An inconvenient food: the connection between meat and global warming.(Ecology)

USA Today (Magazine) | September 1, 2007| | Copyright

OVER THE PAST several months, Al Gore's Oscar-winning documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth," garnered a windstorm of media attention that likely sent people scurrying for fluorescent light bulbs to curb their carbon dioxide emissions, but some scientists have argued that the film does not paint a complete picture of the real causes of climate change, and it leaves out the most inconvenient truth of all: the connection between global warming and the steak knife.

Just four months before former Vice Pres. Gore gave his Academy Award acceptance speech, the United Nations ...

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