Stop Global Warming: EAT MEAT

Cow 'output' big source of global warming

from JoeUser Forums

If you missed the headlines here: Cow 'emissions' more damaging to planet than CO2 from cars then you may not get the drift, but just take a few seconds to read up a bit in that article and you'll be back on the same page I would be here.

With cow's doing so much damage to the environment and speeding along global warming, I want to make it clear that I am absolutely doing my part to solve the problem.  I consume my share (and then some) of the beef that is produced and sold in the United States.  These evil cows will be the death of us all if left unchecked and even though Chick-Fil-A's cows may encourage me to eat chicken instead (see image below), I do my part to wipe out both types of critters (cows and chickens).

Eat Mor Chikin

What the article referenced in my first paragraph tells me is that we should be blaming PETA and VEGANs for global warming as they are the folks that are doing everything possible to not eat meat and/or to convince others not to eat meat.

Sorry cows (and sorry to the chickens too), but it's in my best interest, and the interest of the entire world to EAT MEAT.

Now all I need to do is convert a vegan a day and perhaps we'll be able to save the world, or at least the polar ice caps.  < big wide evil grin >

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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top

One of my favorite places to work on thinnin' the cow population:

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With their great products like:

Burger and Frings

Reply #2 from JoeUser Forums Top

The Cartoonist they call StiK put it best:

 

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Reply #3 from JoeUser Forums Top
Have a steak on me!  My Doc put me back on the paper diet! (i.e. if it tastes good, dont eat it).
Reply #4 from JoeUser Forums Top
You could've eaten anything at that restaurant I went to Sunday night... but it probably wouldn't have helped your diet any.
Reply #5 from JoeUser Forums Top

I adjusted tonites dinner to include a course of Boneless ribeye steak.

Cannot have anyone say I am not doing my part.

Reply #6 from JoeUser Forums Top

Cannot have anyone say I am not doing my part.

Good!  Now I can rest easier as I chew on my paper.

Reply #7 from JoeUser Forums Top
Does your food have a face? Of course!

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Check this one out, if you don't understand, you don't eat mexican food.
Reply #8 from JoeUser Forums Top
What the article referenced in my first paragraph tells me is that we should be blaming PETA and VEGANs for global warming as they are the folks that are doing everything possible to not eat meat and/or to convince others not to eat meat.


Actually, if people didn't eat meat there wouldn't really be much reason to keep cows around, so the species population would probably become drastically reduced. If every suddenly stopped eating meat, cows would probably become endangered very very quickly. It's quite sad actually, thinking about all that tasty meat going to waste.
Reply #9 from JoeUser Forums Top

Actually, if people didn't eat meat there wouldn't really be much reason to keep cows around, so the species population would probably become drastically reduced.

Yeah, like the deer population was reduced when hunting permits were restricted.

Oh wait. It wasn't. Never mind!

Reply #10 from JoeUser Forums Top
Yeah, like the deer population was reduced when hunting permits were restricted.


I think cows would be culled, Gid. Without feed most herds wouldn't survive. Deer, on the other hand, can survive in woodland.
Reply #11 from JoeUser Forums Top
I dunno...I heard about vast heard of buffalo roaming the plains afore we got here...they're cattle like enough to make me think the bovines would survive. And we have few top of the food chain predators to cull them.

In other words, shut up and eat yer hamburger! (LOL)
Reply #12 from JoeUser Forums Top

I think cows would be culled, Gid.

Not if you are PETA.

Reply #14 from JoeUser Forums Top
you did neglect to mention that the article is about livestock...not cows (tho you did mention chickens) ya left out pigs, lol...mmmmmmbacon.


but more importantly, the report says that the conditions affecting the environment for the most part are improving, due to various factors, none of which have anything to do with me eating more steak (tho i'll eat a steak for no good reason anyway). for awhile, the agriculture industry grew at a rapid rate and didn't have the foresight to keep up with enviromental concerns. these days, things are getting more in balance. that happens in many industries.

the report reccomended using the Kyoto guidelines to further the progress, such as this ..."The Kyoto Protocol’s clean development mechanism (CDM) can be used to finance the spread of biogas and silvopastoral initiatives involving afforestation and reforestation. "

curious to your opinion on that
Reply #15 from JoeUser Forums Top
In other words, shut up and eat yer hamburger! ()


Sounds like a plan.
Reply #16 from JoeUser Forums Top
I dunno...I heard about vast heard of buffalo roaming the plains afore we got here...they're cattle like enough to make me think the bovines would survive. And we have few top of the food chain predators to cull them.


Where though? Most land these days is owned, and national parks are too tenuous to survive an invasion of cloven-hoofed cows, pigs, sheep and goats. If I was a farmer I'd be shooting cows that entered my lands in the same way other nuisance animals are shot.
Reply #17 from JoeUser Forums Top

Where though? Most land these days is owned, and national parks are too tenuous to survive an invasion of cloven-hoofed cows, pigs, sheep and goats.

It really does not matter.  Cattle are not native.  While a Buffalo will sweep aside snow to eat, a cow would die standing over forage.  You have a nice arguement, but lack facts.  However the one fact that you fail to include (again) is PETA.  WILL they cull cattle?  Is the pope Muslim?

Reply #18 from JoeUser Forums Top
''You have a nice arguement, but lack facts. However the one fact that you fail to include (again) is PETA."

Thats about the stupidest thing I ever "heard". Are you seriously trying to suggest PETA would have a problem with a reduction in cattle farming? Secondly since when does PETA decide anything?

"Is the pope Muslim?"

No are you? I would have asked "Is the Pope muslim?".
Reply #19 from JoeUser Forums Top
Thats about the stupidest thing I ever "heard". Are you seriously trying to suggest PETA would have a problem with a reduction in cattle farming?


Ok, let's spell this out.

To CULL an animal, you have to KILL the excess. Before we came along, food predators at the top of the food chain did the job, but we've gotten rid of them (Damn, Dr. Guy, that roast cougar was mighty tasty!). As a result, we need to get rid of them somehow.

Maybe all sides could be satisfied and Dr. Kervorkian could be employed as a "Bovine Euthanization Specialist". But because Dr. Death cannot handle all of them, I and my colleagues will do our best to trim the herd ourselves.

Hey Doc...pass the taters!
Reply #20 from JoeUser Forums Top
As a result, we need to get rid of them somehow.


Not really. Most will be caged between the boundaries and fences of various farms, so they'll quickly eat all available feed and die out. The rest will lack the bulls to keep themselves going, so will be largely extinct in a few years.
Reply #21 from JoeUser Forums Top

Hey Doc...pass the taters!

Dont forget the Giblets.

Reply #22 from JoeUser Forums Top

Most will be caged between the boundaries and fences of various farms, so they'll quickly eat all available feed and die out.

And that would get you a jail term for cruelty to animals.  That HAS happened.

Reply #23 from JoeUser Forums Top
So eating meat is bad for the environnement, that is quite true. However, eating meat is also economicly innefficient. For you to eat 1 lbs of meat, it took about 10lbs of vegetals to "produce" it. Humanity would be able to feed about 6-7x more people if we stopped producing meat and started producing vegetals instead.

(I do not say that it's gonna be funny.. A steakless world... the though makes me shudder. But a steakless world where everybody eats is better than the world we have)
Reply #24 from JoeUser Forums Top
I do not say that it's gonna be funny.. A steakless world... the though makes me shudder. But a steakless world where everybody eats is better than the world we have


The fallacy in that argument is that we do not have enough to feed the whole world now. We do. It is a matter of distribution, not supply.
Reply #25 from JoeUser Forums Top
this debate is silly. the report stated that enviromental conditions were improving, not deteriorating...that report was the one on iraq. let's not get confused, lol