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Burping of the lambs blows roast off menu
timesonline ^ | May 24, 2009 | Jonathan Leake, Environment Editor

Posted on 07/07/2009 8:25:56 PM PDT by Gordon Greene

GIVE up lamb roasts and save the planet. Government advisers are developing menus to combat climate change by cutting out “high carbon” food such as meat from sheep, whose burping poses a serious threat to the environment.

Out will go kebabs, greenhouse tomatoes and alcohol. Instead, diners will be encouraged to consume more potatoes and seasonal vegetables, as well as pork and chicken, which generate fewer carbon emissions.

“Changing our lifestyles, including our diets, is going to be one of the crucial elements in cutting carbon emissions,” said David Kennedy, chief executive of the Committee on Climate Change....

....The problem is because sheep burp so much methane, a potent greenhouse gas. Cows are only slightly better behaved....

(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: agw; flatulence; globalwarming; hoax; junkscience
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Every time I write a bit of satire, I find something like this that proves once again you can't trump reality.

SHEESH!!!

1 posted on 07/07/2009 8:25:56 PM PDT by Gordon Greene
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To: Gordon Greene

Grill baby, grill.

2 posted on 07/07/2009 8:32:01 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( Don't mess with the mockingbird! /\/\ http://tiny.cc/freepthis)
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To: Gordon Greene

“Changing our lifestyles, including our diets, is going to be one of the crucial elements in cutting carbon emissions,” said David Kennedy, chief executive of the Committee on Climate Change....

Just means the ruling party eats what it wants and the masses will get rationed bread.


3 posted on 07/07/2009 8:32:03 PM PDT by Redcitizen (December 21, 2012; there's change for ya!)
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To: Gordon Greene

"I burp in your general direction!"

4 posted on 07/07/2009 8:34:22 PM PDT by T Minus Four (Matthew 15:8 - 9)
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To: Gordon Greene

These people must be totally out of their minds.


5 posted on 07/07/2009 8:34:23 PM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannolis. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: Gordon Greene

PPPHHHHHHHppppppppppppp! Darn Refired Beans I had for Dinner. Climate dorks take that whiff!


6 posted on 07/07/2009 8:35:00 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country! What else needs said?)
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To: Gordon Greene

Sounds like a “self preparation” problem to me.


7 posted on 07/07/2009 8:35:06 PM PDT by Psycho_Bunny (ALSO SPRACH ZEROTHUSTRA)
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To: Gordon Greene

If I don’t eat lamb, then the lamb will still burp.


8 posted on 07/07/2009 8:36:07 PM PDT by HungarianGypsy
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To: Gordon Greene

Either I break down the starches or the lamb does it on my behalf.

From my cold dead greasy hands!


9 posted on 07/07/2009 8:37:59 PM PDT by posterchild (Endowed by my Creator with certain unalienable rights.)
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To: SandRat

Beans, beans, the musical fruit...

10 posted on 07/07/2009 8:39:24 PM PDT by T Minus Four (Matthew 15:8 - 9)
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To: T Minus Four

The more I eat the more I Toot!


11 posted on 07/07/2009 8:41:18 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country! What else needs said?)
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To: Gordon Greene

Mmmmmm. Lamb Vindaloo.


12 posted on 07/07/2009 8:41:43 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Gordon Greene

I believe that the solution to excessive C02 emissions involves getting all of the environazis to stop exhaling. The easiest way for them to do that is to stop inhaling as well. Most of them are just a waste of skin anyways.


13 posted on 07/07/2009 8:42:01 PM PDT by 43north (11.04.08: the day America committed voluntary suicide)
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To: Redcitizen

“Just means the ruling party eats what it wants and the masses will get rationed bread.”

Precisely


14 posted on 07/07/2009 8:42:56 PM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists...Call 'em What you Will, They ALL have Fairies Living In Their Trees.)
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To: tet68

Love a good vindaloo and am a sucker for just about any entree with lamb in it.


15 posted on 07/07/2009 8:45:34 PM PDT by posterchild (Endowed by my Creator with certain unalienable rights.)
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To: Gordon Greene

I laughed so hard when I saw this one!!!!!!!!

16 posted on 07/07/2009 8:48:51 PM PDT by T Minus Four (Matthew 15:8 - 9)
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To: Gordon Greene

As the famous philosopher Bugs Bunny would say: “what a maroon”


17 posted on 07/07/2009 8:50:28 PM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (I agree with Rick..)
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To: T Minus Four

***I laughed so hard when I saw this one!!!!!!!! ***

Especially since the flame should be coming out just under the base of tail, not lower!

Still funny though!


18 posted on 07/07/2009 8:53:24 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (A modern liberal is someone who doesn't care what you do so long as it is compulsory.)
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To: T Minus Four

Pinto beans are good for the heart,
the more you eat, the more you *art!
The more you *art,the better you feel,
eat those pintos every meal!!


19 posted on 07/07/2009 8:54:15 PM PDT by mrsalty
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To: T Minus Four

"I'll have a chili dog, extra onions, and a diet coke"

20 posted on 07/07/2009 8:54:35 PM PDT by T Minus Four (Matthew 15:8 - 9)
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