Comments on: Sunday Special: The Skeptical Environmentalist http://virescent.wordpress.com/2008/01/27/sunday-special-the-skeptical-environmentalist/ (adj) tending toward green Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:12:34 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: virescent http://virescent.wordpress.com/2008/01/27/sunday-special-the-skeptical-environmentalist/#comment-262 virescent Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:23:53 +0000 http://virescent.wordpress.com/?p=118#comment-262 Oh man, I know, I know. I honestly don't eat that much. Though I did go to a Brazilian restaurant last weekend- one of those all-you can eat meat buffets, only they don't make you get up, they bring it right to you...it was delicious. But that was abnormal. I tagged the NYT article but I haven't read it yet- being all ostrichy. I'll let you know how it goes? Oh man, I know, I know. I honestly don’t eat that much. Though I did go to a Brazilian restaurant last weekend- one of those all-you can eat meat buffets, only they don’t make you get up, they bring it right to you…it was delicious. But that was abnormal.

I tagged the NYT article but I haven’t read it yet- being all ostrichy. I’ll let you know how it goes?

]]> By: Cameron http://virescent.wordpress.com/2008/01/27/sunday-special-the-skeptical-environmentalist/#comment-260 Cameron Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:21:43 +0000 http://virescent.wordpress.com/?p=118#comment-260 On the production of food! Im determined to get you and the rest of America to decrease their meat consumptioin (organic or not) from todays NYTimes (I wish they sited primary literature references, but google-ing the scientists names can get that easily)This is about waste/food production/farming/energy: "To put the energy-using demand of meat production into easy-to-understand terms, Gidon Eshel, a geophysicist at the Bard Center, and Pamela A. Martin, an assistant professor of geophysics at the University of Chicago, calculated that if Americans were to reduce meat consumption by just 20 percent it would be as if we all switched from a standard sedan — a Camry, say — to the ultra-efficient Prius. Similarly, a study last year by the National Institute of Livestock and Grassland Science in Japan estimated that 2.2 pounds of beef is responsible for the equivalent amount of carbon dioxide emitted by the average European car every 155 miles, and burns enough energy to light a 100-watt bulb for nearly 20 days." http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/27/weekinreview/27bittman.html?ref=science On the production of food! Im determined to get you and the rest of America to decrease their meat consumptioin (organic or not) from todays NYTimes (I wish they sited primary literature references, but google-ing the scientists names can get that easily)This is about waste/food production/farming/energy:

“To put the energy-using demand of meat production into easy-to-understand terms, Gidon Eshel, a geophysicist at the Bard Center, and Pamela A. Martin, an assistant professor of geophysics at the University of Chicago, calculated that if Americans were to reduce meat consumption by just 20 percent it would be as if we all switched from a standard sedan — a Camry, say — to the ultra-efficient Prius. Similarly, a study last year by the National Institute of Livestock and Grassland Science in Japan estimated that 2.2 pounds of beef is responsible for the equivalent amount of carbon dioxide emitted by the average European car every 155 miles, and burns enough energy to light a 100-watt bulb for nearly 20 days.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/27/weekinreview/27bittman.html?ref=science

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