BBC News - 07/09/08
People should consider eating less meat as a way of combating global warming, says the UN's top climate scientist.
Rajendra Pachauri, who chairs the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), will make the call at a speech in London on Monday evening.
UN figures suggest that meat production puts more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere than transport.
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Kentucky Fried Panda
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Probably not as much methane as that emitted by the cows needed to keep 7 billion people supplied with beef. Er... probably.Haggis wrote:on a vegetarian diet my own personal methane production sky-rockets. Has there any been any conclusive research done on the effects of emissions by 7 billion people eating cabbage and baked beans?
Inquiring minds wanna know....
"If we don't change our direction, we are likely to wind up where we are headed" (Chinese Proverb)
Actually, the human methane production probably matches that of the cows that are no needed when people switch to veg diet.
The amount of methane is most likely related to processing vegetable stuff in our or cows stomachs into material useful to a body - similar to decomposing. (After all that's where anaerobic digesters get their methane from). So you either get a cow to do it for you or you do it yourself!
By the way, cows raised exclusively on grass apparently produce 'only' 40% of the methane that cows raised on corn produce. So go for organic, grass fed beef (like ours)
The amount of methane is most likely related to processing vegetable stuff in our or cows stomachs into material useful to a body - similar to decomposing. (After all that's where anaerobic digesters get their methane from). So you either get a cow to do it for you or you do it yourself!
By the way, cows raised exclusively on grass apparently produce 'only' 40% of the methane that cows raised on corn produce. So go for organic, grass fed beef (like ours)
What a shame, seemed quite promising, this human species.
Check out www.TransitionNC.org & www.CottageFarmOrganics.co.uk
Check out www.TransitionNC.org & www.CottageFarmOrganics.co.uk
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emordnilap
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Hmmm, talk about stereotypes.
Been 100% vegan diet for years with no major farting problems, unlike some stinkers I know whose bowels barely move because of the rotting flesh they've consumed.
Been 100% vegan diet for years with no major farting problems, unlike some stinkers I know whose bowels barely move because of the rotting flesh they've consumed.
I experience pleasure and pains, and pursue goals in service of them, so I cannot reasonably deny the right of other sentient agents to do the same - Steven Pinker
Methane is pretty harmless and odorless. Its the hydrogen sulfide and mercaptans from rotting meat that can make wallpapers crumble and children cry. Add a couple of beers to the meat and the exhausts are lethal.Haggis wrote:on a vegetarian diet my own personal methane production sky-rockets. Has there any been any conclusive research done on the effects of emissions by 7 billion people eating cabbage and baked beans?
Inquiring minds wanna know....
Sounds like a pretty fair appraisal of my digestive system there MacG! You mean that it isn't like that for everyone!?MacG wrote:Methane is pretty harmless and odorless. Its the hydrogen sulfide and mercaptans from rotting meat that can make wallpapers crumble and children cry. Add a couple of beers to the meat and the exhausts are lethal.Haggis wrote:on a vegetarian diet my own personal methane production sky-rockets. Has there any been any conclusive research done on the effects of emissions by 7 billion people eating cabbage and baked beans?
Inquiring minds wanna know....
Jim
For every complex problem, there is a simple answer, and it's wrong.
"Heaven and earth are ruthless, and treat the myriad creatures as straw dogs" (Lao Tzu V.i).
For every complex problem, there is a simple answer, and it's wrong.
"Heaven and earth are ruthless, and treat the myriad creatures as straw dogs" (Lao Tzu V.i).
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emordnilap
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I'm not waiting till then. Not while there's worse things around that you can blame on dead animals and silly people.SunnyJim wrote:I'll give up meat when they ban flying and cars.
Botulism
BSE
Listeria
Salmonella
e. coli
Clostridium perfringens
Alimentary toxic aleukia
Campylobacter
Staph
Trichinosis
etc
etc
I experience pleasure and pains, and pursue goals in service of them, so I cannot reasonably deny the right of other sentient agents to do the same - Steven Pinker
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emordnilap
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Sort of the same thing. These days, most soya production goes to feed animals.SunnyJim wrote:Yup. Best give up the meat and eat soya instead....
I experience pleasure and pains, and pursue goals in service of them, so I cannot reasonably deny the right of other sentient agents to do the same - Steven Pinker