December 11, 2006
FORGET MY ARTERIES, THIS BURGER IS FOR THE GRANDKIDS:
Cow 'emissions' more damaging to planet than CO2 from cars (Geoffrey Lean, 10 December 2006 , Independent)
Meet the world's top destroyer of the environment. It is not the car, or the plane,or even George Bush: it is the cow.A United Nations report has identified the world's rapidly growing herds of cattle as the greatest threat to the climate, forests and wildlife. And they are blamed for a host of other environmental crimes, from acid rain to the introduction of alien species, from producing deserts to creating dead zones in the oceans, from poisoning rivers and drinking water to destroying coral reefs.
We try not to toot our own horns around here, but we'd like to think that no one could ask us to be personally responsible for the death of more cows than our regular diets dictate. Not for nothing did we insist at the family dinner table that: vegetables are murder. Posted by Orrin Judd at December 11, 2006 6:09 PM
No No No OJ!
You miss the point entirely.
It is the demand for beef (created by your insatiable and greedy lifestyle) that creates the herds.
You must become a vegan, and promise not to eat anything with a face.
New York must ban beef, and the rest of the nation will wisely follow.
Let them eat toefood!
Posted by: Bruno at December 11, 2006 7:18 PMThe delicious irony, of course, is that Vegans are even more flatulent than cattle.
Posted by: ghostcat at December 11, 2006 7:21 PMGood job our forebears wiped out all those buffalo, otherwise it would be really hot now.
So when are we going to wipe out all the wildebeeste in Africa?
Posted by: Kevin B at December 11, 2006 7:26 PMHey, didn't Reagan say that over 20 years ago? And wasn't he roundly mocked by the smart set for that?
Posted by: Bryan at December 11, 2006 7:26 PMmmmmmmmm..... wildebeeste!
Posted by: JonofAtlanta at December 11, 2006 7:30 PMgnuveau cuisine
Posted by: ghostcat at December 11, 2006 7:34 PMNever forget that God created edible animals so we'd a place to put barbeque sauce.
On my culinary to-do list is a trip to Argentina and a trip to Japan:
http://www.slashfood.com/2006/12/11/the-latest-buzz-on-beef/
Posted by: Mike Beversluis at December 11, 2006 7:36 PMghostcat, you deserve something for that. I'm not sure what, but something.
Posted by: Kevin B at December 11, 2006 7:42 PMJust another notch on the fastest pun in the West. Someday I'll hang it up.
Posted by: ghostcat at December 11, 2006 8:06 PMFirst they took the cigatettes; then they took the booze; then they took the cows ... now I don't got milk!
Posted by: Dave W at December 11, 2006 8:36 PMExplain that to Calcuttans....
Posted by: oj at December 11, 2006 9:28 PMThat study is a load of bull.
Posted by: Joseph Hertzlinger at December 12, 2006 1:29 AM