(We get these quarter-pounders from Sam's Club. One of the best hotdogs I've had. Two of these on a regular size bun and I'm FULL.)
Posted on 07/20/2019 8:49:44 AM PDT by EdnaMode
Jen needs to drop the fork.
Maybe its just the latest diet advice from her Guru?
I have a burger twice a year, so this sounds good to me.
This calculation comes from the World Resources Institute... Its research looks at agriculture, the climate crisis, poverty and gender, among other topics.
IOW, another group of overpaid practitioners of The Agenda Driven Life. Thanks EdnaMode.
How about you cut back to zero and I will have a couple. Better yet, why don’t you mind your own business.
Instead, quit the many EUGENICS programs designed to ensure they never develop industry and economics allowing them to benefit from their own natural resources.
(We get these quarter-pounders from Sam's Club. One of the best hotdogs I've had. Two of these on a regular size bun and I'm FULL.)
I like elk.
Well, just open more grocery stores. Problem solved.
:)
The developed world, where I assume most of the beef is consumed , is not where the massive growth in population is. They are addressing the wrong issue.
Stop eating what you want. We need to feed the people who can’t feed themselves yet seem to breed freely.
My moral obligation is not to save their gene pool.
I’m a ruminati, follower of the ‘Sodfather’, so cutting back or no meat doesn’t work for me. It won’t work for the planet, either.
For some facts on cattle “emissions” ..... [link: https://grassbasedhealth.blogspot.com/2012/08/cattle-emissions.html ]
Blog post by Peter Ballerstedt
Ancestral Health Symposium 2012 is now history. The symposium took place at the Harvard Law School August 9th-11th. Not a bad gig for a forage agronomist! The title of my presentation was The Reality of Ruminants and Liebeg’s Barrel: Examining the New ‘Conventional Wisdom’. All of the presentations were video taped, and will be freely available.
One of the themes of this year’s symposium was sustainability. I don’t see that term in the simplistic way many do, in part because I remember being told by leaders of the sustainable agriculture movement that “animals have no place in sustainable ag!”
The truth is that the production of animal products from perennial forages is the sustainable agricultural system. Many, however, are concerned about the carbon dioxide and methane “emissions” from livestock in general, and cattle in particular. Some folks don’t seem to understand that a cow grazing grass can only emit carbon that was originally in grass, and that the carbon in grass has to have come from the atmosphere. So it’s a cycle not an “enrichment.” But there’s more to it than that!
Under the following assumptions:
Carbon:Nitrogen ratio = 17 and 3.4% N, giving 57.8 % C
3% of body weight daily dry matter (DM) intake; 1,000 lb cow = 30 lb DM per day
70% utilization - 30 lb DM eaten / 0.70 = 42.8 lb DM offered
Equal above and below ground DM distribution
90% of C consumed is “emitted”
We’d see:
42.8 lb DM above ground, 42.8 lb DM below ground – 85.6 lb DM total
57.8% C in DM – 49.5 lb C total
17.3 lb C consumed
15.6 lb C emitted
Thus, for every pound of carbon “emitted” by a cow on grass, 3.2 pounds of carbon are fixed in plant roots, uneaten plant debris, or the cow herself or her calf. Even if we say that 100% of carbon she ingested is emitted (a biological impossibility!), there’d be 2.9 pounds of carbon fixed for every pound emitted! Beef cattle are carbon negative!
Someone (perhaps Todd Becker?) asked me what happens to methane in the atmosphere. A good question, and one I wasn’t completely sure about. So I went looking and found the following at this site:
“In the lower part of the atmosphere, below about 10-12 km (the troposphere), the key cycles are mediated above all by the presence of what are called OH radicals — colloquially known as the atmospheric detergent. All hydrocarbon chemical species that are emitted can be eventually broken down (or oxidized) by these radicals to CO2 and H2O, and methane is no exception. An average molecule of CH4 lasts around eight to nine years before it gets oxidized. This is a long time compared to most atmospheric chemicals but is fast enough so that there can be significant year-to-year variability.”
Uh... I don’t know why Americans have to go without so that Pakistan, India, Brazil, Mexico, and China can keep breeding like rabbits. But I do support liberals starving themselves. That’s fine.
Cut back on all food, in fact eliminate eating altogether.
But I want to see all the “environmentalists” do it first, so we can learn from them how to do it.
Eat just half a hamburger?! I think not. I want bacon on mine. And cheese!
man can NOT “Save the Planet” no matter how much money we dump into it- The Lord God is going to destroy the planet AFTER His Son’s 1000 year reign on earth when God creates a new heaven and new earth
The planet will be perfectly habitable for at the very least 10007 more years- likely much longer- it is ARROGANT of mankind to claim that WE can save the planet! The planet doesn’t need saving from anything we’ve done- it will survive just fine for again, 10007 more years!
There are a couple of scenes in A Tale of Two Cities (the Ronald Coleman version) which show the results of long term starvation. One is the famous image of people scooping up spilled wine from the gutter to feed their toddlers. The other is people fighting with dogs over food. Control the food, control the people.
Is Nolan Ryan a cowpuncher?
;^)
Bullshit.
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