But lately when I've been reading about ways of reducing energy consumption, it has become inescapable - since I don't drive a car, the best way that I can personally reduce energy consumption is to simply consume less meat. According to GoVeg, meat consumption accounts for 1/3 of our total fossil fuel consumption. In fact 80% of agricultural land in this country goes to feed animals meant for consumption. We could dramatically increase our agricultural productivity and reduce our oil consumption if we could just eat less meat. Simple enough, right? Wrong.

For 2 weeks I started noting how much meat I ate and how many of my meals contained meat. Here were the grim statistics on my meat (over) consumption: