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Pet owners "significant" negative impact to global climate - UCLA

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Turns out that chow you’re feeding Fido and Felix produces a pretty big carbon pawprint. In a study released Wednesday, a geography professor at UCLA calculated that the meat-based food Americans’ dogs and cats eat – and the waste those pets produce – generate the equivalent of about 64 million tons of carbon dioxide a year.
That’s as much as about 13.6 million cars driving for a year, says professor Gregory Okin in a paper published in the journal PLOS One.
Put another way: Dogs and cats are responsible for 25 to 30 percent of the environmental impact of meat consumption in the United States.
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UCLA professor says dogs and cats contribute signifcantly to climate change | The Sacramento Bee

That's right friends, do you have a 4 legged and furry family member? HOW DARE YOU HARM MOTHER EARTH!!!
 
Why beat around the bush? The real cause of glow bull warming is freedom - take the away and the government can then assure that we live our lives properly without doing anything that damages the environment. ;)


Meanwhile "environmental activists" continue to live in lavish compounds, jet around the globe and become rich pushing that agenda (see Al Gore).
 
Al Gore creates more global change gasses than all the dogs in America combined. And that's just from his big mouth.
 
I'm not surprised by much of the information in the article.

As it noted, most of the pet food is really by-products of the meat industry, so I don't think there is much reason to worry about it. The real key should be for the pet owners (and other humans) to reduce meat consumption in general, particularly red meat.
 
Visbek said:
I'm not surprised by much of the information in the article.

As it noted, most of the pet food is really by-products of the meat industry, so I don't think there is much reason to worry about it. The real key should be for the pet owners (and other humans) to reduce meat consumption in general, particularly red meat.
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Visbek said:
I'm not surprised by much of the information in the article.

As it noted, most of the pet food is really by-products of the meat industry, so I don't think there is much reason to worry about it. The real key should be for the pet owners (and other humans) to reduce meat consumption in general, particularly red meat.
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I concur, but Americans love their obesity and sedentary lifestyles.
 
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