livestock
Nov 29 2008, Rahul Bhandari

Nobel Prize-winning Indian scientist Rajendra Pachauri and musician Sir Paul McCartney have teamed up to urge people to become vegetarian
to save the planet from the greenhouse gases created by rearing livestock.
According to a letter sent to The...

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