Beam Me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 05/23/2009 4:24:27 PM PDT by GOPGuide
GIVE up lamb roasts and save the planet. Government advisers are developing menus to combat climate change by cutting out “high carbon” food such as meat from sheep, whose burping poses a serious threat to the environment.
Out will go kebabs, greenhouse tomatoes and alcohol. Instead, diners will be encouraged to consume more potatoes and seasonal vegetables, as well as pork and chicken, which generate fewer carbon emissions.
“Changing our lifestyles, including our diets, is going to be one of the crucial elements in cutting carbon emissions,” said David Kennedy, chief executive of the Committee on Climate Change.
Kennedy has stopped eating his favourite doner kebabs because they contain lamb.
A government-sponsored study into greenhouse gases found that producing 2.2lb of lamb released the equivalent of 37lb of carbon dioxide.
The problem is because sheep burp so much methane, a potent greenhouse gas. Cows are only slightly better behaved. The production of 2.2lb of beef releases methane equivalent to 35lb of CO2 Tomatoes, most of which are grown in heated glasshouses, are the most “carbon-intensive” vegetable, each 2.2lb generating more than 20lb of CO2 Potatoes, in contrast, release only about 1lb of CO2 for each 2.2lb of food. The figures are similar for most other native fruit and vegetables.
“We are not saying that everyone should become vegetarian or give up drinking but moving towards less carbon intensive foods will reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve health,” said Kennedy.
The climate committee is analysing emissions from farming and will suggest measures to reduce them. However, it has concluded that people will have to change their habits.
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Will the pork pass the sniff-test by the mooselimbs?
I could probably deal with goat chili, LOL!
Nucking Futs!
I’m sick and tired of these as$H*les tlling us what we should eat, what we should drive, how we should live.
Let’s burn all of them at the stake, that should create a nice symbolic carbon footprint!
I will give up lamb when they pull the gyro from my cold dead hand.
,,, I bet that organisation doesn't have an internal auditor and even the mail room guy is on a superb salary. I wonder if they're all given company bicycles?
David Kennedy, the joke's on ewe.
Man-made-global-warming is a hoax that is perpetuated by David Kennedy, Øbama/algore, their cult followers and is the new religion of secularists, atheists and the lunatic left!
Lamb chops all around!!
Welcome back to FR, Shagster......but it's a bit scary that you resurface with a modifying sheep reference....shame on your Kiwi ass.
,,, with every lamb chop comes... mint sauce!
Added value is where it's at.
Good, that’s the only kind of mint I like...with a few fresh mint leaves...
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