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Article: An inconvenient food: the connection between meat and global warming.(Ecology)
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- USA TODAY
- Article date:
- September 1, 2007
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OVER THE PAST several months, Al Gore's Oscar-winning documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth," garnered a windstorm of media attention that likely sent people scurrying for fluorescent light bulbs to curb their carbon dioxide emissions, but some scientists have argued that the film does not paint a complete picture of the real causes of climate change, and it leaves out the most inconvenient truth of all: the connection between global warming and the steak knife.
Just four months before former Vice Pres. Gore gave his Academy Award acceptance speech, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization published a report that identified the number-one contributor to ...