Lent

So, this year for Lent I’ve decided to give God’s creation a break by going old school and giving up meat for the entirety of Lent. Below are a few facts about the effect of the meat industry on the environment.

According the WorldWatch Institute livestock cause 18% of global greenhouse gas emissions (37% of the methane emissions and 65% of the world’s nitrous oxide emissions) and use 70% of all anti-microbial drugs.

“In their Greenhome project, the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) suggest that removing just one 150-gram serve of beef a week would culminate in a saving of 10,000 litres of water and 300 kilograms of greenhouse gases. (That’s 5oz, 2,642 gallons and 660 lb for our non-metric brethren.) Possibly those figures are so high because Aussies chow down on an average 110kg (243 lbs) of meat yearly.”

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/08/meat-eating-worse-for-climate-than-transportation.php