Further Questions
What questions have not been asked and need to be asked? Please add your questions and comments:
Questions:
- What do I need to know, in order to make decisions based on my preferences, that allows me to reduce adverse environmental and negative personal health impacts?
- How can the public health case for reducing red meat consumption best be made, to save up to 150,000 lives each year in the US (nearly four times as many as are lost in automobile accidents).
- What are the costs of current farming practices in terms of water pollution? Water supply?
- How do we get official information sources to provide easily accessible, up to date data and trends regarding environmental impacts of food production?
- Another important question that requires further research is the continuing inquiry into Earth's geological record to examine the nature of the planet's particular climate variability and stability.
Comments:
- In his Letter to the Farmer in Chief, Michael Pollan suggests that "The FDA should require that every packaged food product include a second calorie count, indicating how many calories of fossil fuel went into its production."
- Francis Moore Lappé, in World Watch Magazine, May/June 2009:
As always, I devoured your January/February issue. I learned a great deal and enjoyed Julia Tier's "Reluctant Vegetarian" [First Person]. Noting her first question - "How will I get enough protein?" - I recalled my surprise in learning that Americans on average eat twice the protein our bodies can even use. So, to all your readers: No worries...just follow Julia and enjoy the taste adventures of the plant world!
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