Then here's one more I took after a day of fly fishing. The Tetons are magnificent viewed from the Idaho side!
Posted on 09/06/2008 5:58:34 PM PDT by markomalley
People should have one meat-free day a week if they want to make a personal and effective sacrifice that would help tackle climate change, the world's leading authority on global warming has told The Observer
Dr Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which last year earned a joint share of the Nobel Peace Prize, said that people should then go on to reduce their meat consumption even further.
His comments are the most controversial advice yet provided by the panel on how individuals can help tackle global warning.
Pachauri, who was re-elected the panel's chairman for a second six-year term last week, said diet change was important because of the huge greenhouse gas emissions and other environmental problems - including habitat destruction - associated with rearing cattle and other animals. It was relatively easy to change eating habits compared to changing means of transport, he said.
The UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation has estimated that meat production accounts for nearly a fifth of global greenhouse gas emissions. These are generated during the production of animal feeds, for example, while ruminants, particularly cows, emit methane, which is 23 times more effective as a global warming agent than carbon dioxide. The agency has also warned that meat consumption is set to double by the middle of the century.
'In terms of immediacy of action and the feasibility of bringing about reductions in a short period of time, it clearly is the most attractive opportunity,' said Pachauri. 'Give up meat for one day [a week] initially, and decrease it from there,' said the Indian economist, who is a vegetarian.
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The real truth is that you would be less intrusive on the environment if you ate more meat. Growing ARUGULA takes a lot of land, mechanized machinery and manpower, especially if you take into account and compare the nutrients and the calories.
Much of the beef is backgrounded on lands that are marginal and then fattened for a short time before going to market.
Yeah, that’s great, UN. Lets just reduce our meat consumption by 1 day a week... and screw the farmers and ranchers who will take a 1/7th reduction in revenue for it. Yeah, that’s a great idea.
Here’s another great idea, Mr. UN. How’s about you and your leaf eating Gia slaves do everyone a favor and link arms and head down to the Soilent Green factory. How’s that hit ya? Ya like that idea?
Pass the steak sauce.
LOL...No, apparently I didn’t.
When plants decay, they create methane gas which is a much more powerful greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.
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That’s true but they want the world to think that the fake global warming is caused by cow flatulance.
If I eat less meat and it dose stop globule warming. Where will I get my leather coat to wear because it is so cold?
Global warming is an excuse the global elites are using to take control over us. This is one way they will take control of the food supply.
“The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation has estimated that meat production accounts for nearly a fifth of global greenhouse gas emissions. These are generated during the production of animal feeds, for example...”
Right. And the Good People of Earth will generate crop substitutes for meat by doing what, exactly?
Er.
Tilling the soil, perhaps?
Consider the animal by-products that currently find their way into manufacturing. Be ready to clearcut more trees and drain more wetlands to substitute plant by-products. It’s perfectly OK. The aboriginals won’t mind giving up their land. And in the remote possibility they protest, well, the new cropland will need fertilizer, Comrade.
“People should have one meat-free day a week if they want to make a personal and effective sacrifice that would help tackle climate change,”
I’ll have meat at every meal thank you.
I’ll also just go drive around just to be driving around to counter some of the freaks tht believe that AH!
My footprint will be bigger than yours no matter what you do!
People should have two meat-free days most weeks, and a long stretch of them before Pascha and Christimas, and shorter stretches before the Feast of SS. Peter and Paul and the Dormition of the Theotokos. Oh, and lay off the stuff on January 5th, August 29th and Sept. 14th as well (on whichever calendar you’re using).
Of course, don’t forget to eat meat all week the week after Pascha and from Christmas to the Vigil of Theophany, and during the week following the Sunday of the Pharisee and the Publican.
Unless of course you’re a monk or a nun, in which case you should lay off the stuff entirely (except fish).
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(That’s an Orthodox Christian monastic smiley, in case you’ve not seen it before. Of course, implicit in my suggestion is the idea that the whole of humanity would be better off embracing the original-issue version of Christianity—now usually called Eastern Orthodoxy—and keeping the fasts.)
Looked like a great time! Oh and what are those things in the background...mountains? How I yearn for those wonderful Idaho vistas!
Great minds think alike! ;)
Then here's one more I took after a day of fly fishing. The Tetons are magnificent viewed from the Idaho side!
Thank you. Magnificent is an understatement!
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