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发帖数: 23737 | 1 资料来源: AlterNet 作者: 日期: 2009-04-02 http://www.alternet.org/environment/134650/the_startling_effects_of_going_vegetarian_for_just_one_day/
有时候，世界上最大问题的解决方桉就在我们眼前。下面的统计数据至少可说，真令人
大开眼界。我曾广泛撰写肉食对我们健康，我们「正确生活」的感觉，及对环境的影响
。其中每天的习惯之一有着非常广泛和深远的影响，我认为值得从各种不同的观点一再
的检视。有时候，世界上最大问题的解决方桉就在我们的面前。
下面的统计数据至少可说是令人大开眼界。如果每个人都只吃素一天，美国将节省：
●一千亿加仑的水，足以供应新英格兰近四个月所有房屋之需;
●十五亿英磅喂给牲畜的作物，足以养活新墨西哥州民一年多;
●七千万加仑天然气，足以提供加拿大和墨西哥所有汽车的燃料，而有馀甚多;
●三百万英亩的土地，两倍于德拉瓦州面积大小;
●三十三吨的抗生素。
如果每个人都只吃素一天，美国将遏止：
●一千两百万吨的二氧化碳当量温室气体排放，等同于全法国所产生的;
●三百万吨土壤侵蚀及导至的七千万美元经济损失;
●四百五十万吨动物粪便;
●近七吨主要空气污染物之一氨氮的排放量。
我最喜欢的统计数据是: 美国环保协会称，如果每个美国人一週少吃一餐鸡，而以素食
取代，省下的二氧化碳排放将等同于，移除美国道路上五十多万辆汽车的效果。您看要
产生重大的影响是多麽容易？
其他要点：全球上，我们喂养七亿五千六百万吨穀物给农场动物。正如普林斯顿大学生
物伦理学家彼得辛格在其新书指出，如果我们将此穀物粮食喂养活在赤贫中的十四亿人
，将可供给每人超过半吨的穀物，或约一天三磅的穀物– 那是两倍于其维生所需。还
甚至未包括几乎全用来喂养动物的两亿两千五百万吨大豆。他声称，「世界并不缺食物
。问题是，较富裕的我们正在消耗四或五倍于直接摄取作物的食物量。」
最近一份联合国题为畜牧业的长长阴影之报告得出结论认为，肉类行业要比世界上所有
的运输系统的温室气体排放量超过近四成 - 这是含括世界上所有汽车，卡车，越野车
，飞机和船隻的总和。该报告还得出结论认为，工厂化养殖是在地方和全球各个层面造
成最严重环境问题的元凶之一。
美国芝加哥大学研究人员的结论是，由美国标准饮食转换成纯素食，要比美国标准汽车
转换成溷合车，能更有效地对抗全球暖化。在其报告中，联合国发现肉类行业造成的当
地和全球环境问题，甚至超越了全球暖化。它说，肉类行业应是土地退化，气候变迁和
空气污染，水资源短缺和污染及生物多样性丧失等议题上最主要的焦点。
未归属的统计数据是根据纽约大学理工学院物理学家诺姆莫尔学术报告所计算出来的
http://www.alternet.org/environment/134650/the_startling_effects_of_going_vegetarian_for_just_one_day/
The Startling Effects of Going Vegetarian for Just One Day
I've written extensively on the consequences of eating meat -- on our health
, our sense of "right living", and on the environment. It is one of those
daily practices that has such a broad and deep effect that I think it merits
looking at over and over again, from all the different perspectives.
Sometimes, solutions to the world's biggest problems are right in front of
us. The following statistics are eye-opening, to say the least.
If everyone went vegetarian just for one day, the U.S. would save:
â— 100 billion gallons of water, enough to supply all the homes
in New England for almost 4 months;
â— 1.5 billion pounds of crops otherwise fed to livestock,
enough to feed the state of New Mexico for more than a year;
â— 70 million gallons of gas -- enough to fuel all the cars of
Canada and Mexico combined with plenty to spare;
â— 3 million acres of land, an area more than twice the size of
Delaware;
â— 33 tons of antibiotics.
If everyone went vegetarian just for one day, the U.S. would prevent:
â— Greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to 1.2 million tons of
CO2, as much as produced by all of France;
â— 3 million tons of soil erosion and $70 million in resulting
economic damages;
â— 4.5 million tons of animal excrement;
â— Almost 7 tons of ammonia emissions, a major air pollutant.
My favorite statistic is this: According to Environmental Defense, 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. See how easy it is to make an
impact?
Other points:
Globally, we feed 756 million tons of grain to farmed animals. As Princeton
bioethicist Peter Singer notes in his new book, if we fed that grain to the
1.4 billion people who are living in abject poverty, each of them would be
provided more than half a ton of grain, or about 3 pounds of grain/day --
that's twice the grain they would need to survive. And that doesn't even
include the 225 million tons of soy that are produced every year, almost all
of which is fed to farmed animals. He writes, "The world is not running out
of food. The problem is that we -- the relatively affluent -- have found a
way to consume four or five times as much food as would be possible, if we
were to eat the crops we grow directly."
A recent United Nations report titled Livestock's Long Shadow concluded that
the meat industry causes almost 40% more greenhouse gas emissions than all
the world's transportation systems -- that's all the cars, trucks, SUVs,
planes and ships in the world combined. The report also concluded that
factory farming is one of the biggest contributors to the most serious
environmental problems at every level -- local and global.
Researchers at the University of Chicago concluded that switching from
standard American diet to a vegan diet is more effective in the fight
against global warming than switching from a standard American car to a
hybrid.
In its report, the U.N. found that the meat industry causes local and global
environmental problems even beyond global warming. It said that the meat
industry should be a main focus in every discussion of land degradation,
climate change and air pollution, water shortages and pollution, and loss of
biodiversity.
Unattributed statistics were calculated from scientific reports by Noam Mohr
, a physicist with the New York University Polytechnic Institute. | f*****a
发帖数: 253 | 2 谢谢，我也想贴类似的，一时半会儿找不着了，你很多资料啊～～ | p****y
发帖数: 23737 | 3 都是google出来的，blush//
我写过花痴钟汉良篇，吹捧挚爱John Robbins/Randy Pausch篇，音乐/电影篇，
反而很少写素食篇。：P
欢迎大家多创作，什么话题都可以，带给大家素食美食、健康资讯、环保资讯、
欢乐的笑话、省思的经历、好玩的旅游、分享好文/好帖子等等都很好。
素食俱乐部的话题可以很丰富多彩，欢迎大家踊跃发言。：）
【在 f*****a 的大作中提到】
: 谢谢，我也想贴类似的，一时半会儿找不着了，你很多资料啊～～
| f*****a
发帖数: 253 | | x******i
发帖数: 14369 | 5 PURITY是图书馆，但我也想看你原创的
【在 p****y 的大作中提到】
: 都是google出来的，blush//
: 我写过花痴钟汉良篇，吹捧挚爱John Robbins/Randy Pausch篇，音乐/电影篇，
: 反而很少写素食篇。：P
: 欢迎大家多创作，什么话题都可以，带给大家素食美食、健康资讯、环保资讯、
: 欢乐的笑话、省思的经历、好玩的旅游、分享好文/好帖子等等都很好。
: 素食俱乐部的话题可以很丰富多彩，欢迎大家踊跃发言。：）
| p****y
发帖数: 23737 | 6 我关于素食的原创都在回帖里呀。：）
【在 x******i 的大作中提到】
: PURITY是图书馆，但我也想看你原创的
| x******i
发帖数: 14369 | 7 哈哈
【在 p****y 的大作中提到】
: 我关于素食的原创都在回帖里呀。：）
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