Save the planet!! Become a vegetarian!!! :)

[NETim]

More idiocy from the Left.

Climate chief Lord Stern: give up meat to save the planet - Times Online

People will need to turn vegetarian if the world is to conquer climate change, according to a leading authority on global warming.
In an interview with The Times, Lord Stern of Brentford said: “Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the world’s resources. A vegetarian diet is better.”
Direct emissions of methane from cows and pigs is a significant source of greenhouse gases. Methane is 23 times more powerful than carbon dioxide as a global warming gas.
Lord Stern, the author of the influential 2006 Stern Review on the cost of tackling global warming, said that a successful deal at the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December would lead to soaring costs for meat and other foods that generate large quantities of greenhouse gases. {emphasis added}
He predicted that people’s attitudes would evolve until meat eating became unacceptable. “I think it’s important that people think about what they are doing and that includes what they are eating,” he said. “I am 61 now and attitudes towards drinking and driving have changed radically since I was a student. People change their notion of what is responsible. They will increasingly ask about the carbon content of their food.”

[skeeter85]

Would PETA consider a vegetarian world a victory?? PETA would have to be opposed to this idea. It seems to me if they are saying that cows cause greenhouse gases then not only would we have to stop eating meat but they would have to slaughter all the cows... Well, I can cross my fingers that I'm the last Meatatarian, and then what's left over from the cows after they use them for fertalizer, they can stick in my freezer.

[brademan76]

I don't advocate for it, but yes if we all were vegetarians and were all self-sustaining little farmers growing our own food in our yards we might be able to save our world from the ultimate destruction it faces. It would be the ultimate form of green. But, it'll never happen.

P.S. I love MEAT!

[skeeter85]

I just have to comment on this again... Cow farts... Not automobile emmissions, factories, aircraft, CFCs, wildfires, aliens, oil.... Cow farts... Cow farts are what are going to destroy this planet... Not war, nuclear weapons, swine flu, homesexuals, conservatives, liberals, immigration, health care, corporate greed...


Cow farts




I'm gonna go drink.

[NETim]

Cow emissions scare tactics are nothing new. Senator Proxmire handed out his infamous "Golden Fleece" awards for .gov funded studies on methane emissions from livestock years ago.

The key sentence in the quote I provided and one we should think over very, very carefully:

successful deal at the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December would lead to soaring costs for meat and other foods that generate large quantities of greenhouse gases.

Word is The One is going to sign it regardless. Whether or not Congress ratifies the Copenhagen Treaty is up to us. Given who's in charge of the Sentate and the House right now, don't take anything for granted.

[jarredbehrendt]

Hmmm, yes cattle do produce a lot of methane, but so do most other animals including ourselves. We also drill lots of holes in the ground to try to release methane so we can burn it as a fuelsource to heat our homes and various other things. Maybe we wouldnt have to drill so many holes if we just domed out sewage lagoons and used it as fuel? Then essentially cows would be heating our homes.

I would like to add that I doubt this will have any effect on our supply (or prices) of meat here in the US, most of us are meatatarians and a ploy to raise prices would not be viewed as favorable.

[CanoeGuru]

Originally Posted by jarredbehrendt

a ploy to raise prices would not be viewed as favorable.

Worked with gasoline, favorable or not.

Seems like I read recently where a plant of some kind in Kentucky, I think it was, is indeed powering their plant with methane or some such gas. Seriously. The extra power generated that they don't need is sold back to the energy company and used in the community to power some homes, if memory serves me correctly. Sorry to be so vague; just thought of this and thought someone else might have read it and have a clearer version of the story.

[MA Machine]

They actually have a methane generator in Nebraska that powers a portion of the power for a ethanol plant. The methane is from the waste of a feedlot next door to it. There was also a plan to start a indoor dairy at Ravenna Nebraska that would have a methane generator that would create power to the ethanol plant at Ravenna. The dairy has not happened yet and may never happen but it still might happen. I've also heard that Swift meat packing in GI is currently constructing a methane generator to provide power to the plant.


Energy Services Bulletin


Methane generator proposal advances | The Banner-Press


I also believe Lincoln has a ANAEROBIC DIGESTER that does supply some power. They are the 3 big round building along salt creek.

http://www.mrec.org/pubs/Anaerobic_Report.pdf

This is a viable energy source for supplemental energy. Wouldn't Peta hate for you to find out about this? Just another reason to have cattle, eat meat and have regular bowel movements.

[NETim]

Just as a friendly little warning to those who worship at the Church of Climate Change, DON'T, whatever you do, DON'T READ Mark Levin's "Liberty and Tyranny."

It will upset your apple cart big time.

[NETim]

Originally Posted by jarredbehrendt

Hmmm, yes cattle do produce a lot of methane, but so do most other animals including ourselves. We also drill lots of holes in the ground to try to release methane so we can burn it as a fuelsource to heat our homes and various other things. Maybe we wouldnt have to drill so many holes if we just domed out sewage lagoons and used it as fuel? Then essentially cows would be heating our homes.

I would like to add that I doubt this will have any effect on our supply (or prices) of meat here in the US, most of us are meatatarians and a ploy to raise prices would not be viewed as favorable.

Common sense has nothing to do with things like Cap n' Trade legislation. What we'd like isn't what we're going to get. Not with the crowd currently in charge. They have an agenda.

Who cares if we, the people who will be paying for it all, view such things "favorably?"