7 Facts That Prove Your Day-To-Day Choices Can Actually Have An Environmental Impact

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Participating in Meatless Monday: Can save the equivalent of 1,089 balloons of carbon... if not more.

In 2012, a discussion on NPR's Morning Edition show confirmed what many of us already knew to be true: Americans eat a lot of meat. In fact, the average American consumes nearly a quarter-pound of meat per day, making the U.S. one of the highest meat consumptions per capita in the world.

Putting aside factory farming and welfare considerations, the methane emissions, water consumption and other environmental issues surrounding the meat raised and slaughtered in the U.S. are significant; more than 59 pounds of carbon emissions are released to create just one pound of consumable beef (and nearly 90 carbon emissions are released to process one pound of consumable lamb meat). By participating in Meatless Mondays and cutting back on eating meat just one day per week, you could be saving more than 1,000 pounds of carbon emissions every year.

More environmentally friendly things you can do listed in the rest of the article.

 

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Since one cattle can produce far more meat than other animals, wouldn't eating beef be the lesser of the evils even with carbon emissions?