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The environmental footprint of your pet is bigger than you think (Fido & Fluffy gotta go - first)
The Verge ^ | 8/04/17 | Alessandra Potenza

Posted on 02/16/2019 6:21:18 PM PST by Libloather

Bad news for environmentally conscious pet owners: cats’ and dogs’ eating habits are responsible for dumping as many as 64 million tons of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere every year — roughly the equivalent of driving over 13 million cars. That’s due to all the meat our furry friends gobble down, according to new research.

There are more than 163 million dogs and cats in the US, and they just love to eat. In fact, cats and dogs in the US consume about 19 percent as many calories as people do in the US, or about as much as 62 million Americans, according to a new study published in Plos One. Because much of that food is meat, and meat production is known to heavily contribute to climate change, our pets leave a pretty stark carbon footprint on our environment.

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By calculating the number of dogs and cats in the US, their average weights, and ingredients in pet foods, Okin tallied the carbon footprint of our animal friends. His findings: American cats and dogs consume about 19 percent as many calories as people do in the US; and because they’re mainly meat-eaters, they consume about 30 percent of the animal-derived calories that people consume. They also produce 30 percent as much poop as Americans do. (If all those feces were disposed as garbage, it’d be equivalent to the total trash produced by over 6 million Americans, or approximately the population of Massachusetts, the study says.) All in all, American cats and dogs are responsible for producing about 64 million tons of methane and nitrous oxide, two powerful greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change, according to Okin’s calculations.

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To: Libloather; All

One of the many anti-human crusades of the Bolsheviks in the early Soviet Union was to eliminate pet ownership by Soviet subjects. Now they’re trying to do the same thing here under “green” camouflage.


21 posted on 02/16/2019 6:41:40 PM PST by libstripper
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To: RoosterRedux

Especially noticeable when he does it under your nose while you’re sleeping together. Takes one to know one.


22 posted on 02/16/2019 6:43:35 PM PST by libstripper
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To: Fungi

Muslims hate dogs.


23 posted on 02/16/2019 6:44:08 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Libloather

A person’s real “environmental footprint” is proportional to the sum of the amount of money they earn and spend.

People who were really concerned about “environmental footprints” would earn as little money as necessary and spend as little money as possible.

Anybody who doesn’t do that and pretends to be concerned about their “environmental footprint” is a poser.


24 posted on 02/16/2019 6:47:24 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Capitalism produces EVERYTHING Socialists/Communists/Democratic-Socialists wish to "redistribute.")
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To: Libloather
The bottom line with these folks is that they hate life, human life in particular. Anything that improves the quality of human life is something they insist has to go.

The best description of them is :
You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and he stood not in the truth ; because truth is not in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own : for he is a liar, and the father thereof.

25 posted on 02/16/2019 6:48:48 PM PST by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory !!)
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To: blueplum

Actually their real objections to dogs are that they are not docile like sheep or goats during sexual encounters.


26 posted on 02/16/2019 6:48:51 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (Start using cash and checks or the elite class and bankers will make "cashless" the norm.)
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To: oldasrocks

Soylent Green?

The lawn care company?

“If our people can’t make your lawn green, we’ll just get more people.”


27 posted on 02/16/2019 6:50:10 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Libloather

Watch out for Venezuelans...they’ve been known to eat pets. Ask OAC how well communism turns out.


28 posted on 02/16/2019 6:52:38 PM PST by CincyRichieRich (But the noble man makes noble plans, and by noble deeds they stand. Isaiah 32:8)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Getting rid of pets? That's an objective of both muzzie and Nazi.

29 posted on 02/16/2019 6:55:20 PM PST by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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30 posted on 02/16/2019 6:58:10 PM PST by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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To: Libloather

My late, much missed cat contributed more positivity to my life in eighteen short years then every Democrat who ever lived...combined.


31 posted on 02/16/2019 7:02:43 PM PST by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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To: Libloather

The solution to the CO2 problem is for those who consider it a dangerous pollutant to stop exhaling it.

Problem solved.


32 posted on 02/16/2019 7:04:35 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: blueunicorn6

I printed this out and put it on the floor for the dogs to read.
They crapped on it.
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Good taste in reading matter.

They prefer to read The New American.


33 posted on 02/16/2019 7:07:35 PM PST by frank ballenger ( the End vote fraud,noncitizens & illegals voting & leftist media news censorship or we're finished.)
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To: Libloather

Following her big stink about bovine flatulence, and this urgent update concerning the alarming methane level increases involving meat-eating pets, AOC made another addendum to her veganly-vaunted "Green Plan", when she decided that beer should be totally outlawed too, after she learned about the general atmosphere surrounding beerfests, like this one...


       

34 posted on 02/16/2019 7:14:28 PM PST by Songcraft
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To: oldasrocks

We have a fireplace mantel adorned with urns of
all of the ashes of our furry friends who have gone to the rainbow bridge. We have moved so often, they need to come with us.


35 posted on 02/16/2019 7:16:30 PM PST by HotKat (Politicians are like diapers; they need to be changed often and for the same reason. Mark Twain)
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To: Libloather

Think of the 100s or 1000s of trees an average elephant kills in its life. Time to start the ivory trade once again. It is for the planet.


36 posted on 02/16/2019 7:23:52 PM PST by LukeL
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To: Libloather

Multiple angles of attack on peoples rights to own pets and animals.


37 posted on 02/16/2019 7:24:11 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Libloather

Vegans fart out a lot of gas. Intestinal bacteria working on digesting and brraking down plant materials create internal gases.


38 posted on 02/16/2019 7:25:45 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Libloather
They also produce 30 percent as much poop as Americans do. (If all those feces were disposed as garbage, it’d be equivalent to the total trash produced by over 6 million Americans, or approximately the population of Massachusetts, the study says.)

I say get rid of Massachusetts.

39 posted on 02/16/2019 7:26:46 PM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.)
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To: Libloather

Sorry, derps, but I’d feed my fur kids before I’d pull you out of a raging river. Hell, it doesn’t even have to rage.


40 posted on 02/16/2019 7:27:14 PM PST by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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