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PETA has provided us with a list of food that contributes to climate change

What's wrong with asparagus?
 
faithful_servant said:
This weekend I'm stuffing a whole cow stuffed with a young cow, stuffed with a pig, stuffed with a lamb, stuffed with a turkey, stuffed with a chicken stuffed with lobster, shrimp, crab and scallops and smoking them, basting the whole nine yards with butter the whole time and then serving them with a side of asparagus covered in cheese.
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That will be one expensive meal
 
PETA is a garbage organization, but we shouldn't ignore the point. Dietary changes are one of the easiest ways to reduce our green house gas emissions. No one has to become vegan to do this, you can simply reduce your meat consumption. I'm vegetarian for this very reason. Not only is it less carbon intensive, but it uses less land, water, and phosphorus as well which is a budding issue since phosphorus mines are not a renewable resource and it is required for fertilization.


I think the important take away point from these graphs in the article below is that there is a definite benefit to reducing your meat consumption even if you don't go full vegetarian. For those of you who are actively against the government interveening to slow climate change, wouldn't you want to do as much as you could on your own?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5094759/
 

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Gaius46 said:
Aren't cow farts full of methane? So doesn't eating cows actually lower greenhouse gases?
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Methane has far greater heat-trapping effects than C02.

Of course, they wouldn't constantly be ripping them if they were all eating grass instead of corn. But that would make beef more expensive.
 
Verax said:
It's good to see the right raising awareness about the consumption of meat and its negative effects on the environment.
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Sadly, I suspect the idea is more to say that one cannot eat meat and also support things like switching from coal to natural gas/nuclear/wind/solar/geothermal/hydro/etc for the reason of C02 emissions without being a hypocrite. Which would be a very silly thing to suggest indeed, but there you go.

I'm guessing you guessed that, too.
 
OlNate said:
Well, I live in rural Ontario, so we love the farmer's markets....even have a local guy doing heritage breed pork (Red Wattle), and it's a treat...high budget, but really good. And the local grocery store will do custom cuts, and they buy local, so that's good. I find the hardest steak to buy is a good porterhouse...too many butchers don't know what that is anymore, they just wanna give out T-bones, and keep the filet to themselves...the bastards!! ;)
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We get fresh, never frozen Akaushi beef in there, and let me tell you what... it's worth the cost. Bout once every three months or so I spring from some NY Strip Steaks and my dearest get's her Filet Mignon... I grill them up to perfection. Best beef I've ever had.
 
I go after Speckled Trout right behind the PETA building in downtown Norfolk every fall. The people inside go absolutely freaking nuts and start throwing fruit, full bottles of water, and god only knows what else at my boat.

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Mr Person said:
Sadly, I suspect the idea is more to say that one cannot eat meat and also support things like switching from coal to natural gas/nuclear/wind/solar/geothermal/hydro/etc for the reason of C02 emissions without being a hypocrite. Which would be a very silly thing to suggest indeed, but there you go.

I'm guessing you guessed that, too.
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Something like that. The initial knee jerk reaction to dislike anything "good" or liberal and to then actively work against it is truly saddening. It is people who have lost in life so they try to take revenge on whatever they think is the weakest target.
 
RetiredUSN said:
I go after Speckled Trout right behind the PETA building in downtown Norfolk every fall. The people inside go absolutely freaking nuts and start throwing fruit, full bottles of water, and god only knows what else at my boat.

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Move to Florida. You could probably get away with shooting them.
 
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