Global Warming & Raising Of Animals For Food

Stumbled across this as I was researching more about nutrition and a vegetarian diet as my sister insists a person cannot go without meat.

I'm appalled that 90% of the soy crop, 80% of the corn crop, and a total of 70% of grain grown in the U.S. goes towards feeding animals raised for food.


Source: Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetarian

According to a 2006 United Nations initiative, the livestock industry is one of the largest contributors to environmental degradation worldwide, and modern practices of raising animals for food contributes on a "massive scale" to air and water pollution, land degradation, climate change, and loss of biodiversity. The initiative concluded that "the livestock sector emerges as one of the top two or three most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems, at every scale from local to global."

In addition, animal agriculture has been pointed out as one of the largest sources of greenhouse gases — responsible for 18% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions as measured in CO2 equivalents. By comparison, all transportation emits 13.5% of the CO2. Animal farming produces 65% of human-related nitrous oxide (which has 296 times the global warming potential of CO2) and 37% of all human-induced methane (which is 23 times as warming as CO2). It is also accused of generating 64% of the ammonia, which contributes to acid rain and acidification of ecosystems.

Animals fed on grain, and those that rely on grazing need far more water than grain crops. According to the USDA, growing the crops necessary to feed farmed animals requires nearly half of the United States' water supply and 80% of its agricultural land. Additionally, animals raised for food in the U.S. consume 90% of the soy crop, 80% of the corn crop, and a total of 70% of its grain.

When tracking food animal production from the feed trough to consumption, the inefficiencies of meat, milk and egg production range from 4:1 up to 54:1 energy input to protein output ratio.

For Smokers

For Smokers
While doing research on cardiovascular disease .... i keep getting this message over and over again. Thought I'd share this with everyone.

The thing is .... after knowing facts like these ... can i make myself stop smoking.

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an estimated 17 million people die of CVDs each year. A substantial number of these deaths can be attributed to tobacco smoking, which increases the risk of dying from coronary heart disease and cerebrovascular disease 2–3 fold.

.... I cardiac events fall 50% in people who stop smoking and the risk of CVDs, including acute myocardial infarction, stroke and peripheral vascular disease, also decreases significantly over the first two years after stopping smoking.

.... smoking cessation is the most cost-effective intervention for patients with documented CVDs ...

Source: WHO

Pneumococcal Disease Awareness

Campaign we launched recently to raise awareness about this disease.


Leona Leong talking about her traumatic experience with this disease


Sheila Majid lending her voice to raise awareness about the disease and WyethAid


Simon D'Cruz lending his voice to raise awareness about the disease and WyethAid

Relay For Life 2007

This is a long post with pics but i want to share this with everyone.

This was a 16 hour walk (from 6pm Sat to 10am Sun) around a sports track at Bukit Jalil Stadium to:
- celebrate people who survived cancer
- give hope to people dealing with cancer
- to remember those who passed away from cancer

It was also for the care givers, family & frens of those with living with cancer.


PR partner and us manning a booth to sell t-shirts to raise money for the society


participants walking .... and the entertainment that helped keep everyone's spirits up through the 16 hours


lighting of candles to remember those who passed or who are dealing with cancer


in memory of loved ones


the candle lanterns surrounded the entire stadium's track


cancer survivors in a fashion show celebrating life


the last dash at the end of the event ...

thanks for letting me share

Pammy's Advice On How To Quit Smoking Successfully

taken from my personal blog: http://scorpio-jerm.livejournal.com/
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first off .... Thanks to everyone who's expressed their support of my latest effort to quit smoking. Your words of encouragement mean a lot.

:-)

Pammy has been bugging me to read Allen Carr's Easyway to quit smoking and I've finally gotten round to borrowing it from Colin

she claims everyone whom she's given the book to (who wanted to quit smoking) has quit

.... her line of arguement that won me over was ... "why use will-power when this is a sure-fire method to stop smoking and stay off cigarettes."

reading the first few pages of the book ... Allen Carr claims this method has a 90% success rate

visiting the website, the method has testimonials from Richard Branson & Anthony Hopkins!!!

http://allencarr.com/central/

Hmmm .... i'm gonna give it a read and i'll keep my progress posted.

maybe this will finally help me stay off nicotine and stop shaoann from rolling his eyes and going "whatever"