http://experts.foreignpolicy.com/posts/ ... f_our_time" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;The environmental impact is also crystal clear -- and similarly appalling. "Livestock's Long Shadow," a 2006 report by the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organzation (FAO), found that livestock is a major player in climate change, accounting for 18 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions (measured in carbon dioxide equivalents), or more than the entire global transportation system.
That whole karma and interdependence thing can take you to some unexpected places You eat meat and the entire planet suffers, is that crazy or what?