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 Stories About: advice AND agriculture AND Ask Umbra AND food AND greenhouse-gas emissions
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Not So Fast
On meat eating and global warming |
Umbra Fisk |
17 Sep 2007 |
Ask Umbra |
| Dear Umbra, I see that PETA's latest campaign says that meat eating is the No. 1 cause of global warming, not SUVs. This statement may be manipulative and political, but -- is it true? J. Helena, Mont. Dearest J., I'll bite. Shallow digging on one People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals site quickly uncovered their excitement at a 2006 report by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, "Livestoc ... |
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| Topics: advice, agriculture, Ask Umbra, food, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics) |
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