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Which College Is the Greenest? Jul 9, 2008
New Survey Reports which Schools Make the Eco-Grade
As if choosing a campus wasn’t hard enough, this year The Princeton Review is adding green ratings to some of their college guides. The green rating score is a composite of factors from building and transportation policies, recycling, food sourcing,... more
Wal-Mart The Locavore Jul 7, 2008
Superstore Works To Reduce Food Miles
Hold onto your shopping carts—Wal-Mart has picked up on the locavore trend and is now touting locally grown produce in its stores. According to the The Associated Press, the company will spend $400 million this year on produce grown within... more
NYC Food Goes Trans-Fat Free Jul 2, 2008
Something Else To Celebrate in July
This July celebrate, not only the freedom from England, but a freedom from trans fats. For those watching fireworks in the Big Apple, starting July 1 the prepared foods you buy in restaurants, bakeries, salad bars, cafeteria, and food carts... more
Trash Crisis Brings Out the Garbage Police Jun 30, 2008
Europe Will Have to Recycle More, Dump Less
In the city of Whitehaven in northern England (almost at the Scotland border), Britons are balking at a government crackdown on trash. Earlier this year, for example, local bus driver Gareth Corkhill was fined $215 when he couldn't fully close... more
Tips to Throw A Green Party Jun 27, 2008
Democrats Plan an Eco-Friendly Bash -- How About You?
It’s no surprise that this year’s Democratic Convention will be a politically correct affair, but what that really means is that the new patriotic colors are red, white, blue, AND green. In an effort to make this the most sustainable,... more
Freegan TV: Turn Trash into Dinner Jun 25, 2008
Reality TV Show for Dumpster Divers Airs Online
Want to know how to turn that huge batch of vegetables that you found in a nearby restaurant’s trash into dinner? Or transform the loaves of bread salvaged from a nearby bakery into bread pudding? We have a TV show... more
Is That a Wild Hog in Your Backyard? Jun 24, 2008
Hunters Target Feral Hogs -- Are they Organic?
In Texas and across the country, deer hunters are on the trail of an animal we associate more with breakfast than hunting season. Wild hogs have been rummaging along golf courses and through backyards. Apparently these pigs have always been... more
Is Kiwi Fruit the Fuel of the Future? Jun 20, 2008
New Zealand Explores this Fuzzy Source of Biofuel
What’s small, fuzzy on the outside, green on the inside, and may be filling our gas tanks as well as decorating our fruit salads? You guessed it, the kiwi fruit. New research out of New Zealand adds kiwi fruit to the list... more
Grill This! Part Two Jun 19, 2008
Green Grilling Tips
Grilling season is now in full swing. Who knew the summer barbeque tradition could put off so many toxic fumes? According to The Daily Green, “grilling can be toxic, even downright polluting.” Burning charcoal produces sooty particles that float through... more
SOS: Save Our Salmon Jun 17, 2008
Our Wild Salmon Are In Trouble
Along with gas and food, salmon is going for record high prices this year, $40 a pound for a filet. The reason: the commercial season for Chinook salmon in California and Oregon was canceled because we’re destroying the salmon’s habitat.... more
Environmental Working Group discovered that developing fetuses are born with an average 200 toxic chemicals inside them (taken from The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved by Sandor Katz).
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Initially, this article brought a smile to my face, as not only do I support avoiding the use of pesticides in crops, but I also happen to be a vegeterian in the true sense of the word; I avoid eating all animal products and therefore feel I make a significiant impact on the environment.
However, when I read this statement: , "And, bonus: once the pigs have solved the beetle problem, Koan plans to sell them as organic pork.", I realized that this was just another article, another idea, that is really just "half green".
Until we realize the full impact of the cycle we are in by producing pigs, chickens, cows, etc, for food, we will never reach "green". Until we stop viewing animals as a commodity, we will never reach "green". And until it sinks in that eating animals and animal products is horrible for our health and the environment, these half green ideas are both offensive and embarrassing.
Granted, animals that are raised humanely are better than factory farmed animals, but eating them offers nothing nutritionally (Dr. John McDougall, "The McDougall Plan" and John Robbins, "Diet for a New America") to humans and only affects the environment marginally, if at all.
It is hard to take anyone seriously who claims they are an environmentalist while continuing to consume animals. I am sure I will get some replies questing whether I wear leather, own a car, etc., however it is our daily food choices that have the most impact on the enviorment on so many levels, hands down.
Truthfully, what I find most disturbing about this article is how little respect is payed to the hard working pigs. Once again, and inevitably, this article is less about the environment than it about human consumption-what we get out of it.
Ironically enough, the less we eat animals, organic or not, the better off our health, and the environment, will be.
-Amanda Consovoy