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.
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But according to the law of karma, the cows have it coming, and I’m willing to do my part.
Out of my cold, petite Irish/Japanese hands will they deny me my Chipped Beef on Toast.
Isn’t the Hindu religion the one that holds cows as sacred? I would think that has more to do with their wish than global warming.
Yes -- that too! :^)
What really fries me are all these morons who argue about grain-fed beef and dairy critters, saying "We could use that same grain to feed millions more people!" NO, they coudln't use that same grain to feed people! If people tried to eat the same grain fed to livestock, which is grown on acreage not of the right soil or in the right climate/rainfall to profitably grow human-consumable crops, they'd die of malnutrition because they don't have four stomachs to process it! When I explained this to a vegan acquaintance, I remember the blank look on her face and then the light bulb went on ... DUH!!!! Even she saw that I spoke the truth; she shut up with that particular argument after that.
What am I going to do with my slow cooker pot roast that I made yesterday? ;)
Lets send 0 over there to apologize.
I’ll stop eating beef when Indians stop eating lentils.
It does sound perfectly yummy. :)
Indians flexing their sphincters?
Well, in Bollywood it does.
And why not ?
Back in the day this was common in our own entertainments.
And then the pretentious geeks took over.
So now the movies mostly belong to teenage boys.
“Shut up and pass me to tech support.”
oh, that was so wrong. I apologize.
Yes, you are entirely correct.
Yes of course it has more to do with religion than anything else.
But I give them points for making creative use of AGW for their prosletyzing purposes.
You can’t feed corn/soybeans etc. to people ?
I suppose if you were to strictly follow FDA guidelines for US distribution that may be true for some grains, but it certainly isn’t true in the third world, where human and animal feed grains are completely interchangable. Whole corn is whole corn to a Mexican peasant. You can feed it to your kids or you can feed it to your chickens.
Other items like some protein meals, cellulose like in hulls, etc. are not human edible. But this stuff is a minority of feed bulk.
Lentils go very well with pork or stew beef in the pressure cooker.
I have nothing against lentils. Nothing at all.
Those people just won't get even close to the same nutritional value out of it as grain of higher quality that would be wasted (and unprofitable) as livestock feed. The quality of soybeans, wheat, and corn used in livestock feed is nowhere near the quality of soy, wheat, and corn used for people, FDA guidelines aside. It has more to do with soil and climate, and the protein they can impart into the grain, than FDA guidelines -- this is what grain farmers have told me with regard to who they can sell to, and get the highest price for, their crops.
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