Posted on 10/27/2009 5:48:08 AM PDT by Overtaxed Patriot
People will need to turn vegetarian if the world is to conquer climate change, according to a leading authority on global warming.
In an interview with The Times, Lord Stern of Brentford said: Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the worlds resources. A vegetarian diet is better.
Direct emissions of methane from cows and pigs is a significant source of greenhouse gases. Methane is 23 times more powerful than carbon dioxide as a global warming gas.
Lord Stern, the author of the influential 2006 Stern Review on the cost of tackling global warming, said that a successful deal at the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December would lead to soaring costs for meat and other foods that generate large quantities of greenhouse gases.
He predicted that peoples attitudes would evolve until meat eating became unacceptable. I think its important that people think about what they are doing and that includes what they are eating, he said. I am 61 now and attitudes towards drinking and driving have changed radically since I was a student. People change their notion of what is responsible. They will increasingly ask about the carbon content of their food.
(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...
More liberal grazers for sure!
This is not science, it’s scare tactics.
Lord Stern..You are right...Stay away from red meat!!!!
(I’ll take care of it for you..YUMMMMM)
Hey... aren't cows and pigs vegetarians?
When people with the word “Lord” in their name speak of food, remember two words...POTATO FAMINE!
There are huge areas of land in the world that will support cattle, but are not suitable for cultivation. So food of any kind will become more costly.
Add to that the insane bio fuel scam which has disrupted the grain markets and we are headed for food prices that will make life even more difficult for everyone, especially the poor.
We could all commit ritual suicide in groups of 1,000 so others may bury the bodies./s
Will we still be permitted milk and eggs, Lord Stern? And what will happen to all those beef cattle and frying chickens we can no longer eat? Do you plan to provide them with pasture and "free range" living, or maybe you plan to just let those species become extinct?
I could just imagine the cost of a sirloin on the black market, and the newly caused corruption. They would either tax the farmers to death, or outlaw raising beef and pork altogether. Idiots didn’t learn anything from prohibition.
Just because this guy’s body functions well on no protein from meat, it doesn’t follow that everyone else would too. My body needs meat protein, veggies just won’t do it for me. I’d die of a terminal headache if I didn’t eat some protein from meat every day.
Why don’t these fools just kill themselves and turn into compost?
From my cold dead greasy hands.
Meat is murder, tasty tasty murder.
Leftist envy is not about wanting something you have, it’s about destroying or taking away something you have no matter their opportunity to also have it. Most of them could buy an SUV, join a church, get married, have kids, buy a large house with a fireplace and green lawn in the suburbs, adopt a big dog, eat meat, etc., but what they actually want is pure evil: to destroy these things to keep you from having them.
I think I’ll just give up Lord Stern.
[give up meat to save the planet]
NO!! We were given Canine teeth for a reason and I’m going to use them.
Good idea.
Not to mention all of the methane and hot air from liberal flatulence.
Why do the vegans try to impose their ideals on us carnivores? I don’t see the reverse happening. I don’t care what they eat, or even if they eat at all.
Gonna bag a couple of does this evening. Make some jerky, and smoke some mignons.
Filter or non-filter?
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