Eating food affects the environment.

When choosing which foods to eat, consider their environmental effects.

Articles in Environment Magazines

World Watch Magazine
Is Meat Sustainable?, July/August 2004 Cover Story, by the editors
"the mass production and consumption of animal flesh has become a huge challenge to the stability of climate, forest cover, fresh water, and human health.

E / The Environmental Magazine
The Case Against Meat, January-February 2002 cover story, by Jim Motavalli
"Evidence Shows that Our Meat-Based Diet is Bad for the Environment, Aggravates Global Hunger, Brutalizes Animals and Compromises Our Health"

Conservation Matters, Journal of the Conservation Law Foundation
Eating for the Environment, by Warren Leon, Summer 2000
"cutting down on meat might help the Earth more than recycling."

EarthSave Magazine
How Our Food Choices can Help Save the Environment, by Steve Boyan, Summer 2002 [also at]

Worldwatch's State of the World
June 2004: Watching What We Eat
"Among the many daily decisions we make, the one that has possibly the greatest impact on the environment is the food we choose to eat."

The Planet Magazine, Huxley College of the Environment, Western Washington University
Sustainable Diet, by Helen Hollister, Spring 2002
"While the reasons for adopting a vegetarian diet vary, one of the most compelling involves meat consumptions' negative environmental impacts."

Enough!, The Center for a New American Dream
The Hidden Costs of Beef Consumption, by Dave Tilford, Issue 7
"... all those cows weigh heavily on the planet.  The environmental problems associated with beef production are many and varied ..."

Environment Organizations

Organization Diet-related work
John Robbins' The Food Revolution Diet For A New America (book)
Lappé's Small Planet Institute Diet for a Small Planet
Worldwatch Institute Guide to the Things We Buy: Meat
Consumption (online feature)
Union of Concerned Scientists Food and Environment program
Sierra Club "True Cost of Food" campaign
Sustainable Consumption program
Factory Farms program
Livestock Grazing program
GRACE
(pro animal agriculture)
Factory Farm Project, and
Sustainable Table
Voice for a Viable Future Environment Facts
EarthSave International The environment (articles)
FARM Veggies For Ecology
Natural Resources Defense Council Pollution from Livestock Farms
America's Animal Factories
U.S. EPA and USDA
(pro animal agriculture)
Animal Feeding Operations
Environmental Stewardship
Ag Center
CSREES Environment
Natural Resources & Environment
Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture Sustainable Livestock
Center for Ecoliteracy Food Systems Project
Chesapeake Climate Action Network Food, energy, global warming

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