eating vegetarian

from ann wilms in response to tips on reducing one's footprint:

One thing I might add ... is that a vegetarian (or nearly so) lifestyle dramatically reduces a single individual's impact on the ecosystem. Huge amounts of resources (food, water, land, etc) go into producing beef, chicken, and pork, not to mention the also-huge amounts of waste which these animals produce. In NC for example, the rivers are suffering from the tremendous amounts of nitrogen containing organic waste from factory style pork farms. The point is, there is an amazing ripple effect from the seemingly tiny choices one makes at the table. I was pretty dumbfounded when I learned about this stuff. Just a thought.

thanks, ann!