The world is learning what the Essenes knew all along. We must live at peace with the world and all it's creatures. No good comes from a destructive lifestyle.

The title to this article may seem a bit dramatic but according to a UK climate expert, it is pretty close to the mark.  Lord Stern of Brentford is the former Chief Economist for the World Bank. He authored the influential 2006 Stern report on the cost of combating global warming. In an interview with The Times. Lord Stern stated that in order to be successful in the fight against climate change, people are going to have to become vegetarians.

So how does the carnivore diet endanger the world? Well it takes a lot of resources to raise animals. Compared to vegetables, it takes a lot of acreage and a lot of fossil fuels to create a pound of beef. Raising livestock is not an efficient system. Approximately eighty percent of the corn grown in the US is fed to livestock.  A whole lot of animals have to be raised to feed a world full of carnivores. The cost to the planet increases with each carnivore.  For more info on the impact of eating meat go to this article: Vegetarian vs Meat Eating: Statistics on Destruction of Body and Planet

To quote Lord Stern, “Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the world’s resources. A vegetarian diet is better.”

Read the entire article here:  Climate chief Lord Stern: give up meat to save the planet - Times Online

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