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 What is more important, the way we eat or the way we drive? The October issue of the AUUF Living Green, Living Well newsletter notes that many AUUF members and friends have switched to hybrid or other high-mileage cars as an effective way to reduce their carbon contribution to global harming as well as reduce the harm done to their checking accounts by high fuel costs. We salute those who are able to make this choice (recognizing that some of us have too large families or other hauling needs, or just can't afford a new car). The cost of fuel and the contribution of our fossil-fuel based transportation system to global harming are getting a great deal of media attention, and are certainly important. But we also ask, is switching to a high-mileage vehicle the most effective way to reduce our environmental impact? The truth is that for a typical family eating meat (from our industrial confined animal feeding operations) at most meals, going to an at least mostly vegetarian diet (or eating only local free-range meats) would be a much more effective (also probably healthier) choice. Consider: When methane and nitrous oxide are measured in CO2 equivalent units, livestock are responsible for 18 percent of the total greenhouse gases that cause global warming worldwide – more greenhouse gas than that generated by cars, planes and all other forms of transportation combined. Source: The United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization publication Livestock's Long Shadow (2006), cited in the Community Solution's New Solutions Report #13, Food, Feed and Fuel. (http://www.communitysolution.org/pdfs/NS13.pdf)
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Auburn UU Fellowship
450 East Thach Ave.
P.O. 669
Auburn, Alabama 36831-0669
Sunday Services 10 a.m.
Children's Religious
Education 11:15 a.m.
Minister's Office Hours
Tues. and Thurs. 2-6 p.m.
or by appointment
E-mail:dallende@uuma.org
Phone: 334-501-8621
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