Grazing cows, 13 Jun 2008, By Law keven, Flickr, Creative Commons
Eat less meat
Try to replace meat in your every day meal with other vegetable proteins and eat meat only a few days a week.
For many populations all over the world, meat is not a luxury but a normal part of an everyday meal. In Asia this was not the case 50 years ago, but has become increasingly so during the last ten years. In the last 50 years, global meat production has increased five-fold and the amount of meat eaten per person has doubled. According to Akifumi Ogino at the National Institute of Livestock and Grassland Science in Tsukuba, Japan, producing 1kg of beef results in more CO² emissions than going for a three-hour drive while leaving all the lights on at home1.
By considering how much meat you eat, you help reduce land and water degradation caused by the livestock sector. If we eat more vegetable proteins instead of animal proteins, this would result in multiple benefits and would positively affect sustainable energy production, sustainable water use, biodiversity, human health and animal welfare.
Climate change article at the Guardian 19 July 2007
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