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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: LC EFA on February 16, 2009, 04:38:40 PM
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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Mon Feb-16-09 12:01 PM
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Hamburgers are the Hummers of Food in Global Warming: Scientists
CHICAGO - When it comes to global warming, hamburgers are the Hummers of food, scientists say.
A giant hamburger is assembled at a Virginia restaurant. (AFP photo)
Simply switching from steak to salad could cut as much carbon as leaving the car at home a couple days a week.
That's because beef is such an incredibly inefficient food to produce and cows release so much harmful methane into the atmosphere, said Nathan Pelletier of Dalhousie University in Canada.
Pelletier is one of a growing number of scientists studying the environmental costs of food from field to plate.
By looking at everything from how much grain a cow eats before it is ready for slaughter to the emissions released by manure, they are getting a clearer idea of the true costs of food.
The livestock sector is estimated to account for 18 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions and beef is the biggest culprit.
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There is really only one suitable response to something like this.
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jobycom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Mon Feb-16-09 12:08 PM
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2. Uh-oh. A shot has been fired across the bow of the USS Carnivore!!
I honor your courage.
Note right here. THIS is what liberals consider "courage". Telling isn't it.
stuntcat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Mon Feb-16-09 12:14 PM
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4. for realz
it's funny how personal this issue is for people, especially when eating less meat is healthier.
Funny how liberals are happy to lobby to un-ban something like weed, but are happy to consider bans on MEAT.
Beaverhausen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Mon Feb-16-09 12:21 PM
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8. I know- people just don't want to hear fact one about how bad meat eating is for us and the planet
I've been hamburger-free for longer than I can remember!
Good for you on not eating the Burger. Means more for me :-)
jobycom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Mon Feb-16-09 12:22 PM
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9. Funny, isn't it? People will boycott Walmart, vandalize Hummers, bash the pharmcos
but ask them to cut back on meat--an industry as bad and as Republican, if not more so, than the others listed--and you get called names and punched in the virtual face.
You eco-freaks aren't paying attention or are deliberately being obtuse. Now go get out your Google's and have a little bit of a look for the violent and disruptive shit your allies pull when it comes to stopping the production, distribution and trade of meat products.
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You may insult me as much as you want, but don't, AND I MEAN DON'T, insult my hamburgers.
Fools. Don't you know that lettuce and carrots scream as you pull them out of the ground? :whatever:
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if humans replaced meat with veggies, we would put out methane like the cows do
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Is there one thing that they can have outrage over that just isn`t plain stupid?
Guess what DUmbfux..take away my beef and I will make sure it is replaced 100% with venison.
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if humans replaced meat with veggies, we would put out methane like the cows do
I like BEANS, I like PEAS....but they make me fart.......so how long before they'd want to outlaw beans and peas????????
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after they ban meat and wonder why humans are filling the gap, it'd be a matter of time
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Guess what DUmbfux..take away my beef and I will make sure it is replaced 100% with venison.
How about DUmmie meat. I hear it tastes like coward.
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And to think we are the fascists.
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And to think we are the fascists.
Well the Libtards have gotten their wish...The National Coordinator of Health Information Technology...very soon the DUmmies will get their wish and the Government will require us to eat less meat.
The choice of what we stock our fridge with will get taken away from us.
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How about DUmmie meat. I hear it tastes like coward.
Last person that ate some tore off all his clothes and sprinted off into the scrub screaming "I am the Banana Omelet". Took security a full week to coax the dude down from the tree.
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Thundering ignorance that thinks it's timeless wisdom, there. In my own region, raising cattle is about the only possible form of agriculture there is, which is also true but for different reasons in much of the Southwest and Northen tier mountain areas. Here, it's too rocky and hilly to break ground with a plow here, other places it is too dry to use the land for anything but pastoral farming (alot less density of stock, of course), and others it's both. Dropping cattle farming in these areas would just bankrupt a lot of farmers and cause a huge decrease in the food supply, it does not mean crops would replace cattle.
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Thundering ignorance that thinks it's timeless wisdom, there. In my own region, raising cattle is about the only possible form of agriculture there is, which is also true but for different reasons in much of the Southwest and Northen tier mountain areas. Here, it's too rocky and hilly to break ground with a plow here, other places it is too dry to use the land for anything but pastoral farming (alot less density of stock, of course), and others it's both. Dropping cattle farming in these areas would just bankrupt a lot of farmers and cause a huge decrease in the food supply, it does not mean crops would replace cattle.
They don't care.
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babylonsister gives hummers for hamburgers ? Who'd a thunk it ?
"Ill gladly give you a hummer Tuesday for a hamburger today"
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This is one of the things that bugs me most about the primitives and liberals in general. If they believe in some unproven theory like Al Goron's global warming hoax, driving electric cars, and whatever other stupid things they believe in, they aren't happy to just change their own behavior. Oh no, they think it's their right to insist everyone else change their behavior to fit their idiotic ideas.
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How about DUmmie meat. I hear it tastes like coward.
Yellow bile covered in red -- who the hell wants that? Even the buzzards would take a pass.
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Thundering ignorance that thinks it's timeless wisdom, there. In my own region, raising cattle is about the only possible form of agriculture there is, which is also true but for different reasons in much of the Southwest and Northen tier mountain areas. Here, it's too rocky and hilly to break ground with a plow here, other places it is too dry to use the land for anything but pastoral farming (alot less density of stock, of course), and others it's both. Dropping cattle farming in these areas would just bankrupt a lot of farmers and cause a huge decrease in the food supply, it does not mean crops would replace cattle.
I suspect this is the kind of thing that the LIV (Low Information Voter) would react to (finally!). Take their liberty? No problem. Take their Freedom of Speech? No problem. Take their money? No problem. Take their children? No problem. But TAKE THEIR FREAKING BIG MAC? Dude, they will riot.
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It'd have to be a reeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaly good burger... :-)
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I suspect this is the kind of thing that the LIV (Low Information Voter) would react to (finally!). Take their liberty? No problem. Take their Freedom of Speech? No problem. Take their money? No problem. Take their children? No problem. But TAKE THEIR FREAKING BIG MAC? Dude, they will riot.
And rightly so!
:-)
Hey, they may be Low Information Voters, but they know WRONG when they see it!!!
:rotf:
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We had hamburgers for dinner tonight....grilled 'em on my greenhouse gas emitting grill as well.
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babylonsister gives hummers for hamburgers ? Who'd a thunk it ?
"Ill gladly give you a hummer Tuesday for a hamburger today"
I don't know about you, but I'll pass . . . :o
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Hey DUmb****! If it weren't for the protien we carnivores eat, we would never have dropped out of the trees!
Meat protien is brain food idjit! It's the biggest reason vegetarians are as smart as cows! :-)
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I used to want to open a bar called "Burgers and Beer."
Now I want to open one that is called "Burgers and BJs."
Thanks for the concept DUmmys.
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I used to want to open a bar called "Burgers and Beer."
Now I want to open one that is called "Burgers and BJs."
Thanks for the concept DUmmys.
There probably is one in SE Asia (Definitely in concept, if not four-square on the name), you may have to settle for a franchise.
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I was really looking forward to this thread...
...and I was not happy.
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I was really looking forward to this thread...
...and I was not happy.
Well, if you would've known the identity of the primitive originally posting this, perhaps you wouldn't be so disappointed; the racist babbling sister primitive, who thinks "darky" and "Pickaninny" toys are "cute."
The babbling sister primitive can be viewed only from behind, where one sees a woman sitting in front of a computer, the television on a shelf above, her buttocks sagging down from both sides of the chair. And there's a post in the basement below, right underneath her, to prop up the floor.
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Burgers, boobs and beer works for me.
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Burgers, boobs and beer works for me.
But I don't think sagging buttocks would.
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Burgers, boobs and beer works for me.
Already been done!
It's called "HOOTERS" :-) :beer:
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Already been done!
It's called "HOOTERS" :-) :beer:
Wrong as a wee lil' ol' dinosaur could be.
Geez! Everyone know that you go to Hooters for the Wings!
:II:
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babylonsister gives hummers for hamburgers ? Who'd a thunk it ?
"Ill gladly give you a hummer Tuesday for a hamburger today"
Oh gawd, Helen Thomas giving a blow job for a burger.
Whew! Glad I have a gallon of Clorox here with me for snorting.
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Take away my choice to eat red meat.....and I will be buying a gun.
I even had a Big Mac for lunch....though I'm not sure I would call it "red meat"... :confused:
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Take away my choice to eat red meat.....and I will be buying a gun.
But, deb, will you use it? On a DUmb****, of course . . .
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But, deb, will you use it? On a DUmb****, of course . . .
I get so frustrated when I go to the grocery as it is, when I can't find what I'm looking for because it's either "fat free", "light", "low fat", "no sugar", etc....I am an adult. I know how to eat. I don't need someone else to tell me how.
All that crap is, is chemicals.
If schools would go back to teaching cooking and nutrition (planning a meal) in junior high, kids would learn how to eat properly....if their parents can't teach them.
Be a whole lot cheaper than finding a new way to make chemicals taste like real food.
:ranton:....Sorry...but it's a major deal with me...telling me what I should or shouldn't eat.
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I get so frustrated when I go to the grocery as it is, when I can't find what I'm looking for because it's either "fat free", "light", "low fat", "no sugar", etc....I am an adult. I know how to eat. I don't need someone else to tell me how.
All that crap is, is chemicals.
If schools would go back to teaching cooking and nutrition (planning a meal) in junior high, kids would learn how to eat properly....if their parents can't teach them.
Be a whole lot cheaper than finding a new way to make chemicals taste like real food.
:ranton:....Sorry...but it's a major deal with me...telling me what I should or shouldn't eat.
Do what Gov. Palin does--kill your own food. (I've got my share of two 10-pointers in the freezer.)
'Course, as I just realized, you'll have to get your own gun for that. :thatsright:
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Do what Gov. Palin does--kill your own food. (I've got my share of two 10-pointers in the freezer.)
'Course, as I just realized, you'll have to get your own gun for that. :thatsright:
We have guns in the house....I just have never used one.
And we have our own herd of deer.
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We have guns in the house....I just have never used one.
And we have our own herd of deer.
Well, that makes the "hunting" part of that a lot easier, doesn't it? :cheersmate:
Next thing you know, you'll be asking around for recipes for venison chili.
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if humans replaced meat with veggies, we would put out methane like the cows do
That explains a lot about DUmmies.
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Wrong as a wee lil' ol' dinosaur could be.
Geez! Everyone know that you go to Hooters for the Wings!
:II:
Hooters: Come for the wings; Stay for the breasts!!!!
I should have been an ad guy.
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Hooters: Come for the wings; Stay for the breasts and thighs!!!!
I should have been an ad guy.
Fixt.
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Fixt.
Everybody's a critic.
:hammer:
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Well, that makes the "hunting" part of that a lot easier, doesn't it? :cheersmate:
Next thing you know, you'll be asking around for recipes for venison chili.
Nope...the other half makes wonderful venison chili.
And it doesn't come from "our" deer. Someone usually gives us some venison every winter and he makes a big batch and we freeze it.
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Take away my choice to eat red meat.....and I will be buying a gun.
I even had a Big Mac for lunch....though I'm not sure I would call it "red meat"... :confused:
thats why God gave us ketchup
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thats why God gave us ketchup
I only eat kechup on potato pancakes, in cocktail sauce for shrimp, and put it on the top of meatloaf.
I have a mayonnaise addiction...the real stuff, not fat free, light or any other substitute....I even dip my french fries in it. :clueless:
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I only eat kechup on potato pancakes, in cocktail sauce for shrimp, and put it on the top of meatloaf.
I have a mayonnaise addiction...the real stuff, not fat free, light or any other substitute....I even dip my french fries in it. :clueless:
I'm not the only crazy one here!
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Wrong as a wee lil' ol' dinosaur could be.
Geez! Everyone know that you go to Hooters for the Wings!
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Wings, what wings? I never get any farther than the "Hoots"!