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It's about time! Let's start off the week on a bright note: the mainstreaming of the message (finally!) that eating beef is a huge environmental drain. Thus quoth none other than the venerable Time magazine: "Which is responsible for more global warming: your BMW or your Big Mac? Believe it or not, it's the burger. The international meat industry generates roughly 18% of the world's greenhouse-gas emissions—even more than transportation—according to a report last year from the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization."
It's about time this message got heard—or as Ecorazzi put it, "WE TOLD YOU SOOOOOO!!!" We told 'em so, too, patiently reviewing the beef about global warming and showing why eating beef is worse than driving a Hummer.
It's about time that people cut through silly perceptions of vegetarians as the hippie-dippie fringe element and see that piling our plates with beef just doesn't make sense. "Every now and then we’ll get a comment on the blog that says, 'Yo! Isn’t this supposed to be a green blog? Why you always blabbing about veganism?'" mourns Ecorazzi. "This is why! It’s time to get real—vegetarianism and environmentalism are the same darn thing!" We couldn't agree more.
It's about time! Step up and face the facts in Time's Global Warming Guide: 22. Skip the Steak.
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Meats differ ... some seafoods are worse than beef, but beef is generally the worst of the conventional meats. Some people try to justify meat eating by only have grass fed beef or free range animals, but there are indications that, from a global warming standpoint, these practices are worse than intense factory farming. They are more humane for the animal, but perhaps the most humane approach is to just give it up.