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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: Chris_ on September 08, 2008, 06:15:50 AM
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UN says eat less meat to curb global warming
People should have one meat-free day a week if they want to make a personal and effective sacrifice that would help tackle climate change, the world's leading authority on global warming has told The Observer
Dr Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which last year earned a joint share of the Nobel Peace Prize, said that people should then go on to reduce their meat consumption even further.
His comments are the most controversial advice yet provided by the panel on how individuals can help tackle global warning.
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However, Chris Lamb, head of marketing for pig industry group BPEX, said the meat industry had been unfairly targeted and was working hard to find out which activities had the biggest environmental impact and reduce those. Some ideas were contradictory, he said - for example, one solution to emissions from livestock was to keep them indoors, but this would damage animal welfare. 'Climate change is a very young science and our view is there are a lot of simplistic solutions being proposed,' he said.
Last year a major report into the environmental impact of meat eating by the Food Climate Research Network at Surrey University claimed livestock generated 8 per cent of UK emissions - but eating some meat was good for the planet because some habitats benefited from grazing. It also said vegetarian diets that included lots of milk, butter and cheese would probably not noticeably reduce emissions because dairy cows are a major source of methane, a potent greenhouse gas released through flatulence.
If teh DUmmies like this would just stop eating, we could reduce all sorts of emissions. :uhsure:
MORE (http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/sep/07/food.foodanddrink)
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YES, YES, YES. By all means, stop eating meat, turn all that grain into something to drink or pour in your car............then maybe poor P-Diddy can afford to fly his private jet again. .....just do it for P-Diddy.
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Screw that. How about if I have one day a week where the meat comes from a game animal I killed? I can work on the supply end, I'll leave the demand end to the vegans, hippies, and other mutants. Or perhaps we could set up a market for meat credits, based on the otherwise-uncounted six days of the week when the vegans wouldn't be eating meat anyway? Paging Big Al "Meatloaf" Gore....
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What's next? Abstain for SEX...it's creating too much hotness leading to global warming.... :-)
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What's next? Abstain for SEX...it's creating too much hotness leading to global warming.... :-)
There is no Glow-bull warming. The polar ice caps are melting because her HAWTNESS, Sarah Palin, lives up there.
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Not eating meat is just discriminating against us Texans.........
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You vill have your vun bag of rice per veek and you vill like it !!!
It is for ze common good of ze vorld !
If you do not ve send you to ze reducation zenter.
I wonder how much pollution we'd save just by abolishing the UN entirely. The saving in paper costs alone, just in the "threatening letters" department would be astronomical.
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You vill have your vun bag of rice per veek and you vill like it !!!
It is for ze common good of ze vorld !
If you do not ve send you to ze reducation zenter.
I wonder how much pollution we'd save just by abolishing the UN entirely. The saving in paper costs alone, just in the "threatening letters" department would be astronomical.
A few billion at least for sure.