terça-feira, 7 de abril de 2009

Let´s be vegetarian!

I was reading the Planet Save blog and this topic "Why Going Vegetarian For One Day Will Help Stop Global Warming" focused my attention.



look this highlight in the post:

If everyone went vegetarian just for one day, the U.S. would save:
  • 100 billion gallons of water, enough to supply all the homes in New England for almost 4 months;
  • 1.5 billion pounds of crops otherwise fed to livestock, enough to feed the state of New Mexico for more than a year;
  • 70 million gallons of gas — enough to fuel all the cars of Canada and Mexico combined with plenty to spare;
  • 3 million acres of land, an area more than twice the size of Delaware;
  • 33 tons of antibiotics.

If everyone went vegetarian just for one day, the U.S. would prevent:

  • Greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to 1.2 million tons of CO2, as much as produced by all of France;
  • 3 million tons of soil erosion and $70 million in resulting economic damages;
  • 4.5 million tons of animal excrement;
  • Almost 7 tons of ammonia emissions, a major air pollutant.

wow, this is outrageous!

hmmm... a very delicious veggie cook


to ready the whole article, just click here.

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