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Dog's eco-footprint a Hummer, study says
Seattle Times ^ | 2 Nov, 2009 | Mark Rahner

Posted on 11/02/2009 1:16:05 PM PST by XHogPilot

Thanks for killing the planet, dog owners.

Well, that's a rough paraphrase of a New Zealand study that claims a medium-size dog leaves a larger ecological footprint than an SUV.

In "Time to Eat the Dog? The Real Guide to Sustainable Living," authors Robert and Brenda Vale argue that resources required to feed a dog — including the amount of land needed to feed the animals that go into its food — give it about twice the eco-footprint of, say, building and fueling a Toyota Land Cruiser. Noting that a cat's pawprint was roughly equivalent to a Volkswagen Golf's, "New Scientist" (www.newscientist.com) asked an environmentalist at the Stockholm Environment Institute in York, U.K., to independently calculate animals' environmental impact, and reported that "his figures tallied almost exactly." The study apparently didn't take into account the emissions of either the SUV or the dogs.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Miscellaneous; Unclassified
KEYWORDS: carboncredits; carbonfootprint; cats; dogs; econut; globalwarmingscare; junkscience; zpg
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Eco-idiot study....
1 posted on 11/02/2009 1:16:06 PM PST by XHogPilot
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To: XHogPilot

Eco-nazis leave a bigger eco-footprint than a dog!

Pray for Aemrica’s Freedom


2 posted on 11/02/2009 1:18:26 PM PST by bray (Silent No More)
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To: XHogPilot

Agree; my dog will outlive anyone who tells me to get rid of her...


3 posted on 11/02/2009 1:19:23 PM PST by Friend_from_the_Frozen_North ("I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit." Ellen Ripley, Aliens 1986)
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To: XHogPilot

Shoot all the squirrels first.


4 posted on 11/02/2009 1:21:08 PM PST by Paladin2
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A cat has the footprint of a Volks?

Try a world with no cats. Our locals found out very, very fast when they relocated a controlled feral cat colony at the docks.

The rats took over and rats have no fear of humans.

They brought the cat colony back.


5 posted on 11/02/2009 1:21:15 PM PST by OpusatFR (Tagline not State Approved.)
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To: XHogPilot

Great idea for a cage fight. The eco nazis against Cujo.

Lots of popcorn for that one.


6 posted on 11/02/2009 1:21:46 PM PST by Texas resident ( Doing my part to piss off the heathen left.)
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To: XHogPilot

If the left thinks taking my guns will be difficult, wait till they come after my lab!


7 posted on 11/02/2009 1:22:15 PM PST by Oldpuppymax (AGENDA OF THE LEFT EXPOSED)
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To: Texas resident

“Great idea for a cage fight. The eco nazis against Cujo.

Lots of popcorn for that one.”

You’ve presented an impossible choice for me. I’d have to choose Cujo.


8 posted on 11/02/2009 1:23:38 PM PST by OpusatFR (Tagline not State Approved.)
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To: XHogPilot; scripter; Defendingliberty; WL-law; Normandy; TenthAmendmentChampion; FrPR; ...
 


Beam me to Planet Gore !

9 posted on 11/02/2009 1:23:51 PM PST by steelyourfaith (Limit all U.S. politicians to two terms: One in office and one in prison! to s)
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To: XHogPilot

This guy needs his ass kicked.


10 posted on 11/02/2009 1:23:59 PM PST by Anti-Bubba182
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Ants are the problem.

There are one billion ants to every human on the planet. Such large numbers burrowing into our grounds is unacceptable.

Kill the Ants...Save the World


11 posted on 11/02/2009 1:24:33 PM PST by edcoil (If I had 1 cent for every dollar the government saved, Bill Gates and I would be friends.)
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Maybe dogs should be fed the carcasses of the over-population nuts...solve two problems at one blow.


12 posted on 11/02/2009 1:25:39 PM PST by Petronski (In Germany they came first for the Communists, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist...)
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At what point in absurdity, will normal people begin publicly and loudly ridiculing liberal morons like these dog haters? Really. These types what to tax cow farts!!! Come on! Have those morons been ridiculed into silence? NO! Au contraire, they’re going to tax cow farts! What in hell is wrong with the sane people, that they don’t tear down every absurd liberal statement and thus stem the tide of absurdity? There are of course so many, thousands, so many liberal idiot ideas at once that you can’t ridicule them all. That is one of Alinsky’s Rules, give ‘em more than they can handle and overwhelm them. Works pretty good, if the eco-goofs can say dogs are evil, when most people LOVE dogs, and they get away with such stupidity.

The more liberals I meet or hear of, the more I LOVE MY DOGS.


13 posted on 11/02/2009 1:26:41 PM PST by TheConservativeParty ( PALIN-BACHMANN 2012 "Give Estrogen A Chance!")
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... and I’ve never stepped in a pile of SUV doo-doo...


14 posted on 11/02/2009 1:28:04 PM PST by WOSG (OPERATION RESTORE AMERICAN FREEDOM - NOVEMBER, 2010 - DO YOUR PART!)
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“Ants are the problem.
There are one billion ants to every human on the planet. Such large numbers burrowing into our grounds is unacceptable.”

If there was an animal democracy, we’d be in big heap trouble.

I for one welcome our new insect Overlords!


15 posted on 11/02/2009 1:29:38 PM PST by WOSG (OPERATION RESTORE AMERICAN FREEDOM - NOVEMBER, 2010 - DO YOUR PART!)
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Aren’t they coming on “V” tomorrow night?


16 posted on 11/02/2009 1:31:49 PM PST by edcoil (If I had 1 cent for every dollar the government saved, Bill Gates and I would be friends.)
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To: XHogPilot

But will a Toyota Land Cruiser lick your hand?


17 posted on 11/02/2009 1:38:41 PM PST by luvbach1 (Worse than we could have imagined.)
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We need to unite together and close all of those disgraceful dog plants. All over the world more and more dogs are being built, pollution poring forth from the smokestacks.
The green house gases from the Dog Plants are twice that from auto plants.
We need a cash for canines, so we can turn in our old coal burning dogs for the new green dogs.
And a green dogs has less calories, but is just as filling.
18 posted on 11/02/2009 1:40:21 PM PST by Colvin (Harry Reid is a sap sucking idiot.)
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STUPID HIPPIES


19 posted on 11/02/2009 2:14:36 PM PST by envisio
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My 4 SUVs, I mean, dogs said they didn’t care....

hh


20 posted on 11/02/2009 2:17:49 PM PST by hoosier hick (Note to RINOs: We need a choice, not an echo....Barry Goldwater)
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