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Comment 54 for Design Comments for the GHG Scoping Plan (sp-design-ws) - 1st Workshop.


First Name: Lucy
Last Name: Li
Email Address: lightlig4@yahoo.com
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Subject: Change diet to vegetarian for reducing greenhouse gas
Comment:
We should stop to raising animals, stop to kill them, and stop to
eat their meats for our health and save the planet.
 
According Food and agriculture Organization of United Nation,
livestock is a major threat to environment. Livestock generates 65
percent of human-related nitrous oxide, which has 296 times the
Global Warming Potential (GWP) of CO2. Most of this comes from
manure.   And it accounts for respectively 37 percent of all
human-induced methane (23 times as warming as CO2), which is
largely produced by the digestive system of ruminants, and 64
percent of ammonia, which contributes significantly to acid rain. 
Livestock use 30 percent of the earth’s entire land surface, mostly
permanent pasture but also including 33 percent of the global
arable land used to producing feed for livestock, the report
notes. As forests are cleared to create new pastures, it is a
major driver of deforestation, especially in Latin America where,
for example, some 70 percent of former forests in the Amazon have
been turned over to grazing. For more information, please refer to
these websites: 
http://www.ecofoodprint.org/climate.html 
http://www.fao.org/newsroom/en/news/2006/1000448/index.html

Eating meats cause a lot of diseases, such as cancer, heart
disease, mad cow disease, bird flu, etc.,   while vegetarian diet
is safe, health, and economic. Vegetarian kids have higher IQs
than their classmates; vegetarians live, on average, six to ten
years longer than meat-eaters; fifty percent less likely to
develop heart disease and cancer. For more information, please
refer to the below websites:
http://al.godsdirectcontact.org/your_food
http://www.vegsource.com
http://www.vrg.org
http://www.vegsoc.org


Thanks for your hard work!

Sincerely

Lucy Li

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Date and Time Comment Was Submitted: 2008-08-01 00:45:23



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