{"id":520911,"date":"2010-04-08T08:07:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T12:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7655103.post-4978627948088837618"},"modified":"2010-04-08T08:21:45","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T12:21:45","slug":"vegans-and-vegetarians-seeing-red-instead-of-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/520911","title":{"rendered":"Vegans and Vegetarians Seeing Red Instead of Green"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_OR8dKL3XDN8\/S73J2ly04ZI\/AAAAAAAAFVc\/w5ZCJACVm-E\/s1600\/vegan.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 246px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_OR8dKL3XDN8\/S73J2ly04ZI\/AAAAAAAAFVc\/w5ZCJACVm-E\/s320\/vegan.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457740263138320786\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">&#8220;&#8230;If everyone became vegan and so ate only fruit and vegetables, then the reduction in greenhouse emissions for the whole of food consumption would be a mere 7%. The widespread adoption of vegetarianism would have even less impact, while organic food production actually leads to a net increase in greenhouse gas emissions. Those are the conclusions of a research paper published in the journal Progress in Industrial Ecology&#8230;&#8221; <\/span> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2010\/04\/100401101521.htm\">source<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Can you imagine the heartbreak this study is having on the high and lofty, judgmental environmentalists?!<\/p>\n<p>The moral of the story? Man, in his infinite smallness and insignificance, has no cogent impact on the ebb and flow of the Earth&#8217;s climate. But, don&#8217;t throw your veggie pita wrappers on the ground, because what the Earth looks and smells like&#8230;YOU DO make a difference.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7655103-4978627948088837618?l=mobyrebuttal.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8230;If everyone became vegan and so ate only fruit and vegetables, then the reduction in greenhouse emissions for the whole of food consumption would be a mere 7%. The widespread adoption of vegetarianism would have even less impact, while organic food production actually leads to a net increase in greenhouse gas emissions. Those are the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-520911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}