Comments on: Veggies are People Too

By: Cyberquill

Cyberquill — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 04:12:04 +0000

Consuming animals and animal products is an outdated way of eating. There’s just no way of feeding an ever growing human population by wasting a humongous percentage of arable land on growing corn and soybeans to feed stupid livestock. At the end of the day, we put far more protein and calories into those animals prior to slaughtering them than we subsequently get out of it by eating their meat. The sheer waste of food is just staggering.

By: Becca

Becca — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 23:07:04 +0000

That was a neat article. One of my favorite topics in high school biology was plant hormones, which completely astounded me. Plants are pretty intricate little critters.

By: Matt Maan

Matt Maan — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 02:50:15 +0000

If you have ever attempted to grow vegetables in the proximity of vegetable eating animals and insects, (there are no places to do that outside of a greenhouse, by the way) your perspective changes. I get why people adhere to vegetarian, vegan, and even organic food choices, but until you know what it really takes to get food from the ground to the table by doing it for yourself, you don’t know a thing about how food gets from the ground to the table.

I always hear Tom Waits singing:

“There’s always some killin’
You got to do around the farm”

when this subject comes up.

By: Hans Rippel

Hans Rippel — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 21:37:19 +0000

both studies/examinations of the data take livestock at large, which is already hard enough. Of course it is possible to raise for example cows without engaging in deforestation. At the same time you will still get all the methane from cows and you still need to provide them with water & food. I have read some preliminary studies that if you mix the cow food with garlic methane excretion is reduced by 30% and that would be something that can help immediately. At the same time I think those are not addressing the core issue. We can really do without them and according to these data we’d be better off without raising, keeping, and consuming them.

By: Joan

Joan — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 20:59:07 +0000

In order develop and maintain credibility with those of us who know about raising livestock, it’s important to specify the livestock system(s) to which you are referring. Not all of us are trashing the planet. : – )

By: Shahzad Khan

Shahzad Khan — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 18:08:56 +0000

The Vegans are eating animal food.. Love animals, stop eating their food

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 05:31:07 +0000

I think eating meat is as normal as eating in and of itself. Now, is there a better way to go about “farming” our meat? Perhaps.

On a lighter side, there is a possibility that my carbon and methane output can be worse for the environment than any cow’s! Is it possible that Gasex can save the planet for us?

By: Chris O'Connor

Chris O'Connor — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 04:37:02 +0000

I’ve been vegetarian for about 25 years, not because I care about the animals, but because eating meat makes me ill. I find it frustrating watching these climate conferences as the industrial and developing nations bash each other when the single biggest thing that would make a diifference is if people stopped eating meat and put an end to the (as Hans Rippel said in a previous comment) unsubstainable farming of livestock.

By: Forsooth

Forsooth — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 02:10:48 +0000

If you don’t want plants to suffer, then become a veggie! Why? The amount of plant foods that go into making a pound of beef or pork is astounding. Thus, as a veggie, you’ll eat LESS plant-based food than any meat-eater. Every *real* environmentalist is a vegetarian. That’s why Al Gore, etc., are such shysters.

By: Lloyd Budd

Lloyd Budd — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 18:50:00 +0000

As a sci-fi geek, I’m eagerly awaiting eating vat grown protein and nutrients

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 11:09:09 +0000

I did read something about ‘fruitarianism’ – you only eat the bits of plants that you can harvest without killing the plant. Each to their own…

By: Herbavore

Herbavore — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 10:31:29 +0000

Absolutely! The Carnies can have the warm meat, I’ll fight the plants one bite at a time!

By: Lefebvre

Lefebvre — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 22:44:01 +0000

Veggies are undercover zombies. Yes, they are. I’m serious! Look the way they walk…

By: Brent

Brent — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 20:48:28 +0000

Perhaps this point could be better explained if it were put to music…enjoy!!! : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmK0bZl4ILM

By: danithew

danithew — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 16:42:56 +0000

It turns out that tomatoes are carnivorous.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/attack-of-the-killer-tomatoes-1834638.html

By: Zeke

Zeke — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 06:14:33 +0000

[humor buzzkill!]
The production of red meat is also a big problem for the environment: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/jul/19/climatechange.climatechange

By: Hans Rippel

Hans Rippel — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 22:30:27 +0000

I just wrote an article about the impact livestock has on our planet. It simply is unsustainable because of (1) enormous carbon footprint (2) deforestation (3) consumption of food & water http://www.optimalfunctioning.com/featured/livestock-possibly-accounts-51-percent-climate-change-global-warming.html

By: Dr Marc

Dr Marc — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 20:22:16 +0000

and tomatoes have feelings too!

they “scream” when cut according to:
http://www.life.com/image/76796742/in-gallery/25371/30-dumb-inventions

By: Brett

Brett — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 18:57:58 +0000

I’m not a vegetarian because I love animals. I’m a vegetarian because I hate plants.