To Stop Global Warming, Change how we eat

Background Info

• Producing and cooking food contibutes to about 30% of the world's carbon emissions
• Livestock manure releases methane, which heats the atmosphere 80 times faster than carbon dioxide
• Livestock production responsible for 50% of carbon emissions from the agriculture, forestry, and land-use sectors

Background Info

• 33% of food produced in the United States and Europe is wasted
• That comes out to 1.3 billion tons of lost food
• Food waste alone accounts for 3.3 gigatonnes of carbon emmisions

Stakeholders

• People in the livestock industry
• Restaurants
• Grocery Stores
• Every-day people
• Governments
• Scientists
• Future generations

ANTHROPOCENTRism

• To what extent should we value the animals over ourselves?
• To what extent should we attempt to play "god" and change the human diet that has existed since the dawn of time?
• To what extent will the elimination of meat from the human diet affect humans in the future?

Eco-centrism

• To what extent do we need to value some meat now over the planet's future ecological stability?
• What other parts of our diet could be altered to become more eco-friendly?
• What eco-friendly alternatives can be found to replace meat in our diet?