No More Meat For You, Says the Dems

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Yes with the new concern for reducing Global Warming the Dems are gong to enact legislation that will reduce Americans Carbon Footprint by excluding meat from Americans diet. We will all live more helathy lives proclaims Speaker Pelosi. President Obama just nodded his approval of the new legislation as he was busy lighting up another in a chain of cigarettes.


Going veggie can slash your carbon footprint: study Tue Aug 26, 11:19 AM ET



BERLIN (AFP) - Giving up meat could drastically reduce your carbon footprint, with meat-eaters' diets responsible for almost twice the emissions of those of vegetarians, a German study said on Tuesday.

A diet with meat is responsible for producing in a year the same amount of greenhouse gases as driving a mid-sized car 4,758 kilometres (2,956 miles), the Institute for Ecological Economy Research (IOeW) said.

But the food a vegetarian consumes in 12 months is responsible for generating the same emissions as driving 2,427 kilometres, the IOeW said in a study commissioned by independent consumer protection group Foodwatch.

The calculations are based on emissions of greenhouse gases, including methane produced by the animals themselves, as well as emissions from food production including manufacturing feed and fertiliser and the use of farmland.

Going vegan -- giving up meat and dairy products -- would cut the emissions released in making what you eat more than seven-fold, to the equivalent of driving 629 kilometres, it said.

And if it is all organic, your food footprint is almost a 17th of that of a meat-eater -- the equivalent of driving 281 kilometres.

Beef is particularly environmentally unfriendly, it said, with producing a kilo (2.2 pounds) the same as driving 71 kilometres compared with 26 kilometres for pork.

Switching to organic farming can cut emissions dramatically, "but what counts is the way we feed ourselves ... production and consumption first and foremost of beef and milk must be cut drastically," the study said.

[red-beard]

Yeah, but vegitarians fart more. Is that taken into account?

[Jim Richards]

Ahh yes, but you'll still have your booze...so, these inspiring posts will go on without interruption.

[Taz's Master]

If the meat is not domesticated farm animals, but rather local free-range game animals, there is no cultivated source of food with a smaller carbon footprint. I wonder if Gore and Pelosi have a pro-hunting platform?

[pwd72s]

Hmmm...funny that many libs are vegans, but pro alcohol as fuel and for drinking, as long as it's fine wine.

[cgarr]

Well this is easy to fix, just eat more meat so they have to kill the cows sooner..

[BeyGon]

Has anyone cleared this with the fat Algor?