Recently, a friend of mine ,an avowed vegan ,made an extraordinary remark. He said that if a majority of the population of the planet turned vegan,it would effectively counter global warming ,the scourge of this century.Millions of cattle are bred to feed the meat eating,milk produce consuming population.These animals being ruminating, emit huge quantities of methane gas that are more lethal to the atmosphere than carbon dioxide. Besides, to raise these animals, an enormous quantity of fodder is required which results in the production of vast quantities of nitrous oxide that is even far more deadly than methane!Thus by a simple act of switching to an altruistic diet, if the planet can be saved besides causing less violence and bloodshed , is it not worthwhile to give this a try ? In addition to saving our Mother Earth that has sustained all kinds of life forms for millions of years,you can look at what you eat not as a plateful of pain.But then meat producers will surely come up with some wonder drug that wil stop cattle from burping and make them less flatulent. They will even claim carbon credits for their effort!
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Vegans Can Save The Planet.
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Of course, many millions of people (including my mother and a close friend) could not survive on a vegan diet due to health problems...I probably couldn't either; and to be honest if I wasn't allowed to eat animal flesh I'd probably have to eat vegans!
 | govindan [Member] 04/08/08 @ 12:01 |
Be a carnivore by all means if its a matter of life and death. i am a semi carnivore myself !
 | The_Walrus [Member] http://www.doctor-dark.co.uk 04/05/08 @ 16:45 |
I like good food. I would die of boredom if I had to eat that stuff all the time. A nice juicy steak is a lovely thing.
There are plenty of more sensible ways to save the world than eating that flatus-creating vegan food.
| govindan [Member] 04/08/08 @ 12:08 |
A nice juicy steak ,yes. Its the same way a polar bear feels when it sees a walrus. Have you seen a Komodor Dragon salivating when it comes across a dying/injured deer? Your description of your culinary tastes conjures up such visions!
 | Poetyman69 [Member] 04/06/08 @ 20:00 |
energy independence is much more important than global warming. when the US is energy independent there will be no more oil wars and the terrorists will all be too to reach us. This will save lives AND energy. The global warming crowd can't claim this. They can claim that they will damage and perhaps destroy capitalism which is their true aim. I for one am not done using capitalism. So I want to keep it. True believers in global warm are free to starve and freeze to death next winter--their choice. Think of all the energy they will save! By the by, don't ever expect a Greenie to sacrifice anything in his own life to "show the green way." Global warming is about controlling you and emptying your wallet. When it becomes about something else one of the first things you will notice is that you will understand nothing that is said about global warming. That is because it will all be said in Mandarin Chinese. Only the Chinese can stop man made climate change. They are going through an industrial revolution that is sure to dwarf our own. Does this mean we should do nothing? Far from it. Let's study what Denmark, France, Brazil, and Australia have done on energy and do likewise. Let's drill wherever we have oil and put a new nuclear power plant in every state. Let's use all our coal and natural gas. We don't need foreign energy. The only people who say we can't get off foreign oil are greedy conservatives who are getting paid every time a new oil war starts.
| govindan [Member] 04/08/08 @ 12:22 |
You can draw a picture only if there is a wall. Independence of energy or anything for that matter will mean little to a world bereft of everything that makes it worth living in.As for wars , they will always be there as long as humans are covetous of others'weealth.If it is not fossil fuel,it will be something else - quite probably water -in the not so distant future.
04/10/08 @ 08:16
It will make the world monochrome. Very drab for my taste.
It will make the world monochrome. Very drab for my taste.
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