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Will laboratory grown meat reduce environmental and political problems due to meat production?

On September 8, 2011 By

Advances in technology make commercial “cultured” meat a real possibility-

The production of food in general has many positive and negative side effects, but many argue that meat production’s side effects weigh far on the negative side. Political battles over CAFOs, grazing, use of antibiotics, subsidies, and culture have been intractable.

Raising an animal for […]

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Report: Climate and Environmental Impacts of Meat Production

On August 3, 2011 By

Lamb, beef and cheese have the highest emissions

The Environmental Working Group recently published a report assessing the climate change and environmental impacts of meat production.  They found that not all meats have the same impact.

Visit the 2001 Meat Eaters Guide to Climate Change + Health

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‎"At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, “thus far and no further.” If we do not, we shall later feel, instead of pride, the regret of Thoreau, that good but overly-bookish man, who wrote, near the end of his life, “If I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behaviour."

~ Edward Abbey