Spis grønt, redd verden

Da var det på tide med litt mer vegetar-reklame! Det er nemlig sånn at det mest effektive et enkeltmenneske kan gjøre for å skåne miljøet er å spise mindre kjøtt. Dette er hentet fra Time Magazine:

The head of the U.N.'s Nobel Prize–winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Pachauri on Monday urged people around the world to cut back on meat in order to combat climate change. "Give up meat for one day [per week] at least initially, and decrease it from there," Pachauri told Britain's Observer newspaper. "In terms of immediacy of action and the feasibility of bringing about reductions in a short period of time, it clearly is the most attractive opportunity."

Faktisk konkludrer en rapport fra FN med at verdens kjøttproduksjon genererer 18 % av planetens samlede drivhusgasser - til sammenlikning står hele verdens bilder, tog, fly og båter for kun 13 % til sammen!

Fikk du lyst til å begynne med "meatless monday"? Her er noen deilige vegetaroppskrifter du kan starte med allerede i morgen :)

Fri fantasi på film!

Jeg har sett et mesterverk av en animasjonsfilm i helgen, "The Secret Book of Kells". Håndmalte, snirklende akvareller og et nydelig soundtrack, perfekt for en fantasifull søndagsmorgen.

Sushiens bakside

Sushi var noe av det jeg syntes var aller vanskeligst å kutte ut da jeg ble vegetarianer for et års tid siden. Jeg kan fortsatt få skikkelig cravings etter det. Men dette avsnittet fra boka "Eating Animals" av Jonathan Safran Foer holder meg nok vekk fra sushien for godt.

BYCATCH
Perhaps the quintessential example of bullshit, bycatch refers to sea creatures caught by accident — except not really "by accident," since bycatch has been consciously built into contemporary fishing methods. Modern fishing tends to involve much technology and few fishers. This combination leads to massive catches with massive amounts of bycatch. Take shrimp, for example. The average shrimptrawling operation throws 80 to 90 percent of the sea animals it captures overboard, dead or dying, as bycatch. (Endangered species amount to much of this bycatch.) Shrimp account for only 2 percent of global seafood by weight, but shrimp trawling accounts for 33 percent of global bycatch. We tend not to think about this because we tend not to know about it. What if there were labeling on our food letting us know how many animals were killed to bring our desired animal to our plate? So, with trawled shrimp from Indonesia, for example, the label might read: 26 pounds of other sea animals were killed and tossed back into the ocean for every 1 pound of this shrimp.

Or take tuna. Among the other 145 species regularly killed — gratuitously — while killing tuna are: manta ray, devil ray, spotted skate, bignose shark, copper shark, Galapagos shark, sandbar shark, night shark, sand tiger shark, (great) white shark, hammerhead shark, spurdog fish, Cuban dogfish, bigeye thresher, mako, blue shark, wahoo, sailfish, bonito, king mackerel, Spanish mackerel, longbill spearfi sh, white marlin, swordfish, lancet fish, grey triggerfish, needlefish, pomfret, blue runner,black ruff, dolphin fish, bigeye cigarfish, porcupine fish, rainbow runner, anchovy, grouper, flying fish, cod, common sea horse, Bermuda chub, opah, escolar, leerfish, tripletail, goosefish, monkfish, sunfish, Murray eel, pilotfish, black gemfish, stone bass, bluefish, cassava fish, red drum, greater amberjack, yellowtail, common sea bream, barracuda, puffer fish, loggerhead turtle, green turtle, leatherback turtle, hawksbill turtle, Kemp's ridley turtle, Atlantic yellow-nosed albatross, Audouin's gull, Balearic shearwater, black-browed albatross, great black-backed gull, great shearwater, great-winged petrel, grey petrel, herring gull, laughing gull, northern royal albatross, shy albatross, sooty shearwater, southern fulmar, Yelkouan shearwater, yellow-legged gull, minke whale, sei whale, fin whale, common dolphin, northern right whale, pilot whale, humpback whale, beaked whale, killer whale, harbor porpoise, sperm whale, striped dolphin, Atlantic spotted dolphin, spinner dolphin, bottlenose dolphin, and goose-beaked whale.

Imagine being served a plate of sushi. But this plate also holds all of the animals that were killed for your serving of sushi. The plate might have to be five feet across.

Lurer på hva som skjer med livet i havet nå som det snart finnes en sushi-sjappe på hvert hjørne?