Trying to Connect the Dinner Plate to Climate Change

EVER since “An Inconvenient Truth,” Al Gore has been the darling of environmentalists, but that movie hardly endeared him to the animal rights folks. According to them, the most inconvenient truth of all is that raising animals for meat contributes more to global warming than all the sport utility vehicles combined.

The biggest animal rights groups do not always overlap in their missions, but now they have coalesced around a message that eating meat is worse for the environment than driving. They and smaller groups have started advertising campaigns that try to equate vegetarianism with curbing greenhouse gases.

Some backlash against this position is inevitable, the groups acknowledge, but they do have scientific ammunition. In late November, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization issued a report stating that the livestock business generates more greenhouse gas emissions than all forms of transportation combined.

When that report came out, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals and other groups expected their environmental counterparts to immediately hop on the “Go Veggie!” bandwagon, but that did not happen. “Environmentalists are still pointing their fingers at Hummers and S.U.V.’s when they should be pointing at the dinner plate,” said Matt A. Prescott, manager of vegan campaigns for PETA.

So the animal rights groups are mobilizing on their own. PETA is outfitting a Hummer with a driver in a chicken suit and a vinyl banner proclaiming meat as the top...

“You just cannot be a meat-eating environmentalist,” said Mr. Prescott, whose group also plans to send billboard-toting trucks to the Colorado Convention Center in Denver when Mr. Gore lectures there on Oct. 2. The billboards will feature a cartoon image of Mr. Gore eating a drumstick next to the tagline: “Too Chicken to Go Vegetarian? Meat Is the No. 1 Cause of Global Warming.”...

It’s true.
Complex lifeforms are the greatest threat to the planet.
They all must be exterminated to Save The Earth!

Too delicious.

“...Complex lifeforms...”

From: American Heritage Dictionary.

“Complex 2. Psychiatry. A connected group of repressed ideas that compel characteristic or habitual patterns of thought, feeling, and action. 3. Informal. An exaggerated or obsessive concern or fear.”

Reads like a description of Liberals to me.

6 posted on 08/28/2007 10:11:20 PM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists...call 'em what you will...They ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)

Do any of these twits have the ability to think even one move ahead?

If we suddenly stopped eating meat — because animals are worse than SUVs — where would that leave the animals. Gone obviously. The “animal rights” campaigners need to ask themselves: “how would the complete eradication of animals improve their lot?”.

“. . .switching to a plant-based diet does more to curb global warming. . .”

Anybody who has ever lived on a plant-based diet can attest to the gastric side efects, notably flatuence. Multiple this effect by 6.5 billion people.

9 posted on 08/28/2007 10:20:54 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee ("A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.")

11 posted on 08/28/2007 10:29:26 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee ("A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.")

I’m sold. We’re eating vegetarian tonight.

I believe the vegetarian we will eat will be cow. Grilled, with onions.

15 posted on 08/28/2007 11:06:55 PM PDT by glock rocks (Please pray every day for our Patriot Armed Forces fighting to protect our way of life.)

Makes me all the happier that I had 2 Ribeye’s on Tuesday and a T-bone tonight. In fact, the only problem is that I rode my bike to friends’ house tonight. Next time I’ll fire up the 78 Chevy that won’t pass an emissions test and never will. Ha.

17 posted on 08/28/2007 11:15:25 PM PDT by NaughtiusMaximus ("The stool pigeon is the coming race." - Jack Black, <i>You Can't Win</i>)

Sounds like I need to drive my big old diesel Mercedes down to Ruth’s Chris for a New York strip.

Basic References:

Lawrence Solomon's "The Deniers" (a series of articles on the view of scientists who have been labelled "Global Warming Deniers"):

Other References:

Antarctic Temperature Trend 1982-2004:

This map (left) shows key areas of Antarctica, including the vast East Antarctic ice sheet. The image on the right shows which areas of the continent's ice are thickening (coloured yellow and red) and thinning (coloured blue). Â© (Left)British Antarctic Survey, (Right)Science

Some “environmentalists” apparently hate animals. Others apparently hate plants. But they all hate humans:

Republicans are red,
Democrats are blue,
Environmentalists are Green;
And Greens hate you!

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