Thursday, September 25, 2008

vegetales muy green

Esto viene del blog del dr. Pachauri (aca), Chair of the UN Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change:

"The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) brought out a report in 2006 which estimates emissions of GHGs [green house gases] from agriculture as a whole, of which 80 percent are accounted for by livestock production. These constitute 18 percent of all GHG emissions from human activities. An interesting comparison between a vegetarian meal and a beef steak, for instance, was provided by The New York Times in its issue of 27 January 2008 which is revealing. A meal consisting of 1 cup of broccoli, 1 cup of eggplant, 4 ounces cauliflower and 8 ounces of rice results in 0.4 pounds of emissions of CO2 equivalent. On the other hand a 6 ounce beef steak results in 10 pounds of CO2 equivalent emissions, which amount to 25 times that of the vegetarian meal with which the comparison was made."

Parece que en Argentina no solo el consumidor no cuida su salud, sino que tampoco le importa demasiado la de los demas. O sera ignorancia en ambos casos?

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