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| VegE-News - April 2007 |
| Saturday, 21 April 2007 | |
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“...a 16-oz.T-bone is like a Health Lifestyles and Trends Animal Issues and Advocacy |
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One of the greatest gifts you can give to the planet is to choose to become vegetarian, or even better a vegan. – Julia Butterfly Hill |
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Ecological footprintA vegetarian diet requires only a half acre of land – seven times less land than a meat-based diet. |
Quiz: How green is your food?Source: BBC Nov 2004. 1. The energy used to import a kg of fresh spinach from California to the UK is equivalent to running a 100 watt light bulb for: 2. It takes 3.5 times as much of what to produce a litre of non-organic milk compared to a litre of organic milk? 3. A typical British family of four emits 4.2 tonnes of C02 from their house each year and 4.4 tonnes from their car. How much is emitted from the production, packaging and distribution of the food they eat?
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| VegE-News - April 2007 |
| Saturday, 21 April 2007 | |
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“...a 16-oz.T-bone is like a Health Lifestyles and Trends Animal Issues and Advocacy |