got tonkaed wrote:If you had the oppertunity to make one change, big or small, to society what would it be?
I would stop the eating of meat entirely.
Now, as much as I like it, did you know that it takes 7,000 pounds of fresh water to make one pound of ground beef? That is the water used to grow the crops, water the cattle, clean the meat, etc etc...
I just finished a paper about deforestation in the rainforest, and have come across many interesting findings. However, the main one is that over 6,000 square miles of rainforest a year are cut down to make way for grazing land for cattle and pigs. That does not include the amount of rainforest chopped down for lumbering operations and papermills...