HI,

hum so I wanted to talk about something I read in the newspaper and who had struck me but I just can't get a hand on this precise piece of news I read so you will have to believe me on words...

Inded I read that eating a meal with meat was worth driving 4000km with a car, as regards CO2 emissions, whereas eating a meal without any meat was "only" worth 700km... The purpose of the article, which was from "Le Monde", one of the most famous French newspaper, was to show that reducing our consumption of meat would have a huge postive impact on environment. What struck me most was that each of us taking three meals a day, most of which with meat, why should we try to turn to electric cars for example since it would have so little an impact on the struggle against climate change. Indeed, if what we eat everyday is worth 10000km of car driving, perhaps the n°1 objective should not be improving cars so that they consume less, but change the way we eat, that is to say the way we live.

The problem with the article is that they did not clearly depict how they had calculated these figures, so I guess comparing it with driving a car for thousands of kilometer is not relevant. However, it's funny and surprising.