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Entries from April 2009

This is just too funny!

April 12, 2009 · Leave a Comment

I don’t want to say much – just watch it and try not to laugh…


Britain’s Got Talent Micheal JacksonClick here for more home videos

Categories: English · Video

What would happen if we all ate less meat?

April 4, 2009 · Leave a Comment

I have been more or less vegetarian for the past 40 years. A personal choice. But it is interesting to look at what would happen if it became a societal choice rather than a personal one.

From: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kathy-freston/the-breathtaking-effects_b_181716.html

If everyone went vegetarian just for one day, the U.S. would save:

● 100 billion gallons of water, enough to supply all the homes in New England for almost 4 months;

● 1.5 billion pounds of crops otherwise fed to livestock, enough to feed the state of New Mexico for more than a year;

● 70 million gallons of gas–enough to fuel all the cars of Canada and Mexico combined with plenty to spare;

● 3 million acres of land, an area more than twice the size of Delaware;

● 33 tons of antibiotics.

If everyone went vegetarian just for one day, the U.S. would prevent:

● Greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to 1.2 million tons of CO2, as much as produced by all of France;

● 3 million tons of soil erosion and $70 million in resulting economic damages;

● 4.5 million tons of animal excrement;

● Almost 7 tons of ammonia emissions, a major air pollutant.

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