and here is what I said.  I am tired and it probably could have been better, but still...

There is one extremely effective way of dealing with global warming which was a glaring omission in your program.  It was dietary change, going vegan.

I am active on a message board at vegweb.com.  We share recipes, ideas, methods of combating global warning, raising vegan children and thoughtful ways to love our planet as well as one another.  We have discussed this particular program and we were all troubled that this issue had not been addressed.  We can only believe that ABC is guided by the sponsorship it receives from fast food restaurants (a particularly detrimental source of global warming) and food boards...the milk board...the California cheese board...the Pork Advisory Board, etc.

Much has been made of cutting down the rainforests and rightfully so.  Were you aware that Burger King purchases beef grown where there were once rainforests?  It promotes this habit of destruction so that consumers can eat cheap burgers in the US. 

Did you know that it takes 2500 gallons of water and nearly 60 lbs of feed to grown ONE POUND of beef?  Or that bovine flatulence contains as much as 40 cubic feet of methane each day?  Methane gas contributes to the hole in the ozone layer.  Think of the hundreds of thousands of cows in this country, eating grain and soybeans (not their natural diet), passing atmospheric toxins to produce the "meat", milk and cheese we, as Americans, have been taught is the right way to feed our bodies.  By the way, the leather in one's shoes doesn't come from the cattle eaten in the US, that is discarded by an large and into landfills.  Our leather comes from Indian cows.

Pig farming is no better, just so you know.  Pig sheds are over crowded, stench filled buildings where thousands of pig are kept closely quartered to produce bacon, ham and the "other white meat."  Their urine is pumped to lagoons and seeps into the water supply, contaminating it.

Chickens have a lot of discarded "parts" if you will.  Piles of feathers, beaks, feet, entrails, heads are set to rot in the sun and rain wherever they are "processed" for human consumption.  One has to wonder where the rain run off from these piles goes.

Whether one become a vegan because they love animals or because they care about our planet, or because they can improve their health, the result is the same:  Their environmental footprint is smaller. 

By definition, a vegan is someone who does not use or consume animal products.  We don't eat cheese, eggs, milk, honey, pigs, chickens, cows, shrimp, fish, none of it.  We are not a group of emaciated hippies!  We are middle class mothers, professionals, college students, teachers, musicians...we are mainstream Americans who don't buy into the diatribe.  We are intelligent people, free thinkers and our reasons for being vegan are as numerous as we are.  Our group on vegweb.com is committed to further shrinking our environmental footprints, live a kinder, more gentle life with care for planet and one another, which means all earthlings including all of those with furs, feathers or fins. 

We could not imagine that you excluded one of the easiest and most satifying ways to "go green."