Posted on 10/26/2009 8:51:16 AM PDT by Callahan
New book -- "Time to Eat the Dog" -- claims golden retrievers have the same carbon footprint as SUVs
As provocative titles go, "Time to Eat the Dog: The Real Guide to Sustainable Living," is a doozy, guaranteed to ensure outrage and oodles of provocative blog post headlines. As summarized in The Telegraph, New Zealand-based authors Robert and Brenda Vale have calculated the carbon footprint of pet-ownership and arrived at some disturbing conclusions.
A medium-sized dog has the same impact as a Toyota Land Cruiser driven 6,000 miles a year, while a cat is equivalent to a Volkswagen Golf....
[The authors] base their findings on the amount of land needed to grow food for pets ranging from budgerigars to cats and dogs.
They say an average Collie eats 164kg of meat and 95kg of cereals a year, giving it a high impact on the planet.
(Excerpt) Read more at salon.com ...
“I have two dogs now. I think I’ll go out and buy another.”
Buy a dog, plant a tree... it all evens out.
I have a sixty pound Lab/Collie/?? Mix and a 40 pound Cocker-Blue Heeler Mix, AND a Cat.
And I drive my 1995 Ford Escort with 303,000 miles on it, approximately 22,000 miles a year, give or take. I also get 35-39 mpg unless I need a tune-up, in which case I get 30 mpg.
I recycle what the transfer station accepts.
And I don’t give a Democrat’s @ss what my ‘carbon footprint’ is. The Earth Is Doing Just Fine!
We need to use our brains and the Earth’s Resources to promote Capitalism! Do you think for a minute that Islam would survive a strong Middle Class of Entrepreneurs? Have you given thought to how Capitalism supports democracy and individual freedom and liberty?
Capitalism and Entrepreneurship has a symbiotic relationshiop with Freedom and Liberty. And these create a Middle Class. And the Middle Class is the foundation for a democracy. Preferably a Republic, which is better than mob-rule democracy.
Environuts are worshiping Nature at the expense of Humanity. And this is insane. But then, Environuts are Liberals and by definition, mentally ill.
Yesterday my wife made a pot of beans with bacon, and handmade tortillas. Last night I think I could have brought down the walls of Jericho by myself. Does that mean I have a carbon footprint Saturn 3 rocket? Do I have to kill me?
We never get any Jehovah’s witness’s out here.
ROFL! As if you could compete with my mastiff, after he eats chili!
Save yourself! Blame my dog!
That’s not a dog, that’s a BEAR! Oy!
don’t buy one, rescue one... a lot of good dogs need good homes.
Mike
Time to get my yellow lab a couple of new buddies.
The resident Scythian verminphobe has hit the thread with his “your dog is giving you worms!” crap.
New Jersey?
The planet was created to be used by humans and animals. DUH!
If a dog is the same as an SUV, you may have to kiss your ass goodbye under Obama. On the other hand, Obama would also have to kiss his ass goodbye.
If ‘they’ go after dogs, they will lose this battle.
*I’d rather put down 2 environmentalist greenies than any dog or cat.*
NOW YOU’RE TALKING!!
:)
Does setting off the carbon monoxide detector three times mean anything?
Close ... China.
Hmm, what might be the ‘footprint’ of Ducky, my 7’ Anaconda? Footrpint? Sometimes I slay me.
Hmm, would Korean and Vietnamese cuisine offer a solution?
But then the PETA crowd gets PO’ed!
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