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Skip wrote:I just listened to Sailesh Roa on the Rich Roll podcast. He argues that becoming vegan is the one most important acts that one can take to solve the global warming and climate change problem. Here is the podcast:

http://www.richroll.com/podcast/sailesh-rao/

Sailesh Roa has a book on this topic (which I am going to read) and a website on this topic. The website is:

http://www.climatehealers.org/

At the website scroll down and listen to his 3 minute speech which sums up his view on this topic.

His book is: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/146792 ... 1_1&sr=8-1

Sailesh Roa has a scientific background as an electrical engineer and has a Ph.D. from Stanford University.

I didn't realize that we had a global warming room and I'm going to post this in that room also.....

I really get my back up when people state with absolute certainty that the world would be somehow better if everyone would go vegan. As someone who not only cares deeply about the planet, but is also a biologist, this really upsets me. Life on Earth is complex. Ruminants evolved to fill an essential niche. I firmly believe that the planet and definitely a healthy farm needs ruminants and other traditional farm animals. I am a big proponent of managed grazing (holistic grazing it is sometimes called). If everyone stops eating meat, then I can only imagine that the soil will be further destroyed, and we will become more, not less dependent on petroleum-intensive industrial agriculture.

Spiral wrote:In a recent email chat about nutrition-food-health with some of my relatives, on of my relatives wrote something like this . . . .

colonyofcells wrote:In china, there are always revolutions if there are food shortages so the government does not like to be replaced.

http://qz.com/433750/the-world-eats-cheap-bacon-at-the-expense-of-north-carolinas-rural-poor/ wrote:It begs questions about the quality of life the world’s richest nation will tolerate for its poorer citizens, questions that have been thrown into sharp relief by the recent entry into North Carolina of China’s—indeed the world’s—largest pork processor, WH Group. Drawn by the low cost of production there, WH Group finds it cheaper to raise pigs in North Carolina and export them to tables back home than to raise the animals in China. The irony is not lost on the residents of Duplin County.

“The poor people, they literally get shit on,” says Kemp Burdette, who advocates for better water quality in North Carolina’s Cape Fear River with the nonprofit, the Cape Fear River Watch.

https://www.revealnews.org/article/north-carolinians-say-expansion-of-chinese-owned-pig-farms-stinks/ wrote:More than 500 North Carolinians who live near the company’s sprawling lakes of toxic pig manure brought the complaints. They contend that their health and property values are being hurt by the manure lagoons and that the Chinese owners are making the situation worse by expanding pig farms to export more hams, bacon and loins to China.

One manure lagoon cited in the lawsuit captures 4.3 million gallons of feces, urine and flush water per year. To empty the lagoon, its foul-smelling sludge is sprayed on adjacent fields – creating a fine mist of feces, urine and water that neighbors complain blows onto their properties and homes. The lawsuit calls it a nuisance.