Posted on 03/06/2007 3:17:45 PM PST by paulat
PETA TO AL GORE: YOU CAN’T BE A MEAT-EATING ENVIRONMENTALIST Tue Mar 06 2007 17:08:05 ET
The Most ‘Inconvenient Truth’: According to U.N., Animals Raised for Food Generate More Greenhouse Gases Than All Cars and Trucks Combined
Norfolk, Va. — This morning, PETA sent a letter to former vice president Al Gore explaining to him that the best way to fight global warming is to go vegetarian and offering to cook him faux “fried chicken” as an introduction to meat-free meals. In its letter, PETA points out that Gore’s film, An Inconvenient Truth—which starkly outlines the potentially catastrophic effects of global warming and just won the Academy Award for “Best Documentary”—has failed to address the fact that the meat industry is the largest contributor to greenhouse-gas emissions.
In the letter, PETA points out the following:
· The effect that our meat addiction is having on the climate is truly staggering. In fact, in its recent report “Livestock’s Long Shadow—Environmental Issues and Options,” the United Nations determined that raising animals for food generates more greenhouse gases than all the cars and trucks in the world combined.
· Researchers at the University of Chicago have determined that switching to a vegan diet is more effective in countering global warming than switching from a standard American car to a Toyota Prius.
PETA also reminds Gore that his critics love to question whether he practices what he preaches and suggests that by going vegetarian, he could cut down on his contribution to global warming and silence his critics at the same time.
“The single best thing that any of us can do to for our health, for animals, and for the environment is to go vegetarian,” says PETA President Ingrid E. Newkirk. “The best and easiest way for Mr. Gore to show his critics that he’s truly committed to fighting global warming is to kick his meat habit immediately.”
Next week, I should be ready to open a "meat offsets" company, to help him take care of his problem without persoanl pain.
LOLOL!!!
Somebody creative here has to design a "meat offsets" coupon....
A better argument against meat eating in this country would be the effects of continual antibiotic dosing on public health. That's why I try to get my meat from local producers who raise livestock on a smaller scale.
Good luck, PETA . . . we already know Al Gore is a phony environmentalist who does things only on his own terms. I wouldn't be surprised if he butchers the meat he eats himself!
I've met a lot of these. Including 'vegetarians' who eat every meat but red meat. Apparently the new term is flexitarian.
I like your idea. Let's buy a big spread of land out west, raise a bunch of cattle, and then let jack@sses like Al Gore pay us a couple of thousand dollars for every cow we let loose to roam in the wild as wolf food.
I agree with ya there....no antibiotics...no hormones.
There is some meat in that chili I hope?
I think Michael Jacksons' kiss to Priscilla Presley was more convincing.
That is the most uncomfortable looking kiss I've ever seen, closer to the beginning of a rape than a kiss by a normal, virile man. Seems like he's a "stiff" at everything, the wrong kind of stiff.
Don't do that. Merchandising is not allowed on FR. Please.
I'm wondering about something. If we all become vegans or simple vegetarians, won't that cause us to produce as much "gas" as the cows?
"Beans, beans the musical fruit
...the more you eat the more you toot!!
--Bart Simpson
There are no known limits to orthodoxy.
Too bad Primechoice hung up his cleaver.
The "Sacred Cow-Burger" logo would have given one just that much more cachet. LOL!!!
I ususally hate billboards (yes, I one of THOSE), but I love this one.
Well, we could start with our 330 acres, and work up from there.
That would lead to "income offsets" though, since we pesently lease the pasturage to a neighbor.
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