Al Gore Admits Meat Eating Dangers

Al Gore has finally come clean about his thoughts on meat consumption and the environment.

"I'm not a vegetarian, but I have cut back sharply on the meat that I eat," Gore told ABC Television from New York.

Gore had been criticized in the past for claiming to be an environmentalist, but not discussing the effects of the meat industry and global warming, especially in his narrated documentary on the environment, An Inconvenient Truth.

"It's absolutely correct that the growing meat intensity of diets around the world is one of the issues connected to this global crisis – not only because of the CO2 involved, but also because of the water consumed in the process."

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