Jennifer G. 0  

Coronado, AZ, USA
female, age 25
single
Speaks: English, French
Joined Apr 23, 2006

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Celebrate a "Tofu Tuesday!" Skip a beef meal, and try a vegetarian recipe today.

Why? Reducing our meat consumption is good for the environment. Meat production is extremely resource-intensive - livestock currently consume 70 percent of America's grain production and enormous amounts of water. Cattle ranching is a major cause of destruction of rainforest in Central and South America - fifty-five square feet of rainforest are destroyed for every quarter pound hamburger that comes from a cleared rainforest. Raising cows for beef also adds to global climate change through fossil fuel use, methane production, and forest destruction. When it comes to meat and climate change, eating one pound of hamburger does the same damage as driving your car for more than three weeks!