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Offline john9001

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« Reply #30 on: July 19, 2007, 04:25:45 PM »
if we stop eating beef the steers will overrun the planet, i am trying to eliminate the beef by eating it one steak at a time. Help me here people, i can't do it all by myself.

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« Reply #31 on: July 19, 2007, 08:18:23 PM »
If steers over run the planet, at least it will only be for a single generation.

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« Reply #32 on: July 19, 2007, 09:19:46 PM »
I say stick with the beef. It may not be necessary but it's quite healthy in PROPER doses whereas we often as a society drive our cars too much.

If anything, buying foreign foods is more harmful than supporting the beef industry. Buy stuff from places closest to home. That way, you're not paying the guys transporting all this stuff all over the world.

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« Reply #33 on: July 19, 2007, 11:54:52 PM »
Im all for helping out the environment. Not because of global warming Whos causes are still at best a theory.

But because its nice to have clean air to breath, the beaches and rivers around here  look a hell of alot better since they stopped dumping in them and just for general overall health.

BUT!

I dont care if it causes the globe to warm up and toast like a marshmellow
I AINT GIVING UP MY BEEF
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« Reply #34 on: July 20, 2007, 12:01:35 AM »
See Rule #4
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« Reply #35 on: July 20, 2007, 12:18:03 AM »
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I dont think so

I didnt make it to the top of the food chain to eat a carrot :aok
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« Reply #36 on: July 20, 2007, 03:56:11 AM »
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That wouldn't be good for the environment ethier, you know how much land would need to be turned into farm land to grow enough vegetables to feed everyone on Earth.  We would have to cut down a large amount of the forests, and alot of animals would lose there habitats because they would be turned into farm land.  See the vegetarians don't mention this fact when they are trying to get everyone to be vegetarians.


That's where you are disastrously wrong. You need very much less land to produce nutritionin vegetable and fruit as well as grain form than beef.
However, you are able to produce both meat and milk from land that is ill suited for growing vegetables.
But the main meat industry and the grain/hay used for the meat production is however grown on land that is perfectly useable for vegetables, - and much of the corn could be used straight for human consumption.
Normally about 5% of the calories coming from the land, deliver themselves on to the consumers plate as a steak. In the case of milk, much more though, 20% if my memory serves me.

It's true, but again, as a beef producer I hate saying it :D
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« Reply #37 on: July 20, 2007, 04:13:06 AM »
But more than two thirds of the energy used goes towards producing and transporting cattle feed

wow...who would have thought transport creates carbon emissions...this thread has been so very informative

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« Reply #38 on: July 20, 2007, 04:22:37 AM »
The car exhaust problem has been solved by an Icelandic farmboy and 3 Welshmen. :D
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« Reply #39 on: July 20, 2007, 05:46:32 AM »
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Now they say we have to stop eating beef...


Except no-one has said that.

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« Reply #40 on: July 20, 2007, 05:55:25 AM »
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Su Taylor, the press officer for the Vegetarian Society, told New Scientist: "Everybody is trying to come up with different ways to reduce carbon footprints, but one of the easiest things you can do is to euthanize a vagetarian."


That works for me

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« Reply #41 on: July 20, 2007, 08:03:45 AM »
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Except no-one has said that.


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« Reply #42 on: July 20, 2007, 08:08:13 AM »
Lamb tastes better..often... ;)
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« Reply #43 on: July 20, 2007, 08:43:10 AM »
I love how if you don't subscribe to "Man Made Global Warming" you're tagged "Anti Enviromental". Does that mean if you're "Pro Choice" you're "Anti Children"? I find it hard to believe anybody is anti-enviromental, or anti-children.

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« Reply #44 on: July 20, 2007, 01:05:16 PM »
How about if we just start eating our dead.  That way the space we use for graveyards and cow pastures could be used for crops.  That way we could get a nice balanced meal.

Next thing you know these Big Government type people will want to start taxing us on our Farts.

Think I'm going to grill a nice 20 ounce beef steak now.
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