People will need to turn vegetarian if the world is to conquer climate change, according to a leading authority on global warming.Comparing drunk driving to eating meat - yeah, that makes sense. As I sit down to eat my hamburger there's a chance someone else will die.
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.
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.”
Man was never intended to have a vegetarian diet. Just take a look at your teeth sometime. They're clearly designed for an omnivorous diet consisting of both plant and animal matter.
And speaking of CO2 emissions, what are you going to do about all those gassy people whose systems don't tolerate a vegetarian diet? I guess they'll just have to die.
These CO2 fanatics never make the connection between the gas they fear so much and the fact that it's an aerosol fertilizer for the plants they love so much. Reduce CO2 and you reduce plant growth.
The other connection they have yet to make is the fact that during the last 11 years CO2 levels have continued to inch up but temperatures have gone down. Globaloney is nonsense.
By the way, the Times notes this about Lord Stern:
"Lord Stern...said that he was not a strict vegetarian himself."
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Do you think garbanzo beans will soon be outlawed? The gas they cause is horrendous. Maybe beans in general should be considered toxic to the planet, not just the person sitting next to you.
Poor pigs and cows will become endangered species. (Along with common sense, which is also becoming seriously endangered.)
I will do all in my power to raise and eat animal meats. Vegetables are good, but only when eaten with beef, fish, or fowl. The heck with global warming and climate change.
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