Eat less meat
On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 12:37:08 +0000, Dave J. >
wrote:
>In > on Wed, 19 Mar 2008
>15:52:34 +0000, in uk.current-events.bird-flu, 'Oz' wrote:
>
>>>Meat is (I believe) an inefficient use of resources in the production of
>>>food. It also has a vast (and compared to decaying plant matter unavoidable)
>>>amount of methane as a byproduct.
>>
>>That depends. If you are talking about most of upland britain, its
>>impossible to grow arable crops there so the ONLY resource is grazing by
>>livestock. In this case of course its NOT an inefficient use of
>>resources.
>
>Yes, that makes a good justification for minor meat consumption. Though
>not for the American style gullet stuffing that's threatening to infect
>the globe.
>
>>Also to note that all decaying plant matter emits methane, remember the
>>fuss when they recently discovered vast amounts were being emitted by
>>topsoils worldwide.
>
>I've always figured though that the emissions from decaying vegetable
>matter are more easily either controlled, reduced, or harnessed for
>burning than those from animals.
>
>Make no mistake, I'm in no way an advocate of humanity turning vegetarian,
>I just see both sides of the debate and accept that we're swinging too far
>into rain forest destroying hamburger-gulping greed that caries a massive,
>almost karmic, future health cost.
Forget the future, it's here already.
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