The Green Quote: Race Car Driver Leilani Munter Offers Green Tip
Filed under: green and famous — Michael Parrish DuDell @ 10:14 am
October 8th 2009
“Cut back on your meat intake. Grazing animals produce methane which is 21 times more heat trapping than CO2. In fact, a UN study found that 40 percent more global warming emissions come from raising animals we eat than all the world’s cars, SUVs, planes, trains, ships and all other forms of transportation. If you need another reason to cut back on meat, how about world hunger?”
“If Americans alone reduced their meat consumption by just 10%, it would free up enough land to grow 12 million tons of grain – enough to save the six million children under the age of 5 that die every year as a result of hunger.”
“I know not everyone reading this is going to become vegetarian, but just cutting back on your meat intake can make a big difference. Maybe just give up meat for one day each week. Small steps multiplied by many can make a big difference.”
- Race car driver Leilani Munter offers up a tip on going green to PressDog.com. What one piece of sustainable advice would you give? Chime in and share!
via: vegetarianstar.com
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How many people would the food grains used for ethanol feed?? It’s a lot more than 6 million.
Hey Gofer!
That’s why Willie Nelson, Woody Harrelson and so many others with Farm Aid are fighting so hard to re-legalize industrial hemp agriculture! Four times the yield of corn for ethanol production, and you replenish the soil to boot. Corn growers associations support re-introduction of hemp as a rotation crop, because it would save them a lot of money in fertilizer. Now, let me think here, how could that be a conflict of interest with the petrochemical industry producing all that synthetic nitrogen?
At first it may seem like a lot to reduce your meat intake by 10% but if you really think about it it’s pretty easy. If you reduce your meat intake by going meatless once a week you can reduce your meat intake by 15%. Meatless Mondays is a campaign that I have started working for that is a great resource for people who are meatless or trying to become meatless. We have a lot of great resources on our website (www.meatlessmonday.com including meatless recipes as well as countless articles that explain the benefits of going meatless. It’s amazing that reducing the amount of meat you eat can not only be good for the environment but great for your body as well.