This week I read a book that tells that the production of global livestock is around 20% of the greenhouse gases on Earth. It also says that many Americans eat eight ounces of meat per day while third-world countries only eat about an ounce. There are sixty billion animals raised(or according to the author grown) a year for food and six billion people on Earth. In the US there's nine billion-chickens, one- hundred million pigs, two-hundred and fifty million turkeys, and thirty-six million cows. All raised industrially. The books says that nineteen billion tax dollars in subsidies go to thirty-one hundred farmers.

While I was reading this I was shocked that agriculture is a bigger part of global warming than transportation. I didn't know that it takes more energy to make our food then actually eating it. This Book made me think about how in modern society we bite more than we can chew and although global warming was just a myth thirty years ago it is surely real now and it is not as hard as you might think to lower you part in it. You don't have to have three different garbage bins, drive a Hybrid, or use Eco-friendly light bulb, although of course having these things help. It's as easy as lowering your intake on meat and staying away from food with more than one major ingredient(at least that's what the book says). I personally think most veggies taste revolting but after reading just a few chapters of this book I ignored the tasty steak and almost painfully ate a few spears of broccoli instead. I guess it's an acquired taste.

I think the author of this book wants their readers to think smartly about the food they eat and is trying to stop the over consumption of food in America and and other developed countries. I also think it's better to know what you are doing instead of doing it blindly. It also might help with these decisions by knowing that choosing the "wrong' one even once is slowly killing you and our planet. Then make the decision of whether you want to continue doing it. It is easier to understand the impact that our food has when you see how it ties into the other major global problems today. The books says that if all the cows that are raised/grown in C.A.F.O.s are put into pastures would nearly destroy all farmlands and forests in existence. Even though we may not be able recycle and re-use the food we eat we can definitely reduce how much we eat and that can make all the difference in the world.