Biodiversity/Vegetarian Outreach

** 8 Easy Ways to Start Easin' into Vegan

BY KATIE O'REILLY | JAN 8 2019

**New: Oxford U Study on Avoiding Meat and Dairy - Single Biggest Way to Reduce Your Impact on Earth

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/may/31/avoiding-meat-and-dairy-is-single-biggest-way-to-reduce-your-impact-on-earth

Published in the journal SCIENCE this year and described in the May 31, 2018 magazine THE GUARDIAN, an extensive study by Oxford U. in the U.K.

June 2018 Article: Diet, Ignorance and the Environmental Catastrophe

Diet, Ignorance and the Environmental Catastrophe

by Graham Peebles

Counterpunch, 2 June 2018

https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/07/02/diet-ignorance-and-the-environmental-catastrophe/

"Animal agriculture is also the principal cause behind the unprecedented level of species extinction, and this because of a variety of factors: Clearing forests destroys natural habitat; wild

Meat is Heat: The Effects of Diet on Global Warming

Written By Michael Greger M.D. FACLM on December 5th, 2017

One of the most prestigious medical journals in the world editorialized that climate change represents “the biggest global health threat of the 21st century.” Currently, chronic diseases are by far the leading cause of death. Might there be a way to combat both at the same time? For example, riding our bikes instead of driving is a win-win-win for the people, planet, and pocketbook.

** Starting and Sticking to a Vegan Diet: How To

Want personalized help to try or stay on a vegan diet? Try the Vegan Mentor Program at Vegan Outreach.

If Everyone Ate Beans Instead of Beef

(from article in The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/08/if-everyone-ate-beans-instead-of-beef/535536/)

Ecoanxiety is an emerging condition.

**How changing your diet could save animals from extinction

Transforming large swaths of the tropics into farmland could render almost one-third of wildlife there extinct, new research suggests.

From the Amazon rain forests to the Zambezi floodplains, intensive monoculture farming could have a severe adverse impact on wildlife around the world.

Wildlife would disappear most dramatically in the remaining forests and grasslands of Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa.

**WWF Report: Appetite for Destruction

A new report from World Wildlife Fund indicates the loss of wildlife from human over-consumption of meat and offers two ideas to alleviate the problem:

1. Eat less meat

2. Use less soy and corn to feed “food” animals.

Read the full report here (pdf).

Meat Industry to Blame for Largest-Ever Dead Zone in Gulf of Mexico

America's voracious appetite for meat is being blamed as one of the greatest contributors to the world's largest "dead zone" that now lies in the Gulf of Mexico.

According to a report by the environmental group Mighty Earth, which is chaired by former California congressman Henry Waxman, runoff from farms loaded with phosphorus and other toxins that come from manure and fertilizer has created toxic algae blooms that lead to oxygen-deprived dead zones are becoming all too common from the Great Lakes to Ch

Oxford University Study Recommends Carbon-Taxing Beef

Beef consumes 50 times more land than growing fruits and vegetables, and generates far more carbon emissions. A new study from Oxford University recommends carbon-taxing beef for the deforestation it causes and the methane it releases. The Oxford team states that the reduced beef consumption will also save half a million people from preventable deaths through heart disease, stroke, or cancer.

Read more here.