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Posted on 08/28/2007 9:53:21 PM PDT by neverdem
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...
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“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.”...
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
IMHO, they're condemned to eternal re-incarnation in this world.
Whacko, pure and simple. I'm beginning to think people who don't eat meat lose some of the important proteins and enzymes which help the brain to function.
Their thought processes never get that far.
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It would be a plus as these animals would no longer be exploited.
Soooo, then it must be a good thing if the polar bears, wolves, grizzly bears and all those other meat eaters vanish.
What does it all mean Mr Natural?
That did not happen because the halting of global warming is not the true agenda of the enviros, and a massive shift in diet does nothing to "hogtie" capitalism.
IT DON'T MEAN SHITE !
So shouldn’t we all eat veal and foie gras? They are basically confined and quickly slaughtered thereby generating less greenhouse gases. Woo hoo, blanquette for all!
Exactly, vegetables are what food eats.
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I guess I have to be the lone voice for common sense vegetarians here, but this article is talking about commercial meat production and comparing the emission of greenhouse gases of the meat industry versus ALL emissions from transportation and factory production combined.
Since it takes (just for an example) 1000 gallons of water to produce one pound of meat, I generally ask people whether or not they would prefer to give up family showers for a month or 1 pound of meat a month. The same amount of grain it takes to make one pound of animal protein is sufficient to feed 15 starving people for at least one day. It’s a matter of choice.
(/lecture and donning flame suit now)
I hadn’t decided what I was going to have for dinner tonight, but now I think I’m gonna have a nice juicy steak.
if ya want ta call BLANKS ammunition...
It's also BS, and I am not referring to barbara streisand.
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