VEGETARIAN IS THE PRIUS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Vegetarian Is the New Prius

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Vegetarian Is the New Prius

Thesis Statement

Prius is considered a gold benchmark for reducing the greenhouse gas emissions. However, its efficacy is incomparable if most of the agriculture is availed of as people adopt a more vegetarian approach.

Discussion

Since ten years, the likeness of Leonardo DiCaprio cruising in his hybrid Toyota Prius has characterized the gold benchmark for environmentalism. These gas-sipping vehicles became a veritable emblem of the consumers' power to hit an assault contrary to global warming. Just think: a vehicle that could slash your vehicle emissions in half - in a homeland to blame for 25% of the world's total greenhouse gas emissions. Federal fuel finances measures languished in Congress, and mean vehicle mileage fallen to its smallest grade in decades, but the Prius displayed persons that another way is possible. Toyota could not trade the vehicles very fast sufficient to rendezvous demand.

Last year researchers at the University of Chicago took the Prius down a peg when they turned their vigilance to another gas guzzling consumer purchase. They documented that feeding animals for beef, dairy, and egg output needs increasing some 10 times as much plantings as we'd require if we just ate pasta primavera, faux pullet nuggets, and other vegetation foods. On peak of that, we have to transport the animals to slaughterhouses, slaughter them, chill their carcasses, and circulate their body material all over the country. Producing a calorie of beef protein entails flaming more than 10 times as much fossil fuel--and spewing more than 10 times as much heat-trapping carbon dioxide--as does a calorie of vegetation protein. The researchers discovered that, when it's all supplemented up, the mean American does more to decrease global warming emissions by going vegetarian than by swapping to a Prius.

According to the UN report, ...