprints would not be to abandon cars, but to eat significantly
less red meat, Benton said. Another recent study implies the single

hopeful the MK will decline

to be CM candidate and

biggest intervention to free up calories that could be used to feed people

make Stalin leader. Then

would be not to use grains for beef production in the US. However, he

hope BJP align Stalin and

said the subject was always controversial: This opens a real can of
worms.

Vijaykanth in a new
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Prof Mark Sutton, at the UKs Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, said:

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Governments should consider these messages carefully if they want to

improve overall production efficiency and reduce the environmental
impacts. But the message for the consumer is even stronger. Avoiding
excessive meat consumption, especially beef, is good for the
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Why is rearing meat so bad for the environment?

Livestock production accounts for 14.5 per cent of global

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greenhouse emissions, the same amount produced by all the cars,

planes, boats and trains in the world. A single cow can belch up to
500 litres of methane every day, writes the BBCs Dr Michael
Mosley, a gas that is 25 times more potent than a carbon dioxide.
Multiply that by the 1.5 billion cattle we have on our planet and
thats a lot of gas.
It is inefficient. It takes, on average, 3kg of grain to produce 1kg of
meat and two thirds of all agricultural land is used to grow feed for
livestock, whereas only eight per cent is used to grow food directly

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for human consumption. These are basic laws of biophysics that

we cannot evade, says the studys lead researcher, Bojana Bajzelj
from the University of Cambridge.
It places pressure on dwindling freshwater supplies and destroys

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forest and grasslands, which are turned over for grazing. Soil

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erosion, soil and water pollution from fertilisers and animal waste

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are other ways the meat industry impacts the environment.

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Scientists also argue that we need to stop wasting so much food, as

on average, 7.2 million tonnes of food is wasted in the UK each year.
In conclusion, we should put forward arguments and turn the debate on

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its head by asking the West to close down steak houses and consume less
red-meat/ beef rather than meekly accepting their arm twisting.

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