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Saving the environment from nasty paperclips is all good, but if global warming is to be avoided, this simply won’t cut it.

One of the best ways of contributing is to become a vegetarian(!)
It’s an achievable goal, and you don’t need to expose some polluting multinational firm.

If you are not aware of the principles of photosynthesis and respiration, please look it up on in a dictionary (http://www.wikipedia.org) before reading the rest.

The fact, that only a fraction of the energy a pig eats is stored in it’s body, means that energy is wasted when corn, for instance, is converted to meat, and we could have fed a lot more people had we just fed them with corn.

It takes 3kJ of corn to create 1kJ of pork
And takes 12kJ of corn to create 1kJ of chicken meat

On top of that, in modern farming, 2kJ of energy is used per every 1kJ of energy bound in food.

That means that for every 1 kJ of KFC you eat, more that 24 kJ of energy has been wasted in the process

Also, the cattle industry is contributes more to the global warming than the entire transformation-sector. (because of CO2 and mainly methane excreted by the cows)

Makes you think, doesn’t it..?

I hope..