Someone has WAAAAY too much time on their hands, sitting around figuring out pet carbon footprints! (Or would that be pawprints?) I wonder what my horse and two Great Danes contribute? (Like I care!)
You can eat a dog. Review the Lewis and Clark Expedition journals.
Hey “Scientists” .. . . leave my dogs alone
All in all you’re just another pr*** in the wall
Neither will I...and the only thing I'll be swapping is LEAD with anybody who interferes with my critters.
(Makes you wonder where PETA is on this one!)
Save the planet: time to eat dog? :
http://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/2987848/Save-the-planet-time-to-eat-dog
Time to eliminate the carbon footprint caused by psycho environmentalists.
My dogs are far more valuable than these useless eaters.
Here's a much better idea: "ditch politicians for the planet". They are completely expendable and there will be few complaints.
Joke?
Yep,let's get rid of cats...won't take long before the mice population will explode and have a eco-footprint the size of a eco-greenies ego. That could be the end of earth as we know it.
Self-ping.
What gets me is how many liberals are soooooo strongly attached to their pets and go ballistic over any stories of animal abuse...but abortion’s A-OK.
From the people who brought you mandated compact fluorescent bulbs, ethanol as fuel, condemnation of the flush toilet, the banning of DDT, and so much more feel-good, useless, emotional, irrational, or outright destructive stuff, now they tell us we are supposed to make meals of our friends in fur.
Not a chance. I would starve first.
Wait til the pit bulls hear about this. These researchers better watch their backs when they go out jogging!
“pets you can eat”
This is like the scene in “Twister.” Who ARE these people?
http://www.geocities.com/wpsmoke/canetoads.html
these people need to find something to do with their lives besides trying to run everyone else’s
To be fair my big dog does convert a lot of kibble into natural gas...if only I could harness that power!
**In a study published in New Scientist, they calculated a medium dog eats 164 kilograms of meat and 95kg of cereals every year. It takes 43.3 square metres of land to produce 1kg of chicken a year. This means it takes 0.84 hectares to feed the dog.**
One acre is about .40 hectares so .84 hectares would be about two acres. Average yield of Iowa corn per acre in 2009 was 189 bushels. 1 bushel equal 56 pounds of corn so that 10584 pounds of corn per acre or a little more than 21,168 lbs for the .84 hectares. When you divide that by 365 to calculate the daily requirement of corn to feed the dog you get 58 pounds of corn a day to feed a dog (pretty impressive dog)
Oh and it takes 7lbs of corn to make a pound of beef, 6lbs to make a pound of pork, and 2.6lbs of corn makes a pound of chicken therefore the .84 hectares of corn would produce about 8000 pounds of chicken yearly or about 22 pounds daily for fido.