Posted on 11/15/2009 8:54:44 AM PST by managusta
OK. You've heard all the talk about this crucial conference in Copenhagen and you've decided to clean up your carbon footprint.
First a few pet related facts:
* Dogs occupy 6 million UK households
* Cats are close behind - 5.2 million
What I am talking about is our pets' environmental "paw print".
A big dog consumes around 1,000 calories a day - half that of an adult woman.
The issue of carbon paw prints has been in the news recently thanks to a book: Time to Eat the Dog.
The authors claim that keeping a dog has the same ecological impact as driving a 4.6 litre Land Cruiser 10,000km a year.
Instead of measuring emissions of CO2,they calculated the literal footprint or "global hectare" (gha) - the amount of land it takes to support a given activity.
So they worked out that constructing and driving the Land Cruiser for a year takes 0.41 gha.
Growing and manufacturing the 164kg of meat and 95kg of cereals a collie eats every year takes about 0.84 gha.
However, an Alsatian consumes even more - its paw print is more like 1.1 gha.
By their reckoning, that is more than the environmental footprint of the average Indian person, 0.8 gha of resources.
In the book the average resident of Cardiff requires just 1.89 gha.
The average American requires 9.5 gha.
A cat needs 0.15 gha, a hamster 0.014 gha, and a canary 0.007 gha.
So how can we get the companionship and pleasure of pet ownership without it weighing too heavily on our carbon consciences? The answer is simple,eat your dog!
So, if you are planning to pop your pooch in the pot, here's a link to a tasty dog stew.
http://www.recipesource.com/ethnic/asia/filipino/00/rec0001.html
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
Al Gore wants you to not have pets to prevent Global Warming!
...The average American requires 9.5 gha.
I'd be interested in seeing their methodology that indicates that the "average American" produces more than 20 times as much CO2 as manufacturing a 3 ton vehicle.
Think about the money put into the economy we could eliminate if Poochie were in a pot instead of making a living for some stupid farmer. /sarc
These environweenies have never heard of John Galt.
Your recipe and prep sounds fine. But, I say feed them to the dogs.
Nah
This will probably get pulled and I have had a few pulled and I was out of line...
Do you think we could have a...National RIP Day? Like in Blazing Saddles, we will sit around during a tea bag event, eat bake beans and BBQ and just rip all day. That would be a sign of rear-end rebellion, rather up front, don’t you think?
What would Hillary and Palin have to say to that?
Most Disgusting!
Paul Pierett
we used to chop chickens heads off and they would jump around the yard for a bit.... then we had to pluck, gut, and skin them... you appreciate what you eat when you have to work for it..... dog would be a tough catch...
Ain’t that the truth!
If we’d named him we could have just called him.
‘Course, if we’d named him we wouldn’t have needed to call him in the first place...
Top them off with some lettuce, tomato, pico...
You’ll have a Grrrrrrito!
[I’m going to hell, aren’t I...]
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Why lethal injections? Electric chairs and gas chambers need to be tested from time to time to make sure they're in working order, I'm sure.
I LIKE my dog! Can’t I just eat a global warming sycophant instead?
Wonder what fried *environmentalist taste like?
I think fried environmentalist would be mushy, sour and probably past its expiration date.
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