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..............................simply by becoming vegetarian.

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On Jul 28, 4:58 pm, shrubkiller > wrote:
> .............................simply by becoming vegetarian.




doesn't work that way.

we all waste... it's not entirely our fault... yet we must pay for
the ways to try and keep the planet as recyled and preserved as much
as possible.

corruption gets in the way because the money is good.

we waste.. don't worry.. mommy nature will turn us all into one big
ice cube shortly and the earth will start back on a clean slate...

it's done it before it'll do it again.

we promise.


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ges wrote:
> On Jul 28, 4:58 pm, shrubkiller > wrote:
>> .............................simply by becoming vegetarian.

>
>
>
> doesn't work that way.
>
> we all waste... it's not entirely our fault... yet we must pay for
> the ways to try and keep the planet as recyled and preserved as much
> as possible.
>
> corruption gets in the way because the money is good.
>
> we waste.. don't worry.. mommy nature will turn us all into one big
> ice cube shortly and the earth will start back on a clean slate...
>
> it's done it before it'll do it again.
>
> we promise.


LOL.


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Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able?
Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing?
Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing?
Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing?
Then why call him God?

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"ges" > wrote in message oups.com...
> On Jul 28, 4:58 pm, shrubkiller > wrote:
> > .............................simply by becoming vegetarian.

>
>
>
> doesn't work that way.
>
> we all waste... it's not entirely our fault... yet we must pay for
> the ways to try and keep the planet as recyled and preserved as much
> as possible.
>
> corruption gets in the way because the money is good.
>
> we waste.. don't worry.. mommy nature will turn us all into one big
> ice cube shortly and the earth will start back on a clean slate...
>
> it's done it before it'll do it again.
>
> we promise.


'Livestock a major threat to environment
...
.... a steep environmental price, according to the FAO report,
Livestock's Long Shadow -Environmental Issues and Options.
"The environmental costs per unit of livestock production must
be cut by one half, just to avoid the level of damage worsening
beyond its present level," it warns.

When emissions from land use and land use change are included,
the livestock sector accounts for 9 percent of CO2 deriving from
human-related activities, but produces a much larger share of even
more harmful greenhouse gases. It generates 65 percent of human-
related nitrous oxide, which has 296 times the Global Warming
Potential (GWP) of CO2. Most of this comes from manure.

And it accounts for respectively 37 percent of all human-induced
methane (23 times as warming as CO2), which is largely produced
by the digestive system of ruminants, and 64 percent of ammonia,
which contributes significantly to acid rain.

Livestock now use 30 percent of the earth's entire land surface, mostly
permanent pasture but also including 33 percent of the global arable
land used to producing feed for livestock, the report notes. As forests
are cleared to create new pastures, it is a major driver of deforestation,
especially in Latin America where, for example, some 70 percent of
former forests in the Amazon have been turned over to grazing.

Land and water

At the same time herds cause wide-scale land degradation, with about
20 percent of pastures considered as degraded through overgrazing,
compaction and erosion. This figure is even higher in the drylands
where inappropriate policies and inadequate livestock management
contribute to advancing desertification.

The livestock business is among the most damaging sectors to the
earth's increasingly scarce water resources, contributing among other
things to water pollution, euthropication and the degeneration of coral
reefs. The major polluting agents are animal wastes, antibiotics and
hormones, chemicals from tanneries, fertilizers and the pesticides used
to spray feed crops. Widespread overgrazing disturbs water cycles,
reducing replenishment of above and below ground water resources.
Significant amounts of water are withdrawn for the production of feed.

Livestock are estimated to be the main inland source of phosphorous
and nitrogen contamination of the South China Sea, contributing to
biodiversity loss in marine ecosystems.

Meat and dairy animals now account for about 20 percent of all
terrestrial animal biomass. Livestock's presence in vast tracts of land
and its demand for feed crops also contribute to biodiversity loss;
15 out of 24 important ecosystem services are assessed as in decline,
with livestock identified as a culprit.
....'
http://www.fao.org/newsroom/en/news/...448/index.html



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On Aug 5, 9:06 pm, ges > wrote:
> On Jul 28, 4:58 pm, shrubkiller > wrote:
>
> > .............................simply by becoming vegetarian.

>
> doesn't work that way.




According to the University of Chicago it does.



>
> we all waste... it's not entirely our fault... yet we must pay for
> the ways to try and keep the planet as recyled and preserved as much
> as possible.
>
> corruption gets in the way because the money is good.
>
> we waste.. don't worry.. mommy nature will turn us all into one big
> ice cube shortly and the earth will start back on a clean slate...
>
> it's done it before it'll do it again.
>
> we promise.



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