Posted on 06/15/2015 7:26:24 PM PDT by nickcarraway
California’s drought is serious and the state’s uber-thirsty beef industry is taking a huge hit.
Now, the Grammy Award-winning DJ, musician and very vegan artist Moby is the face of a new campaign that let’s folks ‘have their steak and eat it, too,’ even in these drought-shaming times.
Just skip showers.
Skip Showers For Beef is a grassroots movement borne from the premise that every four ounces of beef takes about 450 gallons to produce, the equivalent of 26 showers.
The organization reached out to eco-conscious Moby to help get their message across: stop showering.
In a new black and white video, Moby tells human carnivores with a note of hipsteresque honesty, “It is possible to enjoy your meat responsibly.”
He says skipping your shower might sound ridiculous, “but in face of this historic drought we all need to think outside the box.”
California’s drought is serious and the state’s uber-thirsty beef industry is taking a huge hit.
Now, the Grammy Award-winning DJ, musician and very vegan artist Moby is the face of a new campaign that let’s folks ‘have their steak and eat it, too,’ even in these drought-shaming times.
Just skip showers.
Skip Showers For Beef is a grassroots movement borne from the premise that every four ounces of beef takes about 450 gallons to produce, the equivalent of 26 showers.
The organization reached out to eco-conscious Moby to help get their message across: stop showering.
In a new black and white video, Moby tells human carnivores with a note of hipsteresque honesty, “It is possible to enjoy your meat responsibly.” He says skipping your shower might sound ridiculous, “but in face of this historic drought we all need to think outside the box.”
You can download their ‘Waterless Hygiene Guide’ on the website for tips on how to stay clean while you enjoy “guilt-free beef.”
For example, baby powder can be used for dry showers and to freshen clothes. Wash hair with dry shampoo. Pop your your jeans into the freezer for 12 hours to kill bacteria and eliminate odors. To minimize the body funk that can accumulate over time, avoid spicy foods.
All beef aside, the notion of not showering is nothing new. The French have eschewed bathing for centuries. According to the Daily Mail, one in 29 French people say they don’t even take a shower once a week.
So, will Moby be skipping his showers à la française? No.
“I won’t,” he says with a wink. “I don’t eat meat, but you can. Go for it. Change happens one shower at a time.”
From another post:
This statistic, widely parroted by the media and some politicians, is a gross distortion. Of the water that is captured for use, farmers get 40%, cities get 10% and a full 50% goes to environmental purposes — that is, it gets flushed into the ocean. By arbitrarily excluding the huge environmental water diversion from their calculations — as if it is somehow irrelevant to the water crisis — environmentalists deceptively double the farmers’ usage from 40% to 80%.
Read More At Investor’s Business Daily: http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/061215-757095-california-drought-caused-by-environmental-activists.htm#ixzz3dBjBFLtQ
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Especially at the rate of 26 showers for every 4 ounces of beef.
Please, please, remember that some of us can play an instrument quite well, yet still mainaain a good IQ.
I think the “Middle Finger for Moby” will find some good traction.
Sadly, it’s the stupid ones who get all the publicity.
Moby doesn’t play an instrument. He programs a computer.
Oh lawdy, his trouble so hard.
How does he think his veggies are grown? He should follow his logic concerning food or maybe he waters his veggies ala third world with sewage.
There’s no shortage of water ,just a shortage of Brains
Its rained for days here in Michigan. Can I take a shower?
Time to implement prepper washing methods in CA. Wash and eat your beef!
http://www.theprepperjournal.com/2013/05/21/sponge-bath-keep-clean-without-running-water/
Clean With Seven Cups
....I once doubted the word of a friend who told me that he’d been taught to take a complete bath with an army helmet full of water. Now I know he was telling the truth, because I’ve done it myself using a hard hat while fighting forest fires. The fact is, it’s possible to clean every part of your body but your hair — using an ordinary metal wash basin — with only seven cups of water … which is just under half a gallon!....(more at link.)
(There is a pleasant picture of a Young lady demonstrating a low water washing technique at link!)
Unless your French.
Maybe he subsists on prana.
And Moby? You can get stomped by Obie
You 36-year-old baldheaded fag, bl*w me
You don’t know me, you’re too old, let go
It’s over, nobody listens to techno
How did Eminem know about Obama back then?
I’d also prefer you had taken a shower and skipped eating beef rather than the other way round if you are going to be near!!
Actually ,their estimate of the water for a shower is ridiculous.I can take a shower including shampoo ,be clean, and use less than FIVE gallons.That is a shower for the purpose of being clean, not standing under pounding water for ten minutes.
The idiot musician should get together with the singer who lectured her audience to use one sheet of toilet paper.
My answer is:don’t hand me that s-—!
He’s a vegan. How much water does it take to grow those crops?
How much water does it take to process that tofu?
Another liberal telling everyone what to do with their bodies
It’s so bad down there that Baptists are sprinkling and Catholics are praying to turn wine into water.
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