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Carbon Tax on Carnivores ("Climate Smart Diet")
discovery.com ^
| Jan. 28, 2011
| Tim Wall
Posted on 02/02/2011 5:41:15 PM PST by PROCON
Many people think with either their wallets or their stomachs. Taking advantage of that can be used to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
A tax on meat and milk would likely mean we'd buy less of the foods that contribute to climate change. And that's good for the environment, said a study published in the journal Climate Change.
"This tax is not at all a matter of forcing people to become vegetarians but merely moving toward a slightly more climate-smart diet," said one of the study's authors Stefan Wirsenius, of the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, in a press release.
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TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: climatechange; globalwarming
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You can have my steak when you pry it......
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posted on
02/02/2011 5:41:18 PM PST
by
PROCON
To: steelyourfaith; Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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posted on
02/02/2011 5:42:02 PM PST
by
PROCON
(Republicans: we elected you, DON'T let us down; 2011: the year of REPEAL!)
To: PROCON
“Certain types of loudmouthism should be a capital offense among descent people.” — Robert A. Heinlein, from “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.”
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posted on
02/02/2011 5:43:00 PM PST
by
backwoods-engineer
(Any politician who holds that the state accords rights is an oathbreaker and an "enemy... domestic.")
To: PROCON
Please don’t let Moochelle see this article.....Barry will give moochelle the power to tax your Hamburgers!!
To: PROCON
Stefan Wirsenius, of the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, is obviously one of those Swedes who HATES THE SA'AMI.
Frankly, he should be lucky they are predominantly non-violent. In any rational Scandinavia people like him would simply be tossed into the Artic 50 meters off shore and told to swim for it.
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posted on
02/02/2011 5:44:02 PM PST
by
muawiyah
To: PROCON
The food Nazi blitzkrieg is on the way!
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posted on
02/02/2011 5:45:13 PM PST
by
FlingWingFlyer
(If ObamaCare is so great, why is Barry giving waivers to all of his friends, donors and supporters?)
To: PROCON
Interesting how Lefties' solutions to all the imaginary problems they manufacture is to take somebody else's money.
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posted on
02/02/2011 5:46:38 PM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
("If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun." -- Barry Soetoro, June 11, 2008)
To: PROCON
It is 7 degrees in Texas tonight. I could care less about global warming...
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posted on
02/02/2011 5:49:57 PM PST
by
neodad
(USS Vincennes (CG 49) "Freedom's Fortress")
To: PROCON
A tax on meat and milk would likely mean we'd buy less of the foods that contribute to climate change elect fewer idiot politicians who increase taxes on meat and milk.
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posted on
02/02/2011 5:53:02 PM PST
by
Gil4
(Sometimes it's not low self-esteem - it's just accurate self-assessment.)
To: PROCON
When liberals start taxing carnivores, I start eating liberals.
"But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: for men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away, for his name is Obama."
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posted on
02/02/2011 5:55:03 PM PST
by
Viking2002
(RELEASE THE KRAKEN!!!!!!)
To: PROCON
A note to vegetarians: My food craps on your food!
To: PROCON
Okay, someone correct me if I’m wrong, but I remember from my physiology classes that a diet higher in carbohydrates (primarily plants) causes the body to excrete higher levels of carbon dioxide gas than a diet based on animal products. That was why they recommended low carb intake for persons suffering from obstructive lung diseases.
To: steelyourfaith
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posted on
02/02/2011 5:58:34 PM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: PROCON
By this study’s logic, shouldn’t we also be taxing broccoli and cauliflower, too? Because most folks I know who eat them subsequently produces LOTS of methane.
I’m just sayin’, y’know?
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posted on
02/02/2011 5:58:42 PM PST
by
DemforBush
(I got three passports, a couple of visas. You don't even know my real name..)
To: RobertClark
A note to vegetarians: My food craps on your food!ROFLOL, thanks for livening up this thread!
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posted on
02/02/2011 5:59:55 PM PST
by
PROCON
(Republicans: we elected you, DON'T let us down; 2011: the year of REPEAL!)
To: PROCON
These people are power-mad. The most enthusiastic Inquisitor could have taken a lesson from the acolytes of the AGW church.
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posted on
02/02/2011 6:05:03 PM PST
by
absalom01
(You should do your duty in all things. You can never do more, you should never wish to do less.)
To: DemforBush
I love me some brussel sprouts
To: PROCON
I think that I have a better idea, a better way to reduce the methane generated by beef cattle (whether by flatulence or just burps).
Institute a brief, regulated, but universal season on cows, steers, goats, pigs, and chickens...charge a buck apiece for hunting license. Place all feed lot personnel, ranchers, and chicken farmers in protective custody until the "crisis" ends.
Stand back:
Watch PETA and the entire progressive/vegan/left implode while all those lovable critters get blown off the map.
(/sarc)
See how many veggie burgers and tofurkies get built when there's more money to be made in subsidized ethanol.
(Next week we examine the plausibility of anything more than a dozen new (subsidized) electric vehicles being put into operation with zero new sources of electricity to support them and existing demand.)
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posted on
02/02/2011 6:08:00 PM PST
by
norton
To: PROCON; Army Air Corps; IrishCatholic; Whenifhow; SolitaryMan; mmanager; markomalley; ...
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posted on
02/02/2011 6:09:58 PM PST
by
steelyourfaith
(ObamaCare Death Panels: a Final Solution to the looming Social Security crisis ?)
To: PROCON
tax tofu all you want but keep your hands off my 5 gallons of whole milk a week!!!!
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posted on
02/02/2011 6:11:12 PM PST
by
dalereed
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