Eat less meat, reduce global heat, says study

[CBC News]

A new study points to the environmental benefits of curbing one's carnivorous ways.

Eating less meat, such as steak and hamburgers, would cut the gases emitted by cows that contribute to global warming, scientists say.

(CBC) ​

Consuming less meat could help slow global warming by reducing the number of livestock and thereby lowering the amount of methane emitted by animals, scientists said Thursday.
In an article in the Lancet, researchers said people should eat fewer steaks and hamburgers. Reducing global red meat consumption by 10 per cent, they said, would cut the gases emitted by cows, sheep and goats that contribute to global warming.
"We are at a significant tipping point," said Geri Brewster, a nutritionist at Northern Westchester Hospital in New York, who was not connected to the study. "If people knew that they were threatening the environment by eating more meat, they might think twice before ordering a burger."
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How about it. Will you eat less meat to help the planet?


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[karrie]

where's the logic in that? Let the cows live and they'll emit less gas? Give me a break! Kill the freaking enviro hazards and grill them up!

 

[Unforgiven]

where's the logic in that? Let the cows live and they'll emit less gas? Give me a break! Kill the freaking enviro hazards and grill them up!

Less demand due to less consumption equals less cows to produce methane.
Sure there is logic there but even the best logical argument falls to the wayside when it comes to steak on the grill.

 

[eh1eh]

Less demand due to less consumption equals less cows to produce methane.
Sure there is logic there but even the best logical argument falls to the wayside when it comes to steak on the grill.

What you said!
I will not give up my meat.

 

[Toro]

I'm having steak this weekend.

Mmm-mmm.

 

[karrie]

Less demand due to less consumption equals less cows to produce methane.
Sure there is logic there but even the best logical argument falls to the wayside when it comes to steak on the grill.

yeah, I did actually read that article, and caught what they were TRYing to say... but I'd rather kill cows, so I'm going to choose to be blind on this one. Everyone gets a thread or two like that right? "No, there were no planes on 9/11"... stuff like that. lol.

 

[Unforgiven]

yeah, I did actually read that article, and caught what they were TRYing to say... but I'd rather kill cows, so I'm going to choose to be blind on this one. Everyone gets a thread or two like that right? "No, there were no planes on 9/11"... stuff like that. lol.

Just on princple? :lol:

 

[karrie]

strictly on principle! Cows would just as soon kick you as look at you. They lick their own noses Unf... their own noses. Did you know they even have the nerve to just let drop a flop wherever they feel like, with no regard for us? They fart like mad, poisoning our air. They'll eat endangered species of plants if you don't keep an eye on where they're grazing... they're just a hazard all around, and deserve to be grilled up with Montreal Steak Spice as a consequence.

 

[DurkaDurka]

mmm... steak.

Can't give that up, global warming or not.

 

[Tonington]

I don't think the idea should be stop eating beef, just eat less. Here in North America we consume way more than we need. Shipping the meat is also a huge problem, but like others, I'm not about to give up meat, that's just foolish. Who can say no to a properly grilled steak? Not I

 

[lone wolf]

strictly on principle! Cows would just as soon kick you as look at you. They lick their own noses Unf... their own noses. Did you know they even have the nerve to just let drop a flop wherever they feel like, with no regard for us? They fart like mad, poisoning our air. They'll eat endangered species of plants if you don't keep an eye on where they're grazing... they're just a hazard all around, and deserve to be grilled up with Montreal Steak Spice as a consequence.

Gee ... aside from the ick factor, are you telling me a GUY who could lick his own nose wouldn't be the hit of the hen party?

Wolf

 

[Unforgiven]

strictly on principle! Cows would just as soon kick you as look at you. They lick their own noses Unf... their own noses. Did you know they even have the nerve to just let drop a flop wherever they feel like, with no regard for us? They fart like mad, poisoning our air. They'll eat endangered species of plants if you don't keep an eye on where they're grazing... they're just a hazard all around, and deserve to be grilled up with Montreal Steak Spice as a consequence.

That could be said for most any guy at a football or hockey game.
mmmmmm Montreal steak spice agggagggaggggagggg

 

[karrie]

Gee ... aside from the ick factor, are you telling me a GUY who could lick his own nose wouldn't be the hit of the hen party?

Wolf

anyone who can lick their own nostrils is generally not looked upon with desire no.

 

[karrie]

That could be said for most any guy at a football or hockey game.

True, but I prefer beef to fat pig. LOL.

Okay.. sorry... had to say it, you set it up too nicely.

 

[Unforgiven]

True, but I prefer beef to fat pig. LOL.

Okay.. sorry... had to say it, you set it up too nicely.

Gawd! What have you got against pigs now? You gotta let go the hate Kerrie.
Now I'm hungry for ribs.

 

[karrie]

Truthfully, having a friend who worked the Pickton Pig farm dig, makes you look at our meat supply with a jaded eye. I rarely buy pork now. Pigs eat people. *shudders*

 

[Tonington]

Pigs eat people.

And then people eat the pigs, the circle of life continues...

On a related matter my mother stopped eating Lobster when the Swissair crash happened of our coast

 

[karrie]

And then people eat the pigs, the circle of life continues...

On a related matter my mother stopped eating Lobster when the Swissair crash happened of our coast

Yep.. that'd probably do it for me too.

 

[Unforgiven]

Truthfully, having a friend who worked the Pickton Pig farm dig, makes you look at our meat supply with a jaded eye. I rarely buy pork now. Pigs eat people. *shudders*

Interesting discussion I had with the wife yesterday. She was talking about buying into the whole reincarnation idea, and so I thought about that for a bit.
I don't know about spiritually but physically it makes an awful lot of sense.

Mostly we're dumped into the ground with some amount of pomp and ceremony as has happened for ages. What's left of us slowly turns back into the elements that we're made up of and is at some point so much food for plants and worms. Thinking on that, it's probably pretty difficult not to accept that at some point our bits re-enter the food cycle through ingesting of other creatures who ingest the things that ingest us once we're dust.

Let alone those that release good old grand dad's ashes to the wind in the meadow. I don't think we could possibly not be eating our dead and then passing those nutrients on in our offspring when they come along.

So when you die, your body breaks down and returns to the source from whence it came to return again in the body of another.

In a weird sort of way.

 

[EagleSmack]

Well... we are in a planetary emergency... if you believe in global warming... you must give up meat... you must do your part.

I on the other hand cannot wait to eat a King Sized Prime Rib tonight.