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No, kitty, you can't.
After all -- beef and dairy farming are inefficient and produce a great deal of greenhouse gas.
When it comes to global warming, hamburgers are the Hummers of food, scientists say.Simply switching from steak to salad could cut as much carbon as leaving the car at home a couple days a week.
That's because beef is such an incredibly inefficient food to produce and cows release so much harmful methane into the atmosphere, said Nathan Pelletier of Dalhousie University in Canada.
Pelletier is one of a growing number of scientists studying the environmental costs of food from field to plate.
By looking at everything from how much grain a cow eats before it is ready for slaughter to the emissions released by manure, they are getting a clearer idea of the true costs of food.
The livestock sector is estimated to account for 18 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions and beef is the biggest culprit.
Even though beef only accounts for 30 percent of meat consumption in the developed world it's responsible for 78 percent of the emissions, Pelletier said Sunday at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
The next “logical” steps for the acolytes of the religion of global warming? A beef ban (or at least a tax) and some sort of sanction upon dairy products as well. And when they tell you that you cannot have that cheeseburger, you will be reassured that “it is for your own good – and that of the whole world.” After all, the planet has a fever.
Hey, left-wing busybodies – keep your hands out of my fridge and off my plate!
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Only a seriously inbred moron would deny that global warming is a fact. And only a retarded, seriously inbred moron would write what you write.
|| Posted by TheTruth, August 3, 2010 09:17 AM ||I don't get it. Who exactly is trying to take your cheeseburger away? Which crazy Washington liberal or denizen of the liberal media has actually proposed banning beef or dairy products in the name of "your own good?"
The fact is beef is pretty inefficient (to say nothing of just plain-old fattening), but I don't see anyone proposing a ban.
If someone stole your cheeseburger, you may want to call the cops. It sounds like you've been the victim of a well-planned, petty larceny, not the victim of some liberal cabal.
|| Posted by Adam, August 18, 2010 03:52 PM ||I would like to have a small chocolate frosty from Wendy's please
|| Posted by Lindsey, September 14, 2010 08:29 AM ||I have to disagree with you on this one pal. Although I agree, that part of Global Warming is cyclical, how can anyone disagree with the fact, that we humans are polluting the environment. anyone recall Acid Rain?
Just go back and look at what we were using to power the Industrial Revolution. Wood & Coal & Oil. Look at images of the black soot reaching skyward or the soot covered buildings of the era.
As a kid living in Boise, I can recall the days of wood and coal burning stoves that caused inversions over the valley. A black cloud hung over the valley like a blanket and we couldn't go outside, without coughing our heads off.
Were to you think all this stuff goes and what does it affect. The environment.
|| Posted by sgtmac, October 30, 2010 08:12 AM ||I'll agree with you on the points you make -- but the notion that we are causing climatological armageddon is one that I don't buy.
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