Posted on 11/20/2009 10:40:20 AM PST by Steelfish
India Tells West To Stop Eating Beef
India has urged the West to give up eating beef to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions responsible for global warming.
Dean Nelson in New Delhi 20 Nov 2009
According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation, livestock is responsible for 18 per cent of the the Earth's greenhouse gas emissions. Photo: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images
The environment minister, Jairam Ramesh, said if the world abandoned beef consumption, emissions would be dramatically reduced and global warming would slow down. "The solution to cut emissions is to stop eating beef. It leads to emission of methane which is 23 times more potent than carbon dioxide," he said.
"The best thing for us, India, is we are not a beef-eating nation. The United States, the world's largest emitter along with China, is also the world's greatest beef-eating nation and consumes 25 per cent more than Europe.
His comments follow a call last month by Lord Stern, the author of a British Government study on climate change, for people to give up eating meay to reduce emissions. "Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases," said Lord Stern. "It puts enormous pressure on the world's resources. A vegetarian diet is better." Hindus are forbidden to eat beef and India has more vegetarians than any other country in the world. More than 30 per cent of its 1.1 billion people do not eat meat at all.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
...from my cold, dead hands.
We could kill two birds with one stone by eating Indians instead of beef. Solves global warming beef paranoia and Indian overpopulation. Frankly, I like India, but any nation that doesn’t have its birth rate under control should probably shut the hell up on matters of resource availability, etc.
Next they’ll tell us we are wasteful for having separate seewage and drinking water systems. An arrogant indian, aka WOG is difficult to stomach.
No problem. We eat very little beef. Some chicken, salmon, but mostly we eat moose. And caribou.
Don’t get it. If living “meat” is the methane source of methane, are they suggesting that we eliminate all meat sources, domesticated or wild?
... as if cultivating hillside after hillside and meadow after meadow for grain and fiber crops (yes, remember that much of the clothing you're wearing right now was GROWN on cultivated ag land) isn't an enormously wasteful and inefficient use of land and, for irrigated crops like cotton and vegetables, water. Cattle, on the other hand, can graze on land that is useless for growing crops because of poor soil, wrong climate, or difficult geography. Those beef animals convert otherwise near-useless land's weeds and grain too low in protein to be of much nutritional value for humans, into meat, milk, medicine, and leather.
When a cow or steer goes to slaughter, every smidgen of the critter is used for something, and it shows up in everything from industrial glues and steel processing to shoes and medicine.
Pound for pound, drop for drop, a beef animal provides ENORMOUSLY more than any crop and with far more efficiency.
The obvious replacement:
Indian Long Pig !!!
(evil grin)
That “catfish” is a whale shark.
YEah, what about THAT? THey support cattle and don’t even USE THEM. Well, they use them for dairy products.
I saw mention of this UN report last year. I think that most of the greenhouse emissions were related to refrigeration in that report.
This must be too much of “an inconvenient truth” for even Gore to mention it.
Seems to me, if you have to make an argument, then you should talk about the greatest contributors to the “problem”. That fact that he avoided this topic is further evidence that Gore is only looking after his personal interests.
and then dancing breaks out for no apparent reason.
They worship pre beef, to be accurate.
“The argument is that they were grass-fed and not corn-fed, hence less methane production.”
Interesting. So if we grass-feed our cows, non-problem solved?
Somehow, I don’t think that would satisfy the meat-fascists.
H.L Mencken had their measure:
“The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.”
“The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic.”
“The fact that I have no remedy for all the sorrows of the world is no reason for my accepting yours. It simply supports the strong probability that yours is a fake”
You can piss off the anti-gun and vegan crowds at the same time with the "BA-K-47"! ;-)
In my previous life I looked like this
Pound for pound, drop for drop, a beef animal provides ENORMOUSLY more than any crop and with far more efficiency.”
That, and they go great sitting beside a baked potato with everything on it, and an ice cold beer in a frosty glass
Beef - it’s whats for dinner! (Get over it)
Thanks for the reminder. I haven’t had a good prime rib dinner in months. Tonight, I will dine well.
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