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May. 11th, 2006
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May. 11th, 2006 02:53 pmI keep having bad dreams about chorus. I had one the other night that I went to my concert only to find we were singing the songs from last term, and I couldn't remember any of them. Last night I had one that there was an extra rehearsal last night that I'd missed because I'd somehow missed the information on it, and we'd learned two new pieces of difficult music for the show this Sunday.
What with me being sick, I keep forgetting that I do indeed have a concert on Sunday. Holy moly.
Also, the internet connection here has become really spotty recently. We're not sure why. My dad's attempting to fix it, but I figured I'd get in an LJ post while I could.
I think I'll go back to work tomorrow. *crosses fingers*
What with me being sick, I keep forgetting that I do indeed have a concert on Sunday. Holy moly.
Also, the internet connection here has become really spotty recently. We're not sure why. My dad's attempting to fix it, but I figured I'd get in an LJ post while I could.
I think I'll go back to work tomorrow. *crosses fingers*
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May. 11th, 2006 04:12 pmI've been reading an interview with Peter Singer on salon.com, and this bit really stuck out at me:
"Second factoid: 284 gallons of oil go into fattening a 1,250-pound cow for slaughter?
That's a figure from David Pimentel, a Cornell ecologist. The fossil fuel goes into the fertilizer used to fertilize these acres of grain, which are then harvested and processed and transported to the cattle for feed. We get back, at most, 10 percent of the food value of the grain that we put into the cattle. So we are just skimming this concentrated product off the top of a mountain of grain into which all this fossil fuel has gone.
So even if we all started driving Priuses we'd still have these cows to worry about.
Yes. In fact, there's a University of Chicago study that shows that if you switch from driving an American car to driving a Prius, you'll cut your carbon-dioxide emissions by one ton per year. But if you switch from a typical U.S. diet, about 28 percent of which comes from animal sources, to a vegan diet with the same number of calories, you'll cut your carbon-dioxide emissions by nearly 1.5 tons per year."
The rest of the interview is very good and thought-provoking as well--he talks about how it's actually better for the environment to buy your rice from Asia than it is to get it from California, and why, among other things.
"Second factoid: 284 gallons of oil go into fattening a 1,250-pound cow for slaughter?
That's a figure from David Pimentel, a Cornell ecologist. The fossil fuel goes into the fertilizer used to fertilize these acres of grain, which are then harvested and processed and transported to the cattle for feed. We get back, at most, 10 percent of the food value of the grain that we put into the cattle. So we are just skimming this concentrated product off the top of a mountain of grain into which all this fossil fuel has gone.
So even if we all started driving Priuses we'd still have these cows to worry about.
Yes. In fact, there's a University of Chicago study that shows that if you switch from driving an American car to driving a Prius, you'll cut your carbon-dioxide emissions by one ton per year. But if you switch from a typical U.S. diet, about 28 percent of which comes from animal sources, to a vegan diet with the same number of calories, you'll cut your carbon-dioxide emissions by nearly 1.5 tons per year."
The rest of the interview is very good and thought-provoking as well--he talks about how it's actually better for the environment to buy your rice from Asia than it is to get it from California, and why, among other things.
