Here’s a good way to get people to buy into anthropogenic global warming: tell them they can no longer eat beef. Hamburgers are the Hummers of food in global warming
When it comes to global warming, hamburgers are the Hummers of food, scientists say.
Simply switching from steak to salad could cut as much carbon as leaving the car at home a couple days a week.
That’s because beef is such an incredibly inefficient food to produce and cows release so much harmful methane into the atmosphere, said Nathan Pelletier of Dalhousie University in Canada.
Can’t you just see it now, guys standing in front of their grills armed with their spatula and a high caliber handgun, daring AGW supporters to take their steak away, after they get around to passing the “no beef” laws? Well, they probably won’t because it seems as if Obama has a penchant for $100 wagyu steak. Though, they could push laws that would make you pay to offset the methane released. I wonder if they will require that for when you, ahem, break wind, too.
But, here’s your chance to live the life, AGW believers. Give up your burgers and steaks and anything that comes from cows. Will you take the challenge, and live the life? I’m betting no.
But, will that really solve the issue? Captainfish at snapped shot says no, and knows what we have to do with this knowledge from the study: kill all cows! “Question: If we don’t eat the meat, won’t the cows continue to live and pollute our planet? We MUST kill them for our children’s sake.”
But, then PETA will freak out. Hmm, maybe we could arm them and the AGW folks, have one of those battles like they have in Braveheart.
If people were to simply switch from beef to chicken, emissions would be cut by 70 percent, Pelletier said.
And then, in a few years, they will tell us that chicken is bad, and we should all be Vegans. Of course, there is a wee bit of a problem with that, since we will need more plants to stay alive, and plants produce methane. Woops.
In other AGW news, Watts Up With That? has the latest insanity from Dr. James Hansen. Featured is one of those wonderful scientific graphs on CO2, which should, but won’t, give pause to the AGW believers silliness, nor make them change their minds in the least. It really is more of a Belief, like a religion, then a science.
Click it for full size. Originally from article at Junk Science.
doncha just hate it when liberals are rich enough to be able to afford the best steak ?
Actually if you had cared enough to look you probably could find that it is much less than 100 dollars per serving. http://www.morganranchinc.com/2858.htm?gclid=COiEi_mt5JgCFQw9GgodgndLcw
still waiting for the oft promised “global cooling” http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/2008/ann/ann08.html
Cattle bad for the environment ?
So…what am I doing to help ?
I’m eating as much beef as I Can !!
H/T to Ron White
:-D
Hey JR,
Did Obama buy his steaks from Morgan Ranch at that price? Hmm? Or did he buy them from some trendy restaurant to cater? Perhaps the White House chef got online and ordered the steaks from MR. Does any government agency, even the White House, pay less than premium? I sincerely doubt it. It is you and me that find ways to make money stretch, not government.
Another attempt to control people, this time through the consumption of beef and their food. Red meat is also unhealthy for you to eat. Much better to eat tofu burgers. Lower cholesterol and calorie intake. No heart disease, no weight issues, and no need to purchase carbon credits! Its a win.. win.. win… =))
Duncan,
I didn’t see any sort of government mandate in this article. This was simply a study. If someone who is actually concerned about the planet that much wants to use this as one more reason to avoid beef, more power to them. I’m thinking this will mostly serve as additional fuel for vegetarians.
This is obviously not going to affect you in any way, though. You will continue to refuse to do ANYTHING to battle climate change because you don’t understand the first thing about our climate system. You laugh and laugh about what you consider to be ridiculous AGW hysteria, and yet you can’t answer the simplest of scientific questions. How about doing a little homework and then making big boy arguments for once? It’d be a nice change of pace. These childish antics I constantly see from you and Teach are getting old, especially considering the ironic fact that you have no idea what you’re talking about.
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