Climate chief Lord Stern: give up meat to save the planet - Times Online
...or not to indulge in rights violations.
Ros
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Originally Posted by RootofStar
Listen @ 07.32 for clarification: BBC - Today - Today: Tuesday 27th October
Well, if you were going to come up with a really inefficient source of food, the cow is what you would arrive at.
And of course, our entire agricultural industry is built on beef, but then again, we were also good at planning ahead and forward thinking.
A demagogue is someone who will preach doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.
Irish beef is among the best quelity in the world due it being grass fed, as opposed to corn based pellets. Aberdeen Angus is some of the best meat you'll ever eat, and with the exception of a few resteraunts, we export it all and import cheap shïte because it's been decided (and apparently they're right) that the Irish would miss the difference.
I find this to be an amusing metaphor for Ireland in general sometimes.
"Authority that cannot be questioned is tyranny and I will not accept tyranny, any tyranny, even that of heaven."
- Terry Pratchett
Yes, well that seems to be an environmental problem for starters.
IFA accuses meat factories of trying to damage live export trade | Irish Examiner
Are you says most of all beef is exported, or just the Angus?
Ros
What is clear is that people are eating more meat and dairy products every year.
Global meat production is projected to more than double from 229 million tonnes in 1999/2001 to 465 million tonnes in 2050, while milk output is set to climb from 580 to 1043 million tonnes.
FULL: BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | The methane makers
Ros
It would be hard to think of a phrase more inane than "save the planet". The planet doesn't need our help. It's not in danger. Human life and civilisation is though.
"But do 'climategate' revelations justify the sceptics’ claims that this is “the final nail in the coffin” of global warming theory? Not at all. They damage the credibility of three or four scientists. They raise questions about the integrity of one or perhaps two out of several hundred lines of evidence."
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I see what you mean in terms of the rock that we are sitting on. Of course, there are also risks to other forms of life as well as human life.
Ros.
In a paper published by a respected US thinktank, the Worldwatch Institute, two World Bank environmental advisers claim that instead of 18 per cent of global emissions being caused by meat, the true figure is 51 per cent.
FULL: Meat creates half of all greenhouse gases - Climate Change, Environment - The Independent
Already a bunch of threads on this by Geoffrey.
If it's 51% I suggest we kill more animals and eat more meat. Yum.
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