Posted on 06/12/2010 9:33:41 AM PDT by DaveyB
UN Wants to Grab That Burger Right Out of Your Hands
Sure they do
Let em try.
... and pass me a ham sandwich after the burger....
This has been the agenda for quite a while. They just haven’t been public about it.
Go Vegan - Halve Your Lifespan!
Yeah, like over my dead rare T-bone they can just try it!
Puts me in mind of my uncle who owned a three legged pig.....
Bin Laden picked the worong building.
Note to the UN: Try it and draw back a nub...
Graybeard says, "PETA can go to hell" and that carries just as much authority as PETA's proclamations.
He was smart not to bomb his allies.
I hate chicken. Ban chicken now! Or better yet, tax it out of existence.
Love your bumper sticker! As a celiac, I eat a fairly large amount of meat as a primary protein source. I’ll be dipped in balloon juice before I’ll let anyone keep me from eating meat, especially wafflebrains of the UN or the left in general. Same goes for my kids.
Details, we need more details dammit!
“the rising popularity of this crazy diet because 1 percent of the population”
And Tea Party members are a lunatic “fringe?”
The pig had saved his life by dragging him out of his double-wide which had caught fire in the trailer park near Kenosha.
When asked how the pig had lost its leg, he replied:
“A pig that special, you don’t eat all at once.”
There isn’t a shred of *objective* scientific evidence that supports the idea that a vegetarian or vegan diet is healthier than a balanced diet.
While many studies purport to show just that, a closer look at the methodologies reveals that they are only looking at a short term effect in parametrics such as triglyceride level changes when study subjects switch from an omnivorous to a vegetarian/vegan diet. But looking at their diets before and after, one quickly realizes that there is no basis on which to compare the before and after diets. For example, in one study, the subjects typically ate danishes for breakfast, cheeseburgers and fries for lunch, and buttery mashed potatoes, chicken fried steaks, and biscuits drenched in gravy for dinner... of course the vegetarian diet was an improvement.
There are also studies that show that children raised on strictly vegetarian diets simply do not do as well as children fed balanced diets. One study in particular showed that children on vegetarian diets otherwise receiving comparable nutrients and calories intellectually lagged behind the control group consuming animal products—and the intellectual lag remained even when they were switched to a balanced diet. In other words, their intellectual deficit was permanent.
The idea that animals raised for food and other products are somehow environmentally damaging is ludicrous. Animals have been a part of the ecosystem forever; by what logic are they suddenly an environmental hazard? There is NO criteria by which a cow is environmentally damaging, but a buffalo is not.
Last, since the animals we raise for food eat many plants that we can’t, and those plants grow in places that are marginal for growing plants that humans can consume directly—is there even enough arable land to grow the huge increase in edible plants that would be required for such a diet change on such a massive scale? How much wildlife habitat would be lost in trying to develop the arable land?
This whole idea only shows the stupidity of trying to base policy on political ideas instead of empirical evidence.
That’s it exactly!
This caught my eye--why on earth do they want to "fuel poverty"? LOL
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