How's my environmental vegetarian approach?!
I am on my path to what I've heard is called an "ovo-vegetarian" diet!. The reason I will eat eggs and other vegetarian foods, but no dairy products is because of I want to minimize damage to the environment!.
You see, cows produce large amounts of methane which is a greenhouse gas!. Well, we all know what that does to our ozone layer, global warming and so on!. So, regardless of whether cattle are raised for beef or whether they're raised for milk, just having them altogether is going to contribute to greenhouse gas emissions!. That is why I must avoid both dairy and meat in my goal to help reduce damage to the environment!.
Eggs, on the other hand, come from chickens and other birds of poultry (including ducks and quail)!. These birds, unlike cows and sheep, do not release greenhouse gases into the atmosphere!.
I realise that from a vegan perspective, I'm still not entirely "cruelty-free" but I am mainly doing this for the environment!.
So I was wondering, if anybody here also has the same rule as I have, I'd love to know!. I hope that I'm not the only "ovo-vegetarian" around!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
You see, cows produce large amounts of methane which is a greenhouse gas!. Well, we all know what that does to our ozone layer, global warming and so on!. So, regardless of whether cattle are raised for beef or whether they're raised for milk, just having them altogether is going to contribute to greenhouse gas emissions!. That is why I must avoid both dairy and meat in my goal to help reduce damage to the environment!.
Eggs, on the other hand, come from chickens and other birds of poultry (including ducks and quail)!. These birds, unlike cows and sheep, do not release greenhouse gases into the atmosphere!.
I realise that from a vegan perspective, I'm still not entirely "cruelty-free" but I am mainly doing this for the environment!.
So I was wondering, if anybody here also has the same rule as I have, I'd love to know!. I hope that I'm not the only "ovo-vegetarian" around!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
Answers:
I'm also an ovo-vegetarian!. I get my eggs from a local farm, where I know the eggs are organic and the hens are cage free and well cared for!. Www@FoodAQ@Com
chickens still use up more resources than growing vegetables, esp water!. They are fed grain which has to be grown, and you could eat the grain instead of an inefficient conversion to eggs!.
All animals produce methane!. chickens are smaller than cows and therefore less produced per chicken but there have to be more chickens kept as they only produce 1 egg per day on average!.
On the animal welfare side, even organic chickens have the male chicks killed when they hatch!. often crushed alive by rollers!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
All animals produce methane!. chickens are smaller than cows and therefore less produced per chicken but there have to be more chickens kept as they only produce 1 egg per day on average!.
On the animal welfare side, even organic chickens have the male chicks killed when they hatch!. often crushed alive by rollers!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
You are still doing damage the the planet by eating eggs!. Grain used to feed those hens comes from land that used to be rain forest!.Www@FoodAQ@Com
"Phoenix, how do you know that the grain fed to chickens on a certified organic, free range hen farm is necessarily derived from grain that was grown on land that was originally rain forest!? It could be grain from somewhere else!.!.!. think about it!."
As a person who is "mainly doing this for the environment," you should be considering this instead of leaving it up to chance!. Oh, it *could* be grain from somewhere else, but what if it isn't!? If you're caring about the environment and thus changing your diet, why are you just going to assume that if it could be A or it could be B, it MUST be B because B means you can still eat eggs!? I'm not sure what's so special about eggs that you want to keep them in your diet despite the fact that they could still be damaging the environment, but whatever your reason, you can get the best of both worlds and buy from your local farm!. This way, you know where the chickens are getting their food (you can just ask the farmer), you get it fresh, and you are helping out your local economy!. Www@FoodAQ@Com
As a person who is "mainly doing this for the environment," you should be considering this instead of leaving it up to chance!. Oh, it *could* be grain from somewhere else, but what if it isn't!? If you're caring about the environment and thus changing your diet, why are you just going to assume that if it could be A or it could be B, it MUST be B because B means you can still eat eggs!? I'm not sure what's so special about eggs that you want to keep them in your diet despite the fact that they could still be damaging the environment, but whatever your reason, you can get the best of both worlds and buy from your local farm!. This way, you know where the chickens are getting their food (you can just ask the farmer), you get it fresh, and you are helping out your local economy!. Www@FoodAQ@Com
Well, even some free-range chickens are just roaming around in a big sterilised tin shed with flourescent lighting!. I used to be proud of everything I ate!.!.!.!. but I lived in a produce paradise where everything from goat's cheese to avocados to meat could be bought at the local market from local farmers, and the Chinese market gardeners grew every weird and wonderful thing you could imagine - it was heaven! I'm in the middle of nowhere now and the only food grown locally is lamb and tomatoes!. So I have to bite the bullet and buy from the evil Coles and Woolies who pressure farmers into evil practices and distribute food in a ridiculously energy consuming way!. Do the best with what you've got I reckon!Www@FoodAQ@Com