Fire 'em up, FReepers!
Posted on 04/19/2006 4:24:50 AM PDT by Millicent_Hornswaggle
Your personal impact on global warming may be influenced as much by what you eat as by what you drive.
That surprising conclusion comes from a couple of scientists who have taken an unusual look at the production of greenhouse gases from an angle that not many folks have even thought about. Gidon Eshel and Pamela Martin, assistant professors of geophysics at the University of Chicago, have found that our consumption of red meat may be as bad for the planet as it is for our bodies.
If you want to help lower greenhouse gas emissions, they conclude in a report to be published in the journal Earth Interactions, become a vegetarian.
In the interest of full disclosure, it should be noted that both researchers are vegetarians, although they admit to cheating a little with an occasional sardine. But they say their conclusions are backed up by hard data.
Eshel and Martin collected that data from a wide range of sources, and they examined the amount of fossil-fuel energy — and thus the level of production of greenhouse gases — required for five different diets. The vegetarian diet turned out to be the most energy efficient, followed by poultry and what they call the "mean American diet," which consists of a little bit of everything.
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Save the planet, eat a cow.
For those with a penchant for beans, I say, "Stop the production of greenhouse gasses. PLEASE!!"
Sardines??? MURDERERS!!!
Bovine feces.
The envirowhacks actually blamed global warming on cow farts a few years back. It was a great joke-- I guess they were series?!?
"The vegetarian diet turned out to be the most energy efficient,..."
Not for people who are soy-intolerant.
Talk about New Zealand cows....no contest..
Were they measuring wind quality outside of a "Taco Bell"?
Breaking now! Increased methane emissions leads to "Global Warming!"...
My sentiments exactly. We have to keep eating meat to hold down the population of those terrible farting cows.
Vegetarians writing about why we should be vegetarians.
Hmmmmm...Sorry, Bessie.
Not really a new idea. It has long been known the methane produced by cows is quite significant.
Save a cow, eat a vegetarian.
The planet can not be saved unless all animals (including humans) are destroyed. /s };>[
I don't know about y'all, but...
I vote that we turn this thread into another great FReeper recipe thread!
The number one source though is termites. Do you see calls to eradicate termites because of their methane?
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