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Grill This! Jun 13, 2008
How To Reduce Meat Consumption This Summer
Grilling season has just started and already meat’s gotten off to a bad start. It’s been blamed for increasing global warming, causing health problems, and more. (For more information about why meat is under scrutiny see the previous post: Saving... more
Save on Gas: Out Of The Frying Pan And Into The Gas Tank Jun 12, 2008
One Driver Gets Creative With Cooking Oil
Is $4 a gallon gas getting you down? Take a tip from Greg Melville who uses leftover cooking oil to power his 1985 Mercedes diesel station wagon (read his article “Greased Lightning” in The New York Times). Melville converted his... more
Saving The World One Plate At A Time Jun 10, 2008
Reduce Carbon Emissions At Every Meal
Choosing climate-healthy foods at the grocery store, with never-ending aisles of packaged foods, overflowing bins of produce from around the world, and walls of stocked freezer cases, presents an obvious challenge. But, a new study, discussed at WorldChanging.com, approaches this... more
More Suburban Lawns Become Vegetable Plots Jun 6, 2008
Gardeners Rule In A World Gone Mad
Instead of impeccably manicured lawns or perfectly planted flowerbeds, this year, vegetable gardens are spreading across suburbia. As The Wall Street Journal reported, more homeowners are turning their backyards and lawns into vegetable plots, using their spare time to garden... more
Incoming! Jun 5, 2008
The CSA Harvest Starts
This harvest season, now through fall, Washington Post columnist Stephanie Witt Sedgwick is joining a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture group) and writing about the results. In this week’s column "Next Stop on Our Local Tour: CSA" Sedgwick outlines the basics... more
A Two-Way Street Jun 3, 2008
How Climate Change And Farming Go Hand-In-Hand
Rising food prices—up 4% last year, the largest increase since 1990—are affected by oil, global markets, speculation, biofuels, and…climate change. And, thanks to how we currently handle agriculture, food price increases and climate change are likely to continue together, if unchecked. ... more
The Gift of Local Fruit: One Jammin Hobby May 30, 2008
Homemade Jam-Makers Embrace Fruit Puree
When Kristina Shevory needed a present for her dad, a known re-gifter, she opted for a exhaustive homemade gift that’s a far cry from plaster of Paris handprints or marker-decorated cards. She cooked up a batch of strawberry jam. “The... more
Green Cleaning Tips:21st Century Tupperware Parties May 29, 2008
100 Communities Host New kinds of Green Parties
Need an excuse to get together after your local food potluck? Host a Green Cleaning Party. As the Chicago Tribune reported on May 21, green living is now fully mainstreamed, and there’s no better evidence of that than the eco-friendly... more
Greener Eating: Look for Grass-Fed Meat May 26, 2008
Be A Compassionate Carnivore
The chickens at Kris Hirth’s Old Pine Farm in Manchester, MI spend their time strutting around the farm, happily ruffling their feathers and ignoring barn cats. Instead of being cooped up in a huge CAFO (concentrated animal feeding operation) where... more
What You Eat Can Affect Global Warming, New Study Shows May 23, 2008
Changing Your Dinner Choices Can Impact Greenhouse Emissions
When it comes to global warming, what has a bigger impact: the meat we eat or all the driving we do? Before you slice into that steak, consider this: how food is produced, not how far it’s transported is the... 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