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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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.
Especially noticeable when he does it under your nose while you’re sleeping together. Takes one to know one.
Muslims hate dogs.
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.
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.
Actually their real objections to dogs are that they are not docile like sheep or goats during sexual encounters.
Soylent Green?
The lawn care company?
“If our people can’t make your lawn green, we’ll just get more people.”
Watch out for Venezuelans...they’ve been known to eat pets. Ask OAC how well communism turns out.
Getting rid of pets? That's an objective of both muzzie and Nazi.
My late, much missed cat contributed more positivity to my life in eighteen short years then every Democrat who ever lived...combined.
The solution to the CO2 problem is for those who consider it a dangerous pollutant to stop exhaling it.
Problem solved.
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.
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.
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.
Multiple angles of attack on peoples rights to own pets and animals.
Vegans fart out a lot of gas. Intestinal bacteria working on digesting and brraking down plant materials create internal gases.
I say get rid of Massachusetts.
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.
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