{"id":1443,"date":"2009-04-22T13:31:34","date_gmt":"2009-04-22T20:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/2009\/04\/22\/eating-meat-contributes-enormously-to-global-warming\/"},"modified":"2009-04-22T13:31:23","modified_gmt":"2009-04-22T20:31:23","slug":"eating-meat-contributes-enormously-to-global-warming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/2009\/04\/22\/eating-meat-contributes-enormously-to-global-warming\/","title":{"rendered":"Eating Meat Contributes Enormously to Global Warming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/meatenergy1big.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 800px; float: left; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/meatenergy1small.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciam.com\/subscribe\/subscribe_search.cfm?ec=googlep01\"><i>Scientific American<\/i><\/a> published the page of charts on the left.&nbsp; Click the image to get a high-res version.&nbsp; It explains how bad for the environment the production and consumption of meat really is.&nbsp; According to the magazine, the annual beef diet of the average American emits as much greenhouse gas into the atmosphere as a car driven approximately 1,800 miles.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s very bad.&nbsp; Here&#8217;s another statistic: According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edf.org\/home.cfm\"><i>Environmental Defense<\/i><\/a>, if every American skipped one meal of chicken per week and substituted vegetarian foods instead, the carbon dioxide savings would be the same as taking more than half a million cars off of U.S. roads.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=38c38944-2825-80af-8212-fce1f568dd74\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientific American published the page of charts on the left.&nbsp; Click the image to get a high-res version.&nbsp; It explains how bad for the environment the production and consumption of meat really is.&nbsp; According to the magazine, the annual beef diet of the average American emits as much greenhouse gas into the atmosphere as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[259,71],"tags":[260,106,261,54],"class_list":["post-1443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-public-service","tag-earth-day","tag-global-warming","tag-green","tag-science"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1444,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443\/revisions\/1444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}