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Promoted by editorsIn this weekly series we had been discussing the benefits of a vegetarian diet including; better health, global food crisis, ,animal rights, frugal living, food safety and the huge contribution of livestock production to climate change/depletion of resources.

We may be at or near the tipping point of many of Earth's resources including water (pdf) and as DWG pointed out in his/her excellent diary we are fishing the oceans empty. The world has underestimated climate change effects from man made global warming, which are due to our addiction to oil.

In this weekly series we have been discussing the benefits of a vegetarian diet including; better health, animal rights, global food crisis, frugal living, food safety and the direct contribution of livestock production to global warming/climate change

More than 1.7 billion animals are used in livestock production worldwide and occupy more than one-fourth of the Earth's land.

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In this weekly series we have been discussing the benefits of a vegetarian diet including: better health, animal rights , frugal living, food safety , world food crisis and the huge contribution of meat production to global warming.

Who could resist this message from Rep. Dennis Kucinich?

In this weekly series we have been discussing the benefits of a vegetarian diet including: better health, frugal living,animal rights,global food crisis, food safety and the direct connection between meat production and climate change.

In this weekly series we have been discussing the benefits of a vegetarian diet including: better health, animal rights, frugal living, food safety, and the direct connection between livestock production and global warming.

In this weekly series we have been discussing the many benefits of a vegetarian diet including: better health, food safety,animal rights, frugal living, and the direct connection between meat production and global warming.

In this weekly series we have been discussing the benefits of a vegetarian diet including: better health, animal rights, frugal living, global food crisis and the direct connection between meat production and global warming.

In this weekly series we have been discussing the benefits of a vegetarian diet including: better health, animal rights, frugal living, food safety, global food crisis and the urgency of global warming.

On a global scale the meat industry generates nearly 1/5 of the man made greenhouse gases that are accelerating climate change, more than the entire transport sector. Livestock accounts for 9% of global CO2 emissions, 37% of methane and 65% of nitrous oxide emissions.

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In this weekly series we have been discussing the benefits of a vegetarian diet including: better health, animal rights, food safety, global food crisis, frugal living, and livestock productions connection to global warming.

In this weekly series we have been discussing the benefits of a vegetarian diet including: better health, animal rights, frugal living, global food crisis and the urgency of global warming

It takes up to 16 pounds of grain to produce just 1 pound of animal flesh. It's shockingly inefficient to feed plant foods to farmed animals and consume their flesh rather than eating the plant foods ourselves.