That’s because when people ask me why I don’t eat meat, I no longer have to go into a long and delicate explanation.

I just show them this site for about two minutes and they understand.

While I am grateful that I don’t have to kill anything to live, for me my diet was never about animal rights – it has always been about shared resources and personal health.

Just looking at this beautifully presented set of data will change your day more profoundly than anything else you’ll see online. The next time you leave the tap running while you’re reaching over the kitchen to grab something  - you’ll think about the perfectly good drinking water that’s running down into the sewers.

The next time you buy three heads of broccoli from the market and only end up cooking two, you’ll think of this as you throw one away.

The thing is – by the time you dump it, it’s just a sad-looking limp broccoli – but it’s actually about $2. Would you throw $2 straight in the trash?

Around 40% of all food is wasted in the developed world (let’s face it – if you’re reading this, you live in the developed world). Can you imagine how our planet could change if we simply wasted less food? Can you imagine the impact on land, water and CO2 emissions?

Just by watching out for how much food you waste, how much water you waste, and how much meat you eat – you can change the world.

(Not to mention the 40% of your grocery bill that you’re throwing in the rubbish, think of all the money you can save!)

Go back and have another look at that web page after a few minutes.

It’s one of the most impactful sets of data I’ve ever seen.

Thanks for considering it.

Osher Gunsberg

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$hmyl (aka $hmyllinaire/ Lil $hmylan) burst upon the scene with Don’t Fuck With $hmyl and the controversial ‘Bitchez Dey Love Me’.  I’ve chosen ‘Don’t Fuck With $hmyl’ because it introduces us to Big Daddy D and the rest of $hmyl’s crew, who look a formidable bunch of street toughs.

In a world of homogenized rap music, cookie cutter pop and color-by-numbers rock it’s refreshing to see an artist like $hmyl break the shackles and force the music industry and pop culture as a whole to sit up and take notice.

Personal highlights include $hmyl hanging out of a car (his best friends ride?) giving us the finger, Big Daddy D’s obviously flubbed line that made the cut and the embarrassment on his face when he realizes that this is the take that $Shmyl went with for the video, $hmyl, in a moment that no doubt inspired Lil Wayne and Danny Brown, telling us that he spends a portion of his time “lickin’ flaps” and the flurry of punches directed at no one in particular at the conclusion of the song.

Please sit back and enjoy $hmyl.

NOTE: There’s a lot of really good hip hop coming out of Australia at the moment it’s just that this guy makes me laugh.

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A chilling vision of a dystopian police state future?

A bold if misguided plea for inter-species love?

The undeniably catchy basis for a failed tv pilot involving Adam Sandler and Jeremy Piven?  (the latter is true, at least the tv pilot part).

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