Posts Tagged ‘livestock’

• Cut back on the meat and help save the climate

  Photo credit: Marshall Astor – Food Pornographer Kathy Freston, a “self-help author and personal growth and spirituality counselor”, has posted an interesting article over at the Huffington Post about the consequences of eating meat. Or in this case if we …

• Severe droughts and heatwaves in Argentina, Australia and California

  Photo credit: suburbanbloke As a top German scientist warns that climate change is accelerating, while 2008 ends up being the tenth warmest year ever recorded and a NOAA study shows climate change is “largely irreversible for 1000 years” we hear …

• 1 kilo meat = 15 000 litres of water

  Did you know that it takes 15 000 litres of water to produce one kilo meat from an animal who is being feed with grains. 150 litres of water is needed to produce one kilo of grains.