(February 5, 2014 at 5:38 am)jg2014 Wrote: The point is all the studies show that per kg of protein, meat is worse for the environment, producing 11 times as much greenhouse gasses.Methane breaks down in the atmosphere, and furthermore climate scientists blame the EGHE's contribution mainly on CO2 and Black Carbon and less on Methane.
Quote:The measure of how many kg of grain does it take to produce a kg of meat is useful only in so far as it is a measure of inefficiency and harm to the environment. The point is no matter how you raise cattle it is still worse than grain.What?
How about land that's unsuitable for produce and it's only agricultural use is to raise animals?
Quote:Australia is one of the biggest net exporters of grain in the world, mainly because its production of grain per head of population is huge, eg in comparison to the US it has half the total production of wheat, but a tenth of the population.
Yep, we're not running out of wheat anytime soon.
Quote:Australia's problems don't stem from a lack of arable land, which it has huge amounts of per head population, but from a lack of water. The best way to deal with that is to increase the efficiency of irrigation, reduce wasteful water use on cattle by stopping eating meat, increase the use of drought resistant crops and reduce global warming.Oh please, we're not even in the top 30 driest countries. Here's a hint: about 85% of the world's population lives in the driest half of the world. As if that's our problem. It may become our problem if we accept exponential population growth - which I don't think we should and I think we should cap our population now and realize that we're at capacity (22 million).
For Religion & Health see:[/b][/size] Williams & Sternthal. (2007). Spirituality, religion and health: Evidence and research directions. Med. J. Aust., 186(10), S47-S50. -LINK
The WIN/Gallup End of Year Survey 2013 found the US was perceived to be the greatest threat to world peace by a huge margin, with 24% of respondents fearful of the US followed by: 8% for Pakistan, and 6% for China. This was followed by 5% each for: Afghanistan, Iran, Israel, North Korea. -LINK
"That's disgusting. There were clean athletes out there that have had their whole careers ruined by people like Lance Armstrong who just bended thoughts to fit their circumstances. He didn't look up cheating because he wanted to stop, he wanted to justify what he was doing and to keep that continuing on." - Nicole Cooke
The WIN/Gallup End of Year Survey 2013 found the US was perceived to be the greatest threat to world peace by a huge margin, with 24% of respondents fearful of the US followed by: 8% for Pakistan, and 6% for China. This was followed by 5% each for: Afghanistan, Iran, Israel, North Korea. -LINK
"That's disgusting. There were clean athletes out there that have had their whole careers ruined by people like Lance Armstrong who just bended thoughts to fit their circumstances. He didn't look up cheating because he wanted to stop, he wanted to justify what he was doing and to keep that continuing on." - Nicole Cooke