Eating Meat Contributes to Climate Change, UN Study Confirms

The typical American diet adds significantly to pollution, water scarcity, land degradation and climate change, according to a United Nations report released last week. Written by the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO),the report is the latest research linking meat-eating with environmental destruction. According to the FAO, the arm of the UN that works on worldwide hunger-defeating initiatives, animal farming presents a "major threat to the ... Full Story »

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by Jake Johansen - Oct. 1, 2008

Takes an amazingly broad approach to this issue, going way beyond what the study's authors bothered doing.

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