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InvestorIdeas.com Green Investor Portals Report for Earth Day Awareness; Skipping the Beef to Save the Earth
Eating Greens to Green our Earth
POINT ROBERTS, Wash., Delta B.C., April 22, 2008 - www.InvestorIdeas.com, a leading online global investor resource covering 30 sectors including environment and renewable energy stocks presents a green feature and reminder to global investors.
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As Earth Day reminds consumers to do something to protect the earth and bring global warming to a halt, new ideas emerge and trends to help further save our planet. Many consumers have the made the switch to “green” cleaning products, organic foods, and Hollywood’s stars are promoting Green cars such as the Prius and other hybrids to create a “greener” world.
However, there is an easier way to save the earth without switching your car for the newest green hybrid. Vegan eating as a new re-emerging trend has been shown through research studies can reduce carbon emissions more than replacing previous cars to a green car.
The easiest way to reduce carbon emission and even save money for the grocery bill is a vegan diet.
By swapping the 8 ounce steak for healthy vegetarian alternatives, not only will health problems such as cholesterol and heat problems be reduced, but the earth will be a healthier place as well.
“A study http://geosci.uchicago.edu/~gidon/papers/nutri/nutriEI.pdf "Earth Interactions - Diet, Energy and Global Warming" published last year shows that a person adopting a vegetarian lifestyle, including no components from the animal world, contributes more to halting global warming than a person who abandons his regular car for a Prius.
Shifting gears to a Prius saves more than a ton of carbon-dioxide emission a year, while adopting vegetarianism saves at least 1.5 tons of carbon-dioxide emission a year.
"Livestock impacts on the environment", a study recently published by the UN's food and agriculture organization, finds that the livestock industry is responsible for a fifth of the greenhouse gas emissions in the world, more than the transport industry. Billions of cows and chickens crammed into industrialized farms are responsible for 37% of the world's methane emissions. There may be less methane emissions than carbon dioxide emissions, but it's 23 times more efficient as a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.”
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The vegan trend is a fast growing consumer target industry through out North America. The health benefits of switching to vegan are numerous, and with new cooking technology and “meat alternatives” readily available to the public the market is growing.
As past problems have arose, such as mad cow disease, and the bird flu and further researches on the effects of “hormones” found in meat make the benefits of becoming vegan worth while.
Organic fast food and vegan fast food is fast becoming a new trend for quick and healthy eating in the US.
In a recent article; “There are between 1,000 and 1,200 vegetarian restaurants in the U.S., almost double the number seven years ago, according to Dennis Bayomi, president of VegDining.com, an online guide to vegetarian restaurants. Besides Sublime, he estimates there are more than a dozen fine dining vegan eateries nationwide, though that number is harder to track.
Part of the transformation owes to advances in cooking that allow chefs to prepare proteins like tofu with a taste and texture similar to meat. They can do the same thing with tempeh, which consists of fermented soybeans with a more grainy texture, and seitan, concentrated wheat gluten.
Experts also credit the rise to an expanding global pantry, where vegetarian dishes are no longer relegated to the back of a menu, but have become main-plate specials.
"The door is wide open," said Eve Felder, associate dean for culinary arts at the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, N.Y. "It's been going on in pockets for years, but it's much more of a trend across restaurants now."
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Vegan Stocks Close-up:
Archer Daniels MDLND: (NYSE: ADM); 52 WEEK RANGE 31.28 - 48.35
ADM wholly owns Haldane Foods Group (www.haldanefoods.co.uk), which specializes in non-GM vegetarian and vegan foods.
Nutraceutical International Corp: (NASDAQGS: NUTR); 52 WEEK RANGE 10.67 - 16.99
Nutraceutical produces the VegLife brand of nutritional supplements, which is suitable for vegans.
So Natural Foods Australia Ltd. : (ASX: SNF.AX); 52 WEEK RANGE 0.490 - 0.490
So Natural is Australia’s largest manufacturer of non-GM whole soy bean beverages and foods.
United Natural Foods Inc. (NASDAQGS: UNFI); 52 WEEK RANGE 15.60 - 33.33
United is the largest publicly traded wholesale distributor to the natural and organic foods industry in the U.S.
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