Posted on 01/27/2008 7:10:16 AM PST by don-o
A SEA change in the consumption of a resource that Americans take for granted may be in store — something cheap, plentiful, widely enjoyed and a part of daily life. And it isn’t oil.
It’s meat.
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To put the energy-using demand of meat production into easy-to-understand terms, Gidon Eshel, a geophysicist at the Bard Center, and Pamela A. Martin, an assistant professor of geophysics at the University of Chicago, calculated that if Americans were to reduce meat consumption by just 20 percent it would be as if we all switched from a standard sedan — a Camry, say — to the ultra-efficient Prius. Similarly, a study last year by the National Institute of Livestock and Grassland Science in Japan estimated that 2.2 pounds of beef is responsible for the equivalent amount of carbon dioxide emitted by the average European car every 155 miles, and burns enough energy to light a 100-watt bulb for nearly 20 days.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Why? What did I do?
Yea, got use that corn to make the E-85, don’t cha know! Can’t be using such a valuable resource for something as frivolous as food!
Dang it, I thought this was about Monica
If we went back to a hunter-gatherer lifestyle we could save even more energy. Let’s worry about the fact that the planet can’t sustain 6+ billion people on a hunter-gatherer lifestyle later.
But of course Gidon Eshel, Pamela A. Martin and the author of this article, being among the elite, will be able to continue to eat as much meat as they want, and feed it to their children, and drive whatever kind of car they so choose, while ensuring that the peons are denied those options in the interests of curbing global warming.
The Vegetarian Nazis strike again!
Free choices are clearly evil!
ELAINE: I mean, she thought it was kind of strange to just order a salad. . . . You know. . . . For a man.
JERRY: What are you saying? . . . Salad! What was I thinking? Women don’t respect salad eaters.
ELAINE: You got that right.
JERRY: But you’re going over there for dinner tonight, right?
ELAINE: Um uh.
JERRY: What is she making?
ELAINE: I don’t know. But I’m sure it had, . . . parents. Call her up. She won’t mind if you come.
JERRY: Oh, don’t worry. I’ll be there and I’ll be packing an artery.
Soylent Green Twigs, Seeds and Tree Bark —— Mmm Mmm good.
That reminds me, I need to go buy some steaks.
Tofu (soy beans) yields three times the biofuel as the next closest source.
(Pass it on, save our beef and corn, and drive a greenie vegan nuts.)
1) falsely define problem
2) make is caused by a nonexistent "immoral" conspiracy
3) Say it will end the world.
4) Give a totalitarian remedy which will lead to a false Utopia.
Where's the beef? If I didn't have my beef, I would cook their goose.
Buch of slimey fascist liberal diet prigs?
Beef is bad, Bush is bad, humans are bad, conspiracy of BIG BEEF, give away your freedom and we will solve ALL your problems....blah...blah...blah...
Who pays to read this drivel? Would that the publisher itself tanks. Pinhead intellectual is an understatement.
I am not a greenie vegan. I hesitate to point this out, realizing it is heresy, but there are actually some soy products that are pretty tasty. I voluntarily eat them. But I also eat an occasional hamburger. People ought to be able to choose what to eat when they feel like eating it without busy-body chicken-littles telling them what they can and cannot have based on some lefty’s politically charged assertion of global warming.
One of my favorite commercials.
Fear not; the next President of the United States of America will place all Americans except illegal aliens and certain wealthy operatives on her National Diet Plans.
The Tennessee Beef Producers run a radio commercial during UT football:
Beef! It's what's for dinner.
HAMBURGER!
That's it! I haven't had a hamburger for months - gonna hie me on down the village store and get me a cheeseburger with onions and mushrooms for Sunday Dinner...
there are actually some soy products that are pretty tasty. I voluntarily eat them.
I think they meant to say, incrementally more efficient Prius.
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