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Factoring meat into our carbon footprint : Comments
By Brian Sherman, published 30/7/2007Reducing meat and dairy consumption, or even better becoming a vegetarian, is an easy way to help address global warming.
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Ah, a very wise observation, clearly the vegan Taliban are
alive and well!
http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/yachtings-comfort-zone/2007/07/30/1185647827068.html
Given that the general population is living it up big time,
if you change to lettuce leaves, it might make you feel good about
yourself, but make little difference to the big picture :(
As to animal welfare, people already have choices and are free
to buy free range eggs, free range pork, free range lamb etc.
It seems that about 20% do, the other 80% are more concerned with
their wallets.
Farming is certainly not all gloom and doom, as projected by
the vegans. I note that we have the first automated dairy,
where cows can choose to visit and be milked at their leisure,
spending the rest of their time grazing. Sounds like it works
great!
Choice magazine tells us that organic food is a waste of money,
as those "evil" chemicals are not there as is claimed. Dickie
is free to take her campaign up with Choice. I have found them
to be more reliable so far :)
Dickie might well be aiming to become 95+, but then Dickie,
chances are high that you'll be joining the other old folks
queing up at the old folks home reception, to check on what
their own name is. Give me a good old heart attack a bit before
that, thank you!
The real problem with our diets is not meat, people are living
longer then ever. The real problem is the American food
manufacturing industry. In many parts of Europe, where people
eat smaller portions, fresh produce etc, they live to a ripe
old age. What has changed is that food manufacturers have become
extremely good at marketing. They can fill their products up with
lard etc, which is dirt cheap, put it in nice little packets and
some people buy the stuff. As we have followed the American
trend, so obesity has risen in Australia.