Eye Opener: CSPI

I went to the Eating Green Calculator which is a website that calculates the effect of your diet on your health and the environment. The environmental burden from the animals I eat in a year are .7 acres of grain and grass needed for animal feed. Oh, thats not all, I also required farmers to use .2 pounds of pesticide for use to grow animal feed, and there is more. How about the 25.3 pounds of fertilizer needed to grow animal feed. Lastly but not forgotten, how about the 4869 pounds of manure (pee-ewww) created by the animals I eat. This calculation doesn't really indicate to me whether or not these are acceptable numbers or not. From this part of my diet, I take in 314 cal which is only 19% of my Estimated Daily Values, my other daily values were 0% fiber, 34% fat, 50% saturated fats, and 63% of my cholesterol intake. These numbers are all below 100% which means that I'm not getting all the proper nutrition that I need, this would indicate that I have a whole in my diet. That being said this website doesn't take into account my whole diet, just that pertaining to animals. This website assumes that when you change your diet to make it more eco-friendly that you are replacing the animal based food with a nuritious plant based food. I was able to reduce my environmental burden by .3 acres, 7.3 lbs. of fertilizer, o on pesticides, and 1777 lbs. of manure. The Eating Green Calculator is able to do this with use of data from the Nutrient Data Laboratory which is the USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference. I elected not to take the pledge, I have recently made some changes to my diet and I am not ready to make further changes.