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只吃一天素食令人吃驚的影響只吃一天素食令人吃驚的影響資料來源: AlterNet 作者: 日期: 2009-04-02 http://www.alternet.org/environment/134650/the_startling_effects_of_going_vegetarian_for_just_one_day/有時候,世界上最大問題的解決方案就在我們眼前。下面的統計數據至少可說,真令人大開眼界。 我曾廣泛撰寫肉食對我們健康,我們「正確生活」的感覺,及對環境的影響。其中每天的習慣之一有著非常廣泛和深遠的影響,我認為值得從各種不同的觀點一再的檢視。有時候,世界上最大問題的解決方案就在我們的面前。下面的統計數據至少可說是令人大開眼界。如果每個人都只吃素一天,美國將節省: ●一千億加侖的水,足以供應新英格蘭近四個月所有房屋之需; ●十五億英磅餵給牲畜的作物,足以養活新墨西哥州民一年多; ●七千萬加侖天然氣,足以提供加拿大和墨西哥所有汽車的燃料,而有餘甚多; ●三百萬英畝的土地,兩倍於德拉瓦州面積大小; ●三十三噸的抗生素。如果每個人都只吃素一天,美國將遏止: ●一千兩百萬噸的二氧化碳當量溫室氣體排放,等同於全法國所產生的; ●三百萬噸土壤侵蝕及導至的七千萬美元經濟損失; ●四百五十萬噸動物糞便; ●近七噸主要空氣污染物之一氨氮的排放量。我最喜歡的統計數據是: 美國環保協會稱,如果每個美國人一週少吃一餐雞,而以素食取代,省下的二氧化碳排放將等同於,移除美國道路上五十多萬輛汽車的效果。您看要產生重大的影響是多麼容易? 其他要點: 全球上,我們餵養七億五千六百萬噸穀物給農場動物。正如普林斯頓大學生物倫理學家彼得辛格在其新書指出,如果我們將此穀物糧食餵養活在赤貧中的十四億人,將可供給每人超過半噸的穀物,或約一天三磅的穀物– 那是兩倍於其維生所需。還甚至未包括幾乎全用來餵養動物的兩億兩千五百萬噸大豆。他聲稱,「世界並不缺食物。問題是,較富裕的我們正在消耗四或五倍於直接攝取作物的食物量。」最近一份聯合國題為畜牧業的長長陰影之報告得出結論認為,肉類行業要比世界上所有的運輸系統的溫室氣體排放量超過近四成 - 這是含括世界上所有汽車,卡車,越野車,飛機和船隻的總和。該報告還得出結論認為,工廠化養殖是在地方和全球各個層面造成最嚴重環境問題的元兇之一。美國芝加哥大學研究人員的結論是,由美國標準飲食轉換成純素食,要比美國標準汽車轉換成混合車,能更有效地對抗全球暖化。 在其報告中,聯合國發現肉類行業造成的當地和全球環境問題,甚至超越了全球暖化。它說,肉類行業應是土地退化,氣候變遷和空氣污染,水資源短缺和污染及生物多樣性喪失等議題上最主要的焦點。未歸屬的統計數據是根據紐約大學理工學院物理學家諾姆莫爾學術報告所計算出來的。The Startling Effects of Going Vegetarian for Just One DayBy Kathy Freston, Huffington Post. Posted April 2, 2009.Sometimes, solutions to the world’s biggest problems are right in front of us. The following statistics are eye-opening, to say the least.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:● 100 billion gallons of water, enough to supply all the homes in New England for almost 4 months;● 1.5 billion pounds of crops otherwise fed to livestock, enough to feed the state of New Mexico for more than a year;● 70 million gallons of gas - enough to fuel all the cars of Canada and Mexico combined with plenty to spare;● 3 million acres of land, an area more than twice the size of Delaware;● 33 tons of antibiotics.If everyone went vegetarian just for one day, the U.S. would prevent:● Greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to 1.2 million tons of CO2, as much as produced by all of France;● 3 million tons of soil erosion and $70 million in resulting economic damages;● 4.5 million tons of animal excrement;● 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.
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