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Comment 157 for General Comments for the GHG Scoping Plan (sp-general-ws) - 1st Workshop.
First Name: Lucy
Last Name: Li
Email Address: lightlig4@yahoo.com
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Subject: Change diet to vegetarian to stop global warming
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
Attachment: www.arb.ca.gov/lists/sp-general-ws/363-arb-080108.doc
Original File Name: ARB-080108.doc
Date and Time Comment Was Submitted: 2008-08-01 00:51:30
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