Garry Williams wrote:
> On Sat, 03 May 2008 19:37:23 +0200, Theo wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
>> we are doomed anyway.... so why to care at least let's live the last
>> years nicely :-D
>
> Oh, yeah, Theo, very helpful! <g>
>
> Maddy, Theo gave you the gist of it, basically that you can feed a whole
> lot more people with the grains, etc, that are fed to cattle to produce
> far less meat to feed far less people, and after the trans****tation
costs
> of moving the grain around to feed the cattle, and moving the cattle
> around from farm to slaugherhouse, and then moving the meat from
> processing plant to market (or to places that make people food, cat food
> and dog food) and then finally to the grocery stores and restaurants -
> that's a lot of petroleum out the smokestack in the form of CO2 and
other
> stuff.
>
> Additionally, believe it or not, we raise so many cattle that the amount
> of methane (which is a far more potent greenhouse gas than CO2) produced
> from their collective backsides is a significant ****tion of the manmade
> causes of global warming.
>
> Lastly, if you read a book called "The China Study", you will find that
> the key to defeating the major Western diseases of obesity, heart
> disease, diabetes and cancer is making sure that meat and animal
products
> is less than 10% of your diet. The rest should be fresh fruits and
> vegetables.
>
> Or, you can think like Theo, and figure that since we are all doomed
> anyways because, collectively, humanity is too god-forsakenly stupid to
> stop itself, so we may as well eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we,
> and the rest of all life on this planet (except the cockroaches), die.
I kinda thought he meant doomed as in we're all gonna die someday
anyway.... But he does have a strong delivery there.
sue
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