The planet is headed for an ecological "credit crunch", according to a report issued by conservation groups.

"Factory farms produce cheap meat, until you consider the rivers of sewage, the contaminants and the superbugs."

"For some clotheshorses, the ethical quandry of leather fashions is implicit: It

Those who are well off in Canada are far bigger eco-villains when it comes to harming the environment than those in lower-income groups, according to a study that is the first to try to quantify ecological damage done by Canadians based on income levels.

Both national and global climate policy must redirect its focus from setting a price on carbon to promoting the rapid deployment of clean technologies.

Winning the war on global warming requires slaughtering some of environmentalism's sacred cows. We can afford to ignore neither the carbon-free electricity supplied by nuclear energy nor the transformational potential of genetic engineering. We need to take advantage of the energy efficiencies offered by urban density. We must accept that the world's fastest-growing economies won't forgo a higher standard of living in the name of climate science

Humanity's rapidly increasing appetite for meat is fast becoming a matter of global consequence. Paul Roberts on the science, and morality, of our planet's modern palate.

So on this Earth Day I would like to address the connection between vegetarianism and the environment. If you strongly disagree with vegetarianism and don't wish to hear how eating meat impacts or environment then you might want to avoid this post. This is a subject that I am passionate about and have mentioned often here. I am trying to do my part to help understand how our eating habits affect our well-being both physically, socially and spiritually.