Say No to Beef

How often do you eat a hamburger at a fast food chain?  If your answer is more than "Seldom", for example "Quite often", you should think about changing your habits.

The Union of Concerned Scientists says that two things people can do to most help the environment are 1) to drive a fuel-efficient car (and live near their work), and 2) not eat beef.   The full article at this link:  http://www.earthsave.org/environment/foodchoices.htm

The biggest cause of rainforests in the Amazon being destroyed is the clearing of land for raising beef cattle (to be sold abroad as hamburger mince).  Cattle need a lot of grain and water before they are killed.  Research shows that an area of rainforest about the size of an average family bedroom is destroyed to make one quarter pounder hamburger.

                                          
Maybe you have heard about how unpopular MacDonalds is around the world for many reasons, such as the aggressive advertising it uses to get kids hooked on their "food", their poor treatment of workers, lack of concern about health issues, and the destruction of the rainforest they (and similar chains) cause.  If not, you should read about it.

Of course, eating beef in other forms (steak, beef donburi, or sausages) is equally bad.  Do you think you can eat less beef?  What do you do in your daily life to help the environment?