This just in! Al Gore (a.k.a. “Mr Global Warming” himself) has finally confronted the biggest inconvenient truth of all: that meat-eating is responsible for much of the world's most devastating environmental problems: "It's absolutely correct that the growing meat intensity of diets around the world is one of the issues connected to this global crisis - not only because of the CO2 involved, but also because of the water consumed in the process … You could add in the health consequences as well".
It's obvious when you think about it, isn't it? When you need to feed about 10 kilos of food to a cow just to produce merely one kilogram of ‘beef' (and let's not forget the millions of methane-producing burps and farts let off by the global cattle herd every single day), eating green to save the environment is a no-brainer.
Strangely it took the world's most renowned environmental campaigner three years since producing “An Inconvenient Truth” to realise that you can't be a meat-eating environmentalist. And for some reason, Gore stops short of leaving all animals off his plate, saying that he has now “cut back sharply”. A good step in the right direction for sure, but I guess those of us who care more about animals and the planet than the taste of dead flesh will still need to offset Gore by eating green every day (and really, with food this good – who wouldn't want to!?)
No doubt Gore's new appreciation for environmentally sustainable foods will also help his waste line and keep him campaigning a good few years longer :)
And on that note, Yahoo! News wants to know if you'd go veg to help save the planet. Please vote yes!
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Ian saw him on Letterman Wed night and said he looked like he didn't care and just bragged about being the wealthiest 'environmentalist'. That's weird.
He's been hounded by the veg*n movement since 'Inconvenient'.
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Truth and wisdom can be there right in front of us but unless we're ready to see it and absorb it and act on it, we generally don't see it.
Anyway, credit where it's due, he's worked hard and done lots to raise the profile of the global emergency which we and all other animals are facing.
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i suppose it would be hard for sum people to change who they are. But if it meant cutting down global warming, shouldn't they give it a go?
anyhoo, we just have to hope don't we?
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Yes 39% 3341 votes
No 61% 5304 votes
Unfortunately, people are still very backward. Not only do they not care about the animals, they obviously don't care about themselves or the planet.
Guess it will have come down to the 11th hour before things turn around. By then it will probably be to late anyway. Their addiction to eating animals is more important than anything else what a sad state of affairs.
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At school we were watching an inconvenient truth at the beginning of this year, and i mentioned meat production in my presentation (we had to give a speech on what we thought).
We had some questions to choose from and i chose: If Al Gore was here now, what would you ask him?
I said "Why did you not mention the number one contribution to climate change, the meat industry?"
Zara
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