Good night! Do you think there is a religious bias working here?
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 ...
I like pork better.
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I think it better to stick a cork of every Indian’s butt. That ought to slow down methane emissions......
“My fellow Americans, the banning of beef in our supermarkets is not due to any international pressure. Let me be clear: this is strictly being done for health reasons, and to help balance the books as we move into a bright new era of health care for all.”
Isn't there a large river in India where the dead are routinely disposed of in?
Holy Cow, next the Islamists will cut off liquor and wine and the greenies cut off beer (too much CO2).
The Ganges.
The drill there is to burn the bodies and dispose of the ashes in the Ganges. Often the burning isn’t complete, leading to some problems.
Pound sand.
SnakeDoc
It is said that the best hamburgers are made from sacred cows.
So the Indians are going to kill every bovine in their country, export the meat, and never allow a cow to enter again? How very consistent of them!
Yeah, thanks for yer input there, Sparkyraj...now pass me the barbecue sauce.
Colonel, USAFR
There are three or four people farting in India for every one in the USA.
Sure, right after they stop eating pigs.
sounds like India did not get the whole global warming is a hoax perpetuated by the governments of many nations hacked email blitz going on today.......
I like bacon — but I prefer two animals to die, and one to be put to hard labor in each meal. So, wrap the bacon around a steak or put it on a medium-rare burger ... and viola.
SnakeDoc
Good night! Do you think there is a religious bias working here?
A bit of Hindu promotion.
There are actually cow-rescue societies there.
I don’t mind them yakking about this, people should be able to push their religious views. If they can make their arguments politely and logically (as here), so can we.
Muslims, well, thats another story.
West to India:
Piss off!
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