Thursday, March 19, 2009

Score your diet

From the Center for Science in the Public Interest:

This is a quick check-list to show how your diet scores on nutrition, the environment, and animal welfare. Calculate you score.

"Scores are affected by such considerations as:
  • Health: saturated fat, cholesterol, dietary fiber, etc.
  • Environment: air and water pollution from manure, cattle belching, production and overuse of fertilizer, and pesticides; etc.
  • Animal welfare: castration, hot-iron branding, debeaking, detailing, cramped cages and feedlots, cattle feed high in grain, and inhumane shipping and slaughterhouse practices."

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