Posted on 09/10/2008 12:54:10 PM PDT by mojito
Need another reason to feel guilty about feeding your children that Happy Meal — aside from the fat, the calories and that voice in your head asking why you can't be bothered to actually cook a well-balanced meal now and then? Rajendra Pachauri would like to offer you one. The head of the U.N.'s Nobel Prize–winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Pachauri on Monday urged people around the world to cut back on meat in order to combat climate change. "Give up meat for one day [per week] at least initially, and decrease it from there," Pachauri told Britain's Observer newspaper. "In terms of immediacy of action and the feasibility of bringing about reductions in a short period of time, it clearly is the most attractive opportunity." So, that addiction to pork and beef isn't just clogging your arteries; it's flame-broiling the earth, too.
(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
Since the earth has been cooling off for ten years now, maybe a little more global warming is more important now than ever before.
(Due to the lack of experienced herald trumpet players, the end of the world has been postponed.)
Cmon, the guy is a comitted vegetarian, according to his religion. He has every right to try to promote this and hope others will join his faith. But it ain’t about the weather.
Vegetarians are not only evil, but they are delusional.
Most land where cattle and livestock are raised are totally unsuitable for raising vegetable crops. One need only drive across Wyoming or Texas to see that. To raise enough vegetables to feed humans a modern farm needs much more energy than a cattle ranch. Cattle do not need chemical fertilizers, nor do they need much irrigation. They do not cause chemical runoff into streams and rivers.
Besides, Vegetarians Are Evil!
Cutting meat out of our diet once a week is a healthy choice.
Trying to weave this less-meat diet into the global warming situation is stretching reason.
Pachauri has a loose nut somewhere. I think Pachauri needs more niacin in his diet. What he needs is liver.
Smoked a 10 pound beef brisket last weekend. Good eatin’. Will have more of it tonight. You know it’s good when you can slap the meat on a piece of thick-sliced bread and you don’t need any condiment whatsoever. The bread’s just for holdin’ the meat.
Huh? He's all for this throughout the article until the very end when he says - screw it?
I’m clinging to guns, God, and steak.”
Same here.
I honestly believe that being a “vegan” is the pathway to lowering your resistance:
to disease
to resisting the Liberal ideas thrown at you
to finding ways and methods to save yourself
to stimulating your survival gene.
More than one article by “scientists” in the past 50 years have suggested that vegans are more easily led down the Liberal garden path.
Here are some tasty little ribeyes my four brothers and I shared a while back ..
Yes, that's a quarter leaning against the bad boy in front.
Smoked a 10 pound beef brisket last weekend. Good eatin’. Will have more of it tonight. You know it’s good when you can slap the meat on a piece of thick-sliced bread and you don’t need any condiment whatsoever. The bread’s just for holdin’ the meat.”
Nah- you’re wrong:
The fingers will hold the meat just fine.
The bread is just to look somewhat civilized as you eat...Ha
I feel I really need a double bacon cheeseburger... mmmm... bacon, cheese, burger...
Aren't most cattle, meant for slaughter fed corn, which uses chemicals and irrigation?
Just wait half a century now when hydrogen powered cars start emitting water vapor into the atmosphere as exhaust. Talk about a “global warming greenhouse effect”- water is 95% of the greenhouse effect and far more powerful at retaining Earth’s heat than carbon dioxide.
Well, point taken. But I would harly call my consumption of BBQ civilized. More like, "don't put your hand in there, you'll lose it at the elbow."
I am going to have brisket tonight for dinner solely because of this article.
Also, I’m pretty sure Indian food is the cause of quite a bit of methane emission in and of its own right, Mr. Pachauri.
Yes, we would be emitting a little bit of water vapor from H2 fueled cars and portable engines.
But really, the amount of water vaporized in one hour by the oceans just around one degree of latitude makes the extra bit meaningless.
ALL of our CO2 (emitted from everything! Power plants, cars, airplanes, trucks, and burning wood, making plastics, driving ships, etc.) is still only a small part of the of the total 1% CO2 INCREASE in the atmosphere each year - and the TOTAL CO2 in the atmosphere is only 375 molecules out of every 1,000,000 molecules.
So our CO2 contribution is less than 1% of 325 molecules.
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