Time to Eat the Dog: The Real Guide to Sustainable Living
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Robert and Brenda Vale, both architects by profession have actively researched the ecological impact of human living in a span of three decades. What was initially intended as a study on sustainable-designed buildings shifted focus on people’s behavior as they attempt to uncover what sustainability really means through their provocatively titled book called “Time to Eat the Dog: The Real Guide to Sustainable Living”.
The credo of “use it up, wear it out, and make do or do without” holds true if we are to avoid the disastrous results of our negligent ways.
The book serves a guide that will enable people to make informed choices. Its authors believe that a shift in our buying behavior could possibly turn things around; after all, small steps can add up to bigger changes. A change in people’s behavior costs very little compared to retrofitting buildings and has more significant impact.
It encourages everyone to make a conscious effort to choose and practice holistic environment friendly habits, starting from what we eat, what we wear, how we travel and entertain ourselves in order to cut back our carbon footprint. Read the full article here
By Maria Belgado
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Do they mention that dog food is made up of meat from “Rendering Plants” (food processing)? Humans won’t eat this meat in the U.S. (and the government says that’s it’s not fit for human consumption). Meat from rendering plants is all waste, essentially animal by-products that would be thrown away. Also when cows, chicken and swine eat, they process corn and wheat that humans cannot eat (I do know that corn is not their natural food). Not to mention making a car requires the use of animal by-products (the factory machinery needs lubricants from animal by-products, not to mention industrial chemicals using the same by-products). I think the authors have no idea how consumer products are manufactured (food is a consumer product).
Also I wonder if I feed my dog all table scraps or my local butchers surplus meat and not dog food is the impact the same? It is certainly less than a human baby or an inmate in a prison.
Good read, thanks. Always looking out for weird and wonderful stuff to read