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Tace

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Sun Jun 1, 2014, 01:34 PM Jun 2014

Climate Change: Chickens Coming Home to Roost | Mickey Z.


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Mickey Z. -- World News Trust

“This death culture cannot imagine solutions that do not bleed.”

- Diane di Prima


Here’s a small sample of how the global animal-agriculture industry (factory farming, the meat/dairy-based diet, etc.) impacts our shared ecosystem:

It consumes and poisons one-third of the planet’s land surface; it directly contributes to topsoil depletion, deforestation, overfishing, species extinction, etc.; and it is the top source of human-created greenhouse gases which translates into climate change.

Based on this incomplete list of food-based eco-devastation, it should seem painfully obvious that something must be done about this situation. Well, fear not, solutions are in the works.

"We need a rational approach”
"American scientists,” writes Edward Helmore in The Guardian, “are racing to develop chickens that can cope with scorching heat as part of a series of government-funded programs looking to adapt to or mitigate the effects of extreme weather patterns on the food supply.”

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Climate Change: Chickens Coming Home to Roost | Mickey Z. (Original Post) Tace Jun 2014 OP
well, for a decade or so I was a vegetarian of sorts Leme Jun 2014 #1
 

Leme

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1. well, for a decade or so I was a vegetarian of sorts
Sun Jun 1, 2014, 02:24 PM
Jun 2014

my circumstances have changed, and I am not so able to do that. Some of it may be mental. Chicken is my main animal protein. And financially I don't think I can do much better. I regret that I can't do better.

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