Meat and Climate Change

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Permalink Reply by Makaranda...=) on October 22, 2009 at 6:42am

yes people would atleast be a little more conscious about what they eat..

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Permalink Reply by David M. McLean on October 23, 2009 at 10:15am

Yawn...

Even vegans should see the fallacy in this. Factory farming of animals is no different than big agriculture's negative contribution. To wit: Why grow massive amounts of grains to begin with? Cows naturally eat grass, not the grains in their factory feed. Similarly, humans don't naturally eat wheat, etc. I don't see any RAW vegans eating tomato sandwiches on wheat or baked cornbread.

The large-scale production of grains - which must wipe out all other plant life in the area (not to mention monopolize a huge area of land for a single purpose, stifling other innovative (& profitable) use of the land - is the problem.

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Permalink Reply by Makaranda...=) on October 23, 2009 at 10:42am

good point- wouldn't it be amazing if all of that land was used for fruit and nut trees?!

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Permalink Reply by simpleroar on November 3, 2009 at 12:31am

damn straight

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Permalink Reply by Travis on November 1, 2009 at 5:09pm

while that's true, meat is a bigger contributer to greenhouse emissions so at least vegans are doing better than some for the environment. eating a salad in a hummer is better for emissions than eating a cheeseburger in a prius which just goes to show how detrimental meat is to the environment.

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Permalink Reply by Asiris on November 2, 2009 at 11:42pm

eating a salad in a hummer is better for emissions than eating a cheeseburger in a prius which just goes to show how detrimental meat is to the environment.

Is that true really?

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Permalink Reply by simpleroar on November 3, 2009 at 12:32am

yeh meat is definitely the biggest contributor

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Permalink Reply by Asiris on November 3, 2009 at 12:35am

Sources? Is this a fact? How do you know?

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Permalink Reply by simpleroar on November 3, 2009 at 12:45am

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_vegetarianism

http://www.goveg.com/environment-globalwarming.asp

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Permalink Reply by Asiris on November 3, 2009 at 1:00am

Rearing cattle produces more greenhouse gases than driving cars, UN...

Its a 2006 UN report

“Livestock are one of the most significant contributors to today’s most serious environmental problems,” senior UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) official Henning Steinfeld said. “Urgent action is required to remedy the situation.”

Livestock impacts on the environment
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations spotlight

Thanks~

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Permalink Reply by Jerry Strong Heart on October 23, 2009 at 1:45pm

Yep, the Anti-Christ is working Hard with its War and Poison'Us Greed----------That means we must stay on the Transformation Path and continue the Power-Example---------

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Permalink Reply by foxy man on October 23, 2009 at 2:48pm

considering the facts such as cutting open animals stomach and digestive tract releases gases and it is about 6.000.000.000 animals a day, it should not surprise anyone that it has some effect on environment, OR we need to clear land of trees to have animals graze. Both examples are devastating our climate. Some say it is bs, some say it is not, but I believe our media do not use such information to report to masses becouse the masses are 90% animal consumers.Let it be commercial or organic grazing, both have tremendouse effect on our soil, waters and air, to name few.

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