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Some facts about the difference being veg can make to green house gas emissions. from http://www.seventhgeneration.com/making_difference/newsletter_article.php?article=502&issue=77

• The Center for International Forestry Research has stated that "cattle ranchers are making mincemeat out of Brazil's Amazon rainforests." Because so much forested land in the Amazon and other places is being burned to create pasturelands for livestock, it’s estimated that every vegetarian saves an acre of trees per year. These trees keep the carbon they contain “locked up” and out of the atmosphere. When forestlands are burned to create pasture, the carbon they’ve trapped is released into the air.

• Researchers Gidon Eshel and Pamela Martin from the University of Chicago have found that changing one's eating habits from the so-called meat-centric “Standard American Diet,” to a vegetarian diet makes a greater contribution to slowing global warming than trading in an SUV for a hybrid car.

• Producing a single hamburger patty uses enough fuel to drive 20 miles.

• Replace a hamburger, an egg and a 1-ounce serving of cheese every day for a year with fruits, vegetables, and grains and you’ll reduce national reduce agricultural needs by 1.8 acres of cropland, 40 pounds of fertilizer, and 3 ounces of pesticides, and keep 11,400 pounds of manure out of the environment.