Eat less meat, reduce global heat, says study

karrie

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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.

In this day and age, the only ones who return to the earth are those whose family burn and scatter them, or those who suffer a tragedy like the women at the pickton farm. Otherwise, you're mummified. You don't go anywhere. You just lie there in your fancy box with you satin surrounding, doing nothing. Or, you're cremated, sealed in an urn, and buried. Where you simply stay.

There is a push for some enviro burials... biodegradable box, no embalming, buried a few feet down in a field or forest somewhere, but those are rare right now. Most people want their loved one perfectly preserved, sealed up tight. Maybe because we don't want them to move on? Become something else?
 

Unforgiven

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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.

Of course if there is no possible way to change the outcome, then what would it matter what you gave up?
 

lone wolf

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It's not the actual nostril lick that should impress. It's the manual dexterity that counts.

Sorta what I had in mind....


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karrie

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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.

No... you must give up buying meat from Texans and selling Texans our meat.... trade practises are some of the biggest issues. The meat itself, if I head out to farmer joe's field, isn't the big environmental issue.
 

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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.

"I died a mineral, and became a plant. I died a plant and rose an animal. I died an animal and I was man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?"
-Rumi Jalal-uddin
 

bill barilko

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This is already happening in Canada-meat consumption is down and dropping.

A friend of mine went to work for a local all-natural grass fed ranch that markets it's products here in Greater Vancouver and she couldn't believe how many people never ate large chunks of beast anymore-bits and pieces Yes but no chunks.
 

damngrumpy

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Every day we see these simple solutions with no understanding of what is happening in
world. Really how many people do think will ever know about this so called study of no
meat eating means slowing global warming? There are billions of people on the planet
and even if you talked every member that is part of this forum it would not make one cow
pie difference to the planet. All these people who want to not eat meat, or drive their car,
or for that matter start their fireplace in winter, do not understand that one day of a forest
fire somewhere in this country, would wipe out all the benefit restricting those other things
from happening. I say lets cook a good stake and outlaw forest fires.
Studies like this are a giant waste of money.
 

Chiliagon

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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.

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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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here's what I say to that: Bite Me!
 

Tonington

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Not even a brighter blue flame? To heck with that *wolf hauls a steak from the freezer*

:lol: Oh you'll still be able to make blue flames, just not nearly as much as a ruminant could, if it could light it's own flatus. :lol:
 

CUBert

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I don't support the torture of animals. I support the most humane treatment and less stressful killing as possible on the animals we consume.
On that note I had some delicious pork chops the other day.
 

damngrumpy

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If we took every finding from some research group seriously we would be totally mad by now.
To start with, before they start on don't eat meat, the naive should be looking at those organic
labels in front of them I wonder how much of it is organic period. How many here realize that
almost of the of the organic food is never tested scientifically and no surprise visits are made
to organic farms. Can't tell me that all of them are honest. All the inspectors care about is
that the paper work is done properly. You will never get the world to veg out so not enough
to make a difference anyway
A friend of mine has twisted the peta statement to people eating tasty animals, think I will go
and have a burger now.