I'm Sorry!// Lo siento!

I have been so ridiculously busy lately, and sadly my favorite Blog has suffered. For that, I apologize. With prom, college visits, getting really sick, and friends in the hospital, it’s been a crazy last month. However, I attended my school’s annual sustainability fair, a wealth of information on energy, food, and lifestyle choices, in April. I learned some cool facts about food at the booth of a student who chose to go veggie for a month. I learned that vegetarians apparently make better breast-feeders than their omnivore friends. Vegetarian mother’s milk has on average has 10.5 times less DDT in it.

The first solid food fact I noted was that meat found at fast food restaurants is only about half meat, the other half being fat so they can keep the company prices around sixty cents a pound (cheap). That is gross. Also, 1.3 million U.S. citizens’ suffer from heart disease, stroke, cancer, or diabetes linked to bad diets, which are often high in meats. Children now as young as 3 can start to show early heart disease warning signs, how scary is that?

Our nation’s factory farms produce 2 billion tons of manure each year, and manure is one of the EPA’s top ten pollutants. 90 % of energy is lost while moving up every trophic level, which means that the more steps removed we are from plants, the more we have to eat for energy. As Michael Pollan’s Rule #24 (which is a Chinese proverb) states, “Eating what stands on one leg [mushrooms and plant foods] is better than eating what stands on two legs [fowl], which is better than eating what stands on four legs [cows, pigs and other mammals], I can tell he agrees. The hierarchy shows in resources too. For every pound of meat, 2500 gallons of water must be consumed, whereas for every pound of wheat, only 25 gallons are needed. This means that if we feed the 72% (at least this is the number for the U.S.) of wheat given to animals raised for slaughter to humans, we could feed everyone in the world. And how beautiful would a world without hunger be?

He sido una chica tan ocupada, y por eso te pido perdón. Con visitas a universidades, enfermedades, prom, y los meses últimos con mis amigos, tenía un mes loco. No obstante, asisitió mi feria de todo que es sostenible y aprendí mucho sobre la vida sin carne, y energâ de viento y sol. Uno de mis amigos hizó un informe sobre la vida vegetariano, incluye el dato que leche de madres que no comen carne tiene menos DDT (un multipicación de 1/10)! Los restaurants Americanos tiene carne que es medio grasa para que cueste menos (solo 60 centavos por dólar- barato!). 1.3 millón de Americanos sufren de cardiopatía, derrame cerebral, cáncer, o diabetes y la mayoridad de ellos comen dietas malas que consisten de mucha carne. Niños (como 3 años) ahora pueden demonstrar los effectos primeras de cardiopatía, que espantoso! Y los fincas producen 2 billón toneladas de estiércol cada año (y este sustancia es uno de los 10 contaminantes más tóxico según el EPA)! Solo diez porciento de la energía consumó pase por el próximo nivel. El refrán Chino, (que Michael pollan usó por regal #24 en su libro), que he parafraseado refleja que ‘Comiendo lo que pone a un pierna > lo que ponen a dos piernas > lo que ponen a cuatro.’ Para cada libra de carne, 2500 galónes de agua están necessario, y para una libra el trigo, solo necessita 25 galónes d agua. Entonces, si damos de comer al trigo (72% de lo que ha usado por carne en los E.E. U.U.) a personas más que los animales nacido por matanza, podemos alimentar todo el mundo! Y que buena sea un mundo sin hambre?