Some great advice to help be better for the environment and yourselves.

[logansrogue]

It's a matter of choice (on eating; and the environment)

A really good post by Pen, and you know, even the stuff about minding what you eat and eating less meat is appropriate because both where you get your meat from and what kind of meat you eat can make a big difference.

You don't have to stop eating meat to help the environment. For example, instead of beef (which ended up costing 30 bucks for some fillets which is outrageous) my Mum bought kangaroo fillets which can be prepared just the same as beef and is actually better for you - less fat, more iron. If it served native Australians for 40000 years I think it can do us some good too. It's a bit like turkey, a bit like beef, I couldn't really tell what I was eating when I first tried it. It's a new taste so it might weird some people out but it's good stuff and it is good for you. Kangaroo is not just for cats and dogs. It's also much better for the environment because:

- Kangaroos don't fart methane or breathe it out
- Kangaroos require less grass and vegetation for survival than do cows
- They also need far less water.

For Australia that is incredibly important to our resources.

Comments

[coell.livejournal.com]

If we had them in the US, I'd vote Eat Em. I see no distinction between meat -- just because we like cats and dogs don't make them any less edible than cows and sheep. People like cows and sheep too. ;-P I just suppose if you're going to be ok killing and eating an animal, you can't make distinctions on cuteness. Better to choose the least-harmful and most human methods to feed ourselves, which I guess would be no meat at all ... but alas. (*grabs fork*)

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

Well, it's a different ecosystem in the US so I wouldn't expect for kangaroo to apply to you. I guess you guys would have to find an animal that's better for your environment. But hooved animals aren't as dangerous for you guys as it is to our ecosystem which only has soft-pawed marsupials.