Green | March 26, 2009 | Comment on this video (14)

Steve's Ways to Save Energy: #2 - Don't Eat Meat

stephenthomson
re: McDonald's: What am I made of?
Not Big Macs, that's for sure.

Want to help the environment but not sure how? Steve's Ways to Save Energy suggests effective means to reduce your carbon footprint.

Seriously cutting down on your meat intake would reduce your carbon and water footprints;
beef more so than chicken, but cutting all meat out would be of enormous benefit to the world.
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  • covelogibbs
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      covelogibbs  

    • “Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.”

      –Albert Einstein

    • 2 years ago
  • Johnll
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  • DonQ
  • aquamammal
  • stephenthomson
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      stephenthomson  

    • It was a curry-mess of carrots, fennel, onions, caulifower... and wahtever else i had in the fridge.
      I might have gotten inspiration from that same cook book, since i reference it for ideas, but mostly I just throw stuff together. I think i had wanted to make samosas but got too hungry to walk to the store on the off chance they had filo bread or whatever its called.

      Samosas, btw, are not in the index of that book!

    • 2 years ago
  • Tori
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      Tori  
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    • What is that stuff you just made?! It looks pretty good! :)

      Going vegetarian does take some getting used to. When you're used to cooking with meat, or the way meat takes up a section of your dinner plate, you do have to be a little creative to find something else to fill that space... One great cookbook I've really enjoyed is Deborah Madison's "Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone". I highly recommend it!

    • 2 years ago
  • current89
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      current89  

    • I have cut down on my meat intake. I won't become a vegetarian though. That said, you made one awesome video, and I respect your position.

    • 2 years ago
  • Papachango
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      Papachango  

    • The average American would surely reduce their ecological footprint by buying less meat, but it oversimplifies the issue.

      Factory farms are horrid operations, but so is clear cutting rain forests and other diverse ecosystems to plant soy beans or other monocultures.

      Animals can be raised/hunted responsibly and are key to producing natural fertility for soil on farms. For me, the bottom line is harmony in the ecosystem.

      But, as most Americans don't have access to responsibly produced meat, by all means go veg!

    • 2 years ago
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  • saskia
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      saskia  

    • pretty rad! i like the graphic-ness of this video.

      You also forgot to mention that when you desist from eating chicken/beef you'll stop supporting the industry of animal torture in those horrid 'farms'.

    • 2 years ago
  • stephenthomson
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      stephenthomson  
    • saskia:

      thanks saskia - you had liked my "is-is" video too, glad you're a fan! I was going to include some cutaways to chicken and beef slaughter but it didnt fit with the music so i ditched it. maybe in another video!

    • 2 years ago
  • leahl
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      leahl  

    • ha!! This is awesome! where's number 1? I'll confess...as a visual learner: I want to see a physical metaphor for the numbers you showed.

    • 2 years ago
  • stephenthomson
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      stephenthomson  
    • leahl:

      undoubtedly, these could be done much more thoroughly with better-thought-out arguments and better gfx. the rub is that i have a hard time speaking to a camera if i'm not high, and when i'm high certain things slip my mind. : )

    • 2 years ago
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