Don't let the hard times lower our cholesterol, blood pressure, cardio deaths and spare animals!
No, even though the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization indicts meat for 18 percent of greenhouse gas emissions; even though 18,000 deaths a year would be spared by 30 percent less meat consumption says a 2009 British study, we'll eye Fluffy when we're broke or bored.
No wonder Heifer International issued an emergency appeal after Haiti's earthquake to send livestock. They can graze the mudslides, craters and wreckage--and eat the food people don't have. Maybe they'll send rabbits too.
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