Vegetarian Cookbooks Can Reduce The Threat Of Climate Change…
Posted by admin on Feb 23, 2010
Will the threat of climate change prompt you to change your eating habits? If so you will need to a few good Vegetarian Cookbooks. The UK’s Food Climate Research Network suggests that food production from farm to fork is responsible for between 20-30 percent of global green house gas emissions and livestock production is responsible for around half of these emissions. Therefore the more meat we produce and eat the bigger that carbon footprint will get.
The United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has concluded that the livestock sector is ‘one of the top two or three most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems, at every scale from local to global’. So if we want to build a better world in the future we all need to make changes in our lifestyles now. By making just one change in the way we eat and making one day a week a meat-free day can make a really big difference to the environment. For instance, the group Compassion in World Farming estimates that if the average UK household halved its consumption of meat this would cut more emissions than if car use was cut in half. By making a simple change in the way you eat, you can change the future well-being of our planet. It really is a cash of what’s good for you is also good for the planet.
Therefore I encourage you to support Sir Paul McCartney with his “Meat Free Monday” Campaign to tackle climate change. But to do so you will need dust of those vegetarian cookbooks or go buy some new vegetarian cookbooks. Like many of us you will be aware of the urgent need to reduce global CO2 emissions in order to slow the rate of climate change and protect the environment. The scale of the problems we face can make many of us feel helpless, and yet each of us has the power to make changes in our lives that can have a meaningful impact on the future. So join Sir Paul McCartney in is campaign by going vegetarian at least once a week on Mondays to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to combat climate change.
Here are a few suggestions for vegetarian cookbooks to help you get started…
1. The Kind Diet: A Simple Guide to Feeling Great, Losing Weight, and Saving the Planet
2. How to Cook Everything Vegetarian: Simple Meatless Recipes for Great Food
