About Déménagement Myette

Déménagement Myette was founded in 2008 by Julien Myette, an idealist cyclist dreaming of a world where bicycles outnumber cars on the roads. After making a living as a computer engineer, then as a truck driver and mover, he wanted to put his experience at the service of his ecological values. Noting the absence of cheap solutions for moving objects too large for a car but too few to justify the expensive and polluting use of a truck, he found bicycles to be the natural solution, as unusual as it seemed.

At the same time that he traded in his car for his bicycle in 2003, Julien adopted a vegetarian diet out of compassion for breeding animals, who suffers from immoral life conditions. He did not suspect then that the decision to remove meat from his plate could have an even greater impact on the environment than getting rid of his car. But a 2006 report by the United Nations Food and Agriculture revealed that the livestock sector generates more greenhouse gas emissions than transportation, in addition to also being a major source of land and water degradation. A new study of the Worldwatch Institute even draws the conclusion in 2009 that more than the half of the worldwide greenhouse gas emissions are linked to animal breeding.

Moreover, did you know that for producing only one pound of beef, 13 pounds of corn, 30 000 litres of water, 3.7 litres of fuel and 147 square meters of land are required? Did you also know that it generates 5.9 kg of carbon dioxyde and 40 pounds of droppings? The data varies depending on the sources, but remain alarming.

Today, Julien is moving towards veganism (i.e. also excluding eggs and dairy products), a diet that the American Dietetic Association and Dietitians of Canada officially recognized as appropriate and beneficial to health in a 2003 report.