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Your cat is killing the Earth — but you can prevent it [barf]
Deutsche Welle ^
| 08.08.2017
| Irene Baños Ruiz
Posted on 08/08/2017 9:48:20 AM PDT by Olog-hai
To honor cats on the International Cat Day, DW encourages their human companions to protect the planet we all share. From carbon pawprint to waste to wildlife, it is in our hands to take up better practices.
Your cats sweet purring and loving, contented looks wont change the fact that its guilty for the planets suffering just like we are.
A recent study confirms that pets meat-based diet has a fatal impact on the climate, due mainly to high carbon dioxide emissions. In addition, our loyal friends are big resource consumers and waste creators. The situation is particularly worrisome considering the paradigm shift in the human-pet relationship in emerging economies such as China. Moreover, cats that go or live outdoors eat urban wildlife, particularly newborn chicks. Environmental groups are calling for an to end this vicious cycle. So is it possible to love and respect your pet, while still protecting the planet? [
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Cats tend to kill weak and sickly birds, so it is not clear whether cat predation replaces other forms of death, or is in addition to natural death, Sarah Elliott, central veterinary officer with Cats Protection, said in a press release. [
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Reducing the CO2 emissions is more of a challenge. A vegetarian diet is not an option for a cat. Owners can, however, switch to organic feed which supports biodiversity and reduces pollution since it avoids pesticides and more environmentally friendly packaging. They can also avoid using hot water for cleaning the litterbox and above all, buy compostable cat litter.
(Excerpt) Read more at dw.com ...
TOPICS: Pets/Animals; Weather; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: carnivores; cathaters; cats; climatechangehoax; dogs; envirowhackos; globalwarminghoax; kittyping; meateaters; methane
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Daily dump of garbage.
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posted on
08/08/2017 9:48:21 AM PDT
by
Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai
Oh, just kill yourself, Irene.
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posted on
08/08/2017 9:50:21 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: Olog-hai
"A recent study confirms that pets meat-based diet has a fatal impact on the climate"
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posted on
08/08/2017 9:51:30 AM PDT
by
ETL
(Obama-Hillary, the REAL Russia-US scandal (UraniumOne Deal, Missile Defense, Nukes) See my home page)
To: Olog-hai
How about I bump off a dozen or so green weenies and feed them to my cats??
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posted on
08/08/2017 9:52:20 AM PDT
by
Wonder Warthog
(The Hog of Steel and NRA Life Member)
To: Olog-hai
Cats are obligate carnivores. What do those boneheads suggest we feed them?!
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posted on
08/08/2017 9:53:14 AM PDT
by
mewzilla
(Was Obama surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
To: dfwgator; All
Even worse, the professor whose name is on the so-called
study, Gregory S. Okin of UCLA, is a professor in the Department of
Geography.
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posted on
08/08/2017 9:54:12 AM PDT
by
Olog-hai
("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
To: Olog-hai
First of all, my cats are not my “companions”. They are my kittehs and I am their owner. They mean far more to me than any Green SJW. Let’s eliminate the CO2-breathing SJW; they’re a far more worthless entity than my kittehs.
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posted on
08/08/2017 9:54:31 AM PDT
by
BlueLancer
(Ex Scientia Tridens)
To: Slings and Arrows
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posted on
08/08/2017 9:55:55 AM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: Olog-hai
LOL. I used to think that the Global Warming Zealots just wanted a world without people. Now carnivorous animals are part of the problem too. Does this mean that some humans will have to stay alive solely for the purpose of hunting carnivores who eat too much meat?
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posted on
08/08/2017 9:56:28 AM PDT
by
Opinionated Blowhard
("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
To: Olog-hai
"Kill Mother Gaia!!!"
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posted on
08/08/2017 9:56:56 AM PDT
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: Wonder Warthog
How about I bump off a dozen or so green weenies and feed them to my cats??
Cats are very discerning. They would refuse to eat such slop.
I've posted this before and will again: liberals hate, hate, hate, hate anything that makes people happy. Freedom, pets, air conditioning, cars...it has nothing to do with the environment. That is just the excuse they use to try to make others as miserable as they are.
The joy my cat has brought me for two decades now exceeds any concern I have about "carbon emissions" by infinity squared.
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posted on
08/08/2017 9:58:48 AM PDT
by
LostInBayport
(When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
To: Olog-hai
Cats kill birds. Libtard MSM news update at 11:00.
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posted on
08/08/2017 10:01:45 AM PDT
by
eyedigress
((Old storm chaser from the west))
To: Olog-hai
George T Cat horks a hairball in her general direction.
Good kitty!
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posted on
08/08/2017 10:01:56 AM PDT
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(Not a Romantic, not a hero worshiper and stop trying to tug my heartstrings. It tickles! (pink bow))
To: BlueLancer
You are mistaken! You do not ‘own’ your cats. THEY own YOU! Unless and until you cease providing food and shelter and all they deem that they need, THEN they will dump you like a hot potato! You are theirs, they are not yours.
To: eyedigress
None of my cats have ever brought a baby bird home. They’re too high up in the trees and out on limbs that won’t support a cat’s weight even if the cat was inclined to climb up a tree that far, which no cat would be in my experience. The only chicks that a cat would have access to would be those who fell out of a nest.
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posted on
08/08/2017 10:04:22 AM PDT
by
Olog-hai
("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
To: A Formerly Proud Canadian
"You are mistaken! You do not own your cats. THEY own YOU!"
Oooohhh nnnoooooees! Say it ain't so! I tell them what to do after they've shown me what they're going to do! I'm always right when I do it that way. That makes me the boss, doesn't it? ......
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[whimpering] ... doesn't it?
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posted on
08/08/2017 10:05:42 AM PDT
by
BlueLancer
(Ex Scientia Tridens)
To: mewzilla
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posted on
08/08/2017 10:05:51 AM PDT
by
mewzilla
(Was Obama surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
To: Olog-hai
Cats tend to kill weak and sickly birds, so it is not clear whether cat predation replaces other forms of death, or is in addition to natural death, Sarah Elliott, central veterinary officer with Cats Protection, said in a press release. [
] Oh, so now cats have been added to the list of species whose actions are somehow not a part of nature. Oxygen thieves (the moron libs, not the cats).
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posted on
08/08/2017 10:06:48 AM PDT
by
Still Thinking
(Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
To: A Formerly Proud Canadian
Dogs have owners.
Cats have staff.
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posted on
08/08/2017 10:06:56 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: Olog-hai
These attacks by eco liberal fascists on American pets will drive the liberal pet owners away from the Enviro Nazis.
They will not care that the Gorebull Warming BS is based on fake data, they will fight to their death keep Rover or Kitty!
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posted on
08/08/2017 10:07:49 AM PDT
by
Grampa Dave
(Voting for Trump to be our President, made 62+ million of us into Dumb Deplorable Colluders, MAGA!!!)
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