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Will New Diet Guidelines Reflect Environmental Cost and Water Depletion Factor of Meat?
- truthordrought
- Jan 4, 2015
- 1 min read
"We need to make sure our diets are in alignment with our natural resources and the need to reduce climate change." – Kari Hamerschlag, Friends of the Earth A study by the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences said that "compared with other popular animal proteins, beef produces more heat-trapping gases per calorie, puts out more water-polluting nitrogen, takes more water for irrigation and uses more land."
Read the full article here (Yahoo! News, "New diet guidelines might reflect environment cost").