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4. Goodland, R; Anhang, J. "Livestock and Climate Change: What if the key actors in climate change were pigs, chickens and cows?" WorldWatch, November/December 2009. Worldwatch Institute, Washington, D.C., USA. Pp. 10-19.

5. "Lifestock's Long Shadow: Environmental Issues and Options." Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. 2006.

6. Jacobson, Michael F. "More and Cleaner Water." In "Six Arguments for a Greener Diet: How a More Plant-Based Diet Could Save Your Health and the Environment." Washington, D.C.: Center for Science in the Public Interest, 2006.

7. Oppenlander, Richard A. "Comfortably Unaware: What We Choose to Eat Is Killing Us and Our Planet." New York City: Beaufort Books, 2012.

8. Ibid.

9. "Water Trivia Facts." United States Environmental Protection Agency.

10. Oppenlander, Richard A. "Food Choice and Sustainability: Why Buying Local, Eating Less Meat, and Taking Baby Steps Won't Work." Minneapolis, MN: Langdon Street, 2013. Margulis, Sergio. Causes of Deforestation of the Brazilian Rainforest. Washington: World Bank Publications, 2003.

11. Thornton, Phillip, Mario Herrero, and Polly Ericksen. "Livestock and Climate Change." Livestock Exchange, No. 3 (2011).

12. Pimental, D., Pimental, M. "Sustainability of meat-based and plant-based diets and the environment." American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Vol. 78, 660s-663S, September 2003.

13. "Water Footprint Assessment." University of Twente, the Netherlands.

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Chris Hedges spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. He has reported from more than 50 countries and has worked for The Christian Science Monitor, National Public Radio, The Dallas Morning News and The New York Times, for which he was a foreign correspondent for 15 years.

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